#which sounds so pretentious

[finebutmaybenot]

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#in my main fandom i have amassed quite a large following #which sounds so pretentious #im aware #but its just the truth #and it means i cant do or say anything on those accounts without being flooded responses #and its overwhelming #so i like it here #and im slowly becoming less active there #but people are noticing #and asking why #and thats also overhwlming #overwhelming #and i just hate that i built a following in an already chaotic fandom lmfao #i just wanna scream into the void without having it scream back #anyway im hiding on this account

[realbeefman]

it is so funny to me that chase cut his hair off after he killed that guy on purpose. samson ass mentality. "ohhh i killed someone and to represent my moral corruption i must chop away my luscious locks" shut up

#can i say something. i a little bit only read theology so i can better understand house md LMFAO #i mean im american so the cultural christian knowledge is sunk DEEP in me #+ i was raised lutheran as a kid (which is a breed of protestantism that is pretty similar to catholicism for people who don't know) #so i do have SOME ideas. also i went to a baptist school but i didn't absorb anything there bc i was a little athiestic asshole #somewhat still am but being an athiest is really embarassing so i just say im agnostic nowadays. makes me sound less pretentious #but yeah #robert chase #house md #dr robert chase

[bookwyrminspiration]

sorry can’t talk right now or ever again I said something weird earlier

#shitpost #more like awkward #rehearsed in my head and it came out so out of order 😔 #and i think it made me sound like a pretentious show off a little bit #which. to be fair I am. but i try not to be! #and. i am still thinking about it #will be haunted by it for the next week

[godsfavoritescientist]

Biting the bars of my enclosure about autistic ford tonight. There's something about him using vocabulary and turns of phrase that seem "outdated" or "pretentious" that feels so painfully genuine to me. When people say he talks like that just to "try to sound smart" I wish I could explain what it's like to be so ostracized from your peers growing up that you spend all your time reading instead, to the point where you pick up your way of speaking from books instead of from people. And then what it's like for people to call you out for "talking weird" over and over again, not able to wrap their heads around why the fuck you would choose more archaic or technical or formal words than the simpler ones that surely come to everyone's minds first. What it's like to have to dedicate a sizable chunk of attention to filtering through every single word you say out loud in real time before you say it, to make absolutely sure that it isn't a word people will judge you for using or make fun of you for using, just so you'll have a chance of being taken seriously. Learning through trial and error how to filter out the words that other people don't think are normal or casual enough for the conversation, even though for you, the word choice that's "natural-sounding" enough for them is the third or fourth word you came up with when searching for the right way to phrase something in your head. I wish I could explain just how long it takes to say fucking anything after spending a lifetime doing that during every single conversation, and how repetitive and long-winded you end up being when you spend so long coming up with alternative ways of saying every little thing you ever think. And I wish people realized that, at the very least for autistic people and autistic-coded characters, speech that's seen as pretentious is really just the way they talk when they're not putting in the extra effort to filter through every word they say just so others will take the time to listen.

#ford meta #actuallyautistic #everyone go read the wikipedia page for 'stilted speech' right now #long post #ford isnt very good at masking. he doesn't have the kind of (unintentional) autistic coding that is Palatable To Neurotypicals. #definitely looking-too-deeply-at-a-kid-cartoon right now but in *some* ways. a world where the majority of people think its easy to like an #-understand ford is a world that would feel safe for me to unmask in. #i truly truly hate that fully explaining my thoughts on ford requires me to say so much about myself. but god is it such a crime- #-to use a fictional character as a lens through which to try and explain to people how to be more understanding and accepting- #-of things like this. #making fun of stilted speech is so normalized that people don't even realize they're making fun of someone for being weird. #people think its Someone Thinking They're Better Than You but its something people lay awake at night wishing they could stop doing. #and yet they still end up using the Wrong Words and being labeled a Pretentious Asshole just for talking differently than the norm. #maybe there really are people out there who deliberately use big words to try and sound smarter than everyone else. I don't know. #all I know is. in a world where its pretty obvious that people who use a discongruently complex vocabulary get made fun of for doing that. #why would someone deliberately trying to impress people do something that would only get them laughed at. #sorry for being genuine on main. as if its my fault </3

[zebrafiz]

my face after looking at all the dog breeds in cas and seeing 5758493748593 doodles but no belgian malinois

#this sounds so pretentious 😭 #but yall have to understand…. i love them i wanted a belgian malinois for this sim sooo bad but NO! #she wants an attack dog trained in bite work and heelwork! BITCH! #also i have a visceral hate for 90% of doodle owners who purposely seek them out. i think they need jail time #i have rly gotten into like the dog community and I’ve learned so much shit. some good. lots of it bad. some of these ppl are wild. #I think getting an Aussie has also catapulted me into it bc I’ve only ever had small ones like a chihuahua and an incredibly demure #jack russell may she rest in peace 😞 #anyway that’s like my new fascination. i love trying to decide which breed is my dream breed LOL #so I’ve been going through cas like a nerd for the last 30 minutes critiquing the traits and appearances they come with #the yorkie is soooo cute….ALSO THEY HAVE BEDLINGTON TERRIRORS !!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! #*personal #rant over. enjoy my tag talk

[kaftan]

there was this tweet on twitter that was like “what do you all think of selfcest” and half the replies were like “it’s fine but why does it have such a nefarious name” and I can’t stop laughing thinking about it

#I don’t care about the nefarious sounding name so much as the fact that it immediately evokes onceler memories in me #which is so profoundly unsexy #someone suggested mirrorship and it sounds perfectly sexy and pretentious to me as an alternative. hashtag My Brand.

[spoondrifts]

this'll be the summer i remember that i'm a person in the world i just know it

#how do i explain this. um #i feel like i spend so much time writing and reading that i forget to. Live. which sounds stupid and pretentious but #quarantine happened during some formative years so i think i might've internalized disconnection as like. my primary mode of existence #i got reallyyy isolated in my own head even though i was being super social online but yk. that isn't the same as going outside & touching #the world with my real hands in ways that impact me as a person #what i'm saying is i think i need to get some outdoor hobbies #exeunt: bay

[hotgirlscoups]

hm. feeling a bit silly

#so close to graduating high school and im sooooo excited to be done but also the idea of going to uni with men makes me mildly anxious #which is so weird bc ive always gotten along w guys before moving to an all girls school in year 9 but now that im used to the environment #of all teenage girls - almost all of which share my values and beliefs - and care ab the same things that i care about #and my low levels of contact with teenage boys my age and how awful so many of them seem #i'm just genuinely so nervous to be in classes with men which sounds so STUPID and sheltered but my fear is just . growing at this point #bc right now the vast majority of guys my age are either incredibly bigoted or pretentious or mean and i literally canttttt I CANT

[blacknifealecto]

[listens to walk it back by the national and screams at the top of my lungs into a paper bag]

ok i'm good

#this sounds so pretentious but i do think that everyone can find a song by the national that really speaks to their soul #and for me unfortunately that one is walk it back which i think explains a lot lol

[hanzajesthanza]

i loveeee being in a fandom where the work of media in question is complete. it's finished. it's done.

we don't have to wait around for the next book or watch as the series gets dragged out and beaten like a dead horse for a neverending amount of cash flow.

the creator had a vision, he stuck to it, he executed it, and now we have "the work"—an established body of canon which we can talk about and discuss, without having to say "unless this gets changed or modified in future installments." there is a set number of short stories, a set number of books. asides from the comments of the author himself said in interviews and opinions remarked upon in essays and other works, there is nothing more we have to be prepared to risk everything on. the story is complete. it has been told. everything we know has already been written down.

i know some, or more likely, most people cannot stand it when there are no new or upcoming additions to the work of a fandom, nothing to "look forward to." but i love it. please don't give me any more, this was more than enough to deal with, i'm still working on this, honestly. rather, what i'm "looking forward to" are interpretations, analysis, and other work from fans from which we can generate—ourselves—ongoing discussions and arguments which will last us forever.

i don't want hype. i want love.

#filed under: my posts always sound pretentious but please i really am not trying to be pretentious this is just how i think to myself #txt #the witcher books #everybody say thank you sapko for finishing the series and not giving up halfway through the saga and abandoning it #also the fact that it's One Guy as the author makes it so much more easier and straightforward #however there are like Ten Million References which you need to read Every Fantasy Series to get so. there's your homework #i'm joking but really 'getting a degree in arthurian literature to read the witcher' is a good idea #and 'getting a degree in european history to read the hussite trilogy' is also a good idea #if sapkowski were to announce another 'witcher' work i would accept it (generally; within reason) but i would also be like: #'what are you doing. let the dead sleep.' #let geralt rest on the island of avalon he deserves a peaceful retirement don't keep bringing him back for small tasks #HOWEVER if you would like to write something with ciri in the world of arthurian legend... i'm down for that

[golvio]

Like, at this point I just wanna know if TotK is going to be a post-WW Twilight Princess-level bummer for me with regards to Ganondorf’s level of characterization. That’s it. I’m not watching the intro footage because there’s literally no point to spoiling the very beginning of the game for myself when it’s gonna be in my hands two weekends from now. I just wanna know if I should brace myself for disappointment or not the way I did when I found out there wasn’t going to be any Ganondorf in BotW and adjust my expectations accordingly.

#totk thoughts #i know everybody loved his tp incarnation but i just felt like he was a huge letdown after Zant surprised me so much #and like…he’s really boring compared to ww ganondorf #ww ganon is the benchmark by which i judge all other ganons #and as much as i love the guy as a whole and am holding out hope for him so far nobody’s measured up #i sound like one of those pretentious superfans who’s like ‘nobody GETS my blorbo the way I do man!’ #but that’s how i feel

[gaywormiez]

EWWWWW

#why is it blocky now. why #also it saves searches which i know some ppl might like but to me it's gross. #it automatically will pull up the saved searches too which makes it mildly more inconvenient to just try and look something else up. to me #tumblr stop messing around and die challenge? #'search for h' why do you make it sound so pretentious. just let the letter pop up by itself

[manynarrators]

//How does anyone post fics once a week??? I am so impatient! I just want to post it now!!!

Me: I shall post on Friday!

Me (on the Monday after I post): surely it’s gotta be almost time right???

Me, le gasp: how little time has gone by!

Something else that adequately sums up my relationship to wtnv fic.

Me: Finally! I am finishing the fics I’ve had in my drafts for years! I have no more ideas! I’ll be free!

New ideas: abooooouuuut that…

Me:

#the current fic is basically the prequel and sequel #to what is my Very Long character study fic #which I’ve slowly been adding to for like 5 years #it is my magnum opus #despite having arguably better and definitely longer ones #I’m so proud of it y’all #but I promised myself I won’t post it until after These Lines of Light #and then I’ll be right back here! #because that’s 5 chapters #new ideas include two main ones: #a very genie-esque be careful what you wish for (Sorry Kevin) #(he gets to keep his gold eyes at least…?) #and a ‘hey what if Cecil actually DID move to the DO’? #with what I hope is a suitably pretentious number of garden of Eden metaphors #I had to read book 9 of paradise lost for class last semester #what am I expected to do with that OTHER than use it for fics??? #mute the sound|out of character

[thethingything]

the other package that arrived today was the bottle of perfume we ordered a few weeks ago, which came with a bunch of free samples and a free scented candle.

the bottle of perfume is Silvestre Lavender by Bravanariz and the samples are Gener, Maig, Agost, and Octubre which are also from Bravanariz (we've tried Octobre before and really liked it so I'm interested to see what the others smell like).

I really didn't expect the candle but I guess it counts as one of the free samples. it's 724 by Maison Francis Kurkdjian and it's a nice fresh scent.

as for Silvestre Lavender, it's very citrusy with lavender and a kind of herbal scent that I can't pinpoint. it's probably the most realistic lemon note I've found in a perfume so far. it's also a kind of warm savoury smell that I really like as a summer scent

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #perfume #the thing about discussing perfumes is that the minute I start describing the smells #I either feel like I sound really pretentious or really unhinged #anyway I really like this perfume and I'd originally just ordered a sample out of curiosity while looking for a nice citrus scent #Octubre also has a really nice citrus note in it and there's another Silvestre perfume that's rosemary instead of lavender #which also has the same lemony scent to it that's really nice so I think it's just something Bravanariz seems to do well #also the shop we got these from had really nice customer service and they left little handwritten notes in the package #which was very sweet of them

[todayisafridaynight]

JUST finished Unlucky Monkey and MANNNN. The use of color and sound... so so so well done. ESPECIALLY sound- the scenes where stuff just gets completely drowned out are. chefs kiss. Also!! the heavy emphasis on luck/coincidence... I know i should've seen that coming goin by the title but its so neat to see how that was woven into the story! anyway 10/10 fun ride i enjoyed it

ICHI FINISHED DA MOVIE EVERYONE REJOICE

i'm SOOOO glad you enjoyed it tho !!!! as much as it is a comedy, it's also a REALLY good thriller and it's SO fun watching ttm's character spiral more and more throughout the movie and ultimately never getting what he wants in the end, just left to be tormented forever without receiving any satisfying punishment for it

i love the sound design of sabu films so much i HIGHLY recommend checking out sabu's other stuff (esp if they include ttm lol..... sabu loves putting ttm in situations and i love sabu for that). monday/mandei is another really good film in the same vein of Guy Whose Day Starts Bad Seemingly Gets Worse. if you ever wanna give it a watch, i watched it on this site here (tho warning, subs are missing sometimes BUT its generally easy to make out the context of what's happening. except for the ending uhhH BUT IT'S WORTH THE WATCH LOL)

#snap chats #SORRY FOR THE VOMIT LOL I JUST REALLY LOVE THE SABU MOVIES #unlucky monkey is sooooo good like Aside From My Heinous Commentary it genuinely is a phenomenal watch #which feels pretentious to say for a comedy but TRUST it really does a great job blending its thriller elements with its comedy elements #eveything just intermingles so beautifully especially on rewatches UGH im obsessed #AND TRUUUEE I LOVE THE SOUND DESIGN SO MUCH UGGHHH IT'S SO PERFECT #the immediate segment after yamazaki finds out yoshida died is such a good spiralnig scene #especially when he just starts muttering and whispering to himslf. like i gushed about ttm's acting prower during stream #but ill do it now and forever how he can just fit himself into ANY role that needs him always makes my kokoro go dokidoki. SORRY. #i was not exaggerating when i said it was one of my fave movies #Seemingly Simple as sabu's movies tend to be but very good nonetheless... #driver's also another really good sabu movie but at this point im just listing all the movies with ttm in it LOL #may as well have just linked the ttm/nakai watchlist doc i have.. lol.. #ok movign on ive rambled enough.. point is im glad you enjoyed the movie !!!! <3

[invinciblerodent]

one of my very stupid and very specific little issues (that I don't know if other multilingual people experience) is that sometimes, I can only think of a word that feels perfect for what I want to say, in a language that isn't the one in which i'm currently writing. and it's almost never a word for which I just don't have a translation, or it's not like one of those "untranslatable" expressions/cultural phenomena/whatever, they're just... words. that have a vibe their equivalent in another language doesn't have the same exact way I want it.

like right now, I'm trying to write something in English. I'm trying to describe a character saying something quietly, and tenderly, but my brain is being very helpful by supplying me with only the Spanish phrase "al oído". Which has the perfect feel to it: it's soft, it's round, it essentially means "to the ear" or "by the hearing", and to say something al oído is... kind of to whisper in confidence so softly, that it can barely be heard. The words are more breath than sound, and you're saying it in private, for that specific person's hearing only. But that's just so many words, compared to saying that he whispered his agreement al oído.

or I want to say that someone is "szabadkozik", which is Hungarian for... kind of to make flustered excuses? Not really in a way that's reluctant necessarily, but it is to... kind of faff, and play at reluctance in a manner that may be slightly embarrassed, or just politely playing at embarrassment, being coy? And I could circumscribe it like that, I could say that he's excusing himself coyly or something, but my brain just keeps going "no, that's wrong, he's szabadkozik, you should say that". It's frustrating.

I kind of want to write a piece where I just... let myself code switch as many times as I want to. Just to see what it feels like to let my brain do its thing without trying to contain it. It would be fucking incomprehensible.

#squirrel speaks #and i know this sounds pretentious. i do. #i really do #this is a very specific and very MINOR problem to have #but sometimes someone doesn't whisper something they susurrar #or they're saying something al oído #or sometimes they're not impish or mischievous or conspiratory but hamiskás and cinkos #or not awkward but félszeg #or not destitute but nincstelen; so lacking that they don't even have the concept of nothing #oh NOBODY is fucking understanding me right now lol #it MEANS the same but doesn't FEEL the same do you GET me #.... i had this idea once for an art piece type of a book #which is just a novel but certain chapters and paragraphs are simply written in different languages #and unless you speak the exact same mix the author does or the authors do; there are just parts of it that you don't understand #and it'd not be published in translation anywhere either- people would need to go to forums and stuff #and translate passages amongst themselves; piece the meaning together as a community #it'd be a nice project #fucking impossible ofc #but it would be nice