Baran

admittedly a toxic trait, but I think it's totally fine to be an elitist about art and similar frivolity like that. feels like a pressure valve that lets the steam out before it can metastasise into something much worse, not that it can't still happen, but you know how it goes

some of the nicest people you'll ever meet will answer "you think you're better than everyone else just because you like [thing]?" with a half apologetic "you won't like the answer so don't make me say it" and some of the cruellest most volatile people to walk this earth are drafting up a Let People Enjoy Things manifesto

if you wanted to boil that down into a more coherent ideological statement, it would look like "the human spectrum of emotional responses contains negative emotions, and if you disallow yourself a petty expression of low stakes negative emotions, you'll guarantee that they go unaddressed, uncontested, and unchallenged until they've formed into a much more severe and serious sort of hatred that cannot be addressed because it cannot be internally identified as what it is"

kitten I’ll be honest the finality of everything in this world haunts daddy like a second shadow