Maybe?

(laughing and reloading my pistol) okay omigod next time dont flinch 🙄

more and more these days i notice people who lead lives of abject cultural and artistic incuriosity, who, when challenged with the reality that certain properties and artists are not deeply obscure and accessible only to ivory-tower academics but actually are incredibly popular and enduring - such as the odyssey and john waters, to name two examples i've seen create dust-ups in the last few days - when they're told that, no, a lot of us do actually know who john waters is, a lot of us have read the odyssey in high school english class, etc., they lash out and insist that you must either be lying or beyond pretentious. and i have all kinds of theories as to what has led to this phenomenon but all i can say in response to all of them is GET A GRIP

like it used to be, not even that long ago but 10-15 years ago, if you didn't know about some incredibly basic shit or get a reference to a book pretty much everyone reads in school at some point, the socially acceptable response was to be kind of embarrassed and learn about it on your own. now the response is to get angry and accusatory toward the people who know about more shit than you. i think it's a combination of unchecked poptimism in the media (and if what's popular is deemed to be good simply by virtue of being popular, you never have any reason to seek out things that aren't being spoon-fed to you by corporate media giants), the rise of streamers and youtubers making content for kids that is completely divorced from the cultural context that you'd otherwise get microdoses of while watching the simpsons or 30 rock or whatever, and a lot of adults (all ages) walking around with severely dysregulated emotions who look for opportunities when they feel "wronged" to attack others without consequence (which has been encouraged and inculcated in them by social media). it's bleak, y'all

Actually yeah that should be in the post. Hell yeah

think for literally 15 seconds before you respond to this post I have something controversial to say but I need you to actually consider it and Understand

A My Chemical Romance song with Hatsune Miku would literally bop so hard

wrong

the proper verbiage would be “fuck severely”

my bad you’re right

nobody wants to write 6-8k heartwrenching introspective one shots that rehash the events of canon but insert romantic moments between characters that make the inevitable conclusions of canon even more painful anymore.... all they know is abo, modern au and lie

when im the first fujoshi dictator i will force milk all fanfiction writers at the inhumane AO3 factory farms until they collapse. from all the milking

filter on ao3 that only shows fic by women in their 40s who has a degree and works an office job and probably leaves authors notes that are like “sorry for the wait on the chapter guys! i had to give birth to my third kid😂”