This is the thing, amazingly, that everyone’s been arguing about: a medium-good pop record with a slightly more imaginative, moody milieu than usual, and a bad late-night thriller’s view of the world.
Nitsuh Abebe’s review of Born To Die
But so many music bloggers don’t seem to get that part of the reason why we’re annoyed is because she gets so much attention for being just that.
The animé was always weird with that, at least for me. The animé treats most legendaries as one of many, whereas the games treat them as singular beings. And since no one ever cared about catching every Pokémon they saw, the whole “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” slogan never made sense.
That’s not really true at all though? The anime, games and manga all treat legendaries as a species with a very tiny population, with usually one specific legendary playing a role in the story.
one ep did have a Lugia with a baby though, which was weird.
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think on this.: Geeks
I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a victim complex. They’re still largely white and center their race, they’re still largely straight and center their sexuality, they’re still largely cis men who center their gender. They challenge nothing about the status quo and what bodies get to be placed at the center of it, they offer nothing radically different to the typical narratives about which groups of people are and are not important and they can be just as hostile to groups who try to find a place in their space as the mainstream is, in some cases even worse. But for some reason they think the fact that they like Battlestar Galactica instead of Monday night football makes them radical alterna-gods who are too good for this sinful Earth.
Blah Blah Blah… Racism… Blah Blah Blah … gender bullshit.
Geek Culture is “obnoxious” to you because thinking is “work” to you, and FUN for us.
The fact is geeks don’t give a fuck about culture at all. For the most part we were excluded from it by everyone, as your anti-geek bias just goes to show. We’re not even welcome in your little section of hell.
How the fuck can a member of any victimized group dare claim that another group has a “victim complex”? How can you try and throw that proverbial stone and not expect to have your own sins written in the proverbial sands.
The fact is, that Geeks have no race, gender, gender preference, or other social entanglements, and as a result… WE DON’T HESITATE TO CALL YOU ON YOUR BULLSHIT. What’s worse, is that we do it with empirical and undeniable FACTS backed up by logical and reasonable science. That true or false bottom line that doesn’t give a fuck what you “feel” because at the end of the day, our way is the only one that works.
THAT is what has you butt hurt about geek culture. That and the fact that we can do more with our smartphones while we are drunk, than all of you can do together with room full of supercomputers.
You want to be accepted by geek culture? Put in the effort to learn about how things work, or listen to those who do.
As a geek, there is NOTHING cooler than some one who can teach me something I didn’t know, and nothing more obnoxious than some one who criticizes that instinct with absolutely nothing to offer of their own.
The rest of your biases are just that… YOUR BIASES.
Go read a book, bitch.
the level of delusion that most ‘geeks’ possess is something worthy of awe
hi this is my new fav shirt
Well, what I meant is that romanticizing the concept of a ‘writer’ is only done by insufferable MFA Writing Program students who only read David Foster Wallace and pay to get told that their bullshit white middle class ennui is special and meaningful and worth writing about.
There Are Other Worlds Than These: What happens if you fall in love with a writer?
Lots of things might happen. That’s the thing about writers. They’re unpredictable. They might bring you eggs in bed for breakfast, or they might all but ignore you for days. They might bring you eggs in bed at three in the morning. Or they might…
MFA Writing program
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Folks.
The interwebsphere is a buzz with Lana…
i will totally concede that this is true but it gets annoying when people on the internet try to find all the ~deep meanings~ as to why someone is disliked (I am too guilty of this tho) when i think for most people its just “i dont like her voice” or “i didnt think it was funny”.
(also brad is talking to me on tumblr! hi brad!)
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Folks.
The interwebsphere is a buzz with Lana Del Rey post SNL hatred. I just thought I would do something I never do and give my opinion on it. (irony)
I have many random…
Cant i just think they’re both bad at their jobs?
No, the Lana Del Rey imbroglio points at something potentially worse: an impatience with performance and a lack of trust in self-reinvention. Del Rey, after all, isn’t the first to take more than one shot at finding a pop persona that worked. Imagine a 1969 Internet reacting to David Bowie’s breakthrough with “Space Oddity”—a single as mannered, languid, and beguiling as “Video Games,” and a performer as in love with artifice and with plenty of past to dig up. Would his career have benefited from blogs tearing apart his inconsistency and torrents bundling his hit with “The Laughing Gnome”?
Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet
Tom Ewing makes a very important point. Theatricality and reinvention are crucial parts of music and the arts — demanding “authenticity” is reactionary and mostly poisonous to creativity.
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Can’t i just think her songs and voice are bad?
