Had to watch The Descendents again for class today. I still stand by it's a bad movie; even worse now that I've been reading and appreciating the book much more.
Anyway, small break. Have to go do a screening appointment for possible group therapy.
I personally don't like the movie because the characters are not that well developed, the plots kinda ramble in and out and there are underlying themes that get ignored. And those flaws were obvious when I first watched it the first time. Now that I've read the book, they're more glaring AND now I have proof so that if I get into another argument about the film, I have EVIDENCE and will be correct forever.
Because winning arguments about works of fiction is important. Always.
I actually quite like the internet for the most part. I don't quite get the people who complain about how DUMB AND STUPID AND STUPID AND DUMB it is all the time.
Hipster is such a bullshit term. Sorry, but it is. Its just societies combined anti-intellectualism, just as the term 'chav' is societies combined hate for the working class. The worst part of it is how there is no fixed definition for hipster, unlike chav- nobody is quite sure what one looks like or how one acts. Its an adjustable, subjective term. For some people, a hipster is someone who likes music outside of the top 40, for others its a rather specific group of Hoxtonites. Either way, the dismissal of these people with such a term is closed minded and stupid, and you ought to feel bad for it. Maybe, just maybe you should look at the bigger picture and see how in the right light you can be considered one. I know I am by some people for my taste in music and politics and literature. Apparently its not enough to be genuine about it, I must be lying and keep a stack of Katy Perry records under my bed and vote Tory.
Oh. Well if it was me I'd totally join up and this would be my platform:
They aren't like that really. I mean they're nice people and all, but they seem so focused on everything that sucks about being gay, and there isn't any.. happy.
Also, they're pretty flaming for the most part, and that kinda gets under my nerves fairly or not.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
How does that make you a hipster? I thought walking around in cargo shorts, a thundercats/transformers/etc t-shirt and a fucking fedora made you a hipster (synonymous with goon (synonymous with redditor))
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
well there's a meme that Helvetica is the hipster font, at least, and there was this list about graphic design that got linked somewhere and one of the comments said "only hipsters care about this" or some such thing
also it irks me that graphic design and typography are susceptible to the "I don't care about this and it's outrageous that anyone does" reaction
How does that make you a hipster? I thought walking around in cargo shorts, a thundercats/transformers/etc t-shirt and a fucking fedora made you a hipster (synonymous with goon (synonymous with redditor))
That's the problem. A hipster is generally a young adult person who likes independent and often obscure music and films and thrives of being quirky, deliberately idiosyncratic, self-aware and detatched. (*As with all subcultures, in attempting to be different we all ended up doing the same thing, but that's kinda inevitable*)
This somehow became an all-purpose insult from people who didn't know what a hipster is.
Today in class, in a group of literature nerds, I was the only one who knew the word "epistolary" as the word to describe part of the framing device in Frankenstein. I'm such a cool*~speshul snowflake~* tee hee. Unfortunately, only two people in my group actually gave a crap about this and then no one used it in the presentation. Oh well.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
You guys are covering Frankenstein, too? We had to read that last semester.
Also today in class I overheard two girls talking about Germany and one of them mentioned the former East Germany and the latter replied, "oh, that's the one who hates us, right?" Where the fuck have you been since 1989, holy shit
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Anyway, small break. Have to go do a screening appointment for possible group therapy.
Because winning arguments about works of fiction is important. Always.
yay video games
hint: its Logos
Out of context pony tumblr panels of the day.
PASTRAMI IS BETTER FAGGOTS.
I blame Sankaku Complex, personally, but I also blame them for everything.
I actually quite like the internet for the most part. I don't quite get the people who complain about how DUMB AND STUPID AND STUPID AND DUMB it is all the time.
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*The two kids in the room with me in audio tech spent the entire period talking about weed.
*Once again, I have not joined the school GSA.
Alright, that's fine.
It irks me seeing all those "TOLERENCE :D" type people hating on... any group really, but it tends to be Republicans.
gee this isn't creepy no siree.
Also, they're pretty flaming for the most part, and that kinda gets under my nerves fairly or not.
This somehow became an all-purpose insult from people who didn't know what a hipster is.