collarpoints:

I coloured the small sleepy deidaras

randomslasher:

cookievampiress:

i-am-the-inksinger:

speedlionfc:

gemiblu:

supahbeefcakes:

deadjosey:

ohmahgawddion:

One reason why I love anime. The emotion of the voice acting is too strong

did

did this anime waifu just tear down the edgy pretentious pseudointellectual facades we construct for ourselves as an obfuscating substitute for actual worth of character and accuse us of being so wrapped up in our own insular self-validating atrophied emotional comfort zones that we can only relate to others through pop culture allusions and mental dominance contests instead of a genuine emotional connection between two human beings

what the hell man

at first i read the above explanation thinking it was just a bunch of long thrown in words meant to make something simple complicated….but that is the perfect explanation for what I just watched

It’s been mentioned many times before, but the voice actress did this in a SINGLE take… makes it all the more impressive

I reblogged this yesterday with no comment, but after watching the clip again… no. No, that response up there with all the big words?

That’s exactly what the character was telling her counterpart to knock off. Big words. Big words with the assumption that everybody listening or reading will understand or have the energy and means to research what they don’t. Big words that communicate a big ego and little consideration for others.

She’s telling him to come off his pedestal and talk to her as himself, with his own words - words she can understand, because no, she’s not a walking dictionary or thesaurus or history book or anything like that, and unlike him she also doesn’t pretend to be, even though she’s arguably just as “exposed” to all these things by way of his presence in her life as he is by way of his presence on the internet.

What is “obfuscating”? What is “insular”? What is “pseudointellectual”? Fine that you seem to know their definitions, but you aren’t addressing an audience that can or should be expected to know those things. For god’s sake, I do know those things and I still had to keep stopping to figure out what the hell was being said.

She doesn’t understand these things because he never tries to help her understand. She doesn’t understand why he thinks he’s educated and edgy just because he talks about blood and knows a little bit about this religion and that world issue. She very clearly wants to understand, but he’s so busy being clever that all she gets out of him is, “It’s really cool, but you wouldn’t understand it.”

So no, that… big jumble of words up there is not what’s going on. What’s going on is that an anime character just called the internet age on its bullshit.

And while she was at it, she threw some damn heavy shade at everybody who uses their entire stock of big words in casual settings without stopping to read the room and consider their audience.

^

this right here is so fucking important. As someone with ADHD, I struggled with having to decipher this bullcrap in my Liberal Arts classes or any time I needed to read shit for essays and it felt like pulling teeth. I would always think. “DUDE you’re talking about art!! Fuck off with the big words and just tell why I should give a shit about this damn painting!!” I’m not saying if you use big words fuck you I’m saying if you ONLY use big words fuck you. Especially when you’re to talking down to me about something I should understand. It’s a social wall that will leave you feeling cold and lonely up on your high horse. and If you do this and want to knock it off: 

Don't always say: pseudointellectual 

Try to say: pretentious or full-of-it 

Don’t always say: insular

Try to say: ignorant or  a don’t know don’t care attitude 

Don’t always say: obfuscating

Try to say: Confusing or messed up 

Soon you’ll find that people with actually wanna talk to you/ read what you write if they can understand what fuck you’re even on about! 

If you want to use big words–which is awesome, because big words are fun–there are ways to do it without being pretentious and inaccessible. 

English has some super specific words that mean VERY precise things (for example: we have a single word that means ‘to throw out the window.’ Defenestrate. How hilarious is that??), and it’s really neat to have those words at your disposal. I don’t blame anyone who would rather use obfuscate than “confuse” because it’s a delightful word. It’s got great texture. It’s fun to say and it means something very specific. Someone could make something ‘confused’ by accident, but if someone is obfuscating, they’re doing it deliberately. It’s a more precise word with a more precise meaning.

But good writing should give the reader enough context clues to get that meaning, not jump right into another bewildering word that also needs context clues to be understood. 

A perfect example of this is in the musical Hamilton. When James Madison and Thomas Jefferson are bitching about Aaron Burr’s political ideology in the song, The Election of 1800, the lines go like this: 

Jefferson: He’s not very forthcoming on any particular stances
Madison: Ask him a question, it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances
Jefferson: And they say I’m a Francophile–at least they know I know where France is. 

Obfuscate is the perfect word right there, and not just because it rhymes, but because it means precisely what Madison (or Miranda, if you prefer) intends it to mean. And there are context clues all around. In the line before, we’re told he’s not forthcoming on stances, so we know he doesn’t share his beliefs freely. In the same line as the word itself: “it glances off” “he dances” –the picture of someone deliberately eluding a question. And in the line after, with Jefferson expressing frustration about the fact that people complain about him but at least he’s transparent about the things he knows and believes. 

Even if you’ve never heard the word before, you can get a feel for what it means in this context, and suddenly, there’s a new word in your vocabulary that you understand well enough to infer its meaning and use fairly well. Next time someone is evading answering your question, you can say, “You’re obfuscating” and you’ll be right.

Introducing big words into the common dialogue is not a bad thing. And hating on people who use them (who often are not neurotypical, and whose decision to use the words may have far more to do with that than any sense of pretentiousness) is just as much of a problem as using them to obscure your meaning and feel superior. 

What the girl is complaining about is not that the boy is using big words. It’s that he’s being deliberately obscure in order to stay out of her reach. He’ll give her just enough information to get her interested, then brush off her requests for further explanations in order to appear mysterious and aloof (when in reality he likely just doesn’t know any more than she does). That’s the real problem here. Not that he knows things and isn’t saying, but that he’s pretending he knows more than she does and using it to make himself seem superior–and that his own preferences for things like violence and chaos and war are somehow more desirable than her preferences for joy and happiness and peace (a problem that is more deeply rooted in misogyny than intellectual elitism). 

Did the paragraph above challenge me? Yes. Was it a little more obscure and complicated than it probably needed to be? Sure. Does that mean we should NEVER use ANY of those words, though?

It really, really doesn’t. It just means we should work to SHARE them with each other, instead of trying to use them to one-up each other. 

Big words are neat. Pass them on. 

mildlydisconcertingsparrowhawk:

moist-astronaut:

purblebuppy:

Send help I’ve been laughing for 15 minutes the internet killed my sense of humor

I was expecting exactly that and was not disappointed