#being a nerd

[teaspoonnebula]

Woooo I'm back! I was away this weekend at Thought Bubble, a comic convention that is very near and dear to me :D

...And which also happens to be situated across the road from the Harrogate Turkish Baths that were built in the late 1890s, and with our first mention of Turkish Baths about to come up in Letters from Watson, you know what I did with my evening...

As someone who has ever been to a spa or a sauna, I went into it pretty nervous. I was reassured that I knew everyone would be in swimming costumes and there would be attendants on hand to help, but also nervous that I would do something wrong or end up getting a bit overwhelmed by all the sensory stimuli going on (smells! noise! colours! heat! cold!) I was also worried I'd have to take my glasses off, because I was on my own and I have very poor eyesight without them.

But I guess my raging inner history buff that's both interested in late Victorian forms of entertainment and also pretty interested in Roman baths that are a comparable process won out, because I went.

AND I LOVED IT!

I was honestly fizzing with excitement just to be walking around an environment I'm used to seeing in old black and white photographs...

But it was like... REAL!!!

I couldn't take photos in the baths myself because obviously that would be incredibly creepy but please enjoy this picture I took of a logo model in the lobby, and an actual Thomas Crapper toilet, yes I do get excited by silly things

The process of using the baths was all about alternating heat and cold, with three rooms with different heat levels, and a cold plunge pool and showers.

The best thing about it for me is that while there was a recommended sequence to follow, you could pay attention to your own body and just do whatever you wanted to do.

I was surprised how tolerable the hottest room was because it was a really dry heat, but I spent most of my time lounging around in the two lowest heat areas. If I do it again I'm definitely going to bring a book - I wouldn't have thought that was an option, but they actually provided magazines and I saw a fair number of people reading!

I found myself feeling so happy and floppy afterwards. I joked that it felt like I had no bones. In fact it's been nearly 48 hours now and I swear I still feel like a happy puddle.

Anyway as a treat for reading to the end, please enjoy the Sherlock Holmes Turkish Baths illustration that makes the fandom go absolutely feral:

[cellar-whales]

Reblog game, if anyone's interested: What's one Wikipedia article you've really enjoyed and one quick(ish) excerpt from it? Mine's

And "Frequency-dependent selection can lead to polymorphic equilibria, which result from interactions among genotypes within species, in the same way that multi-species equilibria require interactions between species in competition..."

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

If I had a nickel for everytime a Christian Kane character dealt with a Major Wheat corporation I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[random-dragon-exe]

I may come off as a nerd for saying this but screw it, I don't care.

I find it entertaining that localization has screwed over King Boo not once but two times.

In Super Mario Sunshine, there's a localization error in the U.S. His name in Japanese is really "Boss Boo".

Then in Super Mario 64 DS, he mistakenly calls himself "Big Boo" instead of King Boo.

Idk I just find it funny. All this to say that localization hates King Boo and it's caused some confusion amongst players.

[adelightfulpastry]

i would love to have a library card, if not for the implications

[hermeticbridgetroll]

Been nerding out about the trees I've been passing on my morning walks. There's a street with a bunch of unusual trees on it & I've been having fun googling them to find out what they are. There's even one with a beautiful leaf mutation the effects the entire tree & a massive hedge wall that's been carefully pruned into shape. 🌳🍃🌲

[kenniiblogss]

i love writing my characters; giving them stories, doing research, and just creating.

my favorite thing as a audiophile and visual person, i love lovee Loveee assigning songs to certain moments because songs can say so much. they can have different meanings for the character/s and what they’re going through, and even change up from person to person’s interpretation of it. it’s also easier for you to picture what might be going through a characters head that way. cause some characters of mine don’t show emotion easily for different reasons.

idk i just think it’s cool to make soundtracks for movie/show ideas i have.

[gurlu]

When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 360+ unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.

I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.

The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.

I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all.

[dragonfoxqueensbeans]

Tiny bit of world building with HH and sinners.

Can i just say i love the little animal quirks that Hazbin Hotel incorporates into their characters? Like they didn't have to make Angel Dust's freckles into spider eyes nor give him the ability to grow his extra two arms. Nor did they have to give Valentino his angry moth squeaks or Alastor's elk calls. Plus Vox (not an animal but still) has all these sound effects that never lets you forget he's a literal TV show host. Sure this isn't the biggest of things and it's probably been said before but it's just so neat. I love when animal traits in characters are used more than just motifs or cool power ups, Like how does being a cat-person effect your psychology? What behaviors do you get? How does it effect your physiology? do you become an obligate carnivore? Do you gain extra sensory input due to having whiskers? Please tell me all about how being a cat with Fierce Wings changed Husk Viv. There's so much to unwrap about Sinners and their experiences with becoming so inherently inhuman and animalistic, I just want to understand how alien it must be in comparison to their lost humanity. And no, most ABO does not count. Get your mind out of the gutter and tell me if Alastor sheds his antlers or if it's a permeant fixture like an arm or a leg.

[that-classy-bastard]

Yeah, I look like a dork. And I've got absolutely RAGING RBF.

But,

I still love this picture of me. I got this light saber that day, after waiting a few weeks for it to arrive (I had gotten a gift card for my birthday). And I was doing something I love too. After a very, incredibly hard day at work.

[flummoxx]

I haven’t made an oc playlist or a character playlist in so long, I need to fix this immediately

[tehcherrya]

To answer this question legitimately-- A banjolele is basically just an instrument with the shape and sound of a banjo, but with the compact, small and lightweight size of a ukulele.

Though fun instrumental fact, if you know how to play one you can more than likely play the other very easily, as they are tuned in the same way!

So in conclusion: Pippin can more than likely play the ukulele too if given the chance

For those of you who never knew as it's a detail one can easily miss (especially depending on which aspect ratio you're viewing in) but a lovely detail at that: Pippin was in the hobbit band in the background!

He's the one playing the banjolele!

These shots I have of the scenes where he is most visible are from the Fullscreen edition (A DvD I own and often watch for the different viewing experience). I believe in the Widescreen edition their heads are cut off by the aspect ratio-- so it's easy to miss!

And for those of you who haven't put it together already, yes! That is our beloved Merry standing next to him as they both watch Frodo dance.

Mind you, Merry is not in the band. A few scenes prior he was actually along the precession line of bringing in Bilbo's Birthday cake. He probably came up to the platform to talk to Pippin, give him a mug of something to drink and inevitably snatch him away for some mischief. Because after this brief scene, Pippin is then absent from the stage-- he and Merry are going to go swipe some fireworks!

[gravitycoill]

lil comic i’ve had in my head for a bit

[random-dragon-exe]

Not to be the nerd here, nor take away from this post, but in Labyrinth Runners, young Willow refers to her her dads as her "dads" when she mentions that they taught her the breathing trick she teaches Gus at the beginning of the episode.

Other than that, love all of this!

On Willow Park's Dads

One of the things I get most emotional about re: the Owl House specials, that I haven't really seen anyone else mention:

In the first two seasons of the show, Willow refers to her dads in conversation pretty exclusively as her "parents," leaving their genders ambiguous. We don't actually find out she has two dads for some time.

In the first season 3 special, though, produced after the show's official cancellation, she calls them her dads. Not "parents," but "dads." It is completely unambiguous that she has queer fathers, just as we got the completely unambiguous bisexual coming-out from Luz in this special. As others have pointed out, it's very "the show has already been cancelled, time to cram in as much full-blown canon queerness as possible."

In the second special, Willow interacts with one of her fathers, who has been cursed. We find out that Willow calls her dads "Dad" and "Papa." Not only is it completely unambiguous that she has queer fathers, we get another actual glimpse at their family dynamic. We know what she calls them now, just like we know that Gus calls his dad "Dad" and Luz calls her mom "Mamá" and Amity's family all call her "Mittens."

Willow's slowly-shifting terms for her dads across the series is a little form of censorship that I've noticed--whether it was self-censorship by the writers to avoid S&P issues, or whether it was Disney's doing, I can't say. But it's something I've been paying attention to.

Gay men don't tend to get to be parents in family media. There has been a long, long trend of MLM being viewed as inherently sexually predatory toward children, and needing to be totally sanitized and sexless to be allowed in family media (if they're allowed at all). So seeing Willow get to actually address her father as "Dad" and talk about "Papa" was a pretty significant thing, when you think about it.

It's not a first and it's not the biggest queer milestone in The Owl House, but I think it's worth noting that Willow's dads are important queer rep, too. I hope we get to see more gay dads in more shows in the future. And more gay moms, too, and nonbinary parents of all kinds.

(That isn't to imply that WLW parents are "more accepted" or anything, because they aren't, on a systemic level. But the Owl House gets treated as a "WLW show" sometimes, even though there are nonbinary & MLM characters, too. I just wanted to spotlight the cute gay dads for a sec.)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[parrish-the-thot]

A continuation of this post I made

I imagine Steve genuinely doesn’t think about Eddie, like at all. Besides the occasional “what is he yelling about in that table” or “ Munson actually showed up to class” or once in sophomore year he thinks “how much does Munson charge for an ounce of weed? Would he take a $50 for an ounce” which causes Eddie to wait around all day at the picnic table wishing for some shmuck to offer $50 for just an ounce, but no one shows up (Steve had to go pick up Dustin after school and didn’t want him to find weed the weed when he inevitably starts going through Steve’s car)

The lack of soulmate thoughts really irks Eddie, because he knows his soulmate is in Hawkins, but he never thinks about Eddie, like at all??? Positively or negatively?? Eddie jumps on more tables, he blares loud music from his van, he is in a band, he is the drug dealer for all the teens in Hawkins and all his soulmate thinks is “why the fuck did Munson double park his van, I’m going to be late looking for a parking spot now” it absolutely drives him crazy.

He eventually figures out his soulmate must be a jock of some kind because one day he hears “what is Munson doing under the bleachers?” when some sports team is let out of playing with balls practice. He is briefly heartbroken his soulmate isn’t a nerd like him, but then spends the night thinking about how a certain fluffy haired jock could play with his balls anytime.

Steve isn’t not thinking about Eddie on purpose, but they just don’t run in the same circles, so he doesn’t really think about him too much, just in a genuine, “I don’t know them, don’t interact with them, so I don’t really think about them” sort of way. Especially after befriending the kids, Steve’s focus goes to keeping them safe and being a babysitter instead of finding his soulmate.

Steve’s experience with his soulmates thoughts is completely different. Starting in middle school he heard his soulmate think he was cute which he thought was nice. As he got older his soulmate would still think he was cute, but also handsome or pretty which, he doesn’t know any girls who call their boyfriends pretty but ya know, he can roll with that. He thinks he will have to roll with a lot of stuff, since hai soulmate seems to into a…a lot of interesting things, to say the least. Steve has dated a lot of girls but none of them seemed to want to rub their face in his chest hair like his soulmate did, who also wonder is Steve was that hairy everywhere which- he was but he didn’t think a girl would want to know about that.

He would be in the middle of a basket ball game and he hit with a 15 minute monologue about how wonderful his ass looked in “thise little green shirts that ride up his ass in the best way” and how his soulmate “wanted to be those shorts” causing Steve to miss three different shots. Also with all this wildly kinky stuff and even general sex things Steve has never heard of or thought about he figures he should become more knowledgeable to better be prepared for his soulmate.

One day when Steve is cleaning up a drink he spilled in the cafeteria and heard “god Harrington looks good on his knees, bet he would look even better with my cock in his mouth” figures chances are his soulmate isn’t a girl at all.

With not much else to loose and a new door opened up to him, Steve starts spending time thinking equally horny thinvs about different guys he sees in class, just to see if they will react to what he is thinking. This is how he figures out Eddie is his soulmate.

Steve notices eddies table is getting a little rowdy, as is always does before Eddie gets up on someone’s table and he rants about jocks and preppy girls while stepping on people’s lunches, Steve thinks “what if comes over here, spits in my stretched out hole, and fucks me right next to Heathers Halloways tuna sandwich”

Eddie, whose soulmate didn’t even think about Eddie that one time his car got spray painted a fit was all the school talked about for a week, was NOT expecting that at 12:30 on a Tuesday and promptly trips on a chair and slams face first into the lunch table, breaking his nose.

Eddies friends rush him to the nurse and Steve is torn between this being a sign Eddie is soulmate or Eddie just clumsy, Steve has seen him walk into a door twice, so he don’t 100% sure. Steve decided to test this anytime he has a clear viewpoint of Eddie and starts thinking the most horny, kinky things possibly about Eddie to see if Eddie reacts proves he is Steve’s soulmate (also revenge because Steve had to go through years of Eddie horny pondering interrupting Steve during important tasks games or tests so Steve figures he should pay that forward during eddies dungeons and dorks games)