#does this make me a nerd??

[incorrect-password-loop]

Throwback to the day i went to do my high school entrance exams and idk if in purpose or accidentaly they had i think “gender swap day” that day and peeps took it seriously like- a random dude walked in full on bussiness woman mode: high heels, bloodred lipstick and full tux (mind he had an undercut with curly hair on top of his head), a girl painted a very realistic stubble on her face etc. AND THEN a peep came in WITH THE NONBINARY FLAG AS A CAPE and needless to say i am more than excided for september cuz i got accepted

[megatronusprimedecal]

"Always got your back." "No matter what."

Transformers One (2024)

[bennetsbonnet]

I know I turned this scene into a joke about how gorgeous Colin Firth is... but the pineapple that lurks in the background of the Netherfield ball when Mr Collins is yapping to Mr Darcy is such a subtle detail that I really appreciate!

The wealthy at this time in Britain were a little bit obsessed with pineapples. Depictions of them featured as decoration in country homes, in political cartoons, paintings and crockery (warning: Margaret Thatcher jumpscare🥴 but you can read more about that here and here).

But to have an actual pineapple on display during a large social gathering such as a ball? That was really showing off.

Especially when you consider it cost £150 (or approx. £28,000 today) to buy the initial plant, build a hothouse to grow them in and run it... with no guarantees they'd grow given the climate was not exactly suited for growing pineapples! It was a huge risk.

All this meant that pineapples were so scarce that they became incredibly sought after. Naturally, rich people did silly rich people things to acquire them and show them off... perhaps they were the NFTs of their day?

A single pineapple was valued at £60 (approx. £11,000 today). Given the cost and effort of acquiring one, you'd think people would be keen to tuck in and sample this exotic fruit? Nope. Pineapples were not eaten! Of course not! They were displayed on plates surrounded by other less prestigious fruit during dinner parties and other social occasions, usually until they rotted. They could be rented for special occasions too. Such was their value that naturally they became the target of thieves and some pineapples even had their own security guards!

In the end, colonialism (because all British history eventually returns to that) meant that pineapples could be imported cheaply and their status was devalued when the working classes could afford to buy them.

But next time you watch Pride and Prejudice (1995), pay attention the scenes in the dining room at the Netherfield ball and look out for the pineapple... which is the second prickliest thing in shot (behind Mr Darcy). 🍍

Also... just to throw in a little etymological rant... as a treat: I know most of the rest of the world calls them ananas... but in English (and other languages) all fruit used to be called an apple of some sort. We just never got around to changing pineapple.

The humble potato has some peculiar names in other languages... looking at you, French and Dutch with your pommes de terre (apples of the earth) and aardappels (earth apples)... and then there is also the Italian for tomato... pomodoro... (golden apple) when most the rest of the world call them some version of the Nahuatl 'tomatl'.

Languages are just funny like that and that's why I find them fascinating!

[mefjeff]

NNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDD

[naggingatlas]

watched my friend kass play pressure on stream today n doodled sebastian n then she colored him :) super nostalgic shit. add this one to my collection of butch women on t btw

[rocketbirdie]

The Monster Hunter quilt is pieced together! Now onto the mildly agonizing part with the whole layers of batting and backing and ugghhhh LOL

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

please draw werewolf doc when u have the chance

stick to physics, doc

transcript, bc my handwriting is shoddy but i'm too lazy to fix it:

DOC: duhuhhhh- Marty! MARTY: Yeah Doc what's up? DOC: You know that thing I was working on with Einstein? MARTY: Yeah, what about it? DOC: Well, uhhhh. How do I put this- MARTY: Oh my god, Einstein! MARTY: He's not- DOC: No, no, Einstein's perfectly alright, don't worry. It's just- DOC: There's been a... recent development. As you can see. MARTY: MARTY: (the floor calls to him.) DOC: Marty-

bonus doodles:

[official-linguistics-post]

have you considered not being a loser

never once in my whole life :)

[a-tangled-mermaid]

This is in NO WAY AT ALL EVEN A LITTLE BIT meant to "lessen" the severity of Astarion's sexual trauma at all- just wanna get that out of the way right up fuckin top cause I'd sooner die.

Anyway

I was curious about how often Cazador expected Astarion and his siblings to bring home "conquests" so I did math, (Gross) and I was honestly a little surprised by the number being less than I would have thought. I always imagined each one of them being expected to take home a victim at least once a week or so.

(Another disclaimer: the math isn't QUITE accurate because not all of them were turned at the same time. Astarion wasn't the first or the last so the way I've divided them evenly isn't quite accurate but I think it still gives us a decent idea of how often Cazador was turning their victims.)

7,000 souls / 200 years = 35 souls per year / 7 spawn = 5 souls a year for each of them

I just thought that was fascinating. I can't help but think this means Cazador DIDN'T turn all the people they brought home after all. Maybe he only turned the more "pure" souls brought to him and drained the rest just like he said he would. Or maybe Astarion and his siblings were less successful in bringing prey back to Cazador than I at least imagined.

Like I said it's not at all meant to lessen the trauma he went through even if he "only" had to lure people to their deaths 5 times a year with sex. It's just a different number than what I was imagining all this time. (Admittedly, I am extremely bad at math, so I never once considered how those numbers would add up so quickly lmao)

[beatcroc]

what kind of frivolity would you engage in, mecha?

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[thatneoncrisis]

race as an element in fantasy stories will never not intrigue me btw i will always yap about the external choices and author makes affecting the internal machinery of text itself and how intentional any given off the cuff statement appears to be

[vice-like]

when i first read this chapter i kinda assumed matoba could feel that this cat wasn't nyanko sensei, but then wouldn't natsume be able to tell as well once he was less freaked out? (not to mention if that assumption was right natori might have been able to as well)

and so now i like to think this fcking nerd could tell this wasn't nyanko sensei bc he memorized each and every single cat from the catalog and could recognize it (and since nyanko sensei's vessel wasn't in the catalog this isn't him)

not only that, i also like to believe he's been so obsessed with sensei from day one that he memorized the details of his vessel, just like he did with the other cats from the catalog, and could tell with a glance that the eye markings from this cat are slightly different

(which is true btw, midorikawa actually took the time to make the eye markings on this cat slightly straighter than sensei's)

[starssoblue]

"the reason adrien is just instantly good at everything he tries is because he is programmed to be that way as a senti" aside from the fact that i don't think that's how it works (and also while he was decent at everything he tried with marinette he wasn't instantly good at all of them, and what marinette actually said to him was that he could improve in anything with practice but it was a great first attempt) did we all collectively forget about how adrien actually canonically isn't the best singer?

[thebatsandthebugs]

The lego batman movie lowkey influenced me into adopting a dick grayson has bad eyesight hc. He wears those big ass glasses as a kid and ends up switching to contacts in his teens

[falafels]

Do you think Kevin watches horrible histories. Follow up question do you think he played the Alexander the Great song on repeat

i say this as a profound lover of both horrible histories and horrible kevin day. but i do not think he watches it. i do not think kevin is an appreciator of whimsy. he would notice a single historical inconsistency and start writing emails to the creators with cited sources and bibliography