#geek moment

[cargopantsman]

Drop the REM songs

you asked for it... doing one per album.

I actually need to give Up a re-listen because when it came out I was mad that Bill Berry left (apparently having an aneurysm is a Whole Thing) and I was mad that REM kept going without a core member.

And anything after Reveal. . .well, I haven't been keeping up with the world well.

spotify link here

Series of YouTube links: (I hope these links load well, cuz the editor is giving me a lot of not loading messages)[eh, doesn't load on desktop, loads on mobile, so title text added.]

Album: Murmur (1983), Song: West of the Fields

Album: Reckoning (1984), Song: Camera

Album: Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), Song: Wendell Gee

Album: Lifes Rich Pageant (1986), Song: Begin the Begin

Album: Document (1987), Song: Disturbance at the Heron House

Album: Green (1988), Song: Turn You Inside Out

Album: Out of Time (1991), Song: Half A World Away

Album: Automatic (1992), Song: Find the River

Album: Monster (1994), Song: You

Album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996), Song: Leave

I apparently hit a 10 video limit. . . but this should get the point across... maybe. Or not.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[impossiblesublimelight]

I absolutely love Blitzø’s reaction to Stolas mentioning his horse collection!

This lovable dork is absolutely ecstatic that Stolas is talking about his collection. Blitzø is proud of his horse collection, and he’s more than ready to geek out about it with someone he loves.

The feels man, I just can’t with this gremlin lizard! 🥰

[thatonegeekygirl]

you know you’re really beginning to transition into adulthood when you start saying “oh my god” like bob belcher

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 6 - Secret

The jealousy that began to bubble up, though likely pointless to hide from her of all people, Arsay desperately tried to keep a secret from her dear friend Krile.

[maxdibert]

Your post on muggleborn discrimination honestly opened my eyes and predictably I don’t see the general fandom (or maybe just the marauder fandom) being receptive to this idea because it sort of challenges a lot of what Rowling was trying to set up with her shallow ideas of politics and systems of oppression.

I think it’s really interesting how muggleborns are sort of considered “the most oppressed group” within Harry Potter (especially by certain fandoms) when clearly they are not, giants seemed to have been through a sort of genocide in Europe, elves are literally enslaved, werewolves aren’t allowed within “normal society” and every other non human being is treated along these lines. But once they started targeting muggleborns, well they’ve gone too far! Those are humans! Sure they don’t have the same magical parents that we do, but it’s not like they’re goblins or anything! And this attitude is so present within the series it really makes you question the order and whether or not you can really call them “progressives” “who fight for what’s right” (note the apathy towards all non human beings shown by the members except maybe Hermione, whose extra goals of furthering the rights of these beings is looked down upon. Also note Bill Weasleys odd comments about goblins in deathly hallows)

anyways I like to think there was another group of progressives in hp that weren’t the order, filled with working class people, squibs, werewolves, goblins, elves, etc. that would operated in a different way. they weren’t just trying to end Voldemort or fight in combat but build community, give aid to those who needed it, and protect each other. Idk at this point I’m just very disillusioned with the whole “the order is a radical group of progressives” especially as it’s usually coming from marauders fans who most likely have never had any experience with any radical groups of progressives, they just like the idea and aesthetic. The order really was a group of elites, (with a few tokens that were treated as such) that’s one purpose was to win a war, nothing more, nothing less.

Sorry for coming here quite late, but this ask was so interesting and allow me for make a huge meta about this topic and i didn't have so much time this week so i was waiting for have a time to answer properly.

Well, this is gonna be long because THIS IS THE MAIN FUCKING TOPIC.

In the wizarding world, there are clearly two main categories: humans and non-humans. Humans are considered political subjects with rights because when we talk about beings who are not discriminated against, we’re not really talking about “people” in the general sense, but about political subjects. If you're not a political subject, you're not seen as a person because in order to be recognized as a person within a society, you must have political rights and be treated as a subject, not an object.

This is why the political recognition of women and racialized people as subjects with individual rights has been so historically significant. Before they were granted those rights, they weren’t considered people: they were property. Women belonged to their husbands, fathers, or brothers, and racialized people were literally the property of their enslavers. It’s crucial to clarify this, because when we say “people,” we often assume it includes the general population, without understanding that from a sociopolitical perspective, only those recognized as political subjects are truly considered people. Everyone else exists in subordination to them.

With that said, in the wizarding world, the only beings considered political subjects with rights are humans. Non-humans are not. They’re seen as inferior beings. They have no right to study in the same magical schools as humans, no right to hold high positions within the institutions that shape society (like the Ministry), and in some cases, they don’t even have the right to autonomy over their own lives. And we’re talking about beings who are canonically shown to be cognitively capable whose only “flaw” is not being human.

This also applies to semi-human beings like werewolves, who aren’t considered full political subjects either. The only way they can access any of the rights humans enjoy is by hiding what they are. If they don’t, they can’t even legally hold a job.

Now, even among humans—excluding the semi-human category for the reasons stated above—there is a clear system of internal discrimination. You have humans with magic and humans without magic. And only those with magic are considered political subjects in the magical world. If you’re a human without magic, you may be regarded as marginally above goblins, house-elves, or centaurs but you're still beneath magical humans. You have no right to the same freedoms, and you have absolutely no voice in the political, social, or legal decisions made in the wizarding world.

Take squibs, for example. They’re born into magical families, but are pushed to the margins of magical society simply for lacking powers. They’re denied the right to attend the same schools as magical children, denied the ability to influence magical governance, and denied recognition as full participants in the society they were born and raised in. Their exclusion starts with being denied access to magical education, a critical first step in institutional exclusion.

And then there are muggles. Muggles not only lack rights within the magical world: they don’t even have the right to know it exists. And yet, wizards feel completely entitled to intervene in their lives and make profound decisions on their behalf like erasing their memories. Wizards hold muggles in such low regard, they see them as third-class beings whose minds they can freely tamper with.

Even Hermione, one of the supposed paragons of morality, erases her parents’ memories without asking them, and the story presents it as an act of kindness, responsibility, even love. But it’s not. It’s a violation of the most fundamental human right: the right to own your life and make your own decisions. Wizards couldn’t care less: they trample over that right with no remorse.

So, at this point, we have several castes:

Lowest caste: All non-human beings, treated like animals, sometimes as slaves, sometimes as mere creatures to be kept at a distance.

Slightly above them: Semi-human beings. Still treated like beasts, just with more evolved minds.

Second-class citizens: Non-magical humans, where squibs rank slightly above muggles (at least squibs know about magic and can prepare for it).

Highest caste: Humans with magical powers. This is the elite: the privileged class. They have access to education, employment, political voice, ownership of property, and even the right to hold others—sentient beings—as slaves. And this includes all magical humans, regardless of blood status.

There is no point in the timeline—before Voldemort takes over—where magical humans of different blood statuses don't have the same rights. Muggle-borns have the same access to education, healthcare, government jobs, private property, and business opportunities as pure-bloods. Nothing in canon suggests that a muggle-born couldn’t own a house-elf, for example. Muggle-borns are granted the full legal and social privileges of the magical elite.

So what’s the real problem muggle-borns face? Where’s the actual discrimination? The only issue is that there's a conservative, extremist minority that wants to push this already privileged group out of the elite. That’s it. And yes, that’s awful, but let’s be real: Harry, who’s half-blood, inherits Kreacher, a sentient being. Harry owns a slave. Just like Hermione could have. And nobody bats an eye. So are we seriously going to equate the plight of muggle-borns with that of racialized people in the U.S.? Or compare Death Eaters to the KKK? Are we really going to draw parallels to the historical persecution of Jewish communities or apartheid? Because that is politically and academically inaccurate. There’s no basis for that.

Muggle-borns, like half-bloods and pure-bloods, are full political subjects, the top tier in a deeply unjust hierarchy that excludes the vast majority of other sentient, cognitively evolved beings in the magical world. So, honestly, everything that happens in the series is just internal warfare between privileged people fighting within their own elite bubble. Yes, horrible things happen, but being a goblin, a house-elf, or a centaur in that world is far worse. Being a Muggle is worse, having your memory wiped without consent, being used, manipulated, and treated like you're expendable is worse.

So no, I don't buy into the idea that muggle-borns are the most oppressed group in the wizarding world. That’s simply not true. From a social and political standpoint, they’re not. They’re part of the most privileged class, the only group that has full political and legal rights. The only ones who are truly free. Everyone else exists under their control.

[elspouta]

she lowkey genderfluid but she gotta job so she can’t be thinking bout that shit rn

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

my favorite mulder moments from s6

doing his best to analyze the fragments of the x files left after the fire in episode 1, because he will never give up on anything he sets his mind to

veeeeery carefully handing the mystery beast’s claw to scully for analysis ("is that an animal?" "ain't rupaul")

accidentally traveling through a time warp in episode 3 and attempting to convince the ww2 soldiers that the war is actually over, then giggling at his own luck in tracing down the missing ship (NERD! nerd)

then finding ww2 era scully and being so confused as to why she doesn’t know him because… that’s scully!!! who knows him better than anyone in the world!

being trapped in the body of someone else in episode 4, and when he sees the photo of that guy’s wife and kids, he sadly whispers “scully” (and then when his “wife” slaps him awake, he AGAIN mumbles “scully”... yeah, she really is your family, huh?)

trying so hard to convince scully it’s really him trapped in someone else’s body: “your mother’s name is margaret, your brother’s name is bill jr. he’s in the navy and he HATES me” and the desperation in his voice when she still doesn't believe him :(

episode 5: “hey scully? i, uh, know it’s not your normal life, but thanks for coming out there with me” (there will always be bonus points for emotional communication and then even MORE bonus points for his reaction to discovering the waterbed right after. i'd frame it if i could)

maurice roasting him in episode 6 for being “prone to obsessive compulsiveness, workaholism, antisocialism- fertile fields for the descent into total wacko breakdown” <- get his ass

“you know why you think you’ve seen the things you do?” “because… i have seen them?” <- the SASS in that delivery! oh my!

finding the case file that spender shredded up in episode 7 and taping it together so he could investigate himself… lmao, that’s a man that gets results!

and then his great strategy for getting answers on that case being to annoy a demon until something happens... and it works <3

his reaction in episode 8 to scully being referred to as “the missus”; he mouths “oh!” and fidgets a bit, looking both terrible awkward and pleased, haha

and who can forget the iconic “i do not GAZE at scully”? surely not i!

finding skinner sick in his office late at night in episode 9- claiming he's just saying hello, then asking him if he’ll be okay, turning off all of the lights so he felt more comfortable, and angling a desk lamp so scully could inspect him

getting very jealous when scully gets assigned to the case of the mysterious death photographer in episode 10 without him: “i’m thinking murder by telekinesis. i’m thinking maybe a shamanistic death touch. i’m thinking about the muslim superstition that to photograph someone is to steal their soul” (and his righteous fury at the idea of them being separated 🙁)

being nosy throughout the whole episode because somehow he ended up with the files from kersh’s computer and calling her for frequent updates (and using a silly voice to say “we used to sit next to each other at the FBI” to make her smile while she's super annoyed with terrible agent ritter)

hunting through the FBI archives at 9 am to track down information for scully’s case, and when he learns that she is in danger and not picking up her phone, immediately calling trash agent ritter to go check in on her

when said trash partner SHOOTS and nearly KILLS scully, he goes to visit her in the hospital a week later, and corners him, saying only that he is a lucky man. you KNOW he wanted to get violent. amazing self-restraint on him!

grabbing scully’s hand in her hospital bed and smiling, telling her the doctor said her recovery is amazing- she’s still so sad, and he says “death only looks for you once you seek its opposite”

gym mulder in episodes 11 and 12... the basketball... yeah ❤️

trying to be kind in episode 13 and it immediately backfiring in that cringe-inducing fashion that only he is capable of achieving: “stay there, mrs. suarez. we're going to make sure your baby makes it safely into the world” “well, thank you, but i’m not in labor. and my name is not suarez, it’s villareal. he tells people i’m his wife. like he’s so macho”

the wind-up chattering teeth on the desk in episode 14 <3

how wildly excited he was to play house in episode 15- “hey, oooh wait a minute, you didn’t let me carry you over the threshold”

and then taunting all of the neighbors with his stupid basketball hoop, LMAOOO

in episode 16, he knows off the top of his head how many years ago the wanshang dhole went extinct

rare communication w for mulder in episode 17 when they get into their usual spat about his theory not being scientifically possible and he decides to instead focus them on what they both agree on: the need to find june

opening up about how important baseball is to him in episode 19: “it’s like the numbers talk to me, they comfort me, they tell me that even though lots of things can change, some things do remain the same. it’s-" "boring?” (pouty mulder face as scully teases him)

AND his recitation to arthur dales of how many home runs mickey mantle hit with each hand

chatting with arthur dales and telling on himself when it comes to his feelings: “do you believe that love can make a man shapeshift?” “i guess… women change men all the time” “i’m not talking about women” (they then share hot dogs, pizza, and chinese takeout)

AND paying that little boy to help him surprise scully with the baseball date- sharing something that is both personal to him and plain fun with her

scully asks him what more he hopes to find in episode 22, and he answers “my sister” 💔 because that is still at the heart of every single action he does after all of this time… no matter which way the plot veers, who the bad guys of the week are, or where life leads him, it's always about samantha and that guilt he harbors over her

[randomfingthings]

they may have hated it in the moment but damn did they serve 😌💅

[atropazar]

Tested out my new drawing tablet on my phone by sketching Shadow Link

[supercritters]

Shōto Aizawa - Eraserhead

Second part of a requested character!

Here is where I really start to show "sorry if I turn your favorite guy into some manner of weird creature". Hydra is a genus of the phylum Cnidaria, which includes more famous members like jellyfish and sea anemones. They are microscopic predators, consisting of a very simple body plan, a "head" with a mouth and a base "foot". Much like their cousins the jellyfish, they don't even have an encephalized neural system - just a nerve net! It's very cool. The most prominent feature that Hydra possess are a series of six "tentacles" around their head, called cnidocytes - that's where the phylum gets its name from - cells powered by piercing stingers called nematocysts. They use these to hunt microscopic prey.

As you may have guessed, those cnidocytes are primarily why I chose this animal for Eraserhead, as a parallel to his binding bandages. They're even located around his neck! I also liked how they aligned with his power, as something that "paralyzes" opponents, much in the same way that nematocyst toxins do.

I also went with a Hydra over another cnidarian like jellyfish, because his ruthless and direct personality lends better to an active predator than a passive one. Of course I could've chosen something like a man-o-war, but I honestly just really wanted to draw a hydra.

Hydra viridissima was chosen because it has a fun green color palette :)

If you couldn't tell this blog is being run by someone with a degree in biology, I'm sure you can now haha

[hanzajesthanza]

the training montage in crossroads re-ignited a headcanon i had of geralt waking up and doing gymnastics, performing kickflips and mid-air spins around on a fencepost outside an hour before sunrise to ‘limber up,’ and bleary-eyed dandelion wrapping himself up in a blanket to be like "heyyy... what the hell are you doing 💖"

[vincentsleftear]

A fishwives playlist 🐟

cover art by the insanely talented fishwives visionary @mariannekhalil :)

[philsdrivinglicence]

It's midnight! I officially see Dan and Phil. TODAY!

My big 26 year old self is going alone to a city an hour away to honour little 11-16 year old me who lived too far away and couldn't afford any of the previous tours. I'm so fucking excited I could cry.

[mayday-jd]

love how you can see how much of a fanboy danny turns the more he reacts to smth

[hercarisntyours]

she's looking at her lovable idiot

[genrebenders]

he has Got to be stopped.