#sci fi nerding

[jamdoughnutmagician]

Of course we know that Eddie is the big fantasy nerd, with his love of D&D, he was probably an avid reader of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and almost definitely made Wayne sit through numerous re-watches of The Wizard of Oz as a kid.

But when he gets together with Steve he realises that Steve 'the hair' Harrington isn't quite the meat-head jock that he remembers him to be in high school.

Eddie was flicking through the channels looking for something for them to watch when Steve comes in holding a bowl of popcorn in his hands as he scoots up close to Eddie.

"Hey, go back a minute, I think I saw something good." Steve says, tapping Eddie on the arm.

Eddie flicks back the channel and it lands on a re-run episode of the original series of Star Trek.

"Man, I used to be obsessed with this show as a kid." Steve says, throwing back a handful of popcorn. "Never missed an episode."

"Wait, you wanna watch Star Trek?" Eddie asked, raising his eyebrows at Steve's admission. His boyfriend was a secret geek.

"Yeah it's a good show. I think I even dressed up as Captain Kirk for Halloween one year. " scratch that Steve Harrington was a full on nerd.

"Sure, we can watch this." Eddie smirks, settling back against Steve.

"Hey, Eddie, did you ever watch that show about the alien in the time-travelling police box?"

It appears that the nerd-levels ran deep with Steve.

Eddie shakes his head at his boyfriend.

"Always watched that one too, actually, I still do." Steve smiles. "My grandma knitted me the long multicoloured scarf for Christmas when I was younger."

"Stevie, why didn't you tell me you were such a science fiction nerd?"

"You never asked."

Eddie might have been the fantasy lover between the two of them, but when it came down to it, Steve was most definitely the sci-fi geek.

[blumineck]

Bows vs Guns: when does it make sense for modern/ sci-fi characters to use guns?

This is just one example! For a longer breakdown (with some bonus history!), check out my YouTube channel.

And don’t forget there are art reference packs now up on Patreon!

[gooberscollage]

Collages based on two of my OC’s. Very very different aesthetics which is why they’re in love <3 I’m 97% sure everything is from my blog expect maybe one or two things. It was a fun challenge using only my stuff to capture their vibes :3

[jon-mcbrine-author]

Romulus better canonize this, settling the debate

[luthqrs]

"You have to understand... I'm a nerd." EMILY PRENTISS in CRIMINAL MINDS 2x16 | ‘Fear and Loathing’

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow, I am amused that solangelo fanon was so tunnel-vision in like 2014 that in the midst of crawling through literally every time Will had popped up in the series prior, somehow the ONE singular instance of Will referencing something that the fandom did absolutely nothing with was the thing Rick then decided to draw out into being a major character trait for Will.

Like. Nico eats McDonalds once and it becomes a huge fanon thing, but Will references Star Trek and the fandom doesn't make a peep until Rick explicitly canonizes that he's a huge sci fi nerd. and Rick doesn't even keep it consistent! He changes it so Will is a Star Wars nerd instead of Star Trek. smh 😔 /lh

[nerds-yearbook]

The first episode of Deep Space Nine aired on January 3, 1993. DSN was the first spin-off of the Star Trek the Next Generation universe. There were plans to feature the STNG character Ro Laren, but the actess Michelle Forbes did not want to commit to the series at the time. In place of Ro, a new character was created named Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor). Colm Meaney continued in this series as his STNG character Miles O'brien. Patrick Stewert made a cameo in his role as Captain Jean Luc Picard. The episode introduced several new characters, including Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko (Avery Brooks), Constable Odo (Rene Aberjonois), Doctor Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig), Lt. Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell), Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton), Quark (Armin Shimerman), and Nog (Aron Eisenberg). Felicia M. Bell appeared as Jennifer Sisko, the wife of Ben and mother of Jake, who died in this episode. The events in the episode took place in 2367 and 2369. The show took place at a space station on the edge of a wormhole. The episode also portrayed the Battle of Wolf 359, which previously had only been referred to due to budget restraints. The episode also introduced the Runabouts vehichles. ("Emissary", Deep Space Nine, TV, Event)

[cheesy-cryptid]

“This better not make us late to prom!” 💥💥💥

Dont you just hate it when your reckless conspiracy theorist/occult geek bf is about to fight off a century old curse in your small town so you have to save him from getting mauled by monstrous flora without missing prom?

[yourobedientserpent]

Blade Runner is a serious contender for Your Obedient Serpent's Favorite Movie of All Time. I quite enjoyed this video essay, but, alas, while it's a pretty good assessment of the Ridley Scott classic, it suffers from a Small Reference pool and a lack of historical perspective.

At timestamp 1:56 in the video, the narrator says something that made me stop and do a double-take:

"The optimistic visions of the future that dominated the '70s were giving way to something darker."

I have an unfair advantage when it comes to Science Fiction Movies of the '70s: I sat through a whole lot of them, good and bad. As I've said many times before, I Was There At The Dawn Of The Nerd Age, when science fiction transitioned from a niche to something mainstream.

It's amusing to see the science fiction cinema of the 1970s dismissed as "optimistic". I mean, this was the decade that gave us dystopian masterpieces like A Clockwork Orange (1971), Silent Running (1972), Soylent Green (1973), Westworld (1973), and the original Rollerball (1975), and whose whose biggest SF franchise was the interminable chain of sequels to 1968's post-apocalyptic Planet of the Apes.

Star Wars came out toward the end of the decade, and it didn't get a second installment until 1980, so it's hard for me to think of it as a '70s franchise. Compared to the SF cinema of the rest of the decade, it's an outlier. It's funny that the video keeps going back to it as as the archetype of "optimistic SF" with a "bright clean white palette," though. When Star Wars first came out, part of what blew everyone away was that it WASN'T Bright Shiny White plastic: it was a grungy used future that looked lived-in.

Blade Runner's immediate visual progenitors in the early '80s were even bigger flops, though, and not ones that were redeemed by time. Films like Saturn 3 (1980) and Outland (1981) both tried to escalate the grungy look of Star Wars into a "noir" aesthetic, but their cinematographers and practical effects were nowhere near the scale or quality, and frankly, their plots were garbage. I'm not gonna pay Amazon $2.99 to watch Outland again; I still want my three bucks back from seeing it in 1981.

In conclusion:

Blade Runner was groundbreaking, but it was more evolutionary than revolutionary.

It's not that it did things that nobody had ever tried before. It's that it succeeded, because it did them on a scale that nobody had tried before. The video describes all of the elements in superb detail: an excellent script based on an excellent story, an accomplished cast, amazing practical effects, and a genius director. It was the first "dark SF" movie to really make the grade as cinema.

[kendallcodedromangirl]

Succession character’s favorite movies:

[woodlandeelf]

Was talking 2 my husband on the walk home from our friends house tonight about the moon and solar eclipses in fiction and I started ranting about the fact that in DAV the eclipse could be seen from more than just Minrathous and I was like “yeah it just isn’t possible even tho the moon is HUGE” (I’m a solar eclipse nerd I’ve seen 2 so far) and he was like “well how huge” and I demonstrated based on what we see in the game and he was like “ohhhh it’s a binary planet system” like it was OBVIOUS or something idk and I went “what” and then I told him about Satinalia and how it’s only seen once a year and we determined that it’s an ellipsoid orbit but I’m still not over binary planet Thedas system. I need to go to sleep but when I wake up. I’ll be thinking about the Moons of it all.

[tigtree]

in my head kateaaron embody the has seen every movie/has seen every tv series dynamic and i love it

no, katelyn hasn’t seen the notebook. but yeah, she’s seen all of the X-files and can tell you exactly what happens in any episode so long as you give her the title.

no, aaron hasn’t seen friends. but absolutely he has seen every planet of the apes movie and will tell you the lore of every single star wars movie in excruciating detail.

[annamariehamilton-unofficial]

Random Ghoulposting: When Reddit Folks Say the Premise Of TG Is Unrealistic and Stupid, I'm Like...

Me: It's a METAPHOR for alienation and prejudice, people! It was never MEANT to be realistic! Stop judging it for not being something it was never meant to be in the first place!

Also me: gets out corkboard and string and explains a ridiculous amount of biology and Japanese historical/cultural context to convince you that, yes, Tokyo Ghoul absolutely can be explained with logic and is *totally* plausible and self-consistent.

[ratleyland]

"Rebellions Are Built on Hope!"

Re-watching this Star Wars Masterpiece feels so different after watching Star Wars: Andor.

[aroaceleovaldez]

I have to wonder if Will being into space themed sci-fi specifically is like. A weird side effect of being an Apollo child. He's the sun god and the first major NASA expedition was called Apollo and now sometimes his kids get Space as a special interest. Doctor Who, Dune, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are also probably up his alley.

I like this thought a LOT and am immediately incorporating it into my Will hcs.

[nerds-yearbook]

On the May 17, 2025 episode of Doctor Who (The Interstellar Song Contest), Carole Ann Ford filmed her first appearance as Susan in the revived Doctor Who series. She last officially appeared in the Doctor Who special "The Five Doctors" (1983). She also appeared in the charity special as the character in "Dimensions in Time" (1993). Susan, the grand daughter of the Doctor, was the first regular character on the series to leave the show, which she did during the conclusion of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" (1964). The new episode also revealed that Mrs Flood (Anita Dobson) was Classic Doctor Who villian and fellow Time Lord the Rani (originally played by Kate O'Mara). At the end of the episode, the Rani bi-generated into another Rani played by Archie Panjabi (in the same way David Tennant bi-generated into Ncuti Gatwa). The episode that took place in a future version of Eurovision (taking place in the year 2925) aired on same day as the real Eurovision Song Contest Finale. Even though there was a 900 year gap between the real and fictional show, the new contest had two of the same hosts with Graham Norton having been turned into a holograph, and Ryan Clark had been cryogenically frozen. ("The Interstellar Song Contest" Doctor Who vol 4, TV Event)