#supernerd

[s4mmysc0wm1ttenz]

my mmotivation died and I can't draw Ben on time so you'll have a uhh. Idfk TAKE THIS ANIMATIC I MADE LIKE WEEKS AGO AND FORGOR TK POST IT HERE

[grantourtuga]

Getting more serious about our search! Narrowed down those municipalities with affordable housing, mountains and a minimum amount of other foreigners. 🤓 Not being super strict about it, because tomorrow we're going to Lienz for 3 nights.

(MD)

[frasohei]

I love it when someone describes themselves as a “super nerd” and, as their example, they mention something from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy… and I’m just sitting here like “comrade, you’ve barely unlocked ‘nerd’, sitting here describing one of the most popular fantasy settings of all time and it’s most recent iteration.” But i won’t say anything to them about it beside “cool,” or “neat”, or some other random bit of encouragement because: 1) they think they’re a nerd, so who am I to judge, 2) might be the perfect time to introduce them to miniature wargaming because GW has a LotR range [which will make them an even bigger nerd], and 3) maybe this is their way of putting out feelers, to see how tolerant of that sort of stuff their audience is.

[sadiqssolitude]

#JimParsons #TheBigBangTheory #SheldonCooper #IconicRole #NerdChic #SuperNerd #Bazinga #VersatileActor #EmmyAwardWinner #comedy #actor #Hollywood #portrait #pencildrawing

Full vid: https://youtu.be/r8Jkiff-jR0 Shorts: https://youtu.be/GFm51Lss6vE

[nicoinkokomo]

also!! on theo living in the sewers - this was a crazy thing to just drop and then never address again. i can't for the life of me remember who the hell said revealed it in the show, but like!?@?! you're telling me he was like twelve just scampering around down there??

i also wonder (and forgive me if they stated it in the show bc once again. #amnesiac) how long it lasted tbh (also was it in beacon hills' sewers..? or elsewhere). and i do think theo's a smart kid; he's in AP Bio alongside everyone else, which is kind of an insane feat if he yknow. lived his preteen years out in the Capital S Sewers.

imagine him studying or reading or just learning down there, alone, in dim lighting without any teachers or guides, all by himself. (actually, alternatively, do we think the Dread Doctors might've served as teachers?? that's a fun idea ngl and pretty plausible i think; they're scientists after all)

like putting aside how actually depressing that is why is bro on track to be the next einstein like okay mr. genius #thefuck

[smww4ever]

Diana & Clark: In the Kitchen 🥄

Developing this series as a spin-off of the Gardens one. Here are SuperWonder moments in a newly remodeled kitchen on the Kent Farm. There are tomatoes and basil and delicious cooking happening.

I grow tomatoes and Basil every year so this is endearing.

🍅🌿

[volosdarling]

HOW I SIT WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND TO COME BACK

[boobachu]

[shessoft]

okay but i want to know how Jordan and Emma first discovered their powers. and hopefully it wasn't as traumatic as Marie or Kate

mostly i'm thinking about Emma's because she seemed surprised that crying made her shrink so did it happen for the first time when she got sick as a kid? or did she like binge all her halloween candy one year and grew 10 feet?

also imagine if it happened early like as a baby or toddler that'd be the only time i'd feel bad for her mom because kids and babies cry A LOT for obvious reasons but imagine her horror to see her daughter has shrunk out of nowhere or even worse got so small she couldn't see her?? tbh she'd deserve that scare

but also Jordan, did their other powers come first before the switching or vice versa. i bet whatever ability presented itself first happened at the moment they got the courage to talk to their first crush. that just seems like something that would happen to them.

[mistraltons-finest-flying]

"Captain Jun, what do you mean the flight's weight restricted?" Dispatch, what do you mean you want me to launch a fuck-million pound aircraft off the end of a Fisher Price sized runway surrounded on 3 sides by mountains?

[seethinglikeme]

omg does anyone else know the chasers the trivia shows??? my mom loves it and i watched some earlier with her and the chasers come out like horror movie villains it's so funny

[crystaltoa]

Random, I just want you to know that when you make these kinds of posts in response to my stuff, it feels exactly like this:

btw still not over @crystaltoa 's whole post on narrative and destiny and bionicle characters being aware they're characters but not in a common fourth wall breaking way. Random thinks too hard two electric boogaloo

Like. The Matoran Universe is a fictional universe within the already fictional universe of Bionicle. Like the more realized version of a book in a book. It's a completely artificial manufactured cosmos where essentially nothing is real - most elements are replaced by protodermis, animals and plants are produced, the inhabitants are engineered and built via assembly lines, their sapience was installed post-completion - and the awareness of this is None. Like Crystal mentions in the original post, the characters know they're following Destiny like it's the rough draft of a play and they're actors of the Commedia dell'Arte, taking on certain archetypical roles and adhering more or less closely to their traits and clichés, but that's where the self-awareness ends because to them this is a performance of life, not a pantomime. The nature of the Matoran Universe naturally prevents any knowledge of or contact with the wider "real" universe, so they remain ignorant to how fictitious their existence is and continue to perceive their own reality as the only possible one (ITS THE FUCKING CAVE AGAIN).

Keep this in mind for later.

Now back to Destiny. MU beings seem to have a tendency to conflate or heavily associate it with Mata Nui ("the will of Mata Nui" being used as a synonym for it, the Order of Mata Nui working to ensure it), to the point where it would be fair to assume that the two are one and the same, or that at least Mata Nui has some agency on Destiny; however, while it's true that Mata Nui is heavily tied to Destiny to the point of seeming its incarnation, he just as submitted to it as the rest of the MU beings are, if not possibly more.

In the narrative of Destiny, Mata Nui is at once playing both the Objective and the Ultimate Hero - not in the sense that he's the platonic ideal of the role, but that at the end of the day he is the proper main character, if not the ONLY proper character for it. The concept of Destiny with a capital D is after all a creation of the Great Beings, whose principal concern and endgame is eventually* healing Spherus Magna: since Mata Nui is made for this specific purpose, Destiny exists to ensure he actually follows through with it; since Mata Nui needs to be functional in order to succeed, the narrative of Destiny converges around him and works to compel the MU beings towards keeping him alive. Thus, as mentioned, he is both hero and objective, protagonist and macguffin.

*dont fuckin talk to me abt the great beings and how they provoked the entire plot of bionicle through their tendency towards inaction and apathy. perhaps ill elaborate one day but the jist of it is that i need to bite them in the ass

This duality intrinsic to his character is made explicit by the constant if sometimes faint separation between his soul/spirit/essence ("him" proper) and his body (a "thing" he only inhabits) - causing him to oscillate between being a person and being an object, with the latter often winning over the former especially while he was commanding the Great Spirit Robot. His exile from this incarnation of fiction into the "real" world doesn't unshackle him from the narrative, which is too far above him from him to be escaped just like that, but it does allow him to take a detour outside of it and come into his own self in a way he's been unable to experience until now - because he hasn't exactly been a character at all, let alone an active player. He is first and foremost a tool, a means to an end; he's less reciting/living a part and more doing the job he's been built to do, and this singleminded and utilitarian approach to his identity seems to have been at least part of the problem in how effectively he could perform his task as it prevented him from noticing the problems which then led into the main conflict of Bionicle. By being forcefully exiled from fiction and having to become "real" he finally surpasses this obstacle and gains the mindset and skillset of a proper protagonist, finally realizing his heroic potential to a point where he can put it in practice.

Teridax, on the other hand.

Crystal has said it before because it is true and correct and right, so it's worth saying again: Teridax loves being the Villain. He's enamored with the role to such a disgusting degree that he essentially hoarded it for himself the moment he found out it was an option and nearly everybody else had to be declassed to Lackey or Antagonist in comparison. It's more than a role or a calling - it's a lifestyle. He makes it his whole personality and reason of being, completely abandoning his original purpose as a Makuta (in direct contrast with Mata Nui, who instead focused exclusively on his purpose at the cost of neglecting his role). He revels in the clichés, the monologues, the manipulation, the cruelty, the ominous laughs, the stark shadows, the drama and theatricality of it all. He likes it so much that it literally makes him stupid.

Teridax runs The Plan in tandem with Destiny in order to usurp it, replacing it with his own design in the same way he aims to replace Mata Nui with himself in the role of Great Spirit. In his mind, these are equivalent pairs: Mata Nui coincides with Destiny just like Teridax coincides with The Plan, so by replacing one you replace both, and he gains power not just over the universe but over the story itself.

Of course, as explained above, this is completely wrong: while he can and does run The Plan as parallel to Destiny in a way that makes them effectively overlap, and he does succeed in gaining Mata Nui's power, he remains a character subjugated by a narrative which is completely out of reach for him and continues to influence how the consequences of his actions will ultimately play out. This is immediately obvious to the reader the second he decides to get rid of all his problems by shooting them into space, completely unaware of the fact that the narrative has already made it so that Mata Nui will have the means to reach his objective, get another physical form, and eventually find a replacement for the body he needed for his quest, rendering the Great Spirit Robot mostly obsolete (which will be part of the reason why, again in tandem with Teridax's need for gratuitous cruelty, it will eventually be bested by the technically much worse Prototype Robot), all while Teridax is too busy learning the commands and terrifying his blood cells to realize his genius idea is going to get back at him and curbstomp him into the surface of a moon in roughly a couple of weeks.

But there's more!

Because the Great Spirit Robot is in and of itself a sort of physical manifestation of fiction as the container of the fictional Matoran Universe, it's effectively the most gargantuan vessel of Destiny available in the Bionicle Universe. As such, it is intrisically tied to the rule that dominates both of the stories centered around it: in Destiny's case, that Mata Nui will always succeed; in Bionicle (a story for kids)'s case, that the Villain will always fall to the Hero.

Teridax proudly, confidently and without doubt turns himself into the embodiment of his inevitable defeat.

[smww4ever]

Diana & Clark: In the Kitchen 🥄🍅

[moonlightduelist]

i have to add to previous post that i never thought gale as particularly nerdy or annoying bcos i am playing an even more nerdy and annoying wizard myself.

[enter-the-rickyverse]

Friend!! Hello! It's always been my belief Constance is a supernerd and big fan of franchises like Marvel/DC, Pokemon, Zelda, Animal Crossing, et cetera. And I think this is a very large bonding avenue for her and Ricky and they totally hang and geek out.

In sum: Could we get a Lillian + Ricky of your choosing being supernerds together?!

Thank you for being amazing!!! I look forward to every new piece from you and your vastly creative mind!!

Hi friend!! Thanks for your kindness and support c: here you go!!

[lord-squiggletits]

Canon Pharma:

Has like one friend and that one friend is barely even nice to him

(That best friend is Ratchet who's notoriously coarse and more common folk aligned than anything)

Eyes the size of saucers with like 3 pairs of bags underneath them (looks like he hasn't slept in months)

Blatant signs of mental illness (mania)

Exaggerated theatrical air, constantly making dumb puns and jokes to the amusement of literally no one

Everyone hates him, like literally everyone

Has two defining traits one of which is being a massive supernerd (a really good doctor) the other of which is being neurotic (alleged "control freak")

Locked himself up for two months and came out with enough research notes to develop cures to 5 different terminal illnesses

Literally needed an alt mode exemption to get put in the intellectual class and be allowed to be a doctor bc he comes from an oppressed class

Somehow has less charisma than Ratchet who will snark/insult his patients to their face and openly say "damn I wish he would just die" a couple times

The MTMTE fandom 10 years ago, for some reason: "Ah yes, THIS GUY, yeah this guy is DEFINITELY the posh elitist snob who hates poor people out of all of the Autobots"

How in the fuck did anyone at any point in time look at the sopping wet disaster of a nerd from an oppressed social class that is Pharma and assume that this soaked kitten of a man was the best guy out of the whole cast to fanonize as a rich upper class socialite who loves decadence. Like what. That's not even an alternate character interpretation you just pulled an entire guy out of your brain like some malformed birth of Athena.