#nerd of the century?

[cuties-in-codices]

botanical illustrations (physalis, hemlock, chard, scammony, sea squill, lettuce, hawthorn, dyer's broom)

from johann hartlieb’s kräuterbuch (book of herbs), northern bavaria, c. 1462

source: Berlin, SBB, Ms. germ. qu. 2021

[70sdannymolloy]

Love that Armand has always been a tech nerd, even in the 40s

When Santiago said they didn’t need the projector for Sam existentialist play he immediately went “…whAT DO YOU MEAN NOT USING A PROJECTOR?????? THE PROJECTOR IS THE WHOLE POINT”

[frankidacre]

Me explaining, once more, that being interested in a particular historical figure or era does NOT necessarily equate to supporting it ‼️ Creators shouldn’t have to make a piece of work “clean” just because some readers may get uncomfortable. If anything, we should be promoting the exploration of uncomfortable topics- proper research and portrayal should be praised. Bring back historical and media literacy.

[spongelll]

not to be dramatic or anything but this is all I want in life rn

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[rochenn]

i have decided for myself that cody's special interest is historical space travel in the same way the age of sail and ocean liners is for us. PLEASE ask him about the deep space crash of 1200 BBY. or that time a distressed freighter disappeared inside a gas giant never to be seen again. he knows everything about that one line of cargo ships that used to supply the galaxy's frontiers way back when today's mid-rim was still considered an unknown region. oh i see the vision

[r3zi3]

i can't believe i can write this and not lie but lowkey kevin day and my grandmother are so alike

[sykosixx]

mikey way as a kiddo

look at this nerd of course he plays bass

[baudouinette]

Give me them interlinked riveted metal rings 💍 ⛓️🥴🥰😍

Sorry but I guess it’s due to soooo much crazy fantasy plate armor and media giving more attention to plate armor medieval periods than earlier—I have plate burnout (never really was the biggest fan to begin with)

Also I could’ve added more types but felt lazy

I want more movies and games in chainmail eras.

Transitional period armors mixing the two are cool too tho.

[lunavagans]

Continuation from the sketch. Not sure if I like the tunic being more elaborate than the canon version, but I‘m happy with the colours now (though I‘ll probably tweak the tunic again). I think the freckles being lighter than his skin is kinda cute, and if I do make him forest-themed, I could maybe go in a deer sort of direction.

Close-up of the face for the details:

[ladamedusoif]

Permission to be a nerdy expert and deeply thirsty for two minutes.

I am begging - begging - fashion writers et al to realise that “Victorian” is a specific time period and place, not an entire century. And if you must insist on the Darcy comparison (about which more anon), then recognise that Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, aka the Georgian/Regency period. (Victoria wouldn’t become queen for almost two decades.)

And that being said: I stand by my read of the whole look being far more 1830s European Romantic.

Now that I’ve got my nerdy twitching out of the way: I would like to hear more about the whole “making a shirt that’s nicely oversized and designed to be opened like that” design process please and thank you. 😘

[nerds-yearbook]

The Elseworlds Batman: Digital Justice one-shot was published with a pull date of April 1990. The computer generated comic, a novelty at the time, took place in the 21st century. In order to fight the Joker virus developed decades before by the Joker, James Gordon II (grandson of James Gordon) became the new Batman. He was aided by the Batcomp, Bobby Chang as the new Robin, and a robot version of Alfred. Gata, clone of Mayer Madame X, became the new Catwoman. The characters were created by Pepe Morino Casaras and Doug Murray. ("Batman: Digital Justice" DC Comic Event)

[innocentscemetery]

men with sad brown eyes + mustaches appreciation

[1880s-1960s]

[slaviclore]

One of the things I like best about history research is just the detective work of it. For example, 19th century, in one letter chopin wrote to his friend, he says something to the effect of, and I am deeply paraphrasing here: whew I sure am glad you're 40 miles away since you're so mad at me. Now chopin is in Warsaw when he's writing the letter, and his friend is in poturzyn. That's 320km or almost 200 miles. So I'm sitting there like ok either somebody is not where they're supposed to be, or chopin is measuring miles differently.

Turns out he's straight up measuring miles differently. He used the russian/prussian/austrian measure of a mile, which is about 7.5km as opposed to the 1.6km mile. 320km is about 42 of these miles. Really goes to show u can't assume anything works the same way you're used to.

Also, so funny to me that the 3 empires each had slightly different measures (7.58km vs 7.53 vs 7.47) that are nonetheless essentially the same unless u want to be really annoying about it, which is such a microcosm of the partitions overall lol

[tyger-land]

𝙸𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝, 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚞𝚙 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚔 𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚊𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚝, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 - 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 - 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍.

- 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬, from 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝘅𝗼𝘁𝗲 (book one, chapter one; 1605) translated in 2003 by Edith Grossman.

- Illustration 1863 by Gustave Doré.

[detectivemiku]

y'all im sorry but can we talk about how much of a dork conan looks like-

like our boy is out here regularly wearing suspenders & shorts combo with a red bowtie and oversized glasses. also his uncommon foreign name?? he's just ASKING to be made fun of

if you aren't familiar with the story there's No Way you'd think to take him seriously,, but somehow despite everything he's literally the coolest guy ever and Everyone loves him. like he really does live up to the "cool guy/kid" name, but no one would believe that by looks alone

[gracehosborn]

Happy super belated birthday to me (and hooray for hoarding gift cards)!

I’ve been wanting to read Fred Anderson’s Crucible of War for months now, so I figured now was a good time to snag a copy.

What I’m most happy about however, is now owning roughly half of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, with buying this particular independent bookstore out of their last copies of the PAH (vols. 12-13 and 15)!! 😁