#spectrum nerds

[navigatorsnorth]

Colonel White, I've crashed the SPV.

[pippinscribs]

I have free time again finally and I’m gonna fill it with these goofs

[vumigumied]

rewatching tdi and was unfortunately reminded of them

[dollw0und]

[indieyuugure]

So turtles don't need a flashlight to see in the dark? Is that why their eyes are glowing?

So….it’s complicated.

Technically, irl turtles do not have eye glow, which is a reflective film over a creatures’ eyes. Animals such as dogs, cats, and raccoons have this which is why flash photography photos makes them look super cursed/demonic.

It’s technically not an actual glow like fireflies (which use bioluminescence) either, it’s more like how street signs or bicycle reflectors “glow” when a car’s headlights flash over them.

Also important to note that while yes turtles do have a second eyelid, it’s purely for keeping junk out of their eyes while swimming and applying fluid. There’s no reflective property to the membrane.

Now, turtles are said to have better night vision than humans despite lacking eye glow. This is because (at least from what I read) turtles and other types of reptiles are what’s called “tetrachromatic.” Humans are trichromatic: we can see red, green and blue light, however turtles are able to see a fourth light spectrum that’s lower in the reds zones (some creatures it’s higher in the ultraviolet spectrum).

At least from what I’ve read, this helps increase their night vision and would mean that, while it’s hard for us to envision a color that we can see, their nighttime would look sorta reddish but mildly brighter than what we see?

Now, all this said, I’m not sure why the turtle’s eyes glow in most TMNT incarnations—the obvious reason being because it looks cool, but no real in-universe reason exists. My best guess is it’s because of the mutagen’s energy dimly dissipating and is visible through the fine veins in the turtles’ eyes. However, their blood doesn’t glow, just their eyes, so I don’t really know, maybe it’s just a mutant thing or something 🤷‍♀️

I don’t connect their glowing eyes to better night vision per se, but that would make sense so…sure?

I have no idea.

Good question! :]

[rj-orion]

Space

Space is one of my most important special interests; I could talk about the complexities of my feelings towards it for hours and, if you were to let me, I'd probably fall in love with you afterwards. I found all of these images on google, most (if not all) of them are from NASA, so go check out their website for more space photos

[linkahavocz99]

Initially, Christopher Randolph had auditioned for the role of Snake before David Hayter signed on to the project a couple months before recording the english dub of mgs1. Using basic laws of physics, this means that there’s a universe where Otacon is a secret agent and Snake is, well…his job is just nerd.

[nukacourier]

I played a compilation of Arcade voice lines for my partner and 15 seconds in he went "Oh my GOD. So he's AUTISTIC autistic" which was so funny to me because obviously he didn't mean it in a negative way but he just thought I was doing the bit where I call a character I like autistic with 0 basis for it

Yeah honestly, Mr. "Learns Latin largely through piecing it together from wildly different media" definitely isn't called autistic for no reason

[utilitycaster]

The most important thing about Veilguard is that pretty much everyone in it and certainly every ally, is either a nerd or a hater, and most are both

[magic-crazy-as-this]

(Alfred is a Nerd/Prep, deeper than Tim, I just completely forgot him whoops)

[hyperfixation-stationn]

Kind of lose it over Bill calling Ford his "pet human"

[navigatorsnorth]

fashion icons

[alienfailboy]

why don't you guys love me enough to make thorbruce content anymore WHERE ARE MY DILF AU's :(

[dailiadelc]

[kalied0skull]

Really scared because a lot of my friends think I’m autistic but every time I tell people they say I seem normal. I have a small list of symptoms I was given by my friend and she said she’d write me more

I’ll update you later…😞

Love your stevepop art🩷

research is the best you can do in a moment of curiosity over a diagnosis, and look especially at symptoms that showed when you were younger !

autism shows in as young as infancy, and if you're curious you should probably ask a parent (or whomever family you may feel most comfy asking) about subtle signs of autism, just things that seem most out of the ordinary that ur curious about

AND THANKYOU !!! just for you anon, a little doodle of them being silly ...

[ailurinae]

What pride flag is this?

I feel like this one would be better answered by like @foone or someone. That said, looks like the autistic retro nerd ace flag to me.