#they are just the biggest nerds

[jofiah]

[teethburger]

I hope that 13 year old kid who beat Tetris for the first time has a fantastic 2024

[nico-di-genova]

Jenny getting Jaime his own motorcycle helmet, and Jaime immediately starting to put anime stickers on it. Jenny finds him a pokemon sticker book at the store one time, and buys it for him knowing half of them are going to end up on his helmet. It gets to the point that he runs out of space and starts sticking them on Jenny's. Someone starts making Blue Beetle stickers and selling them online, so now he and Jenny have matching ones.

[landwriter]

i am sorry i was so close-

[itraceswhenyoulie]

Cal is a book nerd and it's the first thing we find out about her!

I've said before that Cal is a Shakespeare nerd. But she's also a bookworm! The first two times we see Cal through Juliette's eyes, she is reading. Juliette is drawn to Cal's intelligence and curiosity. And that's how we meet her as an audience. A strong, smart, nerdy black girl being absolutely pined over by the first character we meet. The fact that Calliope Antigone Burns is desired by someone and a main character given her own narrative shouldn't be so groundbreaking. But it is. And she's such a gloriously nerdy character in little ways that make me really happy. I'm really just so glad she exists and I need more of her idiosyncrasies in Season 2 and beyond.

[lennsart]

Btw if anyone thought I forgot/became normal about the french Zelda encyclopedia

I'm just building up proofs, THE STICKY NOTES ARE IN

[betasuppe]

Trying not to completely waste my day & winded up with nearly 1k words of a drabble where the reader gives Tron a proper introduction to user etiquette... by means of a kiss, which is absolutely 500% just because I want to kiss this fucker senseless.

Anyways, might be tempted to post this out on ao3 when I'm done because, damn, I really do love this program & there's something so fun about making him have emotions like DAMNNNNN

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

Happy New Year!!

*pops grape juice bottle* woooo we’ve made it, guys!

2023 was such a nice year in the fandom, in my opinion. There was s3 and that was a banger, but I feel like the stuff we were up to ourselves over here was amazing too. I got to talk more with some of my mutuals who I hadn’t been as close to before, and lovely people keep coming to this corner of the internet!! We had our first sketchbook event and are currently preparing for a general Hilda Appreciation Week, I feel like this is all amazing considering the size of this community.

Just wanted to thank everyone who’s been here for the ride as well! It’s certainly always more fun when you have people to be insane with you. I just. Get very touched thinking about the amount of support in this fandom and how we creatively fuel each other.

Anyway, just wanted to write this post as a thank you. I hope you’re having a lovely end of the year, and may 2024 be even better 💜

(I do have one small writing update to add, though! The first months of the year will probably be relatively devoid of new content from me. This for two reasons. One is that I churned out so many fics this year that I feel like even the people who like my writing are having a hard time catching up (I don’t know how this happened either-), and the other is that I’ll be using my free time to get ahead on preparing my content for the rest of the year! I won’t completely stop or anything (Hilda Appreciation Week will see to that), just wanted to leave this noted so no one things I’ve Vanished from the fic writing scene or anything. I’m just preparing my next attack. Anyways that was it happy new year!!)

[enobariasteeth]

Jason Todd is my baby girl, he’s never done anything wrong ever

[sidhewrites]

….lisa Frankenstein girl in a graveyard crossover. I can do something with this.

[sciderman]

Hey sci what are you favorite musicals

to the surprise of no one my favourite musical is probably book of mormon,, i think i just love the genre of musicals that make you belly laugh

recently i watched the spongebob musical and honestly... has no right to be as good as it is

underrated genre that are my favourite: showtunes about living in blissful denial. that involve pink sequins.

[broken-clover]

I think there's untapped potential or at least untapped funny with having Eliza Masters not really know/interact with Ryu. Having it be a jealous pseudo-romantic rivalry would get kinda annoying but it'd be a little funny at first if she realizes that she's envious of her husband's best friend(?) and it's a man who doesn't know what cable is and has been wearing nothing but karate gis for all the time you've known him and it's probably been the same one this whole time too?? Does that thing ever get washed?? She's envious for like all of two weeks until she recognizes that he isn't coolly indifferent to everything and looking down on people he's just dense as fuck and doesn't know how small talk works. Ken's been talking him up for years about this one guy that he's totally close with and they're totally on a whole other level of friendship and Ryu's just eating peanut butter from the jar while Ken has been talking for an hour about his marriage (both are having a fantastic time enjoying each others' company) and Eliza looks on completely baffled.

[practically-an-x-man]

Genuine ask: What is it that's appealing about Horror? I've never really been into it (Except for reading some Stephen King). Have I just not been exposed to *good* horror?

Long ramble ahead, I'm very passionate about this stuff

Well it's definitely a polarizing genre, there are some people who love it and some people who really can't get into it no matter how much they try. I'm the former, so is my dad, my mother is the latter. She does not enjoy horror and never will, and that's fine.

I find a few things really fun about horror. The first is that I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so the fear and tension in a good horror movie is a similar effect to riding a roller coaster or going skydiving. Some people find it a thrill, others find it terrifying. I find it a thrill.

There's also a psychological phenomenon linked to it, called excitation transfer. Basically, the more intense a scary situation is, the more pleasant the relief feels when it's over. I actually did a whole research project on this! Horror movies present a safe space for experiencing these emotions, since you know you can't really get hurt, and excitation transfer means that even when the fear and anxiety during the movie may be unpleasant, the relief feels really good afterwards. Again, same principle as thrill rides at theme parks - terrifying in the moment, but fun when it's over. Granted, I like roller coasters in the moment too since I actually really like the feeling of flight or falling, but... same principle.

And even outside the thrill perspective of it: horror movies can have some of the best or most interesting practical effects, and I'm an SFX artist myself so I have to appreciate those. And because of how many complicated, intense emotions it presents, it can often involve some of the best acting on top of it. Horror usually presents a greater variety in themes and plot than other genres, since they aren't afraid to go to uncomfortable places. I mean, you watch a romcom and pretty much always expect that the guy gets the girl, you watch an action movie and expect the heroes to come out on top, but with horror it's a lot harder to really guess how something could end, or if it'll be a win for the "good guys" at all. Sometimes the dark ending is just what's right for the story, and horror is more likely to keep that ending while other genres may shy away from it.

And horror can also present as a bit of escapism - you can see yourself as the final girl, or the killer exacting well-deserved vengeance, or whoever else. Everyone has dark fantasies sometimes, and there's almost always a movie to reflect that in a safe space. You daydream about killing your boss at work? Mayhem (2017). Belko Experiment (2016). You want to see spoiled rich brats getting their comeuppance? Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022). The Menu (2021). You like zombies? Vampires? Robots? Demons? Slashers? Mind control? Mundane settings turned terrifying? It's such a versatile genre, there's something for just about anyone as long as they like scary things.

From an academic perspective, too: horror reflects the societal fears of its time period. In the 60s we got Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Manchurian Candidate because it was the Cold War and people's biggest fear was foreign spies. In the 80s it was a lot of demons and Satanic themes, because the Satanic panic was what had people scared. Lately we've been getting a lot of tech-based horror like Countdown and Host, since technology is usually at the forefront of people's fears. It's neat (to me at least) to see how society's trends reflect themselves in horror.

Plus, I just really like spooky things. Vampires and zombies and creepy mutated creatures and whatever else are my jam! I can get all academic on why horror is a great genre and why people enjoy it, but this stuff also just calls to me. I love it.

[nofacednerd]

Annie January is so funny btw. The entirety of season 1 she presents herself as having light powers and her light powers just kinda throw people around a lil and sometimes blind people

And then you find out at the end of season 1 that she actually just has electrokinesis and has definitely electrocuted the fuck out of her boyfriend multiple times. “Oh no we’re those bruises my fault? 🥺😣” girl you bodied him with 20000 volts straight to the chest

[twinklecupcake]

Rewatching Revenge of the Spider Queen, seeing Goliath’s official entrance, and you think he and Huntsman just took a second to be like

“Okay, big guy, I know we’re pressed for time, but you know what’s going to scary as shit? You know what’s really gonna intimidate them? This is gonna be so sick, we just wait for something like ‘There’s whatever many of us and one of you,’ and then boom, and it’s gonna be so cool, this is gonna be so good.”

[earlgodwin]

these parts are from two different books (the first part is from the borgias: blood & beauty by sarah dunant, and the second part is from sins of the house of borgia sarah bower) and i gotta say, the babygirlification of juan borgia is so real!! he's an it girl and we love to see it 🙏