#yes I'm a nerd

[decembermidnight]

Today I was out manga shopping and found the Mandalorian vol 2 😭😭

Look at these! The art is so beautiful. Look at the care at detail in every single frame!

Let me know if you'd like to see more. I'll be more than happy to post!

[darkphoenix180]

[spear-of-moonlight]

did two papers today. one of them was descriptive and oh my fucking god i don't think i've ever slayed harder on an exam before. since i've been eating, breathing and sleeping with my textbooks and other research material, i wrote like my life depended on it. space engineering is so fun omg 😭😭💖💖 i have three more exams but luckily none of them are descriptive because my hand hurts from writing so much. i'm not even sure if i got possessed in the exam room. i'm usually not the biggest fan of descriptive exams because i just want to do the math and leave.

[memelordotherblog]

Me watching a let's play of indigo park: Ah so, Moile is like launchpad, Finley is igor, Lloyd is the Mortimer, and Selam is Pete. Though I wonder if there a Julius and Oswald counterpart that came before Rambely.

[ultra-raging-ghost]

can i ask for a duck in these trying times?

I present to you.... MR. DUCK!! (because I miss him :( )

AND HE BREATHES FIRE!!!/ref

[the-wanderer-returns]

[praublem-child]

My best friend, bless his heart, just got absolutely wrecked by me in a fandom argument. Entirely because it was about fandom terms and not the specific fandom he was claiming a term came from. And lemme tell you. He's been in a lot of fandoms. He's a nerd through and through. But he has not been anywhere near fandom culture.

My main special interest is fanfiction. Fanfiction in it's entirety. I like to study it, I like to read it, I like to write it, hell I even like to squeal over it. But this means that when he claimed the phrase "canon event" came from the spiderverse movie, there was absolutely no fucking way I could let that shit slide.

The movie may have given it a different spin, but the concept is still majorly the same, and it has been around longer than I have been in fandom spaces, and I've been in fandom spaces for nearly a decade. I can, and I will out nerd someone when it comes to this stuff. Don't try me /hj

[rhysintherain]

Our tech support person found actual, logged evidence of the thing I've been saying was happening in our computer system for the last 6 months!

Right there on the screen!

Take that, person who said the problem was students logging out before they completed their application.

I knew there was something weird with how things were saving, but this is the first time I've been able to prove it.

[nomikkh]

Happy Hallowe'en!! Behold the scariest pumpkin of them all!

[frommybookbook]

My great-uncle used to send me postcards when I was a kid and I loved it. So when I moved to the coast from my midwestern town as an adult, I started sending postcards to my nieces and nephew. A few years ago, I went home for a visit and to see my sister's new house. Now, at this point I've been sending postcards to the kids for about a decade. My niece is so excited to show me her new room. I follow her up the stairs and she throws open the door, she's so excited. I look around and compliment the wall colors that she got to pick out (navy with glitter and one hot pink accent wall, they were awesome) and she stops me, "no, Aunt Laura, look" and turns me around. There, on the back of her bedroom door, are dozens of postcards that I've sent her. She's kept every single one (and even stolen some from her brother) and hung them where she can see them every single day.

I nearly cried. I don't make it home all that often and I know I've missed out on a lot of these kids' lives. But I send them postcards and they know I'm thinking about them.

Postcards are one of my favorite things. In addition to my nieces and nephew, I send them to my friends and my dad and pretty much anyone willing to give me their address. I send about 500 a year and no, that's not an exaggeration. They're such a low-effort thing for me to send (like OP said, just a couple lines fills up a postcard, you don't have to write a novel) and who doesn't love to get actual mail that isn't a bill or spam? So yeah, get yourself some postcards and start sending little bits of joy to people you like.

So I hate facetime but have two small nephews who live very far away and wanted them to know who I was. So when second nephew was born, I started sending first nephew (4 years old) a postcard every week.

The content wasn’t anything special. I made cookies, I saw this flower, my cats did this. He likes trucks and machinery so I scoured redbubble for anything related to machinery and got a giant batch of machine postcards. Whenever I traveled, I’d hunt down a postcard for him.

My second nephew turned four this year, and I started sending him postcards as well. Both of them like Pokemon now, so mostly it’s been double Pokemon postcards every week. I don’t hear much from them, or my sister, so I just generally hope they’re enjoyed and try to remember to mail them before Sunday.

However. This week my mom informed me second nephew likes the postcards SO MUCH he brings them into daycare to show around. And when I shared that with my sister, she told me not only does he bring them into daycare, he sleeps with them at naptime.

The only higher honor would be for her to tell me he’s eating them.

[darkphoenix180]

[itswhatyougive]

I still get chills remembering this part

[bennetsbonnet]

I know I turned this scene into a joke about how gorgeous Colin Firth is... but the pineapple that lurks in the background of the Netherfield ball when Mr Collins is yapping to Mr Darcy is such a subtle detail that I really appreciate!

The wealthy at this time in Britain were a little bit obsessed with pineapples. Depictions of them featured as decoration in country homes, in political cartoons, paintings and crockery (warning: Margaret Thatcher jumpscare🥴 but you can read more about that here and here).

But to have an actual pineapple on display during a large social gathering such as a ball? That was really showing off.

Especially when you consider it cost £150 (or approx. £28,000 today) to buy the initial plant, build a hothouse to grow them in and run it... with no guarantees they'd grow given the climate was not exactly suited for growing pineapples! It was a huge risk.

All this meant that pineapples were so scarce that they became incredibly sought after. Naturally, rich people did silly rich people things to acquire them and show them off... perhaps they were the NFTs of their day?

A single pineapple was valued at £60 (approx. £11,000 today). Given the cost and effort of acquiring one, you'd think people would be keen to tuck in and sample this exotic fruit? Nope. Pineapples were not eaten! Of course not! They were displayed on plates surrounded by other less prestigious fruit during dinner parties and other social occasions, usually until they rotted. They could be rented for special occasions too. Such was their value that naturally they became the target of thieves and some pineapples even had their own security guards!

In the end, colonialism (because all British history eventually returns to that) meant that pineapples could be imported cheaply and their status was devalued when the working classes could afford to buy them.

But next time you watch Pride and Prejudice (1995), pay attention the scenes in the dining room at the Netherfield ball and look out for the pineapple... which is the second prickliest thing in shot (behind Mr Darcy). 🍍

Also... just to throw in a little etymological rant... as a treat: I know most of the rest of the world calls them ananas... but in English (and other languages) all fruit used to be called an apple of some sort. We just never got around to changing pineapple.

The humble potato has some peculiar names in other languages... looking at you, French and Dutch with your pommes de terre (apples of the earth) and aardappels (earth apples)... and then there is also the Italian for tomato... pomodoro... (golden apple) when most the rest of the world call them some version of the Nahuatl 'tomatl'.

Languages are just funny like that and that's why I find them fascinating!

[orengejoshi]

I need to draw more for this, I have so many notes on how I imagine Black Hat's species' biology and culture to work. it's a lot of sciency stuff (researched! mostly getting inspired by sea creatures, plants and micro organisms)

[technically-human]

I always get so excited when you post your art! It’s so cute!

All I’ve been thinking about lately is the boys getting hired to actively haunt someone and Charles insisting they do the old bedsheet ghosts for authentic haunting.

Why is there lore in my silly comic?

ko-fi

Bonus, the boys went to Mexico during Día de Muertos:

[bean-spring]

Jayvik Modern AUs are hilarious to me because my boy Jayce is NOT playing any sports. He is NOT a jock. He is a gymbro nerd who tries to get his rich sister to play DnD with him, spends his days at the chemistry lab, plays chess and one day he suddenly needs to help the football team covering for someone because people think he must like sports. He doesn't even get along with everyone. He tries, of course, but he isn't the golden boy until the extremely rich and popular girl, president of the student-council, goes all "Popular! You're gonna be popular!" Glinda on him until he becomes popular thinking he's doing something good for the school when he isn't and he's getting carried away by fame and parties when all he truly wants is being with his lab partner Viktor. At the end of the day, Arcane truly was just like High School tbh.