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It’s Project for Awesome! And that means it’s art perk time! This year I have not just my own work to share, but also my mom’s! She made the Hank and John Giving Bunnies, and I made little sets of matching Hanklerfish goodies with a notebook, a pin, and a constellation patch. If you contribute at the Nerdfighter Art perk level on the indiegogo, one of these cool perks might be yours. But if you don’t get one of these, you’ll get something else cool made by another nerdfighter.

Y’all, I cannot get over how cute and funny the picture of all 30+ BunnyBrothers hanging out together is. They’re so so cute.

I have a few extra pins and notebooks, and I’ll be selling them on Etsy in January and donating the proceeds to the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck for next year’s P4A. Check back here or on my twitter, instagram, or Etsy shop @whimsicalnerd if you’d like one. They will go on sale within the first two weeks of the year. If there’s a lot of interest I’ll make more and try to keep them in stock to raise money for the Foundation year round!

Also, you can find my mom on twitter and instagram @CraftyNerdMom. If you get one of our perks let us know! Happy P4A and DFTBA!

[nerdofwhimsy]

It’s Project for Awesome! And that means it’s art perk time! This year I have not just my own work to share, but also my mom’s! She made the Hank and John Giving Bunnies, and I made little sets of matching Hanklerfish goodies with a notebook, a pin, and a constellation patch. If you contribute at the Nerdfighter Art perk level on the indiegogo, one of these cool perks might be yours. But if you don’t get one of these, you’ll get something else cool made by another nerdfighter.

Y’all, I cannot get over how cute and funny the picture of all 30+ BunnyBrothers hanging out together is. They’re so so cute.

I have a few extra pins and notebooks, and I’ll be selling them on Etsy in January and donating the proceeds to the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck for next year’s P4A. Check back here or on my twitter, instagram, or Etsy shop @whimsicalnerd if you’d like one. They will go on sale within the first two weeks of the year. If there’s a lot of interest I’ll make more and try to keep them in stock to raise money for the Foundation year round!

Also, you can find my mom on twitter and instagram @CraftyNerdMom. If you get one of our perks let us know! Happy P4A and DFTBA!

#nerdfighter art perk #p4a #p4a2017 #p4a 2017 #project for awesome #hanklerfish #HankBunny #JohnBunny

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You're asexual? But...

“but sex is what makes us human!”

  in 1916 a French officer in his twenties writes his

doctoral dissertation under

heavy mortar fire.

he sends it by mail, a page

at a time, to his wife.

a week before he’s to step up to the podium and

defend his work rather than his country

he is killed in action.

even as the bullets rip

through him he still wishes he could have become a professor

in French literature and

the university awards him a posthumous Ph.D.

sex is

  a woman breaks down in tears on the phone because

a week is not enough time to

get over a breakup.

her sister drives an hour across town,

comes up the front steps with

a gallon of ice cream and some beer

and together they eat moose tracks and marathon

every

single

Godzilla movie

ever made.

  sex is

she’s late for work but her car isn’t

starting and even through her coat and hat she’s cold.

she knows she can’t be late again because she’s missed

one time too many already because her

father’s nurse was sick with the flu and someone

needed to help him bathe.

the clock ticks past fifteen after and she hits

the wheel like it’s a heavy bag as though that will help

steps on the gas like the car will go

and wonders how she will pay rent

and how she will feed her father.

sex is

  it takes three people to hold the predator down because

even with the cover over his head

a bleeding eye and shattered wing

he is trying to hurt them.

none of them have seen this bird before in their lives but

they bandage his wing and head and give him a painkiller and

put him in a warm place to sleep and heal because

it is right.

at first he is paralyzed and cannot

fly but soon he is taking steps

and then fluttering, and then soaring, and

six months later he is whole and healed and hunting.

once he is gone they never see him again

which means they’ve done their jobs right.

sex is

  in 1969 a girl watches grey-and-white footage on her parents’ tiny television and

can’t quite believe that what she is seeing is not a movie set but

another planet.

the men on the screen look a little like

aliens with bulbous heads and no faces and fat

marshmallow arms

but they are still men.

her mother puffs on a cigarette behind her and declares that

this is progress

even if it was just a small step.

the girl grows up to be not an astronaut but a secretary

and her boss calls her ‘sweetheart’.

but sex is

  a boy is taught that real men don’t cry so

he doesn’t.

when his best friend dies from a self-inflicted

gunshot wound, he locks himself

in the shower every day and sobs under scalding

water until it runs cold

so nobody will see him grieving

so nobody will see that tears are just love that

has no place left to go.

he learns to dull love rather than suppress its expression and

soon the owner of the liquor store knows him by name.

three DUIs, two evictions, and twelve steps later,

he is feeding people at a homeless shelter,

and telling them it’s all right to cry.

Sex is

  the broken man tells the comedian

that he didn’t mean to step in front of the car but the rain

made it hard to see.

he seems okay but his leg

does not.

the comedian clutches a grubby receipt with the driver’s

plate number scrawled on the back

in pink pen, stands out in the rain so the broken man

can have his umbrella,

and gives him the comedy routine that ruined his career

so the man doesn’t think about the pain in his leg.

once he’s out of the hospital, the fixed man sends him a thank-you card

with kittens on it.

what makes us human

  yawning is contagious,

and there is a species of bird whose young we call “pufflings”.

melodic collections of sound, spaced by silence,

can move us to tears.

the tallest building in the world is

two-thousand seven-hundred and seventeen feet tall.

in less than eighty years we went from our first powered flight

to touching the moon,

and in one-hundred from the first phone call

to instantaneous connection between thinking machines of our own creation.

we make pies out of tree organs

and let cow’s milk ferment until it hardens and then

we put them together, because apple pie with cheddar cheese isdelicious.

what makes us human is

the earliestfossils of anatomically modern humans are

two-hundred thousand years old .

we have had pet dogs

for sixteen-thousand of those years, longer

than corn

or the wheel.

the steps we take are part of

one of the most energy-efficient gaits the

animal kingdom has ever seen.

we invented the concepts of love

and hate

and justice, and mercy

and we invented the language to convey them.

we sharpened rocks, then metal, to convince other people

who don’t hold the same idea of those things as we do

because we think

it’s right.

we are two hundred millennia of love and disappointment and

sorrow and innovation and

mercy and kindness and dreams

and failure

and recovery.

“but sex is what makes us human.”

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Two Medieval Monks Invent Bestiaries

By Mallory Ortberg on The Toast

MONK #1: do birds have meetings MONK #2: absolutely they have a Meeting Hat and everything MONK #1: what do they have meetings about MONK #2: mostly who gets to wear the meeting hat

MONK #1: do human women sleep in beds or– MONK #2: no that’s dogs you’re thinking of MONK #1: right right

MONK #1: what part of the knight do fish go on MONK #2: the head MONK #1: thanks MONK #2: oh absolutely no problem at all MONK #1: both lying flatwise across the head, or…? MONK #2: no one on each side like ears MONK #1: ok great

MONK #1: so when a dog and a bird make out MONK #2: right MONK #1: it’s usually the bird that’s on top right? MONK #2: yeah usually MONK #1: great

MONK #1: hey is it owls or people that live in caves and build fires? MONK #2: owls

MONK #1: hey roughly what size are sparrows MONK #2: mm it kind of depends MONK #1: like AS big as a tree or not quite as big as a tree? MONK #2: oh pretty much the same size as a tree

MONK #1: can cows sail boats? MONK #2: hahaha no common misconception they have to put wheels on the boat and roll it over land

MONK #1: what do birds eat MONK #2: other birds mostly MONK #1: like different kinds of birds, or something else MONK #2: no birds only eat exactly the same kind of birds that they are

MONK #1: what kind of bird tucks people into bed at night usually I mean MONK #2: any bird any kind of walking bird MONK #1: and when it tucks you in, people usually look… MONK #2: incredibly worried it’s incredibly worrying when the bedbird tucks you in

MONK #1: ugh sorry to bother you again MONK #2: no no its fine this is what i’m here for what is it MONK #1: what part of a goat is a snail again like the front end or the back end MONK #2: what part do you feel like should be the snail part MONK #1: the back part? MONK #2: you shouldnt doubt yourself you know more about goats than you give yourself credit for

MONK #1: what usually rides horses like people or– MONK #2: fire

#Holy crap #I was going to reblog with the bedbird thing but somebody already did that

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Ahh! I wish I could go to this, but I will be at work. Go if you can.

I will give special drawings to anyone from Tumblr who pulls themselves out of the internet world and appears IRL at this.

Can you be there??? If so, lemme know so I am PREPARED. (Maybe email [email protected] ?)

More info here.

!!!!!

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This is really great.

I had the most amazing time at nerdcon: nerdfighteria! after the fact, I made a collage as a reminder of the great time I had

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street photography. berlin.  prenzlauer berg 2016 © martin waltz

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Omg another one, hi Phil.

He makes my heart #happy.

#phil #pug #puppy #pugsofinstagram #dog #dogsofinstagram

#life goal: meet Phil irl

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For the Whitescapes Art Assignment, I took a white piece of paper outside to photograph with the white snow on my white car. Then I came inside and recorded my observations on the paper. Transcript: 

The paper looked bright and blue against the snow, a more neutral white beneath the paper. The wind* fought my ill-prepared plan, ut I managed to get some snow on top of the paper. Against the blue, it took on a slight reddish tinge. I'm sure I would have had different--and perhaps slightly more interesting--results, if I'd gone out in the day time and again around now, in the dull blue fading twilight on a stormy day, but procrastination got the better of me.

Back inside, under my incandescent light, and with no other whites around, the paper takes on a more neutral white. The splotches where it was soaked with snow, however, are no longer white at all, but a sparkling mid-gray.

Art Assignment: Whitescapes Paige Breisacher Mar 14, 2017

*and my own lack of gloves

#the art assignment #art assignment #art assignment: extra credit #whitescapes #whitescape #paper #snow #cars #cold #wind #handwritten

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When you log onto tumblr for the first time in ages and the very first post is Phil at the beach. 😁😁😁😁

A beach #pug is a happy pug.

#dogsofinstagram #pugsofinstagram #pugs #puppy

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Why is Lee Marvin Always 30? (or: If You Build It, They Will Come)

Okay, Night Vale buddies, consider this. Lee Marvin was born (According to Wikipedia, which traffics in time, and therefore is inherently unreliable) in 1924, so would’ve turned 30 for the first subjective time in 1954. In 1954, Marvin worked on the film  Bad Day at Black Rock, also starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan. Like much of his early work, it was a supporting role, this time playing a man named Hector David. 

What is so special about that, you might ask yourself, assuming you are the type to vocalize your internal doubts about the specialness of anything in general and this movie in particular. Bad Day at Black Rock is the story of a stranger who comes to a small and isolated desert town where nothing is quite as it seems and tension broils beneath the surface as the stranger tries to dig up a secret the townsfolk would rather keep hidden. Lee Marvin, the greatest living American film star, does not play the meddlesome stranger, of course. He plays one of the townsfolk most determined to keep the secret. He is obviously Night Vale’s kind of guy. 

And what of Black Rock itself? Well, there was no town of Black Rock. Like many Hollywood westerns, it was filmed on a set.  When Lee Marvin was turning 30, he was part of the cast and crew of a film which came to the desert outside of Lone Palm, California, built a town for a little while, and then departed, their town vanishing into nothingness. At least, that’s how it happened here. 

#ho #ly #shit

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concept: a TV show runs for a decent number of years. More than four. The characterizations stay consistent. The writers don’t do anything wildly inappropriate like excuse rape or abuse. No one you’ve invested hours upon hours of your life into has their story reduced to a “shocking” death scene that has no meaning beyond that shock value. The quality of the storylines don’t take a sudden, strange spiral downward. When it ends, you leave it feeling bittersweet. Sad that it’s over, but glad you got to experience it and take a journey with some people who you came to care about.

#oh lord #that was a great punchline there #also it's 2017 which is when season 7 takes place which means we HAVE TO WATCH IT THIS YEAR #PREFERABLY MANY TIMES OVER TO ESCAPE FROM REALITY

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#omfg tumblr #you're so cute and clever #what a creative bunch of nerds

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Here’s a MLK quote I’d love to see white people share.

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film about a group of men getting into shenanigans= “comedy” film about a group of women getting into shenanigans= “chick flick”

film about a friendship between two men= “buddy flick” film about a friendship between two women= “chick flick”

emotional film about father/son relationships= “drama”  emotional film about mother/daughter relationships= “chick flick” 

film about a young man finding identity= “coming of age” film about a young woman finding identity= “chick flick”

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Heck, I bet there’s a special, secret lounge accessible only to students who convincingly give the door an answer it hadn’t had in mind.

#omg #this thread is full of ravenclaws