#bc i am old and nerd

[bigbigtruck]

an admin of a discord i’m in has been playing John Doe and it’s a pretty neat game! I like the use of different art styles and surreal background visuals all being unified with the red/black color scheme

the bucket fill left a little red around the lines but i like how it looks

#john doe game #fan art #sketch #doki doki panic! my stalker is an eldritch being #and yes that is a smiley hieroglyphics logo #bc i am old and nerd

[atopvisenyashill]

Worst things GOT did casting wise:

- making Dany too beautiful (+ styling her in a way that she never has a hair out of place, always wears BLUE - which makes her look peaceful and soft and angelic, not making her burn her hair off etc). I just think of that one official art piece that's in the illustrated AGOT book where dany is bald, with the dragons and sparks and frames around her and its so striking instead of the "beautiful angelic blonde women stand empowered with her tits out" scene we got

- casting Iain Glen as Jorah and not like. a random Lannister (like. Come on. He is a burly and ugly man... why are you casting one of the most beautiful men to play him.... this is how we ended up with dany/jorah shippers)

-making Joffrey too unattractive (this is not meant to disparage JG who is a great actor and seems like a really cool dude and i'm not saying he's ugly but I think from his very first scene Joffrey looks very punchable and it would have been so much smarter to make the audience .. relate to Sansa's infatuation with his golden looks. In my head (and in all the official art) Joffrey looks like a male version of cersei/a younger version of Jaime.)

- making Dany, Jon, Robb, Marg, Brienne etc 10+ years older than Sansa and the younger starklings .... It's not "the main characters and arya (who is so cool and can kill people) + the little children" it's ONE AGE group of equally important characters

Like I know people are upset at Ned/Jon etc being too attractive, WHICH I GET, but I feel like those were very vibe based casting decisions and i'm ultimately fine with that (I also think it's easier for the audience to root for someone if they're attractive so like. I guess they had to do it) but these other things resulated in people's perception of the characters being so wildly different from what they're supposed to be. The real reason people get so angry whenever someone says they wish tamzin had stayed is because they don't like the idea of daenerys not being this ethereal beauty (TM is beautiful but not in a conventional way) that they can fully root for without issue.

1. NO YOU ARE SOOOOOO RIGHT ABOUT THEM REFUSING TO LET DANY LOOK UGLY. it’s not to say tamzin isn’t clearly beautiful, but i think she’s beautiful in the same way gwendoline christie is, which is that she’s very striking and she has a strong presence but she’s not exactly what people picture when they say “typical hot lady” (which is Crazy these are all able bodied white women, like the definition of “beauty” is soooooo fuckijg narrow that tamzin merchant is ~atypically beautiful) vs emilia definitely is, and YES like everything from not burning her hair off to emilia being,,,,,fuller in figure than dany as a fourteen year old would be is just very clear that they saw dany different than the way she is On The Page. i mean i know people whack george for saying that she’s like a sexy funny lady or whatever but george never lets go of the fact that she’s incredibly young whereas d&d completely miss that part of her character.

i will say i Get the criticism of tamzin perhaps not picking up on the conlangs easily because one thing you can say for emilia is that she had a decent head for the conlangs, she’s even still partially fluent in dothraki lmaooo. but all the other stuff they said about why they recast dany it’s like. hmmmmmmmmmm.

2. absolutely right about iain especially because he’s similar to idk paddy in that he’s got CHARISMA but unlike viserys, they didn’t intent to portray him as a deeply flawed, antagonistic character they went in portraying him as like an objectively Good Guy dedicated to dany. he’s just so much less creepy and pushy in the show and has several scenes where he shows some moral backbone - that “yet here you stand” “yet here i stand” scene is sooooooo good for example, the fact that he actually apologizes for spying on dany, giving him the greyscale story & not having him fuck a valyrian looking woman in a brothel 💀, etc etc - and you also just lose some of the creepiness here because emilia is clearly a grown if young woman and ian is handsome, so it’s like. welll of Course you want to root for them to be together! and never mind that this is a Massive departure from their book characterizations!! again, they have this idea of jorah in their head that doesn’t match up with what’s on the page even a little.

3. i do get your point re: joffrey and i think this is my problem with aidan as littlefucker too - they’re too obviously villains and it makes ned and sansa look stupid. like, in the books we have that moment where robb almost decks joffrey which does seem to signal something bad but the crown prince being full of himself doesn’t mean he’s going to threaten his betrothed’s sister with a sword then get his ass handed to him by a toddler. in the show we get QUITE a number of scenes where joffrey is shown to be a brat AND as you say, just like aidan, jack has a Certain Look, he looks like a shitty jock who has allegations against him ajsjdj like irl when jack smiles he’s so adorable!! but in the show they REALLY play up his ability to channel a greasy aura ya know aksjd. when the point of asoiaf is often that villains don’t LOOK like villains, but some of our Main Villains clearly resemble typical villains in the show.

4. “it’s ONE age group of characters” NO YOU ARE SO RIGHT. like, there’s several years difference from robert to ned to cat to the twins to tyrion but they’re all the same generation of characters. there’s that exact same age difference from brienne to robb, dany, jon to sansa, arya, bran, with theon kind of similar to characters like jorah, who are old enough to remember The Before Times but aren’t quite in either generation. but because they wanted dany, brienne, jon, robb, and margaery to be more of a Typical archetype rather than an exploration of that archetype, they aged everyone up and essentially invented another generation between the “adult” characters and the “kid” characters. not to be super nerdy here but one of my favorite worked shoots in wrestling is one cody rhodes did where he was ranting about the way young wrestlers get put through the grinder and he has this amazing line where he sums it up as “old men talking, young men dying” and it’s not to say there aren’t a lot of old dudes Also dying lmao but you really see this where young leaders are often unprepared for their responsibilities and used as puppets by older men and you just MISS THAT when that whole generation is so grown!

it’s like they looked at those themes of war being terrible and all consuming and brutal no matter how justified you feel you are and went “wow war is brutal 😍” LIKE PLEASE????

#asks #anti game of thrones #anti d&d #anons #also i know famous wrestler cody rhodes is not the first person to say something akin to that #but bc i am a nerd. he’s always the first person i think of bc his acting was amazing in that scene lmao aksjsjs #i think he was channeling some real frustration and anger there as someone from a wrestling family and as someone frustrated #with his own booking. ntm the run ins with injury and Death he personally had. and all this being passed down by vince’s old ass. #i think that wrestling problem where multiple generations of a family are mistreated by some old man making money. #is actually not dissimilar from the problems in asoiaf we see. #like tyrion even says himself! back and back and back it goes. #and for what? for why? robb is so young. ned is so young. #just something that feels completely missed by the show! #and here cody rhodes is feeling it in real life akskskdjd

[simplydnp]

I get the sense that Phil just likes to make “”weird”” stuff and has somewhat dialed back his weirdness due to his popularity and age. But I would love to see what an unfiltered 30 year old phil Lester video would look like. What stories does he want to tell? How does he want to tell those stories?

honestly i think phil is really good at playing out whatever his brain is thinking at the time. i think a lot of people struggle with ideas because they'll be seen as too 'weird' or 'strange' or even 'impossible', and what's neat about phil is he either doesn't have those boxes, or he's able to push through them in pursuit of creating the thing to its full potential. people describe him as creative, which he is, but i think it leaves out some of his best attributes as a creator. he's inventive--remember the countless trends and challenges that came from him that have swept the internet? he's fearless--and this doesnt mean that he's not afraid of anything (for phil its probably the opposite actually) but he does things despite the fear, regardless of the unknown. he's a relentless and passionate creator who likes to make things and values seeing them through to the end. but he's not naive either--he and dan have talked about each other being their harshest critics. it's not just that he's an ideas guy, he's a good ideas guy who knows how to make something flourish.

i don't think current phil is sitting in a box waiting for his chance to break free of his popularity. he could've stopped years ago, similar to dan, if he didn't want this. but he likes doing it. he gets to have his choice on which of his ideas turn into projects, without having the stress of Needing a brilliant idea and execution every week. right now i think a lot of his energy is focused on the gaming channel. as he's expressed to us a few times, it was him who really wanted it back, and he's been ready for a long time. dan's even admitted that he's been enjoying it, and i think a lot of that comes down to phil's creative directing. he loves the gaming channel and is so thrilled it's back--his own content has taken a step back in terms of upload regularity, and i genuinely don't think he could be happier about it.

i would love a big phil project, but i honestly don't see him doing a tour of his own unless he brings dan with him, and then why not have it be something they can do together? does that make sense? that seems to be his thought process about things. it's why i've suggested taskmaster cause it's a local thing that wouldn't keep him from home for a long while, but he does get to flex his creativity, intelligence, and humour.

i'm looking forward to anything phil does. his current project seems to be making dan happy and they're both having a lot of fun doing that

#i dont know if i answered your question anon. i think in some ways people play up the 'weird' side to phil bc he plays into it #as well as his past history of old school videos #firstly let me say i love when he's 'weird' #but i think the way i categorize it is less about a line between weird and not weird. and more of like a spectrum of zany #dnp are not mainstream guys. theyre self proclaimed nerds with pride. anything they make is gonna seem a little off Broadway #but it doesnt always feel that way for us #people inside the community #saying he's lost his weirdness/he's putting on a front is a bit. off. for me. especially considering its been 14 years #for most of his 'experimental' content. he's said it himself he was experimenting. i think he learned a lot and had fun #but i dont think its his personality and hes been trapped into this different persona ever since #anyway. i am yapping just like a dannie would so. thank u for your ask! #dnp #c.text #dan and phil #answered

[raindrvq]

thinking abt how in english last year we had to do an assignment if a To Kill A Mockingbird character was living in modern day what would their phone look like and what would their music playlist be and why and i chose Boo Radley and put Radiohead on it AND THEN MY ENGLISH TEACHER KEPT IT TO USE AS AN EXAMPLE 🧍‍♂️

#i think i have a picture of it from when i sent it to my friends being like 'why tf am i analyzing boo radley to radiohead rn' #genuinely cannot be casual about books i read in english its bad. you thought it was just the outsiders nah #im just a huge english nerd who loves analyzing things so. i wasnt even hyperfixatated on tkam i just like analysis that much ig #a lot of my english teachers have kept my old assignments and i think abt it a lot bc like what if my friends who had the teacher after me #were using my assignments as an example like thats silly to me idk 😭 #cam says stuff

[ripplefields]

LETTING THE DAYS GO BY

(LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN)

mn - rain-writes-fics

#deltarune #deltarune cap'n #digital art #musical nerds au #HOO . lord this took less time than i thought #probably bc i was so eager to see it fully finished #god im so proud of this . #yes i was originally gonna do the running part but . reason 1 . i am Not doing a capn side perspective #2. pose was giving me too much trouble #but anyways . read musical nerds . #this was partially an excuse to draw capns prom outfit again LOL i like it a lot #replicating the old mv look was actually really fun #thank u fanny fricktic for reminding me i wanted to draw this ur a real one #safeutdr

[herelivesahobbit]

got into a comments war on a wattpad fic about a toxic relationship on a weekday night...so yeah, clearly i'm due for a nervous breakdown which i am actively avoiding.

#THEY ARE 15 YEARS OLD WHY AM I ARGUING WITH THEM? #this is like...the nerd version of living life dangerously #others may drive recklessly or do drugs or date fuckbois. me? i get on wattpad and take the shit i read there extremely seriously. #its march. i've had a flu since december. im also injured with a sprain. #NOT TO MENTION MY MAIN BITCH MENTAL ILLNESS #but i can't take time off bc its a brand new job. #ITS NOT TENABLE CONDITIONS TO BE NORMAL ABOUT IRRELEVANT ONLINE THINGS #personal

[zippers]

shout out to high school "reverse bicurious" "cis woman" me who just thought trans people in antiquity were fascinating and did my Latin IA on trans/gnc romans so now when I'm making lesson plans for my actual job teaching about gay and trans romans i literally just have a document from 2016 called "Gender links" that cites whole books with relevant quotes and summaries and even better, my own translations of primary sources.

thank you pre-burnout me!!!! for doing the leg work as an "ally"!!!!

#everything in my life was foreshadowing me being gay and trans #from my warrior cat name being gaypaw on the playground to me wanting to prove i was straight so bad i faked an interest in latin only to #discover i was obsessed with researching gay and trans people in antiquity/history/prehistory and now i'm an archaeologist #and we all know that archaeology is the gayest of the nerd professions #i mean i was dating a nonbinary person at the time i just got soo freaked out by the twinge of gender euphoria when an acquaintance used #they/them pronouns for me that i took it as evidence i was deffo not a they/them and did not examine my gender again until i was 19 #and it was really like a revelation i had zero seconds of questioning i just realized sitting in my living room. it just made sense. #anyway lol long gender ramble in the tags here #pride #ancient rome #yes i am gonna talk about catullus but how do i talk about attis to a bunch of 9 year olds #am i going to do it? yes. do i expect a few blank stares? yes but who cares bc it means they are focused on their clay! #okay i am spending way too long writing this post back to work!

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

i need everyone to know that i bloody love the lotr films and i went from grinning like an idiot to gesturing wildly and trying to remember my sheet music bc I KNOW THAT ONE IVE PLAYED IT to crying bc of current or future tragedy or suddenly remembering that with the passing of this age all the magic we see will fade if it hasn't already. but also i will NEVER forgive them for the sound of boromir's horn, the great horn of gondor, passed through ages and generations to call for aid that shall always be heard by allies when it is within or at the bounds of gondor and its surrounding lands, because i was this close to crying and then this bloody horn STARTS BLARING LIKE A FUCKING CAR HONKING AND INSTEAD OF CRYING ALL OF US WERE LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY LIKE LITERALLY EVERY OTHER HORN SOUNDS SO COOL WHAT THE FUCK YOU FUCKING DESTROYED THAT SCENE I MEAN I STILL CRIED BUT ONLY AFTER I COULDNT HEAR THE BLOODY HORN ANYMORE THAT IS SPECIFICALLY SUPPOSED TO ALSO INVOKE EMOTION AT LEAST WHEN YOU'RE AS WEIRD ABOUT LOTR AS I AM WHAT THE FUCK I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR THAT PETER FUCKING JACKSON AND EVERYONE WHO LET THIS HAPPEN

#a biscuit's rambles #i said what i said #I AM RIGHT #but gooosh i just remembered how precious lotr is to me. i need to reread it immediately #actually im gonna read it to my mum bc shed rather listen to stuff and i wanna reread it soooooo #she may not have the time or attention span to read it herself but by the valar she will know tom bombadil and strider and bill the pony an #the songs and tales and middle earth of old and moria and what kazad dûm was before it fell to darkness and the sheer horror of the balrog #and that that wasnt fuckin saruman but caradhras itself (the MOUNTAIN is evil and hates people okay let it be its evil self) and the song o #the ents and the meaning behind everything and the beauty in gimli and legolas' friendship and their true characters and eomer and eowyn an #faramir and just how tragic boromirs death was because HES A WAY BETTER GUY THAN WHAT YOU SEE IN THE FILMS OKAY and frodos burden and. just #everything #i do not have the words to describe how precious lotr is to me #also the films are AMAZING and seriously wonderfully done save for some nerd details im WAY too invested in #but also i. forgot so many names. i need to study that map again #i couldnt name the mountains at rauros from memory i am a disgrace to past me

[just-a-cup-of-anxietea]

I love meeting people and having those moments of “no shut up no WAY you like this incredibly niche thing too????” And then asking one million incredibly niche questions about the incredibly niche thing

#it was a new friend and the niche thing was pbs eons and paleobiology #‘DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE GEOLOGIC PERIOD’ #He said the ordiviciam Silurian extinction #he is a NERD and I am HERE for it #I think this lad might be the male version of my future self actually #he’s on iNaturalist bc the old ladies in there chat with him anout nudibranch sighting spots #this man is out here living the DREAM #HES A WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER??? #someone get me an defibrillator bc my heart cannot take it!!!! whatta life!!!!

[ghastbutlikegay]

the funny thing about being an older sibling is watching as the younger siblings slowly realize what a loser i am

#/gen i really do find it funny #the sibling closest to my age is only 17 months younger than me #so he NEVER thought i was cool #the next youngest is 10 years old and has made the transition from thinking im the coolest person in the world #(since im allowed to go to the mall by myself and stay home alone and dye my hair and get piercings) #to thinking im a complete loser #my youngest brother is 7 years old #and he still thinks im cool #but i think hes starting to catch on to the fact that im just some guy #from his perspective i am an all-knowing deity with the most expansive minecraft knowledge in the world #as i know how to download mods and datapacks and make my own minecraft skins. #he also regularly requests that i 'take care of him' (his words) when mom has to leave before dad is home #but he also thought my eyebrow piercing was stupid #and is in general starting to realize how unbearably dorky i can be #(i finally understand why my parents are Like That. is is so fucking funny to watch kids get embarrassed because you did a stupid dance in #the bread aisle at walmart) #he also likes to call me nerd dork loser etc bc those are things i call my siblings all the time #^ not with any malice of course. being mean is my family's collective love language #it's that push and pull of being deliberately obnoxious and dorky so everyone else in the room can groan and call you an idiot yknow

[yikesharringrove]

Who Made Who was released in May 1986 and can you fucking imagine how annoying Eddie would be about the song Hells Bells?? Especially after being fucking hunted by the town that believes he’s the devil’s protégée.

He’d cruise around town super slow just BLASTING the song and waving to everyone he sees.

#ac/dc is different than a lot of the other bands he listens to but he’s a guitarist and angus young is one of the greatest guitarist ever so #I’m probably going to make an Eddie playlist soon because he and I have a lot of similar feelings I think #except for the fact that he probably creams himself for Led Zeppelin and there’s exactly one (1) song of theirs I actively like #they’re the one band he LOVES that’s not metal and it’s bc so much of their shit references Tolkien #and at his heart of hearts he’s nothing but a stupid nerd #anyway #I am listening to who made who and hells bells is THE Eddie song #the vinyl I have if this record is my moms old one and chase the ace skips really hard though #oh god I’m having fic ideas someone please help #yikes talks #Eddie Munson

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

maybe its egotistical but part of me... kind of wants to run a soriku panel at detour this year. where i discuss how i made the compilation. hmm

#i mean i put a lot of work in it #and i am in no way formally trained in sony vegas #i am entirely self-taught #so i kinda wanna. share that info with any aspiring editors? #also a fun way to point out that the origin of the video #is good old minneapolis mn #bc us midwestern nerds deserve more recognition

[mechawolfie]

i know it’s been said a million times already but the way so called “progressive” spaces treat the mentally ill the fat the elderly/aging etc is sooooo.. 😬

#smudgy.txt #yes i am still talking abt 9-1-1 lone star #this running joke abt the captain being afraid of losing his hair #it's reminding me of how things r going rn wrt male beauty standards #which i Do Not wanna get into bc GOD the arguments give me a headache #but it's like so many self proclaimed progressive/liberal/whatever spaces #are so comfortable in these old shitty jokes n it confuses me? #like ok u want things to get better. but u will continually put down certain groups of ppl #when the ppl u claim to fight against are also making those same jokes abt those same ppl #using the same harmful tropes #im trying to explain this but idk how. its like uhh #a lack of self awareness? holding on to the comfort of 'safe' things like jokes abt ppl #who deal w things u don't currently have to deal w??? #making these jokes u feel comfortably w without thinking abt WHY these jokes feel comfortable to u? why theyre so normal? #like the whole creepy nerd w a 'weird' (see: jewish) last name & curly hair trope #(havent seen this in lone star im just using an example) #its like. ppl still seem to find these characters funny but dont think abt why the joke exists in the first place. bc its comfortable #idk.. idk!!!!!

[cream-and-tea]

my brainrot continues. we are reading the odyssey and all I can think is PALLAS???? LIKE PALLAS LAYMEDOWN CREAMANDTEA BLORBO???

no but that is LITERALLY where i got their name bc for the The Longest time i could NOT figure something out!! they were “Goth Bastard” in my notes for way longer than i’d like to admit lol, and that was a problem bc naming characters is a massive part of figuring them out for me and i was getting increasingly distressed about Who The Fuck This Person Was (especially since agnes’s name came to me in like. minus 0.02 seconds).

so, naturally, this spawned hours of googling and browsing baby websites because my brain could not physically continue writing this character until i got them an actual name, and i was looking at stuff related to greek mythology before the little lightbulb appeared above my head and i remembered that particular epithet/how well it fit. however some rejected pallasnames include:

renard

harpy

alden

solomon

cerberus

atlas

#picking a name for them was pretty interesting bc i also had to take into account what kind of name *they* would’ve chosen yknow? #like there were some where i went ‘this fits but there is absolutely no way they would have picked that’ #so pallas is pretty perfect on every level bc they are also a giant annoying nerd #*12-13 year old pallas voice* i am going to call myself after an epithet for the greek goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy #bc of how on every level it represents Me #13 year old calliope: *already fantasizing about spiritually shoving them in a locker* #creme gets an ask #pallas #btw i refrained from responding to this with the Pallas Gender Thoughts excerpt bc i might post that at a later date. #but it’s kind of comforting to know that they have as many thoughts about their name as i do lol

[astrxealis]

hi good morning guys. i started ff type-0 last night AND i have so much to say in my 1-2 hours of playing but i’ll do that later !! for now i’ll just say: I LOVE IT AAAAGHEBJGHSBHDGB I ALSO REALLY LIKE ACE SO FAR i’ve liked him for years so it’s obvious but yeah. i love class zero. i am so not ready to cry at the end. why did i choose to play nier automata nier replicant and ff type-0 all at once

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა type-0 ໒꒱ *·˚ #I LOVE CLASS ZERO WITH ALL MY HEART you have NO idea #i am the biggest nerd about ff. i was watching the trailers for type-0 in game yeah and i keep screaming 'THE MUSIC' #BCS THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD !! i only know a few songs from the ost like uhh yeah. also i just love class zero sooo much man #also ace likes chocobos and hes another blond i like so oh well LMFAOOO <33 #hi i won't be active today much bcs i need to do my hw :(( i have a LOT <//3 hopefully i'll finish em all in time! #but yeah ... i'll open my ps4 quick for my gardening in replicant #and ramble about type-0 properly later! #look i'm the biggest nerd okay. #when i was super into ffxv i read literally everything so i know almost everything abt 15 #xiv i know a LOT. but not everything yet bcs that is a LOT of stuff. a lot. #also i think it is really funny that type-0 and replicant are both technically old games bcs ps3 #also i think it is really funny the two games im playing rn (replicant and type-0) are both techincally old games #havent played automata in a hot minute

[asiananeurysm]

✨

#today was a good day. I appreciated the extra hour of sleep. thanks day light savings #i stayed up late last night and watched the time change. i love when i have the luxury to stay to late. #because of the time change i didn't sleep in too long. made a really good brunch. cleaned the kitchen and the bathroom. #washed my hair. journalled. found my old gratitude journal from 7 years ago and felt moved by the things i recorded. #reviewed my notes for work and rewrote them in a nice notebook bc i like the feel of being a nerd. writing pretty notes calms me. #did my budget for the month. #planning what to have for dinner now. going to put on a movie. i feel like this was the most productive nourishing Sunday I've had in ages #personal #repeating to myself that i can only do my best and my best will differ daily and my best is enough. i am enough.