#encyclopaedic knowledge

[queerholmcs]

there's a terrible injustice in the form of trf being my least-watched episode and therefore i always forget how good she is!!! anyway, in honour of this being the month for @victorianpining's the stories in our veins, let's consider:

please note that all quotes should be read as encompassing of a broader theme and not solely the line of text proper.

btw if you were curious. watching trf with tst imprinted upon your brain absolutely does add something special to the event. 🫶

#sherlock #bbc sherlock #bbc episode polls #the reichenbach fall #trf #trying to keep these as things that do stand on their own and do not require encyclopaedic knowledge of s4 to make sense dhdkdhdkddjd #still very difficult to narrow this down and present concise options. mwah. delicious episode.

[vani-ash]

I was rewatching kinnporsche on the plane and

Did Kim sign Wik for Ohm as well?? Bestie didn't even know who you were Kim 😭

#kimchay #kim theerapanyakul #kpts #porchay kittisawasd #no one can tell me Kim doesnt love his fans like he just gave ohm a signature as well #why not #or was it beacuse he was distracted by the cute boy who had a disturbingly encyclopaedic knowledge of your work? #forgot what you were doing and was like signitures for everyone why not #the real reason is probably just jeff had to practice writing WIK on someone other than chay and Ohm was there? #surely he couldve done it to one of the other background charcaters we wouldnt see? #did he not have to do it three times for the winners of the quiz anyway? #idk #i just thought it was funny if theres an actual explanation and ive missed it rip #mine

[neurotypical-sonic]

also I'm just not fond of the whole "smart/nerdy character is an expert at all smart/nerdy things" trope. tails I'm so sorry for what the fandom has done to you

#he LOVES mechanics (especially vehicles) and inventing. and therefore coding #I headcanon he's pretty knowledgeable about medicine out of necessity but doesnt really enjoy it #and of course has a bunch of hobbies that he dabbles in. but hes not out here with encyclopaedic knowledge #egg.txt #tails #sonicposting

[onejellyfishplease]

Ok so headcanons for the turtle dragons:

- Leo would be a Deadly Nadder. Maybe a speed stinger? They are both extremely fast dragons, have similar patterns to Leo, and are blue.

- Donnie would be a Skrill or Armorwing/Bonenapper. The former are purple and have electric powers. The latter has soft scales that they cover up using metal or bones, that they weld into armor.

- Raph would be a Rumblehorn, like everyone else has been saying. Don't really have much to say besides their big and have the perfect color scheme.

- Mikey??? Yeah I have no idea.

If you can't tell I have thought about this before. :)

SHOOT I WROTE A BIG RESPONCE TO THIS BUT TUMBLR DELETED ITTTTTT AHDJSNSNFKSHSJDJSHD GOD DAMN ITTTTTT

anyway

absolutely for Leo!! and dont the boss speed stingers have red markings too? they could match!

For Donnie- armorwing definitely fits thematically, but a skrill woild just perfectly encapsulate Donnies ✨flair✨

And i love the rumblehorn! but perhaps a Crimson Goregutter? theyre the very definition of a gentle giant i think!

as for Mikey? uuh i think he should definitely be some kind of stoker class, perhaps a fire worm or typhoomerang?

#not mind my encyclopaedic knowledge of httyd dragons #asks #notinterger #httyd #rottmnt

[ssaalexblake]

honestly? considering 13′s general level of touchy feely (as in, touch averse in that she wants her personal space respected at all times even if she doesn’t necessarily appear to hate touching itself. She’s fine touching other people.) and how only the people she is very close to are allowed to casually grab or touch her, then the level of touching her and Yaz are at by the end is actually incredible compared to where we started? 

(she does -in emergency situations- sometimes not really pay attention if people grab her, but I mean Casually.)

I mean, sure, she’d stand shoulder to shoulder and huddle with people, and She’ll reach out to people, but instances like in Rosa where she brushes Graham’s hand off her shoulder are larger in number than just that one most notable moment. She shoos away graham and ryan’s hands in ITYA when they’re trying to stop her falling on her ass. She stops Yaz grabbing at her in the tsuranga conundrum when the Pting is approaching (and then immediately huddles yaz against a wall with her own body. That’s fine but the pawing at her is Not). By S12 these moments have stopped for the most part if only because the fam pretty much entirely stopped touching her (i presume they noticed her dislike of it). They still casually interact physically between the three of them, so it Is them reacting specifically to 13. 

A couple of times Yaz reaches for 13 only to be pushed away in a moment of emotion. 13 can’t deal with Yaz reaching for her to stop her going to set off the bomb in the timeless children. She’s panicking and inconsolable in Once, Upon Time when Yaz tries to get through to her and comfort her both with words and a gentle hand and rebuffs both these things in her emotion. 

But then, literally the Next proper moment they get together (non holo related) 13 runs at Yaz and launches herself into a hug, and when Yaz relaxes and hugs her back. That’s their Moment. When 13 actively reaches for Yaz and when Yaz reaches back. 13 melts to it instead of backing away like a twitchy touch averse cat. 

And I guess this is a long winded way of getting here but, while I don’t disagree there wasn’t a lot of physical intimacy between the two of them in the last few episodes, I actually Do disagree with people saying that was anything new and was a response to the ship being (more) textually canon. 

Because?? They never really touched before then, either. Not in any way that really actually mattered positively beyond that hug. 

Outside the hug, imo the only really Notable physical contact they’ve had was in a negative way with 13 blatantly yanking herself out of Yaz’s grasp (TTC, O,UT). Sure, 13 grabbed her hand in It Takes You Away, but It wasn’t intimate. It was actually portrayed as something that shocked Yaz, imo, which says things by itself. 

In lotsd the close but not touching is blatantly being used to stoke the sexual tension. They still do huddle, though, and are physically close. 

And then in tpotd we get what I personally consider an embarrassment of riches, tbh? A handhold to save a life with a line that i’m reasonably sure was supposed to juxtapose a line from the master in spyfall pt2 but in a positive way instead of negative like it was with him, an inverse repeat of the glass cage scene in spyfall part one with them reaching to each other through the glass barrier but with awe instead of fear. The Bridal carry across the threshold. They are basically embracing in the scene where 13′s hand starts to glow, Yaz grabs her arm (which is, ngl, the most notable touch to me in the sequence) and 13 does not pull away, she leans in and cups her cheek. They casually touch each other, it’s in no way one sided, 13 doesn’t have to have the power here. 

So I guess, No, they didn’t touch a lot by any conventional standard, but by 13′s general standard of physical intimacy and casual touching, I think she pretty much let Yaz be all over her. 

#dw shit #yaz x 13 #i am bound to have forgotten at least One moment of relevance here don't @ me i don't have #encyclopaedic knowledge even if i do have a good memory for the details #but like. 13 is not touchy. to make her overtly so would make it ooc imo #and to make yaz suddenly disrespect her boundaries would Also have been ooc #i mean dislike it but in my opinion it was consistent from a-z even if it's Not what somebody may have wanted #yaz tends to reach for 13 in moments of panic and 13 rebuffs it and suddenly 13 stopped rebuffing it. #(also. notable. ryan Asked 13 if there would be hugging in rotd. she said yes. a request is not a grab) #he gave her the power in the whole scene #i apparently have feelings here #dw meta

[antiparticular]

I've been thinking about this sentence is false. So the frankenturrets all malfunction at the sentence (which in itself suggests that the turrets are AIs. Interesting implications) but Wheatley doesn't. Now this is presented as him simply being too stupid to understand the paradox but the key thing is GLaDOS also isn't affected. She does the whole 'don't think about it' thing but the point of the paradox was that AIs can't resist thinking about it and just saying 'don't think about it' wouldn't help much.

My theory: GLaDOS wasn't affected because she isn't technically an AI; she used to be human. Which could imply that Wheatley could also have been human at some point, hence him being unaffected. We don't know how the personality cores were created (as far as I'm aware - I could be wrong) and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say their intelligence isn't completely artificial. Perhaps some of the corrupted cores could have been created when the transferral process went wrong (space core used to be an astronaut or aspiring one and I don't care if it's feasible I am accepting that into my headcanon).

TLDR: I think that personality cores are also the result of transferring human consciousness into a machine, though perhaps a more simplified version than GLaDOS that allows only certain aspects of the person to be transferred (ie. not their whole personality).

#honestly someone has almost definitely come up with this theory before me but i came up with it now so there #it could also be absolute fucking nonsense and completely contradicted in the lore or something #alas my knowledge on portal lore is not yet encyclopaedic #maybe it's accepted as fanon who knows. i only played portal for the first time last month #portal #portal 2 #glados #wheatley

[junewongapologia]

I know it's been lost in the many, many annoying years of ST writers deciding Vulcans are bad and contemptible for having what amounts to just really visible cultural differences from humanity, but I really like how... Culturally Vulcan Spock is.

His colleagues have like a fixation on his mother's heritage but... he grew up culturally Vulcan on Vulcan and his human mother all but states in Babel that she's basically assimilated into Vulcan culture because she agrees with its ethos. In all of TOS Spock considers himself Vulcan.

He's... very well adjusted and settled in so he is, he's a guy who sacked off the VSA to join a pseudo-military against the wishes of his pacifist dad and on the ship he plays Vulcan musical instruments with his human colleagues, and keeps a room full of Vulcan cultural artefacts that presumably remind him from home. (I get that this is half-retconned in the movies - most explicitly in ST V �� - and also pretty inconsistently written in TOS but it's still there!)

Idk it's kind of sad to me that the Vulcans are literally the innovators of IDIC and they've been flanderized into these isolationist bigots because the stoicism/pacifist vibes can be kind of confused and off-putting to people.

Like. List of Vulcans we actually meet in TOS:

Spock

Spock's dad, ambassador to Earth, married to a human in some weird 60s sitcom couple dynamic, in-text reason he is estranged from his half human son is literally stated outright as being because he thinks Starfleet is too militaristic and he's a pacifist - like most Vulcans.

T'Pring - Spock's fiancée/wife, breaks up with him because it seems like too much of a hassle to be married to a celebrity, never seems to have any issue with his parentage, clearly thinks he's Vulcan since she divorces him via Vulcan ritual (logical, fight to the death) and not Human ritual (illogical, loopholes/contacting your local divorce lawyer)

Stonn - has two lines, neither of them are about Spock.

T'Pau - kind of maybe says something bigoted ("they say thy Vulcan blood is thin"), but then pulls strings to get the Enterprise off the hook for disobeying orders at the end of the episode, presumably as a favour to Spock, who she knows is going through a rough time, or out of respect for Not-Really-Dead Jim.

Surak - from a war torn civilisation five hundred years ago, still less bigoted towards other species than McCoy lmao

I might be so wrong about this but idk I just like Spock's room full of unabashed Vulcan shit, and I think ST has ignored and wasted opportunities for interesting stories bc they're kind of obsessed with deconstruction of everything about TOS/the ST universe to the detriment of anything else including the actual original ethos of Starfleet.

#cannibistic deconstruction #is what id call it #star trek #star trek critical #vulcans #i for one think the vulcans are NEAT #also something something people's inability to read good faith intentions into a society that is very pacifist #is uhhh telling #pacifism is not inherently good!! obviously. #but it's not inherently sanctimonious and isolationist especially from a society that consciously adopted it in response to a violent past #I think people read vulcans in tos having closed cultural practices as being isolationist? #lads theyre in the ufp they're obviously not that isolationist #youve just reinvented the romulans in science vessels #i am very open to being told i am the wrongest person in st fandom about this #please help me understand i do not have encyclopaedic knowledge of the show

[daisychainsandbowties]

ok nvm i’m going off to write the star wars au

bea is an inquisitor & ava is the force sensitive girl working in a shipbreaking yard that she’s sent to find and capture or kill (or… kiss?)

yes i WILL be giving ava a little droid sidekick YES he will be called diego

#technically it’s a jedi: fallen order au #avatrice star wars au #warrior nun #avatrice #bea with a red lightsaber is sexy change my mind #they r gonna DUEL bea is going to chase ava across the galaxy it is going to be gay #i don’t have encyclopaedic knowledge of star wars i just like it so this is going to be a lot of me doing dumb linguistic kick flips #& being like ‘lightsaber go brrrr’ #the halo is a lightsaber btw #wn star wars au

[floorpancakes]

#twitter repost #i guess its probably not THAT controversial i think i just really wanted to get that off my chest #xxxholic #i guess #no but like even tho mostly the quality was incredible the fact they basically were like HAHA ASSPULL and then dipped soon after is so.. #i think im even a couple chapters behind and im not even rushing to catch up on them cause it burned me so bad #also cause its clamp im like. they can and will get worse sometimes with their weird shit and i cant trust that they wont #in fact holic is a funny one cause altho im less familiar with other series i know full well holic is one of their least Messy™ ones #iykwim #obviously thats not an inherent metric but like holic is usually nonsense free but i will never stop giving clamp bombastic side eye after #parts of the og ending and MOSTLY the fakeout alt universe mystery arc turning into an irrelevant fetch quest like #how do u produce media so perfect and then do that #and its also so long past tsubaholis main writing period so its like who cares??? why now??? #especially cause it was like boom hiatus #anyway thats the main reason u never catch me rereading rei much at all #like i dont have an encyclopaedic knowledge of it solely cause the twist outcome pissed me off and made me so fckin nervous for the future #also im just worried now the movies done theyll be like oh we wrote 2 chapters ajd back to hiatus good riddance!! like #I've seen the digital fear struck into the eyes of x fans i wouldnt put it past them #anyway im still excited but god damn am i nervous and fucking suspicious as hell #sigh #why cant we live in a no fakeout more interesting arc ender world where also they decided to not pull a teacher student age gap 'ship' #ship in quotes cause they obviously dont fcking love each other #but clamp is SOOOOO addicted to that trope they wanted to mess with it a little like a cat with yarn even if its non romantic #like they were like we r a thirsty flower if we dont do something problematic even as a plot contrivance with no romance we will dieeeeeeee #one day i when holic is public domain (yeah im gonna live until like 500 im so cool like that) i will release hit doumeki movie #not trying to be a hater btw they do great work but damn if those ladies dont make me nervous as hell for where this whole thing could go #or if they even wanna finish it

[srijellyfishtempura]

I think I'm going to have a karkalicious 2009, that is to say, I think I'm going to try to read Homestuck

#and I'm not going to post about it because i want to surprise my friends one day with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Homestuck #@half-a-bastard fuck you /pos

[chambers003]

this picture is apparently taken in rotorua :]

it’s known for its volcanic activity, specifically the sulphur 👍 smells bad

#my post #if nobody got me my mum’s encyclopaedic knowledge of new zealand got me 🗣️🗣️ #it’s possible the picture on the gondola and the first picture are also in rotorua but we’re less sure on that one

[nukebag]

For the ships ask, Keeli/Ima-Gun Di?

I didn’t even know that this was a ship but I’m glad my boy keeli is getting some romance

definitely wanna know more about this

#ask game #star wars clone wars #captain keeli #ima-gun di #clone trooper #something tells me this ask game will end with me having an encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure star wars ships #im not complaining ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[blodeuweddschild]

how dare you bring up tinsworth in our year 2024 im sobbing

sometimes i forget you used to be the hotdaga days counter person

Honestly sometimes I forget I used to be the hotdaga days counter person. Whenever I remember that or tinsworth my brain buffers for 5 minutes

#like bro that was me??? #I think I still have a post hidden in my drafts for one day when maybe the hotdaga returns #not invested anymore and I don’t remember 80% of it #but it will still be a momentous occasion #also I used to be able to tell from any screenshot what episode it was from #I had an encyclopaedic knowledge of all bfu #still watch are you scared and ghost files but it is no longer a hyperfixation

[discjude]

YOUR REBLOG ABT MAKING ARIC TAKE THE GENDER BEND POTION. THATS SO GREAT.

Watch him want to stab himself LMAO. He probably would stab himself ngl

I was going to mention you in the comments and say it was funny but there’s like 40 comments and i hate when there’s too many comments on smth 😭 (but like i love it too idk i’m weird)

tbh I've been thinking about something similar to the gender bend potion situation since Soman revealed what the original ending of AWWP was meant to be: literally everyone would get gender swapped at the end and there'd be a proper war between both sides (which I think was said in this video). the concept never left my head lmao

Augh I've got to write him in the thing I'm writing next and i have to make him look like a somewhat good person somehow. how do I do this. why am I doing this

#ignore my encyclopaedic knowledge of EverNeverTV videos I know them FAR too well #another notable video is the book 6 countdown video where it says there will be a resurrection in book 6 and then there wasn't #sigh. 3 months since last ENTV upload smh #I don't have an asks tag cause I don't get asks a lot (but yknow. very open to getting asks) #aricposting #tsfgae #sge #the school for good and evil #school for good and evil

[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

Okay, Discord buds got my drunken real-time rant about this, but it needs immortalising here for future me's sake.

Years ago, my dad bought a motorcycle trailer.

Or claims he did. I'd argue he bought a bit of scrap metal on wheels. Someone grabbed a fistful of box section and a bit of checkerplate and weld-bolted it all together into the most rickety piece of shit trailer-shaped rack you can possibly imagine.

It creaks if you even look at it. The floor plates don't line up properly; my dad has fallen off this trailer while loading it.

To further highlight the lunacy of keeping this thing, let me add that my dad's bike, the Triumph T160 he and my mum bought new decades ago, has appreciated wildly as a classic and is now worth over £10k. He is loading a £10k motorbike onto a trailer worth £3.50.

I have been ragging on this thing forever. Jim tries to be polite around my parents, but whenever he glimpses this trailer he has to do the turn away/headshake combo and then text me his complaints as 10-20 single-line messages sent over the next half-hour. It's law.

This is my dad revealing another foible of the trailer on the morning of The Event.

Yesterday, my dad drove from London to Anglesey. On sheer distance alone, this trip's worthy of an exacting check of your vehicle and trailer before you set off, but the tail end of the drive cuts through Eryri, the most mountainous bit of Wales, too. The area is remote and the roads are a little dangerous. You have to be prepared.

My dad, unprepared, sets off at around three. At half eight, I'm at home eating an omelette and having an important conversation with Jim about my mum-derived Clothes Trauma. It's taken a lot of gin to get me to this point. This is the most I've had to drink in months and I'm a little out of control, but it's cool, we needed this talk, I think it's putting my weird behaviour in context in a way that'll help him help me.

And then I get a call.

Jim's theory is that we've swapped roles with our parents. We're the dull ones with our full-time jobs and our eye on money and our strict preplanned schedules. Our parents are aimless and doing roughly whatever tf they want, and occasionally they need us to drop everything and bail them out.

This is an accurate take, the phone call reveals.

My dad's broken down short of Bangor. He's stuck on a high windswept road in the pissing rain without a rain jacket. It's a narrow road without a layby or any accessible hard shoulder; his car is parked in its lane with the hazards on, and everyone else has to detour around him. As this is Wales, the narrowness of the road means nothing: it's still a major trunk road and there are lorries blasting by. He is quite upset. He needs us to come rescue him.

We're on the far side of Eryri, 66 miles/an hour and a half away. I'm too drunk to drive, so Jim's roped in, even though he needs to be up for work at six tomorrow morning. My dad's mobile signal is appalling and he keeps dropping out of calls; I have to explain to him that he should use his phone's phone function instead of calling through WhatsApp before we even get the gist of what's gone wrong.

Which is this:

he left home without a jack

or the right socket to fit his wheelnuts

and a known slow puncture in one of the trailer's tyres.

His slow puncture has become a flat, and his planned method of pumping it up again hasn't worked. Thanks to the impeccable design of the trailer-shaped scrap, he can't get at the spare while he has a motorbike loaded up.

It's the most predictable and avoidable breakdown since that one time I forgot to fit a new split link when changing my motorbike chain and the whole thing poinged off outside Aldi. And at least my issue was memory and not a conscious decision to be an idiot.

Anyway, we set out. Important beats:

We lack the diesel to get there without a stop, which is always interesting in North Wales at night. The fuel station in Betws-y-Coed saves us. Thank you Shell. About halfway through the drive, my dad calls again to say he's found his 17mm socket at last and has successfully crawled under the trailer and retrieved the spare, but can't swap the wheels without a jack.

(Having since sobered up and had a good look at the photos, I wonder how the hell he got under there. The trailer sits incredibly low and he's pulled up against the kerb, so how did he get under there? Lying in the road?)

And so we find him, halfway up a mountain road in the rain and wind and dark.

The wind's so wild it almost ploughs my door into that stone wall. As we're putting out our emergency triangle and letting the Ranger's rear chevrons do some work, I am drunk but still struck by how dumb this really is. My dad confesses he got too cold at one point and had to shiver himself warm in the car with the engine on and the heated seats going. He is seventy-odd, for context.

With our jack, it takes approximately three minutes to fit the spare.

He heads off, we head home. The satnav suggests we'll be back by ten past midnight but it's more like twenty-five past.

There's not really a point to this whole rambling post. Carry a jack, obviously. That's not a lesson anyone should have to learn, which has been the running theme of 2023 so far: things go wrong and we learn nothing.

But on less of a down note, things go wrong, we learn nothing, and I get to spend an evening bopping in the car with my long-suffering yet still awesome partner, who, after a lot of gin and a lot of driving, now 100% grasps what my parents are like.

We also got to look very cool and patient and reliable in an emergency. I like it.

#a long nyx ramble #still hungover from all that gin #we listened to all the dance tracks I could think of from the 90s to the 2010s #i forgot how hot Sia's voice is in She Wolf #i also benefitted from Jim's encyclopaedic knowledge of old MTV music videos #anyway #I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE LIGHTS ARE TAKING US #BUT SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT IS DANGEROUS #my posts #very bad mechanic

[daringdarlingdt]

In Hawkeye's list of genuine crimes against women and also just times when he was Actually A Jerk, somehow none bothers me so much as when he tells Margaret to lose weight in Check Up. I don't know why it's my least favourite thing he ever does except maybe that it’s kind of subtle by the show’s standards, yet very insidious and realistic. Like yeah he laughs off rape and regularly sexually harasses women by kissing them or pestering them when he’s been refused. But that all *feels* like it’s being played up for laughs and drama within the show, and it mostly disappears later on. Whereas this is just a cheap shot that’s so aggressively unnecessary.

and it's okay within the narrative because she's an antagonist and it's played as a comedic plotline but it's literally the most flippantly rude and insensitive thing and the worst part is that it is kind of in character for him based on the way he treats women throughout the series—even the later seasons— but it *feels* like it’s ridiculously OOC because he’s usually empathetic enough to have a pretty progressive mindset about the Right way to treat people othered and degraded by his society. But like… there’s a direct pipeline between Hawkeye’s rude comment in Check Up —> all of his behaviour in Hey, Look Me Over, y’know?

AND MARGARET LITERALLY IS SO SKINNY I DONT EVEN GET IT. They turn it into an entire plot line based on that comment and Frank agreeing with it and at the end of the episode when everyone’s drinking, Frank tells Margaret that alcohol is very fattening and she says “it’s fine I plan on throwing up later” which, whether alcohol- or self-induced is purging!!! That’s eating disorder territory and it’s played for a laugh! I know I know this plot line is a product of its time whatever whatever, I just despiiiise that Hawkeye kicks it off by telling an incredibly skinny woman that she’s “getting flanky” and could stand to lose 10 pounds During A Medical Check Up when he’s already established she’s very healthy!!! Who is that man!???

#a very random mash rant for y’all today #not exactly my most nuance or well-thought out take but it really just frickin annoys me and I needed to say smth about it. #it’s moments like these that I see what boomers see in him. #I also know he’s definitely said/done more egregious things and if I had a more encyclopaedic knowledge of mash I might hate those more #but this one always stands out to me for some reason it’s just sooo infuriating to me. #cw eating disorder mention