#im a nerd

[raythegayrealnotclickbait]

Tobias after reading…'certain' fanfics about the fandom he created.

(DNI IF YOUR MDNI IM A MINOR PLS AND TY!)

#the band ghost #ghost band #oreos #tobias forge #nameless ghouls #cirrus ghoulette #papa nihil #papa copia #papa secondo #papa terzo #papa emeritus iv #papa emeritus iii #papa primo #cumulus ghoulette #sodo ghoul #swiss #rain ghoul #aether #im a nerd #im a faggot #faggot sissy

[homosexual-newsboy]

So The Song of Achilles???

I haven't even finished and I'm already wrecked for life.

Someone tell me it'll be okay.

#song of achilles #the song of achilles #bookssss #im a nerd #and gay #the book is very gay i love it

[ashiningstar]

"mobiles,landlines,tin cans with bits of string. everything. absolutely everything. no phones,phones all broken. hello? is anyone there? no! becuase the phones arent working."-ianto jones,torchwood

#ianto jones #jack harkness #dr who #torchwood #gwen cooper #im a nerd

[ferallair]

I'm about to eat this lasagna like I'm in a Fears to Fathom game. Nom nom nom.

#fears to fathom #Im a nerd #It's not burnt just “blackened” #Nom nom

[old-school-maidden]

#meme #memes #chaotic academia #kuzco #the emperors new groove #funny #nerd talks #im a nerd #and im proud of it

[montygatorguy]

also the museum of broadway has an ENTIRE six exhibit i was geeking out so hard.

#six #six bway #museum of broadway #im a nerd #i took a selfie with parr’s costume #because i want to be her #but y’all don’t get to see that

[captainmipy]

I’m gonna post more from my visit to the airport to see my dads friends. we get escort access to the ramp and hangars!

this really cool shot of a c-17 I got at the airport on Monday! with a plane in the background (im not good with the regional jets so idk what that is) there was also a presidential helicopter but I didn’t get a photo of it, left by the time we made it to the ramp

The C-32, often nicknamed the Air Force Two (though that name is subjective it’s just common for it) was also there and I had NO IDEA beforehand. There’s always some random plane in this spot and I was like HUH??????? the prez was in town so that’s why there’s so much military

Incoming a321 into the hangar! There was an a319 right next to it and we went up into the cockpit as always, didn’t rlly get pictures tho :(

pretty awesome 777-200! Among the biggest that come in here. unfortunately starting next year they end their service and will be replaced w the 787 :(

and finally, the cheese bus of the sky and aer lingus

I also did sit inside a 787 cockpit but I only got a video (my face is there) so i wouldn’t post it. I might post the ones from last year where I did take photos of me in one

#i love planes #planespotting #planes #aviation #pilot #boeing #airbus #airplanes #airport #airplane #777 #787 #a321 #a319 #jets #c17 #air force two #airlines #im a NERD #sky followers deal with it

[weiner-enjoyer]

welcome to my ted talk.

this is a post about romances that are written and viewed through the lense of a partner being a deity. mostly talking about fictional characters. this is also me being an anthropology nerd

the earliest example of this that i can think of is greek mythology. as is with most things. in greek mythology, there are likely hundreds of examples of gods courting animals and humans alike, though not always consensually. for the purpose of this post i’ll only be looking at the consensual ones. specifically, we can use the example of ariadne and dionysus.

ariadne and dionysus have one of those princess-in-a-dungeon love stories. king minos, a scary bull, put ariadne in a labyrinth, and dionysus saves her because she’s beautiful. to my knowledge, whether or not ariadne loved him isn’t fully explained. the reason i include this example is that it specifically shows a sort of weakness of the gods; love. almost all gods, in almost all mythologies, are capable of love, and it is almost always their downfall.

this idea of love as a downfall is different from what we usually think of with god-complex relationships. usually, one person is so delusional and in love that they view a partner as a god. but in most ancient examples, these stories are told in relation to the god and not the mortal. so why are gods, especially in greek mythology, so attracted to mortals?

there’s an aspect of rebellion to it. gods and humans are meant to be separated, as demonstrated by titanomachy, the war between humans and gods. but after several thousand years, you would get tired of having affairs with your cousins, right?

that brings me to my next conclusion; it’s simply because love happens. even nephthys, the ancient egyptian goddess, is capable of love; she was depicted as lesbian or bisexual in order to function as being unable to have kids. love is a force that not even the gods themselves can escape, though they often find solace in it.

gods who have affairs with humans are typically not well off. take zeus for example. sure, he’s the king of kings, god of gods, but his life is a mess. everyone hates him, including his wife, and he’s kind of a tyrant. but humans view him as mighty as ever, fearing and loving him just as ever. he finds that power he lost in the humans, so he harvests it.

so where do we get the stereotypical yandere god-loving romances? humans in relationships with gods are never treated with dignity, if they get to live in the first place. why is it so desirable?

i think, in some ways, gods sometimes see us above them in the same way we see them above us. lets go back to the idea of gods finding solace in human relationships; you could argue that the gods would be zealous of humans. we have much less to worry about. in the same way, humans honor gods for many reasons, but in the very core of their supernatural being; the fact that they can just generally handle more, be better, be perfect, even.

the yandere god-loving romance, without doing too much research, may just come from that dynamic. that, as humans, we should worship that which is better than us, and maybe we’ll get some kind recognition in return.

i should note that i have done zero research and i just like talking.

thank you for listening to my ted talk.

#i dont expect anyone to read this #im just autistic #anthropology #archaeology #zeus #greek mythology #dionysus #ariadne #nephthys #ancient egyptians #ancient egypt #ancient egyptian mythology #im a nerd #gods #religion

[liliallowed]

don't let my content fool you I'm well versed in the canon dusttale useless trivia :3

#lili rambles #dusttale #canon dusttale #im a nerd #FEAR ME #Chara ain't the villain #its just YOU and him buddy #which... makes reading self insert fics ironic. #oh boi #yeah honey #you literally made him this way #stop pretending you're his savior

[h0n3ycombb]

i did a thing at my friends house for halloween (also face rev)

i wonder who i was *cough* *cough*

#racetrack higgins #halloween costume ehehhee #im a nerd #but my boyfriend loves me #mainly based of livesies #but i have the newsies banner from 92sies #so shut up imt rying (jk)

[nocteville]

Ok so minor obsession of mine, historical figures who inexplicably went by a different gendered name or pronouns. It’s so fascinating to me bc it like, was gender identity just different at the time? Were they trans? And of course we’ll probably never know, but it’s still just so interesting. Obligatory examples; Hatshepsut (female pharaoh that called herself king and was portrayed as a man, but still used female pronouns) and Israel Hands (apparently also known by the name Basilica, which is almost always a female name).

#history #im a nerd #hatshepsut #israel hands

[purpleleafsbirdses]

You needed to see this bird

Wilson's bird of paradise

That is all continue

#birblr #bird of paradise #weird birds #today on tumblr #you need this #it's amazing #im a nerd #birds #cool birds #cool things #weird wonderful world

[eliaswoodt]

I feel like me finding Ethan funny says a lot about me and my sense of humor

#my resident evil posts #my posts #ethan winters #resident evil #resident evil 7 #re7 #im a nerd

[classicschronicles]

Hi lovelies,

A few days ago this new Bollywood movie called Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan and John Abrahams, came out and so obviously I HAD to go and watch it. But fun fact about me is that I am literally a melting pot of different cultures. My dads family are Indian-Kenyan. My mums family were initially (back in the 5th-7th century) a family of Jewish royalty in what is now Afghanistan (which is actually pretty cool). They converted to Islam some time later and became part of a very particular Afghani tribe called the Pathaan (also another reason I had to watch this movie). Over the course of the next few centuries they migrated from Afghanistan to India, before being forced into Pakistan because of colonialism. Throughout all of this, my mums branch of the Pathaan tribe stuck together and so even still, my mum’s family in pure Pathaan, but I’m only half Pathaan because my mum married out. However, me being me did some deep diving into this because it’s actually pretty cool that my family tree can be traced back that far. Okay so at this point you’re probably wondering how on earth this related to Classics, but I found out that the Pathaan langue (Pashto) is actually about 2500 years old, which makes it about the same age as Latin and therefore a classical language! And so today I thought I would tell you a little bit about Pashto.

The Pashto language belongs to the Indi-Iranian language family and is mainly spoken by the ethnic communities of Afghanistan and western provinces of Pakistan, which is partially inhabited by Pashtuns (aka Pathaan’s). It is also still the native language of the indigenous Pathaan people. The language is said to have originated in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan and is said to be one of the two national languages (the other being Dari, a Persian language).

The vocabulary of Pashto has actually not been borrowed or derived from other languages, which is extremely rare for any language still spoken in a modern setting. Many of its lexis do, however, relate to other Eastern Iranian languages such as Pamir and Ossetia.

The exact origin of the Pashto language and the Pathaan tribes are unknown, but the word ‘Pashto’ derives from the regular phonological process. Nevertheless, the Pathaan are sometimes compared with the Pakhta tribes mentioned in Rigvenda, around 1700-1100 B.C., apparently they are the same people that the Greek historian Herodotus referred to Paktika (a northern province in Afghanistan). However, this comparison appears to be due in large part to the apparent similarity between their names, despite the fact that etymologically it can’t really be justified. But there are some archeological compilations and historical data and so the majority of researchers now believe that the Pashto language is around 25000 years old.

Herodotus also mentions the Paktika ‘Apridai’ tribe but it is unknown what language they spoke. However, Strabo (who lived between 64 B.C. and 24 C.E.) suggests that the tribes inhabiting the lands west of the Indus River were part of Ariana and to their east was India. Since about the 3rd century B.C. and onwards from that, these tribes were mostly referred to by the name ‘Afghan’ (or ‘Abgan’) and their language as ‘Afghani’.

Many historians and scholars believe that the earliest piece of written Pashto work dates back to the 8th century. However, a lot of history outside of the western empires lacks the same clarity and information and so even this is highly disputed. However, during the 17th century, Pashto poetry became very popular amongst the Pathaan.

To be honest, there isn’t a whole lot of information on the Pashtun language or the origin of the Pathaan, other than that they have been around since the B.C. But it’s pretty cool to me that my families culture has such a long history. This entry was pretty special to me so hopefully you all enjoyed it and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend!

~Z

#classical studies #classics #ancient rome #ancient greece #dark acamedia #ancient world #history #afghanistan #pakistan #shah rukh khan #pathaan #deepikapadukone #origin story #sorry guys #this #is just #me rambling #im a nerd #john abraham #is like #my childhood #celeb crush #also

[yoloyeahhh]

i love when extra reading for a class sends me on a research tangent unrelated to what i actually need to know for the class and so now im behind in the class but hey im happy

(if you’re wondering, the rabbit hole is about how aphantasia impacts memory, more specifically working memory, and hegdishdksgd its so interesting and explains so much about me)

#neuroscience #aphantasia #im a nerd #i love psychology #sjhfkshdsohf #i should focus on the class #but its so fun to not

[hannahrose02]

Did the boops revive my blog, maybe 👀

In all seriousness tho I might start updating again and also posting more though it will most likely be purely miraculous ladybug related since that has turned to the sole reason I have Tumblr lol

#boop #april fools #im back #maybe #miraculous ladybug #im a nerd