#nerd honestly

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

#content warnings for sex violence self harm and general angst #six chapters 41K words #people who have asked for longer stories of these two please give this one a look #I've watched this unfold since late may? early july? and it's been an exciting experience #I'm not a writer I think it's better than what I could've come up with #honestly though the way he managed to get inside Machete's and Vasco's heads was uncanny their mannerisms and thought processes are spot on #some of the events aren't canon but they might as well be #and most of the background details and backstory tidbits are accurate believe me he's very well versed on their lore #big history nerd so the worldbuilding is intense #you get to meet the dog pope #there's saint sebastian #roommate hijinks #it gets kind of bleak at times though so be mindful of that #it's not all fluff and good feelings #Separation #Heinaven #RoobrickMarine #own characters #own art #artists on tumblr #CanisAlbus #Vasco #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #if you end up reading the whole thing it would be really sweet if you left a little comment as a thanks for his hard work

[solarpunkani]

"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"

OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.

"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"

OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it

"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"

OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.

"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"

I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.

I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.

Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.

So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.

#out of queue #ani rambles #punks and posers #i cant even call this a 4am hot take because its 7pm but like #idk i keep seeing posts about like 'how DARE people think I bought my punk clothes how DARE they not know the how-tos and DIYs' #or 'ugh people only care about the ~aesthetics~ of my movement if you don't know shit get out of here' and like #maybe I'm just a shy ass introverted nerd whos scared of social rejection! but I avoid that shit like the plague #so if someone were to reject me based on not knowing about something I'd never even heard about? something i was JUST getting into? #there's a high chance I'd just scram and never look back. i don't wanna be the one who causes that emotion in someone else #granted this is coming from someone who STILL doesn't know how to make her own patches or worked up the courage to do direct action praxis #outside of offering neighbors to my tomatoes and trying to talk to people about what I'm passionate about #but still imo unless someone's a malicious intentional bad actor i dont see the point in scaring newbies off #thats how movements die imo #i know this is my solarpunk blog but its not a solarpunk specific thing #i think the main post that inspired this was about store-bought versus self-made spiked leather jackets #which honestly just feels petty to me but who knows. #might delete later

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about generally-accepted broad fanon batfam dynamics is that even if you disregard the complete stripping of all nuance in order to make a perfectly nuclear family with no lasting or significant conflict etc etc, half of it is all just built on vaguely (or explicitly) racist stereotypes anyway, like .......... ah yes the little half arab boy is a violent feral gremlin who can't fit in with refined polite society. the half east asian girl is the golden child who never speaks and is good at everything and has no flaws because she's the favorite who holds the family together. the romani one is a slut. LIKE. okay...!

#and this isn't even getting into latino jason and east asian tim hcs. which aren't inherently racist and i do enjoy sometimes! #but sometimes it's just so like. oh you just went hm the poor guy who's violent uses guns and is in the drug trade... that one is latino now #and oh let's declaw this other guy and make him physically weaker but such a nerd and good at computers and ope now he's east asian #like. idk how people don't see it honestly i really don't. #rimi talks

[lets-try-some-writing]

Unicron may be a god of destruction but destruction does leave chaos in its wake.. And creatures on Earth(and Earth itself) can be pretty chaotic. He doesnt know if to feel proud or terrified.. I think some of their conversations would be like this:

Earth: I made roughly 400,000 species of beetles

Unicron: ..That's nice..

_

Earth: Everything will become crab

Unicron: ..Why?

Earth: Crab

_

Unicron: I don't regret attacking Cybertron back then

Unicron: But sometimes i do because i'm stuck with this.

Earth:... I'm not sorry about whatever you witnessed this time

Unicron in this just gives me this vibe:

On one hand, he really quite likes his personal pet project. On the other:

Unicron: Why can't you behave?

Earth: You are chaos incarnate. I am a being born of your will.

Unicron: .... fair.

Also

Unicron whenever Earth makes something new and terrifying to the point of him needing to step in (he absolutely obliterated the dinosaurs.):

#transformers #maccadam #transformers prime #unicron #earth #i honestly pity this god like being #he's stuck with a nerd forever

[dustykneed]

Picture this; Bones holding Joanna, rocking her to sleep and the part in Beautiful Boy where it’s like “The monster's gone, He's on the run, And your daddy's here” is playing. :,)

Fatherhood gives you certain... skills. Coincidentally, this is also how Jim finds out that Bones sings.

:'))

#star trek #star trek fanart #star trek aos #star trek alternate original series #jim kirk #jim t kirk #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #leonard bones mccoy #joanna mccoy #mckirk #mckirk fanart #ship or platonic? up to you #this sort of ties in to another thing ill be posting soon. but only sort of?? mainly it's joanna's design and symbols lol #yes joanna has character symbols im a little bit insane and a huge nerd #this is when jim decides he HAS to woo that divorced dad lmao #THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK ANON ILYSM. im so happy with where this ask took me and i hope you enjoy!! #what is jim dreamjng about you ask? well. The colours are a reference sorta actually but iykyk (aos lore?) #this hit me in so many different feels. SO MANY. im a changed man because of this ask anon i am in your debt #im so in love with all of your brains btw. the reqs yall send in are so so good #honestly if youre a recurring anon feel free to leave a calling card or something. i would love to shake you adoringly by some sorta name #happy first contact day!!

[littlebirdy0301]

#i love him your honor #hank green #vlogbrothers #nerdfighteria #he knows he’s trending for “thirsting after a dnd boy” and I love that #Dnd boy in question: #Brennan lee mulligan #And honestly. Same. #I wonder how many other ppl saw brennan’s dungeons and drag queens look and went “oh shit I may be in love with this man” #All it took for me to realize it was a lil fancy makeup and pretty elf clothes & I think that says something about me #I like pretty nerd boys what can I say #I’m just like hank fr #D20 #dimension 20 #dropouttv #lgbt #bisexual #lgbtq

[trollhunters-eldritch-princess]

i think that it's really important how krel faces the majority of human racism during 3Below. he's visibly a latino and has darker skin than aja. krel also has the same quirks as her. but it's her quirks that are seen as cool and his that are seen as weird.

he's also a math genius, and it's constantly called into question how he is doing so well, with the racist man is season one claiming that he cheated solely because 'everyone knows people like him aren't good at math'. even the bounty hunter weaponizes this in the next episode.

there wasn't really a point to this post, but i think that it's really important that in a kid's show, the latino boy is shown to be accused of cheating simply because he doesn't 'look' smart, and the show explicitly calls this attitude out as wrong and does not give it any excuses. and the latino boy is given shades and dimensions to his character and allowed sympathy and rage for his losses. you know, the way all people should be allowed.

#tales of arcadia #3 below #3 below meta #krel tarron #krel #i just have a lot of thoughts about krel #he's honestly my favorite compared to aja #i always liked tech geniuses and math nerds in shows because they would often act and enjoy the same things as me #but i digress

[kazhan-draws]

Oh no, he's pining. A continuation.

#mungrove #billy hargrove #eddie munson #billy hargrove/eddie munson #stranger things #honestly the thought of Billy being obsessed with this huge nerd the moment he laid eyes on him... #it's both delicious and hilarious #i doodle

[cynthrey]

continuation to this piece cuz scott also deserves a wittle bit of a gay panic

#empires smp #empires s1 #empires mythicalsausage #empires scott #empires joey #empires xornoth #scosage #my art #mythicalsausage #scott smajor #dangthatsalongname #xornoth #joey graceffa #honestly i think i could have made sausage bigger #this man is top quality beef and i will die on this hill #continuation to this continuation of sausage and xornoth wrestling coming up eventually XD #also sorry to any sword nerds if you are not meant to nail your sword to the ground like that

[isogenderskitty]

i think it's interesting how steph is like... the nerds see her as part of the popular group, and sure we see her talking to the cheerleaders a little, but other than that she doesn't really seem to be one of them in the truest sense? i could fully believe that she feels like the tiniest bit of an outcast there, like she's just cool enough for max to give her a pass but she doesn't really click with them that well. she feels to me like the bridge between the popular ones and the nerds, which is appropriate i suppose for her place in the story.

#idk i just keep turning this feeling around in my brain #that she doesn't Quite feel like she's actually proper friends with that lot #in my mind steph is pretty lonely before she starts talking to pete and by proxy the other nerds #like... i feel like the cheerleaders are friendly with her but they don't really Get each other #or enjoy each other's company That much #maybe even on their side there's some slight intimidation factor of her being the mayor's daughter and it's still a bit isolating #poor girl :( #but it's ok now she has real friends :] #... well. at least one. i honestly can't tell if pete and steph would even hang out with grace after everything #even ignoring The Ending And What That Implies #even if that didn't happen #i still don't think??? they would be besties with her #which is interesting for like. yknow. the main protag group who's been through everything together #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #stephanie lauter

[jupiterkenka]

I thought that it would be kinda fun to draw up alternate Buck-Tick Taeyang dolls from some of my personal favorite outfits. Starting off simple and sweet with one of my faves, the ringlet jacket. (Also the doll posing comes from the Kuromi Pullip doll.)

#drawing dolls is honestly so fun #i know i couldve colored it but i liked the lineart silhouette best #sakurai atsushi #im such a nerd for dolls i could talk forever about them #if i ever do an ooak i want so bad to make the beloved ringlet jacket

[natigail]

I've seen the rise, the fall and the rebirth of DanAndPhilGAMES. Honestly, I cannot believe we have arrived at this day and they obviously had to announce it in the most exaggerated and hilarious way. It's so them, and I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that we're going to get gaming videos by Dan and Phil post coming out.

I had just started watching Dan and Phil properly in the summer of 2014 and just a couple of months later, the very first video on the gaming channel dropped. Since then, the regular gaming channel videos have been such a huge comfort for me and so many others. Then came the hiatus, an indefinitely decision that caught the channel in limbo. It's made sense, in many ways leaving 2018 and entering 2019 spelled an important shift for the boys.

They retired several of their old projects, even pinof, and started to separate the entity of "Dan and Phil" and as such the gaming channel also had to go. I was gutted to see it go, but I trusted the boys were doing what they needed. And in the years that's followed, I've kept a small hope that it was never quite dead until they definitively said so. Hell, Phil had recently mentioned checking to see if Dil on the Sims save was okay, and we knew they still had that cursed Dil Howlter head from TATINOF somewhere in their nostalgia pile.

Today they used that very papier-mâché head again. The motherfucker rose from the grave and called the boys daddies, which honestly had me pausing and just doubling over in laughter at their horrified faces. And let's not even talk about the tweet an hour before the video cordially inviting us, as if it was a fucking wedding we were about to attend!

Dan and Phil are nothing if not extra, and I love them so much for it. It's been over nine years that I've followed along with their content and lives, and tonight just proved that I will never be dragged from the phandom. The instant surge of excitement, anticipation and a little dread upon seeing the invitation tweet and the video thumbnail still got me like I got into the boys yesterday. It's still so palpable in my chest even now, and I cannot stop smiling.

The gaming channel is and has always been full of comfort content for me. Dan and Phil know it too. They put it in the video, they put it in the video description, and just the way they handled this whole announcement all radiates that they're so aware of it. They know we've been here, waiting patiently, until they were ready to come back to it.

I would have accepted it if they had really decided to kill the channel, but man, oh man, I am delighted that it instead has come back from the grave. Risen with static flutter and a menacing Sims character who's story isn't quite over yet.

We get to have the regular banter back, but now with no filter at all. They don't have to conceal parts of themselves that they weren't ready to share, even if the gaming channel always felt more open and intimate.

I am extremely ready to parasocially see two domestic nerds laugh, bicker, scream and make questionable noises. I just know I will be right there besides them. Thank you to Dan and Phil for bringing back our comfort channel. It's a gift and we won't forget it.

#there i feel a bit better a bit more sane if only marginally #i just have a lot of feelings about these two tall british nerds #also the timing of this like obviously it had to be this month #october #spooky week #i am hoping that's making a comeback in like a week or so #that would be incredible but honestly i'm excited for anything #anything they want to make for us #dan and phil #DanAndPhilGAMES #nina natters #my tumblr dabbles #talking in tags

[citizen-of-the-fandom]

I highly recommend watching Neil Newbon's streams of himself playing Baldur's Gate 3. His enthusiasm and delight in the game is so infectious (him doing a little chair wiggle and shouting "fuck yes i love this game" during the first cinematic cutscene - i love), it reminds me that it's a game to have fun in and he's so supportive of the rest of his cast and crew that it adds even more dimension to a playthrough.

And also, like, his voice. ofc.

#baldur's gate 3 #neil newbon #astarion #also he uses astarion to pickpocket literally everyone #it's hysterical #he plays bg3 like a nerd plays d&d because he is one #'yeah why not' is honestly so inspiring #i constantly try to min-max any game i play #it's nice to remember his voice saying 'fuck it why not' and then doing the thing #idk

[yesiluv]

Wonwoo and his ✨ body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody ✨

This man is gonna kill me one day. I'm not even kidding..

#no bc he really is a sexy nerd #he is the standard #wonwoo is the finest man alive #I'm not making the rules #😩 #his body is literally so ✨ #honestly #him #just him. #seventeen #wonwoo #seventeen wonwoo #svt #carats help I'm having a breakdown

[ashersanity]

Don’t know why, feel like Whitney has a thing for glasses, what to call it. a kink?

Just sees you walk in in math class one day, looking.. different than usual. Fucking slut, did you change your hairstyle, clothes or something? No, their eyes immediately zoom in on your face, realizing what it is, your eyes framed behind glasses.

Heart rate picking up slightly at the sight, fists clenching and unclenching, trousers feeling uncomfortably tight beneath the desk. Shifting their position a tad bit to ease the growing boner in their pants. Fuck, you’ve made them stupidly hard now.

Because you look nice. Sophisticated. Clean. Professional even..? Something meant to be.. ruined. Meant to be fucked.

Fantasizes about that cute face of yours, flushed up and panting, glasses still on, just a bit cracked and tilted from their treatment. Cum splattered all over the plastic material, dripping over your skin and onto your parted lips.

#man idfk im high asf rn #this cuz I wear glasses on the occasions #only when I need to use a computer or some shit #people tell me I look completely different in glasses like handsome and more mature they call it #honestly I just look like a math nerd #and I suck at math #yeah. #need a gf that’s good at math #I’ll be the bf that’s good at english #asher getting.. ideas! #dol #whitney the bully #asher rambles

[arthmis]

SOME redesigns of assassin's creed women in more historical clothing :> left to right: claudia + sofia from ac 2 and revelations respectively, lucrezia borgia in brotherhood sans 2010s makeup and hair (and cleavage -_-), elise de la serre from unity (the court dress and some other outfit concepts) and caroline from black flag :)

#assassin's creed #claudia auditore #sofia sartor #lucrezia borgia #elise de la serre #caroline scott #ik caroline doesnt actually wear the salmon gown in-game but i hate its existence so. mantua time #she should have her head covered but honestly i forgot :( #also elise!!! i think the ballgown is the worst design ive seen so far sorry but i HATE it. the ballgown is actually real.. from #a fashion plate of the time!! black wasnt common AT ALL but it resembled that mostrosity and from the late 1780s #i also think she'd be into redingotes honestly. forget the stupid line from arno in the beginning where he asks her #why she's wearing a dress ok how would she not #OH btw im aware that the renaissance girls would wear a giornea over this. fashion nerds dont come at me