#nerds and beyond

[shedontlovehuhself]

The Nerds and Beyond article about the spn picket is now out and full of some amazing photos taken at the event.

#spn cast #supernatural picket #sag strike #wga strike #eric kripke #spn #nerds and beyond

[egoismt]

#cw gotham knights #gotham knights #哥譚騎士 #misha #misha collins #harvey dent #哈維丹特 #two face #Two-Face #fugue harvey #雙面人 #batman #bruce wayne #batbrats #zaddydent #renew gotham knights #dc #the cw #Nerds And Beyond

[laf-outloud]

Check out this great article from Briar! And check out the fan reactions... you might be included!

#walker: independence #WIndy #WIndy appreciation #WIndy article #WIndy bts #WIndy cast #WIndy crew #nerds and beyond

[malmuses]

The first rule of monster club is....

#my writing #nerds and beyond #the winchesters

[shinobicyrus]

One thing my brain keeps going back to about Pacific Rim (besides the rad giant robots) is the whole existence of kaiju organ harvesters and their implications.

Like, you have Hannibal Chau, a bizarre and interesting character, but we’re presented with a black market operation that seems mostly interested in the “alternative medicine” uses of kaiju parts.

But my brain demands to know: what does the corporate kaiju harvesting industry look like? Sure kaiju blood is toxic, but there are plenty of toxic materials that have useful applications. Are there chemical companies studying kaiju organs? Big-Pharma jumping on the kaiju bone-powder bandwagon? Are bio-tech firms studying kaiju hide to make tougher materials? Agribusinesses clamoring to acquire kaiju crap for fertilizer?

I’m picturing something like the age of whaling, when humans hunted giant animals and carved them up to feed insatiable industries. Whale-oil lighting lanterns for entire cities, whale-bone being used in everything from knick-knacks, tools, umbrellas, and corsets. Ambergris alone was used in perfumes, medicines, cooking. It was even added to wine as an aphrodisiac.

We glimpsed how kaiju affected pop-culture. Now picture a kaiju smashing a city, but the stock market going up for construction companies (rebuilding the cities), vulture real estate (buying the destroyed land cheap), and all the other corporations that profit from the systematic dismantling of a kaiju corpse and making money off of its parts. Sure, a city was roughed up and who knows how many thousands are dead, but it’s a better windfall when a kaiju makes landfall. It’s always less profitable when jaegers kill them too quickly; sea-based extractions are so much more expensive.

Imagine entire industries, entire economies that don’t just make money from the devastation of kaiju attacks, but grow dependent on them. And then the laws, the squabbles over those valuable, resource-rich kaiju corpses. If a kaiju attacks one country but keeps rampaging and is killed in the country next door, who has claim over the body? The party who was damaged more by it or the country where the corpse physically is? Bidding wars over “cleanup” contracts that cut corners and are only interested in collecting those sweet, sweet, kaiju parts as fast as possible, even if their official mandate is supposed to be the safe removal and cleanup of a toxic substance.

Once jaegers started getting efficient at killing kaiju, the people with all the money became less interested in solving the problem of kaiju attacks and switched to merely managing the industries that kaiju-killing feeds.

What? You want to put more resources into R&D to try and close the Breach? Whatever for? The kaiju comes out, jaegers kill it, and the “host country” gets the proceeds from the kaiju’s body. It’s a win-win for everyone. Why waste time, money, and effort solving a problem that isn’t a problem anymore?

Everything is under control.

#Sorry Long Post #Nerd Rant #Pacific Rim #Kaiju #Hannibal Chau #Kaiju Harvesters #Worldbuilding #Capitalism #an entire kaiju-industrial complex #DARPA tech and military budgets build the jaegers #don't try to tell me that there isn't a entire cabal of corporations profiting off of kaijus beyond just simple toys and marketing #(though that also leads me to wonder WHO exactly has the patent on kaiju? #are they public domain or does the PPDC and the UN have an IP on the kaiju they identify and name??? #there's nothing wrong with me I'm normal I swear

[ladamedusoif]

Permission to be a nerdy expert and deeply thirsty for two minutes.

I am begging - begging - fashion writers et al to realise that “Victorian” is a specific time period and place, not an entire century. And if you must insist on the Darcy comparison (about which more anon), then recognise that Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, aka the Georgian/Regency period. (Victoria wouldn’t become queen for almost two decades.)

And that being said: I stand by my read of the whole look being far more 1830s European Romantic.

Now that I’ve got my nerdy twitching out of the way: I would like to hear more about the whole “making a shirt that’s nicely oversized and designed to be opened like that” design process please and thank you. 😘

#let me nerd out on this please #Victorian doesn’t mean 19th century and shouldn’t be used to refer to anything outside Britain #just say no to everything being framed in the Anglosphere #other references exist beyond pride and prejudice and the regency and I’m begging people to realise that #thank you for coming to my ted talk #pedro pascal #it’s fashion baby

[dontcallmeeds]

I am once again saying, a man turned into a bird this season. Izzy just taking a nap.

#like literally I’m so delusional but??? #I don’t think it’s beyond the show to be like lol we didn’t kill Izzy you nerds he’s fine #buttons come back and cure death challenge #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death spoilers #Izzy hands

[daily-dose-of-danno]

Remind the world of Nathan/Lester! Plz?

Season 2, Episode 4 - Reign Storm

Season 3, Episode 10 - Claw of the Wild

#reign storm #claw of the wild #danny phantom #Lester #Nathan #I like to think his name is Nathan Lester #and he’s called both similar to how Danny is sometimes only referred to as ‘Fenton’ or Tucker as ‘Foley’ #only logical reason I can think of #beyond just… inconsistency 💔 #Mikey #Valerie gray #tucker foley #sam manson #star #Tiffanie #kyle weston #danny fenton #Ms tetslaff #idk the name of the other nerd. the kid with the black hair. the ghost. or the kid with the baseball cap #other than that I think I named all the characters I could identify. I try to be good about that lol #request #daily dose of danno

[axe-cution]

do you think gordon freeman tries to talk to his HEV suit when he’s alone.

#I feel. a lot of emotions about him. #I am a firm believer in gordon being semi-verbal but I think he goes on and on with his HEV suit #talking to the wall.talking when no one’s there #it must be very lonely to be Gordon freeman I think #when everyone views you as a savior. when everyone’s grown by 20 years and you’re still barely out of college dipshit who got forced into #circumstances beyond his control. #when was the last time gordon freeman got to look at the sky . properly. #half life #gordon freeman #coming back to this ‘barely out of college’ is an exaggeration but you get what I mean. right. #he should’ve been at the reclusive nerd equivalent for the club

[ratstuckinamarble]

Haven't seen anyone mention these on here so:

From the Nickelodeon UK instagram account btw.

#where's the bad at school rep. #buncha nerds (jk) #what I'm gathering is Deuce isn't the best at math; Clawdeen is quite good at math; Frankie's brain is beyond my comprehension #and Draculaura “struggles” with science class specifically which is a neat detail #the A+ in dead languages is neat cause shea fontana did mention her speaking a bunch of languages #but why is Frankie good at casketball too. since when are they sporty #everyone except Drac has an A in that pfff #and it's boo-ology now? instead of bite-ology? ok #monster high #monster high g3 #rätposting #wait did they give Deuce an A+ in history because of the snake word play gjdjsj

[greyhavensking]

Kaneki’s definition of beating Ayato half to death is as insane and hilarious as always

#maria rambles #tokyo ghoul #I’m rereading the series because I was going through my books and remembered I still don’t own all 14 volumes #I have 10 and am hoping to finish it out over the next few months #but anyway I honestly prefer his fight with Ayato over the one with Yamori #just. the cold logic here is so beyond what we’ve seen from Kaneki so far but it’s also really fitting for him? #book nerd that he is #he spent like 12 days getting viscously tortured so he deserves to go a little feral. as a treat

[laf-outloud]

Once again, another great article from Briar!

Sorry, this is long, but it's a great interview (I've only posted about half.) Enjoy!

#philemon chambers #augustus #walker: independence #WIndy #WIndy press #nerds and beyond #calian #tom davidson #seamus kevin fahey #jared padalecki #justin johnson cortez #the harder they fall

[malmuses]

I know it's November 5th so tumblr is a joy circus, but I'm pretty excited about this too!

Who are Heartstopper's new cast members? Come check them out on Nerds & Beyond!

#Heartstopper #Season 2 #alice oseman #casting news #my writing #Nerds and Beyond

[detriterate]

Naram, Orima, and a gift of Salmon

At first, Orima and Naram seemed like an odd couple to me. Not because of their different personalities, but because their different domains. Naram is a great spirit of the ocean and Orima is a great spirit of the deep forest. Their domains don't seem to overlap much, right?

There is vital connection between the oceans and many forests in our world that may be meaningful to the world of Umora: Salmon.

Most species of salmon spend their lives in the ocean, but migrate back to the freshwater streams they were born in to reproduce. This is a one way trip. Even the salmon that are not eaten by predators along the way naturally perish soon after spawning. In doing so, the salmon bring nutrients from the ocean into the forests. Studies have found that salmon are an important source of nitrogen for the forests they spawn in.

In a flashback, we see Naram "driving" the salmon upstream towards The Great Bear, who gladly eats them. This seemed like a kindness for The Great Bear (and it certainly was), but it may have also be a gesture of love by Naram for Orima. Those salmon will help fertilize her forests.

And in return, the salmon get a (comparatively) safe place to begin their lives before migrating to the oceans where they are an important link in the food chain.

You can almost picture it as a metaphorical dance between the ocean and the forest 😊

#Brennan is an animal fact nerd #i wonder if this occurred to him #worlds beyond number #orima #naram #worlds beyond number spoilers #the wizard the witch and the wild one #twtwatwo #wbn pod

[littlecrabbs]

One thing I love about the Black Sails fandom is y’all know how to write a damn textpost. I’ve read some meta commentary from you guys and every single one is thought provoking and makes me obsessed with the show all over again. And hearing everyone share their unique perspective and subtle themes they notice/obsess over brings me joy.

#at heart I’m a literary analysis nerd #so this kind of stuff just makes me beyond happy #not to mention the amazing art and fics and video edits and gifs #y’all are truly amazing #black sails

[bruhstation]

i realise something

casa tidmouth bwba is like the odyssey where thomas, like odysseus, wants to go home but is ping ponged around the world. But instead of losing crewmembers he gains some (ace and nia). Does this make sense

funny you said that junie XD I've had homer's two epics in my reading list for quite some time now! the format of them being poems are a bit challenging for me to process the stories but I managed to get through goethe's faust so I'll just have to believe in myself

and of course!!! of course it does make sense!!! >:] now that you've mentioned it, odysseus and cstm thomas has quite a lot of similarities, from their ever-struggling journey to how they "lost" their people one by one (though like you mentioned thomas does gain new allies). both odysseus and thomas have their respective gods following them (calypso and lady respectively) especially when the fact that there are so many ancient greek myth and legends in the odyssey and how cstm has this reoccuring urban fantasy themes to it...

does this mean that act 1 is "the illiad" while act 2 is "the odyssey"? :0 the illiad focuses on the trojan war (similar to how busy act 1 of cstm is with its worldbuilding and setups to thomas' prime and downfall), while the odyssey is about odysseus' journey way home (similar to how act 2 is more mellow and thomas trying to fix things/pick himself back up while getting thrown all over the place)... oh I gotta pick up the odyssey again!!! then the illiad!!!

now I can just imagine thomas confronting diesel 10 for the umpteenth time and solemnly saying "my name is nobody... nobody I am called by my coworker, coworker, and by all my coworkers..."

#asks #juniebugsss #casa tidmouth #thanks for this ask junie! makes me think #mentioning anything related to classic literature is like opening the floodgates to the extremely nerdy part of me.... (nerd emoji) #what if... percy as penelope ..... lol #telemachus' parts of the story reminds me of journey beyond sodor and misty island rescue where thomas' folks try to rescue him #.... without the slaying of the suitors of course. #btw I looked up the odyssey audiobook on youtube and by jove it's 11 hours long?