#seriously look at this nerd

[sketchy-idiot]

GIDEON GRAVES aka G-Man. Look at him, look at him with your eyeeees!

#this man has a hold on me #he shouldn’t but he does- #seriously look at this nerd #gideon graves #scott pilgrim #scott pilgram vs the world #spvtw fanart #spvtw #gideon graves fanart #seventh evil ex-boyfriend #I made this! isn't that cool?

[crow-in-springtime]

Sorry I didn’t respond to your text, I was having thoughts that can only be communicated through the German expressionist films of the Weimar Republic

#ya girl is back at it again with the film nerd fuckery #rip to my friend who had to listen to me basically recite conrad veidt’s wikipedia page from memory #but seriously those movies are genuinely good #and (personally) history is really hard but there’s a lot of art that I like such as these films #and since they’re old(er) I like to look up and learn about the context in which they were created and voila history starts making sense at #least a bit. and now as a bonus I have fun facts to tell people #german expressionism #weimar republic #weimar cinema #ky’s gallery

[maegalkarven]

Also funny how while Ketheric is my least favorite villain from the Dead Three Chosen, he def is the one I respect the most.

Orin and Gortash are just problem children with behavior issues and delusions of grandeur. Ketheric tho? He just wanted his daughter back.

#bg3 spoilers #ketheric thorm #orin the red #enver gortash #lord gortash #I love both orin and gortash to the death but by the gods they're ridiculous. So hard to take seriously when you know all the details #and durge pre-memory loss was even worse #Who made these losers the leaders? look at them they create horrors and look silly in the process #wdym orin plays with her corpsy-dollies #wdym gortash is such a nerd ketheric sends him some strange stuff his recruits find? #wdym durge speaks LIKE THAT and wrote a whole ass letter to their father bc they got 1(ONE) friend and possibly lover #meanwhile ketheric is the only sane villain #sitting there like in the kindergarden #@bhaal come take your children they're being ridiculous #@bane your chosen is having his unethical experiments on the captives and doesn't clean after. Yes #again. Balthazar complained. #teach him to clean after himself. are you a god of tyranny or what?

[juniaships]

After so many Linguine clones it's honestly refreshing to see a design like Jacob

#i mean seriously #like the past kids movies (cgi at least) be having a nerdy gangly nerd and geeky personality #i know Flynn Rider and Kristoff exists but Kristoff's character pretty much revolved around Anna #jacob actually looks interesting hes buff has a big nose is rougish and actually has personality #and his voice (Karl Urban is god tier) #i hope we see more kiddie films where the human male has a varied body type (whether he be buff or fat NOT treated as a stereotype) #jacob holland #the sea beast #the sea beast 2022 #cartoons #films #animation #character design

[sl33py-g4m3r]

How would one go about making a COMP??

I think it'd be neat to wear and have one irl.

like OG MegaTen COMP.

Or the Samurai coats from SMT IV. They're so cool and I want one so badly.

I really want to play the games~~ Text is quite small sometimes tho. Also for some dumb reason I get so unreasonably upset if the demon negotiation fails....

Got to get used to failure and didn't think I was bad at it, lol.

Also need to be able to read the games cause my low vision self. I wanna play RPGs but the text is usually way too small for me to read sometimes and that makes me sad.

The musics are really good tho ngl. it was the music that got me into megaten as well as touhou project, lol. kicks major ass.

more random note that I've been thinking about; how would you apply the in game alignments to yourself irl?? Tho hopefully for fun and not being dead serious, lol.

Hope I'd be neutral or law cause if it came down to personal freedom and the dog eat dog world that chaos wants, I figure I'd be dead. or is it just more than "survival of the fittest and personal freedom"? law is security and following God, and neutral is what's best for humanity?

sleepy megami tensei and RPG game rant, lol.

#personal #seriously tho #MegaTen #shin megami tensei #SMT #SMT IV #Shin Megami Tensei IV #SMT IV samurai #SMT comp #COMP #am sleepy #and being a megaten nerd #need to start playing the games too tbh #and not get so stupidly upset if demon negotiations fail #the games look so fun!! #only problem would be the text #text is too small for my blind self tho #legally blind #visually impaired #low vision #rpg #rpgs #touhou project #text post #as always I hope i tag stuff correctly

[cienie-isengardu]

Jaster & Tor

For me, one of the most hilarious and no less furious aspects of Jaster Mereel’s treatment in the sources is how he is hailed as the great figure in Mandalorian history that brought back honor between Mandalorian Mercs and all but like, not getting any real development for over two decades. Sure, he got here and there mini encyclopedia entries and some mention in regard to Jango Fett, but never anything truly expanding his characterization beyond the general image of “good” Mandalorian created by tie-in sources - an image I find a pretty bland one compared to retconned “The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett” (in which Jaster Mereel originated from) and Jango Fett: Open Seasons comics series.

This is hilarious, because Tor Vizsla got a personal entry in Fact Files - an article biased as hell but still acknowledging both him as character and his impact on Jango & Mandalorians - and a whole section of Bounty Hunter Code for himself and Death Watch. And though I will forever stand with Jango that the Manifesto doesn’t sound much like him (but I like the idea the Manifesto is based on Tor’s notes just edited by someone to be more reader-friendly), there is like 30 pages expanding history and his person while Jaster is once again reduced to small mention here and there. And look, it is hilarious to me that Vizsla and Death Watch is the Mandalorians that Lucas wanted to keep for The Clone Wars, throwing out of window the supposedly great Jaster Mereel and True Mandalorians without any second thought but good damn, it is so frustrating we can’t get any solid material on him even though Bounty Hunter Code was the perfect opportunity to bring him back, as it would make a perfect sense for Jango to keep Jaster’s notes if not the whole Codex.

It is also frustrating because Tor and Jaster are like the two Mandalorians officially writting down important stuff and apparently both were versed in Mandalorian history & lore and I for one would love to compare their notes to get the feeling of middle-ground and see their ideas from the proper perspective not from biased sources that clearly favores Jaster - even if in JF:OS, after making research and interrogating Jango’s allies, Dooku’s only conclusion was that for Mereel Mandalorians were “merely highly-paid soldiers”. Which is hardly the same as bringing work ethic to your group (not that it does cross out the possibility of having actual moral standards, but it does not automatically mean the same). It is frustrating, because we don’t get that often Mandalorians with literary tendencies - hell, we didn’t get any other Mandalorian like that for years because almost everything is about the oral culture which makes Tor Vizsla and Jaster Mereel’s existence even more hilarious, as the two literature nerds that at some point sit down and write their own input - Tor about history and political goals for new members of Death Watch, Jaster about work ethics for True Mandalorians. And it is even more hilarious than that, because Jango Fett presumably read both works and HE DOESN’T READ BOOKS BECAUSE HE THINKS THEY ARE WASTE OF TIME:

Boba's father didn't read much. "Books? A waste of time," he said. "Read maps, Boba. Instructions. Warnings. Important stuff." [Boba Fett Book 1: The Fight to Survive by Terry Bisson]

#star wars #jaster mereel #tor vizsla #jango fett #mandalorians #death watch #true mandalorians #LOOK FOR ME JASTER AND TOR ARE THE OLD GUARD TYPE OF MANDALORIANS #they may not agree on what it is mean to be mandalorian in modern times #they may hate each other #but both at some point decided to write a fucking book-ish type of work #solely to pass it to other members of their group to uphold standards and ideals they believe in #AND THERE IS JANGO WHO DOESN'T READ BOOKS #and he read dw manifesto as can be seen by his comments #and presumbly read jaster's work either to please his mentor or was forced to do so #WE WERE ROBBED #tor and jaster should get more spotlight in books and comics not just some biased tie-in materials #WE NEED MORE MANDO NERDS WHO WILL SIT DOWN AND WRITE THE IMPORTANT STUFF FOR US #AND TO TORMENT JANGO WITH MORE BOOKS TO READ XDDD #but seriously jaster deserves so much better and it seems my new tradition to write a rant about him once in every year or two lol #tor too deserves better #the only more frustrating thing is how jaster tag is now full of jedi and still barely about him but i guess the poor bastard is really #that unlucky lol

[swan2swan]

Remembering how the comics even ruined the Earth King's character... the feats in that were staggering

#absolutely no one was safe in hindsight #like...how do you even have smellerbee and longshot being alive? #we got some good things out of it specifically mai's aunt and a little more time with her mom #I think she was okay #but it was absolutely not crafted by people who sat down and looked back over the series and said ''okay so what happened offscreen HERE?'' #but seriously they had kuei just go back to his throne like no that man wasn't going back for AGES #also you really missed out on a whole Earth Kingdom Civil War plotline where no one knows where this nerd vanished to #and everyone's vying for succession all five generals are trying to lay claim to the throne #meanwhile the king's over in some fishing village learning what a ''boat'' is #he finally resurfaces after ten years like ''I finally know what everything is!'' and Haru of all people has to leave the throne room #because Aang made up some technicality about how he knew Haru's great-great-grandfather and he was actually the former King's banished bro #so now Haru has TOTAL legitimacy and Aang just pulled his Great Divide maneuver again #Kuei has everything straightened out in a month because of his newfound wisdom #has a daughter and we all know how she turns out #seriously though they just...barely tried

[shorlinesorrows]

I feel like people forget about this too often, so just a reminder that we are in the second year of UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages

(Basic info: A decade to prevent the disappearance of 3,000 languages – UNESCO-IESALC)

#indigenous languages are cool #lanugage preservation and revitalization is cool #looking for resources to support indigenous language speakers and communities around you is cool! #seriously tho if you're not an indigenous lanugage speaker #it's always worth seeing if there's people who are educating about/teaching the indigenous language in your area #and if possible taking a couple classes #some people predict that we could loose around 3000 languages before the turn of the century (nearly half of all spoken languages!!!) #more pessimistic data projections says that it's possible to loose 90% of spoken languages by 2100 #and most would be indigenous #not to be a language nerd on main but this is literally terrifying and we should be doing everything to stop it #language #linguistics #langblr

[thefanciestborrower]

Yeah so this quote was too beautiful for me to just not illustrate it. It gives me feelings okay?

@novorehere this is your fault

#also two out of the three things listed here are very vorish #I see you Innerspace #this is 100% @novorehere’s fault #but I’m not complaining because those alveoli are probably the prettiest things I’ve drawn in a long time #plus I haven’t had a good excuse to do any endo artwork until now so 🤷🏻 #soft vore #safe vore #g/t vore #fandom vore #arts #(keeping those tags just cause stomach lmao) #is it bad that I knew exactly what he was listing and how to draw it before I ever looked for any references? #that’s what I get for being an anatomy nerd lmao #endosoma #endo #innerspace #<—because there’s not really an active fandom and I crave death #no but seriously drawing this made me so happy I can’t even explain it #and um....let’s just say I have an urge to draw my favorite chaotic Innerspace duo oops #them boys just have too much potential oh dear

[portpebble]

I am the world's first Baxter Stockman stan. sorry.

#i think he's cool and has a lot of potential and i wish tmnt iterations would take him more seriously HE'S GOT A LOT GOING FOR HIM IMO #stop making him haha look at the pathetic nerd let him be the mad scientist I know he can be #anyway thank u idw tmnt for the good stockman content so far i appreciate it <33 #baxter stockman #tmnt #pebble ponderings

[stillresolved]

team checkmate is a competent ragtag team of vigilantes that know how to navigate around both law enforcement and criminal gangs

but team checkmate is also those three kids sitting in the same row of seats in detention for the nth time. they are also three kids sitting on the curb of the parking lot waiting for mom to pick them up :'DDD

#dash commentary ( nell. ) #( dash commentary. ) #make that order for three ( nell & alfred & myungdae. ) #quinn called them 'the high school chess club' and I COULDN'T GET THAT OUT OF MY HEAD FJKSLDFJLSDFJSDL :'DDD #bc seriously if the black fang is like the cool punk kids hanging out and ditching school #then team checkmate is literally....the new kid the nerd and the cool outsider form a club but most times it's just them #hanging out in a classroom :'D #and no they're not looking for new members #also cue mcgonagall's movie quote (hp is still trash tho): #'why is it that when something happens it is always u three?' #team checkmate: *looks at each other shrugs* :'D #i also just think about say someone like scolding them for sheer recklessness and it's just #nell panicking myungdae looking vaguely apologetic and alfred being idgaf and iwdia ( i will do it again ) JFKLDSJLKFJDS #JFLSDKJFLSKDJ anyways back to work....i didn't sleep enough so i got my coffee....and some more editing </3 #i PROMISE DRAFTS ARE COMING THO

[soldier-poet-king]

My family does not understand anything at all like.

We're at my grandmother's and we had to walk because the snow was so heavy and dense and the plows haven't gone by yet and so I was feeling cranky and antsy and so I willingly went out and shoveled out their driveway so they can get the car out for church tomorrow and everyone kept popping out being like "are u okay??? U don't have to do this??? [One of the men will do it]" and it's like??? I am doing this WILLINGLY. Sometimes ur just weird and nonverbal and you gotta do something so physically taxing until your body aches and your mind is forced to stop thinking, like some lil Johnny in the 18th century being sent to chop wood, and then I got back in and my Nonno insisted on paying me??? Like I did this for my own sake, don't feel bad, it's not just because he has really bad knees and is 80 yrs old

And they're all surprised that I managed to do it, esp BC it's the wet dense heavy snow and im just?? I am the only person in this extended family who works out??? And yes I'm very short and round around the core and hips but I literally CANNOT lose weight, I have the European peasant farmer gene and everything just immediately converts to muscle even tho I barely eat any protein. The gym bros struggling to bulk want what I have. I look stupid and pathetic and soft but I genuinely AM strong and getting stronger and sometimes I really do just need to go chop wood or whatever and I'm tired of being doubted and questioned and labeled

#franposting #idek what this is sometimes the brain is antsy #and i need this #and no one takes me seriously bc im the academic one #so apparently that precludes me from having mental breakdowns of non speaking and needing to go around and throw heavy things #its the anger and the strength and the sweating until the mind is blank #its physical AND mental dispcline #or rather. my ocd makes the brain so bad im desperate to have control over SOMETHINF #i just wish. my family would take me seriously for once. im just the weird one ig #my arms hurt so good tho #anyone looking for a futch nerd wife /j #but also not... #winter is extra bad and i cant go lie in grass so i really just need to torture myself physically #idk what else. i had more to say #but words arent really back yet #anyway. AHHHHH tldr

[blobbei-art]

Some low effort doodles of Theresia prettied up a little.

This was largely inspired by Professor Layton puzzle solving animations as I’ve been enjoying the thought of this extremely overpowered ripped 2m tall beast goddess casually hanging out and solving puzzles with the Layton gang

#ocs #theresia #doodle #artists on tumblr #original character #oc #let me be cringe by putting my oc into canon. hear me out. i just love how different she is from the layton gang #professor layton and the azran legacy but what if aurora was this tall bitch who could snap your spine like a twig #but she's not here to battle shes here to solve puzzles so shes just looking really intimidating compared to everyone else #shes not actually replacing anyone or has a 'canon' in Professor Layton bc shes way too magic and fantasy to FIT but i like the dynamics #does not take descole seriously and calls him a nerd #gets along splendidly with emmy and they both have little friendly fights and go jogging together #this is part of 'forces myself to doodle more in an attempt to speed up my art process and draw more'

[psychewritesbs]

Dude. Akutami is so stupidly intelligent and cultured. 

This week Gege was like: here, think about the pragmatic and semantic meaning of “mass”, here’s an important hint hidden in the kanji, and now I want you to wonder about how language shapes reality, then here’s some symbolism from the mother of Buddhism--Hinduism, and World Cup 2022 references all while subtly revealing Yuki’s type .

Seriously. I just want him to keep doing what he’s doing.

Jujutsu Kaisen is something else.

#god I love jujutsu kaisen #jjk is not perfect #there is no such thing as perfect #but I love jjk #and I am really looking forward to anything else he writes #seriously #to incorporate depth psychology into jjk the way he does #my inner nerd rejoices

[maideninorange]

this might be a tough one, but... what about 5 birds you really like? doesn't have to be top 5! just SOME birds you like

Ooh! Birdies!

(You all know by now this is less a ranking and more me rambling lol. Also, I talk about animal deaths (in more of a scientific way to be fair) because birds of prey and other fun nature stuff. )

1. American Robins. Which are not actually robins but are a type of thrush we call robins because bird names in North America are a mess lol. I get flocks of these guys coming in and out, throughout all four seasons. They're also very cute little song birds, and can be such funny little guys too lol (My winterberry bush died this year, but one autumn I saw this pair of robins break from the flock gathering and start fighting each other up in the sky before resuming eating berries like nothing ever happened. Absolutely hilarious lol.)

2. Shrikes. Better known as butcher birds, these guys are wicked cool. You see they're carnivorous songbirds, with the exact build of one (sans a sharp beak for obvious reasons). Feet included. So how do they eat their prey, you ask? By impaling them on thorns and other sharp objects! They're cute songbirds, just to make that clear. Have fun! (They're more common outside of the Americas though, so that's a bummer. We got Loggerheads and Great Greys though, but I haven't seen any lol.)

3. Cowbirds. Or really, any sort of brood parasite. Cowbirds are here because their my resident brood parasite. I find it utterly fascinating on just a scientific, evolutionary level just how these guys evolved (as well as how their targets evolve in turn), like how do their young learn all this from a nest that isn't theirs? (Actually I do know some answers for cowbirds, but if I were to ramble we'd be here all day.) What makes cowbirds unique compared to others like common cuckoos and whydahs is that they are actually generalists when it comes to targets. Most brood parasites are specialists, only targeting one species (with common cuckoos being a really interesting case in this, but again, we'd be here all day). Cowbirds (with one exception) target pretty much anything that builds a cup-sized nest. It's really really fascinating, in that kind of cruel, bizarre way nature tends to be (and I haven't even got to touch on the mafia with my resident brown-heads).

4. Swans. They're dicks. Graceful dicks, but still dicks. And yet, it is in that dickery I find fascinating. Like, did you know swan wings are strong enough to break bones? Well they can! But there are such things as Trumpeter Swans, which well, sound like trumpets. It's cute and weirdly endearing in its own way, at least to me (although to be fair Trumpeters are calmer than Mutes so there's that. Also unlike Mutes, they are native to North America, so I hope I might see one one day). Also cygnets are utterly adorable, even with the knowledge they grow up to be nasty swans lol.

4. Wood ducks. Haven't seen these guys either, but they absolutely fascinate me. They nest in tree cavities, so what tends to happen once the eggs hatch is that the mother duck has to coax her ducklings out into this leap of faith (that actually isn't usually much of ones because small ducklings and laws of physics bullshit I can't remember)! It's incredible! They're also gorgeous birds, and the males sound like kazoos! (Playing clips of females making a typical (if not like a Mallard's at all) duck quack, and following it with the male's kazoo squack to friends and relatives is a fun one. Try it if you know what I'm talking about lol.)

And those are my five birds to talk about at the moment. It was a bit tough, but I think that's more because I didn't get to gush over too many various birds of prey (like owls). Feel free to send in any bird asks if you got any fyi! It's fun!

#about maiden #maiden is a bird nerd #birds #american robin #shrike #brown headed cowbird #swans #wood duck #in case you haven't noticed #I quite like the more horrific side of nature lol #I think it comes from a ''Nature is beautiful even in its cruelty'' mindset #or maybe I'm secretly a horror nerd lol #(though that's probably the case going by my fics) #(oh well) #(though seriously brood parasites are utterly fascinating ( #(please look them up if you aren't squeamish) #(because it does get nasty) #(though I totally get it) #(animal abuse is actually a huge trigger of mine) #(as well as animal death when it isn't in nature aka caused by another animal or through other natural means) #(my brain is weird lol) #(but it is my brain) #(and the cruelties of brood parasites are definitely a part of natural) #(sorry this last little ramble turned into a tangent lol)

[chaunceydollz]

I think my dinosaur hyper-fixation is coming back..

#me looking at The Isle #and path of titans #and ya’ll know damn well I’m getting the new ark😏 #but seriously I legit started drawing bc of my love of dinosaurs #I was such a little dinosaur fact nerd😭 #random #gaming wishlist #the isle #path of titans #ark ascended #non sims