Ponderings of Liberated Nerddom

Things of Thought, Random, and Fandom 43, he/him. https://linktr.ee/mearn4d10

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[inkvoices]

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

[inkvoices]

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

[lightningladybug]

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

[inkvoices]

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

[dannnnnnnnnnnnex]

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

[abuelt-unbound]

Tumblr Heritage Tales

[theink-stainedfolk]

NEW STORY IDEA

The Moon Archive

Five years ago, the Zhāomíng Empire executed a man for treason. His name was struck from every record that could be struck. His ashes were never claimed.

When the Emperor of Zhāomíng is found in a sealed chamber with no wound but a sigil burned into his back, the only evidence at the scene is a seal belonging to a man who does not exist. The Imperial Seer Order is ordered to hunt a ghost. The noble houses circle each other like wolves scenting blood in still water. And from the shadow of a private estate, a man in chains is brought back into the light he was told he'd never see again.

He is delivered — shackled, guarded, unbroken — into the hands of the one man he once tried to destroy: Lord Xie Renyan, blind executioner, spymaster of the Scarlet Mirror Guard, the single most feared and most beautiful thing in the Empire. Five years ago, Yeung Kaien believed this man was a serpent wearing court silk. He was wrong about almost everything, except that Renyan would ruin him.

He simply didn't know it would be like this.

As the murder investigation drags noble houses, forgotten heirs, and old debts into the light, Kaien is pulled back into a court that buried him once and would do it again, this time walking one pace behind a man who never asked for his devotion and has never once had to ask for anything. Every step closer to the truth of the Emperor's death draws them both closer to a secret far older than the throne.

The dead do not usually get to choose who they kneel to.

Yeung Kaien is going to choose anyway.

THE CAST

🐺 Yeung Kaien

— The Hound of Truth

He was the Empire's finest inquisitor before he was its most convenient traitor. Reckless, unrelenting, allergic to letting a lie stand undisturbed, the accusation that ended his life five years ago was wrong in its target and right in its instinct, which has never once made the wrongness easier to live with. Officially, he burned on a scaffold. Unofficially, he has spent five years learning exactly how much a man can survive when someone decides he isn't allowed to die yet.

🪷Lord Xie Renyan

— The Crimson Lotus

Blind, and the most dangerous man to ever look directly at you. Renyan commands the Scarlet Mirror Guard with a stillness that unsettles men twice his size, and a silence he has spent a lifetime turning into the sharpest weapon in the Empire. He has never lost, not because he cannot be struck, but because he has never once needed to win quickly. Everyone who has come for him is dead. None of them saw it happen. None of them will get to try twice.

🔥 Zhi Yan

— General

Golden, proud, and photographed by every court gossip as the villain this story is clearly missing. His family lost everything the day the Yeung line rose, a wound he wears like polish. What no one at court has worked out yet is which grudge he's actually nursing, and against whom.

🐍 Liang Wenxu

Quiet. Careful. Perpetually where he shouldn't be, saying less than he knows. The court assumes he serves the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager assumes he's harmless. Kaien is the first person in years Wenxu has let himself almost trust.

⚔️ Jin Yuren

Assigned to guard a dead man and told not to ask questions. Yuren has buried a family to a lie before; he isn't in a hurry to bury his conscience to another one. Where Kaien burns, Yuren holds the line, stubbornly, for as long as his orders let him.

🌙 Lady Suxin

Head of the Imperial Seer Order, publicly commanded to catch the Emperor's killer. She already knows more about how a man can die without dying than anyone else breathing. Whether that makes her the Empire's best hope of solving this — or its oldest, best-kept accomplice — is not a question she plans on answering honestly.

My ♡s: @paeliae-occasionally @drchenquill @wyked-ao3 @the-inkwell-variable @corinneglass @seastarblue @keeping-writing-frosty @olyolyoxenfreewrites @vesanal @orphanheirs @draupadiwrites @oros-ash3s @pheonix358 @1hidden-pages1 @write-with-will

[abuelt-unbound]

GIB ME!

Plz?

[fella-lovin-fella]

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[abuelt-unbound]

Universal Healthcare, UBI, and a 4 Day Workweek!

PUSH UNTIL THEY HAPPEN.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Schism? Schism today?

[langernameohnebedeutung]

🍿

[turuin]

Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card

[mygogglesdosomething]

Schism today

[epersonae]

Actually, let me add some context

There are several groups of traditionalist Catholics that have been pissed since something called Vatican 2, which updated a bunch of practices and official positions, and one group of those is called The Society of Saint Pius X. Their leader was excommunicated in 1988 for making bishops (?) without permission.

Those bishops are now hella old, so they decided to make some more, and the pope said that was automatic excommunication. (excommunication matters both as a matter of theology (sacraments performed aren't valid) and economics (the church stops giving them money, can take back property, etc))

Pope said don't, and they did, and now: schism?????

Apparently they claim not to be sedevacantists ("pope's not valid"), but idek what else you would call this.

Article from the Vatican press office (calling them Lefebvrians is apparently itself a diss, as that is the name of the founder and emphasizes the cult of personality aspect)

Excellent bluesky thread liveblogging the consecration (must be logged in, I think? Screenshots are highlights)

Tl;dr, from the replies to that thread

[dykerory]

once again i have to say that the letter from the vatican makes it very clear that this is a christian hate group. they explicitly reject vatican 2, a series of doctrines meant to update the church's relationship with its body and the rest of the world. When the letter says that SSSX is disagreeing with the church's "understanding of and relationship to judaism", they mean that SSSX believes the antisemitic myth that jews killed jesus and ought to be held responsible for it.

in my opinion, the catholic church does not get credit for this change in policy, as it was only made in 1962 after literal CENTURIES of jewish persecution and oppression. However this is not a "root for the underdog" situation- the schismers are an extremist conservatives and should be called as such.

[abuelt-unbound]

“IT’S SCHISM TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS!”

[laced-in-ruin]

I'm sorry but if I see one more middle aged man complain about how Milly's supergirl is unlikable and obnoxious, I'm going to combust. Shes REAL. She is messy and kind of a bitch and she's hurting but she's also badass and she's TRYING. That's what being a woman is!! I loved her!! I am her!! Guys please.

[inbabylontheywept]

so i made a potpourri with cinnamon and nutmeg and ginger and cloves and orange peel and anise and i have boiled it all day and it smelled so nice i took a sip and the sip was actually wonderful so now i have drunk four cups of potpourri juice and i am only now going to the internet to ask if i am going to Experience The Torments. or if i may have a fifth.

(i cannot quite explain it, but it’s like my entire low i have had a low grade stomachache, and normally i just deal but This Juice helps a little. i am unreasonably fond of it.)

[a-purely-objective-frog]

"I just made herbal tea is it safe to drink" is the most mormon-raised shit I have ever seen.

Fr tho u should be fine, it's normal to enjoy tea, and it doesn't generally lead to The Torments, barring some kind of allergy

[inbabylontheywept]

😔 highly specific and accurate roast

[laced-in-ruin]

"You're not always nice but you're kind. And you're not perfect but you're good,"

Supergirl 2026 CHANGED me, please don't listen to assholes online who tell you not to see it. Especially if you're a girl or a young woman- this movie is for you.

[beardedmrbean]

[treefey]

"I want my media to be historically accurate"

Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?

Oh, you mean you want 100% white people. Even in crowd scenes in port cities. There's a different word for that.

[death-420]

pls god where is the fourth of julie goodbye 2007 hello 2008

[sillysayaka]

dear dire

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

For the Americans, because they’re dealing with so much crap atm and deserve a little something to smile about.

[librarycards]

please i need him to die on 4th of july gaudy as fuck 'america 250' celebration that would be the funniest thing ever i wouldn't even bitch about the fireworks. i wouldn't even do that.

[the-muppet-joker]

Tump dies tonight while giving his speech in the hot hot sun. Like to charge, reblog to cast

[systlin]

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

[ihonestlydontknowwhattocallthis]

InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation

[systlin]

They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.

[systlin]

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

[zagreus]

[tilthat]

TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”

[beggars-opera]

that’s…a pretty good analogy actually

[ti-bae-rius]

US moron came to town

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

And this bitch called it Gucci

[ti-bae-rius]

Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America

[abuelt-unbound]

Yankee Doodle, W T Fuck?

Dancin like ya’s Nasty

Wasted on those Natty Lights

And with the girls got Handsy!

[tilthat]

TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”

[beggars-opera]

that’s…a pretty good analogy actually

[ti-bae-rius]

US moron came to town

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

And this bitch called it Gucci

[ti-bae-rius]

Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America