Geek, through and through

things that make me smile - PeasemealBrose on AO3, and just plain old Brose Pre-AO3

[starlitsecrets]

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

[flavoracle]

Mental Crop Rotation

When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.

[bomberqueen17]

: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season. 

It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.

We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back. 

So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later. 

[highvelocitysandwich]

Positive mental health AND agriculture??!?

*slams reblog button*

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This dark green Spencer was likely made for Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒆.   It was seen again most recently in the 2019 miniseries 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒏, worn by Rose Williams as Charlotte Heywood.   Do you have a favorite costume from the 1995 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒆? Let us know! Bit.ly/RegRom158    

[depsidase]

[victusinveritas]

[adhdemonic]

here's a link to Ember's website, where you can download a high quality version!

https://www.betterthanember.com/

[ufo-offical]

*flies past*

[monamoni]

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[cadaverpilled]

my excessive use of commas and my love of run on sentences is alluring and attractive to my readers

[hollygl125]

Amanda Root + Ciarán Hinds in PERSUASION (1995), dir. Roger Michell

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818).

@pscentral event 49: literature

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[beggars-opera]

I once saw an article put it this way: often "this is problematic" is used to shut down discussion of a thing, by casting a sweeping but vague judgement. But really if used at all it should start a discussion about what the problem is.

[fnordseer5]

galadriel voice "things that were once $5 are now $20"

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[dyslexic-asexual]

Dont censor the captions if you didnt censor the audio!! Captions are a literal description of what is heard! Most autocaptions auto-censor so you need to remember this when you proofread them.

Most "engaging" caption presets are inaccessible. Highlighting/increasing the font size of a word is distracting, and showing only one word at a time is hard to follow. Captions are an accessibility tool not a fun video effect. If your video isnt already engaging... dont sacrifice access for that, it probably wont even work to keep your audience.

Once you have your correct captions script, paste it as the audio description in case people need to go back to it, its just helpful. It can go in the same place as visual description bc you should have that too!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

rip king, truly nobody was doing it for weird sci-fi and fantasy obsessed nerds like you 💔

[redstairs]

I saw this and had to save this image cause I definitely have a few readers like this.

[luncheon-aspic]

??????

[chillyfeetsteak]

i can't get enough of this guy

[recycledmoviecostumes]

I guess I’m a kind of casual fan of your blog- not in terms of my enthusiasm for your work, but in that it is most excellent but I am not a costumer or seamstress of any stripe.

It seems to me that costumes getting reused is not a new trend, but perhaps an increasing one? Around the mid-to-late 90’s, costumes were less frequently new/original and were rented more and more often. Is this at all accurate or just my kind of anecdotal view of a blog whose posts I sometimes miss? Whatever the case I am quite a fan and love what you do!

I am going to say both yes and no! Hear me out!

During the studio era, costumes were reused for extras, with main female characters generally getting a new wardrobe. This wasn't true 100% of the time, especially with B movies that had a smaller budget, or smaller studios that didn't have an in house costume designer, but by and large, you saw gowns made for movie stars in one film reused on secondary characters or extras when they were used again in another.

Today the practice is the same, though not under a studio system. Costumes don't come from an in house costume department, but rather costume houses that rent to any and all studios. But still movies often have new costumes for main characters with extras getting reuses.

Where I feel like I have seen a change - and where I am guessing you have as well - is actually heavily in television miniseries, where there are more and more examples out there of just...almost all of the clothes being reused, main character or not. A great example would be Death Comes to Pemberley or Sanditon.

But, this could also just be normal and not a shift at all! This may have been happening forever! For example, 1960s television shows such as The Virginian seemed to use almost all reused costumes.

Is it possible that it seems like costumes are being reused more because we have instant access to shows? That we can rewind them and watch them over and over? That we're finding more reused costumes in our modern shows simply because our shows are what's on our screen? If we had been able to rewind shows from the 1960s and watch them on demand when they first aired, would we be saying the same thing?

I can't answer this for sure! Comment below with your thoughts!

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