MostlyNerdStuff

Random smattering of FFXIV and geeky things I find entertaining

[wholesomepal]

this one goes out to @broodingandbooks sorry for being too lazy to read thousands of pages before now 

[tksnim]

The Hanged Man card has the meaning of sacrifice, intuition, trial, and wisdom. It’s known for card finding wisdom after the tribulation. Thancred who went through the suffering of the loss of Minfilia and eventually overcome his trial after the battle against Ran’jit may suit well with this card.

This card is one of the visually well know card in tarot card. Usually the tarot card illustration is a person hanging under the tree, yet it does not show well with the story I wanted to tell.  I composed Thancred upside down to keep the idea of The Hanged Man. Instead of tying the character, I tied a ribbon (symbolize Minfilia) on to his gunblades.

[violet-bridgerton]

She would have wanted you to have it.

[ofthewhitewind]

new official art as it appeared in the recent FF14 concert held in Tokyo… 😭

[multibugorganism]

*nods at you like an NPC in a unimportant FFXIV cutscene*

[multibugorganism]

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[supermariomamafucker]

thinking about the time when movie posters and book covers had detailed original paintings made for them compared to what we have now

[katarh-mest]

I agree, but I understand why they've gotten rarer.

Paintings cost a lot of money. For a good quality piece, an author or the publishing house might drop $3000-5000 for the commission and the rights to the final image for the extent of the work's copyright.

Some authors are so well known that they don't need the eye catching image any more, even though their publishing houses could definitely afford it. Looking at you, Nora Roberts!

Still others have found it's just way cheaper to buy the rights to a photo for $100 and then slap some photoshop on it (this is the route I did with my self published book.)

I appreciate when an author insists on having a real painted image - it means they either paid for the commission themselves, or negotiated it with their publishing house because they felt it was important.

[animentality]

Goncharov broke containment.

[broomsticks]

[scrunchie-face]

Tumblr is a better place for getting news actually because you feel the need to check a real source to confirm what you just read, but tweeters just take tweets at face value without any further thought or research

[glitch-h-archive]

We all love chef guichon here on tumblr dot com but i genuinely think this guys reactions make the video like a million times better

[robinade]

"Ok, let's get the grading out of the way. A million out of ten, I would eat it even it were covered in dust in a haunted house in a corner. Fuck me."

[proudtoehaver]

“I was on a strict diet during Episode VIII, and she was like, ‘Kid, get into that fridge and take some chocolate bars. I have many there.’ And I did,” he recalls. “I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it [felt] great.”

-John Boyega on Carrie Fisher

[fuocogo]

This is the Carrie Fisher post of body positivity reblog for a chocolate bar from her fridge

[penandinkprincess]

I love that every year fire departments are like "hey. maybe DON'T fry your turkeys?"

and across the nation, patriots rise up and shout "FUCK YOU" bc surely it'll be fine for THEM

and then start massive grease fires in their backyards

it is my most favorite thanksgiving tradition

[penandinkprincess]

for non-americans who have no idea what I'm talking about, a TON of fire departments and public health people will do annual presentation videos on how deep frying turkeys can go catastrophically bad

and every year, the american public goes "...anyway, where's my propane tank-"

[theroseandthebeast]

[edwad]

now that everyone from twitter has joined tumblr overnight, it's time to lay a couple ground rules:

1. it's not called a "retweet", it's called a "reblog", but if you're REALLY cool, you refer to it as a "rebagel"

2. if someone has fewer followers than you, it is totally fair to call them "irrelevant", but it is actually more stinging to call them "irrelephant"

3. if you see someone irl that you think might have a tumblr, you're supposed to say "i like your shoe laces". the correct response, which any true tumblrite would know by heart, is "thanks, i stole them from the president"

4. there is a particular phenomenon that happens after 12am EST called "nightblogging", and everything after this point is the fault of the australians

5. tumbeasts

[katarh-mest]

The true Tumblr masters are those who have a queue that will last for a week in their absence.

[shallyne]

I bet the star that slapped Feyre was Rhysands Mother and when he laughed his sister just did the most sister thing in the world and slapped him to shut him up

[absolem0]

okay, but can we bother them more please

[keelifallen]

Behold, the stupidest thing I’ve ever drawn

[thehansoloist]

These photos were taken a few seconds apart.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

It’s infuriating how so many women were (and still are) discriminated against for being female

[wanderingchaos]

she also killed and dissected a rabbit so that her peter rabbit would be as ACCURATE as possible. all the magic of countless children’s childhoods was built upon the bones of a single bunny’s sacrifice. how delightful. how horrific. what necromancer could dream of such impact with a single stroke of their blade.

[whetstonefires]

(celebrated children’s fantasist) diana wynne jones said that she once wandered into beatrix potter’s yard by accident as a kid and got chased off because beatrix potter disliked children, which really fits into the rest of this quite neatly