professional nerd

Blogs about art, Interview with the Vampire, Hannibal, X-Men, and other cool things. Professional nerd. Early 30s, ace/mixed/she and her. Sometimes writes fic and meta, and creates other fandom content (see pinned post). Free Palestine!

[brawlingdiscontent]

Welcome to my nerdy blog! I generally post about cool things/art/nature, and some fandoms. Follow the links for shortcuts to my:

Interview with the Vampire (2022) (mainly tag-based):

Silly speculation

All meta (tag)

Select meta (page, described with links)

Photo edits

Fanvids (not mine - just a collection of some great ones)

Hannibal Meta

Cherik Fic (Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr, X-Men First Class) - also check out my ao3 page

[willgrahamscock]

ai could never outdo my beautiful perverted mutuals

[willgrahamscock]

this is because they write with their mind penis and have terrible childhoods and horrible luck, which seems to be the key factor in writing shakespeare level smut

[willgrahamscock]

and english is their 4th language

[willgrahamscock]

#adding mind penis to the rolodex thank u

[design-is-fine]

Acquaintance cards, a variety of calling cards, 1870s-80s. USA. Via dangerousminds. More to see: Mays / flickr. They were used “by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.”

[fongus-the-ninth]

[harrystarks]

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only - LIVE at the Beacon Theatre via RachelLeishman

[delphinidin4]

In all male environments, such as mining camps or navy ships, it was common for men to hold dances, with half the men wearing a patch or some other marker to designate them as the “women” for the evening. (x)

My alma mater, Wilson College, was a women’s college, and I know that they used to do this, too. A lot of the dance events that I go to nowadays there are more women than men, so similar steps are taken to make it easier to find a partner. At contra dances someone brings a bag of pre-tied ties, and women who are acting the part of men in that set wear a tie (it’s really necessary when you switch partners to know that yes, you ARE supposed to have ended up with this person!). At swing dances women often lead other women, and I’ve known a number of men who were learning to follow and would ask other men or women that they knew could lead to lead them. No clothing designation needed there, however. :)

[sartorialadventure]

To clarify: in swing dance, you dance in partners, and that’s usually it. So as long as one of you leads and one follows, you’re fine. And in fact, in swing, they have switched from calling them “men” and “women” to “leads” and “follows”. It’s more complicated in contradance because you are in partners, but those partners also dance with other partners and you keep dancing with more and more people. So it’s often really helpful to have some kind of visual indicator of who is dancing the “men’s part” or the “women’s part”, especially if you’ve got a lot of beginners who might accidentally end up in the wrong place in the dance. Thus the neckties.  :)

[sillystigmata]

The Armand understanders.

[dsmsix]

[dsmsix]

[naamahdarling]

"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

Delainey Hayles, Sheila Atim, and Jacob Anderson at the Vampire Lestat premiere, June 2, 2026 in New York City 💕

(photos by yours truly! 💜)

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[crazykuroneko]

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE | Full Performance & Concert

Full fancam

[flopstat]

i feel like im flying

[kindaorangey]

very soon the entirety of the tumblr dashboard will be consumed by insane people being insufferable over AMC's interview with the vampire. fortunately i am one of those insane people

[phenomenologically]

Guadalupe Maravilla (Salvadoran, b. 1976). "Ancestral Stomach 1," (2021) dried gourd with mixed media. Exhibited at Luhring Augustine "Plus One" (2021).

[catchymemes]

[notkatniss]

peace on earth

[girlrust]

happy pride to my favorite gif in the world