Just Another Nerd

Benjamin (he/him they/them) 28 Been on the internet too long. Currently dying for the knife. DC, Tolkien, Owl House, Danny Phantom, Yautja, Yughioh, AtLA, MHA, reblogs mostly. I am unable to donate to any campaigns.

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thinking about the time they sent me a seven year old autistic patient to investigate if he was suffering abuse because in every psychological test he kept drawing awful monsters

and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what's on his mind

and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS

turns out the kid just had a special interest in Five Nights at Freddy's

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I pointed at the monster and went "That's Freddy!" and I've never seen a kid that ecstatic in my life

the mom looked at me as if her son and I belonged at the same satanic cult and that's why I knew the names of the demons in his head

I wrote back to psychologist like "I'm not sure how to explain this but looking up five nights at freddys might bring you progress with this patient"

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at some point the nurses realized the autistic children and I were like, Really Vibing

so they decided to highkey just appoint all of them to my day and it took me almost a month to realize that the fact that I kept arriving and finding that all of today’s appointments were autistic children was Not A Coincidence 

anyway this one time there was a kid who was really into christianity but it was like, specifically angels 

so I’m trying to start up a conversation with him and I ask what he’s reading and he goes “do you know what a nephilim is”

and like for one hellish second my soul is suckerpunched out of my body and thrown straight into supernatural-fanfic-on-wattpad hell, and then I reassume control of my flesh prison, ignoring the mental edits of Dean and Castiel making out, and go “Aren’t those the guys who are half human and half angel?”

and the kid was so fucking happy but the mom was staring at me like ‘why are you privy to this bit of occult jesus lore’

and my heathen lesbian of a self just looks at her and goes 

“i love bible”

[xain-russell]

It’s almost like taking an invested interest in what your children enjoy will help you understand them.

[wildflower182]

that addition might be the most savage call out i’ve ever seen

[thekidthesuperkid]

Nobody is doing it like Lois Lane. She's a black belt in karate. She was learning how to shoot guns when she was six. She knows a Kryptonian martial art/meditation technique that normally is very dangerous for humans. She was sneaking around trying to get dirt on megalomaniacs and impressing the chief of the Daily Planet when she was fifteen. She won two Pulitzers. She once made a deal with Luthor to save the Daily Planet and in exchange she would have to kill one story about him anytime he chose, but then when he offered to rescind the deal after she saved his daughter she refused the offer because she was offended he thought she would save someone for the sake of getting out of their deal. Then she double crossed him when he decided to cash in on the deal. On her honeymoon she singlehandedly fought an entire cartel to rescue her husband. When asked what she would be the god of she decided to become the God of Integrity. She jumps off bridges to get a ride to work from Superman. Thee woman of all time <3

[thekidthesuperkid]

She had a professional rivalry with her husband while they were married. She cannot spell. She can learn how to shoot accurately with a weapon she's never seen before on the first try. She regularly intimidates powerful public figures just by the questions she asks at press conferences. Oracle is scared of her. She agreed to marry the head of an international heroin smuggling operation so she could get him and all his business associates on a plane together and beat them all up in a wedding dress. She's bad at cooking.

[sinkingtime]

She also thinks Superman's exercise gear is weaksauce.

[ceruleanheaven]

i love being prevd its like getting a good grade in thoughts

[frizox]

anyway happy pride month to my queer Arabs/queer Muslims

whether you are out or not, whether you are living a life that fully and loudly embraces your identity, whether you have people that support you and that don’t try to twist it with useless religious guilt, whether you have to hide sides of yourself, whether you are coping well with your sexuality being a political talking point that justifies the massacre of our kin - your queerness exists. Your queerness is valid. Your queerness is not something you have to squirm away from in shame.

May you live in light and pride and love

[mutualaidgarden]

🏳️‍🌈Help your Queer black girl out🏳️‍🌈

Really can’t catch a break. Rent is due, my hours at work were cut, and my electric bill is $1,934.80. I’m just trying to keep a roof over my head. I am drowning this month. Just trying to keep my apartment safe and the power on. Any help or shares mean the world to a Queer Black girl right now.

Electric: $0 / $1,934.80

June rent: $300 / $900

CashApp: $Queenloki89

Venmo: Queenloki89

[aelwydyddsrevenge]

Help Us Disabled trans girls make rent?

Hi, my wife and are currently in a bind, she's out of work and my grants have run dry for spring, and we're going to be about $300 usd shy of making rent, which is due in 6 days on the 5th, after which they start making threats about eviction. It's getting really hot out and we're getting tired. Please help us out if you can spare $10 or so? It really adds up. Thank you so much

Venmo: @aelwyd

Cashapp: $quicksilvermoonlight

Paypal: www.paypal.me/aelwydydd

[aelwydyddsrevenge]

$ 100 / 300

2 days left, please help us

[aelwydyddsrevenge]

Tomorrow..

[fatimajpeg]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Nubia for Wonder Woman #34

(by me <3)

[martjaa]

helena, steph & tim 👾

at first i just drew helena but when i see purple i see steph. also i love helena and tim, dc pls bring them back to me

[why-i-love-comics]

Justice League Unlimited #20 (2026) DC Pride variant by Jessica Fong

[depsidase]

[anarchopuppy]

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[rinnirrinnir]

Superbat

[superman-creampieing-batman]

Sucking it right from the source

[rocketsaurus]

Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.

what time do you go to bed? (local time)

7pm or before

8pm

9pm

10pm

11pm

12am

1am

2am or after

it's never consistent

some other time entirely

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!

[kaijuyuri]

star wars fans really just make anything up

[byjove]

I’m not Glup Shitto-ing you. He has a sexstache and everything.

[starwarsheritageposts]

star wars heritage post

[tomthanx]

Happy Pride to Biggs Darklighter

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[anarchistmemedistro]

[coffeecalliope]

A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?

For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.

So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.

TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.

[wheelie-sick]

I saw this video earlier today talking about how Sometimes You Are Not The Person To Do An Intervention and discussed how EDs and addictions thrive on shame. interventions done poorly or from people who don't have that type of relationship can do more harm than good because it just tells the person struggling "your problems are so obvious to everyone around you and you need to hide them better."

interventions are something that need to be done delicately by people who have a close & trusting relationship. they should be done 1 on 1 or in a very small group of people so the person struggling doesn't feel ganged up on.

if you don't have that close & trusting relationship or you can't bring it up delicately then it's best to just not comment. let that person come to you. create a safe environment where the person struggling feels comfortable talking. make space in conversations for them to open up. that is how you help- not by producing more shame.

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