Lost in nerdom & I will never leave

Just a place to stalk...I mean *talk* about my obsession. ;)

[memewhore]

[ruffboi-mags]

unmute for the love of god please it's amazing

[moonlightdistractions]

to think I would have just swiped past on mute, therefore not hearing pure unadulterated joy

[j4ckme]

Two years?! I’m in!

[kentishviking]

why not

[texas-bi-lover-deactivated20181]

I’ll try it

[blog-of-what-comes-to-mind]

Eh

[eliyora]

Double your nana, double your yum

[fuckyahumor]

give me luck double banana

[possiblityforjoy-deactivated202]

No fucking joke, I was offered 4 days of film-set marshalling and I told him I was unavailable for one of the days but I could cancel. And he told me he’d potentially found someone else.

I reblogged this.

And not 20 mins later, he came back to me and said if I really want it, let him know now. So fuck. Wow.

[deanpinterester]

kind of unsexy that we live in an economy where so many people have to routinely pretend to like and support mediocre girl power action movies because otherwise if the movie flops then the producers will blame the fact it's female-led rather than the fact it's just a subpar movie

[cyberthot666]

[teethcult]

[nessynoname]

SCIENCE TUMBLR, EXPLAIN!

[kedreeva]

Hello that is a touch lamp and basically it uses something called capacitors to turn off and on. Capacitors in touch lamps store charges and when those charges are altered, they activate an oscillator responsible for turning the lamp off and on.

Humans have what is called body capacitance; we can store tiny electrical charges in our bodies and use them to activate touch sensors (which is why your phone's touch screen works, too, and why it won't work if you're wearing cloth gloves that aren't conductive), for example, altering the charge in a capacitor like the one in this lamp.

The cat doesn't have enough body capacitance to set this lamp off, but it IS conductive enough to relay a human's charge. So when the human makes contact with the conductive bare skin of the cat's nose, their charge travels through the cat to the lamp through their toe bean, activating the lamp. Fur is not conductive, so it won't do it when the human just pets the cat.

[sergle]

like if a drink is gonna taste bad, then I want it to at least Fuck Me Up, and if a drink isn’t gonna fuck me up, then i want it to taste real nice. but you can’t have a drink that both fails to fuck you up, AND fails to taste good. that’s cheating. and that’s beer.

[divasiren84]

Yaaaaaassssss!

[peridotite]

here’s every fair game scene so far 😔✊

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[haratasayuri]

Because i need this in my dashboard

[stolen-ass-name]

[divasiren84]

Because I may need this ish one day.

[tamorapierce]

Lionsgate & ‘Little Women’ Producer Playground Plot Fantasy World With Tamora Pierce’s ‘Tortall Universe’ Series

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Little Women and King Lear producer Playground Entertainment have teamed on a major fantasy project – a television adaptation of Tamora Pierce’s expansive Tortall Uni…

Cross your fingers and swords everyone! I’m thrilled to share this news with you all. Thank you to Playground for this wonderful opportunity to bring my words to life :-) Are you excited to see Tortall in technicolor?

[divasiren84]

I have been wanting this practically my entire life. *SCREAMS INTO THE VOID FOR ETERNITY*

[notallballs]

behold, the first comic I’ve ever drawn! :>

drawn for saso MR1! colouring and bg support from @littleballofspace and @toondoon1010​

(I take art + fic commissions fyi)

DO NOT REPOST

[divasiren84]

Bokuroo is one of my FAVORITE ships, I will Captain these two Captains together until I am DUST. Love this comic, it’s perfect & I want to press it to my bosom in gratitude. <3

[craziiwolf-deactivated20190616]

Don’t make fun of him. He hAS A WEAPON (*ﾟﾛﾟ)

Inspired by this

[kedreeva]

When I say “Fanfiction is free” part of what I’m saying is yes, you did not pay for the thing.

But I saw a comment from someone that made me realize the rest of the intention behind these words is being lost.

Fanfiction is provided for free, but it is not produced for free.

Authors pay their effort, including physical and emotional and mental. Authors pay their time, in planning the story (mental time) and writing the story (physical time). Sometimes it’s less than an hour for something quick and dirty, like askbox prompts. Sometimes it’s years of their lives in epic fic hundreds of thousands of words long. Authors pay additional time to alpha read their own stories, trying to make sure that they’re free of SPAG errors and make sense and sound good. Beta readers pay their time and effort alongside the authors for editing the stories. Authors pay for posting their stories with all of the anxieties that come from allowing their work - which to this point they have invested all of the above - into the public eye because while it has certainly cost them a good amount to produce the story, fandom history has proved that many other people out there enjoy fanfiction, and authors believe that at least someone else will enjoy their story, too.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that it costs the writers a lot of something in order to produce it. A lot has already been paid into a piece of fanfiction by the time it is available for readers to read. The expense of fanfiction creation is, by and large, resting squarely atop the shoulders of writers.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay the cost of creating fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay in anything - not time, not money, not effort, not anything - in order for fanfiction to be created. It’s a donation. It’s a gift. It’s available for you to take or leave, at the expense of someone else.

Writers have, for a very long time, requested donations of one thing as remuneration for everything they put into making fanfiction: comments. Authors have asked, in so many different iterations: “If you have consumed what I have labored and invested in to create and if you have found any enjoyment in it, please tell me, so that I can recharge enough to do this again.” Some of them may recharge on critical comments, but most of us don’t because we’ve already paid everything we want to pay to create the story.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” isn’t just that it doesn’t cost you any money. I am saying “Please respect the time and effort you didn’t have to pay into creating this thing you enjoyed, by respecting the individual creator’s requests.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “be kind to authors, they have paid a lot for this gift they’re sharing with all of us, and they deserve to feel like it was worth it.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t charge authors more time and emotional effort than what they’ve already provided you at no absolute cost.”

I’m not saying any of this to argue. It’s a fact that authors pay into providing fanfiction. They do it for fun. They do it out of love. They do it because they enjoy writing. No one is making them do it. No one is paying them to start or finish the story. That doesn’t mean it’s not WORK. And the only return they get on what they put into the story is the kindness of strangers that invest a little bit back by leaving a nice comment. That is why they stay, that is why they do it again, that is why we have fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t be the one charging authors so much more that they leave.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please keep it that way.”

[sarapsys]

^also applies to other fanworks!

[divasiren84]

I’m not much of an author at this point with 3 completed works (all short smutty things) but every comment I’ve gotten has brightened my *life* considerably!!! If you stop in, please leave some kind words? It can mean EVERYTHING to someone who angsted, cried, sweated, screamed & labored to bring a work of imagination to life. Something so simple as a smiley face would even be awesome!!! So, show some love peeps. It’s appreciated beyond measure. :)

[bisexual-community]

The USA-based Human Rights Campaign is proud to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Bisexual Pride Flag with the Bisexual+ Community around the world. What Do the Colours mean? ❤️ = from the colour of the infamous “Pink Triangles” represents same/similar sex attractions 💜 = where Pink & Blue overlap is a color gradient of different shades of Lavender/Purple representing the possibility of attraction anywhere along the entire gender spectrum 💙 = represents different sex attractions Video Clip courtesy © Human Rights Campaign

[mamalazzer]

So, Disney storyboarded Hercules in live action with dancers. My mind is blown

Source

[divasiren84]

Wow.

[divasiren84]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Star Trek Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Victor Nikiforov/Katsuki Yuri Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuri, Some YoI Cast mentioned Additional Tags: Implied Mpreg, Xenophilia, Anal Sex, Self-Lubrication, Rough Sex, Breeding Kink, Telepathic Bond, Empathic Bond, Alien Biology, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Crossover Summary:

Getting bored with what was supposed to be a dangerous and engaging frontier post. Victor doesn't realize how much his world is about to be overturned by his own capricious nature and an alien's biological imperative.

  This is an excuse for me to write a smutlet of Starfleet Victor x Alien!Yuri -don't think too deeply about it. :)

[ryoubakvra]

me, groaning dramatically: ughhhh there’s barely any content for [very uncommon pairing/very specific characterization pattern i prefer]

friend: you could…. make some yourself?

me: groans louder

[divasiren84]

Me on a daily basis.

[aqueerkettleofish]

British Cops Want to Use AI to Spot Porn—But It Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes

London’s Metropolitan Police believes that its artificial intelligence software will be up to the task of detecting images of child abuse in the next “two to three years.” But, in its current state, the system can’t tell the difference between a photo of a desert and a photo of a naked body.

This just seemed appropriate today.

[ericvilas]

oh please please PLEASE let Tumblr flag this post

[ericvilas]

FUCK YES WE DID IT FOLKS

[hungry-joe]

[sparkles-and-trash]