Tales From The Dork Side

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[dorksidefiker]

My commission is done!

Rendered by the wonderful Miuwu on twitter, and worth every penny!

[blitzy-blitzwing]

Wanna take a crack at Macabre?

So many cool OCs. 🤩

[taiturner]

—FROM, 4x07 "Best Laid Plans"

[sgt-dignam]

FROM | 4.06 - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

From time to time, whenever a fan would write Vincent Price a fan letter, and if they ask for an autographed photo and if he didn't have any photos available to sign, he would often do a little sketch or self portrait of himself and then sign the artwork.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[hayleywilliamsfan84]

i keep laughing at the way that eridian culture in the movie and eridian culture in the book are not contradictory at all, if you accept that movie rocky is just a total FREAK

grace: boy i sure can't wait to meet other eridians haha! rocky, putting on a shirt for the first time in four years: rocky has something to tell grace but does grace promise not to be mad, question?

[specialagentartemis]

Consider also the opposite:

Grace: Hey, uh, Rocky…

Rocky: You have a question, Grace my best friend Grace?

Grace: yeah. um. Why does everyone else wear clothes and you. Don’t.

Rocky: oh. That’s because they’re mostly from 🎵🎵🎵 and people are weird about clothes there.

Grace: what

Rocky: in 🎵🎵🎵 they think it’s wrong to have your carapace uncovered in public. Which is stupid. It’s a CARAPACE who cares if your carapace is out. We all have one. My country understands this. I can’t help it if the space program was primarily organized by the 🎵🎵🎵 government because they’re the ones with power and resources so everyone who works at the space elevator thinks they need to wear clothes even when they don’t actually have to.

Grace: Rocky are you a nudist

Rocky: don’t know word. I’m 🎶🎵🎶 and also the Savior of Erid so the 🎵🎵🎵 guys can’t tell me I have to wear a shirt anymore. SUCK IT

(Meanwhile a significant chunk of Erid is going NOOOO THE GUY FROM THE NUDIST COUNTRY WAS THE ONE TO MAKE FIRST CONTACT??? While Rocky is like #FreeTheNipple and no one’s allowed to argue because he’s Savior of Erid)

[dorksidefiker]

My commission is done!

Rendered by the wonderful Miuwu on twitter, and worth every penny!

[dduane]

Artemis II Is Competency Porn and We Are Starving For It

girls will be like i needed this and it's just four nerds in space.

This is worth reading.

[cleverclara]

“Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson’s research tells us that emotions like awe and wonder do not just feel good in the moment. They literally broaden our thinking and build long-term psychological resilience. People who regularly experience awe are more creative, more connected, and less susceptible to the feeling that everything is about to fall apart. Awe is a biological reset button, and four humans went to the moon and pushed it for all of us, and your body knew what to do with that before you maybe had words for it.”

[shirleycarlton]

"Here’s what happened. Four humans got into a rocket and went to the moon, farther from Earth than any humans have ever traveled in the history of our species. And they were so good at it, so genuinely moved by it, and so articulate about what they were seeing and feeling, that millions of people who have been running on anxiety and dread for the last eleven years just stopped for a moment and finally exhaled."

[audacityinblack]

@karthonic

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Jarvis Pym -

Get Smart; Is This Trip Necessary? (1969)

[decepti-thots]

† (religion) rodimus!

I think that Nyon developed a kind of folk-religion approach to the wider Cybertronian religious stuff around Primus; one based on a lot of comparatively 'informal' beliefs about it, less based on written texts and views endorsed by religious authorities, and which were more idiosyncratic to layperson believers from that place who developed it into a version of the religion that spoke to them.

And I think this is where Rodimus' obsession with the Knights comes in. They're not formally acknowledged #Official parts of Primus-related religion, they're folk heroes who have been incorporated into day-to-day worship in the way that, say, many Christian saints are in some forms of Christianity. If there is an organized Primal church, they're mad about it! But Rodimus came of age in a society that was imploding that was desperate for a view of society that said don't worry, one day this will all go back to how it used to be, and the idea of very real, very non-abstract people who might one day return and Fix Things was understandably appealing in that context. He's religious but he cares less about Primus as a creator god compared to caring about the idea of those who are supposedly chosen who can bring society back to an imagined better time in a very grounded way.

For this reason, he knows a lot of Knights-related stories that more 'formally' religious people like Cyclonus have never heard of. He's one of the only people alive now who knows a lot of them, because many were specific to Nyon. Sometimes he says stuff and Drift is like 'huh? i've never heard of that' and Rodimus is kind of cagey about explaining it even though he knows Drift really is interested, because it feels very private and even sort of embarrassing. And a lot of those stories are much weirder and less 'elevated' than most religious stuff! I am thinking here of stuff like the Infancy Gospels in Christianity; stuff that is very offensive to formally religiously educated folks that proliferates in religious communities nonetheless because it is grounded and speaks to their questions about faith in a day to day context.

Rodimus is for this reason a very strong believer in Primes as religious figures. He feels very very defensive about almost but not quite having become one. It's an odd place to be for someone like him.

[occudo]

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

inspired by @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

[dataglitch]

I LIVE!!! I've been busy so here's some of the photocards done for TFCON LA! <3 Getting more stuff done soon, need to catch up on things uwu

[flowerprintundies]

gone fishin'

[curiousmadhouse]

SEEKERS!!! Did another redesign, think I'm finally happy with this one. I took a lot of inspiration from the Starscream kuro figure and the idw comics. Also trying out some new rendering techniques.

My evil airplanes :,)

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[lawbreaker13]

Memes are eternal and this is PHENOMENAL

[kellydeal]

There’s a new litter of coyote pups hanging out in the Graceland cemetery in Chicago. They are learning how to coyote.

Sound on!