Nerd Trash

41. Male. He/him/his. More gray hair than sense. Almost certainly reading. My main blog is at Nerd Trash. Opinions my own and freely given.

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Here’s a list of my non-Tumblr blogs:

Nerd Trash

Rayguns and Space Suits

Swords, Dragons, and Nerds

My sideblogs:

@laserswordsanddragons

@untitledpoliticalblog

@captainnox

@untitledhistoryblog

@sprunkers

@callthedetective

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Turned 42 yesterday, the nerdiest of numbers

[squooshit]

this is who they trapped in the Black Lodge btw

[slatestarscratchpad]

The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?

Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.

[runcibility]

Eat this orange. It’s full of FuckScurvium.

[filmgifs]

THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) dir. Luc Besson

[junkfoodcinemas]

Ong-Bak (2003) dir. Prachya Pinkaew

[ymutate]

Jamie Wyeth

Twin Houses

1969.

[allelitewrestlings]

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

@maria-the-ghoul

[transdorian]

Drew that one really cvnty picture of Kira and O’Brian.

Like POSE and the OUTFITS like dayum.

Ref picture and speed draw under cut:

[dauen]

miffy's 70th birthday, leeds city museum

[thistoowillpasss]

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[thistoowillpasss]

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[tbposting]

[elfohim]

I LOVE YOU BING BING WAHOO MAN

[lovecrumbss]

sheer fabric in classical art 🏹

[thememedaddy]

[starsinursa]

“The markings upon the band begin to fade. The writing, which at first was as clear as red flame, has all but disappeared… a secret now that only fire can tell.” - The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, 2001

Want to knit this scarf? You can download my free pattern here! :)

[sunlit-capybara]

This is called illusion knitting! Basically, you knit a pattern in 2 color stripes, but then you use the difference between the texture of knits and purls to make a pattern appear at a low angle

When you look at it from the aide, a knit stitch looks flat while a purl stitch looks like a little bump. So if you have a pattern of knits and purls you look at from the side, the knit stitches will fade into the background while the purl stitches will stay visible. You use that effect, while keeping a steady stripe pattern, to create the illusion:

From above: plain stripes because your eye focuses on the colors

From the side: you see the pattern of purl stitches because they stick up above the flatter knit stitches

(Photos source)

And this lets you do some absolutely AMAZING patterns:

Plain stripey shawl becomes a PORTRAIT

Or, like above, a scarf becomes the One Ring

[thefibrarchaeologist]

This is fascinating, thank you for the explanation! I´ve never seen something like it, but I´m also not the most experienced knitter.

[heymerle]

A source for patterns is http://www.illusionknitting.woollythoughts.com/information.html

The main site has all kinds of interesting knitting stuff, but this page is *just* illusion knitting.

[bethany-sensei]

Tell me I can’t possibly be the first person to think of this

[whiskeylover75]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1953. ❤️🥰🌹