nerds only, please

Dr Gingernutsenthusiast's interests lie mainly within the fields of cultural history, anything fiction, and occasionally, hammocks. They currently reside somewhere on the Continent, trying to climb the tower of Academia, although the stairs mostly resemble a slide.

[hydrahowl]

This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[novemberocean]

Peer reviewed tags

[tittled]

grandma ate my fucking pizza

[travelinblues]

So what then, we’re supposed to just walk around now carrying this show in our souls like it’s completely normal ?? It happened and now it’s over and we just have to live with that ??

[boobaloof]

Two stars

[j4ckr4bbits]

[thirdity]

“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”

— Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

[stef458]

Drew them in early autumn??? I dont really like them now beacuse i was drawing them before finishing the book and under the influence of the film.

[s-t-a-r-c-o]

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[ruhaniya]

being obsessed with your partner is so necessary for a healthy relationship. i can’t believe ya’ll made that corny. ego is insane.

[vividciggy]

That was definitely Pyrrha's last cigarette

Bonus:

[vividciggy]

Her Most Serene Highness, Crown Prince Kiriona Gaia, The Saddest Girl in the Whole World! 🖤

[strange-aeons]

Not to be dramatic or anything but waking up with this bug in my bed literally makes life worth living

[strange-aeons]

BUG IN MY BED!!!!

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[odddogs]

(source)

if there's anything i think that's pretty neat about social media it's always going to be how we get glimpses into lives of people all over the world.... and their pets

[odddogs]

(source)

if there's anything i think that's pretty neat about social media it's always going to be how we get glimpses into lives of people all over the world.... and their pets

[brackishwaterr]

now that you mention it, it’s dawned on me suddenly and for no obvious reason that i can’t go on living as i am