After over 12 years on this website, I'm actually making an intro post. Will wonders ever cease? 😅
Hi! I'm Blake, or just Geek, (they/it/any, surprise me) and I've been a lurker for years but now I'm trying to be a little more social around these parts. This is entirely the fault of Thunderbirds and its wonderful community finally cracking the social anxiety shell. Thanks Thunderfam 🥰
That being said, Thunderbirds isn't the only thing I've loved this much over the years, so there will be plenty of other things to see around here. This is my personal blog so it's like 70% my brain and 30% fandom posting.
I AM AN ADULT PERSON WHO SOMETIMES POSTS ADULT THINGS. I'll generally keep it pretty chill here on the blog, but I will occasionally post content you might not want to see! It'll be flagged and tagged as appropriate, look after yourselves ❤️
Now, onto the blog guide!
COMMON TAGS;
#the geek yaps - personal posts
#the geek writes - fanfics and writing
#the geek draws - art tag
#ask the geek and it may answer - ask tag
#the geek rewatches TAG - my running commentary as I watch Thunderbirds Are Go for the second time
#AU: Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds - the tag for the primary universe I write my Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet fanfic in. Here is the masterpost I made for it!
OC related posts will be tagged as '#OC: [character name/title]' e.g #OC: Larkin Carver-Grey or #OC: Captain Sable. If you're looking for a specific OC of mine you can probably find them searching like this on my blog lol. Same with fics, with links and related posts being tagged as 'Fic: [Name of Fic]'.
CURRENT WORKS;
Lines Left Behind - The chronological beginning of the Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds AU, where several of my OCs are introduced first joining Spectrum, told mainly from the perspective of Captain Sable. Ongoing. Ao3 | Tumblr
dance in yellow, kiss in lilac - Tosia and John go to a party and finally kiss. Oneshot. Ao3 | Tumblr
Errant Fractionality - Tracy Island has to weather a blowout argument that pulls the future of International Rescue into sharp focus, and Gordon thinks it's a good idea to piss off to Brazil for a week with the guy he has a crush on. Ongoing. Ao3 | Tumblr
Unclipped Wings - Scott discovers and rescues a powerful psychic from an abandoned research facility. The consequences are far greater, and much closer to home, than he ever could have predicted. Ongoing. Ao3 | Tumblr
Encore for an Old Song - The Songbird is in custody, and Colonel White must take their measure. They aren't what he's expecting. Oneshot. Ao3 | Tumblr
I Break My Teeth Upon Your Scales - The Virgil Tracy Skyrim Isekai Torment Nexus. Exactly what it says on the tin, with a hefty seasoning of self-insert shipping. Set post-TAG. Ongoing Ao3 | Tumblr
FANDOMS;
Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO (1970), Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Fallout, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Starfield, Mass Effect, Destiny, Baldur's Gate 3, Critical Role, Lord of the Rings, Fire Emblem, Soul Calibur, Zoids
... I think that's all of them? I think that's all of them. For someone who has a negligible online footprint, I've been privately losing it over my hyperfixations for YEARS. Now I'm playing catch-up.
I'll pin and update this post, hopefully regularly. Sometimes I forget things 😅 If you made it this far, by god you're a trooper, thank you for your time! Have a wonderful day ❤️
[VD: A weatherman is giving a report and pointing to a map, saying "feel like temperatures really take a tumble too, because after the storm-" before he is interrupted by the screen going black and then displaying a picture of some baby spinach. He says, "um," then immediately points to the screen and confidently announces, "this is baby spinach." /End VD]
I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.
I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.
I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.
I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.
[ID: Garfield même edited to read: YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO
TO BEING TOXIC OR ABUSIVE AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT YOUR ACTIONS ARE COMING FROM AN INTERNAL STRUGGLE YOU NEED TO IDENTIFY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW YOUR PROBLEMS MAKE YOU TREAT OTHERS. BECOME SELF AWARE. LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT. MAKE THINGS RIGHT BY GETTING HELP AND IMPROVING YOURSELF. DESERVING SYMPATHY AND NEEDING TO CHANGE CAN AND DO COEXIST AT THE SAME TIME. IT IS NEVER A BAD TIME TO BE BETTER.
also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?” and then scream and cut out his mic.
Outer Wilds *definitely* based its astronaut characters on these kinds of transcripts. They’re just so casually ridiculous and bounce off each other in the same ways. The “come now, Buzz, don’t refer to them as big mothers. Give them some scientific name” feels like it came straight from Hornfels talking to Feldspar
I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-
It also forever ruins your relationship with people who enjoy popular ships ESPECIALLY if you find yourself suddenly in a massive fandom.
like if you think a ship that I do believe has over 15,000 works is a RAREPAIR I will personally end your bloodline and destroy all you hold dear. My favorite ship has ELEVEN works on ao3.
getting characters into world-endingly intense codependent queerplatonic relationships is literally what life is all about. it is literally what we were put here on this earth to do
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