So Much Nerdiness

I'm a huge nerd. I love Disney, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Marvel movies (haven't gotten into the comics yet), Star Wars, Star Trek, and so much more.

[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

[fuckyeahxfactor-blog]

New 'Bootcamp' boyband.

According to sources a new boyband has been formed at Bootcamp with 5 solo contestants thought to be more promising as a group.

The boyband made up of auditionees: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik

(Liam being one of this years re-auditonee’s) The boyband are yet unamed.

Previous groups formed at Bootcamp have usually been doomed from the start and although usually making it through to the live shows don’t go much further. Futureproof, Hope and Miss Frank to name the most well known,

[jasper-rolls]

did anything happen with this

[i-aint-even-bovvered]

i heard they got involved with human trafficking?

[transgang-deactivated20201105]

you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.

[sapphoandvanzetti]

Search and rescue teams do not ask if a hiker was properly equipped and prepared before they go out to look for them. EMTs do not ask if a driver checked their mirrors before they take them to the hospital. Lifeguards do not ask if a swimmer made a mistake by going into a riptide before they dive in after them. Judgement doesn't help anyone, including you, the person doing the judging. Just help people. Just shut the fuck up and help people.

[strawbeb]

it’s not ‘talking to myself’ it’s called a soliloquy you fuck

[saywhatjessie]

#it’s only a soliloquy if it’s in verse #otherwise it’s just a sparkling mental breakdown

[thatdisasterauthor]

The Texas State Aquarium has taught their crow to play connect four and I am DELIGHTED.

[bananonbinary]

why does the texas state aquarium have a crow

[myosotis-secunda]

it works there

[wizardnuke]

not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny

[wizardnuke]

governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies

115 colonists: okay

governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit

governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone

governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post

croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin

everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke

[chotimoti]

[wizardnuke]

hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating

[c3rvida3]

This "tornado siren" is a terrible singer. I don't know how she thinks she's going to lure any sailors to their deaths going WEEEEEOOOOooooOOOOOOoooo. Besides, Kansas is landlocked. Is she stupid?

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[akindplace]

do you guys remember actually socializing on social media instead of seeing ad after ad after ad

[reddherring777]

me: yeah, so one of your most famous works is actually just that commission of a woman that you kept. Honestly, it's less of the piece itself that lead to its fame and more the mystery surrounding it, so I was hoping you could clear that up the decayed corpse of Leonardo Da Vinci that I resurrected: Hai detto che hanno chiamato una tartaruga che combatte il crimine con il mio nome?

[metal-autistic-coven]

Hang on let me translate something real quick

[metal-autistic-coven]

Yeah this is funny

[reddherring777]

[kosmogrl]

year of the horse you know what that means:

staying stuck in place is OUT

running free and doing whatever you want is IN

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

taking naps standing up is also IN

[ssavaart]

Ooh. This is SO GEN X.... hopefully some of you younger ones will get it too.

[honeysucklepink]

I can't believe they left out the most important one...

Things We're Never Gonna Do:

[butterfly-sapphic]

[dittography-direwolf]

I know a lot of people talk about the clearly defined good and evil in Lord of the Rings versus the moral grayness of stuff like Game of Thrones (which is closer to "what shade of black is the morality" a lot of the time), but I think what gets overlooked a lot is that this is not something innate, simple, or unchangeable in LotR. Characters are not simply Good™ and shining with inner light and untouchable by the Evil™, they have to choose to be good. They have to work at it, and one of the most memorable points in the book is when one of them fails at it.

In reality I'd say that the biggest difference between the two, rather than that LotR has defined good and evil, is that LotR shows it as mattering when you choose to be good. It also shows forgiveness and atonement as being possible when you make the wrong decision. GoT meanwhile shows a world where every attempt to be good will only cause more evil and suffering either eventually or immediately, and your every mistake or slip causes horrible irrevocable consequences.

LotR posits that you can choose to be good or choose to be evil, and that either of those matters and is reflected in the actions you take and the effect you have on the world. GoT posits that you may as well be horrible and evil because your actions have the same overall effect and the world will still eventually torment you and kill you all the same.

[arealtrashact]

The first Lost Boy

[vernarchangel]

Yeah, Peter Pan is kinda a little demon child.  Like if you read the actual books this is legit how it goes.

[raimagnolia]

Why did Hook keep growing when all thw other Lost Boys didnt and why did he cut off Hook’s hand

[marithlizard]

@raimagnolia The other Lost Boys did grow; there’s a horrifying little throwaway line in Peter Pan about how Peter sends them on more dangerous missions the older they get, and basically ensures they don’t come back.  

[swimmingblue]

And I think that a good % of the pirate crew is also made up of grown-up lost boys. Like, ones that figured out that they were being sent out to die and noped out.

Since Neverland has a …. variable …. connection to the real world, it’s entirely possible that ordinary people do end up there. This might explain how the native americans and some of the pirates got there.

[werewolveswithagenda]

I think Tumblr will love this

[i-am-shitpost]

For the love of GOD turn the volume on

[the-real-seebs]

every day someone thinks of an art form no one did before

[charminglyantiquated]

that story where you challenge the fairy queen to a match of wit and skill to win back your loved one. and it goes … fine, you think? probably.

adapted from this very short Elsewhere University piece, changed slightly to be a little more self-contained.

other comics//tapastic//patreon//ko-fi

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

Crumple zone - Wikipedia

[librarychair]

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

[foone]

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

[a-teacup-of-golden-cracks]

[elalmadelmar]

I totaled my first car. Like, the car itself just stopped where the windshield met the dashboard. Ahead of that point, there was no more car. It was gone.

Me? I had some really spectacular bruises and a lil friction burn on my nose from where Mr. Airbag and Ms. Glasses had a disagreement. That's it. That's it.

I was driving a little tiny coupe and went more or less head-on with a pickup truck. The entire engine and hood of my car was twisted rubble that was not connected to the rest of the car afterward. I sat down on the verge, about twenty or thirty feet from the accident, while I waited for the cops and EMTs to work their way through the traffic backup to get to us, and found that I was sitting beside one of the headlights of my car. The whole entire headlight, bulb and reflector and cover and frame and all.

All I had were bruises and that little friction burn. That's it.

Crumple zones save lives. So do seatbelts and airbags; half the bruising was the exact shape of my seatbelt in livid crimson and black on my torso. It was and remains the most insanely intense bruising I have ever experienced in my life. BUT IT WAS JUST BRUISING!! Unpleasant, sure, but eminently survivable and didn't even require much treatment beyond not wearing a bra for a few days. But all the force that created that spectacular bruising was force that wasn't flinging me through the windshield or impaling me on the steering column. My car crumpled and crushed and dissolved but it held me safe and secure and protected.

Crumple zones save lives. You do not want your car to look undamaged after the accident, because that means it made like a Newton's Cradle and passed every bit of the impact straight through to your soft and highly crushable body.

[ghiblin]

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) When Marnie Was There (2014) Ocean Waves (1993)