all-purpose blog (#1 rennick fanblog until further notice)

most normal Still Wakes the Deep enjoyer / 23 f / likes: cute things, sanrio, nuclear reactors, guns, gore, video games, men with glasses

[lettersfrombeachhead]

INTRODUCTION POST:

born 2002

started this blog way back in my mid-teens because i was really into pirate101 (hence the url) and over the years it's mutated into a general fandom blog for me to obsess over my favorite fictional characters who mean the world to me...

my specialest favorite characters, in—as best i can remember—reverse chronological/most-recent-first order:

David Rennick (Still Wakes the Deep)

Oswald Mandus (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs)

Bishop (Pirate101)

The Major (Hellsing)

Tsunenaga Tamaki (Deadman Wonderland)

George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)

Dr. Umataro Tenma (Astro Boy)

The Medic (Team Fortress 2)

welcome to glasses fetish heaven. um. anyways. i draw fanart and write fic sporadically—art gets posted here and fic goes on AO3 exclusively.

im not a selfshipper but i believe in their beliefs

other non-fandom interests include nuclear reactors, pharmaceutical science, computer programming, spreadsheets, mining machines, hand sewing, embroidery, and writing. my day job is in mechanical/industrial engineering.

[lettersfrombeachhead]

ok tumblr. is it gooner behavior to play exactly 68 minutes of disco elysium and then immediately go look up jean vicquemare x reader on ao3

[dicktowel]

the gang dances 🕺🏻🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻🕺🏻

[pisces-comet]

sunny dancing saturday

[square-enix]

thinking about how when i started disco elysium, i was really lost as to how to get out of the starting room and eventually had to ask friends for help. i was completely bewildered because nobody i asked could explain why i was having so much trouble leaving the room. everyone claimed that the room had a door, but it just looked like an isolated hotel room bounded by a black void to me. i wound up slowly trudging around interacting with everything in the room and eventually died to the ceiling fan. i had been expecting the game to be kind of avant-garde and cerebral, so i kept an open mind and kept trying, desperately hoping to find some profundity in my fruitless search for a door that everyone insisted was there. only later did i learn that the game wasn’t meant to run on a 2011 imac and the door to the room hadn’t rendered

[tanadrin]

Twins reared apart do not exist

The shaky science of genetic determinism

Entry number like fifty in the list of “the hereditarian/race science position is built on shitty science and a ton of academic fraud, and the people who peddle this stuff to you online do not care.”

[bisexualgoth]

my "blood arouses me a normal and not at all perverted amount" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions at the blood donor center that are already answered by the t-shirt

[greypistachio]

Internet sleuths put together Jmail suite, an interactive repository of all available Epstein files to date (including some previously, and sloppily, redacted bits)

since the authorities in charge are... well... (gestures vaguely) some folks on the Internet have taken it upon themselves to make the Epstein files available and accessible to as many people as possible.

in order to do so they have created the Jmail Suite, which allows you to navigate the Epstein e-mails, documents, photos, etc., as if you were logged into his personal accounts

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS JMAIL

the website is a very comprehensive compilation of all the files that people have been able to gain access to. it also offers an incredibly intuitive user experience, since it purposefully mirrors apps we use every day, and it allows you to sort the files by level of redaction, by co-conspirators involved...

tipping my hat to every single mastermind involved in developing this site, which constitutes an example of both EXTRAORDINARY cognitive accessibility and grassroots efforts to fight against corporate secrecy and the DoJ's evident corruption

[melonramune]

2025-11-18

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2024??

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

Yucatec Maya

[lettersfrombeachhead]

found these pinterest posts intended to probably be self-deprecating/mocking but i'm going to actually use all of these in art now this is awesome

[targetedknowledge]

[cryptid-sighting]

[ultrakillblast]

METROPOLIS (2001)

[magnetictapedatastorage]

[freebasegod]

[goregutsguyszine]

Do you like pretty boys covered in blood?

interest check / questions

[bimyheel]

This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit