Incorrigible Nerd

30s, she/her. I am bi and I will defend pansexuals with my battleaxe. 😤 Watch out for hyperfixations both new and old to crop up!

[linguisticparadox]

Look idk what to tell you. I'm bisexual. I have ADHD. I obsess over stupid things. What's not to get.

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[littlestpersimmon]

The Stellagrapher

[soggywarmpockets]

Hey, don't cry; there are audiobooks narrated by the author, okay?

[lilyblisslys]

I hope your vibrator runs out of battery halfway through and that the charger is on the other side of the room. And also that you die

[lilyblisslys]

@janedemonium this just made me laugh so hard I woke up the cat

[dionysiaproductions]

Tumblr should never have given us polls. Everyday I have to see years-old polls cross my dash proudly proclaiming past-me's vote which I now disagree with. Let me change my vote!! I have rethought which Tetris piece is the sexiest.

[ianime0]

Witch Hat Atelier || Qifrey Episode 9

[bearytherehooray]

EVERYNYAN SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JUJI TOMORROW

[boku-no-anime-phase]

Witch Hat Atelier live tweet roundup in case you want to see how I reacted in real time! Spoilers obviously, proceed at your own risk!

Thoughts on the first ~3 volumes

Reaction after vol 4

Reaction to volumes 5-7

Thoughts somewhere around volume 8

Reaction to volume 9

Mid-volume, vol 10

Volume 11 livetweet

Volume 12 livetweet

Volume 13 livetweet

Volume 14 livetweet

To chapter 97 - livetweet

[boku-no-anime-phase]

Every couple of volumes the Witch Hat Atelier manga does something so disturbing and twisted and it really messes me up (in the most complimentary way possible). It's like, "here's a cozy slice of life moment where regular girls are just trying to figure out how to grow up; here's a fun, heart-pounding adventure where the girls do their best and loving adults swoop in to save them right when things are looking bad; and here's a fundamentally unsettling and disturbing moral paradox that makes you question the very ethical foundations both of this fictional world as well as your own, by forcing you to stare unblinking at a situation in which there are no easy answers, no clear moral lines, no heroes or villains, only the desperate struggle for survival and human dignity. There are no answers except for hope and curiosity. By the way, drawing is fun 🥰" and I personally think it's very cool and brave for that

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

my mom is pondering the potential of Qifrey taking dust baths like a bird

[berlynn-wohl]

Me in 2006: I’m still bitter about that

Me in 2016: I’m still salty about that

Me in 2026, probably: I’m still umami about that

[allaark]

Well, are you?. We’re waiting.

[berlynn-wohl]

There’s a lot to be umami about these days.

[shutyourmoustache]

[elvencantation]

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.

[queer-as-city-folk]

The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

[naamahdarling]

I lost a needle I liked in my pincushion so I decided to get a strong magnet and see if I could pull it back out.

I pulled out 68.

I very rarely sew.

This was my grandmother's pincushion. How many were hers?

[autisticnightfury]

Finding a 68 needles in a haystack pincushion

[naamahdarling]

Where you would expect to find needles!

AND YET.

(I jibbled out some more so we are at 71 and I can feel at least two more in there by sweeping the magnet across. Now hunting for my strongest one.)

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

tomato is perfec t size for put needle inside very soft and comfort needle

[featherwurm]

A friend suggested 'a mimic that eats needles' and I got the most vivid mental picture.