Nerd Shit

Hey, My name's MidnightQuill, I write, draw, post and re blog nerd shit. Enjoy.

[anti-terf-posts]

my mum just called "scrolling on Tumblr" "scrumbling"

[ashen-vulture]

we should consider that your mum is correct

[anti-terf-posts]

there's been a couple of people who agreed that it should catch on and become a word, so maybe you're right 🤔

[viscerawizard]

just scrumbled past this

[the-gnomish-bastard]

Been scrumbling for a while. Glad I saw this.

[taxidermychrist-deactivated2025]

*covered in blood & in visible distress* i just need to write a list

[neon-ufo]

life has many doors, ed-boy

[all-pacas]

i have a lot of feelings and thoughts about coelacanths today

[all-pacas]

like… they’re blue

you have this mysterious fish that  no one really cared about, because everyone assumed they’d gone extinct with the dinosaurs. an interesting footnote, but one of many, many fossil species. 

and later the coelacanth gets some fame as a so-called “missing link” species, a theory which is now outdated (and not accurate for coelacanths) but was really influential at the time. because they have some weird biological quirks – bones in fins! – people were like “oh, they must be a missing link.” so the coelacanth was launched into some fame with the theory of evolution. it got brought up a lot. drawn in old textbooks as proof.

and then a fisherman finds a weird fish off the coast of south africa and calls a local fish expert who had let it be known she was interested in weird finds, and he brings her the (unfortunately badly rotted) corpse and she’s like “well, this is sure weird,” and sends off the bones to other experts, who start to quietly freak out, and rush to south africa, and rewards are offered for another one, any other one, and a few years later one is caught and frozen before rotting.

and it’s this incredible discovery, this extinct creature come to life (the prehistoric coelacanth lived in swamps and marshes in south america; these now are deep ocean fish in and around the indian ocean, but it’s still recognizably the same species)!

but it’s also blue.

not like, muddy blue, or tumblr-default-background blue.

proper shimmering sapphire blue and white. almost turquoise in some lights. this like… muddy, fossil creature. always drawn in dinosaur browns and grays. and it’s alive and it’s blue. just imagine being the scientist who opened that crate to this creature for the first time. you’re already excited, you’ve known about this fish for decades, you thought it was a story, you know it’s in this box. you expect  to see the weird fins and the strange tail. you know it’s large and odd looking. and you open it up and it’s this beautiful, shining blue, you know?

[all-pacas]

[img described: a coelacanth. it is blue.]

[wolfythewitch]

Goddess of the harvest

[marshiroart]

goth fluttershy & punk rarity 🦋💎

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

fursona that's just a school of fish to represent being plural

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

you get it

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

tag yourself

[gsirvitor]

[fans4wga]

[wiselwisel]

Las leyes de la física son inquebrantables.

[detrout]

[i-am-corbin-dallas]

This is legitimately the funniest thing ive ever seen

[hashtagloveloses]

NEW UNION JUST DROPPED

LET'S GOOOOOOO

[memewhore]

[thesixthstar]

I am having such a blast on my dash today with all this Mole Interest, I’m queueing some stuff up for next year and I hope that you all do too, so we can have Annual Mole Interest. Please consider my humble proposal:

[songofsaraneth]

every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one

[foreveriallyzombified]

btw i found a lot of people who work private security literally fully think they’re cops. it’s really funny and sometimes disturbing

[foreveriallyzombified]

[catchymemes]

[gyossefka]

“Eyes” by Karl Sisson.