Random Geeking

36, ace, secretly 50 fandoms in a trenchcoat

[mollyscribbles]

but seriously if anyone’s followed me for something specific I should warn you since lockdown started I’ve bounced between about 20 different hyperfixations like a ping-pong ball in a dryer.

edit: okay going through my queue and recent posts it looks like mostly what you need to watch out for is swear words, mild horror, and the occasional reference to sex that doesn’t get more explicit than a condom PSA.  I’ll try to tag anything worse as NSFW, and please let me know if I miss something.

[yujateaandpi]

Having a lot of feelings about Ryland “you don’t even have a dog” Grace to beloved Uncle Grace pipeline.

[sushiisiu]

yes help me!

[mayasynth]

My beautiful unhinged daughter, Mary Elizabeth Frankenstein <3 I know this was not at all how the scene actually went, but humour me

(Pssssst everyone please read Our Hideous Progeny, pleaseee 🙏)

[foone]

My stance on the Loch Ness monster is that it's not real and we should fix that.

[yellowgnomeboots]

Are we making a robot, bioengineering a new creature or trying to Jurassic Park a plesiosaur?

Open to other ideas too of course!

[foone]

All good choices. I say we set up three teams, give each a billion pounds, and then see who has best result after 5 years.

Worst case, we just end up with three Loch Ness Monsters.

[becomingsoup]

hello everyone, hope you enjoy this lab mouse adaptation of Frankenstein; I am completely exhausted

[just-evo-now]

… i saw this without the caption at first and i thought it was a lab mouse desperately trying to fix his friend who had been sacrificed

[tlbodine]

The implications of “what if Frankenstein, but mouse” are vast and deserve careful follow-up and contemplation.

[ceekari]

@kriber

[thoughtsformtheuniverse]

#for real though#what if we were both experimented on and we were nothing but test subjects and you were the only light in my life and I in yours#what if we saw each other through it all#what if we didn’t get to be people what if we didn’t get to determine our own fates what if we were cut into again and again#what if you died and I didn’t – a failed experiment and a successful one – what if you died and the world didn’t end#what if I said no. no. this will not stand.#what if I took all that had been done to us and I did it to others ruthlessly and without hesitation#for the slightest chance I could have you back#what if I treated them like disposable things – like we have always been treated – what if I said they don’t matter#only you do#in exactly the same way you and I have never mattered#what if I refused to let death part us#what if I pieced you back together with the flesh of our kindred and it worked and you lived#what if you were my creature and I was the monster that made you#what if you were my friend and I lost you and I got you back and I lost myself#what if I loved you to the point of atrocity#what if I pulled on the thread holding your body together and did not weep and did not know if the love was enough

#and we were both mice

tags via @aethersea because holy shit

[reconstructwriter]

#in the original book Frankenstein acted from hubris - a man playing God#a man creating life for no other reason than that he could without consideration of the consequences#who ultimately rejected his creation and his responsibility to it because it didn’t live up to some expectation…some standard#that didn’t exist until he finished and it was now no longer a project but a living thing that looked back at him#but here? here with Mouse Frakenstein we have an act borne of Grief#of Love - maybe rage and defiance too#against the humans who did this to them in the first place#who are - functionally - gods to mice#so why not steal the secrets of the gods#and just once…reverse something they did?

I am the last survivor of this laboratory. The lone hold-out among…the experiments. The elders taught us these were curses and damnations Inflicted upon us by the terrible gods who rule this place. There is no rhyme or reason to this torture. They come for you if you are bad. They come for you if you are good. They come for you if you are strange. They come for you if you are normal.

They come and come and come until I live while all of you are dead. By mere chance alone I am alone. I say to you, my dearly departed friends, my family, my loved ones.

I am sorry.

The needle, the thread, the lightning and machine: these are the tools and techniques of the oppressor. For a lab rat to pick them up should be a horror. For rat paws to act as terrible divine hands? You should condemn me a heretic. You would… if you were alive.

Condemn me, spurn me, drive me away…but know I do not do this out of whatever brutality drives the gods. I do this to undo their accursed work! With these tools they have parted us. With these techniques they have cut short lives that ought to have lived – not as the predator does out of hunger or as nature from chance but from sheer bloody-minded brutality. With these techniques, let me give back what was stolen from you. With these tools let me bring us back together.

But not like this.

This was not supposed to happen. I was supposed to bring back, not create. I was supposed to renew friends and family, not make anew a child. My mother’s face looks at me with blank incomprehension. My friend’s voice babbles in a babe’s nonsensical, unlearned language. My mate’s ears perk up and listen with newborn curiosity.

I am sorry.

Truly these are damned tools and techniques. With them I have brought forth a child in a place no child should be brought forth. That I did not mean to matters not. Meaning matters not. I have done this.

It is up to me to make it right.

I am the only one alive who can.

I am sorrier still it comes to this. Flee, my child, while you can. I have taught you all I can. Do not look back. Do not weep for me – I go to join my friends and family.

Forgive me, for bringing you into this world and leaving you all alone.

Parent, you brought life to me with these tools, these techniques. The tools and techniques of demons you said, not gods. But with them you gave me life. With your life, you gave me freedom.

Forgive me, for disturbing your rest, but I give you those same gifts.

[unheavenlycreatures]

one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"

[emeraldcity1900]

Stobotnik is conceptually the funniest ship to ever exist. It’s a gay ship with the villain from sonic the hedgehog and his fruity assistant who was supposed to be a bit charecter until Jim Carrey asked if he could stick his fingers in the other guy’s mouth and oh yeah Jim Carrey is there. Said bit character simped so hard for Jim Carrey that his role was expanded on in the sequels to the point where it becomes an emotional plot point in the climax of the third movie. They’re doomed by the narrative. They’re main goal in life is to kill Dewey from ducktales. there is a good chance that fruity ass assistant man could go mad with grief over losing Jim Carrey to the point of becoming the villain of the fourth movie.

like you can’t make this shit up. It’s fucking beautiful. Jim carrey’s dead cousin is right humanity is a gift.

[emmabirb8]

@mollyscribbles

[mollyscribbles]

I’ve been thinking about Sam Vimes’ boots.  I mean … he likes the soles cardboard-thin, so he can feel the cobblestones; he can tell where he is in the city blindfolded that way.  But Sybil loves her husband and cares about the state of his feet on cold, wet nights, so she buys him nice leather boots.  This is canon.  To allow her husband to indulge his toes would be a tad eccentric, but if Lady Sybil were concerned about being seen as eccentric, she wouldn’t have … well, done anything she’s done, ever.

So one day she presents her husband with a new pair of leather boots.  Sam thanks her warmly, knowing it’s only a gift given out of love, while mentally running through the boot sizes of other members of the Watch to figure out who he hasn’t traded with yet in his size.

Then he tries them on.

The soles are made from glove leather.  Not the thick fireproofed gloves Sybil uses when handling the nippier dragons, either – the kind of leather that’s used for fancy dress gloves and assassins who do the delicate work of dipping darts into poison.

He can feel every cobble under his toasty-warm toes.

It feels like love.

[andallofthemwitches]

No, no, I’m sorry. He is not a masochist. Have you EVER stepped over cobblestones in thin-soled shoes? Ouch, ouch, ouch! She got him sensible boots that actually work. Please.

[mollyscribbles]

. . . did you read Night Watch?

[raven-anime]

The first date was something

[avidcollectorofdust]

Trend i’m noticing looking for books with my little sister

[avidcollectorofdust]

Cannot forget my absolute favorite category of book

[jayalaw]

Great Texas Dragon Race for the literal answer.

[skipppppy]

I was cooking on twitter today

[murdercake]

I hope you got everything you wanted this year. Say, what's that over there behind the desk? One more present: My 2023 Krampus comics.

[arguablysomaya]

the genius of megamind (beyond the obvious genius ofc) is that it's superman parody actually presents a genuinely unsettling depiction of the "hero" that I like wayyy better than "what if superman was evil" or "what if superman was wrong"... it's "what if superman didn't care"

[jessilynallendilla]

I wouldn’t say he “didn’t care” more like he was burnt out

He played the role since he was a child and now is in his what 30s? 40s?

He knew there was never any real danger with Megamind in charge so decided to pursue something that’s a passion and doesn’t come naturally easy to him

but it was still a dick move

[roughentumble]

(via @uwugenides )

[lydiathespiderqueen]

One of the things that always jumped out to me about this reveal is that it implies that Metro Man was also the very first person to recognize that MegaMind wasn’t really evil. He knew his nemesis wouldn’t actually hurt anyone if he won, he knew that this universally reviled pariah never really had any more choice than he did.

The rest of Metro City treats MegaMind like a real, sincere, serious threat once he’s unopposed, and it takes them a while to learn otherwise. But Metro Man? He’s not surprised to see him and Roxanne working together, he doesn’t act like there’s any kind of threat beyond his cover being blown. He wastes no time in coming clean once the cat’s out of the bag. He’s been working with this guy all his life. Besides his own mental health, I get the impression that he also recognized that this would be good for MegaMind too.

I just really love how in a superhero pastiche that asks “Is the villain really so bad, and the hero really so good?” the answer is “no, but that’s okay”. It’s okay that Metro Man isn’t a paragon. It’s okay that he has to take care of himself. It’s okay for him to step down and live his own life. It wouldn’t be okay for him to leave people in danger, but it’s pretty clear he knew he wasn’t doing that.

And it carries to the end. MegaMind becomes the city’s new protector, but it’s clear that he’s still got some issues to work through, and he’s getting help working through them. He’s got a support network, he’s willing to put in the effort, but he’s not the shining paragon Metro Man was believed to be. And he doesn’t NEED to be that paragon. He’s still good. He’s still protecting people. And he’s not alone in it.

God, there’s just so many shitty “Superheroes would have character flaws too, and that’s why they’d actually suck” deconstructions floating around, it’s nice to see a story that acknowledges that no one can live up to that kind of role, but that’s okay!

[silver-tongues-blog]

megamind once again proving to be the best modern superhero movie

[beansprean]

E11 Ideas in no particular order:

Simon the Devious rug pull/reveal

Simon the Devious was behind the documentary all along. He is Greg the camera guy. The documentary was produced by the Daltry Brothers Production Company with thanks to the Toby Daltry Memorial Film Foundation

Outrageous nandermo flirting throughout

Nandermo secret off-camera relationship (we already have canon nandermo QPR I just wanna remind everyone Guillermo is officially in the polycule)

We find out via tv news in the background that Jordan got hit with that sign Nandor threw and he died (no one cares bc they are doing more interesting things)

Nandermo get served by the local Staten Island Chapter of Vampire Vigilantes for operating as superheroes without a permit

"Clip show" where they all watch the documentary

"Clip show" where they all watch the documentary and its full of 'deleted' scenes that we have never seen before (leading to revealed secrets and arguments and confessions and-)

1 hour special that is literally the documentary (with a special guest narrator)

The Guide x Miguel I am so serious

The entire episode is just a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series (seanmaine sitcom?) (life as cravensworth's robinson's monster?)

The house blows up/is destroyed somehow

Colin, as part of the house based on my own personal EV lore, dies or nearly dies bc of this. They get a new house and bury him there and then he pops back up babystyled and the monster has to be his dad now

The monster sacrifices himself to save his dads (noooo!!!!!!!!)

Last scene all the vampires are going into the fancy room to have an orgy and Nandor pokes his head out to say 'arent you coming Guillermo?' and he grins and shrugs at the camera and goes in and thats how it ends

Jenna was there The Whole Time (please god it would be so funny i will die on this hill)

Guillermo dies and Nandor has to turn him anyway

Guillermo dies and Nandor tries to turn him but apparently thats how energy vamps are made whoopsie

Laszlo says "Guillermo" correctly

Red carpet premiere of the documentary with all the fan favorite characters returning as guests

(maybe even including the two Freddies bc it would be very funny. Nandor getting jealous like excuse me step away from Guillermo you had your chance and Freddie is like oh sorry no I'm the other Freddie and Nandor is like o rly hello and Guillermo is like exCUSE ME STEP AWA-)

Red carpet premiere of the documentary with all the fan favorite characters returning as guests that turns out to be a trap set by the Vampiric Council and they all have to fight their way out of that shit again

Red carpet premiere of the documentary that turns out to be a trap set by Batdor and Robllermo to murder a bunch of rich people

Nadja starts an mlm foot pic empire with the monster as her bouncer (dressed in a cute little pimp suit and feathered hat)

Somehow, the Witch's Skin Hat has returned

Guillermo returns to his pre-corporate color palette (greens and browns and reds and patterns pls!!) but its well fitted and non shitty sweaters

All the ghosts of all the people they ever killed/buried at the house rise up and attack (including lisa's severed head), and this somehow leads to Dolly finishing her unfinished business and saying goodbye

The Guide is proud and relieved to see that Nandor is no longer obsessed with her and they are buddies now

She insinuates that he found what he was looking for (in Guillermo). sometimes you hurt every woman in your life because your soulmate is a man

Sean dies (noooooo!!!!!!!!)

Sean gets turned into a vampire

Sean gets turned into a vampire and immediately breaks every rule and also turns Charmaine and somehow manages to take over the entire eastern seaboard and overthrow Tilda Swinton as supreme leader of the Vampiric Council

MAJOR timeskip, like multiple years or even decades. 10 year retrospective post-documentary release?

They recreate the supernatural finale beat for beat, complete with colin in a very bad wig and two covers of "you're dead" back to back to fill up the runtime

Vampire society rises up against the house after the documentary is released and they all die

[wasturbatress]

[raptorific]

If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Based on what I’ve pieced together from the scraps of interview and commentary you can get your hands on, Bill Watterson was apparently the kind of Artist that routinely had conversations with his publishers that went a bit like this:

Bill Watterson: so I’ve got this great idea for a Sunday Color Page!

Newpaper Rep: let’s see it!

Bill Watterson: 😁

Newspaper Rep: Bill

Bill Watterson: beautiful, isn’t it?

Newspaper Rep: Bill, it’s an entire page!

Bill Watterson: needed room for the backgrounds!

Newspaper Rep: so what, you want I tell Charles Shultz we can’t run Peanuts because you want a full page spread?

Bill Watterson: hrmph

Newspaper Rep: Bill, work with me here! you’re referencing, what’s this, Nietzsche? On the funny pages? Nobody’s gonna get this highbrow stuff!

Bill Watterson: I’m not feeling very appreciated here.

Newspaper Rep: Bill we’re the newspaper we don’t have ink in these colors! I am begging you to think a teensy bit smaller!

Bill Watterson: FINE Jesus you people KILL me

Newspaper Rep: and won’t you please reconsider the Hobbes Doll line offer from Mattel?

Bill Watterson: I want you to listen to me very carefully.

Newspaper Rep: mmhmm?

Bill Watterson: Eat shit and die.

Newspaper Rep: Alrighty then this has been productive

[headspace-hotel]

tumblr is, if anything, the Appalachia of social media...easy to get lost, sparsely populated, out of the loop with fast-moving modern trends. Attached to tradition. Close-knit communities. Believe in "talk shit, get hit." Everyone is doing their own thing in their own obscure little holler. Prone to pulling the most inventive turns of phrase you've ever heard out of nowhere. Somebody's always starting a racket. We sometimes repel outsiders with much aggression. Lots of talk about hell and damnation to be found. Everybody tends to forget about us for some reason

[headspace-hotel]

What is pirating media but the moonshining of the internet

[vincent-sinclair-deserved-better]