rae's nerdy things

cecil | 28 | US A place for my nerdy obsessions (mostly SPN and MCU) as well as random stuff I like! Sometimes not safe for work (tagged as NS/FW) Ships you'll find here: Sabriel, Sastiel , and Interwebs. Occasionally Destiel, but that's not often. I don't post hate, and will not tolerate it. Follow/like from my art blog: aerrae

[youzombies]

hi guys!!!

i’m currently not working because of the pandemic & my mental health but i do have some spare time to open up sketch commissions!! i’m not the best / brightest at posing but i’ll do whatever i can to make it worth your while! i’m accepting anything with a minimum of 2 CAD to a maximum of 5 CAD (which is ~ 1.50 USD to ~ 4.15 USD). i currently use paypal!

i work really well with headshots but if you’d like something else, go ahead and dm me! we can talk it out.

[render94]

typewriter!

[theclockworkjudas]

I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout

[silly-jellyghoty]

Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.

[ironwoman359]

My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter

[alwaysabeautifullife]

Another fine instrument to go along with those who play canons

[quitquincyingaround]

so i went to hobbiton and took a picture of my fifty year old copy of the book. no big deal. i mean, it’s in front of bag end, but no big deal.

[graysea]

The Solar System!

bonus Pluto!

[selfloveandsuch-blog]

THIS IS THE PUREST THING EVER

[kissmebluesexyvioletsme]

Uranus rotation has me laughing for like 2 mins now…

[gabedemon]

@chromehoplite

[goodbaby18]

✨Froggy ✨☺️💙

[the-original-b]

Here’s one good thing to come out of 2020:

Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.

And she is freaking GORGEOUS!

As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.

First, and most obvious, her size:

This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill. 

Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.

“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”

Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.

Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you. 

If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.  

To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.

…and it is nothing if not magnificent.

[the-original-b]

I honestly expected like three notes, what happened!?

[milkfreaker]

sue goes by they/them :)

[raesanerd]

Guys I still haven't watched the last four episodes

[donnasweettttttttt]

i love whenever cas is talking to dean on the phone and he makes this face

[donnasweettttttttt]

[radiofaraday]

gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:

the raw panic of hearing about your potential, positive or negative

a weird brand of imposter syndrome where you genuinely think you’ve fluked your way through every success and you’re gonna be Exposed as a Fraud

never having learned how to study and having no idea where to start now that you need to

reading college level books as a kid but being basically illiterate now

dismissing your struggles as irrelevant because other people have it harder and i should be smart enough to handle this

feeling like you’ve lost all control over your life (maybe manifesting into depression, anxiety and disordered eating in a grasp for control over something)

being unable to decide on a career path because you could have had everything, only to watch those opportunities disappear as you fail to commit

[lotrlocked]

Peaking early and feeling like an eternal failure ever since

Remembering what it felt like to be motivated and at the top of your game and you could do ten things at once and cared so much, but now it’s a struggle to keep up with anything

~depression~

~functional depression~ so you feel like you are faking it

Holding a mediocre job and feeling unfulfilled but feeling like you aren’t good enough to do anything else

Being book smart but struggles with social skills and communication with others.

Feeling like you are the worst person on earth for making a mistake or not knowing something

[1000fandoms]

[paint-the-world-purple]

Wow i feel attacked

[koala--bears]

new oc

[just-a-fangirl-in-fandom-world]

[symbrock]

i'm losing my shit at this the delivery is absolutely flawless

[yourdadsghoulfriend]

this has better acting than most movies

[positivexcellence]

You Dropped Something

[queerpride]

hey, if you’re bi/pan/ply and call yourself gay or a lesbian, that’s ok.

if you’re a bi man who reclaims slurs like “fag”, a bi woman who reclaims “dyke”, or a nonbinary person who reclaims either or both, that’s ok.

you’re not hurting anyone by using gay/lesbian as an umbrella term or reclaiming slurs that were historically used against all of us.

we so often have our sexualities erased by bigots in this community that we forget we used to be part of it, under the “gay” and “lesbian” labels. it’s ok to claim your history, you have that right 🏳️‍🌈

[reapercollection]

Pin-up style super heroes by David Talaski-Brown

https://www.instagram.com/davidtalaskidraws/

[thedramaandart]

Sometimes I think about those high res Jupiter pics and then think about Van Gogh and get emotional because it’s like this one, lonely man that didn’t experience an ounce of fame or recognition in his life time had the image of the universe in his head and he didn’t know it.

[thedramaandart]

Jupiter and Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

[aerrae]

Self portrait practice from last night