Nerd's Corner

I'm just a weirdo who likes random nerdy stuff... Why are you still here? Sorry in advanced for the trash. (Icon art by putridvodka)

[gaylor-moon]

Welp.

[secondbeatsongs]

Hey, real talk though? If you're in the USA, right now you need to call your representatives. 11.8 million people could lose health insurance because of this, as well as a lot of other shit going down, so speak up.

Go to 5calls.org, put in your location, and make the calls. Do it after business hours if you're worried about actually to a person, but do it.

We're running out of chances with this, please please do this now, while it's still possible to stop this.

[antiterf]

To add on why this bill is bad besides millions losing healthcare and likely their lives:

Gender-affirming care funding ban out of budget bill, but it still will devastate LGBTQ+ people

Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more will harm the community.

Cuts to SNAP alongside defunding Planned Parenthood is still on the bill. If you're trans in the states, Planned Parenthood is the one organization around the country that has bare minimum knowledge about your body. Defending it alongside Medecaid (because rural hospitals can be underfunded and shut down) will impact everyone no matter their insurance coverage.

Please contact your reps, specifically your congress rep as the vote goes back to the house

(Date: 7-01-2025

[tittytania]

@secondbeatsongs do you mind if I ask what exactly I'm supposed to say when I call? Its not like I can tell them not to vote for it, because that's already done. Right?

[secondbeatsongs]

As of right now (07/02/2025, 6:45pm ET), the house still needs to vote on it again. So, yes, call your representatives, and tell them to vote no!

[actual-changeling]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

[angel-of-the-moons]

Not my video but YOU GUYS

KHONSHU ON THE DANCEFLOOR AT MEGACON?!

I'M CRYING

[reikomatsuki]

Marc, Steven, and Jake all tearing up the dance floor in unique ways nearby

[ruthyless-deactivated20140511]

when i was younger i had a really bad fear of markiplier when i was going to sleep so my older brother gave me a watch that he set to like 8 hours ahead so that it was always daytime on the watch when i was asleep and he told me it would confuse markiplier and he would think it was daytime and get scared of the sun and leave me alone

[tardis-mind-palace]

Your brother is the best

[elrondbaggins]

Who the fuck changed this from vampires to Markiplier

[aliceinpunderland-blog]

the real question is why I was completely ready to accept that this person had a debilitating childhood fear of Markiplier

[idkwhoiamanymorebutwtf]

Same. I wad like “a little weird, but alright, they’re scared of Markiplier”

[numberonechildheart]

This post used to be about Danny Devito. What happened. How did it change.

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

“Excuse me sir, are you the knight who saved my life?”

Story of a princess falling in love with a knight who is in fact a very strong and beautiful lady

[bidoof]

it’s level 100 and all it knows is pound. that’s great

[bidoof]

oh god i took this photo on a frame while it was blinking that makes it look really sad

[tropius2-deactivated20160313]

You made it feel inadequate

[bidoof]

i’m so sorry…………………..

[jawbone-the-tenth]

[killtheteendream]

we really don’t talk enough about the fact paris hilton’s sex tape opens with a dedication to 9/11???

[ariesmarsinthe3rd]

HUH?

[banana-battery-acid]

So in the Road to El Dorado...

  Does anyone notice how there’s like, the townspeople, then there’s the High Priests but it’s like, where is the Emperor? All of a sudden, two “Gods” come along and take over now all I can think of is the Emperor being on vacation and coming back like

[feenyxblue]

This is the only valid crossover.

[futurismnews]

Amazon workers listen to your Alexa conversations, then mock them

Sometimes, it was their "way of relieving stress."

[carnival-phantasm]

[hellsite-yano]

[rtrixie]

People are really surprised the corporate wiretap they bought actually has someone listening on the other end huh

[theweirdwideweb]

[quasi-normalcy]

Spread this around; remind the world that for every Nazi, there’s an entire train full of sensible people capable of basic moral behaviour. 

[kiilea]

bittersweet 🍭

[bone-and-brawn]

(x)

[evilroachindustrial]

TALON HEALER TALON HEALER TALON HEALER

[imaginesamplified]

Here’s the translation:

TO: F. MCMANAWAY

FROM: T. NGUYEN

DATE: FEBRUARY 21, ____

SUBJECT: CUERVA STRIKE TEAM - LOG RECOVERED

Commander,

New information has surfaced about Captain Cuerva’s missing strike team. My agents have recovered Cuerva’s personal log. The last entry is dated 27 August, at 0430 hours, from Ti Ôtel Lanbi in Port-de-Paix. Transcript below.

SENIOR ANALYST

TRUNG LE NGUYEN

27 August, 0430 hours

Ti Ôtel Lanbi, Port-de-Paix, Haiti

We landed at 2000 hours on 26 August. Tortuga lies across the canal, a dark, rocky shape against the sky. My team bunked down in the hotel, and we planned to cross to the island in the morning. Our orders: to retrieve Jean-Baptiste Augustin, or, failing that, to eliminate him. I still hold out hope to talking sense into him. No one leaves Talon. The organization needs him, now more than ever. All it will take, I’m sure, is the right kind of pressure to make him regret his decision.

At 0200 hours, Pacanowsky left the hotel to purchase supplies and failed to return. Mazzei and Doubleday were dispatched to locate him, and an hour later, there was a knock at my door. The hotel staff delivered a box with my name on it. Inside was a folded letter and Pacanowsky, Mazzei, and Doubleday’s emblems, which looked like they had been torn from their jackets.

Come find me, Cuerva.

I know better than to underestimate Baptiste. I helped train him myself, and he was one of our best. I’ve never known a medic to be such a good shot, and his adaptability to new situations is a rare talent. All of us have seen our fair share of conflict, but Baptiste was built to survive. I swear he has the Devil’s own luck.

I am preparing the rest of the team to move out. Baptiste could be gone by dawn. I don’t know if Pacanowsky, Mazzei, and Doubleday are still alive. All three of them were part of Baptiste’s unit before his desertion, and given their personal inclinations, the odds aren’t in their favor.

If all goes well, everything will be settled and we’ll be on our way home by tonight. Hopefully Baptiste will be among us, playing cards and drinking rum, instead of lying in a shallow island grave.

But either way, I will not fail. It will be done.

D. Cuerva

[reikomatsuki]

Well, here’s more information on it all.

[reikomatsuki]

Where in the world is Sombra?

Apparently somewhere in Haiti? I just opened overwatch on my computer and it looks like a random bunch of code popped up with the Talon symbol and a map of The Caribbean in the background. It looked like it was set somewhere near Port-de Paix. I cant really make out what the fake code says tho. Anyone able to help out who is also on PC? What do you guys think this is for? I’m excited!

[reikomatsuki]

Okay, so I can’t understand a lot of it but what I do understand is that its on June 18 which should be right after the anniversary event or maybe during it. Since its so far out, I can only imagine that it’s gonna be something big. They’re probably going to do a new map or maybe an animated short!

[reikomatsuki]

Where in the world is Sombra?

Apparently somewhere in Haiti? I just opened overwatch on my computer and it looks like a random bunch of code popped up with the Talon symbol and a map of The Caribbean in the background. It looked like it was set somewhere near Port-de Paix. I cant really make out what the fake code says tho. Anyone able to help out who is also on PC? What do you guys think this is for? I’m excited!

[choisissant]

Thank you Maï for the headcanon on discord