Nerd Drama

Hello there, it's your residentdork speaking. She's sorry about the mess.

[komaedalovemail]

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

[butterfirefly]

for the uninitiated

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[beardedmrbean]

One more in the W column for Japan.

[supersoftly]

Link for extension :3c

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I think companies with lots of desk workers should install this by default

[rogueddie]

Why does it feel like, as soon as they decided on Joseph Quinn, the Duffers immediately started panicking, like they knew? Like;

"oh shit, oh no, get rid of the nail bat quick, fuck, add more rivalry, come on quick, write stancy or something. he'll improvise another bathroom coming out scene or something just look at- oh god get him away from joe keery. what the hell are they doing? why are they giving each other heart eyes? oh shit, oh fuck"

[eddieeespaghettiiii]

"He made shit too gay, he's gotta go." - the duffer brothers probably

[freakyboyloser]

He's so near and dear to me <3

[chromaticrainarts]

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

[cypherdrgon]

Phm from Adrian's perspective is just what if you were Penelope and Odysseus came home but he also brought a jellyfish and keeps begging you to build a fish tank for the jellyfish and make jellyfish food for the jellyfish and youre an ancient Greek whos never seen a jellyfish and you cant even comprehend how your going to do it but youre going to because if you dont Odysseus may kill himself. And also the jellyfish can do like. Witchcraft.

[zaphoda]

Are you ready to die for the bit, ryan gosling?

[tedisfishing]

funi in my head, stupid in execution. Anyway, happy pride.

[valtsv]

god now i'm really thinking about it. grace + rocky little mermaid "dark fairytale" style au where, after the incident where they both almost died getting off adrian (the planet) and rocky was almost too badly incapacitated by exposure to grace's atmosphere to drag him to safety, rocky ends up developing himself a humanoid body through sheer stubborn engineering ingenuity and some kind of impulsive, highly emotionally driven deal with a devil-type figure who animates the xenonite form rocky has built and gives it life and a way for rocky to transfer his consciousness into it - but with the caveat that he can't be both human and eridian, so if he wants this form he has to accept that he will dissolve into seafoam Die For Real within its confines, and sooner than even an average human lifespan would permit if he doesn't take good care of it. grace is initially overwhelmed by the joy of oh my god, we can actually hold each other like i've always dreamed of, but it's a matter of days of rocky avoiding the subject of when + how he's going to go back to being eridian and clearly suffering from being in an unfamiliar shape that he isn't adapted to for grace to realise that something is very wrong and they need to not only find a way to reverse-engineer a way for rocky to transfer back to his original body but also fix rocky's self-worth if they're going to save him.

[valtsv]

walk with me. okay. if we're going full little mermaid let's say that rocky's had this fear festering in his crystalline brain lattice for years since the adrian (the planet) incident and, once grace's presence is established on erid and keeping him alive has been successful enough that it's not an immediate all-encompassing priority to occupy himself with, it comes back to bear full force as rocky realises that he's going to have to watch grace die from the other side of a glass wall anyway. he's separated (amicably or not, up to you) from adrian (the eridian) due to the revalation of how much they've changed and become incompatible in one another's absence, so grace is all he has left - and there's nobody to temper his anxiety or stop him to consider what an awful, preemptive grief-driven idea this is. so rocky seeks out an old eridian bio-engineer who was exiled many years ago for unethically experimenting on their own kind, long enough ago that most are convinced they're just an urban legend to frighten pebbles with (like rocky was when he first heard the story), and upon finding the sea witch i mean eridian, strikes a deal to enlist their help (because there's no way rocky would let someone else completely take over a project that he has his heart set on for him) to engineer himself a human body so he can be with grace "properly" until the end. even the unethical morally bankrupt bioengineer eridian does warn rocky that it's an irreversible transition (not the gender kind, although there's definitely potential for explorations of gender identity and how the body reflects the way we and others perceive ourselves to be had there), but rocky is adamant that it's what he wants. if it's rocktiz specifically, then either rocky designs his human body and reinvents james ortiz from first principles lightyears away, or maybe he decides to take a look at the person whose voice was recorded to create his speech synthesiser on the hail mary for inspiration + sentimental reasons, and upon finding images of james ortiz on his earth thinking machine decides "yeah he's perfect, i want to look like that" (no real james ortizes were harmed in the making of rocky's suspiciously james ortiz-shaped human avatar). cue the equivalent of the little mermaid taking the potion that splits her tail into legs and barely making it to the surface before her air runs out, but it's rocky stumbling to the biodome in a human form that's rapidly beginning to reject the high-pressure superheated ammonia-rich atmosphere of erid (maybe they coated it in an ultra-thin temporary protective layer of xenonite that rocky's shedding like scales with every step from the moment he transfers himself into it?) and collapsing inside on the beach for grace to find when he wakes up.

[residentdork]

To fully embrace the Little Mermaid narrative elements of mistaken/hidden identity, you could have it that Rocky doesn't know how to talk yet (new body and all)

So from poor Graces point of view a human no Eridian has ever seen before stumbled into his biom and no one has heard from Rocky in a few days. So for at least a little while Grace is both trying to get to know his new overly familiar human roommate, while desperately trying to get the Eridian authorities to find Rocky.

I'm sure Rocky would try to tell him, but poor Rocky is dealing with a lot of new senses right now.

Or to make it sadder if the process is reversible but only for a limited window, human!Rocky could be hiding their identity from Grace in order to make sure Grace can't talk them into reversing it. Que "when the sun sets on the third day" metaphor.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[ds9promenade]

Deep Space Nine 4x3, “The Visitor”

I adore how Benjamin Sisko encourages and nurtures his son’s fledgling writing career, while also ensuring that Jake doesn’t let life pass him by. That’s a tough balance to strike, but you can tell that Benjamin does it and does it well by Jake’s response at the close of this conversation: Ben promises to read and discuss what Jake’s written so far if Jake will just come watch the wormhole with him; Jake says “Deal.” Jake lets Ben read his drafts, and values his father’s insight! Let me tell you, when I was Jake’s age I was secretive af about my writing; I didn’t like my parents to know it existed and I certainly never let them read a word of it. Jake trusts his father, respects his father, because Benjamin does the work to ensure that Jake knows how loved and respected he is.

This exchange is even more poignant when you know which episode of DS9 this is – it’s the one where, just minutes after this conversation, Benjamin is zapped by the warpcore and eventually discovered to be not dead, but lost in subspace. Jake is devastated by the loss of his father, his greatest supporter; and for all the long decades of his life, he is unable to gain closure for his grief because Ben is not dead, but truly, simply, “lost.” Not unlike his father, Jake drifts through the years – unable to make marriage work, scarcely able to write, because the need to help his father who had so often helped him eats at him so intensely.

“It’s life, Jake! You can miss it if you don’t open your eyes” – or if you are too overcome by grief without closure to pursue your own joy. But, spoiler alert for the episode, the love between father and son wins out – at the close of his long life adrift, Jake saves his father and gives them both a second chance to live life together.

Executive producer Ira Steven Behr wrote: “A love stronger than death. Usually that’s romantic love, but for this show, this series, we chose the love between a father and son” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 270.

In her article on DS9′s revolutionary depiction of Black fatherhood, Angelica Jade Bastién writes:

“No series before or since has a portrayed a black father with such complexity, crafting him as a widow, a powerful authority figure, a religious icon, a man whose morals are formed in shades of gray and whose love of his son remained his guiding principle.

…‘The Visitor’ brings to the fore what separates Deep Space Nine from the more widely praised representations of black fatherhood: its continued dedication to revealing the emotional vulnerability of the black family at its center. Throughout ‘The Visitor,’ Sisko and Jake laugh, weep, and reveal just how deep their love goes for one another. Seeing black men cry, grapple with the historical importance of their existence, and remain beautifully, dynamically human is something no other science-fiction series on television has done with such panache.”

[taran-wood-beast]

First Doctor Episodes Be Like

The Doctor: hee hee hoo hoo i have solved your labyrinth puzzlemaster. why just a touch of sulfuric acid and the device is useless Vicki: hey doctor check this out *teaches a moon slug to rollerblade* Barbara: i'm going to overthrow the Pope Ian: *being flayed alive over a bed of hot coals*

[raspberrydee]

can’t believe it’s been 1 whole year since we lost him… fumbling ncuti gatwa will forever be one of the worst things that ever happened in doctor who history i’m so serious. cannot even begin to describe how badly i miss him 💔💔

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

Love that this alien arm is clearly just green bubblewrap. 70s prosthetics I love you

[circular-time]

Classic SF once again betrayed by a clear, static-free signal and a flat digital screen

This is how I remember classic Who and Star Trek, folks, with signal ghosts and scanning lines (but usually with more static/snow)

[sepdet]

Sharing this on my main because it appears from the notes that it's useful for some modern viewers.

You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.

I swear to you, despite classic Who using bubble wrap for years as one of its go-to materials that reflected light in interesting ways, we never realized that's what it was.

[iconuk01]

There's also the fact that in 1975 (when it was first broadcast and I first watched it) though it was in use as an industrial packaging material, bubblewrap was not that common to the average person in the street, especially not kids.

And honestly, for the "looks like warts/alien skin", this really worked.

[taran-wood-beast]

Rating All The Dalek Stories By How Much The Titles Have To Do With The Actual Content

"The Daleks" 10/10 Yep that's them.

"The Dalek Invasion of Earth" 8/10 Just a little marked down because the story isn't about the Invasion per se. That already happened. "The Dalek Occupation of Earth" would be more precise.

"The Chase" 9/10 It is about that but that is also a game show.

"The Daleks' Master Plan" 7/10 They're doing a bunch of stuff in this. The title implies only one plan. Need more clarification.

"Power of the Daleks" 10/10 great double meaning

"The Evil of the Daleks" 7/10 not wrong but also any Dalek story could be called this.

"Day of the Daleks" 5/10 There are at least two different days in play in this story.

"Planet of the Daleks" 3/10 That would be Skaro actually, whereas this takes place on Spiridon

"Death to the Daleks" 6/10 I like the imperative voice here but the story fails to deliver on this intention.

"Genesis of the Daleks" 10/10 That is exactly what happens.

"Destiny of the Daleks" 2/10 bears very little relation to anything going on here. Fundamentally a backward-looking story, and these sleepy ramshackle Daleks don't seem destined for much of anything, frankly.

"Resurrection of the Daleks" 2/10 Really misses the mark. There is a resurrection in this story but it's pretty unambiguously not of the Daleks. "Resurrection of Davros" would be a more accurate title. Or even better "The Resurrection of Davros by the Coward Eric Saward"

"Revelation of the Daleks" 2/10 Once again the verb in the title is fulfilled by Davros, not the Daleks! Sure hope someone got fired for that blunder!

"Remembrance of the Daleks" 4/10 Not much better I'm afraid. It is a nostalgic story so Remembrance is at least vaguely relevant, but it's not really the Daleks either being remembered or doing the remembering.

"Dalek" 10/10. Clean, simple, right on the money. That's a Dalek alright.

"Bad Wolf". 3/10 And we whiff it again. While the phrase "Bad Wolf" is indeed central to the cliffhanger reveal, it's not related to the Daleks, or to anything at all. It's a self-fulfilling tautology. The actual words are irrelevant. Could have been anything.

"The Parting of the Ways" 9/10 now this is more like it. Not only are there multiple partings of ways between multiple characters, every atom in every Dalek parts ways from every other! That's so much parting!

"Doomsday" 6/10 Again points off for vagueness. This could be about anything.

"Daleks in Manhattan" 10/10 There they are!

"Evolution of the Daleks" 8/10 doesn't succeed but that is what they're going for

"The Stolen Earth" 9/10 Yep that happens!

"Journey's End" 4/10 Come on. Literally the only person whose "Journey" Ends is Donna and that of course gets reversed. Vague and inaccurate.

"Victory of the Daleks" 5/10 sure they achieve their stayed goal in this one episode but thats pretty well undermined by the fact that nobody likes these Daleks and they get retconned out of existence within a couple years

"Asylum of the Daleks" 9/10 Straightforward. Only knocking a point off because there doesn't seem to be much mental health care going on here

"Into the Dalek" 10/10 that is what happens!

The Magician's Apprentice 4/10 We're stretching here. Name based on a one-time gag and not related to the Daleks anyway

The Witch's Familiar 6/10 this one is set up better but still isn't about Daleks

"Resolution" 7/10 A New Year's Resolution is made! But it's something the Doctor would have done anyway

"Revolution of the Daleks" 0/10 This is complete nonsense. The Daleks are cops and then the other Daleks come in to be cops to the cop Daleks. Nothing is revolutionary about this. Nothing

"Eve of the Daleks" 9/10 Yeah this one works. It's New Year's Eve and there's Daleks.

Holy shit the last Dalek story is from 2022?