The Burned Out Nerd

30s F | Black | Academic, Literature, and Coffee / Tea Vibes | Writing + Books + Video Games

[bandaidsonscabs]

Thank God for black women

[saturnsconstellation]

Men use “I’m just a man” to cheat on their wives. Odysseus uses “I’m just a man” to kill, slay and torture people to get back to HIS wife. They are not the same.

[multifandom-basement]

"I can excuse killing a baby, but I draw the line at cheating"

[garforarts]

Fight little wolf!

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve been thinking on it a bit further and I think that the reason that Nolan’s odyssey has the problems that it does is that it’s afraid to be seen as unserious for even one second.

Like they could’ve and in my opinion should’ve had Zendaya as Athena descend from the heavens in full battle armor but they didn’t. It would’ve been accurate to the original text.

We can’t have anything look rediculous in this movie though I guess. Can’t have a cyclops thinking that a guy is named Nobody. Can’t have a drugged up island of silly lotus eaters that Odysseus has to physically drag his men away from.

Anyways I did mostly enjoy this movie I swear but I wish they’d gotten silly with it even just once.

[argent-x]

This is why epic was so successful imo, he took the source material and made a new and interesting story/musical with it

[artbyblastweave]

How'd I cut back on caffeine? The usual. Diet, discipline. One thing that helped a lot was that I harnessed the void. I tapped into the little incipient void which sits at the heart of every thinking animal, and I fed it. I hatefully nurtured it with every malicious thought, every unkind impulse, every knee-jerk reaction best discarded, and it gorged on these things it metastasized. It swelled past the confines of my heart and fought for space with with my stomach, my liver, my intestines, winning handily, subsuming each in turn, until I was little more than a man-shaped howling wrathful abyss sheathed in taut, paper-thin human hide, wandering through this fallen world in anticipation of whatever fleeting offense finally catalyzes my inevitable rupture and detonation. And now I'm down to two, maybe three cups a day

[academic-vampire]

𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰

[ampersketch-art]

Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i know im just being cranky but the way when i refer to reading/writing on this website virtually everyone assumes im talking about fanfic specifically and exclusively makes me feel so fucking crazyyyyyy

[wizardarchetypes]

i exfoliated so crazy style today that if anyone tries to catch me i'll be like a sea cucumber btw

[wizardarchetypes]

reading ppl's responses to this i'm realizing that while many people know sea cucumbers can expel internal organs to evade predators (not what i meant), far fewer people on this site anyway have had to pick up and move sea cucumbers around. fair. they're slippery was my point.

[bebewrites]

PSA for anyone who uses ingramspark, or anyone you know who does, you now need to opt out to prevent them from selling your books to AI tech companies to train their AI. 🤦‍♀️

[qqchurch]

[joli--coeur]

bad girl vibes. 🤘🏽 Instagram: kokokourtney

[breezybeej]

hey has anyone found a way to act on your desires without opening yourself to failure

[creatingblackcharacters]

Funny how people think racism is only against black people. I worked a case one time where the victim was a white person viciously attacked by black people. This client was literally just walking down the street and ambushed, called anti-white slurs and told to stay out of the neighborhood.

[creatingblackcharacters]

This poor poor white person walking down the street, only to be accosted by the terrifying Blacks donning the hood that strikes terror and anguish into the hearts of all Whites-

[creatingblackcharacters]

I wish y'all put as much energy as y'all do expecting Black people to be the bigger person, into telling antiblack bigots to be better people.

[creatingblackcharacters]

I think it's a... Sign, I suppose, of the comfort of antiblackness, that it's easier to continue to beg Black people for patience, to expect it, feel entitled to it even, than it is to go to your peers and tell them to knock it off. Personally. There's a quote, I wish I could remember it, about the finite-ness of Black Patience. Mm.

[mettaworldpiece]

From his poem “warning”

[creatingblackcharacters]

THANK YOU!!!

[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[justdecadentcollectiondestiny]

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.