Oh Such A Nerd

Theology, Nerdery, Community.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

[ancient-debris]

Angel of War, angular and strange, gleaming silver and gold, Angel of Wonder, pure and one-eyed, looking to stars new and old, Angel of Harvest, simple and hidden, bring nature's sweetness to all, Angel of Health, mysterious and fine, beacon when life starts to fall, Angel of the Deep, crooked and cage-like, guide us across the sea, Angel of Solace, protect us from evil, lead us to where we are free.

[omnybus]

Was inspired by the previous post a while back, and had been working on this on and off for a long while.

You can see the full-resolution versions on My Patreon.

[accursed-worm]

@rondoel

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

So we're all gonna let the new Harry Potter show die on the vine, right? No hatewatching. No thinkpieces. No videos about how bad it is. Deprive it of oxygen and let it wither away unremarked-upon and unprofitable; make HBO lose their entire investment and prove to the corporate entertainment sphere that the entire IP is poison. And spend that time doing something that brings you joy instead.

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[cruxiu]

45 year-old man, Chad Michael Watts, attacked a group of children protesting ICE in #Texas while wearing a read MAGA hat. The youth bravely fought back and defended themselves.

The far-Right carries out violence in support of Trump and threatens our freedom, our children and working-class communities everywhere.

[jdfeny]

Silly fascist

[kamreadsandrecs]

It’s official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 user

[itberice]

Some top-line statistics from the study:

– 92% of respondents reported feeling somewhat to very “calm / peaceful” after visiting the Library – 74% of respondents reported that their library use positively affects how equipped they feel to cope with the world – 90% of respondents reported that their Library use positively affects how much they love to learn new things – 88% of respondents reported that their Library use has supported their personal growth

[luxiomahariel]

a trans man talking about the fact that he has a uterus and needs access to reproductive healthcare is not him saying that he is a woman. why the fuck are yall acting like having a uterus = being a woman. deeply transphobic fucking behavior.

[thestuffedalligator]

"Um," said the fairy. "Choose something else."

Rosamund hesitated. It was, she had to admit, the first time she had ever been given a wish, so she wasn't an expert with this sort of thing, but she felt that this was not part of the typical script. "Sorry," she said. "Is that not allowed?"

The fairy grimaced. When it spoke, its voice came out pained and stressed. "Y-y-y-e-e-e-no," it sighed at last, dragonfly wings sagging. "No, technically no, it's not not allowed, but-" It suddenly brightened. "How about gold? Can't go wrong with gold. Gold's a good wish."

Rosamund frowned. This was really not going the way she expected at all. "Excuse me-"

"Beauty, that's a good one too, beauty's always popular," it went on. "And if there's a ball nearby tonight I can probably-"

"Excuse me!"

The wand was twiddled in chitinous fingers. "Right," the fairy said, sounding scolded. "Sorry, it's just..." Its voice trailed off.

Her grandmother's clock chimed midnight from the mantelpiece.

Then - "I'm sorry," it said, not daring to look up, "I know it's not fair, but - you know what I am. You know what we do to wishes. If you wished for wealth I'd have to turn your hair into silver, so you’d have to tear every strand out of your head before you could spend it. We can't help it. It's what we do. The cost of a wish is that you get what you want, but you don't get it the easy way.

"So if you wish for a child, it'll be - strange. Twisted, somehow. Made of pine or marzipan or have the head of a hedgehog. That's the cost of a wish-child; you'll get the child you wished for, but it'll never be - right."

Rosamund waited to see if there was anything else. She felt a sting to her pride when she realized there wasn't. "Is that all?" she said. "I wouldn't care what I got-"

"You all say that," the fairy said. "You all say you wouldn't care what you got. You all say it, and you really believe it, until the neighbours sneer at you and your hedgehog child for too long, or your back aches because your thumb-high child can't help you in the fields, or your pine child kicks and bites and won't obey, and then you think, 'This isn't the way it was supposed to be,' and then..."

The fairy stopped and looked into Rosamund’s eyes. It was a beautiful thing, all glittering carapace and iridescent wings, but just for an instant it looked terribly, terribly old.

"I'm sorry," it said. "But I'm tired of making unloved children."

[caffeinewitchcraft]

That hit my hurt like a freight train, what an amazing perspective

Of course now I want Rosamund, realizing that there are already children out in the world ready tk be loved, to go out on a quest to find them and makes the fairy come along with her as a guide by refusing to change her wish unless they help her find them all. And then at the end, after she has gathered all her wonderful and unique and, yes, strange children, she wishes for a big house they can all live in

And the fae grants it with a twist - they may all live there but the fae will live alongside them and the house will always be little strange with expanding rooms and extra seats at the table for uninvited guests who almost always become one of Rosamund's children too

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not gonna platform this idiot but I saw somebody reblog a post from a radfem I think by accident. But the post claimed that men who hire prostitutes are “rapists who buy their victims silence”

I don’t think I need to explain to y’all why this is wrong but in case I do, buying a service from someone and following their rules as a client is not a breech of consent.

A lot of the danger that comes from being a prostitute has to do with its illegality. If a client breaks the rules and the service provider can’t file a complaint without risking imprisonment of themselves and/or their client, that’s not a safe work environment.

The idea that nobody would willingly sell sexual services unless they’re desperate is just false. There’s also a lot of other jobs people do when they’re desperate and they don’t like doing. For me it was working retail.

The difference between me pretending to be happy for clientele while working retail and someone pretending to be happy while selling sexual services to clients is that while I was working retail I at least theoretically had sick leave, health insurance, and a way to file a complaint if a customer assaulted me.

Sex work isn’t inherently any more degrading or miserable than any other kind of work. The issue is the lack of protection and workers rights.

[kaydeefalls]

When your hamster shoves an entire stick of zucchini in his cheek and then goes about his day. 🤣

[rattle-my-stars]

[frnkieroismydaddy]

“He’s not going to fit that in his cheek.”

“Oh, he’s chewing it, it’ll be smaller.”

“He can’t possibly-”

“shit, I guess he can.”

[supreme-leader-stoat]

IT’S AS BIG AS HE IS

[secularsasquatch]

Voting should be mandatory like in Australia with ranked choices.

[sharxxybaitxdd]

my hottest take apparently

if you’re muslim, i love you ❤️

if you’re christian, i love you ❤️

if you’re jewish, i love you ❤️

if you’re atheist, i love you ❤️

if you’re shinto, i love you ❤️

if you’re agnostic, i love you ❤️

if you’re sikh, i love you ❤️

if you’re hindu, i love you ❤️

if you’re buddhist, i love you ❤️

if you’re taoist, i love you ❤️

if you’re pagan, i love you ❤️

if you’re hellenistic, i love you ❤️

if you’re satanist, i love you ❤️

if you’re pagan, i love you ❤️

if you’re a woman, i love you ❤️

if you’re a man, i love you ❤️

if you’re nonbinary, i love you ❤️

if you’re genderfluid, i love you ❤️

if you’re agender, i love you ❤️

if you’re a demi boy/demi girl, i love you ❤️

if you’re cis, i love you ❤️

if you’re trans, i love you ❤️

if you’re straight, i love you ❤️

if you’re gay, i love you ❤️

if you’re lesbian, i love you ❤️

if you’re bisexual, i love you ❤️

if you’re pansexual, i love you ❤️

if you’re aromantic, i love you ❤️

if you’re alloromantic, i love you ❤️

if you’re asexual, i love you ❤️

if you’re allosexual, i love you ❤️

if you’re queer/unlabeled, i love you ❤️

if you don’t know yet, i love you ❤️

if you’re black, i love you ❤️

if you’re white, i love you ❤️

if you’re asian, i love you ❤️

if you’re hispanic, i love you ❤️

if you’re indigenous, i love you ❤️

if you’re mixed, i love you ❤️

if you’re disabled, i love you ❤️

if you have chronic pain, i love you ❤️

if you’re a system, i love you ❤️

if you’re autistic, i love you ❤️

if you have adhd, i love you ❤️

if you have schizophrenia, i love you ❤️

if you’re a narcissist, i love you ❤️

if you have dyslexia, i love you ❤️

if you have dyscalculia, i love you ❤️

if you have dysgraphia, i love you ❤️

if you have dyspraxia, i love you ❤️

if you’re intersex, i love you ❤️

if you have an invisible disability, i love you ❤️

if you have a visible disability, i love you ❤️

if you have no disability, i love you ❤️

if you have anxiety, i love you ❤️

if you have depression, i love you ❤️

if you have ocd, i love you ❤️

if you have bpd, i love you ❤️

if you’re bipolar, i love you ❤️

if you have diabetes, type 1 or type 2, i love you ❤️

if you’re fat, i love you ❤️

if you’re skinny, i love you ❤️

if you’re in between, i love you ❤️

if you’re muscular, i love you ❤️

if you have body hair, i love you ❤️

if you don’t have body hair, i love you ❤️

if you have straight hair, i love you ❤️

if you have curly hair, i love you ❤️

if you have wavy hair, i love you ❤️

if you have no hair, i love you ❤️

if you have brown hair, i love you ❤️

if you have black hair, i love you ❤️

if you have red hair, i love you ❤️

if you have blonde hair, i love you ❤️

if you have dyed hair, i love you ❤️

if you have brown eyes, i love you ❤️

if you have black eyes, i love you ❤️

if you have blue eyes, i love you ❤️

if you have green eyes, i love you ❤️

if you have hazel eyes, i love you ❤️

if you have amber eyes, i love you ❤️

if you have heterochromia, i love you ❤️

if you’re a therian, i love you ❤️

if you’re a furry, i love you ❤️

if you’re a fictionkin, i love you ❤️

if you’re an other link, otherheart, or another type of alter human not prev mentioned, i love you ❤️

if you use neopronouns, i love you ❤️

if you’re preppy, i love you ❤️

if you’re clean girl, i love you ❤️

if you’re goth, i love you ❤️

if you’re scene, i love you ❤️

if you’re punk, i love you ❤️

if you’re decora, i love you ❤️

if you’re coquette, i love you ❤️

if you’re a gyaru, i love you ❤️

if you’re just alternative in general, i love you ❤️

if you’re grunge, i love you ❤️

if you’re steampunk, i love you ❤️

if you’re poly, i love you ❤️

if you’re young, i love you ❤️

if you’re old, i love you ❤️

if you didn’t get mentioned, reblog and tell me so i can add you because i almost certainly love you too! ❤️

if you’re a trump supporter i hope you fall in a ditch and die 🥰

[frottinq]

it really is interesting how most adults really only see child sexual assault through the lens of how it makes THEM feel. it's not really about the actual harm that comes to the children, it's about how they, the adult (the real victim) feels about the fact that a child or children got abused and taken advantage of.

like one time I saw a vid of some dudes who tricked some guys into thinking they were going to meet up with minors, instead they forced the two dudes to fight on camera. it's voyeurism, it's not about protecting children it's about the good feeling YOU, the viewer, get inside when you watch this happen.

or like I was arguing with some people about CSA being punishable by death. i don't care if child abusers die, let me say that. wouldn't care if they all killed themselves to a person. but there is a REASON child advocacy organizations will tell you that executing convicted pedophiles is a bad idea, and that's because it will lead to more children being killed to hide the crimes of the abuser.

But if you argue against THE STATE executing pedophiles, people start pulling the "ohhhh wow defending pedophiles. this the hill you wanna die on?" like no dude I just think about the effects of policy outside of the fucking feel-good yummies in my tummy I get from seeing someone I don't like punished.

[fuckyoudonaldtrump]

ice is spending 38 billion on building a detention network.

nobodys going to read a whole fucking paragraph of all this information so heres the basic facts and if you want more info you can read the article linked.

ICE is buying warehouses to turn into detention centres.

16 buildings are planned to be turned into processing centres, holding 1000-1500 people at a time.

8 buildings will be turned into detention centres with the capacity of 7000-10,000 people.

stated in the article below: 'These facilities will “ensure the safe and humane civil detention of aliens in ICE custody, while helping ICE effectuate mass deportations”, the [documents released by ICE] said.'

aliens. they called them aliens.

this is racism. its blatant fucking racism. we've devolved 50 years back into the fucking systemic racism that people of colour have fought so hard to stop. theyre building CONCENTRATION CAMPS. theyre detaining completely legal citizens for the colour of their skin.

WAKE. THE. FUCK. UP.

ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show

US homeland security eyeing 24 buildings, some as ‘primary locations’ for deportations, in escalation of Trump agenda

[progressivepower]

It’s up to us http://news.usaunify.org/TQzwgh

[sandersstudies]

“They’re just looking for attention.”

Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?

Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?

[byjove]

I’m childfree as can be but every once in a while there is a Reddit story where someone is like “We’re childfree but my wife’s sister was arrested for child abuse and my wife wants to take in her two abused nieces who she is godmother to. I’m thinking this is a huge betrayal on my wife’s part, how the fuck could she even suggest this?” and I PRAY it is ragebait.

[bowlby4]