#Planet of the Nerds

[tossawary]

I just know in my heart of hearts that in "Star Trek" at one point, there was some moral panic somewhere on Vulcan (among the uppity sorts) because Human culture was "infecting" the local youth with their overly emotional, destructive, unproductive, frivolous, and uneducational ways.

And what was actually happening was that a bunch of Vulcan kids got really into 23rd-century "Minecraft" or something.

Small Vulcan child @ another Vulcan child: (in a tone that sounds flat to Humans but angry as hell to Vulcans) "You have compromised the optimization of my fortress. I am having an emotional urge to blow up your house... in Minecraft."

[bruciemilf]

Every inch of Izuku Midoriya loves every inch of Bakugou Katsuki.

He sees passion in his rage, ambition where others see arrogance, and the overpowering desire to fight the world and make it do the right thing.

He loves every flaw, too. If something so deeply imperfect can be so amazing, then, there’s hope for less special things, too.

Sometimes, thought?

“You shitty ass loser, I TOLD you to stand back and let me handle it for you, but NOOO, stupid fucking Deku just HAS to fight a villain on a broken leg, doesn’t he,—“

As if I haven’t been through worse,

He really wants to clap back with that;

He also wants to live past 20.

“Kacchan!”

Izuku whips around, still supported by a strong arm around his waist, bringing his hands together imploringly, “Can you please. Be soft with me? For 3 seconds, that’s ALL I ask.”

It’s not that he doesn’t want to hear Kacchan nag him, — it’s his favorite activity, besides, maybe, being a hero, — but he’d just. Like the princess treatment.

A little.

Katsuki pauses. Heart red eyes soften significantly, the faux anger and annoyance glazing over into warmth,

“I love you, baby.”

Izuku’s lungs stop, for a beat, “Oh, Kacchan—“

“Three seconds over. Now listen here you little BITCH—,”

Izuku would scoff. If his heart wasn’t turning into liquid love, pulling the blonde down for giggly kisses, that is.

[ovenproofowl]

Why would they speak in whistles? They don't always. They have a phonetic language for day-to-day interactions, but the whistle-speak lets them communicate across great distances. It's not uncommon to find in cultures before communication technology evolves.

STAR TREK DISCOVERY: 5x06 'Whistlespeak'

[crochet-the-ninth]

POV: you’re the disembodied skeleton hands in Dr. Donald Sex’s study

[will80sbyers]

the cutest family ✨

[beatcroc]

what kind of frivolity would you engage in, mecha?

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[eashgirl]

One detail I find weirdly bittersweet is how both Orion and D-16 were curious young bots who wanted to learn more about their world. It's more obvious with Orion, who wanted to sneak into the archives to learn about Cybertronian history. I think it's mentioned in the novel that Orion would often ramble about Cybertronian history so much that D-16 would act disinterested, which surprised Orion since he couldn't understand how anyone could not be fascinated by it.

Yet, Dee was always interested in his own way. In the storyboards, his dream was to lead an expedition off Cybertron to explore uncharted worlds and locations for Cybertron’s progress. That boy was just as curious and eager to learn—both of them shared the same curiosity and thirst for knowledge, just channeled differently,he never even wanted to become something even remotely close to a soldier,he never wanted to pick up a gun at all and that makes me so sad.

This fits so well within the narrative sense of how they started with the same goal in mind—bringing down Sentinel and rebuilding society with the power Alpha Trion entrusted to all four of them. Yet, the paths they took to achieve that goal were starkly different. Orion saw how broken the system was under Sentinel and sought to create a better system. D-16, on the other hand, wanted to kill Sentinel, destroy everything he built, and rebuild from the ashes.

To think that, in a better world, their initial dreams could have actually been realized... it's just so sad. I need someone to write an AU where Dee gets to lead that expedition he always wanted and Orion to get that opportunity to learn about Cybertronian history,maybe in a world where Sentinel never succeeded in killing the Primes by a deux ex machina they survived so the two of them were able to grow up and live normal fulfilling lives 🥹.

Also I think it was also mentioned in another storyboard that Elita's dream was always to become a soldier imagine in this perfect scenario she gets to enlist in the High Guard or something like that,since they were the army of Cybertron before Sentinel took over, (although honestly I feel like she'd still try and overwork herself either way, she's still very much a perfectionist)

I wonder what B-127's dream was I don't believe it was ever mentioned,he did say he wanted to work for the government but I'm not sure of an exact profession for him.

[rj-orion]

Space

Space is one of my most important special interests; I could talk about the complexities of my feelings towards it for hours and, if you were to let me, I'd probably fall in love with you afterwards. I found all of these images on google, most (if not all) of them are from NASA, so go check out their website for more space photos

[fairylando]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE🩵

[goonchef]

yeah yeah we all know the companions in veilguard are the 7 evanuris but have we considered they are also the 7 movements of gustav holst's The Planets orchestral suite

[starrysharks]

melody hoshimoto aka pigtail star !!

[smallcloisville]

Oh! Jeez! I'm sorry. Miss Sullivan, we haven't even met yet, and already, I've ruined your blouse. This is very... um, Clark Kent. With a "K, Kent". I'm Clark Kent.

He fixed his glasses and I melted right there😩😩

[pointman74250]

“When I was a kid, it took me two hours of watching Superman to realized Clark Kent was Superman?”

- Joseph Lewis Szabo III (I wasn’t a bright kid.)

[royalarchivist]

I'm so offended that I missed Roier's entire BOTW stream but I'm even MORE offended that I, as a Mexican and the biggest Zelda fan ever, have never seen this video Roier watched at the start of stream.

(This is the video in case anyone wants to see the full thing!)

[flowerakatsuka]

SNIFFING DAT MAN GOALS HAVE FINALLY BEEN ACHIEVED, ( excuse winter date kara staring into your soul. )

[dragonspleenistasty]

Drops my newest wip casually