#a lil geography nerd

[reigningm4x]

via redbullracing tiktok

[mysticalsoot]

i have been in such a wholesome mood that my reaction to thirst edits is just stimming and thinking of how I want that person to hold me

[the-felttip-files]

Psst! Hey! Hey you!!

Yes, you!

C'mere!!

...

Hi there!!

Chances are, if you scrolled upon this post, that means you probably like puppet-themed projects!!

Welcome Home, My Friendly Neighborhood, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Threadville... surely you like, or at least know one of them!!

Well, if that's the case, then boy oh boy, I may just have something you might like!!~

May I present, one of my MANY personal projects, The Felttip Files~

Now, dear reader, you might be wondering, "What IS The Felttip Files?"

I am SO glad you asked!!~

The Felttip Files is a fictional universe/worldbuilding project I'm making, mostly taking place within the made-up city of Felttip, Puppetsylvania!

There are a few stories, within this universe [which interconnect nicely~], but that's not ALL this universe has to offer!!

In fact, I'm not even going to get INTO those stories!!

... Yet~

For now, let's simply get into what makes The Felttip Files fun!!~

Alright, just going to start this off by saying - the world within this project, in terms of Geography is pretty much EXACTLY like Earth, with just one small difference...

Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is made out of foam, felt, cardboard, or some kind of art supplies. The planet, the plants, the animals, the people-

Speaking of the people - every single one of them.. is a puppet!

Humanoid puppets, monster puppets, animal puppets.. they all look like a character straight out of The Muppets!!

This place is every craft/puppet nerd's DREAM, LET ME TELL YOU-

It's me. I'm the craft/puppet nerd- 🧍‍♂️

However, not everything in Felttip is all sunshine and rainbows - and that's actually the problem!

You see, if there is ONE THING that the residents don't enjoy.. it's sadness.

Being a "Downer" is considered an absolute problem, one that should be fixed IMMEDIATELY!

If you've ever watched a playthrough of, or played the game We Happy Few, it's... a little like that-

It's considered a bit of a disease, among alot of puppets, one that the people "infected" by it often get discriminated against for.

In fact, this may be one of the things the big baddie of the universe is against~

Of course, not everyone hates Downers! In fact, there are quite a few safe havens for them, scattered about the city!

But, of course... these poor fellas can't catch a break.

Afterall.. alot of residents that have been disappearing are Downers!! Buttttttt, that's a story for another day~

Now, onto ANOTHER fun bit!!~

Look at these cute lil characters!!~

These are just a handful of the goobers that reside in this project..~

Of course, these are all simple concepts, but I should have some more art soon!!~

Now, I've definitely yapped for long enough...

If you're interested in this project, PLEASE!! Let me know by liking [and maybe reblogging /nf] this post, aswell as sending in a few asks about it!!!

I'd be more than happy to answer any questions about the world, characters, or stories within~

For now, though, this is where I shall bid you all adieu!

Thanks for reading!!

Buh-bye!!~

[seelestia]

!!!! thank you for your kind words aaaa. i shall never forget this <3

i love how i mostly just reblog things here and see some of you in my notifs. it's like a silent convo of "i find this cool!" responded with a "yep, agreed." or on the contrary, i'm losing my mind in the tags and it's a free clown show. either way, thanks for tolerating my intermittent reblog schedule! :] we are in this together (idk what i'm saying).

[loveinwisteria]

LISTEN SO I'M A GEOGRAPHY STUDENT SO I ALSO LEARN A LIL' BIT OF TORNADOES AND CYCLONES OK. THE AMOUNT OF ABSOLUTE GEEKING/NERDING OUT I WAS DOING WATCHING TWISTERS WAS UNIMAGINABLE. DO Y'ALL KNOW HOW COOL IT IS TO SEE THE TORNADOES FORMIN? FROM A LOSER POINT OF VIEW? THAT SHIT WAS FUCKIN AWESOME AND I AM FUCIUN HORRIFIED* BY THE PROSPECT OF TORNADOES. GOD I REALLY WANNA KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN HUMIDITY AND THE DENSITY OF THE AIR UP THERE IN OKLAHOMA. THAT SHIT WILD BROTHER. THIS SHIT ABOUT TO BE MY NEW SPECIAL INTEREST. MY AUTISM IS HOOKED!

[radgalniya]

“it should’ve been called the love doctor”: a ‘how to date billy walsh’ movie review

i really only watched this bc charithra was in it, but also sometimes you just get in the mood for a cheesy teen romcom.

1. anyway. i hate archie’s character. he is the worst friend ever. like are you sure you like her??? bc hes so mean to her. he basically called her an ugly loser and made her fucking cry and then STILL chose to pretend to be the love doctor, lie to her face, and saboutage her the entire process.

2. that scene where amelia does the whole school girl outfit and then struts past everybody is so cute love her character. i’m so mad it didnt end well for her then they called her splat face girl like yall are DEAD WRONGGG lmaoo

3. yknow ik shes crazy for being in love w/ billie after 10 hours but hes fine as hell so i mean.. i get it.

4. mean girls in movies need to have better digs. they were not intimidating. NO BARS. but when archie said “if i throw a stick amber would you chase it”?!?!?! he ate this one lil thing and the bitch responds w/ “sorry i dont speak nerd” girl pls move on. and then he said “we’ve got geography and these bitches are history” BARSSSSS

5. i’m sorry i’m back again to shit on archie. he is the WORST. it’s so hard to watch amelia take his love doctor advice on her date with billy brooo it’s painful i had to keep pausing. i’m praying she uses her brains and they end up dating at the end bc i stg if somehow archie gets the girl after treating her like shit i’ll throw up.

6. i’m ngl billys you dont know me speech reminded me of that riverdale scene where the guy is like i had to drop out of the fifth grade to push drugs to support my nana or whatever he said

7. i’m sick of millenials making teen movies and shows and putting every cliche they can. no one uses hashtags anymore outside of tumblr like pls get real and then the overuse of emojis boooo

8. i feel like they forced this whole billy and amelia arent right for eachother thing and it makes no sense. like they pour their hearts out to each other for what…for him to judge her for a fear fart pls…like archie is an asshole stop trying to make fetch happen!

9. she ditches him… at her house… right before the dance…ykw maybe i was wrong maybe amelia and archie are made for eachother. both so unnecessarily mean

10. he said “ive never been broken up w before so can i stop u right there” lmao iconic. love billy walsh. he is the best character in the movie. nobody deserves him. ig i forgive amelia tho cus she apologized.

[silverasks]

I know I’m invested in something when I suddenly remember that I’ve got a whole doc filled with the geography of its world. like a week ago I was close to making a whole map of the dragon au but fell asleep before I got to it.

Anyways what I’m getting at is that I just remembered the hours of research I did on Korean wildlife to create lists of what birds could show up in what areas, and then just blacked out and forgot about it until now.

so here’s the list

Temperate climate

the village

occasional seagull or bird of paradise 

crow

little owl

forests (close to village and surrounding areas)

colourful birds of paridise

honey buzzard

Japanese sparrowhawk

common buzzard

crow

Japanese quail (on ground)

little owl

rufous bellied woodpecker

long tailed shrike

Japanese tit 

lakes/rivers/marshes (freshwater)

herrons

ibises

spoonbills

black storks

geese

swans

ducks

ospray

common phesant

phesant tailed jacana

ocean areas (saltwater)

albatross 

masked booby 

seagulls (ocean to near ocean area)

pelicans

ospray

white tailed eagle 

common kestrel

merlin

least auklet

Dexter's cave (on a mountain to higher/rocker terrain to work with)

golden eagle

Eurasian black vulture

crows

perrigan falcon

hill pidgeon

I’ve never been outside of Canada and America (and was never the best at geography) so I have no idea how inaccurate this could be. but also it’s a fantasy world so I can kinda get away with it

(also lil me was such a bird of prey nerd so I’m going to add more of them then necessary)

let me know if there’s any animals I should add to the list and who knows if I’ll post before 2025 but I think I might work on a map until I have to head off to a New Year’s party

[fcb-mv33]

I used to think that max was a geography nerd but after hanging out with boys recently i found out they are good with flags usually cause of football/worldcup

Oh no bestie Max Emilian Verstappen is a nerd. He is a car and flag nerd. This is the same lil boy who had a map on the wall in his room he is 100% a nerd and we love him for it🧡

[firelord-frowny]

im watching ~lone survivor~ which is set in afghanistan and as the dudes are brutally tumbling down a hill after being shot at a fuckton of times,

i notice im hearing the unmistakable and ear-splitting call of bluejays lololol which do not live in afghanistan!

and it just??? makes me wonder how many lil details like that slip by in movies, presumably because 1) it Doesn't Really Matter, and 2), most people either wouldn't notice or wouldn't care lolol. i mean i know it happens all the time but its just kinda neat to think about! like, im a music nerd and a nature nerd, so i notice musical and natury errors and inconsistences, and i wonder what kinds of things get noticed by, like, car nerds. or geography nerds. or healthcare professionals, blah blah blah.

[charl-col]

Trip to Cornwall :D

So just a lil update to have a silly rant about my trip to Cornwall, it was really fun! I went with my family and we had a rlly fun time, on the final day we went on a final walk along the beach and i picked up a bunch of really cool rocks, which my family were VERY thrilled about-

We spent most of the trip walking on some beaches, exploring cool towns and just relaxing, the place we stayed is one we go to pretty often but it was still very nice non the less. I plan on talking about this trip on stream sometime soon so you should follow my twitch if you wanna see that ;)

Anyways here are some silly photos I took and the rocks/ shells I took back with me! (Some had to be left behind, o7 to those cool rocks 😔)

Can you tell I’m a bit of a geography nerd…

[snickerdoodlles]

In seventh grade I had a history teacher who was also a geography nerd. At the end of each quarter, she’d hold a geography tournament where we’d be asked to identify 10 places across two different areas within a minute (we’d be given the maps to study about 2weeks in advance). Kids would be awarded extra credit points based on where their groups placed in the tournament (usually we played in pairs) and it also gave us about a 3day buffer to finish up assignments, fun for everyone

So the first time this happened, my partner was some guy who didn’t manage to find a partner in time and I hadn’t been paying attention so I didn’t know what was happening. We didn’t look at the maps until like 3 minutes before our first round, and neither of us were entirely sure what was happening. By happenstance, we got a card where we already knew 6 of the places and we guessed 2 of the remaining 4 correctly. Progressed to the next round with the faint air of Utter Bafflement, cheers at least we’d get a few extra points?

Then the next round we got the same card and places. Finished it in 15 seconds, 100%, and oooohh yeah, we were getting into it now. My partner was estatic, as he now had a chance to bump his C to a B-, and we went back to the maps with a lil more enthusiasm for cramming

Had we not gotten that lucky draw, we probably would’ve been out the second round (arguably the first too, since we literally only knew those 6 places when we started). Even funnier, the final round had the 2 places we originally missed and Ooh yeah, we fucking nailed those

Anyways, that’s how my partner and I bumped our first quart history grades up a whole letter thru sheer dumb luck and cramming enthusiasm

[chaoticmaxiel]

as much as we may hate red bull, credit must be given for the challenge videos they make to just let max infordump about his special interests on his teammate <3

[mysticalsoot]

I got my official autism diagnosis today and my mom suggested a "I'm autistic and proud" party as a joke but I seriously considered it and now it's just an excuse to subject my friends and family to a sleep deprived Wilbur Soot Geoguesser stream. I will be so happy. I will look insane.

[tutuandscoot]

Hey friends 👋 I hope you don’t mind me sharing some personal stuff on here but when I share it where it’s meant to be shared I can’t gush about how much I love VM so I’m gonna do that part of it here. In my (other) free time I do embroidery art and one of my fave things to make are world maps (coz along with being obsessed with VM I am also a geography/cartography/geopolitics nerd 🥸) and recently I’ve made a bunch inspired by T’s dresses:

This one obviously inspired by the TE MR dress.. this really the first time I’ve ever worked with red but I’ve been wanting to make something with this inspiration for a while so I’ve been collecting lots of red beads and gems over the last few months and the result I think is really cool coz it’s so textural. The silk roses are cut off this very elaborate trim (not very resourceful of me but I needed to put roses on it somehow).

This one is inspired by her 2011 Latin FD costume. It’s really hard to see when it moves but the left side (her left) of the dress has a zig zag pattern where to the left of it there are pink beads and stones mixed in with gold and to the right is the fringe trim. I did the same pattern on the map but made it a bit more obvious the colour distinction coz I felt putting latin fringe on a map I have to try to sell to others who have no idea of the reference was a bit much.

This one is based on ‘Umbrellas’. This one is really just colour inspired coz this dress is quite simple. I used a lot of soft wool to mimic the softness of the dress. It has pearls coz earlier in the season she wore a pearl necklace.

And lastly (for now) and maybe my favourite is the Carmen Map. This one I got pretty strict with making it match. In a fan meeting video from COR 2012 she explains a bit of the detail of the dress: black lace over grey so it reads black, but has a bit of depth to it, purple mixed in to make it modern and where they didn’t want to do typical red, gives the costume just a bit of colour. I used hard angle gemstones to mimic the rawness and sharpness of the movement. The chipped/look beads are a homage to the kinda ‘mental snaps’ their characters have, like as they go through the program they become more and more broken.

So yeh.. like I said I cant go into that much detail when I post them on my lil small business Insta so I thought maybe some on here would appreciate it😘🥰

[superm4ks]

your map fic was the best thing i’ve ever read?!??? the domesticity of it all. “That’s always been the difference between Max and everybody else. He tries for Max. And Max tries for him, too.” SCREAM. he tries for max😭😭😭😩😩😩 it’s true. and all the small details made me so emo: max eating blueberries and getting south america messy, lots of framed pics ofc, each place they visit is for the first time🥺, max maxplaining & hand gesturing all around the world & daniel genuinely just loves it. indulges history & geography nerd Max and it’s not even hard work to do so💙

Thank u 💘 when I tell you that lil drabble got torn out of me in 20 mins idk what happened 😭😭 maxiel domesticity is truly SOOO important because like they just come across as very sweet and comfortable with each other and imo that’s such an underrated aspect of their whole vibe. It’s very comforting to write a future where they get to be happy together

[midasinc]

and feuilly/enjolras hcs I will luv u forever

i did a canon era post for them one time! i'll link that before modern stuffs :)

modern era feuilly/enjolras:

-ive been rlly thinking about doner shops recently, so i imagine that feuilly works at the doner shop that les amis meet in (turkish feuilly !) and he catches enjolras's eye very easily. he makes him a drink one day and enjolras has never really been interested in someone before, but this scruffy dude behind the counter who smiles when he rings him up is... omg

-anyway enj does all of these speeches and all of this charity where he's front and centre, but then suddenly he forgets how to talk to someone he likes. he has no idea how to talk to feuilly. he copes by buying like three sandwiches per meeting and feuilly is kinda just like (jesus this hot guy eats a lot) but enjolras is kind of just passing them off to his other friends. feuilly starts eavesdropping on their meetings and this sort of stuff affects him because of his own social standing and experiences with oppression so when he's clocking out one day, he sits next to joly and listens in. enjolras notices and sort of loses his train of thought, but gets back on track and feuilly thinks he's like a star. enjolras is incredible and he wants in (im not gonna say literally, but-)

-he introduces himself after the meeting and becomes a regular when he isn't working and he becomes a really good friend of enjolras. they're both really smart and have really deep, philisophical conversations and oh my god enjolras is so in love. he is so mf in love.

-they get together when feuilly looks over and enjolras is staring at his hand and his face is so red and he kind of gets that enj wants to take charge but can't, so feuilly just takes enjolras's hand and sort of turns their hang-sesh into a date. things are good after that

-enjolras is terrified of feuilly's snake but after a while at feuilly's house, he kind of gets over his fear of her and pats her smooth lil head and it's okay. he isn't obsessed with her, but they have a mutual understanding of each other

-when they're over at each other's places, feuilly still has his own concerns of saving money, so he's really insistent on sharing showers and turning off heat at night and cuddling instead and enjolras's brain stutters for a moment but oh my god yeah he doesn't mind

-enjolras also watches his nerd movies with feuilly and explains all of the lore and plot points to him and feuilly just kinda smiles and listens because seeing enjolras so into something is a joy. it's his favourite pasttime to hear enjolras talk about nothing

-it also surprises feuilly how big enjolras is on pda. he's not shy at all with his affection and loves to hold hands and kiss cheeks and wrap his arm around feuilly's waist or gently lead him through a crowd with a hand to the small of his back. enj likes 2 touch

-courf and combeferre have accepted this point that feuilly being over in the mornings is not that surprising and they're just kinda like "hey" and move past him making toast in the kitchen to make their coffee. it's nice to know that enj can actually get some

-they go to trivia nights at a bar because they're both so fucking smart and know so much random information. feuilly is really good at geography and history and enj is good at pop culture and business and together, they've won a ton of games. when they show up, the other regulars say their prayers bc baby, these two will absolutely destroy everything in their path

-feuilly is really good with his hands and likes to play with enjolras's hair when they're just hangin out and enjolras goes to get a drink with a ton of random little braids in his hair and he looks insane but it's cute