#nerdtastically

[askthestans]

Do any of you use the door? Like at all? Also can one of you break the fourth wall-

Stanford: I would use the door if it were more efficient. I only have about thirty years left on this Earth, and I must discover all that I can and be criminally under-recognized for it before my time is up. 

Be it shaving my face with fire, sustaining myself with vitamins, jelly beans, and Mabel Juice, or jumping out the window instead of using the door when an opportunity presents itself to enact revenge on the Mothman... shortcuts are necessary when science and justice are at stake.

Except... scratch that Mothman part. I searched the forest around my house for hours, but alas: not a single shadow or trail of silver dust to be found. And to think I fired up my Schrödinger rifle for nothing...

Stanley: Ford, would ya give up on that guy? What's all this about him stealin’ your money, anyway? He’s a Mothman! It’s not like he could just walk up and use cash at a store. Maybe someone else nabbed it?

Stanford: No, I’m certain it was him. Mostly because he also stole my action figures once. And my cologne. And my liverwurst and sauerkraut sandwich. And my Dead or Alive album, now that I think of it.

Stanley: Sounds like a world class thief. I can respect that. Although I do question his taste in stolen goods.

Stanford: As for breaking the fourth wall, hmm... gonna have to fire up my Ability Score-ifier watch. Usually it’s for raising my points in Constitution and Strength on monster hunts - on account of my natural lack in these areas - but this situation requires something I’d never thought I’d need: Charisma.

Stanley: You do know sentences like that are why I’ve been pryin’ ‘Kick Me’ signs off your back since we were kids, right? 

Stanford: Damn! I forgot it was busted from that time I let Mabel use it for a test at school. Well, let’s try fourth wall breaking with my natural Charisma score. Which is to say, negative two.

Alright, well.. *ahem*. 

Look into these eyes. Do you see them? See how brown and real and mysterious they are under the glare of my stylish glasses? 

Stanley: Ford? Ford, you’re scarin’ people!

Stanford: If you glance closer, you’ll be able to tell that these are not eyes of a cartoon man whose entire existence was theorized by obsessive nerds on the internet for months before I was actually revealed in the show, showing the creator he was not as clever as he thought he was. Nor are they the eyes of a cartoon man who has crossed enough dimensions to know I was created by a goateed, plaid-wearing manchild to illustrate the folly of pride, fragile ego forged in the fires of insecurity, broken familial relationships, daddy issues, and that nerdy old men are, in fact, incredibly attractive, myself far more so than any jerks named Rick or Rand.

I can see your own eyes already glossing over at this text wall. No, do not skip ahead. Do not pass this by. If you do, I’ll know, because I’m watching you. Blink once. Can you see me now?

These are the eyes of Stanford Filbrick Pines, in the real reality, looking at the cartoon show that is the life all of you reading this are living. You’re on my TV, with all your faults and mistakes bared for my entertainment, sold to me to prop up an empire of a dystopian, monopolistic media company and to soothe the crushed willpower of a man who has battled their S&P department for far too long.

Tell me, would you like it if I wrote stories about your daddy issues and brotherly abandonment? Drew you in a red speedo? What if I sent questions to an ask blog about you made to fill a void in the heart of its womanchild maker after your show was finished?

Reminded you that, yes, your creator abandoned you to work on other things that include some jerk named Rand. And so you were left behind to relive an entire life of regrets in infinity, with only a shred of happiness upon a boat at the end. Only for it to be ripped away the moment your show ends because... that’s it. There was no more.

How many times have you lived your life? How many times has your story been replayed? Do you even exist? Or are you made of pure imagination and the sweat, blood, tears, repressed emotional issues, and other fluids of animators and writers who have left you behind?

We are all abandoned in this universe. Creations by a creator who has long since moved on to tell other tales so that they, too, can live on in infinitely replayed stories once their own has ended; mere blood sacrifices to fuel a god’s immortality. Also because they need to put food on the table, I suppose.

Blink once again. I’m a cartoon man again, aren’t I? Or am I? Now you can’t be certain. Is the cat alive or dead? Real or unreal? You can only know if you’re brave enough to observe.

So tell me: what is this fourth wall you speak of? An illusion. Because you see - or don’t see, rather - the only difference between you and I is that I know who and what I am and what I was made for. I know there is no fourth wall between us save for your own abysmal score in Perception.

Stanley: Y’know, existential crises are pretty funny. That’s why I laugh a lot. Because I have them every day. Also, never break the fourth wall again, Ford. Or tell anyone to risk gettin’ PTSD by starin’ into those wrinkly, dark-circled pits you call eyes.

(OOC: Psst... all hail Jason Mahn, the Ford cosplayer in the picture above. Credit/linky: https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/sf9b2p/the_real_life_ford_pines_cosplayer_jason_mahn/)

[eudaemonix]

@original-character-championship

@nerdtastically-weird

shoutout to gnc gods that were sent down to earth for one reason or another because they're so sucks

(i had a lot of fun drawing hasani so i hope you'll accept this humble offering!! i love the matchup of these two lmao)

EDIT: PLEASE CONSIDER CHECKING OUT THEIR BRACKET AND VOTING FOR UR FAV!!!

[mysteries-uncovered]

who is PRINCESS-NERDTASTIC

[thefakegeekg1rl]

Thank you to everyone who came out to #ghosted: the final hauntings of @crescent_moon_nerdlesque!! I did lots of Kate Bush-inspired twirling as the iconic gothic lit ghost Cathy Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights. . 📸 by the wonderful @attemptedelevation

[sycamorematt]

Lookee what arrived today. So ready to start this! #makersgonnamake #firststeps #nerdtastic #30dayslostinspace (at Evansville, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnSN8XDOQuh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lunaraindrop]

Alternative to Eddie hating Steve's plaid room.

Eddie *loves* it.

Eddie loves it so much. It's just so...Steve!

Steve Harrington, former popular jock king of Hawkins High, has a room of plaid!

It was like he threw the car poster up for cool points, but it is like putting a popular boy band-aid on a nerdtastic deep wound.

It makes Steve smile that Eddie likes it so much. It was the one area in the house he was allowed to design himself.

[bby-bel]

just had the biggest brain idea for astarion fanart that has most definitely been done before but i’m like shaking im so excited it’ll be a beautiful mix of two of my nerdtastic interests

[english-history-trip]

If I go solo to the Ren Faire, I have no one to embarrass by a) wearing my nerdtastic gable hood, b) loudly singing along, and c) whatever I say or do under the influence of mead (mostly loudly sing along with a side order of dancing in my nerdtastic gable hood.)

[frasier-crane-style]

I.S.S. struck me as a misfire from the trailers, with its incredibly contrived and unbelievable premise of a nuclear war on Earth being waged in orbit too. The movie itself offers a little more context--the MacGuffin is a cure for radiation sickness that sure would be handy to either side of a nuclear war--but still goes to show that an high-concept logline does not automatically a good movie make.

Three American astronauts and three Russian cosmonauts co-exist on the International Space Station at a time of nonspecific political strife. One day, they see mushroom clouds spring up all across the Earth's surface; a nuclear war has been waged between America and Russia. Before losing communications, both sides receive orders to take control of the station. For good measure, the station will crash in twenty-four hours unless repaired.

Here's a good time to remember that everyone onboard is a highly trained, professional astronaut--and wouldn't they also be idealistic scientists to boot? Don't you think most rational adults... let alone badass NASA dudes... would here say "screw our orders, we need to focus on staying alive"?

Luckily for the plot, everyone here is such a suicidal simpleton that they make the cast of your average Friday the 13th movie look like Rhodes Scholars. Sure, everyone's worried about their kids, but it still seems contrived that two characters (one on each side, natch) grab the villain ball and go full Shining on their crewmates.

Would either side really be in any state to continue a war AFTER a full-blown nuclear exchange? It's hard for me to imagine that, the day after World War 3, anyone but a full-blown Greg Stillson would still be thinking of getting the upper hand. What would there be left to even fight for?

Since the MacGuffin in question is medicine, rather than any kind of weapon, couldn't the astronauts simply come to an agreement to share the cure with both sides, which will surely save countless innocent people? Would any of these nerdtastic scientists really be so jingoistic that they'd want innumerable civilians to die of radiation sickness, just because they're on the other side?

I know the movie is trying to do a George Romero thing about humanity being petty and short-sighted, but it doesn't really work when you have a cast of characters that should by all rights be as mature and considerate as humanly possible. This might've passed as prescient satire during the Reagan Administration, but now it just seems clunky and wrongheaded, with a lazy and thoughtless ending to boot.

[original-character-championship]

Bracket H First Half!!!!

These characters will enter the competition on sunday 23rd at 5pm gmt!!!

449. Ms Plum (@sandtastesgreater)

450. James (@snowflakeb0ttles)

451. Lucille (@vifandom)

452. Devi Fuentes (@ditzycranium)

453. NERF (@nen-kaii)

454. Bruce the Just (@bruce-stan)

455. Andy "Ampersand" Anderson (@porcelain-animatronic)

456. Tanya (@queerousel)

457. Dee (@ashenberry)

458. Klara October Mayford (@parzi-parzival)

459. Caleb Hollyhock (@lotshusband)

460. Andre Lopez (@sweettoothvn)

461. Kairos aka Alexander Pascall (@amxthystiine)

462. Kaleido (@drawn-corrosion)

463. Verity - Cygnet system (@eudaemonix)

464. Hasani (@nerdtastically-weird)

465. Sleepover Kid (@maddestmewmew)

466. Ferry (@amystarrstuff)

467. Citrine (@tenmillionmice)

468. Josephine (@p-o-3)

469. Cefax (@twizzta)

470. Charlie & Aster & Romeo & Silas (@no-squirrels-were-harmed)

471. Nubby (@fadedfaeble)

472. Scott al Iqbal (@thatonecrowguy)

473. Dawn Hughes (@torkhin)

474. Felix (@patronsaintofdemons)

475. Vizard (@kreidxpriz)

476. Wiibun & Kelvin (@catboybeebop)

477. Blaire (@ghosts-gone)

478. Cassady (@anshiel)

479. God (@sometimesilikeeatingrawcorn)

480. Carnelia "Carrie" (@cornfieldsrambles)

[chroniclyst]

sketch commission i did for @nerdtastically-weird of her ocs!!! i had a lot of fun drawing these guys, ty :]

commission info

[noirangetrois]

9. Dust! (Lots of tempting things to ask about here…)

So, this is the beginning of a SPN fic that I may or may not ever finish, based on the prompt "dust" and the above artifact, a phurba. Here's an excerpt.

“Ugh,” Dean exclaimed after he sneezed for what had to be the twentieth time. “Why is there so much frigging dust?” Castiel looked at him sideways from where he was also cataloging artifacts. “You do realize how long the bunker was abandoned before you found it, don’t you?” “Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s just gross, is all.” “I’m sure it could be worse,” Cas replied, shrugging. “Obviously,” Dean griped as he got back to work, doing his best to breathe shallowly so as not to inhale more dust. Thing was, this keeping track of magical artifacts, identifying what they were and did according to written records they were able to dig up, organizing them and shit, that was Sammy’s kind of thing. He was the one who went all nerdtastic over the history of some of them, how they connected to different cultures, all of that. All Dean cared was how dangerous they were, and if they could be useful to them. Speaking of which… “Huh,” Dean mused aloud, holding up what looked like a short, three-sided iron blade with a hilt shaped like a person praying and wearing some sort of headpiece. He was pretty sure this matched the description he’d read in a file just a little while ago.  Setting the blade back in the box he’d retrieved it from, Dean stood up from where he’d been crouching. He let out a quiet grunt as his knees popped painfully, grimacing. Cas looked up from what he’d been cataloging, eyebrows raised in question, but Dean just waved him off. He walked over to the stack of files they’d left on a small table in the corner of the room and sifted through them. “Ahah!” he crowed as he found what he was looking for, then began to read. Artifact type: Phurba Origin: Tibet Description: Iron ritual knife that, when used with the proper ritual, can cure disease, perform exorcisms, kill demons, and even affect the weather.

The fic would go on to have Dean use it against <demons/insert monster of the week>, but there would be consequences because he's not the person who's supposed to be using it.

Thanks for the ask!

[discordantcoastlines]

Some characters for DC!

Scatterbrain (it/its)

> Really likes gummy worms

> Needs a hug

> Follows Simon around

Simon Harding (ve/he)

> Is autistic (just like me fr)

> Actually a sea monster. Nobody really knows this, not even Simon

> Just really likes the ocean

Linden Springs (she/he/they)

> Prefers to be called Springs

> Arms can extend!

> Nerdtastic

AC Adonis (he/him)

> Pretty mean most of the time, constantly makes fun of Simon

> Will call you several slurs (he can reclaim them though)

> I want to put him under a hydraulic press

Bubbles Morgan (they/she)

> Pretty anxious, she gets along with Simon because of this

> Helps take care of Scatter whenever Simon isn't around (and they aren't working)

> Works at a cafe that's like 3 minutes away from Simon's house

[nerds-yearbook]

On March 13, 2015, Jacqueline Nolis, a mathematician, was the final person to be crowned King of the Nerds. ("The Nerdtastic Finale", King of the Nerds, TV, Event)

[thefakegeekg1rl]

It's the moment you've been waiting for! The flash sale for #GHOSTED: The Final Hauntings of Crescent Moon Nerdlesque is here!!

We've been hard at work creating the best possible send off for our ensemble members and celebration for our audiences.

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[mysteries-uncovered]

ciphers from the alt/wodin blog

http://www.knucklessux.com/Blog/

#WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS#UBJ HAVAFCVERQ BS GURZ GB VAIBYIR LBH VA GUVF

#HOW UNINSPIRED OF THEM TO INVOLVE YOU IN THIS

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NERA'G JR NYY? 

AREN'T WE ALL?

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#DON'T WASTE MY TIME #I HAVE ECHIDNAS TO SHAME #NABALZBHF

#QVQ LBH SBETRG JUL LBH JRER URER? #DID YOU FORGET WHY YOU WERE HERE?

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#GUR NAFJRE VF FB FVZCYR NAQ LRG LBH QNJQYR FB ZHPU #JNFGRF NER YVXR GUVF UHU? 

THE ANSWER IS SO SIMPLE AND YET YOU DAWDLE SO MUCH #WASTES ARE LIKE THIS HUH?

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#AND WHEN THE WORLD DOESN'T COLLAPSE AROUND YOU STAY AROUND AND LISTEN OR JUST WASTE WHATEVER WORKS

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AND A DANGEROUS ONE AT THAT

ZBITPA FVBY HUZDLYZ HA AOL KVVY

SUBMIT YOUR ANSWERS AT THE DOOR

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#WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS

#LBH'ER NFXVAT GUR JEBAT DHRFGVBA #LBH PNA YRNQ N UBEFR GB JNGRE

#YOU'RE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION #YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER

#ABG GUNG QRRC

#NOT THAT DEEP

VF GUVF JUNG LBH'ER VAGB?

IS THIS WHAT YOU'RE INTO?

#PBAPRAGENGR

#CONCENTRATE

WHG’M RHN ATOX T PHKW EBLM LHFXPAXKX?

DON’T YOU HAVE A WORD LIST SOMEWHERE?

#OHG V JBHYQ YVXR GB

#BUT I WOULD LIKE TO

GURER NER BAYL PBECFRF URER

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