#talk nerdy to me

[thecaywild]

Build legos with me… #lego

[finehs]

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

We know Stede regrets not getting ‘You wear fine things well’ in the moment. There’s a sadness over lost time; that Stede could’ve reassured Ed earlier. That Stede should’ve realised and sorted his own feelings out sooner. That all of this might’ve been different. He’s beating himself up mentally in the opening of Red Flags.

But in all honesty, I think Stede not getting it, is the beginning of the makings of Ed and he as a couple.

If Stede had got it, they might’ve moved events forward much more quickly. If Ed had gone to Stede’s Captain’s quarters in 105, then for Ed, events would’ve likely followed a familiar path of fast burn, because neither yet were ready for more.

Ed, I think, has lived in a quid pro quo world: ‘This is for you, what’s in it for me?’ As a younger man especially, much of Ed’s leverage and currency would’ve been his physical being. We see how easily he is exoticised and objectified at the hands of the upper-class French. He is an indigenous man who will have faced prejudice, but might also have taken advantage of ‘pretty privilege’ to gain an edge. And who can blame him in such a dog eat dog world.

In Ed’s mind, Stede’s kindness must come loaded. It’s leading to something, there’s strings attached. Now, Ed very much seems to want those strings and all that’s attached, but the fact there isn’t any intention behind Stede’s kindness other than that kindness itself, alters Ed forever.

If Stede had understood the significance of his feelings earlier, and brought the relationship to sexual fruition, then he wouldn’t be Stede. If he’d acted much sooner, he’d be everyone else. And Ed doesn’t need everyone else. He’s had that. He needs something different. He needs the difference Stede is bringing unknowingly to the table.

Stede’s sexual attraction to Ed develops out of friendship, and a deeper attraction to Stede develops for Ed too in the same way. Liking blossoms into love with the liking remaining, and that is so important. The need for this comes from very different places and life experience, but is exactly what both men require to be happy.

They are both just so adorkable and made for each other.

They need to talk nerdy as well as dirty.

I really like @temporal-discounting fic which deals with some of the ideas around this. Lost time and regret, but also things happening just as they should. https://archiveofourown.org/works/61520911?view_adult=true

[bugteaaa]

Headcanon: he'd be a bug nerd

[taintedmind6669]

I like to think that all the jaeger pilots are verified on Twitter, bc y’know they’re like international superstars, but the scientists/techs aren’t bc not many people know what they do so to the public these big celebrities are casually tweeting with random people all the time

[urlocalbone]

The Sky Atlas, Edward Brooke-Hitching

[thebisexualswiftie]

Pip: wears the "talk nerdy to me" t shirt

Ravi: you're (1/cos c)

Pip: STOP

Ravi: you're {(1/cos c)/0}ly pretty

Pip: *blushes intensely*

[thesargasmicgoddess]

Nerd mode...activate!

🤣🤓🤓

[addiesanatomy]

[call-me-pup2]

What do you think about fluffy haired nerdy girls?

[jmflowers]

Pls talk abt the diffs between st19 and GA. Would love to read your TV production nerd language!

Well, only took me 10 days to finally find time to get to this… my apologies, anon! I hope you're still interested.

I took notes during episodes 20x02 and 7x02 of Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 respectively to formulate my answer to this, but I should disclose that I have not been an avid watcher of Grey's Anatomy in about a decade. Despite my education in technical film and television production, anything stated here is my own opinion. Art is subjective and I absolutely do not have all the answers.

Let's start with Grey's…

So, from when Grey's first premiered in 2005 until the 10th season, the show was shot on film. That fact lends a lot to the stylistic formula of the show, which is not something you ever really want to change. (Fans arrive for a certain feel, thus a production bible is created that is adhered to for - hopefully - the entirety of a piece of work.)

I think it's most obvious in the coverage of scenes; shots are long and flowing, often moving around subjects as they converse with each other. By shooting this way, they would've protected themselves from needing to reset as frequently and it makes the editing process a lot more seamless. Also, in my experience, it just makes it easier to translate a director’s vision from set into the editing room.

(In film school, a lot of people will take a million different angles of a scene, all in little snippets, because it guarantees you'll have what you need for an interesting edit. However, if you work a bunch of continuous shots of the scene, actors get the opportunity to really immerse themselves in it - resulting in better performance - and the final edit has fewer possible iterations of what it could look like. Why don't students do this? Firstly, it's harder - more risk of having something in the background that will screw things up, more challenging to cut together if you have to remove a singular moment, harder to keep steady if you're not comfortable with stabilizing equipment or don't have any. Secondly, professors don't often encourage it because a lot of people are really terrible at camera operation if they're not trained properly.)

Anyways, all that to stay is Grey’s has this really fluid style to how they shoot. Nearly every shot is moving in some way, whether it’s a dolly, a pan, a tilt, etc. Let it be said that they are really, really good at this formula.

Another component of this is wider angle shots so that the characters can be continuously moving – think of those classic hallway walking scenes as a prime example. Allowing the actors to really move in a space helps to build tension without needing a bunch of little cuts and camera angles. This means there are some scenes in the show that only have one camera angle present before it moves onto the next scene, which isn’t super common in my experience.

Not to say that they don’t utilize closeups – Grey’s is a drama so it’d be kind of weird to not make use of closeup shots for the showing of emotion. However, the closeups seem to predominantly occur in the OR. My guess as to why that is would be in helping the audience differentiate who is who (as well as what they’re feeling), since part of their faces have to be covered during operations, but that’s pure speculation on my part.

And beyond all of that, Grey’s is visually still a drama. A lot of moments occur at night. Scenes are often darker, with more focus on backlighting than clear illumination of character faces. I find their blacks a lot stronger, which is probably something to do with their colouring.

There’s also just fewer action-packed moments, since the story often takes place with people just talking, so there doesn’t appear to be as much of an editing technique called “cutting on the action”. Which, honestly, makes sense if they’re filming longer takes. (Shoutout to my prof who constantly gave triple-take homework and made me completely ridiculous about cutting. on. action. You broke me, my dude.)

Conversely, Station 19 has a very different formula…

As an action drama, that was never shot on film, S19 adheres to a completely different bible. One that they rewrote after season 2 (I think? When did the voiceover intros stop?), you’ll probably notice, when they decided to veer a little further away from their identity as a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff.

The first thing I always notice is that a lot more of S19 scenes happen during the day, since the unspoken law of most episodes is that they begin as the team is coming onto their shift first thing in the morning and then stretches through their 24-hour. Scenes are just brighter and more illuminated – more of the sunlight streaming in windows and less of the visible nighttime cityscape you’ll notice in Grey’s. I also really love that they usually begin this time period with the characters at home, whereas Grey’s seems to have episodes finish with that.

Light is also obvious in how things are coloured on S19. Their blacks don’t seem as dark in the final colouring, which may have something to do with the navy blue of their uniforms. It also just feels like there’s more white present on their sets? But that can’t possibly be true because Grey’s literally takes place in a hospital.

Anyways, S19 fully subscribes to the shooting and editing style of an action production. Scenes have lots of coverage (they utilize over-the-shoulder shots which don’t happen as often in Grey’s), there are lots of quick cuts in the edit, and their shots are overall steadier or static with less of the flowy movement that Grey’s has. They also use a lot more closeup and tighter framing, focusing on cowboy and up – unlike the Grey’s formula of a full-body shot. (A cowboy shot covers from the middle of the thigh to the top of the head, ie. you would be able to see the cowboy’s gun in its holster… anything above that is a tighter framing.)

And S19 loves a montage. I can’t say for certain whether Grey’s still uses those, or if they ever really did, but S19 leans into a zero-dialogue montage edit for storytelling. Which I don’t find super common, as I think some people believe it’s a little too artsy or stylistic, but I think is a really effective way to get a plot point across sometimes. Do we really need to know exactly what they said or is it enough to see that they were smiling when it happened? Film and television are visual medias and fanfic writers everywhere are grateful for the gaps in the story that they get to fill in with their own headcanons. (I said what I said.)

I’m sure there’s lots more things I could probably point out on why Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 complement each other while looking like they could be from completely different universes, but that’s all I wrote down while watching them both live. Hopefully my film theory professor and my screenwriting professor are proud of me for this analysis.

Thanks for the question, anon! Always here to answer and talk nerdy if anyone ever has any more.

[starfieldbhm]

What kill team you thinking of picking up? I was eyeing the brood brothers, but not sure if I ought to. (I generally only play 40k, and GSC isn't exactly in a good place right now lol)

!!!!!

I bought Corsair Voidscarred. Space elf pirates!!!

They get a free dash every turn with a 7 inch movement. Figured I'd start with them.

Brood brothers is cool. But the ew box doesn't come with the patriarch. Which is kinda needed imo. Even just base gsc is good in kill team, tho. They get to bring some badass charaters

[phoenixtv]

This game is just way too much fun 😂 my mans owl bear chilling by the fire n moonrise towers

[leonsliga]

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[malinastharlock]

I wish someone would treat me like a .zip file and compress me while I .rar and they make me .gif all over their .json