Some nerd shit

First off, spin this wheel.

You just landed on one of 200 fandoms that have been very popular somewhere on Tumblr over the years. Topics were chosen either from appearing on a @fandom end-of-year recap or from my own long (long, long) site memories before that.

also all of these fandoms are definitely things that really exist in the real world and none of them are Tumblr creations

Sabrina Carpenter

I have heard a few of her songs so a 5 minute convo shouldn't be too hard.

Recycled tumblr humor

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supernatural gif that fits even though the post was nowhere near related to spn

comment expressing disbelief on how Supernatural has a gif for everything

Comment expressing their uttermost love for Tumblr

comment expressing utter hate for posts like these

Comment that OMG IT’S THE ORIGINAL I’VE ONLY SEEN IT IN SCREENSHOTS

what was old is apparently new again

Someone saying this post is a must reblog

someone mentioning the ops are all deactivated

The @hellsite-hall-of-fame reblog

Reading this in 2024 feels like an immortal returning to their old village after 300 years and finding it’s been converted to a heritage site full of period actors

the adjective triplets: gottlos, ehrenlos and bodenlos

this callout couldve been a block button

this callout couldve been a private conversation

This callout could've been a debate I had by myself in the shower

Moooola!

This is cosmic horror. To me.

@elodieunderglass the horrors

The horrors!!

An early Halloween cartoon for Guardian Books

What I legit thought the punchline was gonna be.

but what if

I'll never understand the "curtains are just blue sometimes" people. I was soooo fucking excited learning about symbolism. You have a story and what the story tells you. Then you have the fact that it was written at all by someone and that's another story. And then there's also hidden extra story info?

they say you snooze you lose, and well. heh. i snost and lost

just don’t let the snost cost fallacy get you

rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy

Today's Seal Is: Hardest Choice In The World

YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN THAT RIGHT NOW

well damn

Every time, I know what's coming, but every time, I just lose it at "Uh. That"

I think we owe an apology to the Americans, looks like at least some of the issues with their healthcare system can be addressed with guns

Me reaching what looks suspiciously to be the end of my rope: oobh i got plany off rope

Idk if I've really talked about it here but I've been making a foray into woodworking and craftsmanship lately, with my latest project (currently on hold for a day or two because I am sick -_-) being a pair of digi stilts.

Unfortunately, because I am stupid, I have decided to make my next woodworking project a rocking horse. Not any normal rocking horse, no. A victorian style carousel horse made entirely of carved hardwood. One of these.

Evidence that my strange confidence I will be able to do this is founded in:

Truth:

Stupidity:

I will not be starting this immediately but if you start seeing a lot of posts about me being very frustrated with a project in a month or so. Now you know the reason!

Rocking horse update!!

2. I am officially approved and financed by the madre herself on the condition she gets to keep my first horse as a display piece. I feel like a Renaissance noble's pet artist

3. PLANSS!!! They're shipping from the Rocking Horse Shop in Yorkshire, which means they will take.....a long while to get here, probably, but they are coming!!!

(Yes I'm putting this horse on bow rockers. Because why WOULDN'T I attempt an extremely precise and technical rocking mechanism for my first horse)

More updates to come as I keep carving the practice head o7

Update on the practice head: Considering he's my first ever carved horse I'm honestly pretty proud of him! Once my pattern comes in I'll be building one more from scrap wood before moving on to the real thing.

The shop tech named him Mister Ed, which is hilarious considering he had no idea my real actual not-wood horse is also named Mister Ed

After three full hours of intense wood scrutiny at the lumber yard I am officially ready to start building!!!!

While I was perusing the wood this older butch employee asked if she could help us and what I was making. After I told her she gave me the 'are you sure that's a good idea pipsqueak' look that everyone ever over the age of 30 gives me when I attempt anything but OTHERWISE she was cool af and a great help considering I was, in fact, Struggling a bit. 8/10 experience

There was also another guy who helped me called Riley. I'm pretty sure Riley was high. No other notes.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, It's woodcutting time babey!!!

Rocking horse update!!!!

Okay so my very expensive wood purchase may, somewhat, have psyched me out a bit. So in response I have decided to build 3 scale models out of scrap wood first!! Scale model 1 is going well thus far, wish me luck o7

Using literally every scrap of spare time I have to work on this and I'm MAD ABOUT IT because we're busy this week and that spare time comes in 10 minute increments

When you're dealing with scale models that don't actually have to take any weight, plans are just suggestions (also: complete head redesigns because the original head is way too stylized and cartoonish for my taste)

Post-Thanksgiving Break Horse Update: We're trucking along

Y'all it's ALMOST starting to look like a horse

Rocking horse update!!!

SO, we've officially got the rockers all framed up and put together!!!

However. You see that frame joint? Yeah, that one right there

i FUCKED IT UP and put it on the inside of the frame instead of the outside and now my rockers are too wide. Which means now I have to cut this bitch in half, take out 3/4s of an inch or so, and glue it back together because I am NOT about to remake the whole thing. Which is fine because this horse is just decorative, thankfully. but I'm still MAD

Moral of the story: this is why we make scale models, ladies and gentlemen, so we can screw up with minimal consequences!!!

All of today's progress pictured here:

LAUGHS EVILLY IN HORSE

I glued the rocker frame to be the correct width but honestly the thing looks wonky enough that I probably will end up scrapping it and building another one. A shame, but at least the lad is looking handsome thus far

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HE'S LOOKING LIKE A HORSE

Spent a solid 3 hours carving away at this guy with a dremel and angle grinder and I think he's looking really good! Somehow my attempted fix to his rockers made them topheavy, so I'm gonna scrap them and make a new set. Live and learn lmao

ANYWAY, I'm so excited because I get to spend a SHIT TON of time on my mans this week. 2-5 hours tomorrow, 5 hours on Wednesday, and then an hour or so on Thursday. So in THEORY, the lad should be completely finished (excluding paint/mane and tail/etc) by this weekend!!!

The man, the myth, the legend

Very quick update because I am smack in the middle of finals week but I just realized it's been a little bit since I updated y'all on the Man's status! He is the love of my life and just needs some final adjustments + sanding before he's ready to paint!

Okay so I’ve been doing a ton of work on the lad but pretty much none of it is particularly visible or dramatic so I’m not really posting it lmao. That said, the rockers are being painted

I am officially out for winter break now, which means HORSE UPDATE TIME!

2. After so, so, SO much more sanding I arrived here!

3. The tail (and soon to be mane) is, sadly, entirely synthetic– the goal is to finish this horse by Christmas and I couldn't get my hands on any non-plastic materials in time. Regardless, my homebrew methodology for making an insertable horse tail:

4. Painting!!! And little tiny clay eyes!!! He's starting to look like a real horse you guys!!!

DELIGHTED to announce the scale model horse is officially done!!! And just in time for Christmas!!!

He's certainly not perfect, especially in person, but he's a gift for my mom who wanted an antique look, so the roughness works out here!!

I learned a ton making this guy, and am incredibly glad I did a scale model before attacking the big horse because some of the technical errors I made here would've cost me a lot on a larger piece. Of the many specific little things I learned, here are (imo) some of the most important:

Overall I had so much fun on this project, and am BEYOND excited to build the big guy now that I have some experience under my belt. Can't wait to see you all with my next horse!!!!

shout out to everyone in south korea who went to bed early last night

if you missed it the president declared martial law out of fucking nowhere at around 10pm or so last night. publicly he claimed that this was to defend against north korea, but according to the BBC it was mostly was because he was frustrated nobody listened to him because everyone despises this guy. nobody wanted to pass his laws, so he just vetoed everything. and I guess he reached a breaking point last night and threw an absolutely legendary tantrum.

so people were immediately confused, and that confusion turned to anger because martial law means people can get arrested much more easily, and also, what the general fuck? and protests began at parliament, and the combination of protestors and police were blocking the way in.

and then 190 parliament members showed up in the middle of the night, at least some of them had to to jump a fence and/or evade police not letting them in, and they got inside and voted 190-0 to un-declare martial law. not a single person there voted to maintain martial law, and not a single person who would have voted to maintain martial law bothered to show up. that vote happened at around 1am.

and within a few hours the president announced that fine, he will undo martial law. and then he undid it. and then people started calling for his resignation or impeachment.

and then people started waking up. this all went down within a few extremely baffling hours. good morning!