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Lost Little Nerd

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El • She/Her • LGBTQIA+ & BIPOC safe Geology and GIS enthusiast
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About Me!

I finally decided to make a post to pin because I feel like that’s easier than attempting to keep my bio neat and organized.

Name: Call me El for now! I don’t feel like sharing my irl name, so I’m currently testing out nicknames to see what I like. I want to have an identifier other than my username, you know?

Age: I am of the age of majority, but that being said, please don’t send me or ask me NSFW/18+ stuff, thank you very much. Minors are welcome to interact if they feel comfortable and safe doing so!

Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: I’m a cisgender woman (I am at an age where “woman” feels too old but “girl” feels too young. Is there an in-between word? “Gal”?), my pronouns are she/her, and my sexuality is unlabeled.

Where I’m From: Canada!🇨🇦

Fandoms: There’s a bunch but I’m lowkey blanking right now, so this list will be updated as I remember or join new fandoms (I’m not necessarily currently active in all of them but if I’ve listed it, it is something I’m still interested in):

  • Kpop (ARMY, MOA, ENGENE)
  • Harry Potter (written by Daniel Radcliffe himself, of course)
  • Marvel
  • Musicals (there’s a lot, so if you’re curious if I know/like one, just ask!)
  • Classic rock music (my favourite rock band is Queen)
  • Good Omens
  • Killing Eve
  • Supernatural (I’ve only watched through season 9, but there’s very little that happened up to the finale that I don’t already know about)
  • BBC Sherlock
  • Doctor Who (I didn’t finish before they took it off Netflix so I didn’t even finish the 11th Doctor’s storyline)
  • YouTube (Try Guys, Watcher, Markiplier, CrankGameplays, Jacksepticeye)

Other interests:

  • Science (it’s what I’m going to uni for! I’m specializing in earth and enviro sci, and also persuing a certificate in GIS)
  • Music (listening, singing, and I know how to play a couple of instruments)
  • Theatre (singing, acting, AND dancing)
  • Dogs (but cats and other types of pets are cool too)
  • Sports (my favourites are basketball and rugby)

If you have any questions, please ask and I will gladly answer (as long as it is a question that I’m comfortable answering, of course)!

#about me#me#lostlittlenerd#pinned post
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dear-ao3

not taking criticism at this time

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dear-ao3

this is formula 1 for everyone in the tags wondering who the random men are

and for the one person who asked me to explain steiner that man looked netflix in the eyes at the end of every season when they asked what his highlight of the season was and said basically “idk, we were shit, i’m glad it’s over.”

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hayden-vivian

there’s two kinds of people

#f1#formula 1#alignment chart#this is so funny to me#ask to tag
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kendrysaneela

This is why I love the “Covid is faked” conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism

Look up the manhattan project you dipshits

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sashibunbun

You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?

The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?

The one that had so many close calls to they’re working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?

THAT Manhattan Project?

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dixkens

The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?

That Manhattan project?

We’re talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?

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bogleech

And that was still just one government using the fullest extent of their power to try and keep just one secret in a time before cellular phone cameras or the internet. Imagine thinking multiple, rival governments agreed to fake a virus to fool just some of their citizens into staying home from work, while also agreeing to pay billions of dollars to compensate them for it.

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definitelynotaminion

Some people have never had to work on a company computer and use company software and it shows. It won’t do its REGULAR function much less secret second functions.

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fishiest-fish

also other countries realized they were building bombs. You don’t go from talking about splitting atoms in two all super excited to dead quiet about it for no reason in the span of less than a year

#science#funny#manhattan project#oppenheimer#conspiracy#covid19#ask to tag
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say-hi-intrepid-heroes

D&D basics for first-time watchers

The Player's Handbook is great, but a lot of people want to watch Dungeons & Dragons-centric shows without reading five hundred pages of rules. Below is a crash course of basic D&D stuff that's relevant to watchers (it gets more complex as the post goes on, so just read until you feel like it's getting too complex)

send this to anyone who is watching Dimension 20, Critical Role, or another D&D campaign for the first time!

The Basic Basics:

  • dice are referred to using "d" (for dice) + the number of sides. So a typical cube die is a d6, and a 20-sided die is a d20. (d20 is the most used one)
  • "Nat 1" : stands for "natural 1." This is the lowest possible number on a d20, and is considered an automatic fail at most tables.
  • "Nat 20" : stands for "natural 20," and is the highest possible number on a 20, and an automatic success.
  • DM/GM: Dungeon Master or Game Master; works as a sort of video game computer. They run the whole game, including the world, combat, and any NPCs, as well as direct plot or storyline.
  • PC: Player Characters, people who play a single character at a time during a game.
  • NPC: Non-Player Character, a character played by the DM for PCs to interact with.

The Slightly More Complex Basics:

  • Ability Scores: the numbers that make the game work and form characters, (ex: Strength, Charisma), higher means the character is better at that skill, details below.
  • Class: a category which a character falls into, giving them specific skills, spells, or abilities, allowing them to directly manipulate the game world (ex: Wizard, Fighter), details below.
  • Race: really should be called species (ex: Human, Elf, Dwarf)
  • Combat: times when PCs are directly fighting NPCs or each other, uses a specific order and series of turns, details below.

Getting Pretty Complex: Skills and Skill Checks:

  • When it happens: when a character is attempting to do anything not seen as extremely simple (ex: walking in normal conditions does not require an ability check, but swimming in a violent tide probably will)
  • What happens: the player rolls a d20 and adds their modifier to it. These are specific numbers to each character and aren't worth memorizing, but this is how players will sometimes get numbers larger than 20 or lower than 1.
  • What are modifiers?: modifiers define how naturally good (positive modifier) or bad (negative modifier) a character is at a given skill. This number then gets added to the number on the d20.
  • What is a success?: the DM sets a number (known as Difficulty Class, or DC) that is needed to succeed. When the character succeeds using the steps above, they are able to do whatever is attempting to be done.
  • What is a failure?: when a character does not reach that DC, they fail whatever they are attempting to do.
  • Note: Saving Throws: saving throws are similar to ability checks but are required by an outside influence on a player. These are super complex and not necessary to enjoy watching.

Getting Pretty Complex: Ability Scores:

  • Strength: measure of a character's physical ability to punch, lift, push, or break something (raw muscle mass, usually).
  • Dexterity: a character's ability to be agile, dodge, react, avoid, or pass over difficult terrain (speed or agility).
  • Intelligence: a character's ability to retain knowledge, objectively analyze, and remember things (raw knowledge).
  • Wisdom: a character's ability to infer, connect dots without having all the answers, or see something not initially apparent (analysis or reasoning).
  • Charisma: a character's ability to bend others to their will, whether through kindness, flirting, or threats (influence).
  • Constitution: a character's ability to endure and resist, affects Hit Points (sheer willpower).

Very Complex: Combat

  • Initiative: rolled by all participants at the beginning of combat, defines the order of turns, uses Dexterity as a modifier
  • Turns: include movement of a certain distance (usually 30ft for most humanoids), an action (usually a major spell or attack), and a bonus action (minor spell or extra ability that applies only to certain classes)
  • Armor Class: the number that defines how difficult a character is to hit.
  • Hit Points: the amount of damage a character can take before falling unconscious
  • Falling unconscious: when a character hits 0 hit points, they begin making death saving throws, where they roll a d20 and add no modifiers. A 1-9 is failure, a 10-20 is a success, 3 failures = full dead, 3 successes = stable but still at 0 hit points and therefore unable to take actions.
  • Full dead: occurs either at 3 death saving throw failures OR when dealt negative damage equal to a character's hit point total, a character can only come back to life when revived through magic.

Very Complex: Spells

  • Cantrips: minor spells that do not use spell slots
  • Leveled Spells: major spells that become more powerful with higher levels, consume spell slots
  • Spell Slots: the limited number of specific level spells a caster can cast between rests, increases with character level
  • Casting Time: certain spells take a longer time to cast, which is especially important in combat (each round is only about six seconds, so a spell that takes a minute to cast would take ten rounds and is not advised).

Very Complex: Classes

  • Wizard: Intelligence-based spellcaster, uses knowledge and study to learn magic.
  • Sorcerer: Charisma-based spellcaster, is born with magical ability and works to harness it.
  • Cleric: Wisdom-based spellcaster, is gifted with magical ability by (usually) a deity.
  • Warlock: Charisma-based spellcaster, bargains for magical ability with some sort of powerful entity via a contract.
  • Bard: Charisma-based spellcaster, channels magic through music or performance.
  • Druid: Wisdom-based spellcaster, harnesses the magic of nature
  • Barbarian: Strength-based physical attacker, fights through the power of rage.
  • Fighter: Strength- or Dexterity-based physical attacker, studies the skills required for effective fighting.
  • Ranger: Dexterity-based physical attacker with limited spellcasting, focused on survival, tracking, and ranged attacks.
  • Rogue: Dexterity-based physical attacker, strikes from the shadows and goes unseen.
  • Monk: Dexterity-based physical attacker, gains ability through meditation and training.
  • Paladin: Strength-based (typically) physical attacker with limited spellcasting abilities, fights for the sake of an oath.

[disclaimer: some DMs will change up/create classes, ability scores, etc., so these just typically followed rules, also there are many exceptions to the things above, these are just basics]

#dungeons and dragons#dnd#for future reference#dimension 20#ask to tag
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froody

girl I would kill myself if I did that lol

reading harry potter actively makes you less literate

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spiffiesttea

j why did you censor the name of the scottish play

I think doing that is way funnier than saying the Scottish play, and I’m not going to risk actually saying the name and having something bad happen

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spiffiesttea

i just realized despite me making fun of you for saying m*cbeth, i refused to say it myself. i am fucked up

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froody

even I, the op, flinched while writing it in the notes 😔

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catgirlforeskin

do y’all only post from inside a theatre?

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foone

All the world's a stage, catgirlforeskin.

#funny#shakespeare#the scottish play#harry potter#ask to tag
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captawesomesauce

WE ARE GIS PROFESSIONALS....

WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING!!!!!

it's just... that... sometimes... it doesn't work. At all... like... seriously... the fucking thing DOES... NOT... WORK!

it ain't us! WE know what we're doing. It's the damn map.. it doesn't want to map!!!!!!

We upgraded the software and now it fucking works, but seriously... something fucking broke in the software and the shit wasn't working at all.

#please ArcGIS#just let me do the thing#gis#maps#mapping#tw swearing#ask to tag
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a-dinosaur-a-day

I can make post after post after post explaining WHAT dinosaurs are and HOW birds are living dinosaurs as CLEARLY as I can and point to FREE RESOURCES for people to learn more and yet I *STILL* get ignorant CRAP like this filling my notes EVERY DAMN DAY

  • dinosaur means a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon. "terrible REPTILE" is what we named them because HUMANS NAME THINGS.
  • birds descended from that ancestor. thus, they are dinosaurs.
  • neither dinosaurs NOR birds are lizards. lizards are their OWN DAMN HYPERADAPTED THING that are super weird and nothing like birds or dinosaurs.
  • i am a PALEONTOLOGIST and it SAYS SO IN MY BIO so CLEARLY I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT
  • you can also GOOGLE THIS. AND GOOGLE WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING.

like, let's put it this way:

I have known, my entire life, a particular truth about the world. The majority of evidence has continued to support that truth, throughout my 30 years of life.

And yet, every five seconds, I get a million people telling me, with their whole chests, that I am wrong, even though, I am not.

What I'm saying is I'm constantly being gaslit by pretty much all of humanity apart from my comrades in arms and that has, in fact, contributed to my mental health issues.

This is not okay. Willful ignorance is not okay. We all need to be more okay with admitting we don't know things and looking them up. I don't know *lots* of things. And that's okay! I look them up! I learn!

Be okay with being wrong! Be okay with learning!

Stop gaslighting scientists! We're really tired and really scared bc the planet is on fire and no one is listening! Thanks!

#this#this is exactly what it’s like to be a scientist on the internet#even as a science student it hit so damn close to home#we’ve spent so much money and time learning all we can about the things we’re passionate about#only to be told we’re wrong by people on the internet with no academic background in the subject#it’s exhausting#tw: rant#science#ask to tag
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