After over 12 years on this website, I'm actually making an intro post. Will wonders ever cease? 😅
Hi! I'm Blake, or just Geek, (they/it/any, surprise me) and I've been a lurker for years but now I'm trying to be a little more social around these parts. This is entirely the fault of Thunderbirds and its wonderful community finally cracking the social anxiety shell. Thanks Thunderfam 🥰
That being said, Thunderbirds isn't the only thing I've loved this much over the years, so there will be plenty of other things to see around here. This is my personal blog so it's like 70% my brain and 30% fandom posting.
I AM AN ADULT PERSON WHO SOMETIMES POSTS ADULT THINGS. I'll generally keep it pretty chill here on the blog, but I will occasionally post content you might not want to see! It'll be flagged and tagged as appropriate, look after yourselves ❤️
Now, onto the blog guide!
COMMON TAGS;
#the geek yaps - personal posts
#the geek writes - fanfics and writing
#the geek draws - art tag
#ask the geek and it may answer - ask tag
#the geek rewatches TAG - my running commentary as I watch Thunderbirds Are Go for the second time
#AU: Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds - the tag for the primary universe I write my Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet fanfic in. Basically instead of keeping the two shows and their respective reboots separate, I'm smashing them all together into a single universe that fits my own tastes. E.g. I'm a Blond John, Ginger Gordon diehard but ALSO am just straight up in love with Black-Haired Virgil. It uses the puppet shows as a base (Jeff is still in the picture) but opts for the updated technology, either presented as-is or as part of Brains continually iterating and improving his own work. Heavy with OCs, many of which are Captain Scarlet OCs specifically because that's the show I got into first.
OC related posts will be tagged as '#OC: [character name/title]' e.g #OC: Larkin Carver-Grey or #OC: Captain Sable. If you're looking for a specific OC of mine you can probably find them searching like this on my blog lol. Same with fics, with links and related posts being tagged as 'Fic: [Name of Fic]'.
CURRENT WORKS;
Lines Left Behind - The chronological beginning of the Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds AU, where several of my OCs are introduced first joining Spectrum, told mainly from the perspective of Captain Sable. Ongoing. Ao3 | Tumblr
dance in yellow, kiss in lilac - Tosia and John go to a party and finally kiss. Oneshot. Ao3 | Tumblr
Errant Fractionality - Tracy Island has to weather a blowout argument that pulls the future of International Rescue into sharp focus, and Gordon thinks it's a good idea to piss off to Brazil for a week with the guy he has a crush on. Ongoing. Ao3 | Tumblr
Unclipped Wings - Scott discovers and rescues a powerful psychic from an abandoned research facility. The consequences are far greater, and much closer to home, than he ever could have predicted. Ongoing. Ao3 | Tumblr
Encore for an Old Song - The Songbird is in custody, and Colonel White must take their measure. They aren't what he's expecting. Oneshot. Ao3 | Tumblr
I Break My Teeth Upon Your Scales - The Virgil Tracy Skyrim Isekai Torment Nexus. Exactly what it says on the tin, with a hefty seasoning of self-insert shipping. Set post-TAG. Ongoing Ao3 | Tumblr
FANDOMS;
Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO (1970), Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Fallout, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Starfield, Mass Effect, Destiny, Baldur's Gate 3, Critical Role, Lord of the Rings, Fire Emblem, Soul Calibur, Zoids
... I think that's all of them? I think that's all of them. For someone who has a negligible online footprint, I've been privately losing it over my hyperfixations for YEARS. Now I'm playing catch-up.
I'll pin and update this post, hopefully regularly. Sometimes I forget things 😅 If you made it this far, by god you're a trooper, thank you for your time! Have a wonderful day ❤️
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Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
you can still radiate light if you’re sad. you can still be kind and soft-hearted if you’re a bit cynical. you don’t need to be the happiest person to make someone else’s day better.
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being late getting into a piece of media or joining a ‘dead’ fandom is not that bad actually cause even if it seems like the party is over there will always be people still celebrating and the decoration is still up and there’s a piece of cake reserved especially for you in the fridge you just have to come and enjoy it.
The object comparisons are things of an equivalent weight, not things you can cut with the swords. Just saying so to preemptively stop cursed comments.
This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.
You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.
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