#and he has a PhD???

[imadetheline]

absolutely fucking nothing could have prepared me for the sideways jaunt we take from the magical world of Howl's Moving Castle to real-life Wales in the middle of the book, not even the knowledge that Howl is Welsh I had absorbed from the internet. And don't even get me started on him quoting Shakespeare

#and he has a PhD??? #just casually dropped that one into conversation #pls i need to know what he wrote his thesis on #so real of him to get a PhD discover a fairy tale dimension tell no one and fuck off there except for his rugby team reunions #tfw you're a powerful sorcerer and you're still unemployed #the shakespeare quote threw me so far off i started cackling and had to get up #it has truly been years since ive read such a delightful book #watch me try to bully my family members into reading it next #also i shall be showing them the movie over thanksgiving break bc I can't believe its taken me this long to see it #it's so magical #maddie rambles #howls moving castle

[ikiprian]

Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.

Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.

Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.

User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.

(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)

She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.

FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically

BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?

FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?

FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once

FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it

BG: […]

FT: … barbara?

BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”

Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.

[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]

#she does end up sending tucker a PC lol #and after she learns he has experience supporting a superhero team maybe pushes his name forward to WEs outreach program for r&d potentials #picks him up by the scruff and says MY coding buddy #also fun fact she had a phd in library science at one point. i like that about her i think we should talk about it a little more #also tucker was making a ghost reporting & tracking app for amity parkers #dpxdc #dcxdp #barbara gordon #tucker foley #prompt #kipwrite

[whoisspence]

spencer reid yapping like the professional yapper he is

#professional yapper #just yappin #it's what he does best #bro has a phd in yapping #spencer reid #criminal minds #whoisspence

[ew-selfish-art]

Dp x Dc AU: Tucker gets hired by the JL to work on the Watchtower’s cybersecurity... He might have a few friends visit. 

Batman looked over the application for visitors presented to him by Dr. Foley, who was nervously wringing his hands but seemed excited to talk about his two close associates, and it appeared that everything was in order for the pair to be allotted a short visitation time slot. 

The paperwork was established by Batman himself after all, needing a way to permit non-members (His Children) to visit him at his office in the watchtower. Looking over Dr. Foley’s application, the invites to Dr. D. Fenton and Dr. S. Manson seemed to be somewhat warranted.

Dr. Fenton is a well known astrophysicist and Dr. Foley had been upping the security to reflect more complex physics models as the ‘lock’ mechanism for access to Watchtower servers. Dr. Manson was a more controversial figure in social justice but a biochemist to rival Dr. Pamela Isley, not to mention she was someone Bruce Wayne had met a number of times and not completely hated (though he was sure she hated him and everyone else in the gala). She was a fan favorite guest by his children and a great advocate for animal and human rights. 

Batman approves the application, allowing their visitation for a few hours at a time once a week until the completion of Dr. Foley’s project. 

He doesn’t hear much from it, nor from Dr. Foley, but things start to come down the rumor grapevine that the two guests were more than they seemed. Red Robin was the first to comment on it to him, and as practical and efficient Tim could be, there was a look of chaos in his smile as he discussed the two additional PhDs. He was stingy on details and that always meant something bad for Bruce’s mental health. A few others asked a few questions as to who exactly the pair were visiting, and Cyborg commented that they weren’t really doing too much to assist Dr. Foley. 

Batman decides to intervene and meet these two for himself when he hears Constantine complain (not that the man wasn’t always complaining about something) about the two new magic users being way too OP for normal humans. 

This is how the JL gets to become allied with Ghost King Phantom and Thorn (not Poison Ivy pt.2 as Robin insisted). Turns out they weren’t sure if the JL could be trusted with interdimensional politics, so Tucker spent the last two years gaining their trust to let Danny and Sam up here to ‘check the place out’ before they committed to becoming members. 

Batman doesn’t even get to raise alarms at the espionage of it all because Red Robin has already programed their new badges and welcomed them on with open arms and a project to take down the LOA’s Lazarus Pits “safely”.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp crossover #dc crossover #danny phantom #tucker gets a job with the JL to do espionage and enjoys the benefits package while hes at it #tucker gets dental and 401k matching while also keeping an eye open for war crimes #tucker 'too fine' foley is thriving (respectfully) when working with wonder woman to get her passwords set up #danny is a huge fan and want to join but sam is adamant that they cant be so sure #sam is connected to the green and goes by the most goth plant hero name i could think of #ghost king danny #everyone in this AU has spent way too much time and money going to school and getting phds #except for tim of course #manson family scholarship is just taking change from her moms purse #chaos gremlin highschool dropout tim drake has already sorted this whole thing out before tucker or bruce could even recognize it

[mvffinhamster]

I’M SORRY BUT CHARLIE SLIMECICLE ????

he’s always been fine but he’s evolving like a pokémon…

starting here: nerdy guy with big smile (so cute smile)

and suddenly he takes off his glasses…

and that’s okay, we’ve seen him without his glasses it’s okay, the messy hair is a bonus

BUT THEN???

SUDDENLY HE GRADUATED GAY HIGH SCHOOL

AND FUCKING GAY COLLEGE

EXCUSE ME ???? i am dead, i am actually 100% fucking dead

HE IS TOO HOT FOR HIS OWN GOOD

#his eyes are so blue i want to die #he’s doing his phd in serving after graduating ha high school and college with flying colors #i don’t know if i want to be with him or be him #most likely the later #but i have eyes #and he is fucking hot #none of my thoughts are in the bible #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle

[machonnes]

JACOB ANDERSON Young Hollywood Interview (x)

#iwtvedit #jacob anderson #iwtv #iwtv cast #people #he's so cute #and gorgeous and funny and talented and smart and... #also his SMILE #*mine #* #jacob says that he has a phd in sad boi #but he's also an actual ray of sunshine #the most adorable and beautiful man

[wizardnuke]

can't stop thinking about a shadowgast "i'm not looking to fuck do you have a screwdriver my bathroom is flooding" grindr au

#essek's the one with a flooding bathroom because 1. he's a shut-in who wouldn't ever talk to his neighbors and 2. probably has #either extremely reactive experiments going on in his kitchen or classified documents he brought home to work on #but he wouldn't have a screwdriver #and caleb 'diy wizard' widogast would a. check grindr regularly and b. have a full toolkit #caleb sits essek down and shows him how to fix it. you'd think it turns into a porno but between essek's demisexuality and caleb's #all-encompassing excitement over Doing Repairs that I know that nerd would have. they don't get that far and caleb leaves quickly bc he #has papers to grade. a week goes by. essek starts breaking things on purpose. it slowly dawns on caleb that Shitty Pipes Guy doesn't #actually have shitty pipes it's that he's Lonely. and that's endearing. is this mic on #caleb teaches physics at a community college and essek is some skeevy government official with a phd in astrophysics

[ddarker-dreams]

yan scaramouche knows you so well that if a fabricated letter in your name was ever delivered to him, even if they replicate your handwriting, he'll know it's fake within the first sentence alone.

(and he claims his interest in you is 'a moderate' amount).

#get you a man that knows your syntax/handwriting so well he could be a graphologist for you alone #he has a phd degree in [first] #probably has your average heart rate memorized #normal behavior #scaramouche brainrot #concepts

[cemeterything]

finished reading the irl james fitzjames biography. i enjoyed it but i'm unsure how i feel about the author's choice to write it like an essay length effort to convince me to agree to go on a date with his friend who he's wingmanning for.

#🐉 #maybe i just have problems but it felt like the author was trying SO hard to suck this guys dick #speaking as someone who has a phd in sucking jfj dick #i wish i had a physical copy so i could write HES NOT GOING TO FUCK YOU every time it got particularly egregious

[willowcrowned]

now that I’ve started thinking about book sophie meeting movie howl I can’t stop. I think she’d be absolutely SURE he’s faking his everything for sympathy and conning them all and go nuts from anxiety trying to make him “break character.” and I think book howl would call movie sophie mrs nose and she would fully start crying

#I NEED THEM TO MEET. SO BAD #it would be a FANTASTIC disaster #I think movie howl would look at book howl’s marriage and go damn bitch you live like this? #and book howl would be too busy thinking about how his hair is better and he has a phd to listen #howl’s moving castle #diana wynne jones

[fabledquill]

no one fucking speak to me

#howl's moving castle #in the words of my friend #he is SO 27 #diana wynne jones #this bitch has 4 houses in 2 dimensions and a PhD are you kidding

[mamoonde]

i really really really love the idea of wei wuxian revolutionizing modern cultivation over breakfast and conceptualizing these different theories simultaneously because the adhd brain has no brakes and the only reason it took him a decade to publish all these ideas was because he could not stick to a single train of thought long enough to finish (verbalizing) it, let alone put it down on paper coherently.

the only reason he even got to publishing them eventually (and enrolling to cultivation theory grad program to get on that track) was because one morning, his undergrad thesis advisor, lan qiren, finally got fed up and sat him down for an early morning progress check-in because it was midterm season and wei wuxian still hadn't decided on a topic.

wei wuxian, fueled by an unhealthy amount of redbull and three all-nighters, finally word vomits all his 'convoluted' ideas which he'd thought were uselessly obvious and redundant (because he's gone over these like a bajillion times, it's very plain-as-day to him, so he probably just hasn't read the articles that say these exact things).

lan qiren, teacup frozen halfway to his mouth: ...first of all, i only understood half of how you got to these conclusions, which only means they are indeed too convoluted and will need to be pared down; secondly: you have never mentioned any of these ideas before. why.

wei wuxian: oh. haven't i? oh well, i just thought, xyz, because, obviously, abcde. which is really what the 2 centuries old law on ghjkl was alluding to, right? and so, logically, xyz.

lan qiren: [mind blown, screaming, good gods this is the same child who's always tardy and spent freshman year pulling on the metaphorical pigtails of my straight-laced nephew?!?!??!??!?!] ..again, why...how have you never even spoken or submitted these ideas?

wei wuxian: because!!! they're so obvious!! surely, it's been published somewhere already? i can't be the only one to connect these dots, surely??

lan qiren: incredibly, you are. no one else has even thought to question tradition nor pursued more thoughts on the law of ghjkl, with half as much...sound arguments as you seem to have. in the past century, the focus of modern cultivation has tended towards practical uses and tools, some fine-tuning, perhaps. not entirely new theories.

wei wuxian: huh....

lan qiren, sighing, feeling a migraine: your problem with your thesis is not a lack of focus or ingenuity, but likely to be more a lack of recent, evidentiary sources. you will need to become very familiar with the university archives and dig deep for sources that will back up every argument you make.

he jots down notes on a paper. "you will also need to strictly adhere to the structure and methodology of these articles, especially given how radical your thesis will be. if you are diligent enough, you may just be able to submit your thesis without too much of a delay." he slides the list of materials to a gaping wei wuxian. "depending on your output then, we can discuss the possibility of submitting this for peer review."

"peer review." wei wuxian repeats. "as in, that thing where some uppity committee of old coots put their stamp of approval for it to become the reading materials of undergrads like me. you're joking."

lan qiren chooses to ignore the sentiment about peer review committees being uppity old coots, especially considering how he can't completely deny it on account of some of his colleagues, but also as a member said peer review committee, he isn't exactly pleased about being lumped in the same category.

wei wuxian backtracks at his unamused look. "right, you're not joking, of course you're not." he slowly inches the list towards himself. "right, yes, i guess i'll uh, get to it then. ok bye."

----

idk, just, waves hand at wei wuxian candidly explaining new modern cultivation theories over cheerios at 2 in the afternoon to lwj who's trying to help him structure his grad thesis, getting mind blow dick hard at how this messy genius who's talking with his mouth full of half eaten cereal is the object of his affection....

wwx: --oh, oops, your highlighter fell

lwj: mn

wwx: ...aren't you gonna get that?

lwj: it's fine; i'll pick it up later. finish your thought.

wwx: right... i'll pick it up for you!

lwj, fighting for his life, trying to think unsexy thoughts: NO! sit. finish your meal, and then your thought.

#big brain wei wuxian #wei wuxian #genius wwx #in an interview for modern cultivation magazine he's asked: how do you do it? #wwx: adhd! #also a dedicated partner who tolerates your midnight rambling about spiritual energy and entertains your endless what ifs scenarios #bonus points if your partner is lwj who has amazing notetaking skills and a phd in decoding wei wuxian notes #wangxian #mdzs #modern cultivation au #also i love a supportive mentor lqr dont you #a mellowed out lqr who has a little more tolerance for radical ways of thought as long as theyre rooted in morality and good will #mamoonde short fics

[jamlabs]

Listen to me look me directly in the eyes. Sol Badguy is such a fucking engineer. Okay? Our whole job is to do a shit ton of work to make an extremely lazy solution. We optimize once so the next 20 times we have to do the same task it's easy as shit. Sol has an engineers spirit. He can and will work extremely hard to make something (suppressor, WMD, bike) so he can be lazy about the Problem in the future.

I think he's a MechE kind of guy. He feels like someone who would be really into structures and materials and maybe statics? I think he would like controls too. Though that is definitely me projecting because I think controls is really interesting

#j.txt #HE HAS THE ENGINEERS SPIRIT. #this is why in the guilty gear in my brain he has 2 phds and one of them is in MechE. #guilty gear #sol badguy

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

I just need to inform you nerds about absolute madlad academic Joseph Brennan

most notably, he wrote a paper about a queer reading of Mordred in BBC Merlin which heavily cites his own (poorly photoshopped) pornographic slash manips

but he also edited a whole book about queerbaiting, including chapters about: Supernatural, Xena Warrior Princess, One Direction RPF, Supergirl, and the fucking Johnlock Conspiracy

all the rest of his work is about gay porn

I fucking love academia

#he has a phd in the same field I'm studying (media and communications studies). truly an inspiration #at xmas my aunt asked me 'are you going to do a phd in media? what would you do with that' I could write about gay fanfic fuck u aunt moira #although I have been talked out of writing my dissertation about arthurian legend as fandom. very sad #bbc merlin #merlin #I'll tag the other fandoms and ships mentioned. you can't read the articles without paying for it but might be interested to know it exists #supernatural #destiel #wincest #xena warrior princess #one direction #larry stylinson #supergirl #supercorp #sherlock #johnlock #tjlc #merdred

[eyeofthenewt1]

*CRUMPLES HIM LIKE A TISSUE, ROLLS HIM THRU A PASTA MACHINE, LAMINATES HIM, FRIES HIM ON A PAN*

#hi this is my current best blorbo #his name is Petrichor Artz #petr for short #he is a horrible smug little corpse man #also has a phd #annathenewt art #annathenewtocs #im gonna be playing him in CoS soon #my art #dnd #artists on tumblr #dnd character #original character #character design #concept art #trans character #new blorbo acquired #blorbo #oc #dnd oc #petrichor artz

[healpimp]

seeing ppl say tf2 has "no diversity" compared to ovw is so wild. the mercs literally all mentally ill AND they have pyro.

#this is a joke post #i might like ovw but the diversity is pandering #still thinking abt the diversity chart and how they made zarya straight like aight bitch #ovw having a diverse cast is fine. it works for ovw bc of when it came out and its vibe #tf2 came out in 2009 and is a big funny haha play on stereotypes #for example heavy is the big russian macho guy but he isn't stupid in fact he is well read #soldier at first glance looks like he would be republican but any prolonged exposure to him #and you understand he just has rabies #engies texan but has 11 phds... for some reason #and demoman is scottish and just happens to be black #its a joke abt how black men in shooters are always afro american bc its popularized that way thru movies #anyone who thinks tf2 has no diversity is kinda lame bc obv they dont know zhanna or miss pauling #or that all australian women have beards #or that merasmus is genderfluid (???) #like i like ovw and care abt it a medium amnt #but ovw isnt nearly as heartfelt as tf2 #they took some cowardly decisions w ovw #like whatever they did to zarya in ovw 2. god. #and putting genji in pants #and de-assing reaper. unforgivable #like declawing a cat. unethical. how will he defend himself now.