https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:28:56 +0000 MyBB https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=727 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:42:40 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=727 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3...of-autism/ ). 

Some of Sheldon's traits I could put down to knowing too much about organic chemistry at an early age, at a microscopic level it's a war zone involving humans, bacteria and viruses. Other traits maybe just a reaction to not being afraid to be intelligent in a world of jocks. 

The same autism expert (as article above), Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen(Autism Research Centre), has believed for twenty years in these two theories; 'Empathising-Systemising theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism'.

I'll just point out these two ideas; 'although autistic people on average struggle with ‘cognitive’ empathy – recognizing other people’s thoughts and feelings – they nevertheless have intact ‘affective’ empathy – they care about others'.

'This study also pinpoints some of the qualities autistic people bring to neurodiversity. They are, on average, strong systemisers, meaning they have excellent pattern-recognition skills, excellent attention to detail, and an aptitude in understanding how things work. We must support their talents so they achieve their potential – and society benefits too'.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/over...rences-and]]> https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3...of-autism/ ). 

Some of Sheldon's traits I could put down to knowing too much about organic chemistry at an early age, at a microscopic level it's a war zone involving humans, bacteria and viruses. Other traits maybe just a reaction to not being afraid to be intelligent in a world of jocks. 

The same autism expert (as article above), Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen(Autism Research Centre), has believed for twenty years in these two theories; 'Empathising-Systemising theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism'.

I'll just point out these two ideas; 'although autistic people on average struggle with ‘cognitive’ empathy – recognizing other people’s thoughts and feelings – they nevertheless have intact ‘affective’ empathy – they care about others'.

'This study also pinpoints some of the qualities autistic people bring to neurodiversity. They are, on average, strong systemisers, meaning they have excellent pattern-recognition skills, excellent attention to detail, and an aptitude in understanding how things work. We must support their talents so they achieve their potential – and society benefits too'.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/over...rences-and]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=663 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:55:30 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=663
Brazilian physicist... Juliano Cesar Silva Neves porposes that the universe is cyclic and there was no beginning to it.

Perhaps we can use The Big Bounce Theory as the place where our Hypothetical Shenny exists?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5017045/bi...ig-crunch/

If bounce is how it happens and we are energy, I'm getting a big repeato reincarnation vibe about this science... ]]>
Brazilian physicist... Juliano Cesar Silva Neves porposes that the universe is cyclic and there was no beginning to it.

Perhaps we can use The Big Bounce Theory as the place where our Hypothetical Shenny exists?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5017045/bi...ig-crunch/

If bounce is how it happens and we are energy, I'm getting a big repeato reincarnation vibe about this science... ]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=628 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:45:16 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=628
This is what it looks like, as it forms a crystal structure. Aside from this is does little else... much like Bazinga!


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https://www.livescience.com/59939-big-ba...pound.html]]>
This is what it looks like, as it forms a crystal structure. Aside from this is does little else... much like Bazinga!


  BaZnGa.jpeg (Size: 266.85 KB / Downloads: 16)


https://www.livescience.com/59939-big-ba...pound.html]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=523 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:15:32 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=523
The Big Bang (or any) Fandom

And I came across thie reddit post which had been shared on Tumblr which goes a long way to exploring this.

"Note: The following has hella generalization. If you feel like this doesn't apply to you, congratulations, let me slow clap it out.

Large fandoms--things like Doctor Who, or Supernatural, or Star Trek, or any superhero comic--tend to have unique and separate sides to them: curative and transformative.

Curative fandom is all about knowledge. It's about making sure that everything is lined up and in order, knowing how it works, and finding out which one is the best. What is the Doctor Who canon? Who is the best Doctor? How do Weeping Angels work? Etc etc. Curative fandom is p. much the norm on reddit, especially r/gallifrey.

Transformative fandom is about change. Let's write fic! Let's make art! Let's make a fan vid! Let's cosplay! Let's somehow change the text. Why is Three easier to ship, while Seven is more difficult? What would happen if ______? Transformative fandom is more or less the norm on tumblr. (And livejournal, and dreamwidth, and fanfiction websites, and...)

Here's the big thing: there's a gender split. Find a random male fan, and they'll probably be in curative fandom. Pick a random transformative fandom-er, and they'll probably be female. Note that this is phrased in a very particular way--obviously there's guys who cosplay and write fic, obviously there's women who don't. But men tend to be in the curative fandom, while transformative fandom is predominately women--and/or queer people, POC, etc. Why? Because the majority of professionally-made media is catered towards a straight white male demographic, leaving little room for 'outsiders.' Outsiders who, if they want to see themselves in media, have to attack it and change it--hence slash fic, hence long essays claiming that Hermione Granger is black, hence canons (edit: slipped up, sorry. meant headcanons) about trans characters or genderqueer characters.

And then curative/male fandom tends to view most things that transformative/female fandom does with disdain. Why? Because, in their eyes, it devalues canon. Who cares about knowing about Tony Stark's lovers if somebody's gonna write a fic where Toni Stark is flying about? Their power is lessened. Scream of the Shalka is unambiguously not canon--but it doesn't have to be in order for me to read and enjoy a 30k fic where the robotic Master was secretly in the TARDIS during Nine and Ten's time and they shagged behind the scenes. Canon? No, but who gives a shit?

Also, as transformative fandom tends to be an outsider looking in, they're much more likely to analyze the work from a queer/PoC/neurodivergent/gender perspective. If I come to /r/gallifrey and start to talk about how 'In the Forest of the Night' had a questionable portrayal of mental health/autism, I get blank stare. If I go on tumblr, I get a conversation. This is also where the 'overreacting, shrieking SJW' trope plays in, either because of a redditor's misunderstanding of terms and therefore assuming that a mild critique is a scathing one, or because the tumblr user in question is young/inexperienced and jumping the gun.

So, there you have it: /r/gallifrey's bashing of reddit is part of a larger split in how men and women tend to enjoy fandom, and a lashing against how fanfiction/related things addresses fandom because it's not the right "kind" of fandom. And also because tumblr is popular with teenage girls, and there's nothing reddit loves more than shitting on whatever teenage girls like.

EDIT: I was not expecting that an enormous conversation would come from this, and certainly not that I'd be gilded, sent to /r/bestof, and /r/goldredditsays. So, uh, thanks! I was originally going to edit and respond to some comments I saw, but I ran out of room, so I wound up doing it over here. Thanks for all of your interest!" - LordByronic on reddit]]>
The Big Bang (or any) Fandom

And I came across thie reddit post which had been shared on Tumblr which goes a long way to exploring this.

"Note: The following has hella generalization. If you feel like this doesn't apply to you, congratulations, let me slow clap it out.

Large fandoms--things like Doctor Who, or Supernatural, or Star Trek, or any superhero comic--tend to have unique and separate sides to them: curative and transformative.

Curative fandom is all about knowledge. It's about making sure that everything is lined up and in order, knowing how it works, and finding out which one is the best. What is the Doctor Who canon? Who is the best Doctor? How do Weeping Angels work? Etc etc. Curative fandom is p. much the norm on reddit, especially r/gallifrey.

Transformative fandom is about change. Let's write fic! Let's make art! Let's make a fan vid! Let's cosplay! Let's somehow change the text. Why is Three easier to ship, while Seven is more difficult? What would happen if ______? Transformative fandom is more or less the norm on tumblr. (And livejournal, and dreamwidth, and fanfiction websites, and...)

Here's the big thing: there's a gender split. Find a random male fan, and they'll probably be in curative fandom. Pick a random transformative fandom-er, and they'll probably be female. Note that this is phrased in a very particular way--obviously there's guys who cosplay and write fic, obviously there's women who don't. But men tend to be in the curative fandom, while transformative fandom is predominately women--and/or queer people, POC, etc. Why? Because the majority of professionally-made media is catered towards a straight white male demographic, leaving little room for 'outsiders.' Outsiders who, if they want to see themselves in media, have to attack it and change it--hence slash fic, hence long essays claiming that Hermione Granger is black, hence canons (edit: slipped up, sorry. meant headcanons) about trans characters or genderqueer characters.

And then curative/male fandom tends to view most things that transformative/female fandom does with disdain. Why? Because, in their eyes, it devalues canon. Who cares about knowing about Tony Stark's lovers if somebody's gonna write a fic where Toni Stark is flying about? Their power is lessened. Scream of the Shalka is unambiguously not canon--but it doesn't have to be in order for me to read and enjoy a 30k fic where the robotic Master was secretly in the TARDIS during Nine and Ten's time and they shagged behind the scenes. Canon? No, but who gives a shit?

Also, as transformative fandom tends to be an outsider looking in, they're much more likely to analyze the work from a queer/PoC/neurodivergent/gender perspective. If I come to /r/gallifrey and start to talk about how 'In the Forest of the Night' had a questionable portrayal of mental health/autism, I get blank stare. If I go on tumblr, I get a conversation. This is also where the 'overreacting, shrieking SJW' trope plays in, either because of a redditor's misunderstanding of terms and therefore assuming that a mild critique is a scathing one, or because the tumblr user in question is young/inexperienced and jumping the gun.

So, there you have it: /r/gallifrey's bashing of reddit is part of a larger split in how men and women tend to enjoy fandom, and a lashing against how fanfiction/related things addresses fandom because it's not the right "kind" of fandom. And also because tumblr is popular with teenage girls, and there's nothing reddit loves more than shitting on whatever teenage girls like.

EDIT: I was not expecting that an enormous conversation would come from this, and certainly not that I'd be gilded, sent to /r/bestof, and /r/goldredditsays. So, uh, thanks! I was originally going to edit and respond to some comments I saw, but I ran out of room, so I wound up doing it over here. Thanks for all of your interest!" - LordByronic on reddit]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=420 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:44:21 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=420


My garish, cluttery (and slightly irreverent) salute, complete with apocryphal apple, to Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the greatest physicist who ever lived but also a fascinatingly complex and notoriously difficult man to get along with. He was utterly brilliant, intuitive and indefatigable, but he could be ill-tempered, petty, and aloof as well. He was overly sensitive to criticism of his work and thus prone to making lifelong enemies out of professional rivals. It's been suggested that he may have had Asperger's Syndrome, and because he never married that he was asexual or possibly a repressed homosexual.


"He was a wrapt, consecrated solitary, pursuing his studies by intense introspection with a mental endurance perhaps never equalled" -- John Maynard Keynes

"Newton - being well known as one of the most aggravating personalities in science as well as one of the biggest brains..." -- Rational Wiki

"Newton was a finicky, neurotic, off-scale brilliant character who seemed able to hold a problem in his mind, neither sleeping nor eating, 'thinking on it continually,' he said, until he'd solved it." -- Ann Finkbeiner

"Newton was famously difficult to get along with, saving much of his abrasiveness for Robert Hooke, who may have been the source of the 'standing on the shoulders of giants' quote, in reference to Hooke's apparent short and hunchback appearance." -- Rational Wiki

"He sought order and believed in order but never averted his eyes from the chaos. He of all people was no Newtonian." -- James Gleick


Newton was also well known for experimenting and writing extensively on alchemy, which seems entirely contrary for a man of science steeped in reason and rationality. But my personal theory is that alchemy was in some respects the superhero/sci-fi culture of the time. It wasn't real science but it was fun, diverting and intellectually stimulating nonetheless and provided the allure of magic/fantasy and the unattainable.]]>


My garish, cluttery (and slightly irreverent) salute, complete with apocryphal apple, to Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the greatest physicist who ever lived but also a fascinatingly complex and notoriously difficult man to get along with. He was utterly brilliant, intuitive and indefatigable, but he could be ill-tempered, petty, and aloof as well. He was overly sensitive to criticism of his work and thus prone to making lifelong enemies out of professional rivals. It's been suggested that he may have had Asperger's Syndrome, and because he never married that he was asexual or possibly a repressed homosexual.


"He was a wrapt, consecrated solitary, pursuing his studies by intense introspection with a mental endurance perhaps never equalled" -- John Maynard Keynes

"Newton - being well known as one of the most aggravating personalities in science as well as one of the biggest brains..." -- Rational Wiki

"Newton was a finicky, neurotic, off-scale brilliant character who seemed able to hold a problem in his mind, neither sleeping nor eating, 'thinking on it continually,' he said, until he'd solved it." -- Ann Finkbeiner

"Newton was famously difficult to get along with, saving much of his abrasiveness for Robert Hooke, who may have been the source of the 'standing on the shoulders of giants' quote, in reference to Hooke's apparent short and hunchback appearance." -- Rational Wiki

"He sought order and believed in order but never averted his eyes from the chaos. He of all people was no Newtonian." -- James Gleick


Newton was also well known for experimenting and writing extensively on alchemy, which seems entirely contrary for a man of science steeped in reason and rationality. But my personal theory is that alchemy was in some respects the superhero/sci-fi culture of the time. It wasn't real science but it was fun, diverting and intellectually stimulating nonetheless and provided the allure of magic/fantasy and the unattainable.]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=220 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:19:00 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=220 I propose that this should be a thread about collectibles, merchandise, and interesting items, whether TBBT-related or not.



I don't know what to think of *these* figurines. ( I don't own them.)
That doesn't look anything like Sheldon, IMO it looks like a Pixar character. I haven't seen them for sale anywhere.



I love my Howard & Raj Funko Pop figurines that I posted about in another thread. I like that they are very abstract-looking; they represent more the *idea* of the characters, they're not meant to resemble the actors in any concrete way.

Just for fun, instead of James and the Giant Peach, here's Howard and Raj with the Giant Peach, Giant Pear, and Giant Cupcakes

Perhaps this is a fantasy they had whilst they were high during TADD

[/URL]]]> I propose that this should be a thread about collectibles, merchandise, and interesting items, whether TBBT-related or not.



I don't know what to think of *these* figurines. ( I don't own them.)
That doesn't look anything like Sheldon, IMO it looks like a Pixar character. I haven't seen them for sale anywhere.



I love my Howard & Raj Funko Pop figurines that I posted about in another thread. I like that they are very abstract-looking; they represent more the *idea* of the characters, they're not meant to resemble the actors in any concrete way.

Just for fun, instead of James and the Giant Peach, here's Howard and Raj with the Giant Peach, Giant Pear, and Giant Cupcakes

Perhaps this is a fantasy they had whilst they were high during TADD

[/URL]]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=131 Sun, 27 Apr 2014 23:59:25 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=131 When matter and anti matter hit each other they annihilate each other. However what was left over after most of the matter and anti matter collided its believed to be what has become the universe we have today. So hypothetically if Anti matter hit a black hole what do you believe would be the result? I thought this was a good discussion to bring up on the Big bang forum.]]> When matter and anti matter hit each other they annihilate each other. However what was left over after most of the matter and anti matter collided its believed to be what has become the universe we have today. So hypothetically if Anti matter hit a black hole what do you believe would be the result? I thought this was a good discussion to bring up on the Big bang forum.]]> https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=61 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:49:26 +0000 https://shennyhq.co.uk/dir/showthread.php?tid=61
Asteroid 246247 Sheldoncooper

Euglossa bazinga bee

Bazinga rieki jellyfish

Colobus monkey named Dr. Sheldon Cooper]]>
Asteroid 246247 Sheldoncooper

Euglossa bazinga bee

Bazinga rieki jellyfish

Colobus monkey named Dr. Sheldon Cooper]]>