#-focus on the math

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[sundere1181]

i got a cut on my thumb and i genuinely dont know where it came from like it kinda just appeared

[cashmoneyyysstuff]

katsuki still apologizes to you the same way he used to when you were kids.

he always makes a face whenever he knows he’s gone too far or when he’s done something he knows he shouldn’t have, his eyebrows are furrowed and his little chubby face contorts into a sad little pout. he tries to look tough but he can already feel guilty tears in his eyes so he looks away from you, little hands balled into fists at his sides and his head hangs low so you can’t see his red face through his bangs.

usually, he tries making it up to you by showing you something he thinks you’ll like or something he finds cool, and sometimes he’ll even let you hold his precious all might card, but only when he knows he really messed up. he’ll stiffly pet your head as an apology for pulling at your hair a little too hard earlier and if you ask him to he’ll kiss the pain away from when you scrapped your knee because he accidentally shoved you a little harder than he meant to when he was chasing you around.

but when you’re mad at him because he’s been really mean, in ways he knows his shiny holographic all might card won’t fix, he opts to simply sit next to you. with a little pout on his face and with his cheeks turning red, he’ll shove his head into your shoulder. he holds onto you tightly so he’s sure you won’t be able to escape him or his apology. you squirm around a little bit but he doesn’t let you go. you stop moving around but you still huff at him, calling him a big meanie. all he does in response is shoving his head against your shoulder and he mutters out a little "m’sorry." against it.

he hears you shuffle to look at him and he looks up at you, his eyebrows are still furrowed and his cheeks are so red because he’s really not used to apologizing and he doesn’t like to, but he does for you. and even at the tender age of seven, you really can’t stay mad at him when he looks like that, so you forgive him and you’ve already forgotten what you were even mad about when he grins at you boyishly, already back to his usual self as he drags you off to your next adventure who knows where, but even at the tender age of seven, you knew you’d follow him to the ends of the earth as long as he led the way.

he’s changed so much and not at all at the same time. he hates it whenever you get mad at him and he still does everything and anything to get your attention when you are. and just like before, whenever he hurts you in ways he knows his actions can’t fix, he opts to come up behind you and wrap his arms around your middle loosely, giving you the option to break out of his hold if you wanted to. his hold on you slowly tightens when you make no move to, his head is shoved into the crook of your neck and his chest is pressed flush against your back,“ i’m sorry.” he whispers.

it wouldn’t mean much if it came from anyone else but this is katsuki. you’ve known him for as long as you can remember, you know how he is : he’s unruly, headstrong and so stubborn it drives you crazy sometimes. but he casts all of that—all of him aside for you.

“i’m sorry.” he says again, his voice is low and a little shaky.“ shouldn’t have said all that to you. that wasn’t…cool” he fumbles around for the right words to say and you have to hold back a laugh as he does so, but you can tell he’s trying.“never wanna make ya mad at me..” he finishes quietly. he’s fiddling around with the ends of your shirt waiting for your response. then he hears you shuffle around to peek at him and he looks up at you.

he really hasn’t changed. he’s still got the same little frown, the same little crease between his brows and the same rosy cheeks. sure his features are less rounded, his cheeks are definitely less chubby, he’s gotten taller but he’s still your same katsuki who’s a little rough and a big meanie sometimes, but who also always makes sure to apologize to you when he knows he’s hurt you because that’s the last thing he wants.

you grant him a tiny smile. his eyes light up and he stands a little straighter and after a second he’s on you, pressing kisses all over your cheek, grinning boyishly at you and you still want to follow him to the ends of the world as long as he’s leading the way.

[chickensauras]

Very pragmatic. Excellent problem solving skills

[sigmas-split-hair]

I see a lot of people in the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom having a lack of interest in Kunikida because of his unexplained backstory and I think it highlights a problem within the fanbase.

Now, Bungou Stray dogs is a show about people finding their “light” in many ways, moving on from the past and finding a reason to live. With Kunikida, the handling of this subject is a bit more subtle than with the other characters.

It’s obvious that something happened in his past, either by the Azure King or with his students making him obsessed with his ideals.

But we don’t need to know what in order for him to be well written.

Trauma doesn’t inherently make a character great. Using trauma as a way to “improve a character” is cheap and bad writing, outside of being kinda problematic.

Bungou Stray Dogs is great at avoiding this. Characters like for an instance Atsushi, Dazai and Kyouka are interesting not directly because of their trauma, but because of their healing journey and the show’s exploration of how they were affected by their trauma.

We see Kunikida value his ideals over his own life, saying that they die if his comrades die but live on when he dies. This is an interesting characterisation, and is also detached from his trauma, in the sense that it explores his character without outright mentioning his backstory.

This is not me saying that I don’t want Kunikida’s backstory. Hell I think it would be super interesting: but the interesting part would be connecting his behaviour to his past, and while it would explain him it wouldn’t improve him.

Look at Dazai’s time in the pm. Was it interesting and characterising? Yes. Did we need to know why he was in the pm in the first place for this? No. The fandom can be curious all they want, but that doesn’t make his backstory obligatory. We know that he was in a dark place and caught Mori’s interest. We don’t need more information in order to understand his character unless it’s relevant for the plot.

I’m tired of seeing people outright saying “they need to give him a backstory”, or that there’s nothing more to him than the surface (ideals, hitting Dazai, next Armed Detective Agency boss). Of course, there’s no problem with being curious about Kunikida or disliking him. Hate any character you want, but have reasoning a notch deeper than “he doesn’t have trauma”.

TLDR; stop treating character as if they’re “dull” because of lack of visible trauma. That is looking at characters from surface level, neglecting the other, very current and very present traits harboured than them. A character is more than their past, which we don’t need to know in order to try and understand them and in order for them to be interesting

[whowebber]

I'm not even kidding guys, yesterday night I had a dream that Logan and Oscar is on paddock with a baby on Logan's arm and he is smiling and saying something to the baby that is carbon copy of Oscar with Logan's hair and eyes and Oscar is behind them smiling shyly.

I woke up immediately because what was that and saw it was dawn. IN OUR CULTURE THERE'S A LORE THAT IF YOU DREAM SOMETHING DURING DAWN IT BECOMES REAL.

Now 1☝️ question! How many years Do I have to wait to witness that in real life.??

And what is this loscar obsession of mine!! Like I am genuinely scared for them because of my weird Behaviour!

[zoeythebee]

Behold! The single greatest thing I've ever programmed!

[kimblestudies]

06.18.24

spent all day reviewing all of precal and calc, and i mean that.

i asked my mom for one of her vyvanse. i worked for a minimum 7 hours straight through. haven't properly hyperfocused in a whole, I felt like a well-oiled machine. I was lowkey having fun. math bender 💊.

studying to take my math placement exam some time this weekend. I really hope I'm allowed to take calc 3 this semester.

got to see the king of country music live so that was pretty try sick.

🎧if u think i'm pretty, Artemas

[stuckinapril]

my gma told me that my mom used to wake up, eat breakfast, then study for 12 hours straight. every fuckin day. and my gpa would bring her food and tell her to take breaks bc of how immersed she was. she’s literally my role model forever

[hizerain]

i'm not really on here anymore, or any virtual platform for that matter. The past few months have been tumultous and I have changed, fundamentally, intensely, a deliberate effort to rebuild and reshape the clay of the earth.

I've reached a greater level of mathematical maturity through ego reduction, I've found an undocumented life to be better, for me. Above all, I've decided the self is a network, it's always moving. Who I am cannot be reduced, it cannot be simplified, it is what I do and what I do is all encompasing and ever changing.

[triptychofvoids]

very well. im committing to the bit <<

come join the movie night!! we're watching emesis blue. again. participation not mandatory of course but a lot of people seemed interested so!! its happening now. will be going live on my youtube channel :]

[ https://www.youtube.com/@triptychofvoids ]

[pureseasalt]

i cant believe the culminating conflict of the bear season 2 hinged on carmy's inability to multitask and do basic math

[cheruib]

the more i advance in my electrical engineering degree the more i realize the modules i enjoy the most are the math based ones 😃 anything related to physics makes me go insane even though the main reason why i did electrical engineering is bc there’s lots of physics in it and i used to think i loved it 🤕

[3dsangel]

they love to frolic ^_^

[lulu-the-bugaboo]

Interestingly enough, there are so many different views on why Ace didn't run away in marineford, despite the fact that Oda tried to provide an explanation. It feels like I have barely seen the same conclusion between two people.

[jtl-fics]

Happy WIPW Ash 🙂

May I ask how devastated Andrew really is by Alex's disappearance? ~ Math Nerd 🫠🙏

Also sending good vibes for your day and especially for your writing 💝🫶🤍

WIP Wednesday 2/21/24 (CLOSED) | Math Nerd AU

Andrew settles at the top of the stairs where he can hear what is being discussed by his foster parents and the case worker. His mother's name is Tilda Minyard. She's an alcoholic and drug user. She's physically violent with Aaron. Aaron may be addicted but they're not sure.

His foster parents ask the main questions that most foster parents ask. For all that they very much don't seem to actually give a shit about Andrew personally, they have made sure he has everything he needs. They've even asked if he wants to do any extra curriculars.

Andrew doesn't need warmth from the parents in his life, but he thinks Aaron might.