#Cognisant

[positively-knotted]

Poll time, but this time linear algebra.

Arguments for any position appreciated!

[pilsbury-bland-bread]

As a mathematician, I dislike the phrase "another day that ends in y". There is a trivial stronger statement! Rejoice for today is "another day that ends in day", and there will be no follow-up questions after your seminar about sufficiency

[somaligovernment]

Guys Ramadan is coming FAAAASSSTTT

[padfootastic]

harry’s ‘saving people thing’ comes from james potter and if you disagree, u can bite me because that is the TRUTH

[sillygoofyqueer]

Buddhism might not have seven deadly sins, but they do have ‘five poisons’.

Moha (मोह), Wúzhī (无知): Ignorance, Confusion, Bewilderment, Delusion

Rāga (राग), Yīliàn (依恋): Attachment, Desire, Passion, Greed, Lust

Dvesha (द्वेष), Fǎngǎn (反感): Aversion, Anger, Hatred

Māna (मान), Xūróng (虛榮): Pride, Arrogance, Conceit

Irshya (ईर्ष्या), Jídù (嫉妒): Envy, Jealousy

The first three are also known as the three poisons.

If traditional heavenly demons are hatred, and the crows are pride, that leaves delusion, greed/lust and envy.

Though with how crows steal stuff, I could also see just sticking to the OG three and making them Rāga instead, so there might only be one more heavenly demon type around.

Either way, a Moha based heavenly demon would be freaky. Whatever they look like, they’d probably bend reality, confuse people’s minds, or create illusions.

Actually sounds a bit like dream demons kinda… Meng Mo, secret heavenly demon who lost his body?

Wooooaaaah, that would be so cool - and I love the idea of Meng Mo being a heavenly demon, but one that's trapped and without his body, forced to leech off the energy of OTHER demons, those that were once below him. He has become what he hates the most - weak and forced to rely on others. I do feel like Airplane would focus the most on the dvesha (wrath) demons because...well, that's Binghe, but there are probably loads of notes on potential types of heavenly demons that were abandoned through time. Maybe Meng Mo was supposed to be a plot point about Moha demons and their lineage, but it was swiftly abandoned when the fans lashed out.

[infamousmonkey-cat]

listening to the severance podcast and adam scott was talking about how irv and burt bond because they’re both interested in art and like… yeah of course 😭 irv is an artist but the only art his innie has access to is propaganda. it explains so much about him

[barbie2023]

this is sooo personalcore tmi but

going from someone who had really severe vaginismus to having relatively pain free casual sex has been truly the most insane experience of my life like it’s really hard to believe considering how on again/off again i was when it came to physical therapy.

has definitely opened up a whole new can of worms for me in terms of am i actually enjoying what’s happening or am I just getting off on the fact that it is happening but it just really is so crazy to think that I’ve quote unquote fixed this thing that absolutely destroyed me mentally. like. all my parts are working as they should let’s alert the town crier.

idk this is such a recent development that i’m in so much shock that it’s actually happening but i really up so thrilled like this huge roadblock to dating that i self imposed is no longer there it’s so freeing. i can’t believe i finally get to have sex with losers I’ll never see again it’s so beautiful

[ego-meliorem-esse]

wait. What about hating Ivan? Do they have Ivan? Do you hate him? I do aprove french hatred though

It too me a while to figure out how to answer how I feel about Ivan. I'm gonna answer this by diving into Alfreds feelings about Ivan. It' definitely not hatered Alfred feels. Granted I hc that Alfred is not really good at hating or holding long term grudges against anyone. This is absolute projection on my part tho, since it takes around 30 minutes for any fort of strong negative feelings towards anyone to pass for me. Alfred is similar in that regard, though for different reasons (cough cough attention span of a goldfish).

As for Ivan, he can hold Alfreds attention and interest far longer than any other personification can. Ivan never treated Alfred as a dumb kid or a "young and ambitious startup". There was never any "Interesting idea boy, you'll grow out of it." sentiment from Ivan. Ivan may insult him left right and center on any topic of his choosing, but it's never demeaning and dissmisive towards Alfred as a person. And more often than not it's a debate on equal grounds. I suppose there is an aspect of mutual respect. A respect Alfred had to earn from the older nations by stomping on every single on of them. Yes Ivan certainly thinks Alfred is idealistic and even idiotic at times, but he isn't implying it in a dissmisive sense, but a dangerous one.

One could even say he was charmed by the idiot yank.

Arthur is definitely more intimidated by Ivan than Alfred is. Whereas Alfred sees "danger" and belly flops into it, Arthur calmly gathers his belongings and fucks right off out of the situation (at least after his empire days). Needless to say Arthur is not in agreement with Ivan most of the time. He knows what a nation would do to get on top and while ha can somewhat influence Alfred to not leave chaos and gore after him, Ivan is unpredictable and therefore scary. And that's exactly why Alfred is in fascinated, even captivated by his Cold War rival.

But no, I do not hate the character of Ivan. He is complex, interesting and needs developing on my part (maybe if ppl r interested but idk don't wanna force a character on my blog if ppl aren't interested)

François though, owes me hard cash. Financial compensation if you will.

Anyway here's a quick coffeeshop/kafić sketch since idk what to do with it

[gooperts-gunk]

vodwatching lilith to make sure i didn't miss anything important with willow or lore and lilith says "willow got a new prop last week..." and it's HORNS!!!

JUST LIKE GUARDIAN DEMON BBH SO CUTEEEE

"i will see if i can summon your guardian demon this week... i will try!" PLEASEEEEE LILITH PLEAAAASE GET BBH BACK ON he needs to fulfill his guardian duties

bonus picture she is the silly ever

[positively-knotted]

Who let the computer scientists do humanities

[pilsbury-bland-bread]

Is the whole "Gulf of America" thing that big of a deal? Like it's a weird show of nationalism but like, on the scale of things it seems very small? Idk different countries speaking different languages often have different names for the same bodies of land/water. And renaming is sorta weird, but feels smaller than when turkey tried insisting that we call it Türkiye.

[beaft]

if i could add one appearance customisation option to the BG3 character creator - aside from body sliders, obviously, because the fact that the only available body types are "skinny" and "ripped" is stupid as fuck - if i could pick just one, it'd be different ear options. i want to give chanterelle comically large ears. i want him to look like a cartoon character. i also think you should be able to make catgirls, but that's unrelated.

[rickybaby]

I do think it’s a good sign he has Laurent, Bayer, Horner and Marko in his corner. Because yes they look at race results but also what hes doing in the team, feedback, his race story and pace etc. I think I may be overly optimistic though

I have to point out that Red Bull has been quite good at sticking up for their drivers publicly in the recent past, especially with the way Christian really stuck up for Checo last year during the worst of his underperformance. So I don’t know how much I’d read into that

BUT but maybe the fact that Marko, out of all people, admitted that they needed to give Daniel the car he needs is more telling than everybody else’s comments. This is the man who was slagging off Daniel for his quali performance a week ago to now him saying that — there truly must be something going on with his car

[megalommi]

Re: he doesn't have a name

I was thinking about that while writing it, and I kept coming back to Cognisance, or Cog for short.

PERFECT

Nightmare!Baggs' name is now Cognisance

[faaun]

LET'S MAKE MUSIC !!

[divinekangaroo]

Found this gem and now reading this (Yes Minister written as the minister’s journal): https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/uzimmerm/docs/Yes%20Minister.pdf