#Cognisant

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[positively-knotted]

Does anyone have recommendations for nice fun maths things to read?? Short textbook/expo paper or something of that ilk.

I've taken a bit of a maths break before starting my PhD which has been fab, but keen to get a bit back into it. Ideally something geometric (manifold topology >>) but open to anything cool. The papers my supervisor told me to read are not acceptable suggestions.

[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.

[ccbatman]

actually so evil how much of hal's internal world gets obliterated with the rewriting of his relationships with jessica and martin.

[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

[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

[scalematey]

look i know lots of people have said this but i think one thing that homestuck does well when it can be bothered to is allowing women to be fucked up and awful and complex and bizarre. like. even when they’re not the protagonists. even when they’re unsympathetic. even when they’re ambiguously the protagonists. even when they decide to make themselves the protagonists. yeah anyway this post is abt vris

[arsenicflame]

sometimes i wonder which of my mutuals think of me as like, a username they recognise, and which of my mutuals i am A Friend. would like to sit n play with our dolls with me.

[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

[positively-knotted]

At least they're honest

[lokh]

had a dream i went to a knitting club and baby trafalgar law showed up. still not free from the one piece dream curse i see

[yearningaces]

WHAT IS YOUR LOUD PURPOSE TONIGHT IF NOT MONSTERS?? :3?

Oh right I was gonna actually make a whole post

I'll do it here

ODE TO THE ASEXUAL TRYING TO READ A STORY ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WHO THE INTERNET THIRST OVER

under the cut is mentions of rape, abuse, NSFW topics, nothing in detail ofc but I'm irate

Tbh my brain rot is honestly Call of duty characters rn

Gaz is such a character I wanna play boardgames with idk what about him but he'd be so much fun, get some snacks and maybe pizza fuck it game night maybe invite Soap, those two are comedic together

Price seems like a good pick to read a book with, old man vibes he does not belong in the club let that fucker exist in a quiet moment

Ghost is such a prick. I love him and his stupid fucking mask but I do enjoy the guard dog privileges you'd get from walking around at night with him

That's how I feel about these fuckers

SO TELL ME WHY IS EVERY OTHER STORY UNTAGGED SEXUAL ASSAULT??? no read more, no tag, no warning just some hardcore shit every other post and then between that it's (consensual) sex and sex and sex people can we please not hyperfixate on a characters dick to the point they're so OOC they're like the abusers they canonically fear becoming?? (CoughcoughSimonRileyWhosDadWasLiterallyAnAbusiveBastardeWhoSimonHatesCanonicallyCouchcough)

And is the game itself propaganda? Yes

Do the black characters get treated with such disrespect both in game and online? (Gaz is literally a main character people) yes

Will I ever shell out a dollar to the game? No

Do I want writings that aren't focusing on only sex about these characters though? Fucking please God damnit!

Also, on the topic of untagged stuff, if something on my blog needs to be tagged let me know🤙

[shibaraki]

sure maybe snow leopard touya immediately getting attached and covering you in his den bedding before either of you have even spoken a word is extreme to u but it is canon to me