#Loved it so much

[happyheidi]

𝖾𝖽𝗂𝗍 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗉𝗈𝗌𝗍 ♡

[citrusbugz]

The fact that on the new card Xio is now nonbinary and uses he/they.

Congrats on being your true yourself after causing the apocalypse and dooming everyone, buddy!!

[dreamsandconstellations]

Thunder Bringer

[stars-n-spice]

How I'm going to be for the rest of the year.

[empydoc]

“i feel selfish” lovely x “please. be as selfish as you are stunning” vincent

[simplydnp]

you majored in straight up math??? God that's so fuckin cool of you!!

yeah! i've always loved math, so even though i registered late for uni, i knew it would be for math--i just wasn't sure what to do with it. ended up in math-ed. but, unlike some places, i did a double degree, so i have my full mathematics degree & my full education degree

the math degree was so cool. i've really considered going back for my masters since i loved it so much. there's something about pure math that just,,, makes sense to me. proofs are sometimes a pain in the ass, but there's really nothing like staring at one for hours and then it suddenly Clicks and you're off to the races. it's all built on logic--everything that happens makes sense and has a flow.

i also really enjoy the language aspect of it--which a lot of people find couter-intuitive. math should be numbers! but when you do high level math, there's not a lot of numbers involved usually 😂 it's all logic and arguments and specific wording and sentence structure. i love that shit. there's a specific and intentional way to communicate. there's words you use for getting from one idea to the next.

there's a really great video that breaks down how math and language is connected and, in particular, if you're good at 'traditional' math, you might not want a math degree.

here's a transcript:

if you want to go to school for mathematics and this is what you think it'll look like [gestures to background full of equations, trigonometry, and formulas] i suggest you do something else. the joke in the math community is that after sophmore year, you don't see a number over like, 10 again. this is because you learn math as a language. it's like the difference between studying Spanish and studying linguistics. you can study Spanish, but that doesn't mean you'll understand language as a whole. while linguistics studies syntax and semantics because it's the structure of language as a whole that they study. so in this example, if you want to just study spanish, be an engineer. if you decide to take this [math] route, you have two options: pure or applied mathematics. so applied wants to study linguistics as a whole, so they can become a Spanish translator--and maybe pick up Portuguese along the way. while pure mathematics wants to study linguistics so they can make up their own language. it sounds strange but the best mathematicians are often very good with languages too. if you're interested in learning why they have so much in common, then mathematics is for you.

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it's like problem solving to the nth degree. a silly example is something like 'what's 1 + 1?' hopefully you know the answer is 2. but in pure math, they'll ask you why 1+1 is 2. and it takes you down this path of laying the foundations for the building blocks of traditional math. (now, that's advanced linear algebra which, frankly, i really disliked, but it's an easy example)

calculus & number theory were actually my 2 favourite 'subjects' in the mathematics we did (which, is very funny bc calculus has the least proofs and you take 4 years of it, vs 1 entirely proofs based course). i was lucky to have really great profs for most of my courses as well

[importantchildcollector]

ok so @miasonwing created this comic and it’s basically a hella lot of sexual tension between dick and Jason and I just wanted to say one of the poses they drew just gave mom energy lmao

I find this so cute and adorable but like the mom energy dick gives is so funny lmao 😂 he was meant to be a mom and y’all can’t fight me this

[tttrashmouth]

something i think nimona did really well was that they didn’t make nimonas oppression like,,,,, “her fault” i guess is a way to put it. i feel like far too often, whether the plot is an allegory for race, gender, or disability, it goes something like “x person is oppressed and treated like shit” and then you find out it’s because they turn into an uncontrollable monster that kills or hurts people and it’s like, why is that the metaphor we’re going with here. like with jk rowling and werewolf’s representing AIDS somehow. like, what the fuck do you mean by that?

but what nimona does well is they make nimona a shape shifter (trans person approved, i would love that) and then it’s not her problem that she’s different. just because she technically might fit the definition of monster doesn’t make her one and then we find out that the things that made her “bad” in the first place weren’t even real. it was a lie made to demonize nimona. she’s never the bad guy, she doesn’t want to hurt people, she’s just nimona and happens to be a shape shifter. and that’s how you do it in my opinion. you can’t make the oppressed the aggressor in these situations, because they literally never are. or at least should never be the original cause of it all, because in real life they really aren’t. they are the original victims of bigotry and their stories get rewritten so they look like the aggressors.

[rosewashereyt]

IEBDIENDIENO

I JUST WATCHED BATMAN VS THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES FOR THE FIRST TIME AND DAAMNNNN!

THAT'S ONE HELL OF A MOVIE! 10000/10 RECOMMEND!

[stargirlstabber]

„murmuring noises mixing together like smudged paint- not knowing where one colour begins and the other ends.“

LIKE I LOVED THAT LINE TOO GURL OMFGGGG!!!!! 😭😭😭

Us be like..

YUUUUUUH i read that and was like- ahhh... that line right there liquified my brain. and yep, thats definitely us. they used me n you as reference for that picture.

[girls-are-weird]

a quick word about @jeannereames's historical romance series about alexander the great.

[joe-myosotis]

Popcorn

[francixoxoxo]

Thanks for writing my singing Billy request! And if you want to hear Tom singing “On the Street Where you Live” go to @tomblythfan on Instagram.

Oh my god I went and watched it and what….. somebody chain him down and lock him away (in my room) HE IS SUCH A THEATRE KID DORK

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C64XxjbSyER/?igsh=MXFnY3ZmdmF1bnZ0bg== this is evil

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[maitso]

I NEED MORE MAGNUS CHASE BOOKS RIGHT NOW, IM BEGGING

[femmesandhoney]

Random shit i bought today

[kristsune]

There was plenty of silliness during the Magnus Protocol Mysteries Board Game launch stream. I split the post into two parts, this one focuses on the attempt at the first game The Last Supper, which includes much talk about livers and vigorous dates.