#Pythagoras Production

[2dsimping]

MAGI#4 FANDOM ONLY

I'm making Magi4 fanmade project. Just started like 4-5 days ago (?). I'm doing this because I miss them sm. No content update about them. BECAUSE REJET ONLY FOCUS ON DIALOV AND DEARVO😭😭

You can check my project update if you like on Twitter @MG4_SStar

I'm planning to do Magi4, Lagrange and Unicorn. For Golden Record I might skip (I don't recognise them far except their profiles)

[yuisdad]

MARGINAL#4 3rd single Edited Edition.

I edited the monologues out for those who find them distracting (like me lol).

[starshapedpetals]

finally playing marginal #4 since there are hardly translations of these games.. trying my best with my beginner japanese skills & google translate 😭 would anyone be interested in a full translation of the two games to my best ability since there is hardly any out there? anyways here’s R being ticklish & giggling because he’s my fav <3

[quill-of-thoth]

Hey Tea have you seen the film Donald in Mathemagic land? Because that but with murder (Liam can have a little murder as a treat.)

ooooh what about Fluff & William?

This is going to sound nerdy as hell, but I think a 5+1 fic of William falling in love with math would be cute af.

Him discovering how he math helps him understand the world, and how it can make everything seem so neat and orderly and sensible, and how he can use it to help others, and how it can keep him from the doldrums of boredom with a good challenge, and how he can help share the stars with his brothers with math, and then like a + one about how math and fractals and the golden ratio are just...beautiful.

[tensorboi]

Why is the Pythagorean theorem true, really? (and a digression on p-adic vector spaces)

ok so if you've ever taken a math class in high school, you've probably seen the Pythagorean theorem at least a few times. It's a pretty useful formula, pretty much essential for calculating lengths of any kind. You may have even seen a proof of it, something to do with moving around triangles or something idk. If that's as far as you've gotten then you are probably unbothered by it.

Then, if you take a math class in university, you'll probably see the notion of an abstract vector space: it's a place where you can move things and scale them. We essentially use these spaces as models for the physical space we live in. A pretty important thing you can't do yet, though, is rotate things or say how long they are! We need to put more structure on our vector spaces to do that, called a norm.

Here's the problem, though: there are a *lot* of different choices of norm you can put on your vector space! You could use one which makes Pythagoras' theorem true; but you could also use one which makes a³ + b³ = c³ instead, or a whole host of other things! So all of a sudden, the legitimacy of the most well-known theorem is called into question: is it really true, or did we just choose for it to be true?

And if you were expecting me to say "then you learn the answer in grad school" or something, I am so sorry: almost nobody brings it up! So personally, I felt like I was going insane until very recently.

(Technical details: the few that do bring it up might say that the Pythagorean norm is induced from another thing called an inner product, so it's special in that way. But also, that doesn't really get us anywhere: you can get a norm where a⁴ + b⁴ = c⁴ if you are allowed to take products of 4 vectors instead!)

How is this resolved, then? It turns out the different norms are not created equal, and the Pythagorean norm has a very special property the others lack: it looks the same in every direction, and lengths don't change when you rotate them. (A mathematician would say that it is isotropic.) Now, all of a sudden, things start to make sense! We *could* choose any norm we like to model our own universe, but why are we going to choose one which has preferred directions? In the real world, there isn't anything special about up or down or left or right. So the Pythagorean norm isn't some cosmic law of the universe, nor is it some random decision we made at the beginning of time; it's just the most natural choice.

But! That's not even the best part! If you've gone even further in your mathematical education, you'll know about something called p-adic numbers. All of our vector spaces so far have been over the field of real numbers, but the p-adic numbers can make vector fields just as well. So... are the Pythagorean norms also isotropic in p-adic spaces? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is no! It turns out that the isotropic norms in p-adic linear algebra are the ∞-norms, where you take the maximum coordinate (rather than summing squares)! So the Pythagorean theorem looks very different in p-adic spaces; instead of a² + b² = c², it looks more like a^∞ + b^∞ = c^∞.

If you're burning to know more details on this, like I am right now as I'm learning it, this link and pregunton's linked questions go into more details about this correspondence: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4935985/nature-of-the-euclidean-norm

The interesting thing is that these questions don't have well-known answers, so there is probably even more detail that we have yet to explore!

tl;dr: the pythagorean theorem is kind of a fact of the universe, but not really, but it kinda makes sense for it to be true anyway. also we change the squares to powers of infinity in p-adic numbers and nobody really knows why

[infriga]

Some random Egghead meta about Vegapunk because he was on my brain today for some reason and I just wanna get it out of my head:

Honestly Vegapunk fascinates me as a character. I feel his existence as an individual gets overshadowed a lot by his existence as an important part of the overarching series/arc plot, but there's actually a lot of interesting things to think about regarding him as a person too.

One aspect that I probably think about the most is the mole plot regarding his satellites. Oda deliberately had him make several supposedly "negative" satellites, one being straight up Vegapunk's EVIL persona, and yet the one who truly turns out to be the traitor isn't Lilith, it's York. And sure, on the surface it's easy to say that it wouldn't be Lilith because that would be too obvious, but if Oda was just going to go for the surprise factor with this twist he would have had it be one of the more "positive" Satellites like Shakka (good) or Pythagoras (wisdom). In fact they were popular choices for theory crafters when the fandom was trying to predict who it would be. But he didn't go with that because the twist was based more on Vegapunk's actual character and actually makes a LOT of sense when we learn more about who he is as a person.

York is usually called Vegapunk's "greed" persona, but she's meant to represent more of a mix of greed, desire, avarice, hunger, appetite, even passion, etc, hence why her name is written in kanji as 欲 (yoku) which can mean all those things. With that understanding it's more understandable why her initial depiction comes across more like sloth and/or gluttony, after all her "job" is just to eat, sleep, and poop for Vegapunk, which may seem like a strange job for the "greedy" persona, but does fit the "appetite" or "hunger" aspect of the term yoku.

Obviously this comes with the benefit of hindsight but I actually kind of wish translators had translated her role to something more like desire or appetite instead of greed in most instances, since part of what makes the reveal a twist is that she really is more of an embodiment of "greed" as it's typically viewed despite appearing at first to be a less dangerous form of the concept. We're lead to believe that she's not as ambitious as she really is.

Ultimately I think the thing she represents is desire itself as a whole, unchecked by things like logic or wisdom or conscience. And knowing what we know now about Vegapunk's backstory, it makes sense why she would be the one to turn traitor, because Vegapunk's greatest weakness has always been his unchecked desire. I know some people might interpret it as being his naivety, but naivety on its own isn't a flaw or a weakness, someone can be naive and still make productive choices if they're smart and diligent and let their conscious and logic temper their first impulses. Naivety isn't always automatically a complete lack of wisdom or intelligence, it's a lack of experience, and that CAN be compensated for. Vegapunk didn't realize the extent of the government's cruelty, or the dangerous potential of his knowledge and technology in the wrong hands at the start because he hadn't yet experienced it first hand and he didn't try to compensate for that potential risk. If he'd tempered his desire for progress, for knowledge, for advancement, and exercised his intelligence and conscience, he likely would have realized the potential risks from the start and likely wouldn't have relied entirely on giving the government the benefit of the doubt because he would have prioritized being responsible with his abilities. He might have at the very least done more to gain leverage and have proper oversight over how his inventions would be used. This is something he eventually learned, as seen with stuff like his secret broadcast, but it came from hindsight after the damage was done, rather than from foresight.

A lack of foresight can be an issue, but what really drove Vegapunk's actions was, again, his desires overriding his common sense. The government was his meal ticket to the things he wanted, and he reasoned it away by saying that the means would justify the ends, up until he had to witness what those horrible horrible means really were with his own eyes.

Vegapunk's satellites don't only represent things like good, evil, wisdom, violence, intelligence, and desire, they specifically represent those aspects of HIM, and for all his flaws Vegapunk is clearly not an evil man. So it makes sense that Lilith would not actually be all that evil. And he is not a particularly violent man, which is why Atlas is not actually particularly violent at least in terms of the One Piece universe. Heck, Nami is arguably more violent than her. But Vegapunk IS very greedy. Not in the classic "wants to be rich and powerful" sense, except in terms of how riches and power would help him reach his true goals. He's covetous, he has an appetite, he is driven by desire. It is as much a strength as it is a weakness, it's why he has made so much amazing technology, and why he looked into stuff like the void century despite the risks, but it's also why he chose the government as his benefactors over the revolutionary army, it's why he built so many dangerous things without thinking of the consequences of who might weild them or how they might be used to harm instead of help. He always needed more. He needed more money so he could fund more projects, he needed more projects so he could make more discoveries, he needed more discoveries so he could gain more knowledge, and so on and so on. This is of course represented quite aptly by his ever expanding brain, not unlike the common imagery of an ever expanding stomach that represents gluttony. He may have meant well with how he wanted to use the knowledge and discoveries and technology, but, well, you know what they say about good intentions.

As he grew older, eventually his experience overcame his naivety, his wisdom and good conscience overcame his desire, and he finally stopped seeking more above all else and started trying to mitigate the damages and make up for the consequences of his actions. But York? York doesn't have that wisdom or conscience, she's just the desire, unchecked. And Vegapunk's remaining naivety ended up aimed at himself, when he didn't recognize the danger of that aspect of himself.

So with this full picture in mind, it makes total sense why York was the turncoat, not someone like Lilith or Atlas, because Lilith is only as evil as Vegapunk is, and Atlas is only as violent as Vegapunk is, and unfortunately, York is just as hungry for more as Vegapunk is.

[mxmorbidmidnight]

Howdy there neighbour *gets horrifically close*

You know what I love about Temu? How I can shop in style for quality profits with excellent prices. Temu offers a wide range of products so I can get everything I need from one store. Temu has helped me improve my health by sending medications right to my door and Temu taught me how to do algebra. Pretty Pythagoras am I right? Temu—

HOOOOONK WHATV THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT TEMU (wench)

I ART EATING THY FUCKHgNG POCKETSRS 🗣️🗣️HOOOOONKKKK🖕🖕🖕🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥👊👊👊👊🥊🥊🥊🤺🤺🖕🖕🔥🔥🔥🔥

HOOOONKKK‼️‼️‼️IT TASTES LIKE GOOSE REPELLANT!! 🖕🖕WHO GOOSE PROOFED THEIR POCKETSES ‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥HOoOoOooOOOOOOOnKKKK🗣️🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗿🗿🗿HONK HONK HONK🤬🖕🖕🖕🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🗣️🗿🗿🗿🖕🖕🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

*calls thee gay and leaves* HOOOONKKKK🔥🔥🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 211 Trivia

Try not to choke, dear Ryusui…

Going by the map and the several smaller islands, the KoS seems to have landed in South Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The mountains in the background could be the Meratus mountains.

Indonesia is the world's second largest producer of rubber. The largest is Thailand which, geographically, isn't that far away, but it produces much less rice. This is probably why Indonesia was chosen for Rubber City instead.

It's been 10 years since the KoS began the world tour: -September 5741, Perseus completed -January 5742, ground zero ~February, petrified for 7.5 years -October 5750, arrive in India -April 5751, arrive in Indonesia -120 days for rice to grow, so it's around July/August.

It's a shame we didn't see traditional Australian dishes such as Vegemite, fairy bread, kangaroo meat…

Rice grows from seed to harvest in ~120 days, so Indonesia can have 3 growing seasons. The most important one is the wet season from October to December, which is harvested in March & April. This is ~45% of total rice production for the year, which is the one the KoS harvested.

Character development.

(Gen finally tied up his cloak to stop it getting wet.)

There's a lot of rice-based food in this image, so here's a few I've identified in case you need ideas for dinner.

Chrome and Suika are surveying the land, presumably plotting (rice) paddies. Chrome is using a theodolite, which is used to measure angles on the horizon. Suika is probably measuring distance with the rope as extra data for their calculations.

Sai's lesson seems to be proving Heron's formula using Pythagoras' theorem.

We can also see that Chrome's handwriting has improved since the last time he had to calculate the properties of triangles!

The device Kaseki built is an Archimedes' screw, which can be used to lift liquids or sand-like mediums upwards onto higher levels. In this case, it's being used to fill the rice paddies.

The mobile lab is truly one of the most valuable and hardworking members of the Kingdom of Science.

Nauru is one of the three great phosphorite islands in the Pacific Ocean, though thanks to too much mining in the last hundred years, the resource is almost completely depleted.

The prevalence of phosphorite is due to the albatross droppings, as Ukyo said.

When Yo said they took a pit stop, this is likely the route they took.

Fertilizer has 3 primary nutrients that help most plants to grow: -Nitrogen, from the nitric acid -Phosphorus, from the phosphorite -Potassium, from the wood ash (this also has calcium carbonate, which, as we all know, has at least 4 uses.)

Rice has many different variants such as Japonica ("from Japan") and Indica ("from India"). Indica rice tends to be thinner and longer, and includes basmati and jasmine.

Amylopectin is a component of starch, and is what allows rice to stick to itself (necessary to make onigiri).

[santmat]

Vegetarianism, Veganism, and the Path of the Masters - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Traditionally, Sant Mat and the yoga philosophy have advocated the lacto-vegetarian diet: abstinence from meat, fish, fowl, and eggs, but allowed dairy. Vegan means complete abstinence from all animal products and strictly adhering to a plant-based diet: no dairy, eggs, or meat of any kind, or products made from animals. Based on the current cruel practices of the dairy industry in India and around the world that violate the principle of ahimsa or non-violence, plus all the scores of medical studies showing that dairy consumption adversely affects our health and well-being, I believe if they were here today, the classic Saints such as Mahavira, Guru Kabir, Guru Nanak, Tukarama, Ravidas, Tulsi Das, Namdev, Dariya Sahib, etc...  would not only be advocating a vegetarian diet, but a vegan diet. These days, many are making this transition to vegan, including a growing percentage of those following Sant Mat. This is the compassionate direction that the vegetarian movement is headed in. Vegetarianism is going vegan!

In the East as well as in the West, the Gnostics and other advanced mystics: those serious practitioners of soul travel, inner Light and Sound meditation, have universally adhered to a plant-based diet. It’s hard to reach more subtle states of tranquility in meditation on an animal flesh diet based on the suffering of other beings. "A man of spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." (George Bernard Shaw)

Today a satsang edition of Spiritual Awakening Radio about the spiritual and ethical reasons for going veg, or better still: vegan. There are readings from Pythagoras, Kabir, Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj, Darshan Singh, Kirpal Singh, Sawan Singh, Diet and Spirituality, by Dona Kelley (from Lotus Leaves), and... a document called, "My Visit to a Dairy Farm -- The Reality of Dairy Cruelty -- the Final Destination of Dairy Cows is the Slaughterhouse", published by Pravin K. Shah of the Jaina Education Committee of Jainism (the Vegan Jain movement.)

Vegetarianism, Veganism, and the Path of the Masters - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @:

https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Vegetarianism_Veganism_and_the_Path_of_the_Masters.mp3

@ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts:

https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/vegetarianism-veganism-and-the-path-of-the-masters

@ Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vegetarianism-veganism-and-the-path-of-the-masters/id1477577384?i=1000633185598

@ Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GIz7lLsPDUboitx5jKlzg

@ Audible & Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ca7918b0-4005-4724-a2e5-b27f51ecdba6/episodes/902dd440-ff24-4d6f-80fa-f65399e38600/spiritual-awakening-radio-vegetarianism-veganism-and-the-path-of-the-masters

@ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritual Awakening Radio" -  (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Podcast APP, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): 

https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio

In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami,

James Bean

Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts

Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts

Sant Mat Radhasoami

A Satsang Without Walls

https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

[huellitaa]

☀️🎀 princess project: day 13!

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 friday 7.6.24

🗒🎀𓂃 ࣪˖ today's to do!

☀️ mental

woke up early

was super productive in the morning

felt really good about myself for most of the day!

was really proud because i handled this week pretty well considering the circumstances

🎀 physical

hot girl walked

drank cucumber water

had an everything shower in the morning

used a sheet mask for the first time in AGES ♡

ran down a hill and up one again back to my house because my mum would actually murder me if i got back a moment after 4:30

ate super healthy

wore my fav lip gloss to school ♡

ate lunch whilst running home

🧁 academic

got extra time on the maths exam! ♡

computer studies assessment (we weren't warned about it so i only got 17/30 which is pretty average considering i'm terrible at computing anyway 😭)

accidentally almost got a detention in geography

finished reading war of the worlds! (🎀🗒 goals: attention span!)

BEGAN READING ADA LOVELACE'S BIOGRAPHY AHHH ♡

studied pythagoras' theorum (or at least tried to. what the fuck is a x b x c KILL YOURSELF)

💬 social

met up with wifey after school yesterday and gave her the biggest hug in the world BCZ I MISSED HER SO MUCH U DONT GET IT

tweaking down the road because she gave me a kiss on the head before she got on the bus and went absolutely feral ♡

fooled my computing teacher into thinking chappell roan was madonna (he's such a sweetheart i love him swear )

reported this girl in my class with my friends for cheating in science and maths assessments bcz what the heck

fangirled over little bunny rings my friend got ♡

fangirled part 2 with my kpop friend about twice and newjeans in maths ♡

borderline had an argument with my parents and didn't burst into tears !!

🎀 leisure

showed my friend my twice album!!! ♡

FUCKING GLASSES BROKE AGAIN

survived with only 20% on my phone all day

brang cherry coke and a blueberry bar to school and was very very happy about that actually

all my love! 💘🎀✨️

[yuisdad]

MARGINAL#4 2nd single Edited Edition.

I tried my best to edit the monologues out.

[starshapedpetals]

i know i don’t talk about pythagoras productions much but i still love it. & my god i think the boys look stunning here. especially my aru 💞 (& teruma never stops looking good)

[aedesluminis]

What sort of gigachad Zardi believed Prieur was?

Robespierre (coldly, almost absentminded). I repeat: Prieur de la Côte d'Or has my vote to manage the military weapons production. I consider him suitable for awakening the dormant side of the Country, a man capable of channeling all of his energy into a supreme effort for the cause.

Couthon (with joy). I too have faith in him: if I hadn't seen him in action on occasions that required a good eye and humanity, it would have sufficed knowing that his idols are Pythagoras and Bach.

Barère (slightly mockingly). We examined his career as officer.

Couthon. But of course, one had to check his negative side as well. Dear Barère, the time of mighty military men and of castes is over! The time of academic strategy and pompous discussions that satisfied the provincialism of the the Girondins! (Joyful) I dare to say: they were accountants and not mathematicians, people who plays by ear and not true musicians. (Harshly) I suppose they are proud of the legacy they left us!

Suited to awaken the dormant Country.

...suited to awaken the dormant Country.

Prieur.

De la Côte d'Or.

Suuuuuure.

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday. Though one of these facts is a fib!

Minch, Yoda’s first name is.

Bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s.

About 20% of US children eat pizza on any given day.

In Oklahoma, it's illegal to get a bear drunk and then wrestle it.

The original Popeye got his strength from rubbing a magic hen.

Persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage.

The average IQ of all the serial killers who have been caught is 89.

Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.

French employees are forbidden by law from eating lunch at their desks.

Ejaculation from a human typically happens at a speed of around 28 miles per hour.

The longer a whiskey is aged, the longer it takes for your body to get rid of the alcohol.

When the Bakerloo line was last cleaned, staff pulled out 6.5 tonnes of grime and fluff.

American judges give harsher sentences when their football team unexpectedly loses.

In Star Trek, when Mr. Spock says something is “impossible”, it happens 83% of the time.

People suffering from superior canal dehiscence syndrome can hear their own eyeballs moving.

If you make it to the airport without dying, you've already passed the deadliest part of plane travel.

In 2016, the head of MI6 said he wouldn’t hire James Bond because he does not act ethically enough.

The US National Security Agency has asked employees to spy on people with ‘dignity and respect’.

‘Russians in the gazebo’ (‘russere i lysthuset’) is an old-fashioned Danish euphemism for menstruation.

If you wanted to write a letter out of blood you would have to write it in under a minute before the blood thickens too quickly.

Having sex uses on average 2.8 times as much energy as sitting on the sofa, but playing the trombone uses 3.5 times as much.

If you get a blood transfusion but are given the wrong type of blood (A, B, O, AB) one of the symptoms is "a sense of impending doom".

Until the 1840s, there was no maximum size for a rugby team; matches were played with up to 300 players on the pitch at once.

In relationships, the ‘magic ratio’ is 5:1. Having five or more positive interactions for every negative interaction is seen as key to a stable marriage.

There are about 40 supervolcanoes around the world capable of claiming up to a billion lives, and we're about 24,000 years overdue for an eruption!

A flapjack bakery in Lancashire plan to launch a new product in time for Christmas. After extensive research, they’ve come up with a product name: Flaps.

In movies, where they use real life dog actors, the people who edit the film sometimes have to add CGI tails because the dogs can’t stop wagging as they are so happy.

Abraham Lincoln's son (Robert Todd Lincoln) was present at three different presidential assassinations. After McKinley, he decided not to accept any more invitations.

Dragonflies can inhale water through a long tube at the tip of their anus and save it. Later, if they need to, they can shoot the water out of their anus to make them fly faster.

Pythagoras drowned a student to death because the student proved the existence of irrational numbers which contradicted Pythagoras and his cults' (the brotherhood) beliefs.

In 1997, researchers discovered a giant pill millipede. It was given the Latin name ‘Zoosphaerium darthvaderi’ thanks to the shape of its anal shield which resembles Darth Vader’s helmet.

The mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, Mexico is expected to marry an alligator. The tradition dates back to pre-Hispanic times but has been updated. The alligator wears a white wedding dress and the groom kisses the bride.

An early use of ‘asshole’ is found in a 1933 U.S. story about a family called ‘The Eastons’. “When God got the job done, there was a big pile of assholes left over. It looks to me like The Almighty just throwed all them assholes together and made the Easton family.”

Pepsi once had the 6th largest military in the world after the price of Russian Vodka couldn't cover a deal for Pepsi products. They traded 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer. The president of Pepsi Co. told National Security, "We are disarming the USSR faster than you are!"

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

[livvyofthelake]

rewatched mirror mirror. as was voted the other day. here are my thoughts. i told you you're not allowed to be mad at me when i get mean, you all voted for this. i told you i was going to be mean, don't you dare get mad at me for being mean about the movie i consistently bring up in a negative light that you voted for me to watch again!! anyway.

perhaps this movie's most egrigious sin was making me fall in love with it at 11 years old. i can't in good conscious say that it's really "bad", this was THE movie for me when i was 11. i'm literally always calling this "my movie from when i was 11" this movie is as much a part of me as my genetically bad knees. however. i fucking hate my knees. worst part of my body fr. just like this movie is the worst defining movie i've ever had, all things considered.

its not necessarily truly a Bad Movie. it’s just that the only things that are truly good about it are a) the aesthetics. everyone on every visual design team was slaying on this movie, the costuming the production design the hair department the prop team the vfx artists the fucking genius that designed the dvd to look like an apple with a bite taken out of it.... just wall to wall GORGEOUS aesthetics oh my god. and b) julia roberts is here

other than that it's lackluster to just nothing. where to even start. the misogyiny? no let's circle back to that. let's start with the underutilization of my bff robert emms. also known as pythagoras bbc atlantis. hi bestie <3 i wish you got to be in this movie more. ok next thing. it's gonna be another complaint about an actor. yeah that one. no it's not just because i'm mad at him for last weeks sleep movie debacle. although i am still mad about that, that has nothing to do with the fact that he is a mediocre to quite poor actor, and he brings such a bad vibe to this character i am literally suppossed to be charmed by. even at 11 i had a sense of bad vibes. i could tell there was something unchic afoot etc. i was always so mad when snow white would fall in love with him every time i watched the movie but i knew it was suppossed to happen that way so i didn't really mind. but i hated it, i hated him. he's not a good person, and he's not that charming, and he's played by a man who seems to think he's in a combination knockoff shonda rhimes drama and a strange fantasy animated sitcom in 2005. can't explain that stuff just vibe or don't. he thinks he could do bbc merlin. he couldn't. not with 100% of his effort. conversely, bradley james could do this movie with three days notice and no script, and that's really saying something because he's like only the fourth or fifth most talented actor in that show's main cast. anyway why didn't they cast someone lily collins actually had good chemistry with. am i being crazy rn because i think he's got bad vibes or do you guys notice that they don't have good chemistry too? it's not bad per se. it could be better tho.

and where to begin on the weird. kink stuff. jesus christ. are we not suppossed to talk about that stuff? did you guys not notice that stuff? are you ignoring it because of the cool costumes? i don't even want to talk about it really i just think it's weird that no one ever wants to bring that up.

anyway i guess that brings us back to the misogyny. nobody likes it when i say stuff like this and i know nobody likes it but i'm gonna keep doing it beause i am so fucking sick of this patriarchy shit and how it invades literally every aspect of life on this earth and i am constantly intimately aware of all of it all the time and it makes me so angry just to like. exist in the world with all of this rage and knowledge and no power to truly change anything outside my own small life and circle and community. and like to have to log on to the chronically online assholes talking about media analysis website and still no one wants to talk about the fucking. misogyny that bleeds through every movie. is ridiculous. this movie wants to pretend that it's a girl power story just because they gave snow white a sword. it's very 2012. except that other media was doing the exacxt concept of "badass snow white" in 2011. 2007. 2005. like, i was there, i know everything there is to know about it, unfortunately. she's not a badass just because she can hold a sword she's a badass because she hates taxes. and she was useless with that sword anyway so what was the point of giving it to her, just so you could say you gave snow white a sword? just so you could get a little training montage? and then we ignore that half the dudes in this montage are routinely demeaning and objectifying her because she's a woman. ok work. feminism! and her love interest hates women and literally consistently devalues her capability and does not ever learn anything the whole time? and they're in true love? and then they get married after he has undergone zero character development and presumably still views her as inferior because of her gender and now he's going to become the king of HER kingdom and rule HER people? yeah that's the future gloria steinem envisioned.

i don't mean to say she's not a strong character, because she is, i wouldn't have latched onto this movie so strongly with my grubby little 11 year old hands if she hadn't been. but it's just so disheartening that a huge piece of this movie and this whole story in general is the love between her and the prince, and then this movie did so well making her a well rounded character who consistently defied expectations of the role she was meant to play as a woman in her society, and then she married a man that looked down on her and her values and her femininity, and HE gets to become the king of HER kingdom someday. i think he should kill himself. i hope she kills him after a year of marriage. i hope no one mourns him.

and really the whole "edgy(ish) modern fairy tale adaptation" thing is rarely done well, in a way that both honors it's source material and the traditions and conventions they came from, and creates something new. this movie was on a great track, it really does do quite well in this regard i won't pretend otherwise. i always gripe about how true love's kiss is represented in modern media, and this movie is not an exception to that (the POINT of it in fairy tales is not that the characters knew a kiss of love would save their beloved, the point is that they DON'T know that true love's kiss will save them. the kiss happens because it is a final gesture of love to a doomed lover. the point is that true love's kiss brings the lover back because the one that kissed them loved them so much even when all hope was lost. whatever it doesn't matter that much) anyway. the only thing really is that it suffers from Made By A Man Disease. not to be confused with the mere fact of being made by a man. it's different. and the men that did this one have some serious issues they need to unpack with a therapist and maybe also their mothers. it's just like. you'll never be the american broadcasting company's once upon a time (2011-2018) created by edward kitsis and adam horowitz. you'll never be her.

AND ANOTHER THING. i know am literally always saying that movies should end with musical numbers a la ella enchanted (you just can't go wrong when you follow your heart and end with a song fr) however. the ending musical number in this movie feels. slightly off. i like that it's very bollywood-esque, that definitely helps it stand out at least. it's not that it doesn't work, because it kind of does. or it works just enough. i think the thing i dislike about it is that they didn't commit hard enough, it plays on half the screen while credits go on the other half, it's like it's a little add on to the end and not the actual ending, lame! also the lyrics are very tonally off with the rest of the movie tbh. "i belive in love"? yeah girl, we know, the whole movie is about how you saved yourself and all the people you cared about from an opressive ruler becasue you loved them and wanted life to be better for these people you loved. you didn't like. learn to believe in love as this song might suggest... idk. it's not really about the lyrics it's more the uncommitted thing. also. the bollywood inspo would have been less tonally inconsistent if there were evan a hint of that in any of the other music in here. unfortunately. so it doesn't gel well and i kinda hate it for those reasons.

anyway hi clary i just saw you on friday <3 hi pythagoras i just saw you on wednesday <3 hi julia roberts, you've been on my tv a few times lately too <3 and hi to no one else in here that i may have seen recently.

[omegaphilosophia]

The Philosophy of the Triangle

The philosophy of the triangle explores the conceptual, symbolic, and mathematical significance of the triangle as a fundamental geometric shape. Triangles are deeply embedded in both philosophical and mathematical traditions and have been used as metaphors for balance, harmony, and the relationships between different elements.

Key Concepts:

Mathematical Foundation:

The triangle is one of the simplest and most fundamental shapes in geometry. In Euclidean geometry, triangles are the basis for many theorems and principles, such as the Pythagorean theorem, which connects geometry with algebra. The study of triangles also forms the foundation for trigonometry, which deals with the relationships between angles and side lengths.

Symbolic Significance:

Balance and Harmony: Triangles have been used symbolically across cultures to represent balance, unity, and harmony. For example, in Christian theology, the triangle is a symbol of the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), representing unity within diversity.

Pyramidal Structure: The triangle is often seen as a stable and solid structure. In ancient Egypt, the pyramid, which has a triangular base, was a symbol of strength, endurance, and the connection between the divine and the earthly.

Platonic and Pythagorean Views:

Platonic Solids: In Platonic philosophy, the triangle is a fundamental element in constructing the four classical elements (earth, air, fire, water) in the form of Platonic solids. Plato considered geometric shapes to be the building blocks of the physical world, and the triangle was seen as a key to understanding the nature of the cosmos.

Pythagoras and Triangular Numbers: The Pythagoreans, who deeply studied geometry, saw the triangle as a sacred shape, representing the harmonious relationships found in numbers and geometry. Triangular numbers, a type of figurate number, reflect the pattern of dots that form equilateral triangles, symbolizing the order inherent in the universe.

Philosophical Abstractions:

Triad Structure in Thought: Triangles often represent triads in philosophy and systems of thought. In Hegelian dialectics, for example, the triad of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis forms the basis for the progression of ideas. Similarly, Aristotle’s three types of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos) also form a triangular structure in persuasive communication.

Metaphysical Triads: Triangles can be metaphors for relationships between three elements in metaphysics. For instance, the relationship between mind, body, and soul is sometimes represented as a triangle, with each corner representing a distinct yet interconnected aspect of human existence.

Psychological and Philosophical Interpretations:

Triangular Relationships: In social and psychological contexts, the triangle often symbolizes the dynamics of relationships, such as love triangles or power structures involving three individuals or entities. Philosophically, it reflects how balance or tension between three components can shape broader outcomes.

Jungian Archetypes: Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious includes symbolic representations, and triangles are viewed as archetypes for spiritual ascent, enlightenment, or the synthesis of opposites.

Ethical and Moral Philosophies:

Moral Triangles: In some ethical philosophies, the triangle is used as a metaphor for balancing different moral principles. For example, the relationship between duty, consequence, and virtue can be visualized as a triangle, where each point represents a distinct moral focus, yet all are interconnected.

The Golden Triangle: In economic theory, the "golden triangle" of production, consumption, and sustainability is often discussed in relation to the ethical management of resources, offering a metaphor for balance in human interaction with the environment.

The philosophy of the triangle is multi-faceted, blending mathematical rigor with symbolic meaning. It serves as a bridge between the tangible and the abstract, embodying balance, harmony, and unity across various systems of thought. Philosophers have used the triangle to express the relationships between ideas, numbers, moral principles, and metaphysical concepts. Its simplicity and universality make it a powerful tool for understanding the interconnectedness of different aspects of reality.