#he's a maths genius! :)

[seekingxanadu]

I do not understand the meltdown certain sections of Dick Grayson fandom tends to ocassionally have about Dick getting angry. Characters get angry. Characters have the right to be angry. Now we aren't allowing Dick autonomy to feel? Here, I find myself thinking often- if there is a batfam character that deserves to get angry more often, it is Dick. His "father figures" take him for granted over and over and often abandon and ignore him and his traumas. His "siblings" rave and rant at him for every apparent slight but can't be bothered to ask for his side or even ask him "are you okay, Dick?" His "love" is gaslighting him, being toxic to him, but Dick should never ever snap back lest *her* stans accuse him of being toxic to her. Her toxicity towards him is just all right.

Saying Dick has anger issues when he has his rare blowups is, in itself, a form of gaslighting.

Even in fics, it is irritating to see fic authors take Dick to the brink and then have him apologise to others for *them* hurting him and then have him insist again and again he should be the one to apologise. It is plain disgusting.

Just like everyone else, Dick has a multitude of emotions.

Why do we find it okay for other characters to take their anger out at Dick, even for things he has not done?

Why do we find it okay for Dick to swallow his anger at other characters who hurt him, his family, or his hero mantles?

[akkivee]

jiro got a zero on one of his tests and i think it’s crazy to have the middle school dropout be a part of this event LOL

[ohbebop]

Got curious about the numbers he's giving out after seeing Guillermo on the floor with sheets of paper filled with random numbers. Is Baby Colin reciting the value of pi when asked for the ATM card PIN? It was not captured but a faint sound of "four" was heard on the last part.

Shockingly, 431024 would be on the 93820th decimal place.

[ezralva]

Based on this and my post-canon Gocho AU where Gojo came back alive and became the Principal. He gave a written test to Choso for Jujutsu High staff recruitment.

😎: Yuuji asked me to teach you more how to live as a modern human. Also if you work here at school you can make a better living with more stable income.

🩸: Yuuji is the kindest kid. He loves me and cares about my well-being *smiles smugly*

😎: He said if you get a stable job as one of the staff then he can finally go to missions alone again without you following him all the time. You annoy him with that so he just tries to get you out of his hair.

🩸: Yuuji is in his rebellious phase.

😎: Whatever. Anyway, I've never seen grades this low before. Even Yuuji's language tests have better results than these. Could it be that you're not good at reading and writing?

Choso can't accept that, as a big brother he needs to set an example for his little brother.

🩸: It's not that. I was just feeling under the weather when I took the test.

😎: Okay. Then let's try again. Read the words in no. 1 and 2. You should be familiar with these since you know them a lot.

🩸: alright.

😎 : How do you read no. 1? (the kanji for Getou)

🩸: Natsuabura (summer oil).

😎: ....

😎: No. 2? It's something you eat with Yuuji before. (kanji for senbei=rice crackers, the word 'before' in Japanese is mae)

🩸: *squinting his eyes, trying hard* Mae...mochi.

😎:

After this Gojo has no choice but to give Choso private tutoring sessions 👀😏

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

WHAT DO THEY MEAN BONZO WAS BORN IN 2007

WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS????

[six-of-cringe]

I think that one of the reasons why people misinterpret Wylan's character and arc, among others, is because they misinterpret the relationship between him and Kaz. This post has kind of mitosised off from the BFWP (Big Fucking Wylan Post) I'm writing because it's a bit of a different focus and constitutes its own post.

A lot of people talk about Wylan's character and development as though it's meant to match Kaz's - starting out as a nice kid who the city forces to become amoral, indifferent to violence, and well-versed in crime. These qualities are usually talked about with a weird reverence as an irrefutable symbol of "badassery", as though it's always a positive development for any character regardless of the story's narrative, which annoys me but is not the topic of this post. That's part of the BFWP's job.

Following Kaz's exact development is not the point of Wylan's character. The point is that Kaz and Wylan narrative foils - very similar in many ways, but with a fundamental difference that creates the "broken mirror" effect/shows how they could have turned out if they'd chosen differently. I think that difference is how they respond when they climb out of the harbor after their respective betrayals. Narratively, Ketterdam represents a very harsh system that presents the people struggling there with very few options. You can either choose to ditch decency, play by the Barrel's rules, and live, or you can hold on to decency and die.

When Kaz returns to the streets after Jordie's death, he chooses the first option. He copes with what happened through ideas of revenge, and to survive long enough to see it he quickly turns to thievery and violence. He thinks to himself after he robs a kid for money and food that it was much easier to survive when you've left decency behind. He survived through violence, creating the Dirtyhands persona around himself for protection.

When Wylan has to fend for himself, he choses the second option. He finds "honest work" at the tannery, where they exploit workers and expose them to toxins. He wonders if he'll live long enough to use his savings to leave the city, or if the chemicals would kill him first. He was smart enough to steal and survive, but he chose decency, and with it, he chose death. There are a number of reasons why he chose differently than Kaz despite their similarities - his older age and thus more developed moral code, having no one to avenge but himself when he believed himself worthless, his more privileged upbringing, and his relatively low drive to live. Alone, he would have died.

Then Kaz steps in. Kaz's role in all the crow's lives is that, intentionally or not, his ruthless rule of the Barrel creates a sort of haven that allows them to survive where they would have died had they stayed alone. Wylan is a really clear example of this, and though Kaz's intentions were at least partly self-serving, his involvement both kept Wylan from dying of exposure or street violence as well as prevented him from needing to do the more terrible things that it takes to survive in the Barrel. Throughout the books, we see Kaz kind of taking the brunt of enacting violence in Wylan's place - traumatizing Smeet's daughter, killing the clerk on the lighthouse. Wylan could get by making explosives in the workshop rather than having to shoot or stab or beat the life out of people. And at the end of the series, Kaz sees to it that he never will have to. Of course Wylan did bad stuff to survive when working with the Dregs, it's the Barrel. But the extent is greatly lessened because of Kaz's involvement.

Wylan's arc was never about becoming comfortable with violence, or becoming just like Kaz - the way people characterize him as some sort of ruthless murder mastermind is inaccurate and redundant with Kaz's character. He isn't nonchalant or celebratory about crime or death or violence by the end of the book. He doesn't HAVE to become like Kaz, because Kaz himself gave him the space to continue being decent, intentionally or otherwise. Understanding that dynamic is important to understanding what Wylan is like as a character and as a person. If you assume Wylan's trajectory is to become "Kaz 2.0", then you're going to mischaracterize him. I've seen posts about how Kaz was the Jordie that he didn't have to Wylan, and I think that makes a lot more sense. Because Kaz is willing to do the horrible things in his stead, Wylan has the third option otherwise impossible in the Barrel - maintaining his decency and surviving.

[random2908]

Frustrating when a VC-funded company gets credit for being the "first" and the "leader," when they had a sub-component demo the same week we had a full-system demo. Like, we are easily 5-10 years ahead of them, it's ridiculous; their approach isn't even yet proven to work. But they get science youtubers talking about them.

Because they're VC-funded, they have a marketing/press department.

And because we're an employee-owned company working off of government contracts, well, most government contracts get slapped with an ITAR label (an old Cold-War-era law saying basically sharing scientific information counts as illegally selling arms/munitions). So if you want to publicize your work, including your company's products, you have to appeal that label. (Universities have specifically negotiated a blanket exemption, so if you spend your whole life in academic science you might never even know about this.)

(My previous employer filed those appeals several times a year in order to do press releases and publish journal articles and apply for patents. I think every single information-release appeal they filed went through, because there's no reason any of this stuff should be labeled as arms--it's literally the same stuff universities are doing. My current employer is afraid to, which I think is wrong-headed; at worst they'll just say no, and anyway, our non-restricted competitors are giving fucking lab tours to youtubers.)

[redgearsmovin]

14 different toppings, 3 toppings per pizza, can make 364 kinds of pizza...

what math did Dave do to get this.

ok wait i'm doing calculations . Image description in alt text.

using combination / nCr formula, you can get the answer.

now the next question is how the hell did he do that all in his head .

[imperfectcourt]

I need more morosexual Andrew in my life

I need more clueless Neil in my life

I need a combination morosexual Andrew clueless Neil in my life

[battlestarbones]

roci crew truly found family of all time. simply unparalleled.

[optimisticllamathing]

begging fandom people to learn a dynamic that isn't 'one of them is made super dumb and the other is mean and constantly calling them an idiot'. no half-decent story with the serious one and the silly goofball one is ever that shallow where it's just one person correcting the other and belittling them the entire time, and in fandom? no matter what the actual dynamic is, the same bland, reused jokes show up. and, shocker, it's always the neurodivergent one that gets labeled an idiot and made the joke.

[gildedsaviour7]

so if the clouds clpudmaxxed and the galvanized square steel becones a rizzlord and eco friendly wood veneers fought in a battle greater than world war two would it be skibidi? Also one trillion lions vs the sun what happens would the lions win where would tge sun go where do we buy the new sun if tge lions win also where are we gonna get the trillion lions????

This question is nonsense.

[isjkrowlingdeadnow]

August 5th

No

[tanjir0se]

WAKE UP SANEMI ENJOYERS. YASSIFICATION BE UPON YOU.

@babykirara thank you for encouraging my terminal Sanemi disease, enjoy this self indulgent bullshit WIP

[leaderwon]

"ultimate jungwon fanpage!?" has a jay theme. bffr 😐 

jungwon has a blindfold on stfu sru

[bwoingy]

Everyone on tiktok jokes about having the "tism" til they see an autist in special ed who has strange tics and bully valley they go