#how did it come to this

[moonviewer]

白 [shiro]: white

(please don't repost my art to other sites, thank you)

[gimmick-remover]

So

With that whole thing with doing very illegal things to the gimmick blog reporter, we are gaining an army

So we need to have a plan

[splitsterextra]

Could you draw penguin meta knight from the Kirby anime. Please and thank you

[gay-mooshrooms]

"Companion, do you love the man?" "I...do not understand." "Is he important to you, more than anything? Is he as though he were a part of you?" "He is part of me. The man must continue."..."You regard the man only as a toy. You amuse yourself with him." "You are wrong. The man is the centre of all things. I care for him." "But you can't really love him. You haven't the slightest knowledge of love, the total union of two people. You are the Companion. He is the man. You are two different things. You can't join. You can't love. You may keep him here forever, but you will always be separate, apart from him."

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Welp, im gonna go curl into a ball and sob

[trojanteapot]

tl;dr the numbers in Infinity Train makes no sense and makes this scientist want to scream cry and throw up

Being an astronomer that is also a fan of Infinity Train honestly gives me psychic damage when it comes to how absolute bonkers this number system is. For most of my life after Book 3 I have chosen to ignore it for the sake of my sanity but I cannot any longer.

For example, let's take a look at these two screenshots:

So in the screenshot on the left, Grace is something like 13-14, and on the right, she's 17-18 or something. The point is, this is roughly 4 or so years apart right?

Now take a closer look at Grace's number on the right screenshot:

So there's around 15 visible digits. Which would mean that her number is in the 10^15 range, or a quadrillion, right? Nope.

There's digits all around her arm. So let's use our physics brains and assume her arm is a perfect cylinder, and that 3 digits spans the diameter of this cylinder. So with grade school math we know the circumference is pi*diameter, so actually she would have 3 times as many digits on her arm at that moment.

3*15 = 45

her number is in the order of 10^45.

10^45. One with 45 zeroes behind it.

Do you KNOW how MASSIVE that number is?????

BUT WAIT you say, her arm isn't a perfect cylinder, her wrist is smaller than her elbow. Fine. 10^40 then.

Coincidentally, when I made a number glove for my Simon cosplay, it also ended up having roughly 40 digits on it, but I digress.

LET'S PUT 10^40 INTO PERSPECTIVE.

This is the Sun.

In terms of kilograms, the sun weighs 2x10^30 kilograms. So again, that is 2 with THIRTY ZEROES behind it.

But if Grace's number at the beginning of Book 3 was a mass in kilograms, it would be at least ten orders of magnitude greater than that. Not ten times. Ten orders of magnitude. In other words, TEN BILLION TIMES THE MASS OF THE SUN.

Do you know what is ten billion times the mass of the Sun?!

THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

So, Infinity Train writers, you are telling me, that in the span of four years. Grace's number went from 702 to A FUCKING GALAXY SIZED NUMBER?!

Okay chief. Sure. Why not.

[riftstone-of-the-calm]

[the-art-block]

To my complete shock and bewilderment events continue to occur in our Chronicle

The Coterie (at time of writing) Blaine (left) - @skaerdir Kelly (center) - me Roy (right) - @klaciate

shouts to our incredible Storyteller @syntheticmortal, they write Lupines not Garou 👀

[hoforwonho]

Kpop fans: Omg look at his arms!! I love arm!

The idol:

[shuunnico]

Arcane Season 2's writing and my thoughts on it:

[brother-of-a-villain]

I just got a puppy three weeks ago. I should be playing with my new puppy.

But instead I'm stuck trying to call my brother so he can stop breaking into other people's places and potentially kidnapping people???

I'm so tired.

[sayingyournames]

gm it’s my day off and i just spent $50 on shampoo & conditioner

[pridoo]

I have a speaking gig coming up in two weeks!! I'll be talking in a comic festival again 😳

[robotclownindulgence]

I'm actually doing a commission for the church like what the hell

[cocoafizz]

[faceyourphobia]

Someone kill me now, I just put the sticky part of the bandaid on top of a fresh set of scabs, literally what do I do. How do I reverse my actions? Where’s the rewind button?

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . over the top of the pain and the nausea came, even worse, a wave of sadness, sadness that it had come to this.

Lev Grossman, from The Bright Sword