#they award something like the Fields Medal for tumblr posts right?

[coraniaid]

I'll admit that I sometimes get very annoyed when other people suggest in-universe workarounds for Buffy's Season 6 money problems -- as if these were just something bad that the writers let happen to Buffy by mistake and not the entire thematic point of the season -- or when they argue that the Watchers Council should have given Buffy a regular salary the way they did Giles -- as if Giles being paid by the Council at all wasn't just a throwaway joke from Checkpoint that the show obviously never intended to be taken seriously and isn't even remotely consistent with the way he's written up to this point or after -- or more generally whenever they suggest that bad things happening to Buffy are some sort of writing mistake that can only be explained by the "fact" that all the Buffy writers are men (a weirdly common claim on here that denies the substantial contributions made to the show by Marti Noxon and Jane Espsenson and Tracey Forbes and Rebecca Kirshner) rather than being ... you know, the actual story being told.

Yes, often the plotting of Buffy isn't very tight and the worldbuilding could easily be improved. It is a bit silly that Willow and Tara live rent free in Buffy's house in the same season she is meant to be becoming an adult who needs to get a job to pay her bills; it doesn't really make any sense that there is an entire Council of Watchers who seem to find the actual Slayer herself a slightly tedious nuissance when she's the entire reason their organization exists; it very obviously is unfair that Buffy suffers from having to be a hero who regularly saves the world. But the story is not improved by making things easier for Buffy. A better version of Season 6 might fix things so that Willow and Tara being unable to give Buffy money made sense, but it wouldn't take those money problems away altogether. If Slaying was a career you could make a living from the central metaphor of the show would collapse. A version of the show where Buffy had a large support network and no financial or romantic problems and never argued with her family or friends would be incredibly boring.

However, when I say things that might superficially seem to resemble these sorts of complaints ("why doesn't Giles find Faith somewhere to live?", for example, or "why doesn't Jenny buy herself a laptop and work on spells at home?"), I think you'll find it's actually very clever and incisive media analysis. Honestly I should get some sort of medal for it.

[halfmoth-halfman]

tumblr did not eat my ask thank you for replying to it! 🫣 tumblr has been eating my asks to other creators so i had to ask sorry mother!!!

i could ramble for ages about the representations of PTSD in other media. and i could ramble about your representation of it as well (IN A GOOD WAY!!!) for hours. if there was a sport to ramble about it??? i’d win gold

i’m not a psych student at university but i do a lot of research into mental health and trauma, partly because it’s that part of education i’m hoping to go into but because i think it’s so important that we get a better understanding, representation and perspective on it and also partly because i’ve been through the works with my own mental health and want to make it better for others.

Because of this I read a lot about representations of different things and all my praise for YOUR own rep of Canary’s trauma and ptsd comes from two places;; sentimental, as in, i see myself in canary. in her mannerisms post makarov torture, in her attitude, in her thoughts, in pretty much all of her ptsd i see so much of her in me when i was at the height of my own ptsd symptoms. where everything came to the surface because i couldn’t cope. but the other part of it comes from a factual point of view??? i read so much about different ways people present ptsd and not many people get it accurately as you have. maybe that’s because you’ve dealt with your own symptoms and seen ptsd like you said!! but it is truly really really breathtaking to see it so accurately.

and you are right about finding comfort in canary as she’s going through this!! because i do too 🥹 it’s healing. very healing.

my partner, he saw the aftermath of my peak of ptsd and he acted sort of how the 141 acted (without the guilt aksnsksm) and it helped ten times over. to see it presented in such a resonated way it’s so lovely mother mothie and i hope you know how emotional and amazing it is to see 🩷💐

NOW THAT LADIES AND GENTLEMAN WAS A RAMBLE

I TOLD YOU I COULD WIN GOLD

have a good weekend mother!!! cannot wait to read the finale!! i WILL be crying!! 💐

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tumblr may not have eaten your ask, but i def accidentally saved the reply to my drafts instead of posting it my bad 😭

i'd be happy to award you a gold medal in rambling about PTSD rep, it's honestly something i'm very interested in. and i think that's actually a really cool field of study to choose and to research and i think that's a very admirable goal of wanting a better understanding of mental health and trauma!!

tbh her trauma was always something that worried because i know trauma responses can be so different from person to person and she's supposed to be a reader character. a lot of it was based off of my own feelings/experiences so i was surprised (but glad) to see people were able to relate to her and that she didn't feel too flip-floppy if that makes sense??

the one thing i knew going in was that i wanted canary to absolutely have a happy ending no matter what. she was going to go through some shit, but she was going to heal from it and she was going to live her best life!! and it was very healing for me to be able to write that, to have a character that gets the help they need and works on healing with people who support them and i'm happy people were able to find that same sense with her!!

i feel like a lot of stories in media can end up brushing over the healing part of trauma, and in like movies esp (which i get can be because of time constraints) it can end up feeling like one kiss between the main couple or just one conversation is enough to get over so much trauma, and i wanted to make sure we at least saw canary go through her process and that her healing felt more real for me. like everything isn't instantly fixed and sometimes it's a struggle, but she gets there, y'know?

I LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOUR RAMBLE SO MUCH, YOU'RE WELCOME TO IT ANYTIME!!!!!!!!

[lboogie1906]

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[thousandmaths]

Masterpost: Index

Now that it’s no longer possible to experience OTAM as a “dose a day” math fix, I figured I’d try to get around to making a somewhat more accessible organizational scheme. This post is obviously something of a hack, but it was good enough for printed books for hundreds of years it can be good enough for little old OTAM. I’ve split post this into two parts: 

First comes a list of significant tags. This means reasonably small collections of posts but contain a high density of the most interesting posts.

And second, underneath a readmore, comes a list of posts (or drafted posts) which are significant in their own right but cannot be easily found from the tags. [The eight posts in this list marked with stars and italics are, in my opinion, the absolute highlights of this blog.]

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Index of Significant Tags

The Archive: A single page containing tumbnails of every post

Conferences (semi-chronological)

All Joint Meetings Posts

Joint Mathematics Meetings 2015 (summary) (awards)

Joint Mathematics Meetings 2016 (awards)

Joint Mathematics Meetings 2017 (awards)

All Midwest Combinatorics Conference Posts

Midwest Combinatorics Conference 2015

Midwest Combinatorics Conference 2017 (long summary)

All Commutative Algebra Plus Posts

Commutative Algebra+ 2016 (summary)

Commutative Algebra+ 2017

Algebraic and Combinatorial Approaches in Systems Biology (summary)

Graduate Student Conference in Geometry and Topology 2016

Great Plains Combinatorics Conference 2016

AMS Central Sectional Meeting Fall 2016 (summary)

Southeastern International Conference yadda-yadda 2017 (summary)

Equivariant Combinatorics (school) (summary)

Local Cohomology in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Disciplines & Subjects

Analysis, but more usefully

Complex Analysis

Functional Analysis

Harmonic Analysis

Real Analysis

Algebra exists, although is not very useful

Algebraic Geometry (kind of long, but no useful subtags)

Combinatorics, but more usefully

Algebraic Combinatorics

Combinatorial Geometry

Enumerative Combinatorics

Geometric Combinatorics

Graph Theory and its strict subset Algebraic Graph Theory

Posets

Topological Combinatorics

Geometry (also kind of long; useful subtags already listed)

Group Theory

Invariant Theory

Lie Theory

Mathematical Biology (an admittedly very skewed picture of the field)

Number Theory (and Everything I Know About Algebraic Number Theory)

Pedagogy

Probability

Proofs (not proof theory)

Topology and its strict subset Algebraic Topology

Undergraduate Research

Effortposts / Sequences

Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics 2016 proposal talks

mathspeak (NB: I no longer endorse anything I wrote in these posts)

Math StackExchange answers (mostly mine) (and Math Overflow)

Naïve Set Theory

NOTSB-related

Summer 2017 Journal

Introduction to Cluster Algebras

Introduction to Coxeter Groups

Introduction to Homology

Introduction to Modules and Associative Algebras

Introduction to Schubert Stuff (and Other Schubert Stuff)

Back to Basics (a random assortment of introductory stuff; includes the Introduction to Modules sequence)

Big-Whatever Notation (on $\Sigma$, $\Pi$, and friends)

Math+

Math History

Math Jokes!

Math Philosophy

“Masterposts”, i.e. Single-Post Tags

the social justice conversation surrounding JMM 2017

differential topology (Part B) prelims solutions (+a little) (single page view)

websites for collecting mathematical examples

a very small list of poset properties

a very small list of topological vector space properties

a launching point into non-enumerative combinatorics 

Federico Ardila’s video lectures

Personal Life

failure

grad school

learning

math friends

motivation

new year

thanksgiving

Professional Life

academia

blogging (and mad blogging experiment)

CRP

outreach

senior thesis-related

studying

talks with Vic

teaching (parts of this tag are more relevant than others)

writing (and math writing)

Social Justice

Becoming a Responsible Academic

Diversity

Women in Math

Index of Significant Posts

All-Star talks

** Mathematics for Human Flourishing (Francis Su)

Introduction to Cluster Algebras (Gregg Musiker)

Reflection Groups in Combinatorics (Theodosios Douvropoulos)

Advice Posts (from #advice, and otherwise)

** how to read math I

** how to read math II

** why you should go to talks

writing math 101 (external)

how to mathematicize your biology education (tumblr)

giving your own first talk

“Advice to a Young Mathematician” (out of undergrad, esp.)

regrets (MIT senior)

save money for grad school, and other things nobody tells you

grad school (reddit)

teaching 101

teaching 201

advisor selection (in the sciences)

my own advisor selection (sub-masterpost)

stuff I don’t actually know about

day[9]’s starcraft advice as math advice

and do the exercises

post-grad-school as a mathematical butterfly

doing research

making time non-mathematical passions

promoting diversity

Current Events & Community News (chronological)

Mirzakhani passes away

the IMU EC debates changing the name of the Nevanlinna Medal (no outcomes yet)

the Cap Set Problem is solved

Wiles wins the Abel prize

people are starting to understand IUTT

the Erdős discrepancy problem is solved

the rational shuffle conjecture is proven

Grothendeick passes away (slightly before the blog started)

From Very Nearly Nothing Posts

Rank Two Cluster Algebras

The Bruhat Order (for $S_n$)

The Shi Arrangement

My Mathematical Work (reverse chronological)

Homework/Interests

Infinitary Combinatorics

Tucker’s Lemma

Research

Counting Your Way to a Ph.D. (guestpost; anticipated oral paper)

GRWC project

Poster! (undergrad research, presented to the GPCC 2016)

Kastelyn’s solution to the dimer model (senior thesis)

Talks

preparing a seminar talk (GRWC project)

Counting to Cosine (GRWC project, to the undergrad math club)

Ego (a note on a seminar talk which I did not write up elsewhere)

Recommendations, blogs (from #blogs I like, and my drafts folder)

** Calculus VII (interesting, accessible problems)

** Mathematical Gemstones (OTAM but better)

neverendingbooks

Sketches of Topology

Theories and Theorems

Math With Bad Drawings

Grandma Got STEM

Alien Number (probably defunct)

John Baez (an nLab guy)

John Cook (consultant)

David Eppstein (apparently, a Game of Life guy)

The Inner Frame (math and photography)

dy/dan (pre-university math education)

Frederik de Boer (university math education)

AMS blogs

grad students blogging

inclusion/exclusion

the rest of them

via tumblr

matan-matika

1ucasvb (updates very infrequently, unfortunately)

canmom (previously canonicalmomentum)

szimmetria-airtemmizs

maxwellsequations (math/physics sculptures)

engineeringtldr

fuckyeahfluiddynamics

Recommendations, non-blogs (mostly from drafts folder)

** Discrete Analysis (journal; at least for the summaries)

** What do Grad Students in Math do All Day? (quora Q&A)

3blue1brown (high-quality YouTube animations)

Paul Graham’s essays, especially:

Procrastination

High School

College

loving the tenure track life (article)

A Mathematician’s Lament (essay)

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Just for Fun

Round-Number Posts:

100 (Day 162) [senior year]

200 (Day 236) [summer]

300 (Day 379) [yikes]

400 (Day 501) [yeah when I realized this, that was a wakeup call]

500 (Day 578) [also summer]

600 (Day 684)

700 (Day 784)

800 (Day 877) 

900 (Day 954) [man, that was a journey (summer)]

1000 (Day 1000) [literally first day I was caught up since Jan2015 >.< ]

Top Contributors:

Posts dedicated to the work/talks of Theo: 123456 78 9 10 11

Posts dedicated to the work/talks of Vic Reiner: 12345 67 8 9 10

Posts dedicated to the talks of Laura Escobar: 12345678 9 10

It looks you three lead the pack by a longshot; I had some ideas but ultimately I couldn’t find anyone doing better than Maria Gillespie who has 123 45 with the last two being a little bit iffy. But if you don’t count that then it looks like it’s just lots of people tied at three posts 

(I thought Brubaker had four but apparently not; Dmitriy Bilyk also has three, with a weak but not totally implausible claim on six).