#math for swans

[bruneburg]

trying to teach a swan some math, I think it's going well so far

#bruneburg #swan #math #math for swans #learning #lineart #pencil #bw #cartoony #silly #bird #birds #sketch #drawing #doodle #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #absurd #nonsense #bruneburg art #anita bruneburg #book #book destruction #books

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Swan and Swan, continued are both up, here and on ao3.

We're almost to 100k, guys, but most importantly WE'RE FINALLY PASSED THE GRAND CRYSTAL BALL THANK AKATOSH

(actual footage of me and my beta as we wave Solitude goodbye)

#no seriously I've spent two weeks on writing this ball and hours of additional research #swan takes up THREE PAGES in my outline literally like 8.4% of my outline doc #i think #don't ask me to math #and don't ask me to let cadavir touch Leara EVER AGAIN #ask yourself where he got the money for a BALL GOWN #ASK #i didn't know you were keeping count #I'm begging you please reas my fic it's my baby #mod post #skyrim romance mod #fanfic

[ohmeadows]

How did your Ruan Mei pulls go?

won the 50/50 for her, but the lc pulls were abysmal. i did get clara's lc... and then kept going til i got hers. not a single xueyi but that was expected. but yay she's home and she's sooo good in the new simuni update i love her 🥰

#ask meadows anything #did you pull? did it go well for you? or saving atm? #i kinda want black swan i won't lie but i don't have kafka so i'm unsure of how the math would math

[audreybuxbaum]

#girlblogging #coquette #2014 aesthetic #dollette #female hysteria #tumblr 2014 #2014 tumblr #nina sayers #black swan #math #i hate school

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

Guess what just hit Project Gutenberg!

This isn't about the analytical engine (the one that could have been considered a computer), it's an article about a difference engine (the mechanical calculator one).

I just skimmed it and it's like…30% just talking about how horrible errors in calculation tables are? He's not wrong, but still. Dude. And a good chunk of describing the machine is talking about how to make the machine print out what it's doing so you can be sure it isn't making errors.

It's got some pictures.

Another large chunk goes into how horrible it is that this very important work is not appreciated enough and he needs more money, which I guess yes, he's definitely right that calculating machines can REALLY be world-changing, but also my dude, you never finished one!

[W]e express our regret, that a discovery of such paramount practical value, in a country preeminently conspicuous for the results of its machinery, should fall still-born and inconsequential through their hands, and be buried unhonoured and undiscriminated in their miscellaneous transactions.

I mean yes, your mechanical calculator is definitely remembered as a too-early broken offshoot of early computing history, but also they gave you seventeen thousand mid-19th-century pounds sterling and you didn't make a whole working calculator. There comes a point.

#public domain books #charles babbage #this goes over my head really #i'd have to sit down and give it a good think and maybe model it out in some way to get it #i'm just imagining a curta calculator going click click tbh which is very inaccurate but the only mechanical calculator i've ever used #unless you count slide rules #anyway things spin and math happens is what i'm getting here #difference engine #today i googled 'Swan Pan calculator' and then felt like an idiot #yeah he meant suanpan #it's got capitals! and a space! written words don't have sounds to me idk they are just little pictures that mean things

[turojo]

Turo vc: reminder to self to give family a thorough lesson on how time travel works.

#crack. » .004 ✦ #dash. » .005 ✦ #turo vc: HUGR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARALLEL TIMELINES AND ALTERNATE UNIVERSES I SWAN TO JOHN AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO WENT TO SCHOOL- #I’d make a HC post but that’s a fuck ton of science and physics and math #that I actually researched #and never want to touch again

[wistrearchived]

this outfit concept art of helena from RE6 is so hot i need to see kira in this immediately,

#THE BLACK SWAN VIBES?? HELLO? #i need ki in this immediately... the raven.... U SEE THE VISION? #[ 𝐢. ] ooc › the risk i took was calculated‚ but man am i bad at math.

[fluorescentsnails]

(me, doing basic chores) omg bella swan simulator!!!!!!!!!!!!

#things i say to myself while doing dishes to distract myself from the fact that im the only one who does them out of my siblings & mom #my dad usually does them but he hasnt been lately & lowkey i think its bc he knows ill do it if he doesnt #im rereading the book for nostalgia & felt utter rage when bella cooked for her & charlie & charlie just??? watched tv while bella did the #dishes??? & she talks about a pattern forming & im like babe you cooked for him you dont need to clean his plates too. he can help out. #like Hes Tired From Work well she was at school all day THEN went shopping THEN cooked THEN did homework THEN cooked more & shes like #oh boy! time to clean the dishes & do math! like bella babe your dad isnt helpless & i know youve been parentified but for the love of godd #my post #twilight #bella swan

[saunteringvaguelydownwards]

🐛🪰 + 🐝 or 🦗!

Uh oh, math! I thought at first that this was a request for three fics, caterpillar, fly, and then either bee or grasshopper. Now I'm wondering if it's asking for two fics: a fic that's both caterpillar and fly, and then either bee or grasshopper. Or it could be asking for a fic that's caterpillar, fly, AND bee, with an option to ignore all of that and do a wildcard.

Fuck it, let's go with the option that gives us the most recs. I suck at math anyways.

🐛 Great WIP (go comment)

MCU - What You Owe by @goshdarnitjay Bishova historical AU set in the late 1800s. Major General Kane Bishop needs a wife to look respectable, but is in a peculiar situation that won't allow for regular courting and marriage. So "he" goes to the Red Room of Willing Wives and buys one. Enter Yelena, who killed the last husband she was sold to. There's slow burn pining, there's intrigue, there's healthy respect for boundaries both physical and emotional. The world building is fantastic, everything is so well described, it's very easy to picture what's going on. Updates every Wednesday.

🪰 (Sad/Angst/Hurt-Comfort)

OUaT - Sit With Me Tonight by snarkingturtle (I believe no tumblr) Regina absorbs the death curse meant to kill Cora if she came through the well. Emma decides to check on her later that night, finds her dying on the floor of her bathroom in the mansion, and stays up all night trying to keep her conscious and alive. This one is intense. Not quite as rip-your-heart-out as 'A Thin Veil', but that fic has been deleted (from the internet at least). You got your angst, you got your hurt/comfort, you got your 'only realizing how much someone means to you when you might lose them'. It's a poke in the heart for sure.

🐝 (Symbolism/Themes/Clever)

SG - Broken Hearts Make Broken Worlds by @thornedrose44 Nice little 10k one-shot. Lena flees the Shadowlands ruled by her brother, refusing to ever let anyone else into her heart, and finds Kara living in an oasis. This baby is nothing but symbolism. Heartbreak breaks the world. Literally. It was a fill for the prompt "if breaking hearts can make ditches and crack pavement, tell the story that created the Grand Canyon" and hoo boy does it deliver.

#hopefully i got the math right #the wip does have hurt/comfort so maybe i nailed it either way? #this was actually a fantastic opportunity to go through my ao3 subscriptions and remove completed works #though i was sad to find a couple orphans #also a bunch of fics that haven't been updated since 2015 #but i live in hope #fanfic #recommendations #marvel's hawkeye #bishova #ouat #swan queen #supergirl #supercorp

[thisaintascenereviews]

Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer Dance Gavin Dance has had a pretty rough year, haven’t they? After longtime bassist Tim Feerick unexpectedly passed away earlier this year, longtime vocalist Tilian Pearson stepped away in June after some sexual misconduct accusations. Frankly, that soured my excitement for upcoming album Jackpot Juicer. I didn’t really listen to 2020′s Afterburner much when that came out, mainly because I didn’t listen to a lot of new music that year, but DGD is a band that’s been running on fumes for awhile now. I really enjoyed 2018′s Artificial Selection, because they brought in some funk elements to their sound after being so stagnant for years, but they’ve just been cranking out the same albums for years now. The sad part about it is that DGD is one of the most influential and important post-hardcore / math-rock bands of the last twenty years. Their debut EP, 2006′s Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean, kickstarted a movement within the genre. Firstly, it introduced former vocalist Jonny Craig into the world of post-hardcore, but its sound was very fresh and exciting. A lot of bands would go onto cop that sound, including what’s now deemed “Swancore,” but at the time, DGD were a new band. Albums like 2007′s Downtown Battle Mountain and 2009′s Happiness (their second and last album with Kurt Travis) are classics within the genre, and even some of their first records with Tilian Pearson are great, but they’re not a band known for experimentation or innovation. DGD are a band with a sound that they stick to, and to be fair, I get why, because it works. Their fans are utterly rabid, and they worship the ground they walk on, for whatever reason, so they’ll gladly hear the same album done a million times. In a sense, there’s nothing wrong with bands sticking to what they know, but it becomes a problem later on, especially when you’re a band that was known for being innovative and interesting. Now they just sound like a former shell of themselves, and Jackpot Juicer really displays that, unfortunately. I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not I wanted to talk about this record, because it’s one of those albums that I like a lot when I’m listening to it, but the minute I turn it off, I forgot almost everything I heard, minus a few key and important moments that were really good. Part of the problem with this album right off the bat is that it’s eighteen songs and 63 minutes long. That’s the longest DGD album to date, but there’s no reason this album needed to be that long. It’s almost like this album never ends. I’ll look and see how far I’m into it, and I still have ten songs left, when that should be the entire album right there. Its runtime wouldn’t be an issue if the songs themselves were interesting enough, meaning that they justify the runtime, because they don’t. I hate to say it, but this album is kind of boring. It’s not boring musically speaking, but it’s clear that DGD are just writing the same songs over and over again. Everything sounds rather impressive, whether it’s Pearson’s clean vocals that are some of the best I’ve ever heard, Jonathan Mess’s screaming vocals that are always on point, or the guitatwork from Will Swan, but it all comes together in a very forgettable way, especially when everything blends together. Every song on this album sounds like the last one, and if that’s what you want, that’s great, but it becomes an issue when there’s no variety or diversity here at all. That’s the reason I’ve been wrestling with reviewing this album now; everything on here sounds great, but is it worth there being no variety at all? It’s an hour of the same song, just tweaked a little bit each time, and even then, this is a gimmick they’ve had for years. I’ll admit that they do sprinkle in some pop-rock / R&B elements here and there, thanks to the vocals, as well as guitarist Andrew Wells (also of Eidola) providing some clean vocals, too, so it’s a bit of a new dynamic (honestly, if the band kept him as their lead vocalist, I’d be very interested to hear what they do next), but that’s it. The music itself is still the same, so there’s nothing new or interesting there, and it just bores me after awhile. I really wanted to like this album more, but due to Pearson’s unfortunate exit, and the album just being a snoozefest when it comes to its length and its lack of diversity, I don’t care for this as much as I wanted to. It’s sad, because I used to love DGD, and I still do, but they’re running out of ideas. At the very least, they’re complacent with doing the same thing and sounding the same on each record. Honestly, if you want a better album with this same sound that just came out a couple of weeks later, peep the new Royal Coda record, To Only A Few At First, which just came out over the weekend. That’s the newest band from former vocalist Kurt Travis, and it’s got a very similar sound, but done in a much better way. I’ll talk about that album later this week, most likely, but I really love it. Jackpot Juicer isn’t outright bad, it’s actually great in small doses, but that’s the key -- small doses. If this album were about 15 to 20 minutes shorter, I’d love it a lot more, but as it stands, it’s okay, just really boring and very complacent from a band that is capable of a lot better.

#dance gavin dance #jackpot juicer #afterburner #happiness #artificial selection #tilian pearson #jonny craig #swancore #will swan #kurt travis #post-hardcore #metalcore #mathcore #math rock #rise records #royal coda

[d1a-ry]

#diary #blog #girlblogger #i hate maths #manic pixie dream girl #lana del rey #black swan #fiona apple #help #female hysteria

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

currently in love w fics that are very obviously by a british person trying to comprehend the american school system

#reading a couple old dp fics and its sending meeeeeee #like theyre GOOD. theyre rlly good fics. its just soo funny #also just like. british authors writing fics set in american settings. its my favorite. #petrol... maths.... swanning about..... shoddy...... #i genuinely love it a lot i think its charming. hehe #blahblahblah

[oatbugs]

non-zero amount of swans and a non-zero amount of lakes.

#pretty pretty day #red leaves turning yellow the sun is so bright the breeze isnt too cold #i get to walk past all my friends houses on my way to a really cute study cafe . walk past a bubble tea place walk through tree lined #streets . sun against my friends window so i cant see if she could see me. today there was a double rainbow #in the sky from misty rain. so many squirrels and birds and rabbits and deer #i have a deadline soon and im massively behind bc im lucky enough to be able to do too much. need to #write an essay and do maths problem sets. smile + wave at ppl you know. last night i met a rly cute girl #and i dont think its gonna go anywhere but ill think abt her from time to time from now on #there is someone in front of me with bright blue hair. someone with their knuckles wrapped in bandages. two boys holding hands. #today people are dying but it is the 40th day of her death which means it is the 40th day of the revolution which is the 40th day of #not giving up. meanwhile the sun casts halos on a the wings of a magpie + a fresh pomegrante waits in the kitchen. #i have freshly cut watermelons in my fridge. there are so many flowers here. there are swans in the lakes. #my hair is a mess in the wind and forgetting a lot of things. my vision is declining and so i must remember the definition of leaves #before it's too late. one thing determinate from the other. #water reflects red. there are two girls feeding the birds. so many pretty people running into the same building. #youre cut from a different cloth. you especially are cut from silk. #you hate philosophy for its messy discourse and love maths for the clear consesus it produces. i only feel a little guilty #for laughing at that. last year two professors in functional analysis fought on blackboards until it became a team sport. a paper agains #a paper against. a paper against the paper for the against. on the walls for st joseph of cupertino we both pray for some mercy. offer up #some beautiful quantifier and i will drown inside it. break fresh chalk just for you.

[kiralamouse]

Wolf, goat, cabbage?!

Have just learned of the existence of the “wolf, goat, and cabbage problem” - the logic puzzle of “you have a wolf, goat, and cabbage, and encounter a river with a boat that can hold only you and one of the above, and considering that the wolf will eat the goat if left alone with it and the goat will eat the cabbage if left alone with it, how do you get all three to the other side?”

I’d always heard of it as the fox, goose, and grain problem. Wikipedia mentions the variation fox, chicken, and grain, but not the goose.

Am I just in a weird minority?

Anyway, what none of the logic problems take into account is that as soon as you leave in your first boat trip, the animal you leave behind will probably wander away, and then when you leave the *other* animal to return, it too will wander away, and then you’re left with just your veggies.

#there's a bit in trumpet of the swan by eb white #where the kids tear apart math word problems #'a baby empties two 8-oz bottles of milk. How much milk did they drink?' #'about 15 oz because the baby is GOING to dribble a bunch' #'if a man walks a mile in twenty minutes how long does it take him to walk three miles?' #'um depends on whether he gets tired or sees something that distracts him or something to speed him up...' #anyway i want someone to do that with this logic problem #the canid begins to swim after the boat after it launches #the livestock complains and tries to jump out of the boat #the boat ends up running aground on a ford and the human goes back to retrieve the veggie #only to find that a herd of deer have commandeered it #wolf goat cabbage #fox goose grain

[smoke-and-sorrow]

Prisoner, prisoner

We found you

We feel you breathing

Are you there?

Can you hear us calling you?

We'll never judge you

#tumblr #dance gavin dance #prisoner #post hardcore #alternative #metalhead #alt metal #math rock #emo #emo boy #emo girl #rip tim feerick #black and white #music #jon mess #andrew wells #tillian #will swan #swanfest #matt mingus #metal #afterburner #kurt travis #shoegaze

[alfea]

my first day of high school i came up with the first half of a chorus and then never did anything with it and i just now wrote the rest of the song. thirteen and a half fucking years later.

#assuming i did the math right #it was september 2009 #no swans allowed #like/reply if you read