#me later doing the math

[r95irth]

I can't stress repeat it enough : allowing a character to be wrong is such a necessity.

-Because it gives you flawed and ultimately more interesting characters.

-Because then readers don't expect the characters' theory to be the good one right away.

-Because i, as a writer is deeply flawed too, and sometimes i get my numbers, or dates, or name wrong and if i have the slightest doubt about it i just have to make the character say the mistake. It's part of their personallity!! *hides behind Wei Wuxian and Cangse Sanren terrible memory of faces, names and dates*

#oops #writing tips #sorta #writing confessions #would be more accurate #listen i can write #i can't count #Cansge Sanren during first part : Oh yeah XiaoXingchen was a baby when i left the mountain :D #me later doing the math #damage control the age #like MTXT said age is but a number! #and number are not my things #let's ignore it

[telling-tragedy]

henry and richard’s back and forth throughout this scene is absolutely addicting. richard isn’t having it

#thousands of words of winterpapen fic have been written because of this banter alone #by me it’s me #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #donna tartt #winterpapen #henry winter x richard papen #I know there are theories that henry had richard write down the math in this scene so he could frame him later but tbh i think— #it shows that henry is in fact fallible and imperfect and also most importantly he can’t do math #(and fatefully that while richard will do almost anything henry asks #he does still have Opinions and henry values his input at least a little bit)

[aimasup]

throws up my hands in mock resignation but also a hint of frustration Okay Valentino is a cool villain I guess

He's like. Genuinely unsettling. Wish the show struck a better balance with his character sometimes (like sometimes when he's onscreen I have to skip over because I feel queasy and sometimes he's so unsubtle he feels more like a prop than a guy who's going to be a Huge Deal in s2)

#why yes I have been reading some phenomenal fanfiction lately #a lesser me would be agonising over my inability to ever come close to matching the #masterfully characterised works of these talented WORD WEAVERS #but envy is a spoilt housepest and we must spend less time unleashing it upon new targets #instead let's talk about how these fics discovered its possible?? #to write Val as not only a 3dimensional character but a deeply horrifying person to WITNESS #to depict how he thinks and what he wants and what he contributes to the people around him #while acknowledging that his actions are supremely messed up #also without dumbing whatever the fuck is wrong with him down to just 'can't do math and needs a sippycup' #those jokes are funny but he's also a dealmaker #he doesn't need to be studied under a microscope! he needs to be gawked at in abject horror! Oh the Potential! #he needs to tell us more about how depraved hell can be by linking us to a portion of the culture full of the dead who cannot die! #anyways. rant over. uh I think I like valentino now? in the same way I like the old man villain from hunchback of notre dame. #just. (gestures) what is this dude. ew. oh my god #my post #personal stuff #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel valentino #is this anything #again I am entrenching on dangerous territory of 'expectations for this media I consume' #he really doesn't need to be written all shakespearean-like #too attached mayhaps #delete later #honestly worried that if the show does reveal his backstory or whatever it'll try to paint him in a sympathetic light #and then the online arguments will be a headache for a month #villain with tragic backstory ≠ sympathetic villain

[sollilua]

* Seeing a hand-knit frisk cardigan fills you with determination.

I decided to knit a frisk inspired cardigan for this years' UTversary :D It took a lot of time to finish, but it was a pretty neat project to do.

#undertale #undertale anniversary #undertale fanart #frisk undertale #knitting #i decided to do a cardigan because here is too warm to wear sweaters most of the year!! it kinda looks like the one in my frisk design >:3 #also it was supposed to have buttons but i'll buy some later #also OOF it was a challenge to take a good picture with my phone's camera because it's filled with some kind of..... sand.....? #but i figured it out #i should do the maths to findo out how many hours i spent doing this #id say i worked on it a minimum of 16 hours a week on it. some days more and some days less #this guy right here Needs to stim in class okay #anyways im so happy that i used cotton yarn bc acrylic ones gives me sensory issues

[whosectype]

any advice for someone nervous to go into high school soon?

it’s nothing like the movies, having friends helps it be less sucky so don’t put socializing aside for academics (cause then you will also suck to work with in the future if you don’t know how to talk to people), don’t leave your required credits for senior year and get them out of the way as quick as possible (health, financial lit, etc), everyone hates freshman so you will hated for a year then once you’re a sophomore you will hate the freshman so beware of that, don’t overwhelm yourself but keep your schedule full, DONT BE AFRAID TO TALK TO YOUR TEACHERS THEY WANT TO HELP YOU AND IF YOURE A GOOD STUDENT THEY WILL ROUND UP YOUR GRADE, and make sure to do extracurriculars!! It’ll look good later I promise.

Also don’t trust any bald/balding science teacher

#Also if you have the ability to do any free bump up classes over the summer do that #Depending on the school once you reach a certain math level you can just be done with math #Trust me Highschool is a lot more fun than it seems #You’ll meet your people!! And find your thing!! #Ask #anon #the goop speaks #delete later maybe

[ravidrws]

[wip] happy new year

#xiaoven #wip #Happy 2024 everyone #Wish you all the best for this year #I was kinda (a lot) drunk and ig drunk me decided to sober up by drawing #And now it's 6AM #Anyway little recap of this last few months of radio silence #I dropped out of my course during last week of uni bc I'm nothing if not consistent (esp in my wrongdoings) #Now I dont really know what to do with my life but you can bet your ass I'm still gonna draw something for xvx week later this month #before the birthday depression sets in #(those useless math exams be damned)

[holedyke]

i feel like a major piece of shit 👍

#my friend is having her bday party later tn (at 10pm which is insane)and i said id go bc i miss her so bad n want to see her and celebrate #but the snowwwwww i dont think i can drive in the snow at nighy thats simply a bad idea #but then she just texted me saying she cant wait to see me and i feel so bad bc im gonna cancel on her and i just should have earlier i feel #like such a bad friend for waiting but i was hoping for a weather miracle + doing math hw and didnt get around to it. #guess ill die simple solution #h

[sysig]

Reading moodboard #84430940 (Patreon)

#Doodles #I wonder what this is in reference to lol - could be anything really! #Bit funny actually - I was reading something else in overlap at the time - a fic from another fandom though it ended up not being for me #Different authors just speak to different people! It was fun to come back to something familiar and realize Just how much I appreciate it ah #Novel and familiar! My very favourite <3 And of course it was a wonderful experience on top of that hehe ♪♫ #Numbers lol - I really have done way too much age headcanon math pfft #I just love timelines! And even if the hints aren't exact they /are/ hints and I'm going to use them!! #The numbers that are established are such fun markers - and using characterization as hints towards how many years have passed! Ah! ♪ #Like how it's definitely possible that Max took a two year but considering his family he was probably pushed to do a four year #There's no confirmation either way but it's just so fun to consider what they'd do based on how they're written! #These are the kind of written math problems I enjoy hehe #I was being a bit self-deprecating for that doodle actually tho lol - art mimics life and all that pfft #Also confirmation of him being a Lit Major ❤️💕💖💞💗 Small details give me big love you must understand this lol #As evidenced lol ♪ Adding to my playlist definitely didn't help it very strongly upgraded to Big Love for like a week straight lol #Terrible ♪ Couldn't stand it <3 Genuinely painful ♫ #Lol - ''finding'' more - it's what had my blood on fire! I'm so grateful for mirrors #Anyone who's been following me for a while knows I have this whole thing about Legacy and what you leave behind and the internet in general #That the internet is forever except when it's not - that plenty of things get deleted or lost etc. etc. and it makes me very sad :( #So seeing that there was an in-built preservation - it only saved Some things but anything saved is precious!! It made me very happy <3 #And then finishing off 💔💕 Beautifully heartbreaking ah #Even skim-reading later made me cry again! It's deeply affecting hhh #Another experience I'm so happy to be able to have ♥ Another tally on the wall haha <3

[mossyflowers]

I'm regretting the trig post. People stop getting on my ass about not liking trig challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

#moss talks #please for the love of god. i understand what it's like when you see something disliking something you like #i know it's funny to say you actually like the thing that the funny haha joke person dislikes on the post #but please for the love of god i am a highschooler with a lot of shit goin on and my math teacher is NOT that great of a teacher #you can tell me about the equations and practical uses of it but i have to have this shit and how to solve it MEMORIZED #and he's barely taught us how to do it #LEAVE ME ALONE AAAUAUAUAUUAUAUUAUAUUAUAU I'M A LITTLE GUY #anyways probably going to delete this later i'm just. a little annoyed. #deadass i have such a hard time with maths because I always forget the equations and little nuances unless it's drilled into my brain #and that has NOT been happening with trig and it's one billion little pieces that we spend like three days on before moving on

[cappurrccino]

you ever spend your entire saturday in a slight tizzy because you feel like you should be doing something or very many somethings and instead you're just playing a video game like some sort of unproductive nerd?

#//juri speaks #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! #like. it is only 10am. but the sad little american core in me is ashamed i haven't done anything but play a few missions of lightfall #it feels wrong to go for a hike when [redacted life stuff] #i might go measure the tree well in the backyard later... do some math to see how much dirt & edge stones i would need #to turn it into a flower bed that HOPEFULLY the dog will not dig in #which would feel like productivity even if i don't get to the hardware store today

[dodecalemma]

It is abundantly clear to me that the person who said this (Bob Hughes) does not understand math education and it’s a shame he’s the one heading the over 1 billion dollar effort to “improve” it.

#this makes me sad #what do you think? #will Id later #undescribed #math education #mathblr #mathematics #education #math #bill gates #I have such a long criticism of this plan #but I don’t know if I should put it on tumblr #send an ask if you’re interested to hear more about what I think of this

[july-19th-club]

me age seven being sat down in front of the school’s district child psych lady and being given strange, simple spatial puzzles to solve and then long, complicated worksheets and hammering my way through them at the speed of light while having zero comprehension what their purpose was or why i was here: this is urgent! i have to get a good grade in Weird Puzzles, Or Else, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

#kjalkjsdalkjasdl mrs button was a nice lady but not one adult in my childhood ever seemed to notice what to me now seems like #a pretty obvious case of the autisms #then again maybe they just didn't look as hard unless it was *really* obvious back then . it was like. what. 2000? a couple years later #everybody was talking about autism but not when i was six or seven then it was usually just when it was Very Visible #a couple years later my cousin who's more visibly on the spectrum than me got her diagnosis so young that she's pretty much always had it #which is...well i think it's just made her life difficult in a different way. people underestimate her or don't treat her like she's her age #but then she's always had the opportunity to get accommodations and people are sometimes more forgiving when she can't do something #whereas i got labeled 'kid that should be ahead of the game' from a pretty young age and then when i struggled adults either ignored it #or it was just a huge hassle to them and even i could see it exasperated them to have to work around me #but because mrs button (nice lady but what were you thinking) hadn't told them to treat me like a kid with a developmental disorder #they didn't do that in good OR bad ways . so i never got any accommodations with school stuff i struggled with which was a fair bit #i wasn't supposed to need extra testing time in a quiet room or tutoring with math or help organizing my abysmally scattered things #the only time i DID get that was in sixth grade when i was sort-of friends with this kid jonathan who was Very On The Spectrum #he wasn't really a talker unless it was about whatever he was reading which suited me fine so we just kind of existed in each other's space #and his TSS was this very smart and nice lady who had clearly clocked that Something Was Going On With Me and even though it wasn't like #her JOB she made a little bit of time for me. mostly with emotional stuff (i think i was under the impression she was a therapist?) #but if i had some problem with being unable to keep friends or being frozen out by the kids i wanted to be liked by (happened often) #she'd be able to just like. be there she'd make the time . wish i could remember her name

[twilightarcade]

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#thatthingliveblog #ok so like progress wise we've gotten nothing done #but like? #pretty much the best person on earth #in terms of that other thing that I /alluded/ to I'm trying to get an inventory to work #like a SUPER rudimentary one because I didn't want to work too hard on math. Might edit it later though #i haven't gotten the chance 2 draw much this week... will probably draw 50 things this weekend #I do need to work out how to um. Come up with better names. #this label thing is seriously going 2 be the death of me but I might just have to get a cyoa software..? 2 plot it all out #drafted this on the wrong blog but whatever. Updates have been here anyway #i do NOT like that massive empty space btw. Working on that. #i think we're going to put a prefs button there because? It isn't on the default list for whatever reason #then after this we make ui 4 the rest of it and it looks sooo shiny and pretty and we do nothing with that #i do want to change this 2 have green on the buttons but I forgot and just photoshopped it super quick #tonight's gonna be a late night ill be on later besties #ummm that's good enough i think. Send post

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

i honestly do not have time to go for a four hour walk i have two papers a quiz and a billion math assignments due by sunday night.... but girl i gotta go

#gonna try to hammer out one of the papers and the quiz before i go. kill me if you see me on here for the next couple hours #i think i'll do the other paper later today and the math tomorrow ^__^ #hollyws

[honorthysalad]

can’t believe they didn’t have Yoshiki connect his experience with being possessed to that one guy who broke into the school grounds and killed himself.

#I also doubt he’s going to connect it for the old man he also just watched die #Idk I just feel like we missed a window of opportunity #Because it’d seem insincere for him to only make the connection now right? Like it feels like a lot of time has passed even #if it’s only been 2 days. It’s going to be coming a whole volume later. The audiences sense of time is skewed #And like the diner scene is so tonally jarring? The slapstick faces and casual air to everything #And I guess it’s supposed to be scary but it literally made me laugh so hard seeing the ghost under the table #And the ghost going ‘YOOOOOO’ also sent me #“I won’t treat death lightly anymore” #“Huh? Someone died? When did that happen? Anyway I have to study for my math test” #I’m not saying I want Yoshiki to be crippled emotionally every time something bad happens #But just like acknowledging the tragedy of an innocent person being forced to do something like that and offering empathy? #Because Yoshiki could’ve suffered the exact same fate. He only didn’t because he aligned himself with ‘Hikaru’ #the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn #hgsn spoilers #idk you’re free to disagree with this. Emotional scenes are just what I like and ‘spooky scary ghosts’ aren’t #So obviously I’d prefer an emotional scene over yet another ghost trying to tickle Yoshiki #My hgsn shit

[dustofthedailylife]

Random thought but upon further reflection... I think I've finally figured out why I actually couldn't stand Kaveh at first (past tense! I love him now if you haven't noticed yet).

When it comes to his character I see myself in him a lot as well. To the point, where I'd say I kin him.

I think he is a bit too relatable for me so that's why I didn't like him.

I'm often down on myself, never feeling good enough or deserving of love or things, holding myself to an insanely high standard that's sheer impossible to meet, and then getting upset if I can't meet it. All of this goes to the point where I neglect myself and my health.

And on top of all of that, I constantly want to help people even if it means I'm inconvenienced. And if something goes awry I blame myself very often for that as well...

#🍁 dust rambles #bit of a personal word vomit #but I look at Kaveh and just see myself #and having my flaws slapped in my face like that was at least subconsciously offputting for me #does that even make sense #well yeah anyway #kaveh? you and me? same page! #plus I'm an artist so I can relate to these struggles a lot as well #fun fact... I wanted to study architecture once #either that or biology #glad I didn't do it because I SUCK at math #might delete this later I just needed to put it into words #🍁彡 gi