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as a sign of affectione im gazen't

#cats

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math people scare me. math people will be like "math works in mysterious ways TO YOU. i get it though." and they do and it's fucking terrifying.

#as a mathematician let me describe it in my view: #math is about looking at a really awful tied knot of string and going #'i wonder what other balls of string are like that?' #and then you try to figure it out. #and then it turns out that your solution is actually secretly the exact same thing that some bitch Vaughan Jones discovered #but hey at least there's an ambient isotopic transformation between those two balls of string huh? #fr tho math is extremely poorly taught in general. #if you were taught basic algebra YOU CAN DERIVE THE QUADRATIC EQUATION. #yes YOU. #go look it up. #it is not a magical thing that came out of nowhere. you could have been taught where it came from. #memorizing it is a shortcut.

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sorry we lost your stupid medication. go on seventeen righteous quests to find it

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shhhh, the little cloud is sleeping

#cats

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#a single fire ant???? i can take a single fire ant.

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#vines #alcohol

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last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

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I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.

#cats

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reblog my poll boy 🫵🏻

#picnic with me? uwu?

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🔄I'm super curious about this so please share🔄

#there are 12 fics in the daniel/lucifer tag #comprising 26846 words #i wrote 5 of those fics #or 18264 words #which is uh #2/3 of the tag. #so. #i mostly read my own fic.

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i watch baseball for the side quests

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

#this is actually a really good tip! #writing #like ive heard a lot of people complain abt epithets but actually getting reasons is Great

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"We'll fix it in post" is a phrase from the film industry, but it is inherently funnier when it's spoken by a writer because--tragic--you are also the post-production team.

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#yesss #puss in boots

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gonna need a secret third thing