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i miss ars paradoxica

#ars paradoxica

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I think more ppl should listen to ars paradoxica

#ars paradoxica #the goal of this blog #Hope it worked

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i love that anthony is a gameboy modder now

we’re also so close to ars pokemonica becoming canon

#ars paradoxica

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Where to go? All signs point to the same place.

#ars adjacent

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ars PARADOXICA fandom moodboard (2017)

#ars paradoxica #2020 also

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Nikhil: I am the smartest, most skilled doctor in this faculty.

Mateo: Is your hand stuck in that vending machine?

Nikhil: I paid for my lemon drops.

Nikhil: I’m getting my lemon drops.

#ars paradoxica #Nikhil Sharma

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friendly reminder that sally will never know that anthony sacrificed human contact for the sake of humanity and anthony will never know that sally said that she loves him 

#ars paradoxica

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ars paradoxica reaches a whole new level of angst when you remember that the main relationship is a friendship between a time-traveller stuck out of her era and a functionally-immortal man trapped in a box outside of time

#ars paradoxica

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Would you fuck a clone of yourself? (ars PARADOXICA edition)

Chet Whickman: I don't want to fuck my clone because that would be gay sex and I'm not gay.

Bill Donovan: I'm not gay, but I would actually totally fuck my clone.

Bridget Chambers: I'm gay, but I still don't want to fuck my clone, that's gross and weird.

Anthony Partridge: I don't want to fuck my clone because my self-loathing is THAT strong.

Mateo Morales: I'd totally fuck my clone because I want to know if I'm good in bed.

Esther Roberts: I'd fuck my clone because who would know better how to fuck ME than ME?

Dr Sally Grissom: I'd totally do all sort of weird things to my clone I'd be embarrassed to ask someone else to do (for SCIENCE!)

Tonya LeMartine: To be honest, fucking my clone has always been my fantasy.

Carmen: It's basically the same as masturbating, right? So no big deal.

Nikhil Sharma: It's not the same as masturbating; it'd be like having sex with your twin. Wrong and bad!

Quentin Barlowe/Ben Quigley: I would not have sex with my clone because what if my clone is evil.

Petra Marquez: Not only would I have sex with my clone, I'd probably make a bunch of clones and just get it on with all of them at once because that's how pro clone-fucking I am.

#ars paradoxica #good content #thank you

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#ars paradoxica

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Things I’ve learned from podcasts

1. Space is queer

2. Science is queer

3. Sometimes these two points coexist

#ars paradoxica

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i want my house to be made of old soviet control boards

#ars adjacent #hi there

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Sally saying "love you buddy" to Patridge

#ars paradoxica #sally grissom #Anthony Partridge #Sally&Anthony

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ars PARADOXICA, for the ask thing?

aaaa, thanks so much for asking!!

Favorite character: Esther and Sally. Don’t make me choose between them. I miss them so much, omg. I fell in love with Sally instanly, and to hear her developement was one of the best midia experiences I’ve ever had. And to see Esther grow in the story, to learn more about her and her complexity… I love my disaster lesbian.

Least Favorite character: Donovan, ew. Straight from a old cold-war movie. His nickname is “Wild Bill”, come on. What good can come from that.

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Esther x Bridget. (OMG, THEY WARM MY HEART). Mateo x Nikhil. (best jock x nerd pairing ever). June x Helen (Thanks, Julianna, for blessing my life with them). Penny x Chet. June x Quentin.

Character I find most attractive: Omg, so hard. Sally, I guess? Her nerdness is just so loveable. And I love her voice (Kristen, you’re amazing)

Character I would marry: Helen. Omg, I’d her  all the love she deserves (sorry, Anthony). Oh, to hear her sing in day to day life

Character I would be best friends with: SALLY, NO DOUBTS.

A random thought: I really wish we could’ve seen more of Petra and Carman together. The sadness that permeates their story is essential to the plot, and to Petra development, but I really loved Carmen and wanted to see more of her.

An unpopular opinion: I didn’t really like the fighting scenes. At one point or another, mainly in the last season, it all became to confusing for me and made me lose my energy to find out what was happening a little. 

My canon OTP: Esther x Bridget (i cRy)

Non-canon OTP: Helen x June. 

Most badass character: Esther, I suppose. She’s just so strong. The judgement episode, omg. And she’s constantly growing, fixing her mistakes, really feeling bad for the errors she comitted and working to change what she can… I love her. 

Pairing I am not a fan of: Chet x Anyone, pretty much. I really couldn’t picture him in a relationship with anyone. Maybe cause I’m not a big fan of him, even if I find him interesting.

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): I don’t think anyone was “screwed up”, but I felt that Jack was kinda wasted, his friendship with Esther was so good… and then he just vanished and never really had much attention again.

Favourite friendship: So hard. Ars has so many amazing friendships, it’s incredible. I guess I’ll go with Sally and Athony’s ‘cause I love to suffer.

#ars paradoxica #hi!

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Anthony Partridge: unsure what to do, having an existential AND moral crisis, falling apart, absolutely consumed with guilt, unable to function,

Sally Grissom: *is in trouble*

Anthony Partridge, forgetting Literally All Of That: oh shit lmao gtg do my job brb

#Anthony Partridge #ars paradoxica #sally grissom #Sally&Anthony

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So despite the fact that Anthony Partridge is a teacher/professor of some sort in almost all of my fics and AUs (including several that I haven’t written anything for and might not ever write things for), I somehow frequently manage to completely forget that he was also canonically a high school math teacher before he worked for ODAR. Here are some thoughts about that era, because can you IMAGINE being in Anthony Partridge’s calc class?

Anthony was definitely the sort of person who planned on “””seeing the world””” after he graduated college (starry-eyed, that one, much as he likes to position himself as the voice of reason), but somehow he wound up back in his home town for a few months, which turned into a few years, which may have been a lifetime if he hadn’t begun the predictive algorithms project and gotten himself noticed.

But before predictive algorithms, and even in the early days of the project (back when it was just him scribbling numbers during his lunch break or late at night when he should have been grading papers), Anthony’s life revolved around imparting knowledge to the next generation.

(”The next generation”—some of those kids were less than a decade younger than him, had been his neighbors, children he’d babysat, family friends invited over on summer evenings. But already he felt so much older, so distanced, felt like he’d learned so much since when he sat where they did now.)

(He’d learned nothing, not yet.)

And the thing is—Anthony was good at it. Teaching, that is. He liked it, too, was passionate about “the future of public education in America!”

Sure, he’d go off on tangents in his lectures, and a lot of what he talked about wasn’t exactly necessary for kids to know, but it was interesting. Anthony was under no illusions when it came to the way most of his students felt about mathematics. He saw it as his job to help them engage with the subject in ways that made sense, made it feel worth learning. And if that meant saying “to HECK with the core curriculum, we’re talking about [cool development in the Math World] today,” then so be it.

(A quick aside: Anthony did not swear at school. He was even more cautious about it there than he was in the early days of aP. At least…he never swear at school if we exclude The Library Incident.)

Most of the students referred to him Partridge or Dr. P, but to some—the ones who had taken more than one of his courses, the seniors and the math kids and the students who had never been good with numbers but feel like they finally understand them after being in his class for a semester or two—he was “Tony.”

(”Tony,” said in that peculiar, occasionally mocking but mostly appreciative tone used only by high schoolers calling teachers by their first names)

The only other people allowed to call Anthony “Tony” are a few select family members and, in variations of the timeline where they meet, Mateo Morales (who just can’t be stopped, and probably also uses the name “Bentin Quarlowe” to Ben/Quentin’s face).

(Some of the Plasticity kids definitely also call him “Tony” in timelines where they know him; they remind him of his old students, and sometimes he forgets that it isn’t just another classroom, that none of those children are there by choice.)

I know that overhead projectors weren’t being used in schools back when Anthony was teaching but let’s be anachronistic for a quick sec here to imagine a scenario: Anthony Partridge, who will later in life literally build time machines, utterly incapable of operating a projector and refusing to acknowledge it. The record for the most time he ever wasted in class trying to get one to work before somebody intervened was 22 minutes.

The next day, his students walked in and the projector was in pieces on his desk. (”Today we’re going to figure out how these things work. A little learning experience for me along with all of you. Extra credit to whoever can correctly assemble it before someone notices it’s missing.”)

Anthony’s office hours were whenever a student needed help, even if it meant he was missing lunch, or staying late, or coming in at the crack of dawn.

Sometimes Helen just showed up at the school. All of the students who call Anthony “Tony” knew her and loved her.

There was a running tally of how many kids had accidentally called Anthony “Dad.”

There was a running tally of how many kids had purposefully called Anthony “Dad.”

Anthony didn’t care if people ate in class as long as they were still paying attention. He had to explain to the principal that just because the advanced stats class organized a weekly brunch potluck didn’t mean they weren’t learning.

(The explanation would have gone better if Anthony hadn’t been holding a half-eaten bagel at the time.)

Dungeons & Dragons wasn’t around at the time, but if it had been, Anthony absolutely would have hosted one-shot sessions for his smallest classes and gone through all sorts of hoops to justify it as relevant. Instead, he hosted occasional class strategy games, usually after exams. 

Being Anthony Partridge’s TA was a coveted position and the seniors usually ended up fighting for it. 

He absolutely had a petty interdepartmental feud going, probably with a teacher in the history department, and would pull kids out of his rivals’ classes to retake tests and whatnot whenever he got the chance.

Anthony wore the absolute tackiest suits and jackets imaginable to work. Somehow, his ties were even worse.

If he ran out of room on the chalkboard he was not above drawing with chalk on other handy surfaces (he can’t erase that yet, some of the students are still taking notes). 

He never ever won a teacher of the year award, or any equivalent, but one time a group of students presented him with a plaque they’d cobbled together in shop class bearing the inscription “#1 Math Man” and it hung above his desk for years. (He even took it to Polvo, where it mostly stayed in a box. After he went to the Blackroom, it eventually wound up in Helen’s possession, along with some of his other personal belongings.)

Although he never knew it, Anthony was one of the people who inspired Sally to become a professor. 

#Anthony Partridge #headcanons #good shit

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ARS PARADOXICA | a podcast

— “now we’re all sons of bitches.”

#ars paradoxica #aesthetic