#because the math isn't mathing

[shsl-heck]

So because I've seen it compared to Worm, I started reading The Boys by Garth Ennis. It's bad! Like really bad! It feels like what would happen if you let an edgy anti-feminist atheist youtuber from 2015 write a comic book. I finished the first volume of the omnibus in large part because it was a train wreck I couldn't look away from, and am debating starting the second since I hate myself. The most interesting parts are actually the little forewords. Through them I learned both that it was supposed to be a comedy, and also a critique of the military industrial complex/police (or at least that people read it as one). This was surprising to me since it is neither funny nor incisive. Anyway, now I want to ramble incoherently about my problems with it because this goddamn comic broke my brain.

Okay, so one of the most common ways it shows you which characters you aren't supposed to like is by having them do comically "gross" sex stuff. Notable examples include cocaine fueled orgies, mentions of shitting during sex, bestiality, masturbating in public to the sight of disabled people, and a little person using sex toys. One that shows up repeatedly in this context is characters being bisexual or gay. Now, I don't wanna get controversial, but I think any claims that your work is a critique of capitalism, police, the military, or whatever are rendered moot when your villains are a group of secret hedonistic sex-freaks. Like we can't pretend that doesn't sound a lot like regressives and their obsession with "degeneracy". Sexual assaults, misogyny, and slurs also appear pretty often, mostly as the punch line for jokes. Victims are rendered down into objects and denied any sense of interiority so we can instead focus on what really matters (gore porn, and middle school 4chan posters' sense of humor). Never once does Ennis deign to explore the actual impact and trauma of these things, or ask why he views these things as material for jokes.

That incuriosity is I think the real problem with The Boys. There is no actual coherent thought about why things are bad. Superheroes hurt people and are wrong because of their personal moral failings as selfish perverts, not because their whole job is to violently enforce the will of the state. It's like if someone agreed that all cops are bastards, but only because all cops just so happened to be "bad apples". The main characters literally work for the fucking CIA, and yes, I know the titular Boys are at best meant to be anti-heroes a la the Punisher. My issue here isn't that they're hypocrites who are frequently also horrible. It's that this premise for is absolute nonsense if you think for half a second. Superheroes do not function without the legitimacy granted to them by the state and it's monopoly on violence, so why would the CIA need these 5 randos with zero oversight working to take out the supers? Is the force Homelander and the others can bring to bear so great that even the apparatus of that state can't deal with them? If so, why does this group of assholes change that? Normally I'd be willing to give the story a lot more of a pass when it comes to questions like this, except I'm being told that this story has things to say about systemic problems involving the government and corporations! So I have to ask, where? Where is the commentary? What does it actually have to say about the state of the world circa 2006-2012? The only answer I can come up with is "not a whole lot". It's a story which dares to ask the tough questions like "what if the world was made of pudding" and then ignore answering those questions so it can instead recite Ellis' favorite slurs in alphabetical order while showing you a woman's tits.

On a lighter note, it's also just not very good. The plot (as mentioned) falls apart under any amount of scrutiny, pacing is bizarre in a bad way, the characters aren't compelling, themes remains stubbornly unexplored, and Ellis is allergic to doing anything interesting or creative with the premise he's decided to base a whole comic around. I genuinely do not know what people enjoy(ed) about this comic.

#It's a thoroughly unpleasant experience on about every level #There was actually one moment I liked #and it was when the frenchman and the female (those are their names) are playing reverse strip poker #where they have to put on more and more layers of heavy clothing #that was a cute bit and made me do a neutral nose exhale #also people who compare it to Worm please show your work #because the math isn't mathing #is it just that they're darker superhero stories? #worm #worm wildbow #worm web serial #the boys #the boys comics #my meds are acting up so apologies for any incoherence #but also reading the boys just does that to your brain I think

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's "the Stark sisters have complementary skillsets" until someone points out that Arya is good at math and Sansa isn't. Then suddenly Arya is an unreliable narrator, Sansa is just being humble, and she'll magically have that skill if/when it becomes relevant

#the absolute refusal of this fandom to believe that Arya is better at an /intellectual/ subject than Sansa is ridiculous #and the funniest part is that Sansa explicitly states she isn't good at math herself but people still pretend not to see it #they want to force the brain and brawn shit on them sooooo badly and it's just never gonna work because Arya is incredibly intelligent #and that's constantly reinforced...her being good at math just introduces how analytical she is which is a HUGE part of her character #the irony of the /don't pit the sisters against each other/ stans doing the most to compare and divide their stories + characters #if they didn't base their takes on fanon it wouldn't be an issue though 🤷🏾‍♀️ #so funny to bring up the fact that Arya is canonically good at math cause it goes against basically every fandom idea about her #that along with her overall intelligence cause they can't handle her being more then someone's bodyguard

[ratstuckinamarble]

Haven't seen anyone mention these on here so:

From the Nickelodeon UK instagram account btw.

#where's the bad at school rep. #buncha nerds (jk) #what I'm gathering is Deuce isn't the best at math; Clawdeen is quite good at math; Frankie's brain is beyond my comprehension #and Draculaura “struggles” with science class specifically which is a neat detail #the A+ in dead languages is neat cause shea fontana did mention her speaking a bunch of languages #but why is Frankie good at casketball too. since when are they sporty #everyone except Drac has an A in that pfff #and it's boo-ology now? instead of bite-ology? ok #monster high #monster high g3 #rätposting #wait did they give Deuce an A+ in history because of the snake word play gjdjsj

[hizerain]

i'm not really on here anymore, or any virtual platform for that matter. The past few months have been tumultous and I have changed, fundamentally, intensely, a deliberate effort to rebuild and reshape the clay of the earth.

I've reached a greater level of mathematical maturity through ego reduction, I've found an undocumented life to be better, for me. Above all, I've decided the self is a network, it's always moving. Who I am cannot be reduced, it cannot be simplified, it is what I do and what I do is all encompasing and ever changing.

#also i kind of stopped taking notes during lectures to just focus on what the prof is saying #which is working out amazingly #and i do a lot of practice work on my whiteboard now #so there isn't even anything to take pictures of #it's been very good for me actually #it made learning into something that cannot be measured in reams of paper consumed and is helping me evade the trap of assumed proficiency #and understanding #just because i have used a lot of paper #i don't know if i'll still use this blog #i won't delete it for sure #but i also don't think it has much of a purpose anymore #study #studyblr #studyspo #dark academia #studyinspo #mathblr #math student #stem student #stemblr #fountain pen #fountain pens #dark academia aesthetic #academia #handwriting #studystudystudy #uniblr #study aesthetic #uni student #stem

[uncanny-tranny]

Whatever skills or knowledge you think is "universal" absolutely isn't, and when you understand this, you can understand deeper how people experience the world. There are so many things that are deemed "common knowledge" that just aren't to some people.

Maybe you think it's common knowledge to know how to eat, for example. But it isn't common knowledge for me; I don't know how to eat because of my disabilities and because of my history. I can physically eat, yes, but the knowledge of how and when is something I never learned. I can absolutely learn, sure, but it is a time and energy investment, which is why I hadn't done so before.

What would help me more: being belittled and demeaned because I don't "know" something like a normal person would or being educated in an understanding way? Now, apply this to other people who struggle with things you think are "fool-proof," and you will start to understand how people operate when they aren't "normal"

#disability #disability advocacy #food mention tw #disordered eating tw #this isn't solely a disability thing but the venn diagram often overlaps when 'common knowledge' is the topic #this applies to hygiene and 'basic' math/language/ect. and how things work and so many other things #i used myself as an example because i have felt so much needless shame for not knowing 'basic' shit as a result of trauma and disability #and it's just. pointless cruelty. like the cruelty is the point sure but like. why. why kick somebody who is down

[marzipanandminutiae]

speaking of "they wouldn't do that/talk like that," I read a fic once where Lucille put on blue glitter eyeshadow to welcome Thomas home from a trip

it was not a modern AU

I. why.

(like I don't expect people to know everything about history- I sure as hell don't, and the source movie leaves out a presidential assassination that happened smack-dab in the middle of the first act's timeline, in the same city. but. Blue. Glitter. Eyeshadow.)

#fanfic #noped out right after that #this would have been c. 1885-1899 so #no. that was not yet a thing. #I choose to believe the McKinley assassination is not included because none of the characters give a damn #but Edith's bio does have GDT claiming Carter was a child during the American Civil War despite him being 60 in 1901 #and therefore born in 1841 and likely a Civil War vet himself. the math isn't mathing #anyway! tangent there

[liquidstar]

Between commissions I finally managed to finish this OC set of parent characters! If the looks aren't enough to show you who their kid is, the background colors match them ^_^ but of course more details below!

Name: Thuban

Name origin: The former pole star, before the north star (Polaris), it's name means "Large snake" and is referred to as the “Dragon's tail”

Pronouns: He/him

Age: N/A

Relation: Raised Polaris, though they're not related by blood and have a somewhat distant relationship, until he suddenly went MIA

Weapon: Spear (Same as Polaris's)

Ethos (Power): N/A

Flaw power is based on: N/A

Notes: Make no phallic jokes about the large snake thing and you'll be rewarded

Name: Ananke

Name origin: A moon of Jupiter, named for the mythological spirit of necessity, inevitably, and compulsion

Pronouns: She/her

Age: -

Relation: Bella's mother, she raised her to be a warrior

Weapon: Bardiche

Ethos (Power): Indomination (The ability to freeze the movement of objects and people, and lock them in place)

Flaw power is based on: Her strict enforcement of obedience through authoritarianism, and a lack of concern for the wishes of others

Notes: She believes in tough love. It's better in the long run to give your kid strength rather than affection.

Name: Rhea

Name origin: A moon of Saturn named after the Titan known as the mother of the gods

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 38

Relation: Saiph's mother, though she gave him up to the guild when he was very young

Weapon: None

Ethos (Power): None

Flaw power is based on: N/A

Notes: Was unable to take care of a baby at the time, and gave Saiph to the guild. She wishes she'd visited beyond that but it's probably too late now...

Name: Arche

Name origin: One of Jupiter's moons, it's name comes from the muse of new beginnings and is associated with springtime

Pronouns: He/him

Age: 7

Relation: Saiph's half-brother. Neither currently knows the other exists

Weapon: None

Ethos (Power): None

Flaw power is based on: N/A

Notes: He's just a little guy. He likes flowers and playing with toys. He wants to be a cool hero like his dad

Name: Poerava

Name origin: A star in Tucana, the Maori word for a black pearl of mystical beauty and perfection

Pronouns: She/her

Age: -

Relation: Al's mom. She mostly raised him on her own while her husband was with the knights.

Weapon: None

Ethos (Power): None

Flaw power is based on: N/A

Notes: Probably the best parent of the bunch if we're being real.

#Finn's ocs #Finn's art #oc references #i wrote the descs while w the kids so hopefully they make sense. my attention was split #but anyway here in the tags I'll talk about the designs in relation to their kids lol #polaris is emulating thuban moreso than anyone else. her color scheme and outfit motifs are the same as his- they ARE his #her original outfit is clothes she took and diy'd into her own so she could go off into the world and well presumably look for him at first #the truth is she always wanted to see the world that's why she loved maps. in a way this was an excuse. in another way she was just lonely #but doesn't understand loneliness. also the fact that she's not his daughter by blood is part of that #bc of her actual parents (not as relevant character-wise) she sees all relationships as temporary and she has issues connecting #ananke i wanted to mostly look intimidating in a way that Bella really isn't #Bella puts on skull hairties and fishnets and stuff but she's very much. a cute softie trying to look edgy. she has pink twintails #she's so different from her mom in pretty much every way but she still did have that ideal of strength drilled into her #still her take on it is softer. she's the team leader now but she's really pretty lenient aside from the important No Killing rule ofc #w Rhea and Arche i had a bit of a flower theme. pussywillow (lol) means motherhood and buttercups mean childishness #so. mother and child #but rhea is interesting bc she's raising a whole different kid now that she's in a different place in life #if you do the math she had Saiph young. and it was alright for a while until his dad (again not as important) died #so she didn't have support or money. but she had a connection to the guild because his dad's old sword teacher is a member (hmm) #but she was too scared/ashamed to visit. she just left him his dad's old knife because that's all she had (THE KNIFE IS IMPORTANT) #arche is her kid with her second husband and her new beginning. this will cause some inner problems for Saiph when he meets them... #Poerava was kinda designed to have rich lady vibes because remember Al's family is practically nobility #but more importantly she's designed to look like a mom. with the low ponytail and tired eyes #the black pearl of her namesake as the centerpiece of her outfit too #again she's got the healthiest relationship with her kid here by a longshot #but i mean don't worry Al still got the daddy issues so he's not getting away unscathed #I already drew Taurus with the zodiac knights though so i didn't feel the need to reintroduce him #anyway Mira really has 0 connection to any family at all she was found as an orphaned baby after a monster attack #obviously she had parents but beyond town of origin it's unknown who so she has no connections to any sort of past parental figure #the guild is her one and only family and that's how she wants it. she wants to be with them forever the past doesn't matter

[scary-grace]

call the quilt I'm making for my brother the Indominus rex because it's bigger than expected

#me six weeks ago: nine-patch blocks made of ten inch squares? perfect size for a bedspread quilt #me now: man i hope my brother buys a california king #this isn't even a math fail because it's excruciatingly simple math #i just.... #anyway if I vanish off the internet it's because this quilt developed sentience ate me and decided to inherit the earth #scary sews #clown hours

[nozomijoestar]

Asuka is a tragic figure, a figure of mystery, a wild card, all because the only thing she wants in life is peace and quiet for herself and to feel in control- yet her secret heritage that may be hidden from her for her own protection and the reality that life is unpredictable and will go on with or without you keep ruining that delusion, that vision of how the world is meant to work to her, and she suffers regardless of what she wants, what she does, and how little she understands anything

She was born into a family preaching peace and balance and order while being a creature of violence, and puts a dozen mental locks and excuses over this truth to justify giving into her impulse for fighting by pretending she's justice when she does it

She keeps trying to build a place of safety but she's using sand and life is a wave that destroys, yet she stubbornly persists rather than give up, not drowned to the point of self centered suicidal loathing like Jin- there's contrast, where Jin is cloaked in death Asuka stubbornly clings to life and humanity as a normal person in a terrifying world

She's not a fucking narrative clone for Jun's own purpose, Asuka's purpose must be determined by Asuka herself

#tekken #Jin is born of two worlds Jun walks between two worlds Asuka is at the crossroads of two worlds #Jin is broken by it Jun traded part of her humanity to reconcile it and now Asuka has to accept it yet persist- she is always persisting #that's her strength that no matter what she's always still herself #'For being so very Y o u' as Lili told her bc she sees it #she's an interesting character BECAUSE she's not Jun and she's not Jin and she's not aligned with them entirely #stop waiting for her to be something she's not #also i think it's GOOD she doesn't know everything or everyone in her family bc that builds mystery and suspense #it gives everything a tension in the background for when the normalcy charade will be broken by the bigger family drama catching up w her #what's happening to the Mishimas should be something no one is dragged into yet the one family member who's the least connected #is going to run out of time at some point and get hit by that trauma anyway and she doesn't even Know it's coming for her eventually #isn't it fucked up. how everything catches up with you in the end #and you won't even understand it until it's too late ie. her involvement in T8 global war now #also a character that wants peace and order but actively pursues violence ensuring she will never truly have those things bc of her nature #AND she's already been traumatized by T5 Feng and T6 Jin that just makes her retreat to seeking comfort in detachment- in the familiar #which only prolongs her avoiding the world outside what she can control- and then Lili won't let her live in ignorance not to punish her #but bc she wants to help her bc the Mishimas have already put their claws in Lili- they won't catch Asuka off guard #what is it with people sanitizing the messiness and humanity characters represent in favor of 'If they just acted logically the way I want #then they'd solve the entire story 1 2 3 and we'll have everything wrapped up easy' THAT'S NOT A STORY THAT'S A MATH EQUATION #FEEL SOMETHING INSTEAD OF ALWAYS NEEDING TO SOUND SMART AND HAVE PERFECT ANSWERS YOU STUPID FUCKS #IN TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING HAVE A PERFECT SOLUTION YOU'VE LOST SIGHT OF WHAT'S IN THE TEXT #AND ALSO ASUKA BEING VIOLENT BUT STILL CARING ABOUT PEOPLE AND DOING GOOD DESPITE IT #and AsuLili is about two similar people who've been traumatized finding safety in each other once they put down the trauma responses #this is all in line with T8's tagline of Face Your Fate btw this is literally what was always coming finding you & you face it

[gayofthefae]

The way Mike does not have love songs for El on his playlist. The closest he gets is season 1's "She Blinded Me With Science". He has songs that are promising like "I love her-" and you're like cute stop there and then he doesn't and says "-so I guess I'll force myself to date her" CHILD NO

Meanwhile Will...gets described as "tempting, can't get enough, like religion" in his first love song and eventually as explicit as "I was falling in love I was falling in love Falling in love Falling in love Falling in love". He even gets thirsted over at thirteen. (still on that. was not expecting it but hormones yk that's fine)

#stranger things #byler #st playlists #mike wheeler #mike wheeler is gay #I KNOW WHAT. YOU. ARE. #i finally did it i finally went through it all #and yk #i'm sitting with it i am #it felt intrusive and like spoilers that i shouldn't know but #i am #i'm sitting with it #and the thing is #it isn't spoilers #because there's some plausible deniability where they could just be like 'silly you you misinterpreted! your math was off!' and i'd be like #ahahaha silly stupid me and believe them #but right now? when it all aligns too well? #right now i'm sitting with it #i do have a recent long post if you're wondering #i'm gonna pin it i think

[locria-writes]

why is the first trashman male lead i write after my nice good boy spree so....lacklustre? bitch doesn't even have enough trauma for a freudian excuse, nor does he have any real beef to explain his behaviour. he's literally a lukewarm mess for no reason other than vibes

#marginally writing related #he's of the val flavour of trash but has the justification of a vezian #except i will give him that he's less of a raging narcissist and generally isn't super entitled but he is a misogynist #this dude's only got like 4 sentences for his backstory that's not enough to become a trashman so why is he the way he is??? #the math ain't mathing on this trashman and it is making me very upset because this is ruining my trashman formulae #anyway he rightfully gets almost murdered twice so at least he's got that going for him :/ #for those keeping count i think my scifi era is over or at least the immediate hunger is satiated now i'm back to my regularly scheduled bs

[last-flight-of-fancy]

made myself emotional thinking about how smart sora actually is and how little credit he gets for it just because he struggles with stuff like math

#ITS RELATABLE OK #you can't math and everyone immidietly goes 'lol ur dumb' #'haha he counts on his fingers' yeah so do i. you gonna call me dumb too? #because i've heard it before and you're wrong. i'm unlearning that shit and i'm not dumb. i'm smart as hell actually #thirty years of thinking i was stupid i think i've earned the right to say 'nah yknow what. they were wrong. i'm not.' #the prioritizing of mathematical smarts over every other kind drives me nuts tbh #artistic intelligence? emotional intelligence? kinetic learners? there's so much more than just math #sora is SO GOOD at a lot of things!! #he's incredibly intuitive and emotionally intelligent #and he is probably a legit genius in terms of like... learning things on the fly #never gonna get over him learning lingering wills moves after fighting him (presumably) once #he learns to fly the gummiship- and probably would have done fine that first time if donald hadn't taken offence #(it also should be noted that i don't think sora's ever *wrong* in his numbers*. it just takes him a while to get there) #(* except six hearts but uh. there's probably more going on there. like memory loss. again) #stop talking to yourself flight #kingdom hearts #'he can't keep up with the plot' bitch WE as the audience can barely keep up with the plot and we have the benifit of seeing all of it #do remember that sora is running on about a third of the information we have at any given time #anyway sora isn't dumb he just has adhd and that's the hill i'm gonna die on

[thecommunityoftrustworthysinks]

mentioned this in my last post under the cut but you have no idea how much it irked me as a physicist to read about how gege consulted a FUCKING ENGINEER about limitless. an engineer. an ENGINGEERRRRRR. i just. not even a mathematician? engineers don't work with theoretical physics. engineers hardly even work with nonreal math! you're out here designing a guy whose powers involve imaginary mass and divergent series and you DON'T even go to like the two fields that actually work with those things on a semi regular basis...an engineer.......what's he telling you....how to build a bridge?????????????

#jujutsu kaisen #limitless #gojo satoru #gege akutami #sorry everyone i feel strongly about this i was screaming and scrabbling at the screen to get involved in that conversation #x #EVERY day im doing some shit with infinite sums.......i understand a good portion of the tachyon wikipedia page....................please.. #there are physicists even more fit than me for this too because i don't really do particle physics #which limitless isn't necessarily particle physics but like. #i cannot stress this enough 'imaginary apple/mass' that draws things in (red) is LITERALLY what a tachyon is #which has some really interesting implications for limitless re:time #because tachyons by virtue of their imaginary mass technically go faster than light and travel backwards in time #(they're hypothetical particles but jjk is also a work of fiction so) #and divergence of an infinite series into reality (blue) is sick as hell dude and engineers do learn the math to work with these #but it's still hypothetical theoretical math to say what that would actually be in real life #and you would be better off asking a mathematician or a physicist because we actually do that shit #sorry for the rant DHKJFGHJDF limitless was made for me im so obsessed with it #like come on man........when physicists encounter division by zero we're more likely to treat it as infinity than discard it. #trust me we know the forbidden math.

[anglerflsh]

I'm having a normal one about wanting to get out of highschool btw

#[.txt] #''a normal one'' I broke a ruler in three different points because I couldn't do my math homework. #that's it I am going to go hit things in genshin impact until I'm regular again #and if this is the year I fail math then so be it I cannot stand this #my teacher keeps skipping material because we are late with the curriculum because of the covid years and I am not. I can't. #I don't have the time to go over it myself. I don't care for it. I'll graduate anyways #the final exam isn't only math. #I'm simply angry because I get the theory of this! I really do!! I understand derivatives and integrals and limits!!! I get it! #I can't do the problems because I'm missing material we were supposed to do! That I did not do! Because of the covid lockdown! #I want to get into a fistfight right now.

[squeakadeeks]

this is the most meaningless OC drabble but after working on transient for like 2+ years it just occurred to me that Sulu is an alien. like for whatever reason that thought never processed, I can wholeheartedly accept it for everyone else, Splish, Alpha, Felis, all of the little motes? oh yeah, theyre aliens 100%. lil dudes in space. Function is kind of a grey area but i could still buy that he's an alien. but its like.... Sulu is non-human, he lives in space, he has a space-alien aesthetic, he checks all of the boxes to be an alien, but im still sitting here like HUH

#i think its because to define something as a space alien you need a standard case to compare them to #and as the MC it makes the most sense for sulu to be the ''standard case'' #but that mans is alien #although i guess if sulu is a space alien that makes function a math alien ??? #not that that makes a lick of sense but function being a literal living function also isn't entirely ''logical'' #let me have my weird whimsy here #i can turn an entropy curve into a pink twink and have a blue non human man living in space not be an alien just let me have this

[uncanny-tranny]

Some stats about my large crochet project:

I've gone through 264 yards (241 meters, 0.15 miles) of yarn. The pattern calls for 1,261 yards for a completed project (1,153 meters, 0.716 miles) in the size I am making now.

It would take 29,565.6 Dinoponera gigantea ants to equal the length of a completed project, and I am at 6,189.78 currently.

Without further delay, this is what 6,189.78 Dinoponera gigantea ants look like. If you even care.

#art #fiber art #corchet #my first project tag #my crochet projects #described images #image description in alt #yes americans will use anything but the metric system and i frankly love that about us <3 #also it helps illustrate just how much labour and resources go into projects that don't seem all that massive i think #and the 'if you even care' part is a joke <3 #my math might be less than stellar because i'm not totally sure if i have counted my switches in skeins right 😭 #thankfully i haven't woven in my ends yet (i actually don't mind end weaving so far) #also the 'my forst project tag' might seem like a misnomer at first but this was my very first started project #so even though i already completed a project that was my second one - this one is just going to take forever #if anything isn't right let me know - i'm not keen on math all the time. i LIKE math but i've never been good at it<3 #math ily but why don't you love me..........