mom you don’t understand I don’t want romance or sex I want to be woven into a single body with an alien symbiote and trade snarky commentary to each other constantly and never ever be alone ever again because we’re physically bonded together
Caroline Walker Bynum, Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century / Nicole Homer, Pecking Order / Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast / Romeo Oriogun, The Origin of Butterflies
yes I do. I love physics. I love it bc I was raised by a brainiac engineer mother who taught me to see math as fun from a very young age. and sometimes it pisses me off bc I don’t understand concepts immediately and my ego is HURT but then I humble myself and learn it and I’m back to adoring it again
society if maths education was focused on helping you gain an intuitive understanding of the relationships between things instead of making you pointlessly memorise formulae (stupid, bad)
At first I couldn't decide if Andrew would simply not care about his accent being terrible when speaking another language or if he would make sure it was as good as possible so it wouldn't be something someone could use against him, but then I decided that he absolutely practices on his accent when he's alone to make sure it's perfect. He makes it seem effortless to other people, but he makes sure that no one will be able to say anything about the way he speaks.
Meanwhile Neil is naturally gifted at languages and gets the accents right almost on the first try.
Later into their relationship, Andrew eventually caves and allows Neil to help him with his accent.
ive been saying the 'im a humanities major i cant do math' joke for a long time but i was just reminded today of how much i liked math when i was in high school. math was a bunch of fun puzzles that you got to solve and as long as you understood the process it was so satisfying and rewarding to complete