#fuck the first derivative

[tlaquetzqui]

Remember: fantasy races are not just humans with pointed ears or tusks or thirty inches less height. They are fucking aliens that happen to live on the same planet as a population of humans. Give them strange coloring, subtly different proportions and features, and above all, alien psychology.

When you live for hundreds of years, what changes about how you spend your time? When you are the size of an unusually muscular toddler when full-grown, what changes about how you behave in conflicts? If you heal any wound not inflicted by acid or fire, how do you experience pain?

The principle might be called “Wookiees not furries”. They are not just anthropomorphic cartoon animals that have human culture and expectations. Even though they look sorta like that, they are beings from an entirely different world with their own life-history and set of instincts.

#i forget who it was that first pointed out 'chewbacca is not a furry' was an important idea for sf writers #but whoever it was was absolutely right #writing fantasy #fantasy writing #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding #world building #even if you have a race derived from humans they should have their psychology modified by whatever is different about them #lot of people (including tolkien) have halflings as mutated humans #but the fact they're so much smaller necessarily changes their mindset it they'll FUCKING DIE #*or #damn phone keyboard

[overtake]

If i see one more person spread “news” sourced to outlets like f1-insider… please actually pay attention to sources and use critical thought about where it came from. these accounts want their engagement numbers and will share information derived from a fucking reddit comment if they think it’ll earn them a few extra dollars. there’s always an off chance these bullshit tabloids are right, but they almost never are, and a legitimate source will come along if there’s any whisper of truth to it. i just beg of people to simply wait for sources with the slightest bit of credibility to their name before they start sharing information.

#i want christian fired as much as the next person but i’m going to at least wait for an even remotely real source to hint at it first #also wanna clarify upfront #this isn’t an indirect. i haven’t even scrolled my dash today #i always fear a moot will read this and feel called out when its not about them. this is just my entire twitter timeline lol #so it’s a frustration derived from there #drives me up a fucking wall. critical thought is in the toilet. #misinformation is dangerous #and it takes like 40 replies before a single person points out the source #and then theyll be like ‘could be fake but what if its true 🤯’ #like oh my goooooood yeah what IF its true? thatd be crazy. but it’s almost certainly not #so why are you wasting time sitting around sharing stories that some person just invented to get clicks? #if it IS true then a real publication with legit sources and verification methods will post it #at least wait for that bare minimum #keep information from bullshit places like f1-insider to gossip in a group chat if you wanna discuss it #*

[normalbrothers]

prev post i still think duke should have been john's kid though, confounding that this didn't happen

#iirc he did have a son that sorta could have been around duke's age #but i think there's more to be derived from like. one of john's children being curious about his uncles/paternal family and looking for the #than tommy having some random son. why didn't this happen ... #then again duke could still be john's child. he and esme are just fucking with tommy for fun #<- unlikely. but then again peaky blinders has its fair share of campiness #when we saw those first images of him before the season aired people literally thought he was john's #they even somewhat look alike #cuckoo child duke ...

[thursdayg1rl]

OH MY GOD CALL ME THE CILLIT THE WAY I JUST BANGED THAT INTERVIEW. king of maths. im literally like if euler was a beautiful girl

#STUNNING . FABULOUS. NOT A QUWSTION I COULDNT ANSWER. absolutely unfazed #GOD PLESE GOD LET THAT HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON MY APPLICATION #AND THE GUY LIKED ME AS WELL BC HE KEPT SAYING LIKE 'YES VERY GOOD ALISHA' #I AM THE GOD OF MATHS #I JUST CALCULATED THE DERIVATIVE OF THE INTAGRAL FORM 0 TO X OF (E^-X(T^2+1))/(T^2+1) DT DONT EVEN LOOK AT ME #like. oh my god #the first people probably thought i was so fucking dumb but this guy got me #plese please please please it was so good im a star im a star i promise.. #god my chances are like 50/50 now depending on how much weight that second interview had #also wdym 'applied interview' they literally only asked me pure questions #the first phd student guy wasnt bad either. i made like one mistake but i think he thought i was smart. #omg not me breaking out the modular arithmetic as well. maths GOD im telling you.

[tornadodyke]

ARE YOU FUCKING TELLING ME I COULD'VE BEEN DOING THESE FUCK ASS CALCULUS PROBLEMS JUST BY USING THE DERIVATIVES INSTEAD OF THESE STUPID DRAWN OUT WAYS

#I DON'T CARE IF WE HAVE TO LEARN THE THEORY FIRST THE THEORY IS FUCKING ME OVER SEVEN WAYS FROM SUNDAY #AND YOU'RE TELLING ME I COULD'VE JUST BEEN USING THE DERIVATIVES THE WHOLE TIME???? YOU'RE JOKING. TELL ME YOU'RE JOKING #I'M GOING TO LOSE MY MIND!!!!!!!!

[matchandelure]

for two weeks every four months i become math’s biggest hater, and for the rest of the time im just an average hater (very sad and frustrated)

#officially done half of my finals...just the other half left #and included in that half is...the dreaded calculus ii final exam god im so scared #my eyes are burning my wrist hurts my back aches from sitting in a chair for hours staring at three different screens doing practice #probelms that stopped making sense about. 2 hours ago #i hate differential equations so much why do we need to know these things. like. when will i ever need to know how to integrate by parts #when in life will i ever need to know whether a series converges absolutely conditionally or diverges #when am i ever going to need to understand volumes of revolutions w the stupid washers and shells and GRAAH #im going to be petty tongiht bc i know that this math cant even be considered hard bc its literally just fundamental courses #but im going to let myself be sad bc once i get out the sad and frustrated and mad i can go back to deriving power series of things #and everyone learns and processes things at different rates and its ok if i need to take twice as long to understand a theorem and proof #then a classmate who can understand it just by reading the course notes once. yeah #i actually feel pathetic rn. cant believe a first year math course has me this worked up. just need to get my shit together next study term #and stop complaining over every little thing #actually last little thing i love the ratio test it has done nothing wrong ever i love it so much (i hate the integral test) #limit comparison you are on thin fucking ice. ast you are just behind the ratio test #willows rambling branch

[gandreida]

I've been datin' someone and they dumped me this morning and honestly I'm so relieved 'cause now I don't gotta breakup w/ them

#like everything was cool i liked 'em but I was def way too anxious to be in a relationship w/ them. They're just so fucking hot and cool!!! #The anxiety is probably derived from having been in so many toxic relationships tbh like I really felt like I was walking on eggshells- #the whole time I was datin' this person n it's not like they were doin anything to make me feel that way!! If we disagreed about somethin'- #minor it wasn't a big deal it was just w/e which I wasn't used to T^T #I saw the breakup comin' though like it just felt like that was the natural of the relationship!! I saw it from the beginnin if im honest #like when we met I recognized we wanted different things out of life and relationships. Now I'm wondering I was wasting their time? #I don't think so like I gave it a good 'ol college they took me out I took them out we had fun and we ended on really good terms I feel #We hung out for a few hours after we split and just had a good time in general thrifting and talkin' it was super chill #I've just been oh so thrilled 'cause I almost never get dumped!! I forgot that this wasn't the first time someone said we should be friends #The last time was 13 years ago back in middleschool!! I guess I've been ghosted in the past but is that really the same thing? #Everything's comin' up Esther

[kuiinncedes]

bro why am i doing data science

#sometimes stats classes are doable and feel ok #AND THEN THERE'S THIS ONE #and the one i took last sem and dropped #i'm like feeling the same abt this one like i wanna drop TT #but bro like #this is a requirement and i wanna graduate in 4 years any real reason not fucking really but #adjsngbldhfgakjdghsadjhl #i have LOST motivation to keep chatgpting the shit out of this hw due in like less than 1.5 hours #the coding part is ok with chat gpt #but there's so fucking much derivation and proof shit like bro #why do i have to keep doing this shit in stats classes #makes me want to scream #im gonna call my mom tonight and we'll see if i manage not to cry woohoo aka 100% chance im gonna start crying lmfao #i need to get back to this hw #like at best i'll get half points on it #bc i've just given up on like the first half #which is derivation shit i dont have time to finish it anyway #but chat gpt doesn't rly help for that bc i can put it in but i have no idea what the fuck it's doing #ughhhghhsjfgllsdriaduhroiwngjfdshgd why did i do stats #nfjdghjlbdjsbfljgabgjhglksajhflkhgiuqerhihfnglkajfdngddjfaksjgd #jeanne talks

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

The Fibonacci sequence cropped up sneakily on my first Algebra homework >:)

Love it when I find the lil guy lurking, it’s like spotting a minor trickster god out in the wild

#personal #the Fibonacci sequence makes me so happy #endless hours of fun can be derived just from poking and prodding the guy into increasingly fucked up forms #This is my first abstract algebra course and although it’s very early I’m enjoying it quite a lot thus far! #I was worried because I really loved analysis and I had been somehow been led to think that it was a ‘you can only pick one’ situation #But mayhap not 👀 #mathblr

[embraceyourdestiny]

I hope when I type the word amen your brain reads it as “ah-men”

#fun fact the aye men comes from Irish so that’s cool #og #is Gaelic one of the few languages besdies English to use short a sounds #sorry it’s the long a not short I wasn’t taught proper phonetics as a child at home and have very little memory of school though I know we #did it #I don’t think I did for very long tho bc we always loved #idky my family doesn’t understand why I’m fucked up with school bc of how often we moved and how Punishing it was for me being unable to #succeed bc of lack of structure and knowledge and training #that shit really sucks lol #I don’t normally like amen excerpt in music but knowing it’s phonetically derived from the Irish makes me like it more #*​aye-men #with this post tho I do read the first amen as ayemen and then ahmen

[trucksquared]

Sooo much "original fiction vs fanfiction" discourse would be more bearable if people replaced "original fiction" with "published fiction" and "fanfiction" with "unpublished/self-published fiction". Also distinguishing between "professional writing" and "hobby writing"

So many arguments that "fanfiction is bad" have nothing to do with them being derivative works and everything to do with the fact that there is no quality control on most self-publishing sites

#i mean I think 'all fanfiction is bad' is a dumbass take in the first place but. yeah #of fucking course a professionally published book is more likely to be good than a hobby writer's work (derivative or not) #publishing companies filter for quality. i assure you there are so many unpublished manuscripts of original fiction that suck #it's just harder for them to be published professionally #also- editors. no one on wattpad has an editor #tldr there is bad original fiction as well you just don't see it for a variety of reasons #txt

[thedragonagelesbian]

im having Thoughts about doing return to ostagar & morrigan’s personal quest back-to-back, particularly with dru & morrigan starting to hook up on the journey from the brecilian forest to ostagar........ mayhaps i shall write them up

#there is an imperfect sense of symmetry too coming from getting two of the four main recruitment quests done #coming back to the place where it all began when you're a little older a little wiser #but still cant see the full length of the road ahead #like its NOT a halfway point (esp bc i as the player know the fucking landsmeet is ahead of us) #but its maybe the first third? #i dunno im also deriving a lot of personal satisfaction from doing these quests in an order that makes sense #both character-wise and geographically #i may regret that during the flemeth fight BUT #dru posting

[iamthescalesofjustice]

had a dream segment that was so perplexing that i literally ignored the next part of my dream to sit down and analyze it. 

#on one hand yeah sure what if dean winchester and the yiling patriarch were at canaan house. sure okay why not #on the other hand i dont fucking go to whatever fandom that second character is from and my understanding of the first is derived #largely from osmosis that itself apparently draws almost entirely from early and very late supernatural with massive gaps in between #where its just question marks that ive never cared enough to even make a cursory attempt to fill #there were other characters from other stuff there too its just that those two stood out bc i at least know the other characters #here is the sum total i know about the character called 'the yiling patriarch': they are referred to by this title instead of their name #commonly enough that i have seen it on the internet. they are from something written by the same person who wrote scum villain? there is #apparently necromancy in that setting. and thats it. #the connections i know of between that setting and the locked tomb are as follows: necromancy happens. also many of the characters have #multiple names and titles which they are referred to by which makes attempting to look into the series to get a feel for it and see if you #may want to get into it an exercise in frustration #this is all stuff i hashed out when i was ignoring the rest of the dream as it unfolded around me bc i was busy instead wracking my brains #for it bc i couldnt just look it up bc i would have to wake up to do that and i didnt want to yet if i could avoid it. which was the right #move bc i did end up getting back into the dream plot towards the end but i literally missed a whole middle segment and the introductory #stuff to the scenario of the last big segment before i woke up bc of this. bc i had to process that right after it happened

[stupidstupidratcreatures]

i've heard basically nothing but good things about xenoblade 3 which is a real surprise, maybe ill check it out

#op #i will always be extremely disappointed in the direction that series went esp bc the first one really doesnt need any elaboration #where x was kind of this weird and unasked-for sequel that didnt really have a ton of ideas in common with the original but was still #interesting and cool but got kinda fucked by virtue of being a sequel and also a game released for the wii u in 2015 (and then never gettin #g a switch port) so the route for 2 and 3 was to be. Extremely derivative #where for 2 they were blatantly just cribbing f:go and now for 3 where theyr just kind of doing xenobade 1 again #but i frankly dont need anything more out of it than what i have. and who knows #this one Might Be Good

[napsaps-archive]

found a tweet on my priv where i'm complaining about calculus and i remember genuinely crying over the homework (icry when i'm frustrated) and it's just like. past me i'm so sorry but it only gets worse from there 😭

#like fuck riemann sums but whatever we're learning now is so much harder sorry boo 😭😭😭 #i eventually got the hang of it but like. antiderivatives are so hard we did derivatives first and that's easier for me so i keep #taking the derivative instead of finding the antiderivative and i can't interpret the graphs like shit man #i WILL get the hang of this tho just you wait