#math with Alice

[presswoodterryryan]

🎉 Alice’s Ultimate Guide to Perimeter and Area! 🎉

By Alice Hey everyone! It’s me, Alice, your favorite adventure-seeker, snack expert, and sometimes math student. Today, I have BIG NEWS! 🚀 Big Sister Ariel has written another brilliant and super-smart math paper—this time about Perimeter and Area! Now, I thought perimeter was just a fancy way to say “walk around something” and area was just “the space where my snacks go” 🍪, but Ariel says…

[thefirstr4in]

ann draws ann

[mirandahamilton]

house of the dragon fashion: queen alicent's hairstyles in season 1 (requested by anonymous)

[heartstopperthoughts]

So I’m still processing the latest Heartstopper update, but I just want to say

1. I love that Normal People and Pedro Pascal are now in Heartstopper (I feel like all of my obsessions are coming together!)

2. I love that Charlie has the worst gaydar on the planet 😂

3. I love that the timeline of Heartstopper has officially been thrown in the garbage.

[inconceptual-nonsense]

Born to draw podcast ship fanart, forced to be doing college algebra 2 as a junior in highschool :(

[whatshehassaid]

Notice in season one during the scene where Louis serves the dessert Daniel had with “Alice” in Paris how Daniel says, “This is the dessert *I* had when I proposed to my first wife”

Not “This is the dessert WE had”

I. Singular.

Because Armand doesn’t eat human food.

[charlie-francis-spring]

Would you use maths against Nick to get kisses?

yes muahahaha fun fact how i got him to sit down and do maths with me was to promise him a kiss every time he got an answer right ajsgshsgs he flew through that worksheet faster than ever

.... @nick-nelzzzzz hi baby can we please do that again actually :3

[ghost-bard]

I've had this theory for a while now, and me n my friend (@nightshadetq ) have talked about it a bit as The Magnus Protocol continues, but I really don't think Alice's indifference to the paranormal/statements/cases ect ect is proof that she like. Has no idea what's going on, or will be in for a rude awakening.

[Note: this post is not free from spoilers up to episode 18]

I think she knows a decent amount of what's actually going on, and is trying to protect Sam (or her uninformed coworkers in general) from getting in too deep.

Other than Lena, who I assume has been the boss since Alice arrived, Alice has worked at the OIAR the longest, "nearly a decade" and has consistently told Sam not to look into anything, to not be curious, and to just do his job, and those moments are when she is the most serious, an odd departure from her typical attitude, very likely a coping or defense mechanism (or survival tactic) on her part.

We also have how she and Colin interact, and her conversation with Teddy in the most recent episode (18 as of writing). While yes, her and Colin's unlikely duo could be in part simply a fun dynamic, grumpy/sunshine, whatever, but we also don't really know what has happened within the last near decade of Alice working at the OIAR. The only person Colin likes is Alice, perhaps because she's the only one he trusts, or maybe they went through something together, that's mostly speculation on my part I'll admit.

What's more interesting is Alice and Teddy's conversation, the weight of Alice calling Teddy a liar, her saying to herself for Teddy to "watch himself" because she's worried. I would point out we have no idea how long Teddy worked at the OIAR, though in episode one there's a mention of "another four years" which implies he's worked there about that amount of time, and so Alice had still worked there the longest.

Honestly it would be weird if Alice hadn't seen weird shit pre-canon given how long she's been there, and that despite the jobs turnover rate hasn't quit despite everything, almost like she's obligated, to the job perhaps not, but maybe to the other people working, given we know that people can and have quit. Of course it could also just be the getting a new job is difficult and she has a younger brother to help out occasionally, but truthfully I find it a bit difficult to believe that being the only reason she wouldn't have quit by now.

Also interesting that the only thing Alice said in response to Gwen talking about Mr. Bonzo, where Sam laughs and thinks she's joking, is after she leaves saying "Curiosity will get you killed, best try and ignore it" wherein Alice clowning on Gwen is what I, at the least, would expect in response. Yes, she questions Gwen interacting with monsters, but she doesn't push her to talk about it, and in fact, gave her an out on what the Externals are.

Considering both Gwen and Sam didn't know about them until 1. Gwen asking Lena to let her "in" and getting work about/for the Externals, and 2. Sam just now being informed. Meanwhile Alice has a fake explanation on what they are, providing Sam with said explanation, therefore shielding him from the truth of the matter, and letting Gwen not have to talk about it, only for Gwen to then say what they actually are. So either Alice already knew what an External was, and lives by the "if you don't know about the real goings on nothing will happen to you" deal and tries to act the part herself, or someone who no longer works at the OIAR AND worked with Externals told her that that was what they were, which I'll admit is also a possibility.

There is also her seeing the drowning victim and her reaction to them. Her primary issue as I remember it was the dead body, given how she implies she hadn't seen a dead body since her parents passed. However, her having a negative reaction to a dead body doesn't mean she hasn't seen other freak shit. There is also the option that she lied about not having seen a dead body since her parents, and she (rightfully) still has an averse reaction to them, though I don't necessarily believe this myself, I am presenting it as an option.

Maybe I'm talking out my ass, but I really don't think Alice has completely avoided everything up until now, especially given how weirdly cagey she is about anyone (mainly Sam, but they have a history so maybe she feels responsible for him in some way) getting curious about what they do, or wanting to look into the cases they receive. If she didn't know anything at all, I don't know why she'd care about someone getting curious about their cases, or at least care as much as she seems to.

[burning-daylight]

viserys saying leana is too young to marry, and then preceding to wed alicent when she is only fifteen, and his daughter's closest and best friend.

daemon refusing rhaenyra only to begin courting a younger laena, then saying that he "spared" rhaenyra by not marrying her as if him marrying laena was any less perverse .

in each of their marriages, both laena and alicent know they are not the wife their husband wishes they had. alicent is not aemma and laena is not rhaenyra.

what they want, for laena to go back home and for alicent's children to be treated as equals to viserys other child, is constantly denied by their husbands and these denials lead to their deaths (laena) or the death of their children (alicent)

daemon and viserys are both terrible men. all targaryen men need to stay away from these girls.

[kippyzzworld]

“I'm as lost as ever, friends. Can you tell?

I'd like it if someone were to rescue me soon. Oh, I'd like that very much. I'd like that. I'd like that very much indeed.”

[4attagirl]

I just KNOW I'll be the first one to die if I was in Alice in Borderland

[lexxiesthoughts8]

Math exam tmr, WOOOO (shoot me) like ik what the exam consists of cuz our teacher already told us and i get most of it BUT FUCK GEOMETRY IT SUCKS ASS it’s soooo weird and complex and I’ll kms if I fail this one too (I can’t legit fail it cuz ppl view me as smart sooo) I’m gonna explode

(ask me stuff please im always up for questions)

[heartstopperthoughts]

[fallenfawnsworld]

Alice: Firstly, how dare you use mathematics to make me look stupid!

Alice: I’m actually very good at math

Alice: Thirdly, I think you might be right

[aangarchy]

I binged heartstopper s2 through work yesterday and i have Things To Say but i'll just start with this: i hc that Nick has dyscalculia

Listen when he opened his maths exam and instead of equations or diagrams he saw a bunch of squiggles which messed with his head is such an accurate portrayal of what it's like to do math with dyscalculia. Not as in they actually become squiggles but more as in it feels like you're looking at a foreign language and no matter how hard you try you cannot make sense of it.

Personally i can do simple sums but anything more than that and it just stops making sense. At a certain point you don't even know what you're calculating anymore and you get extremely frustrated with yourself. And when you talk to others about it usually they'll be like "oh yeah i get it i hate math too" but the thing is, i actually enjoy math and it's really satisfying when it works. But for me the issue is that more often than not i end up confused before i can even solve it. I don't hate math i just genuinely can't do it.

Dyscalculia is such an unknown learning disorder. A friend of mine did her thesis on learning and behavioral disorders for youth in prisons, and she made the remark that no matter how hard she looked she could barely find any research papers to use in her thesis on dyscalculia. All of it was dyslexia, adhd and the like. Each time people ask i have to explain what dyscalculia is, and each time they go "oh you don't know your multiplication tables? That's kind of silly" and it truly grinds my gears. This impacts my daily life immensely. A cashier will hand me my change and i just have to trust they're correct because i cannot count that fast. When i ask someone for the time and they just show me their analog watch in response i want to bite their hand off, bonus points if that watch has roman numbers. There's several tasks that take me way longer than it should at work because i get lost in calculating the price for something simple,

Anyway, Nick has dyscalculia 2023 and i will not take no for an answer.

[whitegirljoshuamacheath]

happy six months :)

oh my god. yeah. wow. wow. uh. woah. six months. thats. it feel like so much longer and so much shorter at the same time. happy six months <3