#mathematics learning websites

[nisreenameen]

We are two siblings from Gaza, two dreamers medical students, suppose to be doctors in the near future unless there’s no enough money to pay the university fees, which is 3000 USD$ per year for the one.

And that is the reality, my family has lost there only income, my dad had has construction factory, but it is crushed right now by the Israeli army

My dad cannot pay us the university fees anymore. But we insist to complete our learning to the end, to be that hero doctors for our beloved Gaza. We are the last hope for our family.

We study in Egypt at Zagazig University, We are 1st year medical students, 4 years still to go.

12,000 USD$ for the 4 years per one,

24,000 USD$ for both of us.

And we must pay the fees before the end of the year, otherwise we will pay fine.

Also, Sadly, since there’s no life in Gaza anymore, no schools, no universities, no hospitals, no medications, even no streets to walk in, no clear air, We decided to evacuate our family to be able for them to continue their lives as humans, to get their simplest rights Since there’s no jobs, no income, no at least 1$, They are living on assistance. You are the hope for them, your 1$ donation is one step toward the life from death.

We are 6 members family, 3 adults and 3 under 18 2500 USD$ per child under 18

5000 USD$ per adult

22,500 USD$ for all

GoFundMe website takes 3% tip

Bank account also takes tip

82,000 CA$ =59,500 USD$

13,000 CA$ is tip for GoFundMe

1 CA$= 0.7USD$

Sorry for the mathematics, but it is for honesty

WE APPRECIATE YOUR 1$ DONATION

[shiftchii]

U.A. High in my DR !

Basics

Students are separated randomly into specific departments and classes sectioned by the letters A-K.

These departments are:

Department of Heroics (A - B): Students in this department learn everything they need to know in order to become excellent heroes in service to the community. They are trained in battle, first aid, rescue, support, and all manners of heroic-related lessons.

Department of General Education C - E): Students who don’t make it to the hero course are included here. This department supports students aiming for college and other pursuits. It’s also possible for students with good grades and exceptional strength and quirk skills to be transferred into the hero course (And either the support or business course mind you). Basically regular HS but they get to say that they went to UA on their resume.

Department of Support (F - H): Students here focus on developing support equipment that helps heroes out on the battlefield. With a workspace stock to the brim with all sorts of special tools and their own studio to build things, this department provides an unmatched creative environment.

Department of General Management (I - K): This department focuses on all aspects of heroic business, from the founding and managing of hero agencies to the promotion of public opinion regarding heroes. They even do hands-on lessons in venture capitalism. They have a lot of free time.

Each class is usually comprised of 21 students. That means that the total student population at UA would be 693.

We stay in the same class with the same teacher for all 3 years.

Since UA is a highly prestigious school, we get a lot of funding and benefits for the dorms and when we go on trips and whatnot. (Food we buy for the dorms is paid for, we get free snacks/concessions in the sports festival, free hero costume updates and renewals)

The school curriculum is way less loaded than here. The school system is much better.

The Hero Teachers are actually good at teaching.

Since U.A. is famous, it has many sponsors with support and hero merch companies, so some hero course students (usually 3rd years) have their own hero merch already. Students are sometimes sponsored and do photoshoots and are invited to red carpet events. (Following the School Festival, Class 1-A gets loads of sponsors and stuff!)

The teachers and students are encouraged to decorate their classes and most of them do so.

U.A. has a popular school website.

Staff and students are recommended to have Twitter to update the public events, the majority of the students obviously don't take this seriously, there's always someone who has beef and makes it public (Monoma) and it always ends up like those MHA Tweets, it’s the funniest thing ever.

Schedule

School is Monday - Friday and starts at 8:25 and finishes at 15:10. Regular classes take place during the first half of school, then the afternoon (for the Dept. of Heroics) you will have hero training. Only Dept. of Heroics students have an additional 7th period.

The teachers move between classes while the students stay in 1 class (besides electives).

Wednesdays are half days and only consist of hero training (so no typical school work), though sometimes it's replaced by FHS. You also don't have to wear your uniform on Wednesdays.

We will always have some kind of free time for school despite our somewhat busy schedules.

Not all school days are the same (emergency drills, other schools coming to train with us, etc.).

Classes

Core Subjects for Dept. of Heroics

Homeroom: Taught by Aizawa. Acts as a study hall. The class reps will often give a small meeting with the class about important events during this period.

Japanese: Taught by Cementoss. Focuses on reading, writing, and literature.

Mathematics: Taught by Ectoplasm. Covers algebra, geometry, and calculus.

English: Taught by Present Mic. Emphasizes reading, writing, and conversation skills.

Home Economics: Taught by Midnight. Cooking and other aspects of household management.

Foundational Hero Studies (FHS): Taught by All Might, Aizawa or Midnight. Hero related studying: hero laws, safety precautions, first aid, jsl, media training, dividing hero and civilian identity etc.

Hero Training: Taught by various teachers, usually Aizawa or All Might, it changes every week and we are informed about the activities during homeroom. For example: Quirkless Combat, Rescue Training, Combat, Quirk Training etc.

Elective Subjects

Thought by various teachers. This is the only class where students move instead of teachers, these are shared, so you could end up with classmates from other classes. Students get to completely choose what electives they have. If they don’t choose, they are placed in extra training or study hall.

Options:

Foreign Languages (e.g., Chinese, Korean)

Journalism

Art Foundations

Photography

Ceramics

Psychology

Choir

Band

Orchestra

Woodshop

Metalshop

Chemistry

Poetry

Cooking

Baking

Biology

Physics

Film Analysis

Computer Programming

Animal Work

Volunteer Work

Theatre

Student Council

Literature Analysis

Forensics

Study Hall

Class 1-A Timetable

Around UA campus

The updated UA security system is really good. The sensors are so good, you don't even need to have your ID out. They can scan it anywhere on your person. If you lost or misplaced your ID, the gates also have facial recognition software, so it's fine. If you're not a student or staff, you NEED a visitor pass or the school will go into lockdown on you.

We can use our school IDs to get snacks and drinks from vending machines around the school hallways. It’s free and they are replenished daily.

UA has a courtyard where we can eat outside. Most of the 2nd and 3rd years get food from places outside of the school campus and eat outside in the courtyard. Because of this, the cafeteria isn't as crowded and when we eat lunch we can sit and enjoy our food comfortably. The cafeteria is also luxurious and looks like a fancy mall café.

The library is huge and has many resources with much to explore. There are many different levels with varying types of quiet floors and study halls. It's also open 24/7 so students who are fighting to finish a project can pull all-nighters.

There’s a little shop that has U.A. and hero merch and school supplies including books for courses. You can also buy the merch on the online website.

UA has extracurricular groups and clubs for those who aren't in the hero course such as other sports and things like cheerleaders, debate, theater, music, cooking, ballet, and much more. I mean, hero course students CAN do those things but they WILL have a hard time doing so all while dealing with said hero responsibilities. As mentioned before, business course students have a lot of free time and general ED students are basically regular HS students who just so happen to be going to UA and for support course students, it really depends on how much work you choose to take on for yourself.

There is a study center where students who need extra help can go. Students with failing grades must go here for a set amount of hours to get the help they need. It’s strictly work, and talking about anything other than school is basically prohibited. It’s usually run by Ectoplasm and his clones or Hound Dog.

Work studies & Internships

All first years do an internship, it’s required. This is usually after the sports festival when students have had a chance to show off their skills.

Work studies are basically experience-oriented off-study programs that allow students in the hero course who have Provisional Licenses to work with pros at their agencies. Students will be able to use their quirks under the guidance of a pro, and can even be dispatched to fight villains and help out in disaster areas. If you do well, you can be scouted to become the hero’s sidekick.

Work studies are a more serious version of internships. They entail helping pro heroes on the streets and with investigations. They are usually reserved for 2nd and 3rd-year students, who usually have their licenses. 1st years didn't do them in the past. However, with the rise of villain activity, the school decided to open up work studies to 1st years as well, albeit a very small and select few of them. If they didn't find a good agency with a proven track record they wouldn't do it at all.

Events

U.A. has seasonal dances and a lot of events, like Halloween, Hero Day and other festivals.

Uniforms

Color palette

The uniforms the students receive consist of 4 sets of each clothing (besides the coat and varsity jacket):

Shirts

Long sleeve

Short sleeved

Sleeveless

Blazer

Long sleeves

Sleeveless

Cardigans

Sleeveless (two color variations)

Long sleeved (two color variations)

Sweaters

Sleeveless (two color variations)

Long sleeved (two color variations)

Pants

Shorts

Below The Knee

Classic

Skirts

Mini

Below The Knee

Maxi

Ties

Necktie

Bow Tie

Socks

Quarter

Crew

Knee High

Thigh High

Tights

Shoes

Coat

Varsity Jacket

Gym Clothing

Tank top

Loose Zip-up Sweatshirt (long sleeves, short sleeves, sleeveless)

Cropped Zip-up Sweatshirt (long sleeves, short sleeves, sleeveless)

Shorts

Below Knee Shorts

Sweatpants

Swimwear

Sleeveless, Short sleeved and Long sleeved

Lanyards

Uniforms aren’t required on Wednesdays

Students are allowed to accessorize their uniforms however they want and wear their own jackets

Piercings, colored hair, nails, makeup etc. are allowed

The uniforms aren’t gendered - all students receive all versions and are allowed to wear whichever one they prefer

For students with mutant type Quirks, custom made uniforms are made

Button and sleeve/lapel stripe differences between the department uniforms [1-General education, 2-Hero, 3-Support, 4-Management].

School Bag

Along with the Uniforms the school hands out bags. You can return them and use your own if you’d like.

A standard deep blue nylon matching the uniforms. The U.A. logo sits at the right bottom corner.

Class

If you’re standing at the front of the classroom looking out at the desks, the seating arrangement starts at the leftmost side of the room (“A” names), going front to back and then going to the next row to the right, and so on.  keep in mind that the alphabetical order here is based on the Japanese alphabet. My number is 10.

Here's how I laid out the desks for 21 students:

Since we stay in the same classrooms for most of the days we can leave out stuff at our desks. They have shelves underneath with 2 outlets and lots of space.

Class 1-A Friend Groups

Everyone is actually really close, but those are what groups spend the most time together. Of course we hang out in different groups or all together too.

We have frequent movie and game nights, 1-A has a group chat and it’s always active, there’s always someone wanting to do something. Sometimes we invite people from other classes.

DekuSquad

Izuku

Ochako

Tenya

Tsuyu

Shouto

Haruka

Hitoshi (after he joins our class)

BakuSquad

Katsuki

Eijirou

Mina

Denki

Minoru

Hanta

TokoSquad

Fumikage

Mashirao

Mezou

Tooru

MomoSquad

Momo

Kyoka

Yuga

Kouji

Rikido

I hope this was helpful! <3

© credits: seating arrangement • basics @/Priicklleshifts on TikTok • uniforms • dividers

[max1461]

Thinking about different websites...

The worldview of redditors is really Bronze Age or perhaps Iron Age in a truly interesting way. Deeply transactional, concerned with honor and commanding honor, with everything founded on property relations. The comments of any AITA post will evince this. It is "patriarchal" not in the sense of being misogynistic (which it sometimes is and sometimes isn't), but in the sense that it is structurally like the morality of the archetypal Patriarch of the isolated family unit, very Indo-European. The Man who rules his own little kingdom, his family, and who deals with other such Men through a certain kind of economically-inspired honor code. Most redditors are liberal enough that they deal with their spouses as other Men though, and indeed with their children once they reach a certain age. But I think even this has some historical precedent.

It's all about who has the Right to do what, you see, it's about who can and who can't and who must. Very Norse, very Bronze Age, very Indo-European. The redditor sees themself (actually or aspirationally) as on top and as agentic. They speak positively of learning hard lessons and of teaching hard lessons. Their world is a world of contracts, not abstract and mathematical but specific and personal.

This is notably not the ideology of 4chan, which anyone who's been on that site much should know. 4chan's ideology is much less confident in itself. The 4channer sees themself as beneath, not on top, either with acceptance or with resentment. Frantz Fanon might have something to say about it. The 4channer is the subaltern.

And here? I was going to say that tumblrianas are somewhat domesticated, but I don't think this is exactly right. It's more like the world-sense of eunuchs in a harem, desperate for stimulation. Scholastic (though not scholarly) and estranged from the world—from normalcy—for reasons they can't escape. And they know this, and have mostly elected not to try. "Eh", say they, "I will read about life in one of my books," or perhaps just as commonly "I will simulate an outside-life in here with the other eunuchs, and it will be better than what they can make on the outside anyway". Maybe that's true; it probably depends on you and your eunuch crew.

I don't think I'm any of these types of guy. I've spent more of my life as a lurker than a poster. Lurkers are a whole other type of deal.

This is of course all "bullshit" you must understand.

[justsomeantifas]

Getting a lot of: “No but like you don’t get it math is stupid and useless and reading books is actually morally good… and teaches us about the world around us and explains how it works which stupid math doesn’t do why should I learn calculus I would rather shame people into reading Jane Eyre than open a math book or website”

And like … out of the millions of things you can do with basic and foundational math … that shows you how the world works … Calculus, as one example, can literally explain to you why leaves grow at the angle they grow … there is little more beautiful than being able to calculate exactly how nature works and understand why.

There is beauty in every subject … and few other subjects encapsulate ways to understand your surroundings like math.

If you are comfortable shaming people for not reading fiction books because you personally are good at reading them, but uncomfortable being shamed for not doing mathematics consider you are in the exact same boat as people who are afraid to read fiction books because they don’t see why it is important to do so and are unwilling to begin.

You are the people you hate.

[aziraphales-library]

Hi all! Thank you very much for all of your hard work. I've glad for this account since there is always something fun to read popping up. Can the Mods recommend any fics where either Aziraphale or Crowley use dating apps for any reason?

Hello. You'll find fics like this, including some of the fics listed here, on our #social media tag, but here are some dating app specific fics...

Bloggers, Baby! by Estrella3791 (T)

Crowley's a blogger, and he may or may not be developing a crush on his commenters. But he's not really - Oh, what's this? Angel1941 is on Tinder??

Oh, Lord, Heal This Love by WaitingToBeBroken (T)

"Looking for someone to take to couples therapy and see how long it takes the therapist to notice we don't know each other," is what Crowley's dating profile says. Too bad Aziraphale was too busy staring at those graceful fingers in his picture to realise that, before he agreed to go on a date with him.

abide by me by cosmya (T)

The year is 2001. Crowley runs a fake marriage website, and Aziraphale has encountered a... problem that requires his services. Naturally, they have No Idea that it's each other at first, but when Aziraphale proves a difficult client, Crowley takes matters into his own hands.

Dim the Lights and Sing You Songs by Polaris (E)

A few months prior to leaving the Dowling household, Crowley had downloaded Grindr for the sole purpose of catfishing randy morons. He was not expecting a paragraph that began with: ‘hello. I hope you don’t think this is too forward, but I couldn’t help but notice you have the most lovely nipples.’ Crowley keeps trying to meet his Grindr fuckbuddy. Aziraphale keeps showing up at all his meeting spots. This is terrible.

MatchMade! by amaruuk (E)

Crowley tests a new dating app for an online publication. When his match dumps him for another man's match, he and his fellow dumpee take a chance on each other.

With Potential by Caedmon (E)

Aziraphale is an author of popular and successful romance novels. His books have done very well, so he's surprised when his publisher, Gabriel, comes in and tells him that they expect him to start including explicit sex scenes instead of just the fade-to-black he's been writing. Aziraphale argues a bit, but it's pointless. Gabriel isn't asking, he's telling. And now Aziraphale is in a pickle. He doesn't have a wide swath of sexual experience to pull inspiration from. So his assistant, Anathema, helpfully suggests that he download some dating apps and seek someone to hook up with for casual sex. Aziraphale is appalled by the idea of casual sex at first, and thinks that this plan is going to go absolutely nowhere, but agrees to give it a try. Three guesses what happens next.

The Grindr Logo Doesn't Even Have a 'G' In It by indieninja92 (E)

After the Apocalypse, Aziraphale ventures into a new space in the gay milieu - Grindr. There he starts talking to a charming young man who certainly doesn't bear any resemblance at all to a certain long streak of demon, not one bit, no thank you. Meanwhile, Aziraphale and Crowley navigate their friendship after the world failed to end. There is much drinking and silliness, but could it be that there are other feelings lurking underneath?? Of course there are, this is fanfic.

The Mathematical Improbability of Reaching the Stars by cassieoh, D20Owlbear (M)

Aziraphale, 3rd year doctoral candidate in Library Sciences and current failure at Astronomy 101, finds out about an app for meeting people from some undergraduates. He’s desperate for a tutor so he decides to try it out. Surely someone in the wilds of Tinder is willing to help him learn about the stars? Meanwhile, in said wilds of Tinder, Crowley (high school dropout, star enthusiast, and official garden center plant-harasser) is not really looking for anything past dinner and maybe ‘tea’ back at their place. Hijinks, and also a surprisingly intricate plot, ensue.

- Mod D

[goldenherc9]

A Herculean Transformation

Hercules, a 26-year-old British man with a flair for the flashy, strutted into the gym wearing his signature outfit: shiny gold Nike tracksuit pants. He loved the way the fabric gleamed under the fluorescent lights, announcing his arrival like a king in his court. In one hand, he carried a blender bottle filled with his secret weapon: a protein shake he'd bought online from a questionable website that promised "unimaginable gains."

As he sipped the concoction, a strange sensation surged through his body. His muscles started to bulge, veins popped out like overinflated balloons, and his skin darkened to a rich bronze hue. He looked into the mirror and gasped—or at least tried to, because his jawline now resembled a cement block. Hercules had transformed into a hulking, dumb version of himself, now resembling an Algerian Arabic bodybuilder with an IQ seemingly traded for biceps. His old self had been erased and he has become Hamza.

The gym-goers stopped and stared as he attempted a deadlift, accidentally ripping the barbell in half. "Strong! Me so strong! Look at me!" he shouted, his British accent completely obliterated by an inexplicable, booming Algerian drawl.

"Bro, you okay?" asked a concerned bystander.

Hercules now Hamza—or whatever he had become—grinned widely. "Okay? Me best! Me lift heavy, look shiny! Like golden banana!" He flexed his muscles so hard that his gold tracksuit pants shredded at the seams, revealing thighs the size of tree trunks.

By the end of the session, Hamza was sitting on a bench, staring at a protein bar wrapper like it was a complex mathematical equation. "Dis... go in mouth, make strong, yes?" he asked, scratching his head.

As the gym staff nervously approached, Hamza pointed to the shake bottle. "More shake! Me want to be biggest... and maybe learn math later."

Hamza joins his brothers @zayed-gold87 and @polo-drone-001 for more golden arabic workouts and to keep growing like the golden brothers they have become together.

Huhu come join da Gold brahs and become a better u like me did huhu message @goldenherc9 or @polo-drone-001 2day bruuuuhs

[ausp-ice]

Rhythm, an Edeia representing the Idea of Rhythm: a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Rhythm refers to a system of four personalities: Cadence, Lilt, Measure, and Pulse. Their identity divisions are not fully distinct; they share memories, and there are times that two or more personalities can blend together. They can be referred to as Rhythm or the name of the personality present.

Edeia Site | Edeia Discord | Personal Website

Rhythm

Cadence 

Name: Cadence Gender: Male Pronouns: he/him

"Come with me, feel the beat—dance to a tune, move your feet! I'm Rhythm, or Cadence, if you'd like to be specific. I am the rhythms of intensity—the stage, crowds, competition. I'm the Rhythm that pumps you up!" 

Cadence is passionate and charismatic. He lives for the spotlight and the energy of a performance, feeling the rhythms of dance and heavy beats of music. He is highly driven, seeking to always provide profound experiences for his audience and others in his company. When meeting others, he is friendly, though he does have a flair for dramatics. He tends to emerge most during high-stakes situations, such as during large performances. 

He has a degree of perfectionism, and can sometimes become competitive with others. Though he brims with confidence most of the time, he is also the personality most prone to sudden bursts of anxiety, panic, and burnout—though when that occurs, other personalities (Measure, usually) often take over. 

Associations: Stadium concerts, EDM performances, idol pop, competitive dance styles, any music meant to energize large crowds.

Lilt

Name: Lilt Gender: Genderfluid Pronouns: he/she/they

"Hi! I'm Rhythm, but you can call me Lilt too. I've had this song stuck in my head for several days now, and I just really wanna share… I can sing it for you, if you're willing! If not, that's okay too. We can just hang out, if you're up for that, hehe."

Lilt is spontaneous and playful, thriving in casual social settings. He loves creating connections with others through shared joy. They enjoy a good laugh and a light joke, and they approach life with a sense of wonder and appreciation. They empathize deeply with others, often crying when others cry and laughing when others laugh. She tends to emerge when Rhythm is relaxed. 

Associations: folk dance, fusions of folk with other genres, jazz, playground chants, social dance music, "earworms" and catchy tunes.

Measure 

Name: Measure Gender: Bigender Pronouns: he/she preferred

"Since this version of me is here, you can call me Measure. I embody rhythms of order and elegance, of precision and formality. Of all versions of me, I would describe myself as the most tasteful in preference. So, then. What rhythms do you bring today?" 

Measure is analytical, sophisticated, and disciplined. He appreciates structure, tradition, and the mathematical beauty of rhythmic patterns. He is oddly patient with students who are willing to learn, but cold towards most others. He is perceptive and insightful, but his words can be cutting and he can be overly judgmental, even to the point of seeming hostile to others. She tends to analyze others, and she can do it quite well—understanding their behaviors, personalities, and how to play them like a fiddle to get them in a better or more docile mood. 

Measure tends to emerge when Rhythm is stressed, or when in more formal settings that require high vigilance or attention to detail.  

Associations: Classical music, orchestral/cinematic music, traditional formal dances, music theory.

Pulse

Name: Pulse Gender: Genderless Pronouns: they/them

"Of Rhythm, I am Pulse. The fundamental, the profound. The beat of your heart, the rhythm of your breath, the rhythm of life and death as a soul passes from one incarnation to the next. Feel it within you, and know that you, too, are a part of the rhythms of existence."  

Pulse is contemplative, wise, and deeply intuitive. They experience the world through its natural rhythms and the rhythms that connect to the world. They have gravitas in their presence, and tend not to speak at length. While they feel deeply connected to natural existence, they tend to be quite detached from everyday human concerns. They most often emerge when Rhythm is alone for a considerable amount of time, when Rhythm gets lost in their thoughts or is deeply contemplative. 

Associations: Tribal drums, heartbeat rhythms, ambient nature sounds, traditional indigenous music, meditative rhythms.

Story Synopsis

Rhythm began as Aiden, a talented dancer born in 2003 who became the main dancer of RESONATE, a K-pop group that capitalized on his natural sense of rhythm and unrecognized idea magic. While achieving fame, he developed dissociative episodes that culminated in a public incident during an awards ceremony performance. During his hiatus, Aiden sought answers about his condition, eventually encountering Life who restored his connection to past incarnations: a tribal shaman (1102-981 BCE) who perceived natural rhythms and formed a bond with Life through rituals, a disciplined composer and music theorist (1592-1971) who developed mathematical understanding of rhythm, and a social dancer (1922-1948) whose life was cut short but understood rhythm as a force for human connection. These past lives merged with his emerging personalities, creating the four distinct aspects of his identity.

After stabilizing his new multi-faceted understanding of Rhythm, Aiden returned to perform one final concert with RESONATE, where he announced his departure before Actualizing into Rhythm. As an Edeia, Rhythm embraced his four personalities—Cadence, Lilt, Measure, and Pulse—each representing different aspects of rhythmic expression across his soul's journey. He began a new creative journey as an independent artist, continuing to wander the world while creating music and choreography that embodied his multifaceted nature. Rhythm now views his multiplicity as the perfect expression of his Idea, with each personality offering a unique perspective on the concept of rhythm itself, from primal heartbeats to mathematical compositions to social celebrations to performance energy.

See more on his profile here.

[drownedrow]

Hello may i ask you if you could possibly provide a list of books and or/links that i could read about the nine hells? 😭 i'm so intrigued but so lost idk where to start and where to go lol. Love your blog btw!

Hi! Thank you so much thsts so sweet!🥰

Hmmm! It depends on what you’re looking for! And I will tell you the Hells has been retconned to (heh) Hell and back so feel to take what lore you like and ignore other bits, DnD is supposed to be fun. The Nine Hells is my current hyper fixation though so I stay reading about it lol. I get a lot of my stuff from everywhere but I can definitely provide some links!:

So books!

Descent into Avernus: This is a great world building book if you’re looking to learn more about Avernus or Zariel, I have this book so I can vouch that it’s great. Even not just for world building, the campaign itself is super cool and gives you the option to be EVIL which is so lacking in a lot of RPGs these days.

Chains of Asmodeus: is a great reference for like the entirety of the Hells I haven’t dug through it completely but it’s good. Don’t agree with everything but! Take and leave right lol…Here’s a little link to it free online and a bunch of other DnD assets for freeeee :3

The Godborn: I’m holding off on ordering this to have in my own collection bc the Twilight Wars comes first but my friend let me go through theres and for characterization of Mephistopheles this book it’s great. This is a novel different than the two books above which are more DnD adventures just so you know.

Twilight War Series: These I haven’t read but follows Magadon Kest who is Raphael’s brother, I ordered Shadowbred since I’m about to finish Homeland and I’ll let you guys know if it’s any good! But I’m very excited about starting this series. These are novels.

Brimstone Angels: I have mixed feelings about these but I have used sections of it for reference, good stuff for kinda of conceptualizing cambion behavior. It’s a bit…idk. It’s not always to my tastes but it is a good book to paw through if you’re looking for cambion stuff specifically. These are novels.

Websites:

Idk if linking these will work but these are scans from a dungeon master issue a friend sent me about Archdevil Glasya’s killing of her mother, service to Mammon and rise to power….lots of great details about Asmodeus, Bensozia and Glasya’s family dynamic too.

Hells layers details! Great stuff and great art, of course I’ve set it to Cania bc duh but there’s a lot of stuff there.

It’s lacking its barebones but it’ll give you your base lore on characters, can’t knock it bc we need it. And it does have a lot of stuff.

For Meph specifically ^ DMs talking shop about Meph’s characterization, it’s funny and I agree with a lot of their interpretations. This is a sillier one though.

Some Baalphegor lore bc I’m miss Baalphegor’s number one fan!!!!! Not enough about her…my missing babyGIRL!!!!

Video Games:

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark: Some of the stuff in this is as crazy to me as Raphy ruling over all the Hells but I do like Mephistopheles’s characterization in this sooooo!!!! I watched a playthrough and if you want Meph mannerisms for writing and stuff I think this game is clutch. His voice in it is…hot. 🤭

I hope some of these point you in lore directions you like and gives you some interesting threads to follow! The Hells are vast and I’m still learning a lot. I love it though. Yay Hells :D

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[transgenderer]

*vertical* japense text is right to left (first top to bottom, then right to left), but i learned today horizontla japaneze text is left to right??? thats crazy?

Modern Japanese scripts adopt tategaki and/or yokogaki depending on the type of the writings and their genre. Let's take a look at some examples. Typical ones that employ tategaki include the majority of writing in newspapers (except for some headlines) as well as most books, magazines and manga (Japanese comics). As these are written vertically, they start from what would be the back cover of English books/magazines. Another type of tategaki examples is formal greeting cards and traditional writings. On the other hand, specialists' books in certain genres like music, science, computers, mathematics, languages, etc. are usually written horizontally, as their materials (e.g., musical notation, mathematical formulas, etc.) suit yokogaki better. Also, websites and computer-related writing (e.g., WORD) along with most technological gadgets predominantly adopt yokogaki. Texting from mobiles (携帯 or ケータイ ketai) is also done in yokogaki. There are also many cases which use both tategaki and yokogaki such as product information on their packages, and interestingly, children's picture books (絵本 ehon) can either be tategaki or yokogaki, which means that Japanese children these days are exposed to both formats from early age.

[astroismypassion]

✨PART OF FORTUNE IN SIGNS AND HOUSES SERIES: 10TH HOUSE✨

Credit: Tumblr blog @astroismypassion

ARIES PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Aries and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via marketing or work in dynamic and fast-paced industries, via coaching, sports management, fitness entrepreneurship, coaching and mentoring services in connection with career development, leadership skills, personal empowerment, via work in innovation management, technology development, product development, especially emerging industries. You find abundance when you are bold, take risks, focus on ambitious goals, cultivate independence, build a strong public image and when you embrace leadership qualities.

TAURUS PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Taurus and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via work in finance, banking, investment, wealth management. Or via working as a realtor, property manager, real estate developer, via curating, selling or managing art collections, working as a chef, restaurateur or food critic. You find abundance in work in hospitality (managing hotels, resorts, spas), via work in landscape architecture or gardening, interior design, or as a performer, producer or manager, through farming, agricultural management or sustainable food production or creating an eco-friendly business. You feel abundant when you are focused on stability, value quality, when you are patient and persistent.

GEMINI PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Gemini and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via work as a journalist, writer, editor, public relations, marketing, working as PR specialist, brand manager, social media strategist, work as a teacher, lecturer, educational content creator, via writing content for blogs, websites or online platforms connected with technology, lifestyle, business. You find abundance when you write books (fiction or non-fiction), via work in technology sector, via technical writing, UX writing or product management, via event planning and work as a sales representative, account manager or business strategist. You feel abundant when you network actively, when you keep learning and embrace versatility.

CANCER PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Cancer and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via work in healthcare as a nurse, doctor or therapist, work in interior design or home décor, helping others create comfortable and nurturing spaces, work as a chef, baker or food critic, via handmade furniture, textiles or pottery, engaging in childcare, daycare management or family support services, via work in real estate, helping families find their ideal home. You feel abundant when you use emotional intelligence, emphasize nurturing and care.

LEO PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Leo and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via pursuing a career in acting on stage, in film or on television, working as a musician, singer or performer, via directing or producing theatrical productions, films or TV shows, work in television, radio or digital broadcasting, you could work as a host, anchor or presenter, designer, stylist, model, painter, sculptor or graphic designer.

VIRGO PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Virgo and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via offering personalized health and wellness service. You can offer remote fitness coaching, such as offering personalized fitness plans and virtual training sessions. You could work in mental health professions, like counselling or psychology, work as a nutritionist, dietitian, work as a proofreader or editor, work with biology, chemistry, environmental science, mathematics or with language or having an IT role (system analysis, IT support or cybersecurity). You feel abundant when you develop organizational skills, use analytical skills and when you seek structured environments.

LIBRA PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Libra and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via offering dance classes, via work in art curation, gallery management or the fines arts, helping to showcase and promote artists and their work, via a career in human resources, focusing on employee relations, conflict resolution, via talent management, recruitment or career coaching. You feel abundant when you work in fashion design, graphic design, visual arts, brand management and marketing. You feel abundant when you aim for balance and harmony, emphasize fairness and justice.

SCORPIO PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Scorpio and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via forensic accounting, crisis counselling or support services, via a career in scientific research, forensic science, medical research, psychology, surgery, oncology, energy healing, finance, technology or wellness, via art therapy and filmmaking. You feel abundant when you embrace transformation, healing, use psychological insight, when you pursue authority and expertise.

SAGITTARIUS PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Sagittarius and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via travel blogging, vlogging or becoming a travel consultant. You find abundance via academic research, publishing, by becoming a travel consultant, tour guide, work in the tourism industry, work connected with educational, human rights and cultural exchange, via career as a spiritual teacher, counsellor, life coach, via theological or philosophical work, writing or teaching. You feel abundant when you cultivate optimism or enthusiasm, seek global or cultural perspectives, pursue knowledge or education and embrace exploration and travel.

CAPRICORN PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Capricorn Sun people in your life. You find abundance via work as a financial advisor or analyst, accounting, as a property developer, manager or investor, via work in property management, overseeing rental properties, commercial spaces or large residential complexes, via civil engineering, work in educational administration (school or college management). You feel abundant when you focus on long-term goals and value pragmatism and responsibility.

AQUARIUS PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Aquarius and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via buying and selling collectibles (stamps, coins, vintage items), creating eco-friendly products or services (zero-waste goods, sustainable fashion). You may also find abundance in esports coaching by offering coaching services for aspiring professional gamers. You feel abundant via work in scientific research, in fields like physics, astronomy, biotechnology and environmental science, work in roles focused on research and development, via digital marketing. You feel abundant when you are pursuing unconventional paths, via networking with like-minded individuals and align with social causes.

PISCES PART OF FORTUNE IN THE 10TH HOUSE

You feel the most abundant when you have Pisces and Capricorn Sun people in your life. You can earn money via work in music as a composer, musician or performer, via a career in painting, illustration, sculpture or other visual arts, via hospice work, via work in non-profit sector, focusing on causes related to humanitarian aid, environmental conservation or social justice, work in hospitality, such as hotel management or event planning, via cultural exchange, guided tours or spiritual retreats. You feel abundant when you embrace your creative talents, cultivate compassion and empathy, when you explore spiritual and esoteric interests and when you focus on meaningful impact.

Credit: Tumblr blog @astroismypassion

[beauty-and-passion]

Stan's "Wheel of Shame" in thisisnotawebsitecom reveals that when Stan failed a history test so badly that he got a "mathematically impossible" F-, Filbrick's reaction was to make Stan stand outside for two days with a sign saying "Extra Stan-3 dollars or a better offer" and that (aside from an IRS agent) only Caryn showed up to his fake funeral, implying that Filbrick refused to go because he was still angry at him. What are your thoughts on what we learned about Filbrick at This Is Not A Website Dot Com?

Considering the new things we learned, I think it proves my point even more: Filbrick was a man of his time, unable to express his feelings in less stern, "tough" ways.

Leaving your own son out with a sign as if you want to sell him it's awful and if someone tries to do the same today, they should be put straight into jail and the cell key should be thrown into a lake. But for Filbrick's mentality (i.e. the mentality of a man from 1920 more or less), this was probably the only way to show how truly angry he was at his son's failure.

Failing in school wasn't a novelty for Stanley - so it probably wasn't a novelty for his parents either. But taking the worst grade ever (im)possible? It's very plausible that it lit Filbrick's short fuse immediately. So, once again, if we add:

his superpower of getting immensely angry immediately

the mentality of a man from 1920 - when getting good grades was essential and fundamental to prove your worth as a person

we get a punishment that made zero sense, didn't help Stanley in the slightest and only proves how angry Filbrick was. In fact, we never see Stanley trying to replicate or to take something useful from it: it was just a petty and useless reaction, period.

While not going to the funeral... I don't know why, but I just thought Filbrick was already dead and that's why he didn't show up :P

But if he wasn't dead and didn't show out of anger... well, I wouldn't be very surprised either. Old people are stubborn and old people from past years were even more stubborn. I have stories of people from my family / the town where my grandma was born, who held stupid grudges for so long, to refuse to show up to the other person's funeral. Maybe because the other person broke some stupid social rule or maybe because they couldn't do something that wouldn't have been "socially acceptable" or some other stupid shit.

Yes, unfortunately, that was a thing. And yes, it's as stupid as it sounds.

So, if Filbrick was still alive, I don't find it very weird that a man in his... what, 80es? 90es? refuses to attend his son's (fake) funeral, because he still holds a grudge and, according to the social conventions he followed for all of his life (i.e. a man should be tough and never say sorry), cannot afford to show any weakness - not even for his own son.

And if today we can look at these kinds of behavior and realize how stupid they are, I can't help but feel a bit of pity too, for how these people ended up wrapped in their own stupid social conventions and grudges for so long, to not back up even when facing death.

[awetistic-things]

“We are two siblings from Gaza, two dreamers medical students, suppose to be doctors in the near future unless there’s no enough money to pay the university fees, which is 3000 USD$ per year for the one.

And that is the reality, my family has lost there only income, my dad had has construction factory, but it is crushed right now by the Israeli army.

My dad cannot pay us the university fees anymore. But we insist to complete our learning to the end, to be that hero doctors for our beloved Gaza. We are the last hope for our family.

We study in Egypt at Zagazig University, We are 1st year medical students, 4 years still to go.

12,000 USD$ for the 4 years per one,

24,000 USD$ for both of us.

And we must pay the fees before the end of the year, otherwise we will pay fine.

Also, Sadly, since there’s no life in Gaza anymore, no schools, no universities, no hospitals, no medications, even no streets to walk in, no clear air, We decided to evacuate our family to be able for them to continue their lives as humans, to get their simplest rights Since there’s no jobs, no income, no at least 1$, They are living on assistance. You are the hope for them, your 1$ donation is one step toward the life from death.

We are 6 members family, 3 adults and 3 under 18 2500 USD$ per child under 18:

5000 USD$ per adult

22,500 USD$ for all

GoFundMe website takes 3% tip

Bank account also takes tip

82,000 CA$ =59,500 USD$

13,000 CA$ is tip for GoFundMe

1 CA$= 0.7USD$

Sorry for the mathematics, but it is for honesty.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR 1$ DONATION”

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♥️ listen to their story and if you feel any empathy for this family, don’t just feel—do something about it—so that you can say you didn’t just see someone in need and scroll past.

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[obsessioncollector]

... As he continued making games, Wright would become inspired by the postwar architect Christopher Alexander, whose 1977 book A Pattern Language became a cult manual for city design. It divided metropolitan life into modular elements—“SMALL PUBLIC SQUARES,” “GREEN STREETS,” “SHOPPING STREET”—and then instructed readers on how they should be combined. In this approach an environment became an almost mathematical operation: “Each pattern describes a problem which occurs,” Alexander writes, “and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.”

Maxis was acquired by EA in 1997; three years later Wright released The Sims, the ur-game, a simulation of humanity itself. In the same way that Alexander proposed curating infinite variety under a standardizing aegis, so could the components of The Sims be shuffled and toggled into ever-proliferating realities. Wright had lost his home in the Oakland firestorm of 1991, and has said that the original purpose of The Sims was to simulate the building and designing of houses. Indeed, the game maintains a lasting obsession with real estate. To play a family one must buy a home, and a home in The Sims is like a zen garden: obsessively tended to, an object of constant maintenance and contemplation. One can spend hours surveying possible wallpaper choices or creating a painstakingly gabled roof. In a 2022 oral history published by Vice, the franchise’s first art director, Charles London, said that The Sims was meant to be “an architecture game.” Little characters were added to “score” the design choices, only to eventually become the main feature and appeal.

Some commentators believe that The Sims is meant to satirize suburbia. “The boredom, the sterility, the uselessness and the futility of contemporary life,” writes the media scholar Alexander Galloway, “are depicted precisely using the things that represent it best: a middle-class suburban house, an Ikea catalogue of personal possessions, crappy food and even less appetizing music, the same dozen mindless tasks over and over.” Others have argued that the game is more sincere, a naif’s tribute to property ownership and what one gaming website calls its “beautiful scenery and idyllic backdrops.” There are listicles, Reddit threads, and YouTube channels dedicated to ranking and showcasing Sims mansions, guided by the same voyeurism as the tours of real houses in Architectural Digest.

But Wright, who left EA in 2009, did not give these manicured pixels a matching suburban ethos. A home in The Sims lacks the usual animating forces of family life. Intimacy between relatives is measured in points, increasing or decreasing without any given injury or kindness settling into a memory. A Sims home is not a haven or stage for emotions; it is only a system that challenges players to maintain its various parts. The game’s characters therefore never seem to experience the ongoing dramas of domesticity—neither its tender feelings nor its threat of betrayal, violence, resentment, dependency, scandal, and mutual ruination. As London put it, Sims characters, in their levels of happiness, signify the “efficient choices” a user makes in “object placement and room design.” The game, in effect, exports the density and urgency of the city and its management to the suburbs. The toilet, the refrigerator, and the bed are the chief fixtures of the game, meant to be visited in efficient choreographies of clicking.

This is, ultimately, less a narrative project than an ecological one. The Sims is about holistic relations, the quick and at times perilous responsiveness of one part of the whole to another. A Sim’s mood will plummet if her house is poorly decorated, or if she hasn’t taken the garbage out, or if, in an effort to learn a skill, she’s forgotten to fulfill a need. This kind of hair-trigger existence may explain the impulse that so many players cite of wanting to set their Sims on fire or drown them in swimming pools. Contra popular belief, these users are not behaving like psychopaths so much as feeling an understandable reflex toward entropy. One desires to see the system lurch into breakdown, to dash the finely made dollhouse into pieces...

... One helps a Sim by employing an algorithm, which is often the same thing as internalizing it. Far from providing a nostalgic refuge from the contemporary Internet, in other words, The Sims taps into one of the Web’s most foundational assumptions: that the processes of thinking and producing can be reduced to a series of commands. The user, in this view, becomes more creative as she becomes more machine-like. The rules allow her to manufacture possibilities; she is less an author employing technology for her own ends than an emitter of inputs, a conscript of the machine’s algorithmic logic.

Nowhere is that logic more apparent than in generative AI. At its most basic an algorithm is a set of instructions for achieving a designated result, such as the prompt that one might use to generate email text, say, or an atrocity photo in the style of Hayao Miyazaki. In 2018 Will Wright announced his first project in years, a game called Proxi, which has still yet to appear. In it, players will use AI to build animated scenes based on their memories, which they can then tweak and modulate as they wish.

[keepthedelta]

I have to be honest. My experience was mostly based on this website and then, sometimes watching the races on TV.

You can say i am a casual watcher, on and off.

While I find the experience to be leaning on the cultish side and ,as a result,toxic, i still want to learn about the sport.

Also, i do not think i really "like" any drivers. It's more about what they represent, i think. They are public figures, they are brands so i feel that what I actually like is the brand, the personna.

What i can do is cureating my experience with  other blogs like yours. Do you have any other recommendations ?

Thanks for answering my ask, it was very nice of you to do so.

if you want to learn more about the sport i would definitely recommend watching some previous seasons. f1fullraces.com and overtakefans.com both have archives where you can find and watch old races for free. the commentary is usually in english and therefore fairly biased towards the british drivers but it's not totally unbearable. 2012 is a fantastic season to watch, it has great racing, a great title fight, lots of different winners, and is generally very enjoyable. 2003 and 2005 are also great. 2010 has a fantastic championship battle with four drivers still mathematically capable of winning by the last race although i personally think the racing in that season isn't that great. 2011 doesn't really have a championship battle but the racing is really really good, especially canada 2011. if there is one f1 race everyone should watch it is canada 2011. 2009 has a great narrative and some really great racing and the championship "battle" is quite similar to this season's. there's also a disney+ documentary on it called Brawn: the impossible formula 1 story to accompany it. there's a lot of races there so don't feel that you have to watch them all, but even a few would probably help you understand the sport a bit better, and they're not really connected to ongoing tumblr discourse so it should give you a bit of distance from the toxicity.

in terms of tumblr blogs, i guess it really depends on what you like and what you want out of the experience. i think @/race-week is great on the technical aspects of f1 (engineering, circuit layout, stewards rulings etc.) and my australian twin @/mercedeshaterr knows pretty much everything there is to know about motorsport from an official's perspective (she also hates mercedes so her blog is 100% a cultLH free zone).

for f1 art i really like @/mxgicdave and @/coldarena. they both post stuff other than f1 but they have such great art styles, and are so interesting and creative in what they do. @/argentinagp and @/justaboutsnapped do beautiful edits and graphics that i always enjoy seeing.

@/verdemint has some of the best takes i've seen on here, both in general and also specifically about lewis, as does @/blorbocedes, who is a leading light in the nicology movement and writes so well for many different pairings. @/karlmarxverstappen has the best replies to asks, just so witty, and @/thatdickhead and @/titstitstitstits never fail to make me laugh.

this is not an exhaustive list, just a few of my favourite people on here. i think if you find posts that you like and you connect to you'll be able to find more people that you enjoy following, and don't be afraid to just scroll through someone's blog and like everything you see, i've met some great people through that method. i also definitely recommend following stuff other than f1 on here if you're not already. film, tv shows, music, art, whatever you enjoy. even if you don't post it or post it to a sideblog, having other things that you like breaks up some of the negativity from f1blr and can make the experience more enjoyable.

[high-voltage-rat]

Having some G.E.A.R.S. University thoughts. Based on real, actual things that have happened over my real, actual university experience, things aren't actually *that* far-fetched.

Houses stealing each others' mascots and holding bitter grudges over it? So real. We regularly steal other schools' mascots and ransom them back in exchange for silly and embarassing acts. Our mascot, a miniature functioning cannon, was once spirited away overseas by a former student. (We now have a team of cannon guards who chain themselves to the cannon for its safety, and an anonymous chief who wears a blacked out face shield attached to their hard hat and keeps the cannon safe during downtime). Mystraven stealing the Drakylon Cube and the Wolfblade to put them in the Labyrinth is pretty in-line with engineering prank culture, if anything it's not intense enough. I just want to see them demand Wolfblade and Runehawk provide "a hand-painted portrait of the other house's logo done with their non-dominant hands", "9 bottles of mocha cola cooled to exactly 2.7⁰C", and "one first year student to join mystraven as a human sacrifice" in exchange for their mascots (all based on real prank ransoms I've seen). Maybe the other houses should establish a mascot guard.

Pizza stuck to the wall indefinitely in dorms? On move-out day in my residence I witnessed a toothbrush embedded in the ceiling and garbage bags piled to the ceiling of the garbage rooms and down the hallway. People let mold grow on their food in the communal fridge until it was 4 different colours and thick as chinchilla fur and I, someone who didn't even USE that fridge, disposed of it. The hero's dorm room is actually pretty clean in comparison to some of the stuff I've seen. When their desk is piled in papers and their floor is covered with dirty laundry, I'll believe they're an average university student.

I've never had a professor make anyone wear a dunce cap, but my first year physics prof probably would have if he could have. He called students idiots to their faces in front of a whole lecture hall, and had a list of "content-free phrases" on his official department website- including such terms as "stakeholder", "partnership", "facilitate", "leadership", and "ecosystem". He has tenure and is a federal research chair. Aleysia probably has incredible job security and just does whatever she wants in response.

The real-life equivalent of the G.E.A.R.S. entrance exam was the frosh week "entrance exam" we were told was administered by the faculty. It was intentionally so hard it was improbable to get more than ~4 questions in, and even included ones that were literally, mathematically, impossible to solve. It was, in fact, a prank by upper years. But it did accurately set the tone for the rest of the program.

The real-life equivalent of Aleysia's "I'm pitting you against 4 enemies because I want you to fail" is a calc II prof who declared the class average of 58% on a midterm was "too high" and increased the difficulty of the next one. (Said prof also learned the school was ending in-person classes when the pandemic hit, decided to try and teach the rest of the course material in the final in-person one hour lecture slot, told us to read the textbook, and never taught us another thing for the rest of the remaining month of classes. And then the exam was 24 hours long (yes, actually. 24.) and the hardest thing I've ever done.) You just know Mecha Combat 101 students are chanting "pray for the curve" after every assessment.

The hero having 4 jobs around town AND doing Hero Stuff on top of schoolwork is just a turbo-charged version of my dear friend who had a full-time job, was head of a club, and was acing 8 courses (standard is 6, he had to petition the faculty to let him take more than 7).

Not to feed a mean stereotype, but our electrical engineering common room smells so badly of body odour that they have air fresheners everywhere. The cockpits of student mecha probably smell atrocious and people probably need a bundle of those little rearview mirror air fresheners for cars dangling over their pilot's station. G.E.A.R.S. student welcome package: mecharoni coupon, baby's first pilot uniform, directions for how to get to Specific Hospital, and 50 air fresheners.

There's a guy who for years rollerbladed everywhere. I once saw him rollerblade out of the bathroom and down the stairs. No one questioned him. I once brought a rat carrier to class and no one looked at it twice. Maybe it's not quite Hugh Munn level, but you can do some really odd stuff and nobody bats an eye. They all have midterms to study for, there's no time to worry about what you're doing. So sure, maybe that guy's a suspicious alien imposter, but you missed the last tutorial and he has good notes so the rest is none of your business.

Pulling up to lecture halls and having to sit on a chair to the side because everywhere else is full does happen. I've been in lecture halls so large and crowded, people in the back were using binoculars to see the chalkboard. In first year I sat on the floor for more than a few lectures when there were no seats. I feel the hero's pain, but at least they got a stool.

The lesson in M.A.T.H. is actually legit wisdom that we discuss in real engineering classes. Standards with clearly defined metrics are important, yo. This isn't an absurd occurances bit I just thought it's important. Sarrina is correct even if forcing students to measure between half the buildings in Soluna City is a bit Much.

We have a course that for a major project, asks us to use contact cement (which produces extremely strong fumes) to build a prototype bridge. They do not provide respirators. It's basically a rite of passage for first years to get high off contact cement by accident working on this project until 3am. We have another that asked us to design a "launcher" with very little regulation as to what that meant (and we were literally encouraged to "squirrel" around definitions), and set us loose in a school building to work on it- resulting in rogue projectiles nearly taking innocent bystanders out all week. I've seen people duelling with previously mentioned bridge prototypes as swords, zapping each other with electronics components they were supposed to use for lab projects (do not do this), dropping dry ice down each others' shirts (do not do this), and genuinely wanting to eat the gel we use for gel electrophoresis (do not do this!!!). I am not at all fazed by the idea that students are invited to and willing to attack each other with live rounds in their mecha or with deadly energy blades on foot. Frankly, I could see it happening on our campus if we had the technology.

Lastly, I want you to know: all of the G.E.A.R.S. profs need to be weirder. I love Denara, Aleysia, Anastasia, Tsuba, and Sarrina- but they need to be weirder. My calc I prof is an aeronautics genius but apparently doesn't believe in climate change. My Intro to Computer Programming prof showed us a selfie he took with Snoop Dogg. My intro Civil Engineering prof spent more than half of our lecture time talking about ancient roman bridges. My Thermal Physics prof followed a math proof with "I hope you're convinced, or disgusted, or whatever.", and spouted such wisdom as "there are dangers to going to Antarctica, like you may come home to find your wife has bought you a dog.", "computers are born to suffer", "Everything is a spring at low amplitude, just ask the mechanical engineers", "If you're a level 7 log mage you can do this proof, but I'm only a level 6, so I won't", and "close is just another name for wrong". My ordinary differential equations prof was obsessed with shoehorning boba into every example problem. My developmental bio prof insisted we only call him by first name and loved fruit flies, to the point that any time he showed us an image and asked us what it was, "fruit fly" was a safe answer. My materials science prof posts pictures of grocery store fruit displays he sees to his twitter to talk about what molecular crystal structure they're stacked in. People who become professors are always just a little weird. The G.E.A.R.S. profs are too normal and serious, if you leave aside the "throwing students into mortal danger" thing.

I want to see Denara, exhausted from writing grant proposals, blasting an air horn to make her talkative class shut up so she can start lecture. I want to see Aleysia go off on a 20 minute long tangent about her extremely niche field of research when she's supposed to be lecturing because this specific style of mech is just so fascinating. I want to see Anastasia, desperate for student engagement in lectures, showing memes about course content in her lecture slides. I want to see these profs be so experienced in their fields that it doesn't occur to them that their students might not have ever heard of the concept they're covering, and just breeze right through it like it's obvious. I want to see "do as I say, not as I do"-style approaches to safety from the teaching staff who do demonstrations of maneuvers that could destroy their mech and injure them if they make one wrong move because their hubris is enormous now that they have tenure and good disability insurance (here's looking at you, Sys-Zero. I saw that gratuitous barrel roll). I want G.E.A.R.S. profs who feel like academics.

[uispeccoll]

#VoicesFromTheStacks

Image: Self Portrait with cranes from Hope Project (Photo credit: Clarissa Sligh)   

The Artist Books of Clarissa Sligh

In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting artist, writer, and lecturer Clarissa Sligh. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Virginia, Sligh is often inspired by cultural, historical, and political events that intersect with moments in her life. Sligh considers these interactions, or “collisions,” between moments in history and events in one’s life to be significant and transformative. One such example of this is detailed in Sligh’s work “It Wasn’t Little Rock,” which discusses desegregation in public schools during the 1960s, a personal topic for Sligh, who was the lead plaintiff at the age of 15 in a school desegregation case.    

Images: Cover and inside page of "It Wasn't Little Rock" (2005)

A notable example of Sligh’s work and its reference to her personal experiences is her 1988 artist's book titled “What’s Happening with Momma?” Here, the artist engages users to “walk” through rooms of her childhood home, following the steps of accordion-folded strips of paper filled with text detailing memories of her sister’s birth in the home. This is Sligh’s first artist’s book, made through the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York.   

Images: Cover and inside page of "What's Happening with Momma" (1988)

Sligh earned a BS in Mathematics from Hampton Institute in Virginia, a BFA and an MFA in visual arts from Howard University, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier in her career she had worked at NASA in the manned space flight program, eventually leaving to focus on working as an artist. Her works have been featured all over the world, notably at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and more. To learn more about Sligh and her works, visit the artist’s website. 

Images: Cloth enclosure, cover and inside page of "Voyage(r): A Tourist Map to Japan" (2000)

Images: Left: Inside page of "Reading Dick and Jane with Me" (1989). Right: Cover and origami crane for "Transforming Hate" (2016).

– Kaylee S., Special Collections Olson Graduate Assistant