disgracedcryptophilologist

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

They have no means by which to stop me.

Happy New Year 1899-B!

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

You stand in front of a mirror in a crowded room. Your head is split open down the middle. You are dizzy, shaky. You reach into your skull and pull out a fistful of yarn, rainbow colored. You open your hand and it falls to the floor. You look up, people are staring. Someone laughs and says, it took you this long to notice?

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

Does that space coffee ever wear off??

Oh, sure. It wears off like a sugar buzz.

It’s just the eidolon of newfound knowledge that remains forever in your memory like a creaking intrusion in the corner of your every mundane thought until by night - and every night forthwith - it crescendos and prevails over the anodyne accord of peace and dark, an echoing howl.

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

This is called an imaginary number because you only deal with these in your dreams.

Abstract algebra professor (via mathprofessorquotes)

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

You’re bleeding? On the floor? Who told you you could bleed in my class? Are proofs by induction really that painful?

Topology professor (via mathprofessorquotes)

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

DEEP THOUGHTS 

by Adam Kaňovský

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

I was tagged by @britetimes to do this for Thurlow!

⚔ FLAWS moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited | possessive | paranoid | lies | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | vengeful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky | over analytical

♛ STRENGTHS honest | (mostly) trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful  | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

little sleep

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

Oh, I just saw it was on Revolutionary. My bad.

Yep! Thurlow has a lot of sympathy for the revolutionaries’ cause but doesn’t like how destructive and speciesist they are and cut ties when the revs asked them to destroy a ship carrying a load of Clay Men.

Also even without knowing a lot about what specifically the Liberation of Night is supposed to be (beyond ‘bizarre, scary, and supernatural’ from the glimpses they’ve had), they’re terrified of the possibility that the revolutionaries’ efforts will ensure the destruction of London instead of successfully liberating anybody from the horrors of Victorian capitalism or the injustices of the Masters’ autocratic regime. That started when they found out what happened to the Fourth City during the Affair of the Box storyline and nothing since then has been particularly reassuring news.

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

Why the half point on Zalty? Where is the other half? And what does "Zalty" represent in the first place?

Zeefaring desires, and probably also aptitude. Thurlow enjoys travelling by ship to strange and distant (or not-so-distant) places, is reasonably fond of being in charge of their ship, and is pretty decent at captaining, but doesn’t actually do it more than once in a while and doesn’t miss it much when in London.

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

I feel this represents me moderately well.

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

[1:53 AM] CameoAppearance: oh hey it was thurlow's birthday today [1:54 AM] CameoAppearance: they turned 39 [1:54 AM] CameoAppearance: they still look about 16 [1:55 AM] CameoAppearance: 5 years of neathiness [1:55 AM] Athiel: Happy boifday thurl [1:56 AM] CameoAppearance: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Dr%20Cameo%20%E2%80%9CScary%20Teeth%E2%80%9D%20Thurlow?fromEchoId=2099931 my first echo ever [1:56 AM] Athiel: gives a basket of fresh fruit

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.

— (Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It)

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

Have you been buying a lot of fabric from Polythreme lately, perhaps? Your dresses sound... livelier than the usual run.

How would you describe your dresses?

I would describe them as confident, self-healing, and loyal to a fault. These highly trained garments are purpose made to your fit. They live solely for your comfort and to hold you gently in their embrace.

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

If 3 ever stops being a positive number GET OUT NOW THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Calculus professor (via mathprofessorquotes)

[disgracedcryptophilologist]

There’s a lot of things you can do in the dark. Mathematics is not one of them.

Math teacher after a power outage (via mathprofessorquotes)