#is it 'maths is' or 'maths ARE'? is it plural

[cuubism]

Can I pressure you to work on the 'having a job sucks ass' math AU fic?

yeah 😂 i started working on it when i was annoyed with my job. which is always

here's a snippet from earlier in the fic, because i think the later part i'm working on won't make a ton of sense out of context

[ make me work on one of my fics if you want ]

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Dream shuts his laptop as Hob approaches. Oh, yeah. He was definitely waiting for Hob, specifically. Hob is getting the sense that he’s in trouble. And he’s not stupid. It’s not hard to guess what has Dream upset.

“Look,” he starts, “don’t even—”

“Hob Gadling,” Dream interrupts. Yep, that’s the trouble tone, the one Hob used to get when he did shit like giving himself a concussion playing pick up football on the quad. “It is ten p.m.”

“I own a watch too, Dream,” Hob says tiredly. Does Dream think he wants to be working this late? He’s just trying to stay employed.

Dream’s lips press into a thin line. And Hob knows him well enough, can read him well enough to recognize that what’s underneath the annoyance is concern. But what exactly does Dream expect him to do about it?

Hob sits down—more like collapses—into the armchair diagonal to where Dream is on the couch. God, what he really wants is to just fucking face plant into bed, not deal with this.

Christ. When did he start thinking about talking to Dream as dealing with?

Then again, this is less talking to Dream and more arguing with Dream, and he fucking hates doing that.

He scrubs his hands over his face. “It’s far away, alright?” he argues, though it sounds more like a whine. “It’s not like I can teleport.”

“It is not acceptable that they keep you so late,” Dream says. Then his tone softens. “I worry over your level of exhaustion. That is not even mentioning the commute.”

“Honestly, the commute’s not the worst part,” Hob says. “Gives me more time to get stuff done. Or fall asleep.”

Dream gives him a flat look. “Precisely.”

“I don’t want to hear judgment about work ethic from you of all people,” Hob snaps. God, he hates arguing with Dream, he hates it. It’s not like when they bicker. And it’s not like arguing with anyone else. The thought that Dream is upset with him is genuinely distressing.

“I think I of all people am uniquely qualified to give it,” Dream says.

He’s not wrong. Dream is a workaholic if ever there was one. It’s something Hob’s had to talk to him about in the past. Frequently, in the past, Hob was the one who was better about it.

It’s just that having this job is a level of relentless he couldn’t possibly have anticipated.

Hob can’t just quit though, even if he is overworked. It’s a good job, career-wise, and it pays really well, and he wants Dream to be able to keep his post-doc position without worrying about the salary because Dream is just quite frankly not cut out for anything where he isn’t able to work independently at least ninety percent of the time and Hob doesn’t want to see him suffer, and he wants them to be able to buy a house someday—

“Look,” he says, before Dream can suggest that he actually quit or something, “Dream, we’re making fucking bank, okay?”

Dream raises an eyebrow. “We are?”

“Yeah, we’re married, or did you forget?”

“It’s your money.”

“The joint bank account says otherwise. Half of it is yours.”

Dream frowns, then gets a wicked look in his eye. Oh no. “Does that entitle me to half of your suffering as well? Do I get half a say in whether it continues?”

“That’s not the point—”

“Are you going to watch me suffer half your exhaustion and do nothing about it?” Dream challenges, steamrolling right over him. He’s impossible to argue with when he really gets going. And great, now he’s employing that look. That pleading look that he knows Hob can’t say no to, eyes wide and helpless. “Will you leave me to my agonies?”

“Alright,” Hob says, pressing his hands to his eyes. “Enough. Stop joking around.”

“I’m quite serious. I don’t wish to see you suffer.” He crosses the room, kneels in front of Hob’s chair, and takes Hob’s hands, bringing them down from his face. “Your unintended comparison was more apt than you realize. When you prosper, I prosper. When you suffer, so equally do I.”

“Should have been a fucking poet instead of a mathematician, Dream,” Hob says. It shouldn’t come out as bitter as it does.

Except— “Maths is poetry,” he says, echoing it just as Dream says it, too. Hob had known he would.

It makes him smile, that he can predict Dream like that.

[cannibalisticdespair]

So, humanity is at over eight billion people. Time for a bit of statistics education for y'all, because I feel like it.

Okay, take a group that's around 1%. At least officially, it could possibly be higher. So like,

BPD: 1.6% officially

DID: 1.5% officially

Trans: 1.14% officially

Schizophrenia: 1.1%

These are American statistics, but presuming that overall none of these have some sort of strong cultural cause, they should be representative of the norm of humanity. Now, let's get the raw number estimate out of this. What we're going to need to do is multiply 8,000,000,000 by 0.016, 0.015, 0.0114, 0.011 respectively.

128,000,000

120,000,000

91,200,000

88,000,000

So, this a rough estimate for the number of people in each category respectively. Bit bigger than you might assume when you hear "approximately 1%", right? When you hear "approximately 1%", you're liable to think something is super rare. And in proportion, yeah, sure.

But plot twist, I'm discussing misinformation and bad propaganda. Did you know the internet allows disparate groups of small populations to connect and form larger communities than was ever possible offline due to how irl populations are distributed? Now, imagine a community of just 25% of trans people. Using the prior information, you can do this calculation yourself.

Done it? Did you get 22,800,000 people? Good job. If not, the calculation should have been 91,200,000 x 0.25. Now, imagine a community online of 22,800,000 people. That's a pretty damn big community online, right?

And this here shows how false claims of the level of visibility of various groups online being the result of "fakers" and "trenders" is. Those claims rely on your inability to understand that even 1% of humanity is 80,000,000 people. You aren't seeing anywhere close to 80,000,000 different people posting about it. You aren't even seeing 1,000,000 people posting about it. You are seeing a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of humanity posting about it. Social media just enables that itty bitty bit to find each other and interact.

[ann-decart]

someone whos plural and can do algebra. call that a system of equations

[strawberry-graveyard]

being a system is like constantly doing a group project except everyone involved is doing a completely different topic than everyone else

[is-this-plural]

Set theory

math is plural so yeah

[nyctocollective]

the school's treatment of gifted kids is insane because why do i, a teenager with dyscalculia, have 3 different math classes in one semester? i might be a light yagami fictive but i am still one inch from excruciating burnout

“you can do it, you're smart enough!!” miss ma'am, i can't even tell you what time it is 💀

[dead-orange-club]

Hii :3 can you:

• "this user is Pansexual, demisexual and enby"

• "this user is a introvert but also a extrovert"

• "this user really likes arting"

• "this user is tecnically Fresh sans/srs"

• "This user hates Maths in general"

• "This user loves Underverse w/ all of her heart"

• "this user doesnt know what's wrong w/ herself"

• "this user likes talking with keyboard emoji's :)"

Thank you!!! (Sorry for my bad english, is not my first language)

(Another thing: do i need to put crediti when I use it?)

Credit is appreciated but not necessary as the userboxes already have my username on them

Fresh!sans art: X

Underverse art: X

[ozzyfromthecafeteria]

that appointment could’ve gone better but. whatever. yeah

[yappingsys]

Can we PLEASE normalize explaining things multiple times??? And just accessibility in general?

We do virtual school, and have processing disorders. We cannot always understand verbal words despite hearing fine, so we use googles accessibility feature ‘live captions’, they weren’t working in class today so I was lost, I asked my teachers to re explain in chat box for me, but they wouldn’t. They either just said they’d press a few buttons to help (it doesn’t, I cannot understand them), or just ignored me straight up.

Can we.. not??? I have legitimately no idea what was going on, all of the text were in super bright colors (on the presentation) so it was hard to read.. plus she went by it so fast!

Please normalize being more accessible.

[somethin-needs-to-go-here]

I finally did it lol

MY ARTFIGHT THINGY!!!

WOOOOO

Ft. My shitty ass handwriting (it's even worse irl) (it's like some unholy mix of cursive and chicken scratch) (I love it)

Username: Wyv_3rn ( https://artfight.net/~Wyv_3rn )

OC full art ->

This is Leon Foucault! He's a mechanic who also does street racing in his free time. He wears whatever tf is in his closet no matter the event/weather

The car he drives is a modded 2009 Ford Fusion SE, and his favorite food is chips and the spiciest goddamn salsa known to mankind. Fuckin psychopath.

This is Wyvern Shain, my main oc of 9ish years! They're technically unemployed but are also just an adventurer lol. They wear tight clothing, but also love to show some skin! Or scales... whatever ya get my point

They will die without their accessories because it makes them feel bald, and their favorite food is whatever you put infront of them. They're like are a fucking black hole.

Template below cut (for the best team only obvi lol) (and also posting this cause it took me like ten years to find it and someone else might be struggling too) ->

[thatonefactive]

Could I request icons for a factive of Alan Turing? Thank you so much.

of course!

Alan Turing Icons

pt: of course!

pt: Alan Turing Icons

thank you so much for requesting! researching your source was very informative and interesting, Mr Turin :)

[floral-atom-collective]

Errr

So Gum formed and left when I took over so uhhhh

Maybe she'll be back??

[lost-in-the-planetarium]

system things is having SEVERAL relationship trauma holders from one ex and something always sends one of them crying about it

[statesys]

feeling so aesthetic doing math and listening to music ( 2 statemates are currently arguing ab math equations its very funny bc one of them is very right and the other very wrong but I won't tell them that :3 )

[peanut-jelly]

i know i dont post abt being a system on main a lot but there are four of us now and none of us are happy about having to do math homework

[spxeverse]

Y'all I just went to count how many years it's been since 2018 and started singing the abcs instead of counting..