#math happiness

[knotty-et-al]

Polyhedron cards

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

[beanghostprincess]

luffy knowing a bit too much information about beetles and zoro being oddly good at math are concepts that make me extremely happy for no reason

[just-gay-thoughts]

We're closer to 2050 than to 1972

[cfserkgk]

I imagine them to be a happy family in the modern AU where Fengxian and Lakan are married and Lahan and Maomao are their children. Fengxian would be strict but she very much dotes on her kids (just not as obviously as Lakan, but who can compare with Lakan).

I feel like Lakan would be a lawyer which would put his skills to use, whereas Fengxian would be an academic in mathematics, and of course they're both super good at xiangqi and go in different ways. (I'd like to think Fengxian taught Lahan a lot of maths when he was younger and that encouraged his love for the subject).

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[icefire149]

[brightideathepunny]

Today is Pi Day, March 14, 3/14, the first 3 digits of Pi! I'd say "Happy Pi Day Friday" but the calendar just isn't having it this year. We have to wait a whole 'nother year before that happens. By the way, if you are reading this in 2025, what's the future's like?

A few years ago back in the year 2015, we had something called "Super Pi Day", because 3/14/15 (in the US, standard date format is day/month/year). If you knew to set your watch on that day to 9:26:53AM, you'd achieve peak Pi Day digitry!

If I were a time traveler I might like going back to that day, or I'd go back a year earlier to 2014, just to tell people "Happy Pi Day Friday". Because I'm weird like that.

Pi Day was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, at the time an employee of the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. If I could time travel I'd go back to 1986, just to give Larry the bright idea of invent Pi Day that year. Why you might ask? So the very first Pi Day would be a Friday!

Because Pi Day started in 1988, today happens to be the 37th Pi Day, a prime number. Or you might say it's the 36th anniversary of when Pi Day started, and 36 is double 18; in Jewish tradition 18 is also known as Chai. The symbol for Chai looks pretty similar to Pi doesn't it? So this year can be called Double Chai Pi Day!

Today I brought an apple pie to work to share with coworkers, and I'm also celebrating Pi Day babies, people who were born on March 14: in 1933 actor Michael Caine and musician Quincy Jones were born, Billy Crystal came into the world in 1948, and Olympian gymnast Simone Biles is celebrating today as well. She was born in 1997 on a Pi Day Friday! In that she shares something in common with the great Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879, Guess what day of the week his birthday was?

Pi Day Friday!

In comedy, we call that a joke going full circle!

[cheruib]

i think you’re doing ur best actually and i m v proud of u *kiss on the forehead*

[pinemelon08]

Edit 4/30/24: 200 NOTES?! GEEZUMS UHHH THANKS GUYS!!!!

[petscoboba]

Drawings I made waiting for the Deltarune newsletter

[koszmarnybudyn]

Here is the slut.

[futurebird]

no it is not “junk”

i need all of these to do my job!

YES even the plastic isopod. (his name is TIMOTHY, OK?)

Timothy is critical to my lesson planning process.

[heademptyonlyvibes]

"average latest lyctor trials caanan house resident is 608 years old" factoid actually just statistical error. average latest lyctor trials caanan house resident is 21 years old. cytherea loveday, who is approximately 10,000 years old & posing as a woman she killed, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[lordschadenfreude]

Ceasar has been dead for 2,068 slutty, slutty years 🫡

[jtl-fics]

Math Nerd AU

I’ve got quite a few time travel AFTG fics banging around in my head but by far the funniest one is this:

Neil dies in 40s to a drunk driver after a respectable professional Exy career, two olympic golds, a very successful and healthy relationship, a steady post-injury career as Ichirou Moriyama’s preferred accountant (kept himself squeaky clean) and years to get his shit together. He wakes up back early on into his runaway life with his mom and is immediately like “oh no I’m NOT doing this shit again.”

He makes a lot of changes, mostly for Andrew’s benefit but also gets Mary to the Hatfords, and gets himself set up in Ichirou’s confidence again because man he’s gonna play Exy again but Ichirou was actually a very solid boss if you’re competent and Neil is very good at managing finances.

Ichirou had plans for Neil. He’s waiting for his father to pass before he brings Neil fully out in the open as one of his since his father is still demanding that the Wesninski heir be given over to his brother and Ichirou is not about to let the only accountant who has ever gotten him a completely legal tax refund go to the NEST. He’s also not about to let the Butcher near Neil so he puts Neil off in the middle of nowhere with a steady paycheck and orders to graduate highschool. Neil picks Millport.

Hernandez still notices that no one ever comes to Neil’s games and that the kid is driven but doesn’t make any real attachments with his teammates despite Millport becoming the Arizona State Champs the year Neil leads the team. So he sends tapes to Wymack and Kevin. Neil is surprised to see them since he’d planned on never getting anywhere near Andrew after he set things up for the blond. (Killed Drake, paid some people to legally adopt and look after Andrew, got CPS to investigate Tilda properly, paid off the right people so that the couple who took in Andrew took in Aaron too, and paid for them to move out to SC (it’s close to the twins remaining family) and then Tilda managed to die on her own from an OD and the twins got the money without Andrew needing to have any part in it.)

Neil ends up signing for the Foxes despite Ichirou having plans for Neil to start attending University of Texas (Great Accounting Program) in the fall. Neil of course completely fails to tell Ichirou this since Ichirou hadn’t said anything beyond finishing highschool and if he had plans for Neil then he should have told him.

Neil, the utterly self-sufficient adult that he is, proceeds to just be the most bizarre stabilizing force the foxes have ever encountered. He knows all about their shit, their issues, their triggers, and how to help them. The Foxes all kind of crave that stability and Neil can take whatever they say unflinchingly. He’ll give as good as he gets but he also makes team breakfast pretty much every morning after he finishes his absurdly early run. Kevin is in heaven with his Striker pick (Neil in this thing is so incredibly boring and well-adjusted that Andrew just cannot believe that he’s a spy so Kevin and Neil start night practices almost immediately & Neil shows Kevin drills that he and Future!Kevin had made and Kevin is just like “I am so good at picking talent. I am a god.”)

The 3 things that make this so funny (at least to me) is:

1. All the Foxes just like not understanding why the hell Neil is a Fox (They’re glad he’s there but it feels like a clerical error that such a nice well-adjusted guy is on the team) until they see him without a shirt and until immediately after the Kathy Ferdinand show where Ichirou shows up and is like “Palmetto doesn’t even have a nationally ranked accounting program!? Also what if this sport gives you a TBI and you can’t do my taxes anymore????”

2. Andrew is just inexplicably and infuriatingly smitten, enamored, crushing, heart-eyes for this BORING ASS MATH NERD. Neil’s sense of humor was honed against Andrew so he’s got like a direct line to Andrew’s funny bone. He never has never once for even a second confused Aaron and Andrew (and they’re a lot closer in this fic because there’s no Tilda angst and the ‘parents’ handled getting Aaron’s rehabilitation handled off the books so he could have a future in medicine.) Even after the whole mob accountant reveal Andrew is seething because even with that Neil is just incredibly well-adjusted and normal despite all the insane shit going on with him. He propositions Neil when Neil mentions having a past male significant other but Neil has the AUDACITY to get all sad-eyed and say that he can’t be with Andrew because his heart still belongs to some CHUMP in his past. (Cue Current!Andrew having an unknowing bitter hatred / rivalry of Future!Andrew and swearing that he’ll woo Neil away from a guy who’s probably in the mob or shitty because Andrew hasn’t seen any evidence of Neil’s SO reaching out to him but he knows Neil isn’t lying)

3. One of the reasons that Andrew is inexplicably and infuriatingly attracted / smitten to Neil is that Future!Andrew did not really spend a lot of time in the future after Neil died and he’s slowly seeping through until Neil’s confrontation with his dad and then Future!Andrew fully wakes up and he’s PISSED because at least in the original timeline Andrew was inexplicably and infuriatingly attracted to the mysterious freshmen who was hiding his appearance, looked like he was seconds away from running across the country at all times, and had a whole aura of danger around him. Now he’s revealed that he’d have fallen for Neil no matter what because he fell for Neil when he was just a BORING ASS MATH NERD and WORST OF ALL Neil went and made him jealous of HIMSELF because Neil didn’t want to cheat on Andrew with ANDREW. What an asshole. He’s gotta kiss his entire face off and tell him that he’s never allowed to cross a street without Andrew again because if a drunk driver is going to take one of them out then it’s going to take BOTH of them out.