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peeterjoot · 4 months ago
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Pascal's triangle: binomial coefficients, value and recurrence relation
[Click here for a PDF version of this post] I saw an interesting solution of an introductory programming source sample problem, showing how to display Pascal’s triangle up to a given size. For example, given input \( n = 5 \), the output should be like: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{c} 1 \\ 1 \quad 1 \\ 1 \quad 2 \quad 1 \\ 1 \quad 3 \quad 3 \quad 1 \\ 1 \quad 4 \quad 6 \quad 4 \quad 1 \\ 1…
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szilverer · 3 months ago
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y'know... for a setting that places so much importance in Language and does so many ice cool things playing with it (Correspondence/Discordance, Parabola & Irem, etc) i think there's a bit of a missed opportunity when it comes to the terms and words people use in their day to day life... like for example:
do you think radical revolutionaries would avoid words like "enlightening" in their vocabulary and flip them for LON-appropriate counterparts to signal their beliefs?
like substituting the word "light" with "blight". lol
similarly, pet names relating to light like "sunshine" kinda have a whole extra flavour tied to them, leaning into nostalgia, melancholy and/or danger depending on the people using it. irony, even
"honey" as a pet name also has extra connotations now and might actually bother some people instead due to the association with the drug...
do you think SMEN, taboo as it is, and seeking being a recognizable phenomenon even to the common londoner, would spawn swear words and insults? (imagine the weight of telling someone to Go Seek or Fall Down a Well)
the word "well" itself. well as an adverb, interjection, adjective. just. think about it. think about what it represents. idk something is happening to this word for sure
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the only two constants in the universe is cats being named luna and star wars movie/tv shows having at least one unique robot as an untold mascotte
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dividedskylane · 21 days ago
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the saddest thing that can happen to me when i'm reading a book is when it turns out to be not good, but with enough moments of brilliance scattered through that i keep reading it — and don't even feel like dismissing it as just plain bad would be fair. sigh
#john irving in one person you had so much potential. and yet#i should never have ventured into mr. irving's back-catalogue and i know that now#i think two books from him were enough. i think maybe even one could've been the optimal number#like i genuinely loved the world according to garp and now i think in part because it was his first book i read#and then a widow for one year was quite a nice read — i really enjoyed ruth as a character#and i think one of the things i appreciate the most about these two is how deeply the horrible things these characters go through are felt#whereas here my guy billy goes through truly horrendous shit including the death of many people he loved in the aids epidemic#and yet it felt like he was so completely detached from all that. which tbf is stated in the text!#but then maybe i missed the point. but i just don't get why you would tell this life story in this way#i also disliked the pacing very very much. i feel like he was just fluttering around time and not settling anywhere#which obviously didn't help with the impression that the emotions were shallow. it's just weird!#is it the first person voice that sucked actually? wait. i might be onto something here#oooh. oh yeah that's definitely at least part of the problem. the first-person narration sucks!!#also how come do we never get to read any of billy's writing? anyway. that's nitpicking. i have bigger problems#i think that making almost your entire cast of characters queer requires some research and tact that mr irving partially lacks here.#and truly like with everything else about this book there are occasionally wonderful bits. truly great#incredibly relatable bits too. with some intersections with the previous category#but also one of my main problems here is really that i think this is not a well-written book#the prose felt clunky and repetitive. genuinely bad at times#the narration wandered around so much that every recurrent character was re-introduced with a two-sentence summary of who they were#even if we'd last heard of them five pages previously. even some people who got mentioned all the time because they were his literal family#i think at some point it's either you commit to a simpler narrative timeline OR you trust the reader to be focusing on the words you wrote#but this constant hand-holding was painful. also because it led to some characters being reduced to like 1.5 traits each#when really if as many words had been devoted to developing their depth as to reminding us who they were already. they'd be in 6D#(not how that works. i know. this is a joke. haha etc.)#ooh i'm being such a raging hater right now this feels great!#i truly loved some bits. but i really disliked too many others#the handling of the aids crisis. i will not speak about this because it makes me wanna scream#ok i am ready to admit it now. i think john irving's in one person is bad#sigh. i'll steer clear of mr irving for some time and re-read garp in 5-10 years and hopefully enjoy it again
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sublime-courage · 1 month ago
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Mayan Ceremonies and the Rediscovery of Time 
The Mayan conception of time was one of the most sophisticated systems of temporal understanding in the ancient world. Developed independently of Western thought, it integrated astronomical precision with spiritual meaning, generating calendars that aligned human activity with celestial events. Though much of this knowledge has been lost or fragmented through colonization, surviving evidence…
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damnedifivoodoo · 2 years ago
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I have regressed so much mentally, emotionally, socially. I can barely function at all anymore and it is beyond frustrating and humiliating
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wearenemies · 8 months ago
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dashboard simulator
mutual 1: *poor quality image of pete wentz* does anybody know where i can buy a crowbar. for sexual purposes
mutual 2: my mikey way tulpa is coming along well
mutual 3: its so over after this mcr is breaking up forever theres no hope for us didnt you see the messaging in their staging. god. fuck its over
mutual 1: *image of patrick stump’s bulge*
mutual 4: im killing myself tomorrow
mutual 5: both of these blog posts may seem innocuous at first, but in fact when considered in relation to one another we can observe several similar phrases, and a pattern emerges in the pacing of his prose that proves without a doubt that he’s having an extramarital affair with his singer. first, the recurrence of the phra
mutual 1: i need to get a man pregnant
mutual 4: *joe trohman image* killing myself cancelled hello gorgeous 😍😍😍😍😍
mutual 6: mcr is releasing new music next week i know this deep in my soul the messaging in their staging is unmissable guys we have never been so fucking back in our lives
mutual 1: *image of patrick stump’s bulge*
mutual 3: *image of two members of my chemical romance publicly beating the snot out of one another* do you remember how we used to run
mutual 1: *image of patrick stump’s bulge*
mutual 7: frank iero is like a delicious steak to me i need to rip him apart like a feral dog
mutual 8: *the most stunning lovingly rendered drawing you’ve ever seen in your life of two middle aged musicians making out nasty style* just a quick doodle :)
mutual 4: my fucking bus was late killing myself is officially back on
mutual 5: *web weave consisting of sections of beautiful niche literature, medieval biblical illustrations, 17th century oil paintings, james baldwin quotations and peterick interviews*
mutual 1: *image of patrick stump’s bulge*
mutual 7: do you guys think i could cite unholyverse in my applied religious literature thesis i cant ask my professor because she blocked my email but idk i think it counts as a good modern text
mutual 2: guys i think my mikey way tulpa might be starting to crave blood
mutual 6: *ray toro image* im experiencing divine ecstasy i need her to [DATA EXPUNGED]
mutual 9: i cant listen to fall out boy anymore guys i had a nightmare where andy was chasing me in the dark forest it seemed really real
mutual 10 (unattached to bandom): out of the beatles john would for sure have the biggest boobs
mutual 1: what if it was called when we were freaky fest
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fir890 · 4 months ago
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Something I love about Thorfinn is his over-emotionality. How intensely he feels things, to the point that they seep into his subconscious, haunting him with recurrent nightmares and visions. While drawing these I was wondering about the depths of his guilt, specifically in relation to Thors.
Now that Thorfinn is a father, I imagine he understands Thors' fears more profoundly than ever. The fact that he ruined his own life by doing exactly what Thors feared most—his son becoming a killer—must weigh on him heavily. And perhaps, the realization that the immense pride he felt for his father played a part in his foolish pursuit of a meaningless "honourable" revenge that ended up scarring him for life only deepens his guilt. The first image is not a dream but a memory, hence the sepia tone. Kid Thorfinn peeking in on Thors having a quiet moment of fragility.
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sunnyp1e · 5 months ago
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* DSBM *
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dsbm or “depressive suicidal black metal” is a subcategory of black metal and it talks mostly about agony, suicidal thoughts and tendencies, dark human life aspects and hopelessness and although this themes are recurrent in the black metal genre, dsbm stands for the intensity of their focus in this themes.
origins in 1990s with “dark ambient bands” and the atmospheric black metal subgenre.
Although dsbm can be seen as an angry, erratic hatred towards humanity and the word kind of thing, it can also be more of a suicidal, sad and melancholic type of art.
one of the main characteristics of dsbm is the “atmosphere” of the music, making u feel more desolated and alone than before with relatable lyrics and the agony screams for help of the artist singing
listening to dsbm can feel like being opened alive, feeling your guts being busted while the only thing u can do is listen to your own sounds of agony in the most beautiful and catchy way possible.
in my opinion, such darkness must exist in music because it exists in ourselves. it’s a form to let out our darkness and most depressive thoughts in a free space such as music
-if u want to add anything u can do it freely-
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catboybiologist · 6 months ago
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Hey it's a life update that probably no one cared about or asked for
tl;dr: I'm likely quitting my PhD via mastering out, and leaving my program in June.
sappy, overly emotional vent/explanation:
I'm wrapping up my first quarter as an out-of-the-closet trans woman. I've had some serious conversations about where me and my work stand. This was always my intention after coming back from my summer hiatus/social transition: see how "reentry" works, and then assess from there.
For those that don't know, PhDs in the US take 5-7 years. Oftentimes, however, they either give you a master's along the way, or give you an option to quit halfway through with a master's. I'm in my 3rd year and have more than enough to use that option. I've toyed with this idea before, but it feels a bit different now. Last year, I was burned out from science, my project was failing, and I was under constant stress of boymoding and remaining in the closet. Now, I'm out and proud, and I deeply love my project and find it exciting. I fixed some things.
Unfortunately, I have a recurrent problem. Whenever something goes wrong in my life, the first thing to drop off is my ability to drive forward my own thesis project in a coherent way. What the actual problems are vary, but that motif stays the same. I could list off what's going on right now, but I think y'all can assume a bit of what a mid-20s, broke, recently transitioned trans woman in the US is going through at the moment. There's a lot of specifics, of course, but I'm not at liberty to say most of it.
So I'm looking around and realizing I have scraps of half finished projects, I've given support and help for other people's projects.... and then made little progress on my actual thesis. It's enough to pull together into a master's thesis, and maybe even another paper or two, but.... not a PhD.
And then there's the other side of it. The nicer reasons. Could I stay here, buckle down, maybe add years to my degree, and get through it? Probably. But honestly? I don't really want to put myself through that now. It used to be that academics was all I had. It was all my failures and all my successes. It's what I threw myself at, because I genuinely had nothing else going on. Since transitioning, the world seems so much more beautiful and rich, so much more complex and vast, with so much more to do in it. I've even had more negative experiences unrelated to academia, and while they've sucked, they've shown me that life is so much bigger than it was before.
To be blunt, to experience more of my life... it helps to have money, and it helps to have career stability. It's not the only factor by far, but certainly one defining moment when making this decision was trying to create a timeline and budget for transition related surgeries, and realizing that its near impossible in grad school.
Not to be dramatic, but I've also had a couple extremely jarring experiences in the past year that are reminded me that life is short. And I want at least some time to enjoy it.
My heart is honestly broken here, and I'm feeling extremely emotional about this. I love my lab, my colleagues, the environment of doing research, and my project. But I'm realizing that it might not be viable, or what makes me the happiest at the moment. I'm genuinely a bit distraught, and I've been crying a lot for the past few days. A lot of me feels like this is what I am, and this is what I'm good for. That I'm failing myself and every mentor that got me here. Some part of me knows that isn't true, some part of me can't let go of those feelings.
But, I know this doesn't mean "never". So many of the people in my program are significantly older than me, coming back later in life to get their degrees. I'm honestly almost positive that I'll come back to a PhD someday if I quit now. In my 30s or beyond, I think that I'll be able equipped to handle it much better.
So what's next?
Obviously, nothing is decided, and I'm just spitballing here. But I'm honestly shocked at how many viable options I have, in a very good way. A cursory scroll of Indeed was honestly therapeutic. As I said, I still love the academic research environment. I just need more money and stability, and would prefer to have a slightly different relationship to the work I do than a thesis project. Ideally, I would want to be a staff researcher in an institute or academic lab. That lets me keep a lot of the things I like about what I do now, while also making literally 2-3 times the money and having a more stable position.There's positions out there that maximize the contexts I'm the strongest and happiest with, while still being more steady and paying more. Hell, even if my responsibilities were identical, but I had more pay, I could probably more effectively address the personal problems I'm going through right now. I'm gonna stay in California for a lot of reasons, and I'm lucky that there's so many options within the state.
I have a bit of an oddball set of experience. I'll actually have two nonoverlapping master's if I do this. I already have a MS in bioinformatics, which was granted by a CS department. But my current program is in more "pure" molecular and cell biology. I'll have 5 years of grad school, 8.5 years of research experience if I include undergrad research, and instead of a PhD, 2 MSs. Which is kinda funny. But it think it helps represent my experience for what it is. I like to consider myself a "full stack" bioinformaticist- someone who can do both the experimental and analysis portions of experiments that produce large data. Hopefully I'll be able to put that to good use.
I have a lot of professional contacts that I'll slowly be reaching out to over the course of the next 6 months while I tie things up. I know this is a wildshot on tumblr of all places, but if anyone has any recommendations, advice, or contacts, I'm all ears- both for professional and job hunt related things, and also the emotional state I'm in right now.
Thank you to everyone that's made up this wonderful community we have online. I hope I'm not letting anyone down. I'll still be a biologist, I'll still be my trans self. I just won't be "Doctor" anytime soon.
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subsystems · 1 year ago
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There's been a lot of harmful invalidation and misinformation floating around trauma spaces lately about the cause of complex dissociative disorders like DID. Please, let's put to rest the trauma olympics and claiming that certain childhood traumas are more "valid" than others. The childhood trauma that causes someone's DID does not need to be sexual or physical abuse, or even abuse at all.
From Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach, by Elizabeth Howell (pages xvii - xviii):
"DID is usually the outcome of chronic and severe childhood trauma, which can include physical and sexual abuse, extreme and recurrent terror, repeated medical trauma, and extreme neglect. Pathological dissociation generally results from being psychically overwhelmed by trauma. . . . However, the traumatic experiences that may result in dissociative disorders do not always stem from sexual, physical, or emotional abuse. Disorganized attachment which often underlies the dissociative structure of dissociative disorders . . . may result from overwhelming experiences in the infant's interpersonal environment that are not caused by parental maltreatment. Parental illness, depression, or problematic attachment styles may be psychically overwhelming and lead to disorganized attachment. In addition, medical trauma may be dissociogenic. For example, some dissociative patients have reported histories of chronic medical problems and hospitalizations that involved severe pain and unavoidable separations from well-meaning parents. Medical trauma may involve both the chronic and severe pain of certain diseases and conditions as well as painful procedures intended to remediate these medical conditions. Some dissociative adult patients have reported the trauma of being left alone to suffer their pain as children in the hospital. Such children may be additionally confused by the fact that their parents are either hurting them, as part of necessary medical interventions or allowing others to hurt them . . ."
You can find a free download of this book and others [here]. I highly recommend reading it, it's one of my favorite books on DID. If you're able to, please consider purchasing a copy of it to support the author too!
Anyways, if you're reading this and you've been harmed by the recent influx of trauma invalidation, please know that I'm here for you. I believe you. Your trauma is REAL and it was ENOUGH to cause your disorder. You were a child and no child deserves to go through trauma. No one.
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fantasywater · 10 months ago
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These are the reasons Stolas Horseman still gets dragged for his infidelity even though the circus was supposed to FIX THAT.
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This is for Stolas's Western Entergy interpretation and for the fans who agree with it:
Stolas is an adulterer.
No one gets to change the definition of a word just because they don't like it being said about their favorite character.
He's a domestic abuse survivor and an adulterer. Both are true. 
The reason Stolas still gets criticism is because of the execution of how it was written and the Octavia factor.
We were introduced to Stolas and Stella's dynamic with her being pissed that her husband of at least seventeen years cheated on her.
That anger is empathy-inducing to a lot of people because being cheated on, or knowing someone who has, is a relatable experience. It also looks extra disgusting on the one who stepped out when a family is involved.
Even her throwing things at him could be excused because of the context in which it was happening.  
There's a reason why temporary insanity is welcome in legal circles because it gives leeway to the perpetrator in that it asks the question would they have done this awful thing if it wasn't for an extreme mental break forcing them to? 
Stolas's infidelity was that mental break.
Trying to kill him can also fall comfortably under temporary insanity. 
Plus having our protagonists kill innocents as a job also takes the bite out of it. 
It also doesn't help that both Stolas and Stella's voice actors gave their own explanations that pretty much stated what I said above.
Even our first episode was about a cheated-on woman going to extremes, but she was shown in a sympathetic light despite it. 
Yet the very next episode shows the same issue, but because Stolas is a main character we are supposed to fall in line that the adulterer is whose side we should be on. 
Octavia having a mental breakdown(twice now) because of Stolas's infidelity is also not endearing him to the audience.
What he is doing to his child is the biggest reason why his remorseless, continuous, infidelity is not a take-back-my-power move.
The inciting incident for both Stella's recurrent violent anger and death "threats", as well as Octavia's mental breaks, is Stolas's cheating. Therefore what is happening to him now is a consequence of his own actions.
The writing in the problem. We were introduced to a wife and daughter showing anger in different ways because a spouse and father betrayed their family, and yet Viv still expects us to feel sympathetic to Stolas.
In reality, Stolas is the antagonist of Stella, Octavia, and Blitz.
That role was especially blatant in Loolooland.
As for Stella; Viv tried to course correct by being heavy-handed in showing her as a cartoonish monster in The Circus. 
However, because of the initial execution of writing her as a scorned wife due to her remorseless, continuous cheating husband for a whole season, she has forever poisoned the well for Stolas and she has no one to blame for that but herself.
She is the one who wrote one of her supposedly sympathetic main characters partaking in Sexual Extortion(Blitz), Adultery(Stella), and Child Neglect(Octavia), but then seems to have an issue when a nice chunk of the fandom still thinks only his victims deserve sympathy.
Nevertheless, since the Circus is in the canon now does Stolas owe Stella loyalty and remorse? No. 
However, Stolas is not just a husband. Octavia exists.
Therefore Octavia will always be the reason why his (continuous) infidelity was a selfish and vile act. 
That's also why what's going to happen to him in the leaks is on him.
His karma warranty is up.
The problem is that the karma Viv gives is an illusion because she still wants you to feel sorry for Stolas. That's why there's always a sturdy flavor of demonization in the narrative toward anyone he's harmed to facilitate that.
However, considering the nature of his crimes his comeuppance is deserved, but she still writes like it's not and expects the audience to fall in line.
She also did the same thing with Blitz's issues with him.
So it's a pattern, and it exists because a fujoshi is writing this story. 
It's a failure in the execution when the author's intent and the audience's takeaway is this broken.
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covid-safer-hotties · 7 months ago
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The only correctly-phrased version of this news I've seen. An important highlight:
Older teens and females were most likely to meet formal definitions, the authors said. "We did not find that symptoms or their impact differed by vaccination status," the authors wrote.
By Stephanie Soucheray, MA
A new study from UK investigators shows that—while most COVID-19 patients ages 11 to 17 who reported long-COVID symptoms 3 months after the initial infection no longer experienced lingering symptoms at 2 years—29% still did.
The findings, published in the journal Communications Medicine, come from the National Long COVID in Children and Young People cohort study, which followed up on thousands of young people after their COVID-19 diagnoses.
More than 70% recovered by 2 years In total, 12,632 participants were included in the study. Participants who were aged 11 to 17 years between September 2020 and March 2021 were asked about their health 3, 6, 12, and 24 months after taking a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for COVID.
Among the participants, 943 had tested positive when first approached and completed surveys through 24 months. At 3 months, 233 met the research definition of long COVID. After 6 months, 135 continued to meet the definition, and by 12 months that number dropped to 94 participants.
Two years after initial infection, 68 of 943 participants (7.2%) still met the criteria for long COVID. That means 165 of the 233 young people (70.8%) who had long COVID 3 months after infection and provided information at every time point in the research had recovered. But 68 of the 233 (29.2%) did not.
"Our findings show that for teenagers who fulfilled our research definition of long Covid three months after a positive test for the Covid virus, the majority have recovered after two years," said study author, Sir Terence Stephenson, PhD in a press release from University College London. "This is good news but we intend to do further research to try to better understand why 68 teenagers had not recovered.”
No differences related to vaccination status Among all teens included in the study, those who reported COVID reinfections during the study period had the most symptoms through 24 months.
The most common symptoms reported were tiredness, trouble sleeping, shortness of breath, and headache. Symptom prevalence was generally higher in those with recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to those who never tested positive for the virus, the authors said.
Overall, 20% to 25% of all infection status groups reported three or more symptoms 24 months post-testing, with 10% to 25% experiencing five or more symptoms. Not all who reported symptoms, however, met the formal criteria for long COVID. In fact, five or more symptoms were reported by 14.2% of those who never tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and by 20.8% of those with at least two infections.
Older teens and females were most likely to meet formal definitions, the authors said. "We did not find that symptoms or their impact differed by vaccination status," the authors wrote.
Study link: www.nature.com/articles/s43856-024-00657-x
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picturejasper20 · 15 days ago
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For the funsies, Danny Phantom fanon things that are canon in The Ghost and Molly Mcgee series:
-The Ghost World (name for the world where the ghost habit in the series) was supposed to be revealed on cancelled season 3 to be a form of purgatory for souls that have unfinished business. -Many ghosts are manifestations of people who had some unfinished business they left from when they were alive.
-Ghost's backstories of when they used to be alive are usually shown and ghosts talk about how they dead very casually in the show.
-Ghost have a celebration called Death Day, which is the day they died and became a ghost.
-If you defeat the leader of the Ghost World (The Chairman), you may become the next Ghost World leader. (Scratch becomes this during season 2)
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-¨Half ghosts¨ (Wraiths) in are literally half dead/ Corpse AU is kinda a thing in this series. (A human can leave their body for a while by jumping through a ghost portal)
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There is a ghosthunter family(The Chens) in season 2 and the girl protagonist, Molly, falls in love with the boy, Ollie Chen. They later become a couple near the end of the show (See similarities with Danny x Valerie in Danny Phantom)
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-Ollie Chen was supposed to become the next Chairman/ghost leader in Season 3 after Scratch gave up the role near the end of Season 2. (See similarities between Danny Fenton and Ollie Chen being sons of ghost hunters and Danny becoming Ghost King in some AUs)
-Ghosts can become corrupted/lose their form if they get obsessed with their unfinished business.
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-Recurrent characters end up learning about Scratch and that development stays through the series. (Similar to DP characters learning that Danny is part ghost)
-Related to the point above, Ollie Chen has an arc about standing up to his parents about their worldview of thinking that all ghosts are evil.
-Emotional ¨death¨ is a thing in this series. (I'll leave it like that since it is part of a big reveal in the show)
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cyrilau · 20 days ago
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Werewolves, Mars, and Dhanishta, oh my!
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From the charts I’ve read Mars nakshatras and Mars ruled Aries rashi is prominent in actors portraying werewolves. In Teen Wolf: Tyler Posey is Chitra Sun Dhanishta moon, Cody Christian is Ashwini Sun and Chitra Moon, Gage Golightly possibly Ashwini Moon, Daniel Sharman is Ashwini Sun. Dave Legeno who played Fenrir Greyback was a Chitra Sun.
Oliver Reed who played Leon in The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) is Dhanishta Sun and Venus.
Josh Hartnett in Penny Dreadful is possibly Dhanishta moon. Lon Chaney Jr. in Wolf Man (1941) has Sun and Venus in Dhanishta. The iconic David Naughton from An American Werewolf in London (1981) is Dhanishta Sun.
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With Dhanishta being such a prominent nakshatra in these charts, I think the concept of “fame” that comes with Dhanishta translates into the archetype of the wolf pack leader, or "alpha". Just as celebrities can become centralized figures and influencers for groups of people, wolf packs are organized in a similar hierarchical system. The drum and the flute are symbols of this nakshatra and I think the trope of wolves howling to summon one another is an extension of these symbols.
Dhanishta is also commonly associated with wealth and the acquisition of riches. Nakshatras are exceptionally multidimensional, encompassing many aspects (including the dualities) of their themes and symbols. Early depictions and stories used werewolves as a story device to depict upper class attitudes towards working class communities. This economic class allegory can be a bit uncouth in execution at times. The ideal intention in this allegory, I think, is to represent the prejudices that are project onto the communities that the wealthy exploit. This is a shadow embodied in Dhanishta, wealth when devoid of a communal basis and extricated into a capital based and exploitive economy produces divisions of class and status. Dhanishta can be seen on both sides of this axis in leaders, icons, and influencers in whichever community they are within. Their power can be exploitive or it can be protective.
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Mars’ influence is seen in the themes of dominance, rivalry, and discipline in werewolf media. Depending on the film/book/myth the transformation is typically beyond one’s control and induced by the moon, and/or strong emotions (another lunar theme). Sometimes the transformation can be brought under one’s control by the strength of their will, their self mastery. This is Mars, self conquering and disciplined (Mars exalts in a Saturn ruled Capricorn). Aggression, conflict, vitality, competition, and opposition are all martial by nature and recurrent themes in werwolf stories.
The onset of becoming a werewolf also corresponds with Mars. Generally, one can be born a werewolf, becomes cursed, or they are turned into one due to a blood infection from a bite or scratch. Mars relates directly to injuries, and the blood in the body.
Quintessential tools to fight werewolves are Lunar coded (Mars is debilitated in Moon ruled Cancer). In Vedic Astrology, among the karakas of the Moon are: "silver, herbal medicines, lethargy/laziness, and faith" (Art of Vedic Astrology by Andrew Mason). Silver bullets, wolfsbane medicines, exorcisms, and physically exhausting a werewolf (in Ancient Rome and Greece) are all common remediations against werewolves. The Full moon (Sun opposite Moon) stereotypically initiates the involuntary transformation, reflecting Cancer's debilitation of Mars. Debilitations are not entirely and impossibly negative though, in fact I think they typically encourage profound development of the affected planet. The transformation of weakness into strength present in a lot of werewolf media demonstrates this, and I believe it illustrates how Mars is friends with the Moon despite the Cancer debilitation (Moon neutral towards Mars). Mars must surrender to the Mind (Moon), it's strength, vitality, and force is either constructively directed by the moon/mind or the moon can drive mars mad (literally lunacy lmao).
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Werewolves are organized into wolf pack structures and behaviors. Namely; Alpha, Beta, and Omega. Alphas are the leaders, and Betas are the subordinate pack. Originally, these terms are rooted in animal ethology and describe a social hierarchy determined by dominance. Dominance in these structures is established by violence and aggression. Competition is Mars by nature. Interestingly, this language got co-opted and used in a lot of conversations perpetuating toxic masculinity. Naomi Wolf (Chitra ASC), a conspiracy theorist and the previous political advisor to Al Gore, commented that Al Gore was a "beta male" who needs to become an "alpha male" to be taken seriously as a leader. Generally, Mars is associated with socially and culturally constructed definitions of masculinity. Overtime werewolf tropes grew into allegorical tales of violence, and masculinity, in society.
Traditionally, monster literature details experiences of otherness, and includes intricate commentary on the intersection of identity, politics, and power. Werewolf tropes and stories throughout time have consistently tackled these collective shadows.
There are still so many charts that can be drawn on this subject. This is primarily based on actors, and in the next part I would like to focus on authors and individuals actually involved in historic tales about werewolves. I would love to hear any feedback, and ideas, or if you have differing thoughts and opinions on this topic. @invenusworld made a great point that wolves are Ketu and werewolves are Rahu which I totally agree with too. I'm curious to see how the nodes will show up in authors and historic figures' charts?
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thoughts about going to your own hospital for treatment? i have like recurrent stress nightmares about being critically ill and arriving in my own ED and having to see my coworkers lol, not that I think I'd get bad care but I just dont want them to see me so vulnerable I think. Anyway some colleagues are the total opposite so
Some of my colleagues also go to our emergency department when they're sick, and that's so unthinkable to me. You couldn't pay me a million dollars to go to my own hospital for medical stuff if I had any other options. I don't want to be managing my relations with coworkers when I'm sick, and I DEFINITELY don't want coworkers knowing that much of my health business. If I'm gonna idk throw up uncontrollably for hours because I took too many edibles, I'm not addressing that at my place of employment. Jen the nurse I see in passing every few weeks doesn't need to know when my last bowel movement was.
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