what the hap is fuckening

average day on the mithraeum

ianthe: haha harrow wants me so bad it makes her look stupid 😈

mercy: why didn’t i kill myself ten thousand years ago

john gaius: [playing 2048 on his ipad] my life is completely normal and great and my friends all love each other :)

gideon the first: i think i have encephalitis

augustine: when i’m in the club yeah im bumpin that 365 party girl bumpin that should we do a lil key should we have a lil line wanna go real wild when im bumpin that meet me in the bathroom if you’re bumpin that 365 party girl bumpin that french manicure wipe away the residue

pyrrha: i’m pretty sure gideon has encephalitis

harrow:

If Ianthe Tridentarius was in any other media she would be so hated and salty people would make youtube analysis videos about how much she sucks, they would strip her of all her nuance.

But this is a the Locked Tomb fandom, everybody here is either a lesbian or an evil woman apologist, every time Ianthe commits a crime against humanity we clasp our hands together in prayer and thank Muir for this meal. I never once heard anybody in this fandom try to fix Ianthe but I saw many posts and fanfics about how we could make her worse. She is an evil leucistic stick in an incestious relationship with her own sister, she also ate one person and lobotomized an other, when she'll return in Alecto the Ninth I know we will all cheer like it's the fucking super bowl.

As we should. The character of all time

cup of tea no breakfast: nothing remarkable

cup of coffee no breakfast:

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ominous

how dare you ask me to live with it?

no you do have to be interested in f/f pairings and if not you will be executed

compelled me

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it.  (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

I graduated high school with barely passable maths grades thinking “I’ll never have to do this again!”

Boy was I wrong, measuring with no modern tools if I managed to (archaeologically) set out my trench with 90 degree corners. The times I had to re-calculate knitting or crochet patterns to fit my body.

Having to calculate how much medication I’m allowed to take for my weight. How much fertilisation do I have to mix in the water for my plants/aquarium.

As a European, having to convert back American values back to the metric system. Maths is everywhere and being taught in high school has given me the tools to, best case scenario: find the literal solution. Worst case scenario: I at least know in what direction to look to achieve the solution.

as much as I love portrayals of the sun and moon as a (lesbian) couple, the greeks were really on to something when they said "actually they're siblings who disapprove of each other's life choices"

everything I know about My Little Pony I have learned against my will

My train was late. AGAIN.

old woman yuri and wake doodles