Mothematician

Elian | Pronouns: (they/them)/(it/its)/(he/him)/(e/em/eir)/any | Gender: yes but actually no (agender genderfluid), Orientation: no but actually yes (bi aroace) | Adult, occasionally reblog nsfw-ish things | Interests include but are not limited to: Math, Linguistics, Terra Ignota, Imperial Radch, the Cosmere, rapier fencing, fiber arts | My Ao3 (I love getting fic comments)

[frontmansdefender]

I aspire to be as passionate about something as this guy and the orcas are passionate about hating the sunfish

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

[kaylmao]

work like a red onion

play like a white onion

fuck like a green onion

[flyingbooks42]

purify water of sea rot like an Ooioiaan onion

[tetrameryxx]

Fursonas are too hard to decide; it's time for radish plantsona.

[ante--meridiem]

Unsure whether Palmer's intention with her choice of abbreviations was to make me unable to read her books without imagining the characters heatedly debating the ethics of Windows vs Linux, or unable to hear about operating systems without thinking of utilitarian murders.

[ante--meridiem]

Made it to the Mardi reveal.

"I can't believe the leopard we raised on utilitarian justifications for eating faces would decide that it's better to achieve our goals by eating our faces instead of letting us encourage everyone else to eat each others'" said the Utilitarian Justifications For Leopards Eating Faces bash

[ante--meridiem]

Though, to be fair, one of them could believe and in fact predicted it -

[pangur-and-grim]

little guy missed his jump

[pangur-and-grim]

he vexes me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Chin-ups are part of his routine

[unfortunate-beetle-and-friends]

Two authors I follow on Tumblr are interacting... *hyperventilates like an astronomer witnessing an incredibly rare conjunction of planets*

Why am I like this...

Reminded of the time I somehow ended up in a conversation with three dog trainers whose books I read about how thoroughly to prick a potato before cooking to prevent exploding potatoes.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I like the cats okay

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[cloverchameleon]

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

War is most effectively planned, fought and managed by people who'd really rather be doing something else.

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

[dawnofweasels]

“Why don’t you ever return to your original spawn point, Dawn?”

Well, among many other things:

[banditbynite]

Monster Girl Mayhem: 5. Moth (wo)Man

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the thing with “how to make omegaverse interesting” is that you just sort of end up writing the left hand of darkness again

[creekfiend]

i think leguin made a lot of really specific choices in her world building, and I don't think everyone should make those choices, but I DO think that they should be thinking about the things she was thinking about when she made them

[savouryduck]

just double-checking, you two have read the really good but non-horny Hainish Cycle Omegaverse fic right?

[friccahacked]

fuck it. kafcake

[spiderdungeons]

if i streamed video games like this would you watch....

[pinkplushiestar]

my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip

[ot3]

shoutout to ancestral puebloan cliff dwellings

[ot3]

when i first saw them as a child i thought they were some of the coolest things in the world and i was correct

[marinella-ela]