#mathmagic

[boglady]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I don't typically share my fic on here, but I've been working on some version of this Ted/Beard/Rebecca story since July and it's nearly 20K so I feel like I owe it to myself to hype it now that it's finally out in the world.

Summary “No, no, it was threefold.” The memory’s so clear to Ted that it’s almost odd that Beard can’t see it too—a recursive layering of images, both ternary and infinite, somehow more vivid now than it was when he first experienced it. “All of it was threefold.” Aka the one in which I bring the triangle metaphor to its natural conclusion.

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: February 13…

When Star refuses to answer a simple math problem for class, she learns that refusing to answer a simple question in her least favorite subject can lead to massive cosmic repercussions. “Mathmagic” premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.

[indy-nxt]

ted’s breakthrough being so mathmagic-esque only for him to find out total football exists makes me laugh so hard 😭

[thejunkyardafewblocksfromhere]

Dig down amongst my calculations Check my math Up there on the surface Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath -An Antidote for Strychnine, The Mountain Goats

[retrocgads]

USA 1990

[theodorebasmanov]

I’ve rewatched “Star VS The Forces of Evil” episodes 16-17 season 2. In the first part of the first episode, Star is taking some kind of an exam the result, of which is to show if she has to go back to Mewni. Well, she almost fails but finally passes and the examiner tells her mother that she has powers comparable to Eclipsa’s. The second part is a very interesting one – it’s about Marco earning his own interdimensional scissors. By running through different dimensions chasing Hekapoo’s (she’s a member of Magic High Commission) clones (she was the real owner of “Star’s” scissors) for sixteen years. On Earth, at the time only a few minutes have passed. The first part of the second episode shows us some time paradoxes – Star has to solve a math problem to save time-space continuum. In the last part, Star and Pony-Head want to save their favourite partying place, fail but still have fun trying.

[scooterpengie]

So I redrew a scene from Mathmagic in Svtfoe but with Reylo! I tried to include lots of AUs and tropes, see how many you can spot (some are hard to tell, I’ll put them in the tags). 

I just realised I’m probably the only one who gets this 😅

[full-moon-phoenix]

Did I ever tell you guys Mathmagic is one of my favorite episodes? I barely noticed myself before now, but it really is underrated in my opinion.

It's an episode where Star is faced with a world-ending problem that started with, *surprise surprise*, a magical mishap. And she tries to solve it with a solution she has no idea how to reach. And the solution ends up being wrong, but she saves the day anyway. Because whether the solution was right or wrong wasn't as important as the lives she saved and the fact that she tried. Even if it wasn't the right answer, she put in the effort and did her best.

And that speaks volumes to me in general, but it means so much more now that I've watched Cleaved. IRL my therapist is always reassuring me "What's important is that you did your best. And even if it wasn't your best, you still did the best with what you had." And that is the single best piece of advice I was ever given. And it's a big reason as to why I defend Star's decision to destroy magic.