#percy's posts

[sammy-cyber]

think abt orange cat hybrid!reader meeting Katanga lion hybrid!Jade and thinking they're her cub 🥹

Jade never thought of herself as parental, not at all. She looked after Nyx, sure, but Nyx is a clingy thing that needs love and she can't give that to him constantly. Well she thought that until meeting you, who she immediately took in as a pup.

She found you in a dumpster, nibbling on a popsicle while your fur got damp from the heavy rain. She had picked you up, huffing to herself while walking home in the dumb rain.

She would growl at anyone who got too close to you, groomed your hair and grumbled when it got messy. She let you play with Nyx, who was more than happy to have a "sibling", even if you looked a bit silly to him.

[nsmorig]

15th september: guess who now understands trigonometric substitution? well, i thought it was me, and then i got to the last question, and now i wonder if anyone does. ft: david spiegelhalter and my absolutely gorgeous new loclen pen!

[nsmorig]

september 19th! the house was absolutely full of people, so i took myself down to the coffee shop to work on my pre-term review! ft. my integration cheat sheet, which is really useful, and also actual calculations done on an actual napkin.

[nsmorig]

differential equations, youtube videos for stuff i never learned in class, and the world’s sexiest breakfast! (spiced seared salmon!)

here’s my one piece of advice: make yourself a Really Nice Breakfast every so often. i try for once a week. it doesn’t have to be expensive, or super healthy; if you love bacon sandwiches, make a bacon sandwich for your Really Nice Breakfast. but make it yourself, and enjoy it! it kicks off your day the way nothing else really does, you give yourself a boost, and you get your brain thinking that a little work (cooking) -> a big reward (gorgeous salmon breakfast) which puts you in a great place to start on the day’s work.

[nsmorig]

in the interests of cliche, yes, that’s bubble tea-- blueberry with pomegranate! lovely.

i picked up this notebook on sale, and when i got it home i worked out why; the pages all have this weird gradient! i think eventually i’ll decide either i love it or i hate it. in the mean time, i’m setting up my course notebook for the first module of year one of my degree, and taking notes on How To Study for a Maths Degree, by Lara Alcock.

[nsmorig]

september 13th listening to: ‘good news,’ by k.flay, and the rinderpest episode of this podcast will kill you eating: an incredibly sexy recipe for sausage + chorizo tortellini with a spicy tomato and spinach sauce. my kitchen smells like how italian restaurants want you to believe italy smells. i’ll try the recipe again soon, with some tweaks i’ve been thinking about, and then maybe post it? shh, these are yesterday’s pictures! i didn’t get much done today, or at least not for uni-- i did a lot of reading and research into a health issue affecting my family, which was distracting. the research was helpful, but i think i’ve reached the point where it’s worrying me more than it’s calming me down; tomorrow i’ll try to distract myself, and get some more review done!

khan academy is becoming a problem. i keep opening it to do something, and then it’ll say ‘you’re 25% away from mastery of differential calculus!’ or ‘don’t you want to learn about the mean value theorem?’ and i’ll do that instead of the other subjects i need to be studying. khan academy has successfully gamified calculus, and it’s too effective.

hey, mathblr who write in cursive-- i have a question for you. when you write variables, do you print them, or do you use the same handwriting? when you write the product of two variables, like ‘ab,’ do you join them up? i’ve noticed that sometimes i print them, and sometimes i write them cursive but separate, and occasionally i’ll join them up, but it doesn’t look quite right. i’m curious about how other people write things.

[nsmorig]

physics revision + cute new planner! 

mocks are coming up real soon and i didn’t quite get enough done over the holidays, so i’m buckling down for the next few weeks. it’s back to basics and going over first-year content. i’m trying to revise from the specification, so i get all the material down for when i revise for the real thing.

[nsmorig]

flexing my cool new uni and my cool new pen at the same time... multitasking showing off listening to Ian Bostridge’s version of Winterreise while i go through material in preparation for classes next month! i’ve been sent a list of topics to ‘review’ which, helpfully, are all topics i’ve never seen before in my life.

the new COVID rules are pretty depressing; they technically exempt organised team sports, but it doesn’t seem like a sensible exemption. considering the spike in cases, i’ll be quitting rugby for a while. particularly sad, since tonight’s practice was going to be pizza night....