🫧the rain smells like you.

bath - addison grace

This line feels so percy-coded after that scene of him praying to his mom (song: pessimistic by addison grace)

Addison Grace

I am OBSESSED with the knew artist I found. His name is Addison Grace. They're a 22 year old, bisexual, transgender, singer/songwriter (He/they) A new album got releassed a little bit ago called Diving Lessons. I swear, it's great music, great lyrics, great meaning. There's a lot of feels in every song. My favorite off of Diving lessons would probably be Slime or White Lie. I also like Pretty Girl a lot. Support a new queer artist! Find them on tiktok at graceful.addison

They also have great style ^^^^^^

The only thing getting me through this day is Addison Grace’s new Album and Madilyn Mei’s new song-

Once on Crazy Claws' podcast out of Wisconsin Dells

PETER POTAMUS, with pride inherent in the voice: Doesn't it just feel FASCINATING, and then some, to experience the sheer sensation of diving utterly naked among such Polynesian natives as have yet to suffer from so-called "Civilisation"! CRAZY CLAWS, with snark inherent: You should probably see this wildcat go diving once, and in his birthday suit! And no, I'm not talking about the seedy side of the Wisconsin bar scene that they call "dive bars"! PETER POTAMUS: I recall once having to wrestle with a shark on some isolated island after I was seen to have some similarities with a native hippo god as somehow had been reincarnated--Jabberjaw, eat your heart out! CRAZY CLAWS, adding to the snark factor: I've heard quite the tales about Jabberjaw getting Shelley to do some diving with him despite her unease about being in close company to a shark, and in more ways than one! [aside] How snarky can it get underwater, to begin with? PETER POTAMUS: But then again, I've seen cases of these wonderfully wonderful Polynesians from their uncharted reaches finding sharks to be what you'd call "spirit brothers", sometimes joining in on surfing and diving sessions as much as they do with dolphins ... and to be thinking all this time that sharks were a hidden terror! CRAZY CLAWS: I do have to admit that the whole Shark Week phenom has deteriorated into farce, and I mean farce rivalled by anything my close compadres The Bungle Brothers can attempt on stage! [Short extract from Jethro Tull's "Bungle in the Jungle" can be heard for comic effect] But on the other hand, can you imagine George and Joey attempting some diving? PETER POTAMUS: I believe they were attempting a rehash of the "Diving Jackasses" comedy rejoinder to the High-Diving Horses act a few years back-- CRAZY CLAWS: No; I mean diving underwater! PETER POTAMUS: I admit to being a little confused there, CC; however, if you could give me some contact information for the two after the podcast, perhaps over some pizza, I could maybe hook them up with some diving lessons! CRAZY CLAWS: Which, I just hope, they won't bungle around....

part 10

Oki so like The Hobbit BotFA is on rn, I’m not watching it tho cuz certain people are dying (you know who) and I noticed something in this scene:

Basically, when Bilbo comes out and is like “Thorin!”, Thorin instantly turns around and looks at him with what I personally think is shock and adoration.

Because Thorin had literary nearly threw Bilbo to his death, and yet Bilbo is back, calling for him.

And then it looks as if Thorin is approaching Bilbo, like he wanted to maybe hug him or hold him or apologise or whatever. But you can clearly see him going for Bilbo.

But then Bilbo moves like “it’s not the best time currently” kinda thing, and carries on with why he’s here. But, you can see when Bilbo moves away Thorin instantly stops and listens. But it’s a very abrupt stop, maybe for a second thinking “is Bilbo scared of me?” Kinda thing??? Idk, but he stops instantly for whatever reason, so there has to be something behind that.

And that’s that for me. If you have any thoughts on it pls share! I wanna know others opinions :)

Shōgun (2024) | Chapter 3: “Tomorrow is Tomorrow”

Why do I need a job why can't I just take art lessons and baking lessons and scuba diving lessons and piano lessons and figure skating lessons and woodworking lessons and bushcrafting lessons and pottery lessons and horse riding lessons and sailing lessons and archery lessons and foreign language lessons and climbing lessons and welding lessons and fencing lessons and cooking lessons until I die?

Hear me out:

Marine Biologist Regulus who can't swim and is terrified of the ocean so he started studying it so it wouldn't scare him as much and he ended up loving it. He's still terrified though.

It's like the whole Astronaut vs. Astrologist situation. Just because you love something and it fascinates you, doesn't mean you'd be willing to risk your life for it.

Bonus:

James is a scuba instructor and Sirius asks if he'll help Regulus learn to swim and get over his fear of the ocean so that he can go on this once-in-a-lifetime trip. He wants to go so badly but... So obviously James agrees to help, and things start off rough, but eventually James figures out what works for him, hijinks ensue, and they fall in love and Regulus asks him to go on the trip with him because James is the only reason he feels safe.

ashton awakening laudna’s rage from the parallels of being collateral damage …….. really wanting to be a pacifist and then ashton just frustrates the shit out of laudna in such a core way that’s making her face issues she thought she had moved past ……………..say it all ………….

In which I describe the maths of how to attack and dethrone God (per Minamimoto)

So in my evergrowing post thread (which I know I'm already gonna have to add to that essay fml) I did make ref to...well, a thing that literally has made my jaw drop since when I played TWEWY the first time (and keeping in mind this was a game friends forcefully insisted I play because "there's a char Sho Minamimoto who's just like you fr", and after I'd nodded "yup" re the SI unit obsessions and the compsci refs to Heaps and Crunching (and later, as I found out, "crashing" in JP), and the aesthetic, and, and...)

Namely: Sho Minamimoto literally uses (or tries to use) a very famous maths formula called Euler's Identity to take out the Composer as an example of Forcefully Applied Mathematics. :D (This may have also been the moment when I was like "Yup, he just like me FR")

So. First off. Euler's Identity.

It's kind of difficult to explain why this particular equation is considered one of the true Chef's Kisses of Mathematics to non-mathematicians, but part of it is elegance, and part of it is that it includes five of the foundational variables that show up in mathematics all the time (and really even more functions if you break it apart): a) the natural logarithm e or Euler's number which is roughly 2.71828182845... and which is zetta important in a lot of fields including finance, biology, medicine, and calculus functions, and (as we'll get into) antennas and field strength measurements and pretty much a Shitload of functions related to growth b) the imaginary unit i or the square root of -1 (which turns out to be extremely useful in a lot of contexts, including electronics (seriously; AC electricity and functions relating to that are *heavily* dependent on the imaginary unit) and graphing and arguably how Cartesian graphs work especially once you get into calculus c) Pi (π), everyone's favourite circle ratio of 3.141592653589793238462643393279 (is pulled away from keyboard before I can draw a Taboo Noise Refinery Sigil in Paint) and which is Important in many, many contexts d) 1 (yes, 1 is considered a constant! Specifically "A quantity exists") , and

e) 0 (yes, 0 is considered a constant too, specifically "a quantity does not exist", and reducing Euler's Identity results in e^(i*pi)+1=0) To make it even more Minamimoto-esque, you can technically also express Euler's Identity as a reduction of "e^(i*x) = cos(pi) + (i * (sin(pi)) (aka Euler's Formula), and cos(pi) =-1 and sin(pi)=0.

And really it's kind of a beautiful way of how things all fit together in a lovely function that is almost a kiss from the Math Gods and if plotted traces a lovely circle.

So after that little tangent, here's how this all relates to W2D7 of TWEWY, and Minamimoto's forcefully applied mathematics. * * * So, first we end up at Pork City (Mark City if you're watching the anime; Tokyu Group liked the TWEWY tourism and by the time the anime and NEO came around decided to take advantage of the advertising), and...Joshua and Neku start having a very interesting conversation on why there's So Much Damn Noise at Pork City anyways:

Neku asks if this is the work of Pi-Face, Joshua notes "Probably" and then goes on to note that it might not all be JUST Minamimoto:

In other words: Pork City is effectively acting as an amplifier or at least an antenna for Noise. (I am not the only one to have noticed it and not even the only one on Tunglr, for that matter; Voice From The Corner also picked up on this as well though I'll freely admit I'm diving a bit more into the STEM portions of this.) TWEWY:tA is even more blatant about this imagery in ep 6, where Joshua explicitly notes that all the emotion in Shibuya collects at Mark City (remember, the animation uses the RL name) and then "crashes into Mark City and shoots up into the sky. That emotion flows back down and keeps building up here." (Shortly afterwards, Joshua also mentions the Imaginary Noise Plane as the inside of Mark City warps, similarly to a sine wave flow--or the flow of energy into, or out of, an antenna. (You do not know how loudly I screamed seeing this, as an aside) So, this is where we get into piece one, e (and where a healthy interest in radio and electronics hobbies helps!)

So antennas, interestingly, have how well they pick up a frequency measured in a logarithmic scale, and basic field strength measurements (and a lot of other "wavey" things, including earthquakes, including, well, literal background noise) get measured on logarithmic scales too. It's rather more common with antennas and earthquakes for this to be measured on log-10 scales (hence the Richter scale for quakes, or decibels for antennas and sound). There's a particular group of measurements (physical field and power measurements), however, that actually uses log-e, aka the natural logarithm, and especially for voltage or current and "root power quantities"--the neper. And, in Euler's Identity, e is taken to powers...and Pork City is basically acting as a huge antenna. Also in info engineering aspects, there's another aspect--the nat, which is considered a unit of information or info entropy...also based on e. (I told you Euler's number comes up a lot of places!)

Let's continue... So now we come to i, the imaginary unit, and that's called out blatantly by Joshua:

This, too, is based on math--from Final Fantasy II, specifically, and how the Flare spell worked. Flare is an area-effect spell and it hit based on (Enemy's HP/Flare level), i.e. enemies that had HP divisible by 2 could be hit by a Flare level 2 spell and could deliver damage based on that spell's level, etc. So a level i Flare, based on how complex numbers work, could hit just about anything (assuming, of course, that the Composer is not a Fractal Bastard and promptly yeets himself into a PokeYugiBeyBladeVerse). But...that's not the ONLY part where things imaginary come into play. So, one of the interesting bits of lore that came out in (of all things) the NEO:TWEWY Field Walk RPG (alas, JP only, but a delightful source of lore, and thankfully the fan community preserved almost all of it) is actual canon on how Tin Pins and Psychs work including the actual formula on how they work in a convo between Minamimoto and Fret:

Fret: Soooo, these psychs and pins and stuff… how does it all work? Minamimoto: The pin is charged by the Imagination of the user. Fret: Uh huuuh. Minamimoto: The pin itself is just a medium. Fret: Mm-hmm. Minamimoto: “Power” is calculated from the numerical limit of the pin, using your will as a coefficient. Fret: Yeah. Minamimoto: But that formula alone means nothing to me!

(Emphasis mine: props to Pavaal on the Dead Bird App for initial translation, and to multiple others for confirmation from the FWRPG script.) So basically how Psychs work is functionally as an athame, using formula Psych=Limit^Imaginatio. (Secret Report 1 in TWEWY also confirms Imagination is important in making a Psych work to begin with; the formula) Of note, Minamimoto also has a canonically high Imagination, as detailed in the Secret Reports. To even become a Reaper to begin with (as noted in SR7) those who survive the week who have enough Imagination become Reapers, and even among Reapers Minamimoto tends to stand out (he is canonically the youngest Reaper Officer ever, and apparently had quite the rapid rise to power). SR15 in TWEWY notes (even keeping in mind that in this instance Hanekoma is being a bit of an Unreliable Narrator in covering his own butt regarding the Taboo Thing):

The sigil Minamimoto drew was one of the undecodable types. Was that a mistake on the Fallen Angel's part? Or was it a transcription error by Minamimoto? Either way, with that design, he stands little chance of reviving himself. However, Minamimoto is driven, and his Imagination strong. Perhaps strong enough to make a Taboo sigil work, even in the Underground... If so, the specific result would be impossible to predict.

And in SR19 (again, covering up just a bit for his own helping hand):

I've detected an energy spike here. It would seem Minamimoto has returned. I judged his revival unlikely after spotting his Taboo refinery sigil on the first day, but it appears Minamimoto's Imagination is much stronger than I'd anticipated. The Fallen Angel must have completed the array for him. A troubling thought. Who can say what impact this will have on the Composer and Conductor's Game?

And even in the NEO Secret Reports it's noted his second trip through Coco's version of the Sigil actually ramped up his Imagination even more (in NEO SR 7):

Minamimoto, on the other hand has all but vanished from the proxy’s side. His Noise refinery sigil drastically heightens his Imagination, which may be why he can clearly recognize the proxy’s abilities. I have an idea of what he’s planning. It’s dangerous, but I have no way of stopping him.

And again, TWEWY:tA also makes it more blunt that Minamimoto was selected explicitly because of his Imagination and his connections to Shibuya as Hanekoma's Plan B. So there's imaginary units (in the sense of literal level i flare), and imaginary units (in a Reaper whose Imagination is already in the stratosphere). And in regards to pi? Well, Pi-Face, he has very much a rep of being....numbers- and math-obsessed even BEFORE he throws 156 digits of pi in the Composer's face:

But pi (as a number) is actually meaningful as HELL to Minamimoto, he engages in saying pi to himself drawing the Taboo Noise Refinery Sigil (goroawase in Japanese which relates to literally an obstetrician going to a foreign country and a woman giving birth at night as insects make a lot of noise which can almost be seen as a minor ritual to Make It Work, a little happy pi rhythmic thing in English in the game, actual spoopy sounding pimetry in the anime that sounds very sorcery-y). Looking (for far too long) at the Taboo Noise Refinery Sigil, pi is encoded in it in at least four or five places (multiple times as functionally a magic binding circle, at least once where he draws the symbol for pi in such a way that when it's turned upside down it literally spells "pi"). It's important. It's meaningful. It's His Number and transcedential and irrational and beautiful and unrestrained :D So now y'all are wondering, "OK, smartass, where's the -1 at?" As I noted, another way you can write Euler's Identity is specifically as "e^(i*pi)+1=0", so that can be expressed as a way to null the Composer (who is probably the 1 in question). Euler's Identity would be used to subtract 1 from the equation, in other words (as Minamimoto was intending to come back from Erasure by literally integrating himself via Taboo Noise Refinery Sigil). There's one other interesting bit of symbolism, one that's deep enough that I'm not even sure the writers of TWEWY intended, but if so...it's such a chef's kiss that I have deepest admiration.

So Euler's Identity can be expressed in terms of a formula, and as a reduction of sine and cosines involving pi and i, but it can also be mapped as motion--specifically as how a function evolves. (I tend to be a pretty visual thinker, and there's an extremely good discussion on Euler's Identity here that goes into the whole "mapping the function" aspect to show how Euler's Identity works in practice.)

So typically when you're doing a non-negative function or a zero function, generally there's an assumption of "right-hand" rotation or movement. Complex functions, you get into fun things like circles, and curves, and even some very beautiful fractals (like with the Mandelbrot set) with the right iterative formulas. Euler's Identity...is literally a left-hand-path function:

(And those of you who were writing about the Cyclic Nature of Minamimoto are probably all screaming right now) Anyways, wanted to share in full one of the things that was a jawdropper for me in TWEWY back when I found the game at a glorified skateshop that sold games in 2011. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, zeptograms :3

So we know, according to Aaravos, that there are things he learned from humans, specifically:

the effect a ripple can have

patience

And we know both of these happened after he was kicked out of Startouch ‘heaven’ (?) but seemingly before the Fall of Elarion, precisely. It seems like it’s early days for humans having primal magic but they haven’t figured out dark magic yet. And we also know from interviews that Aaravos played a part in discovering dark magic, but perhaps didn’t outright create it (with Claudia’s “so he gave us magic” being a partial truth or her own interpretation). So it makes me wonder if when Aaravos fell, and according to the artbook the fall limited his powers, he learned primal magic alongside humans through connections to give himself more power and opportunities than what he could do with star magic. He has his chest piece in the 1x01 intro which is decidedly post-Fall of Elarion, so it still leaves my theory that his piece was taken out when he was imprisoned by the archdragons viable, but we’ll have to see.

I'M CRYING MY SISTER DID THE SAME AS DANIEL

Some years ago - I was 16 she was 13 entering her rebellious phase. I was also kind of an asshole and I was in the middle of a months-long tantrum because I wanted a new hockey stick.

She was like "what do you even need a new stick for, hockey is the laughing stock of sports". So I took her to the ice rink and she barely knew how to skate.

(in her defense she plays volleyball, which is the scariest sport imo)

Lol all the medals FF was remembering were for Tennis. Daniel absolutely is the kind of asshole who goes "It's both sports with Racquets and I don't need a team so I'm superior."

The rebellious phase is acceptable at 13 and a wild thing to inflict upon someone when you're like 19 XD

Hillbilly Bears headcannon

Just imagine the ursine community of Hog Waller taking some obvious pride in not only breastfeeding their young ... but also breastfeeding their young underwater in the local rivers and springs. That, and incorporating the sensation of the dive as inducement to such breastfeeding sessions, diving as much for sustenance (especially fish and clams as may contain freshwater pearls) as for relaxation.