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a flower, a jack of spades, a laptop and a CRT TV lay at a bar...

(tiny doodle comic)

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lonesome-greenery

Terry Pratchett's take on The Little Matchgirl in The Hogfather is both devastating and incredibly up lifting. Here's the thing, I've read The Little Matchgirl too many times and thought, 'hey, that's kind of fucked up. Why didn't anyone save her?'

Only to get told that 'oh, it's a tragic little story that's supposed to remind you to be grateful for what you have and also to show you the horrors of poverty. At least she's in a happier place now.'

And none of that ever sat quite right with me.

But Pratchett calls this out. He has Death ask the question of why no one came to help, about the reasoning behind letting this little girl die just for a sad story. It's poverty porn and also complacency in a systemic issue.

He doesn't leave you there though. Something is done to save her. Something is done to help. She is given a future. And no one knows who did it except for Death. She is given hope.

And this is something that I've found to be a through line on many of Pratchett's works, hope.

Yes things are fucked up. Yes things are awful. But there is always hope. There is always something that can be done.

And in just turning up your nose at an issue and saying, oh dear, that's very sad, you fail to take action and continue on with the problem year after year after year.

There is hope if we act. And there is no greater gift than a future.

comicgeekscomicgeek

Pratchett militantly demanded that we care about each other. Even “those people.” This is evident especially in the Witches books, but shows across most, if not all, of his work.

And he often returned to the idea that “someone ought to do something” is rarely said by the person who intends to do actually do something

itsjunetime

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

estrogenesis-vaporeongelion

clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling

scamguy

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

systlin

Sudden realization that the skeins of yarn out on my laundry line to dry are. Phallic in appearance.

systlin

Come get your freshly scoured Churro wool dicks folks

dabblingreturns

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quail-in-red

I love auto-selecting camp supplies, it’s too funny

demilypyro

dizzyghoast

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

leafstem

*while sewing*: you are a fabric. you can stay a fabric. you do not yearn to return to being string.

batbetbitbotbut

*while spinning*: you are a thread. you can stay a thread. you do not yarn to return to being fluff.

strikeslip

*while embroidering*: you are a thread on a needle. you can just exist as thread on a needle. you do knot yearn to become a tangle.

mawofthemagnetar

*while turning wood* you are timber on a lathe. You can stay as timber on a lathe. You do not yearn to become a live hand grenade.

dajo42

5001 being divisible by 3 doesnt feel right

dajo42

shinyhappygoth

Shortcuts to determine if an integer is divisible by:

This is a given.

If the last digit is divisible by 2 (a.k.a. even), then so is the whole number.

If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so is the whole number. The recursivity of this means that if the sum has multiple digits, you can add them up again until you get a single digit and see if it's 3, 6, or 9.

Like the rule for 2, but check if the last two digits are divisible by 4.

If it ends in 5 or 0.

If the rules for both 2 and 3 apply.

No shortcut. Alas.

Like the rules for 2 and 4, but check if the last three digits are divisible by 8. (Yes, this pattern keeps going for 16, 32, etc.)

Like the rule for 3, but the sum of the digits (or the sum of the sum of the digits, etc.) must be 9.

If it ends in 0.

chaotic-timelord

7. Actually, there is a shortcut for 7. Double the unit digit and subtract it from the rest of the number. If the result is divisible by 7—you can repeat this passage for the result too until you get 0 or an elementary multiple of 7—then the whole number is divisible by 7.

[Examples since this is the least intuitive one out of those: 245: 24 - 5x2 = 14. If that isn't enough, 14: 1 - 4x2 = -7. Divisible by 7 246: 24 - 6x2 = 12. Not divisible by 7]

shinyhappygoth

#Mathematics always has its logic. I remember there's also criteria to determine whether numbers are divisible by 11 and 13 (@chaotic-timelord)

Ooh, I'd love to know those! (Obviously, the early multiples of 11 are intuitive...)

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crabussy

I have every word ever blocked. I could be mutuals with axe murderers and I wouldn't know because I have "#axe murdering" in my blocked tags. it's so peaceful here (hears a noise behind me) (doesn't turn around)

simplefanatic

Daurghtr

casperscareschool

so polite

casperscareschool

i really like this image she's so awesome and smiling

casperscareschool

so cool

casperscareschool

really awesome

casperscareschool

so nice you'll see her thrice

sapphling

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

basicbascinet

I'm surprised the knight kink crowd hasn't picked up on the fact that historical knights had a habit of capturing each other for ransom. What do you mean you don't see the sexual tension in rivals seeking each other out in battle or through ambush, deliberately avoiding harming their target so they may be taken back to the attacker's castle, either held as a prisoner or as a honored "guest" as the case may be, until they are redeemed by their friends and allies?

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