子非我，安知我不知鱼之乐？

I wanna see people carrying category theory textbooks as “light morning reading,” equipped with their black coffee and trench coats

Hartshorne is a “chill bedtime story.”

They carry Hagoromo chalk like it’s an expensive cigar

And of course, read the daily math subjectClass mailing list, as if it’s the Sunday newspaper

Oh and…

they’re not like other mathematicians

I notice that there is one available seat amongst a family of three. I approach knowing that the intense stare from the parents belied a shared, childlike wonder for the true nature of the distribution of the prime counting numbers.

I smile a soft, inward smile.

I take my seat, place my chilled bottle of Smartwater on the table and from my canvas tote-bag remove, slowly and in sequence:

a slim-ruled, 80gsm, off-white A4 note pad and accompanying Pilot G-TEC-C4 gel pen (black ink, of course);

a CASIO fx-CG50, its protective casing bearing the scars of a thousand theories and its ‘shift’ button worn to a nub; and

a pristine copy of “on bounded gaps between primes” (it thuds onto the shared table in perfect middle C).

I mumble sweet nothings whilst I squint and strain to pretend to clean my circular wire-frame glasses with a microfibre cloth (I cleaned them moments ago on the station platform.)

A steady stream of conscious subconsciousness permeates the carriage.

“RH… cannot be a Gödel problem…”, “Goldbach… twin primes… both trivial when you think about them…”

Finally, as the train begins to depart, I reach up to place my bag in the overhead storage.

Upon raising my arms, tote aloft above my head, the small of my back is revealed by the untucking of my shirt.

That poor soul, sat in the seat immediately behind me and to my left - my future partner - never stood a chance the moment they laid eyes on the barely perceptible tramp stamp that simply but unmistakably read:

Y'know what? Fuck you. *modifies your spritesheet* I'm also putting oddly graphic depiction of cartoon penis on my chapter 5 bingo card. I just think it'd be funny if the little dot eyes weren't visual shorthand from sprite limitations and they just Look Like That. The recent album art only emboldens my vision. This script is actually hella old and I wanted to save it for much later. I kinda spoiled dot eyes Kris a little bit already. Will I ever get to draw this comic in order? Thank you, Toby for giving me 2 weeks to prioritize my more time sensitive scripts. Hopefully any contemporaneous jokes meant for pre-CH5 that I didn't have time to put out are Still Funny.

Your Best Man

I almost don‘t get to paint/draw in my free time anymore, but I finished one study I started on a plane two month ago yesterday and thought I‘d do a mixed post with a winter landscape from earlier this year (we had a fantastic winter in Germany, with many a beautiful walk to be had!) and even older study of a friend‘s house (this one done in Photoshop).

I think if I had some artistic leisure time now, I would love to paint on paper again. Haven‘t done that in ages. Oh, and live drawing classes :D!