Math :3

I have been on multiple dates where they assumed I was transmasc, and was ghosted when they realized I was transfem. I know it happens when I am inexplicably treated with dignity and respect on accident

I've talked to a lot of lesbians, and most assume (because I am butch) that I'm transmasc. Also because I have a deeper voice, a lot of people assume that I'm on testosterone. When they find out I am not, that's where pleasant conversation ends. Queer people are fine with a masculine woman, except when she's transfem.

Happened to me a few times earlier in my transition when I presented more non-binary. Stubble also grew out disgustingly swiftly and contributed to these kinds of misunderstandings. And yeah the amount of people who ghosted me after finding out I was a transfem was all but one of the people with the misconception (and that one still stopped seeing me as a viable romantic partner after realizing)

I'm just gonna put this on here cause holy shit this artwork is so good. Like this is genuinely in my top 5 pieces of art I've seen period. I mean that. That is not hyperbole and I have seen a good amount of art.

Slowly turning into the "I don't like labels" person I despised so much in my youth

Genuinely the longer I spend having to explain things the more I just dont care. I'll say I'm queer and that's it. If you assume I'm things... whatever, I give up. I don't care anymore. Nothing makes sense. Nothing will make sense.

like at least 50% of internet lgbt discourse would evaporate if people quit using the term "spaces" when they mean "discord servers" or "tumblr blogs" because we would collectively realize how stupid that shit is

“this is a lesbian-only space” no this is the tiktok comments on a chappell roan video

You're only allowed to call something a space if it has a topology, sorry, I make the rules.

happy pride month, be gay do math

Beware the pipeline (he/him highschool student -> he/they math 1st/2nd year undergrad -> they/them 3rd/4th year undergrad -> she/they masters student -> she/it PhD)

isn't it fucked that one of the worst symptoms of chronic pain isn't the pain itself, but rather the secondary one of "if you cancel plans because of your chronic pain too many times, people will think you're rude, or even just get tired of asking to hang out"?

and even if you don't cancel out if you show up and show any signs of it you will be thought of as rude or a party pooper at best and stop asking you to hang out anyway

no matter how many times my friends tell me they're okay with it, and reassure me that they do like hanging out and understand that I have to cancel (for the 5th time in a row of rescheduling this hang out, of which we can barely find a time now that everyone is an adult), I will never feel like I can fully trust them. I feel that way because of how many times people have lied. They say it's okay. They believe that, too, the first time. And the second. Maybe they get annoyed the third but remind themselves that that's being ableist! But after the 10th time, they stop caring. They stop being willing to understand. Not everyone, but enough people that I start to expect it.

The longer you spend studying math, the more these types of phrases just worm themselves into your vocabulary. Genuinely I get a bit freaked out when I start to sound like my professors. What am I becoming?? (hopefully an algebraic geometer with a PhD)

Totally never had these thoughts... but seriously, accepting that you might be plural takes time, and so does actually working things out and becoming functional. We're kinda only now getting to that point and even still not really there. It's complicated and unique to everyone.

I really should give hartshorne a chance after I finish vakil

😠😠😠 Hartshorne bad, hartshorne not good, hartshorne evil 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎.

but everyone says the problems from hartshorne are good :( The ones from vakil are kinda easy and uninteresting

Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, and it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul; give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine. - M. F. Atiyah Accurate?!

"oh how bad could Hatcher be?" <- undergrad who's about to read the worst book ever written

I really should give hartshorne a chance after I finish vakil

nine sols is still the best metroidvania of the 2020s btw

Play it! no this is not a suggestion or request, this is a demand. Go play it if you haven't >:)

You know you’ve lost sight of gods true path when searching “ar” has ao3 pop up in the recommended results before arxiv.

However on the flipside, you know you're destined for damnation if the first recommended result after typing 'n' is nlab