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First impression: shivering kitten

Impression now: Sorry we didn't support you enough in your canto but I'm still proud of how much you've grown on your own, son.

Favorite moment:

He was being so brave right before this too lol...

Idea for a story: Probably school day shenanigans with Yichun... This event is so cute...

Unpopular opinion: n/a

Favorite relationship: Probably with Don Quixote... They're cute... youngest and oldest of the group but Sinclair is still used to thinking of Don Quixote as someone his age.

Favorite headcanon: n/a

To catch a falling star 9 and 12

A firm hand 2

Always the child 5

See therapy 9

To catch a falling star is not mine, it's a translation, maybe I should make it a bit clearer in my summary...

I just answered 2 for A Firm Hand

I'M SURPRISED TO GET A FIC ABOUT ALWAYS THE CHILD. Cause... I have more notes on that AU and just felt like the White part needed to be written... but it never felt like a complete fic! Anyway... It was not a hard fic to write cause... I wrote it with the intention of "I have voices in my head and I need to get it out" while never intending to truly complete it asfs;lafkj;asdf... I think the only challenge was like... I wanted to portray White's change in as little words as possible... Really I just rushed through that fic cause I felt like that whole AU was too much to tackle...

Sex therapy 9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic? No. That came out from beginning to end under 48 hours. I just sat down and wrote and keep writing. I don't even think I changed much during editing. I think I kinda, like, discuss the flow of the fic with Kaz and Isa on discord before I started writing and then just dived right in.

Hi hi!!!!

Thanks for dropping by the ask box!

My favs are Figaro, Arthur, and Snow.

Fav ships are lenofiga, asacai, and lenofigafau. I also really love the northfam dynamic. Altho the ship I have written the most fics for is probably faufiga lol...

I'm a Figaro multishipper tho I like all his more popular ships.

Also like, snow owls have yellow eyes as well

These spot the difference games are getting harder

Woah you're right! Those large yellow eyes! That's so them!!

I mean yeah i get these artists are trying to convey the tragedy of white dying while snow is still alive in a "ooooh he stopped growing up" kind of way but it doesn't really make that much sense to me because they both stopped growing up a long time ago??? Like, wizards do not age like humans. But like, i get it, it's sad.

However there's also potential for Snow as a child and White as an adult. Snow childishly not accepting the death of his brother and demanding he comes back. Snow forcing death onto White and then life as well. White becoming the doll of Snow for Snow's comfort, same way that the adult Father and Mother doll have been for both of the twins. Do you get me. We can squeeze more angst out of these babies.

Lol I think I have actually seen the other way around a bit too!

But I think the main thing is for the few instances in canon where they didn't match, Snow's the one who took up the adult form more often. It's just one of those character things.

I think the way that I read it is, when Snow wanted to head out on his own, he longed for change. (That's why I actually always read their adult form as feeling younger lol...) Their child form isn't about unable to grow up, it's about stillness... Like... Preserving themselves in a glass coffin. It's something eternal. At least that's the vibe I get from it. And like, ultimately both of them chose their child forms cause they're unable to change.

I think personality wise the way I read it, Snow is more... Like... Exploratory? Like... He has chosen to never change (much more than white, who is now more open to it after their role reversal post-revival) but there's still some leftover longing for possibilities, which is why I think he might prefer the adult form a bit more.

It's not a catchphrase. It's a habit I got into when typing to sound more casual. (People use to say I sound like a robot.) I don't know if it really works or just make my tone sound odd lol... But at this point it's ingrained into part of my online speech tics.

I don't actually say it out loud as much irl, I don't think.

I think the tone I intend to convey with it is, everytime I say "like" imagine me scratching my head. I sometime vary it with "um" but "like" is meant to sound more blase and "um" is meant to sound more hesitant.

So to preface, I don't actually know too much about moral philosophy so this is me talking out of my ass after reading it up on wikipedia. But like... insofar as the compassionate basis of morality goes... It seems a bit narrow.

If we're basing it on the below...

If an action has as its motive an egoistic aim, it cannot have any moral worth. Only insofar as an action has sprung from compassion does it have moral value; and every action resulting from any other motives has none.

So... real life motivations are complicated. If a person decides to donate money to a cause they sincerely care about, but decide the amount to donate based on their available tax deduction (common thing to do), does the egoistic aim negate the sincere desire to help?

If it does, then this model render too many actions amoral and doesn't differentiate enough between amoral and immoral. Like, I just think there should be something to differentiate donating money for tax deduction vs. killing someone.

He also defines compassion as the prevention/elimination of suffering. Which also seems a bit narrow.

And, okay... I specifically grew up Christian, so I had to think about this a lot. If one is to assume hell is real, any act to prevent a loved one from going to hell would be a compassionate act. Any suffering caused in the process is negligible compared to eternal damnation. It's a bit of an edge case, and I don't think the kantian model address it any better.

Anyway I think the Kantian model seem to make more sense to me.

(i am studying engineering so i will judge you harshly on this. Choose your answer wisely ò-ó)(jk answer whatever you want, i'm just curious)

Well I mean... It depends on what level and what it's used for. Like... most of us use math to do accounting. That's straight forward and logical enough. Advance math start getting real philosophical and needs a lot of, not imagination per se, but intuitive leaps and inspiration.

Simultaneously I do graphic design for a living and I used to draw. Most of my work actually takes no imagination and is mostly skill and logic. (And drawing is mostly a lot of geometry.)

But like, logic itself takes a lot of imagination, yeah? Cause what is logic if not coming up with imaginary boundaries and rules and working within them? Simultaneously it's impossible to create outside of logical boundaries. But that's being too pedantic. Most people are not asking for definitions when they give that dichotomy but rather vibes.

So, I think math used in art and engineering is actually more of a logical thing applied to enable more creative thing. (Tho I don't know about engineering, you're the engineer here you tell me.) Cause we're mostly using known math as a tool to make new stuff, we're not inventing new math.

For people doing advanced math and interrogating the numbers and geometries for answers and trying to figure out new equations to define the world or explain concepts, they're doing math more creatively.