#math-is-magic

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As a fellow child of the big three, Thalia is assigned to keep an eye on Bianca and Nico. In practice, their powers really have nothing to do with each other and everyone's aware the strongest person in Camp is Percy, so he ends up playing chaperone while Charon attempts to coax their abilities out of them.

"Hades's skills are rather advanced," Charon says after another day when they can't make the mouse skeletons so much as squeak. "Perhaps we should start with earth manipulation. It tends to be less innate, but more simplistic."

Bianca's eyes narrow, but Nico is unconcerned with the potential slight. "Is that what Percy did around camp?"

"Very similar," Charon nods while Percy hides a wince. "As a son of Persephone, Percy has a command over the earth born both of her status as a goddess of spring and queen of the underworld."

"Can he do this then?" Bianca asks. "Give us a demonstration."

"I mostly excel at soft skills," he says, by which he means beating people and monsters up with his sword. He excels at other things, too, just none that he can demonstrate without revealing his true parentage.

"Give it a try," Charon says. "It can't hurt."

Percy makes a face, but it'll probably be good for his reputation for him to fail at something. He lifts a hand like he would if he was trying to move something big, like changing the tides of the ocean, and concentrates on warm, deep earth. He makes sure not to focus on water or tectonic plates, things he could conceivably move, and just pretends for a moment that he really is a son of Persephone.

He's about to let his hand drop and call it a bust when the ground erupts in front of him. Earth spits itself up and Percy hastily lets go of his grip on it, and it settles, somehow, even though he really shouldn't be able to do that.

In front of him is what looks like a trench. Or a mass grave.

ahhh i’m sorry i almost never read fic (and wish i made more time to read it because i adore jgy fix its!) but i’d definitely rec @guqin-and-flute ‘s peony to lotus verse stuff - basic premise is that jgy gets an arranged marriage to jyl and ends up actually helping with things like wwx and his protection of the wens, etc. it’s super cute!

not quite a fix it in the way of jgy helping people and becoming a way better person, but i also love The Lost Cause by KouriArashi on ao3. nhs basically convinces jgy to joint-murder jgs with him, and we get nhs and jgy being manipulative little schemers together!! characterisation is so so good and it’s a pretty quick read!

Music inspired by and written for “Unto Darkness, Starlight”, a great fic written by @math-is-magic​ and @jay345sal28!

The ao3 link for the fic is here

So I haven’t seen the articles you’re talking about, but I’ve discussed it plenty in classes. Honestly scruffing should ALWAYS be a last-resort. However, there are situations where the safety of both the cat and the human have to be weighed. If a cat will otherwise bite or claw you in an emergency situation, obviously there’s going to be problems, and for your own safety, and to keep the cat from possibly hurting themselves, scruffing MAY be required.

But for daily, common things like nail trimming, your best long-term option is to train the cat to tolerate the motion and the behavior. It may take a little while, and depending on the cat, it may be difficult and slow going, but at the end of the day, that option is preferable. Even training a cat to go into a carrier is better in the long run.

This is pretty similar to a discussion I’ve had with @wafflelate, @math-is-magic and @pepperdoken trying to nail down the naruto timeline (I know, impossible).

But essentially, Kakashi must have been active as Kakashi-of-the-Sharingan during the years he was ANBU, simply in order for him to have that reputation and for Zabuza to know about it in the Land of Wave arc. He didn’t have the Sharingan as a kid, so it can’t have come from there, he joined ANBU while Minato was Hokage and he’s probably only been out of ANBU for two or three years, if that.

Most likely, Kakashi was running two ‘jobs’ the whole time, being active and known as Kakashi Hatake as well as being ANBU Wolf. So while there might have been a link between ‘hey this powerful ANBU’ and ‘hey this powerful jounin’, I don’t think there would have been a shift from one to the other that anyone could point out.

(prompted by @math-is-magic)

(Warning: mildly-explicit sexy times and the f-word)

"You're late," she breathed, and she tried to pass it off as irritation, but it was more breathless than anything, and Wally laughed in response. He crushed his mouth against hers, just the way she wanted, sucking her lower lip between his teeth to nibble at sensitive flesh. Artemis moaned in pure satisfaction, her lithe, calloused fingers fisting in a vice at the front of his button-up, tugging him bodily closer even as he moved to lift her up by the ass.  "How are you always late?"

“We can talk about LGBT issues and racism without saying all people of color are LGBT. Likewise, we can talk about aphobia and LGBT intersecting without saying all aces are LGBT.”  - rebelbaze

But that’s just the thing - if you’re asexual, you belong in LGBT spaces.  You don’t need a different gender to qualify.  I’m cis demipansexual, go ahead and tell me I don’t belong in LGBT spaces.  Go ahead.  You wouldn’t be right.  You’ll never be right.  Soz.

“Please NEVER fucking compare me to cis straight people EVER again.” - rebelbaze

As long as you keep using the language of oppression, it’s easy to draw the comparison.  I really can’t believe you can’t hear yourself like, at all.

“Cis straight aces, cis straight aros, and cis aroaces ALL benefit from my oppression as a bisexual agender ace.” -rebelbaze

How?

And, just so you know, nobody benefits from your putrid attitude towards your fellow LGBT+ people.

“LGBT people faced actual consequences and hate campaigns" -rebelbaze

Actual consequences and hate campaigns, hmmm, you mean.... kind of like what you’re doing to aces?

“A single person saying something is “parallel” to homophobia doesn’t a. actually mean it is or b. qualify as a meaningful consensus, especially when asexuality is still being argued as to whether or not it even counts as an orientation.” -rebelbaze

You’re right, a single person claiming something doesn’t make it true, which is also true for your claim that cishet aces don’t have a place in LGBT+ spaces.  However, I would have hoped that the word of a scientific observer who has studied all of the available literature on the topic and drawn connections between the experience of homophobia and acephobia would hold some water for you, if you were a rational thinking human being.  If you want me to link you to magazine articles or blogs or something, that’s basically asking for pap over something that has gone through a lengthy editing and peer review process and been verified by not just one but MANY experts as being factually correct and the best piece of work that it can be.  I’m not saying all research articles are infallible at all, I’m just saying, they’re well-thought out, and not just the product of an individual person.

Anyway.  Moving on.

You claim that acephobia is just the same thing as misogyny repackaged - and in a strange way, I’m about to say you’re right, because your internalised hatred towards ace people when you claim to be ace yourself is like the internalised misogny suffered by many women.  I’m going to hark back to one of your comments on an earlier post: "every LGBT person i know loathes cishet aces".  It’s a psychological principle that people subconsciously externalise their beliefs - they’d like to believe that everybody was like them, that they aren’t the only one with these thoughts or feelings.  Taking the external factor out of that statement, it reads as “I loathe cishet aces.”

I’m really sorry you’re so full of hatred.  And I’m sorry that your experiences with cishet aces have been bad.  But instead of projecting your suffering onto an entire group of people, can you practise forgiveness?  Or if not forgiveness, the understanding that whoever has hurt you is not representative of the entire group of potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of people.  Roughly 10% of aces identify as straight, based on Brotto et al.  That’s a lot of people to exclude.  Heck, even if it was just one or two people, it still wouldn’t be right.

Everyone has internalised hatred of some kind, but you need to counter it, not embrace it.  Stop embracing hatred and stand instead for every asexual who is looking for somewhere to belong.  They are LGBT+.  They don’t need a non-cis gender identity to qualify.  Their sexuality is enough.