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Claudia | she/xe | 20 | very trans | audio drama absorber | maths nerd

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Hello!! I'm claudia (She/Xe), i'm queer and trans as hell. I'm an absolute nerd for all things math, podcast, linguistics, and honestly most other things related. I will not shut up about maths and audio dramas, and while i rarely have thoughts on them, i will have emotions about them and y'all will be subjected to those

If you've arrived here, you're probably looking for fun content! I'm awful at tagging things generally, but right now my system of organization looks like:

  • Mathematics! You can find pretty much everything under the #math or #mathblr tags, and most of these are going to be shitposts about whatever topic has come across my mind today
  • Podcasts! You can find any specific podcast tagged under its name and sometimes the related acronym (especially spirit box radio, the penumbra podcast, the magnus archives, and station arcadia) or if you just want random audio drama content, check out #the arcane box vibrates (is it obvious i have thoughts on spirit box radio yet im trying to be subtle)
  • Languages! Generally things in other languages that i post/reblog on here will be tagged in that language (commonly #deutsch, #suomi, and #gaeilge) thought i know i have some legacy tags floating around like #suomiperkele and #deutsches zeug
  • Video games! Most of my reblogs are about Nier: Automata and Hades Hadesgame, and are tagged under #Nier and #hades respectively. Right now i think most of this is really awesome fanart! Although there is a stardew valley shitpost around here somewhere that refuses to die and has more notes than anything else if you're interested.
  • Asks are tagged under #undergoing peer review, and feel free to send me any!

In any case, enjoy your stay, drink some water, and stay spooky friends!

if you own k distinct colors of sock, you can draw k+1 arbitrary socks from your sock drawer and, by the pigeonhole principle, be guaranteed at least one matching pair. this is the only known application of combinatorics to the real world

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Swedish media are now whining (as if winning wasn’t enough, seriously?) and calling Finland “the former eastern part of the kingdom” which is absolutely tone deaf and disgusting, especially in a climate like this when another neighboring country of ours is using the same rhetoric about Ukraine

Swedes pulling out their colonialist card and with such pride out of spite is the last thing I was expecting in my 2023 bingo card

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So, before I give this powerpoint presentation on homotopic functors, I'd like to take a moment to brag about who we took this land from. Now, I'm not going to pronounce the name of this tribe correctly, but I will be saying it in a funny accent so that you know I still care.

Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.

On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.

In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.

In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.

Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.

Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.

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The whole hall chanting KÄÄRIJÄ KÄÄRIJÄ KÄÄRIJÄ and screaming CHA CHA CHA in between the jury votes while the moderators try their best to ignore them and continue to announce Sweden's win is a beautiful representation of how democracy works in the EU

Audience tonight is SO in it for Finland. Sweden's announcement as winner wasn't really met with LOUD happy screaming, there was booing and cha cha cha chanting mixed in the entire time. There's a clear fan winner.

Nobody needs this generic pop song.