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To petblr...I do pet portraits! I haven't had a chance to finish my website but I figured I'd upload something here.

One animal full color is $60, here are examples:

sketches are $40 for one pet:

every extra pet is +50% of base price

bg colors are totally up to commissioner's discretion!

While right now I only have examples of cats and dogs, I am willing and able to take commissions for any kind of pet:) if you aren't sure, just ask!

I use paypal, and typically ask for payment upfront. I am also willing to take partial payments upfront.

Pricing on more complex orders can be worked out! (ie drawn backgrounds and the like) These are large portraits and perfect for printing on canvas or other surfaces.

Please understand you will be paying for my labor only, and I will retain the rights to the image and its distribution, reproduction, or use in artist promotion.

Reblogs are appreciated!

Send an email to [email protected] for inquiries!

I can also do acrylics! DM or email me for details

Here's an example, I don't have a lot of pictures but hoping to change that soon

I didn't wanna derail the other post but I still wanna spread some love for my favourite subject...

Reblog if you've ever felt genuine joy or excitement from doing and/or thinking about math

I have a distinct memory at, maybe 7 or 8 years old, of swinging in the playground, and suddenly stopping when I realized that x-y=-(y-x) and just burning with that knowledge for the whole day. I think I was probably 13 when my teacher challenged us to prove Heron's formula and I worked at it for hours, staying up way too late to scratch out another part of this massive multiplication and when I finally solved it there was a sense of serene calm. I laughed, literally laughed out loud, the first time I saw the formula for sums of arithmetic progressions, because it was so clean and clever, and I felt an almost hunger when I saw Euler's formula, one that was only really satisfied when I first realized you could use it to solve sines/cosines of sums.

I love math so much

I was genuinely incredibly excited when I realised that the decimals of 3/7th had the same infinite string of digits as 1/7th, starting at a different number, and that this was true for all of them, which is true only for the number 7.

It's been my favourite number since.

i remember when it clicked into me that the prime numbers are all the numbers that are NOT in the multiplication tables

I remember being around 8 and thinking about square numbers and noticing that you keep adding consecutive odd numbers to get to the next one (1+3=4, 4+5=9, 9+7=16...) and ending up visualizing it as expanding a square grid by another row/column by adding additional squares based on the number of rows/columns it already had. delightful realization that I later learned could be expressed as (x+1)^2=(x^2)+2x+1

There was a book in my 8th-grade math class that explained different base systems, and that knocked me out for a solid hour

I remember when I was in elementary school and I was just messing around with this calculator. And it was this old, cheap calculator that didn't round off the last digit. I'd do 1/9 and get a string of ones, 2/9 and get a string of twos, and go right on to 9/9 and even though I knew it was going to say one it was still a shock to not see a string of nines.

Math is fun.

Never felt math joy but reblogging for those who have!

This is more or less how I feel every time I watch the numbers dance in a population genetics proof, when I was first introduced to the concept of a fitness landscape, when I was in the senior year of my undergrad and could derive the theorems that came up in lab meeting on the fly without having the pathways explained first. When I think about fitness clines and alleles tumbling across space. When I think about the half completed mathematical model of the impact of niche partitioning on sexual dimorphism that I still have tucked in a folder somewhere, my side project with a dear friend from years ago.

Is it weird that I resent brains and acoustic signals and behavior on some level for taking me from that? Not that there isn't plenty of math in both fields, not that I'm not working with math all the time, but those are really the numbers that I think of when I think of the mathematics dancing in my heart.

One of my formative moments was realizing that an equation is a sentence. There's a subject, a verb, an object. There may be clauses. Subclauses! But it's a complete sentence at all stages of complexity or simplification.

"I am me" is a sentence just like "x=0" is a sentence, just as "x^2 - y^3 +19/q > 5c(log m)" is a sentence. And just like spoken language, math equations contain information, convey knowledge, can tell stories, can reflect ongoing life patterns... Why didn't anyone ever teach math like this?

Problem #1 regarding child abuse is that a lot of people seem to struggle to imagine normal, respectable-looking parents and other authority figures ever doing it despite the statistics so instead they do the stranger danger panic and completely overlook some of the greatest threats.

Problem #2 is that even when people understand, even if in an abstract way, that parents can be abusive they just... don't seem to actually register that as something that can apply to real life. It's just hypothetical to them and doesn't actually guide their ideas of how to prevent child abuse.

Problem #3 is that even after overcoming the above biases a lot of people have a very narrow image of what abusive parenting is where they imagine like... people doing violent things basically out of sadism and without provocation. They don't seem to think it's "real" abuse if the victim did something that "justifies" punitive violence, like disobeying the parents.

In fact, most people think parents have a right to do a whole lot of awful things to their children beyond just hitting them, like violating their privacy, controlling their access to information, and deciding what/when/if they eat, among other things.

society if gnobody gave a fuck

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White Baby has released an apology statement

Miyuta Komachi "For You"

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