we do the weird stuff

Mutuals changing their icons makes me feel like a child crying when their dad shaves his face bc they don’t know who he is

whenever people are like ugh the life in stardew valley is so idyllic i truly cant comprehend that. absolutely love it as a video game but waking up at 6 am every day to do manual labor in an insular small town that has exactly one restaurant is a nightmare scenario.

The far right justices in question are Clarence Thomas (75) and Samuel Alito (73). The likelihood that both will be able to remain on the bench until 2029, at the earliest, is small, especially with the growing ethics concerns around Thomas’ financial improprieties and his wife’s association with January 6 that may push his retirement even though he is currently (very) resistant. Thomas and Alito are the oldest members of the Court.

Re-electing Biden substantially increases the chances of the loaded 6-3 court shifting to 5-4, moving control away from the far right bloc, by 2029.

But it also has to be considered that Sonia Sotomayor, even though she is only 68, may not be able to remain on the bench through the next presidential term due to health concerns.

The first Trump presidency and Mitch McConnell’s scheming loaded the court with three right wing ideologues who barely qualify to teach law at Regent University, let alone have lifetime appointments to our highest court.

It is crucial to remember that the impact of a presidency on the courts outlasts any other presidential legacy and can change the entire course of American life for decades.

Obergefell vs Hodges is one of the things that might be on the line in the future. If you don’t want gay marriage to have the same spotty rights as it used to — as happened with abortion without Roe vs Wade — then I recommend voting in your interest, even if it feels like there’s no moral choice on the ballot.

That's it. That's the dream. I'm almost mad that that's the dream.

That's half the dream. The other half is being fairie fucking godmother to everyone on the planet.

See, I had 100k for a hot minute. Doesn't matter why. But for nearly a calendar year, I picked up the tab every chance I got, i lavished people with gifts, I took a friend to Greece, I paid for healthcare for myself and a few other people, for lawyers to help someone get out of an abusive marriage, Christmas presents for a single mom of 3.

It felt incredible. Just to take away the worry and say, "I've got you." Instacart groceries to a grieving friend of a friend across town. Pay the unexpected car repairs. Gift a young artist a yearlong subscription to Procreate.

That's why I'll never understand billionaires. If you could fix it, if money could actually make even one life better, why would you not do it? Even just for the kick? Hell, i don't care if it feeds your ego. Be Tony Stark, be Superman, idgaf. When you'll never be able to spend all that you have, even if you some up every damn day like it was your job, if you could end world hunger six times over for the price of a social media company, why wouldn't you just DO IT?

I don't have a coherent conclusion to this, except that if I ever meet Jeff Bezos, I'll beat him to death with my bare fists.

The pain is more incredibly annoying than unbearable

I can bear it but come on

thecadre15:

Naruto ships possible = (858 * 857) =

735,306

Homestuck ships possible (don’t forget, four romances, one tri-relational) = (840 * 839 * 3) + (840 * 839 * 838) =

592,703,160

What math were YOU doing?

Alex you wonderfully saucy bastard you.

Wait, you are actually forgetting that in Homestuck it is possible for a person to be shipped with themselves (Karkat for example is in a kismesis relationship with his past/future selves). This brings the real total of number of ships closer to (840^2 * 3) + (840^3) = 

594,820,800

This is of course assuming that each character is only capable of having 4 types of ships.  If we factor in charms (which is the Leprechaun romance system) there are 9 types of relationships. However, it is clearly stated that Leprechauns can be in more than 1 charm with another Leprechaun. That means that the total number of combinations of relationships that a Leprechaun can have is :

 = 

There are 14 known Leprechauns in Homestuck meaning that the total number of possible “Leprechaun Only” relationships in Homestuck is (14*14*511) = 

100,156

So we add that number to the previous total for 594,820,800 + 100,156 = 

594,920,956

However, this is assuming that only Leprechauns can be in these types of relationships. If we assume that all characters can additionally be in these types of relationships (which I understand is a big assumption, but the fandom will probably ship everything possible anyway) then we need to add a few more numbers.

(840 * 840 * 511) =

360,561,600

I am going to add this to the first total I came up with so as not to include the Leprechauns twice. So the grand total number of ships possible in Homestuck assuming that every character can be in both Troll and Leprechaun relationships (but not both at the same time) is:

594,820,800 + 360,561,600 = 

955,382,400

So yeah…

hey every nepeta ever

start on that wall

I believe I’ve addressed this before, however, I’ve decided to revisit my old calculations for funsies.

So remember how way back when I said G1 has 538 Autobots and 452 Decepticons? Remember that? And how I got that nifty calculation that said, hey the Transformers Fandom has nearly 3 billion ships in the G1 Continuity on its own? 

Well, I went back onto the TF Wiki and decided to calculate the total number of characters from every continuity that could be considered Cybertonian in origin.

TOTAL NUMBER OF AUTOBOTS = 3071

TOTAL NUMBER OF DECEPTICONS = 2469

TOTAL NUMBER OF MAXIMALS = 264

TOTAL NUMBER OF PREDACONS = 310

TOTAL NUMBER OF NEUTRALS = 40

TOTAL NUMBER OF MINICONS = 610

That is a grand spanking total of 6764 Cybertronian characters. If we were simply to address one specific method of pairing characters, say Full Spark Bonding between two individuals, this would lead to exactly 91,503,392 possible ships.

However, there are five widely observed types of relationships between Cybertronians. These are Full Spark Bond (2 Individuals), Partial Spark Bond (2 Individuals), Trine Bond (3 Individuals), Full Multiple Spark Bond (3 to 5 Individuals), Partial Multiple Spark Bond (3 to 5 Individuals).

Ahem.

Following my revised calculations, the total number of possible ships with JUST Cybertronian Characters is anywhere between 2,785,363,252,480 and 929,033,938,976.

Between 2 Trillion and 900 Trillion. 

In conclusion…

ROBOTS!!

Every once in a while the Transformers fandom will rear its head and you see a glimpse of infinity.

did they just dethrone us

You know what, you didn’t just dethrone us.

Let’s, for the sake of fairness, keep the calculation of Homestuck’s total ships at 594,820,800 (disregarding leprechauns, including selfcest.)

And instead add this:

No, it’s not canon. No, this probably wouldn’t apply to any form of Alternia that “exists” or ever will “exist”. But for now, forget that.

We’ve already calculated data for the main four ships, so for now those are going to be skipped. Going down this list in order disregarding the main ships, we have (840^3) + (840^2) + (840^4) + (840^3) + (840^2) + (840^2) + (840^2) + (840^2).

Simplified? 499,060,296,000 ships. Adding the original ship count gives us 499,655,116,800 - which, for those of you whom don’t want to look at such a big number, is a burning half trillion potential ships.

Not enough to scratch your total. Let’s just try not to succumb to futility, here: predictably, I’m going to go deeper.

Time for lots of math.

(840^5)+(840^5)+(840^7)+(840^4)+(840^4)+(840^4)+(840^3)+(840^3)+(840^7)+(840^5)+(840^4)+(840^3)+(840^5)+(840^4)+((9*10)+(5^2))+(840^4)+(840^4)+840+(7*840)+(840^2)+840+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^8)+(840^4)+(840^4)+(840^2)+(840^3)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^4)+(840^2)+(840^5)+(840^2)+(840^3)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^3)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^3)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+(840^2)+840+(840^2)+(840^2)+840+(840^2)+840+(840^2)+840+(840^2)+(840^2)

Flagism (i.e. inside-your-caste only) required me getting a list of every canon troll. Yes, Meirfa and Nektan as well as their potential ancestors/decendants (one or the other) are counted. In cases in which it asks for a “group”, or uses “many”, I used 4 and 8 respectively, in reference to the kids. This is because things like Laytherithm, which could repeat infinitely, would probably essentially be cheating this list.

My final result is 2.484660738974071e+23, which I had to manually calculate to be a whopping total of (supposedly) 248,466,073,897,407,100,000,000. 248 sextillion possible ships. We don’t even need the leprechaun ships, because we’ve already won. *mic drop*

*cracks knuckles*

There are now at least 6766 documented individual named Cybertronian Characters (I’m way too lazy to go back to the TF Wiki a third time to verify it, but there’s probably more. They pop up like daisies). As of my writings at this time we have Full Spark Bonds (2 Individuals), Partial Spark Bonds (2 Individuals), Trine Bonds (3 Individuals), Full Multiple Spark Bonds (3 to 5 Individuals), Partial Multiple Spark Bonds (3 to 5 Individuals, and the Official Conjunx Endura (which appears to be your basic marriage synonym, assumed 2 individuals).

So Full and Partial Spark Bonds plus Conjunx Endura = 3(6766^2)

Add In Trine Bonds  = (6766^3)

And all variations of the the Multiples. I only did one variation of each before because honestly, five seemed a bit unfair.  = 2(6766^3) + 2(6766^4) + 2(6766^5)

3(6766^2) + (6766^3) + 2(6766^3) + 2(6766^4) + 2(6766^5) = 

137,336,268 + 309,739,063,096 + 619,478,126,192 + 4,191,389,001,815,072 + 28,358,937,986,280,780,000 = 28,363,130,304,637,120,628

Over 28 Quintillion in Cybertronian Only Relationships. If I really wanted to be unfair, then I would throw in Gestalt Bonds, which can range from 2 to 6 individuals. Occasionally there are more than six, but that’s such a statistical rarity that I’m excluding.

But hey, since I’m here = (6766^2)+(6766^3)+(6766^4)+(6766^5)+(6766^6)

That is…

45,778,756 + 309,739,063,096 + 2,095,694,500,907,536 + 14,179,468,993,140,390,000 + 9,593,828,720,758,787,000,000 = 9,608,010,285,756,213,139,388

…or 9.6 Sextillion in Gestalt Bonds alone.

This brings the total to 9,636,373,416,060,850,260,016 and does not include Symbionts (who can have symbiotic bonds with eighteen or possibly more cassettes), Splitsparks (one spark split into two individuals), Triple Changers (one spark, multiple forms and multiple personalities, or Multi-Changers (one spark, more than 3 forms and possibly more than 3 personalities).

This is one Universal Stream.

There are 54 Quadrillion Universal Streams.

I had to use google’s calculator because mine wouldn’t cooperate but that gives us this number here = 520,364,160,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Wikipedia tells me that this number is approximately 520 Tredecillion. Not as nice sounding as Quintillion or Sextillion, I’ll admit. But it’s further down the list and therefore larger, so I will put up with how dumb it sounds.

Considering that we have yet another movie this year, three on-going comic series, and a new tv show due out next summer, we may just reach a googol within the next half decade.

Aw son of a fuck.

Now, I have expended all of my possible resources for possible ships, but you must remember a novemdecillion is eighteen zeroes past a tredecillion. And even if that math did have a chance of being totally incorrect, just remember that we have seven sets of infinity sitting on top of the half-a-quadrillion ship pile.

Apologies, I counted wrong. It’s actually 520 Undecellion, not Tredecillion.

We only reach 1.03 Tredecillion if we add in Triple Changers. It’d be more if we applied every single bonding type to each personality, but I’m pretty sure that may cause some spark strain in the long run and be somewhat physically unhealthy.

I’m also not going to even attempt to calculate the possibilities of Triple Changers in conjunction with Gestalt Bonds because let’s face it, that would be a very ridiculous number, accompanied with the even more ridiculous imagery of Astrotrain and Blitzwing in an orgy with the Stunticons.

If there isn’t a fic of that already, there will be within the next five days.

As for Symbionts and Multi-Changers, there is not enough caffeine in the universe to challenge the headache that will bring me. I also forgot about Binary Bonding and again, that’d probably bring me more headache than can actually be cured. Still left out Humans and Non-Cybertronian Aliens.

But still, whatever number we manage to get for one Universal Stream, we can multiply it by 54 Quadrillion.

Okay, you know what, I know when you have to give up.

Trophy to Transformers fandom.

so. much. math. XD

Did he account for cross-continuity pairings? All the numbers sort of started to dance around.

Never fails to amuse me.

it’s time to throw this out here again

There comes a point where you just have to realize that the Transformers Fandom is the sleeping giant at the bottom of the sea.

We are Chaos and Order. We are an eternity of madness and War. We are unending and incomprehensible. We are Cybertronians and we are Eternal.

every day i wake up so thankful to be autistic

the reason so many attempts to adapt the beauty and the beast following the hugely formative disney version have kinda sucked i think is because writers fail to account for these two simple rules:

1. the beauty character should get to actually be rightfully angry about her situation at first. if you arent giving your beauty the narrative space to be petty and pissed off youve failed and even worse you have bored me.

2. the beast needs to be a bit of a malewife. non negotiable.

monsterfucker society has become so enamored with “powerful scary monster who rejects all the world but you and is forever possessive over you” that weve lost sight of the “initially scary monster who is actually kind of pathetic and lonely and wants to give you everything but gets it if you have better things to do” archetype that the world so desperately needs in these trying times

as a leftist, i am in favor of working class people and especially racialised groups/lgbtq/women/disabled people getting firearms. the reasoning should be obvious—but if you dont get it, ask me why.

you can have/want to have sex with someone without being romantically attracted to them and there is literally nothing wrong with it and if anyone tells you there is theyre an asshole. thank you and goodnight.

also not to be a bagel-eating cunt on main but i’m… baffled by how certain people on here are very much set on blaming this sorry state of the arts and the general cultural decay on. fucking fanfiction. out of all things! when algorithm-worshipping tv execs and film studios and publishing companies are literally right there! it’s the galloping monopolization and privatization of art — resulting from unchecked capitalism and resulting in an endless stream of easy-to-consume yet mindless and fundamentally unsatisfactory content — that is your enemy, not some depressed college students publishing their novel-length destiel erotica on ao3 and not profiting from it in any tangible way. jesus

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling.  I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person.  I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.

Fiction is a safe place to explore whatever fucked up or dark desire that you have. You can write the most vile and fucked up shit in fiction and it be absolutely nothing you desire in real life. You can write about a serial killer who gets away with it. You can write about someone who goes on moral crusades to purge the world of all evils and still be the protagonist. You can write anything in fiction because that’s what it is meant for. 

It isn’t meant to be a social commentary unless you create it to be. 

It isn’t meant to be educational unless you create it to be. 

Sometimes a story can be just that, a story. Entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Not everything has to be deep, or have meaning, etc. unless the creator wants it to be and a lot of the purity types end up forcing something to have deep meaning or social commentary where it isn’t meant to.  Is this inherently bad? No, but these people don’t just say “But this is my interpretation of it.” they go as far as trying to force that interpretation onto everyone else, including the creator, as a means of saying “See? It means that they promote/condone xyz so they’re bad and shitty people who should spend the rest of their life in jail with/are the same as people who’ve actually committed acts of violence against other people.” 

THANK. YOU.

@ all the people in the notes saying “yes except u can’t write about (list of immoral things they don’t want to see in fiction)” congrats on missing the point so spectacularly I’m not sure I could create better performance art if I tried

“You can’t write about this [insert bad thing here]! It’s immoral and evil and—”

What are you? Protestant? Thought crime isn’t real, ya twit.

Fiction is for putting your brain’s little raccoon hands all over a situation without having to actually electrocute yourself by touching the electric wire because unlike a raccoon you can read the sign that says it will electrocute you

People condemn the worker for coming in sick but not the employer for not having paid sick leave

Sometimes even the villains have standards