Good Omens 2 appreciation post for that moment after Nina has just rocked Crowley's world with the revelation that no, he isn't slick and yes, it is glaringly obvious to everyone just how head over heels in love with Aziraphale he is.
Crowley takes himself off to the french restaurant and is drowning his sorrows in a bottle of wine while having the realisation that he's been following the angel around like a lovesick puppy all day with no other possible agenda other than to be around him.
And then he sees Aziraphale and whistles him over but the angel is too busy to join him for a wine in the middle of the day and Crowley tries to divert questions by complaining that he's scared Gabriel/Jim is gonna smite him and he'll be well and truly smote, no, smoted? Smited? What's the word he's looking for?
And the angel gives him a knowing look and says:
PERFECTION.
GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION AND DIAGNOSIS IN A SENTENCE.
AZIRAPHALE JUST READ HIM LIKE A HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE BOOK AND DOESN'T EVEN REALISE HE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
This is my new favourite double entendre.
Smitten as the past tense of Smite. And the exact reason Crowley is drinking in the middle of the day.
He's realising he's smitten, your honour.
I hope Neil closed the laptop with a dramatic flourish after writing that line. Hell if I'd written a moment that perfect I'd take a victory lap of the kitchen and then call someone to tell them how clever I'd been before I pop.
touching grass is not enough sometimes. sometimes what you actually need to touch is a math textbook
# prftrrhrhdhrhe yes
you’re out here following neil gaiman when you could “kneel” for a gay man
happy Angel Crowley today 🥹
Hickory WHAT-ory Dock??? Agatha, you lascivious concubine…
well?
Mathematics people interested in either learning about the Peano axioms of natural numbers (how do you prove a+b = b+a) or interested in learning a proving assistant (Lean) should DEFINITELY check out the natural number game. This is a game which teaches you both of these things step by step, and has you construct the natural numbers and their most important properties from the very basic axioms. Even if you just like logical puzzles and are interested in a bit of mathematics you should check it out!
why is everything named after euler
What’s the worst thing about limits?
• Is it always having to amplify by the conjugate to eliminate indeterminate forms? NO.
• Is it having to learn some limits by heart (especially for trig functions)? NO.
• Is it having to sometimes use L’Hôpital-Bernoulli’s rule over and over again? NO.
• Is it having to just write “lim” before each line? YES. FUCKING YES. WHY OH GOD WHY I HATE THE NOTATION.
The most infuriating part of it is that it’s just a notation and it could so easily be changed, BUT NO, we’re stuck with this shit.