Uuuuh remember a million years ago when I asked for prompts and never filled them? Better late than never! I love SamMax but kinda suck at shippy stuff so I hope this is suitable for you, king of all things SamMax.
This is set before 12×20 (or we can pretend that episode never happened)
Sam tangles his fingers in Max’s. The bedside lamplight catches the silver of the ring on his pinky. Sam twists it gently, observes the tiny carvings and the tiny white stone embedded at the centre.
“What does this mean?” he asks, tapping the gem.
Max shifts his head from where it has been resting on Sam’s chest for the past hour, peeling open on sleepy eye. “Hm? Oh, that’s a moonstone. It’s a stone of strength. Supposed to bring calm and emotional stability and some other stuff I don’t remember.”
He drops his head back down and Sam feels his warm breath stir the hairs on his chest.
“Does it really bring calm?” he asks, sceptical.
“Maybe? Dunno,” Max answers lazily. “My grandma gave it to me when I was ten. Used to wear it on my thumb, then.” He’s quiet for a moment, still enough that Sam wonders if he fell back to sleep, but he stirs and props himself up on is elbow. “You don’t wear jewellery,” he says.
“Uh, no. I don’t.”
“I mean,” Max says, face scrunching as he thinks. “Well, you never drive your car. You always wear the same three shirts, all plaid, I might add.” A glances around the room. “Your bedroom is neater than a five-star hotel.”
“Yes?” Sam isn’t sure where he’s going with this.
“Do you own anything… special?” Max asks. “Something that’s really yours, that makes you happy.”
Sam thinks. He likes his laptop a lot, sure, but he didn’t acquire it by the most honest means. He remembers one shirt when he was younger that was his favourite, but it got stained beyond repair a long time ago. There’s the box of keepsakes under his bed… but not every memory in there is a happy one.
Sam settles on, “Why does it matter?”
Max gives him a small peck on the lips. “You deserve nice things, is all.” He unfastens one of the leather bands from his wrists and holds it out.
Sam blinks at him.
“Gimme your wrist, dummy,” Max prods, and fastens the bracelet around Sam’s wrist. It’s plaited tan leather, with a small silver bead in the middle. Max smiles, “Now you have something special.”
Sam doesn’t know what to say. He chuckles awkwardly. “Special because it’s from you?”
Max curls a strand of Sam’s hair around his finger. “Every time you look at it you’ll be reminded of the best sex you’ve ever had.”
As a university student whose course load is heavily math-based, I’ve had my fair share of encounters with math problems that seem unsolvable, and notes that make absolutely no sense. Fortunately, I’ve also come across a lot of useful resources that I thought I would share with my fellow math comrades! So here is my list of “life-saving” math resources that will hopefully make your math life a little bit easier.
Definitely the most used resource when I am doing math homework. It’s capable of solving basically any math problem. You have to pay to see the step-by-step solution, and I have a shared account with my friend, so that’s an option if you want to pay a little bit less!
Similar to Wolfram Alpha, but free! You can see the step-by-step solutions without paying, so that’s great. However, the downside is that if your math problem is quite complicated, it may not have the solution (i.e. crazy integrals)
This website has notes on algebra to multivariable calculus, with plenty of examples and explanations.
This is an actual life saver for my friends who are doing advanced/university level math. Especially if your professor has atrocious writing but can’t seem to stray away from hand written notes.
Has video lessons on elementary to university level math. Great for visual learners, since the lessons include a lot of graphs and diagrams. Not to mention this website offers video lessons on a variety of subjects!
Textbook solutions!!! You can probably find the solutions to most of the calculus textbooks used in universities. Really great for those who like to study by doing a bunch of practice questions.
For those with professors who prefer digital submissions of assignments: turn your phone camera into a scanner without the bulk. The best scanner app I’ve come across – it will make your papers look like they’ve actually been scanned, even if you take the photo in bad lighting.
Extra evidence is that “Toto” is also the name of Dorothy’s dog in “Wizard of Oz.” Toto the dog – Toto’s song about a werewolf. Coincidence? I think NOT.
There is a specific and terrifying difference between “never were” monsters and “are not anymore” monsters
“The thing that was not a deer” implies a creature which mimics a deer but imperfectly and the details which are wrong are what makes it terrifying
“The thing that was not a deer anymore” on the other hand implies a thing that USED to be a deer before it was somehow mutated, possessed, parasitically controlled or reanimated improperly and what makes THAT terrifying is the details that are still right and recognizable poking out of all the wrong and horrible malformations.
hey I totally fucked up and forgot the 3rd type, which is “Is Not Anymore And Maybe Never Was” monsters
“The thing which was no longer a deer and maybe never was” implies a creature that, at first glance, completely appears to be a deer, but over time degrades very slowly until you realize (probably too late) that it is not a deer anymore, and had you seen it in this state first, you wouldn’t have recognized it as a deer at all, and there’s a decent chance that it was never actually a deer to begin with but only a very good mimic, and what makes this one scary is the slow change from everything being right to everything being wrong, happening slowly enough that you don’t even notice it until its too late, as well as the fact that something now so clearly not a deer could have fooled you to begin with.
i’m assuming by now you’ve all read about the christian missionary who was killed while trying to convert the uncontacted indigenous north sentinelese tribe in india – which is, in fact, illegal, because the tribe has had absolutely no contact with the outside world and is therefore incredibly vulnerable to foreign contagions and diseases – but what a lot of stories are leaving out is that the guy actually spent several hours on the island, long enough to speak with the members of the tribe and “sing worship songs to them,” before members of the tribe killed him. and he brought along a backpack with some personal possessions, which remained on the island and were handled by members of the tribe. which is to say he fully could have unwittingly infected the tribe with some lethal disease that could wipe all of them out. what kind of narcissistic sociopath.
“Police said Chau had previously visited North Sentinel island about four or five times with the help of local fishermen,” journalist Subir Bhaumik, who has been covering the islands for years, told BBC Hindi.
oh sorry it’s actually worse than i thought, he went to the island multiple times with multiple other outsiders, each time increasing the possibility of exposing the tribe to foreign contagions
A source with access to handwritten notes that Chau gave to the fishermen to pass on to a friend said that Chau described taking scissors, safety pins and a football as gifts to the tribe.
In his notes, the source said, Chau wrote that some members of the tribe were good to him while others were very aggressive.
“I have been so nice to them, why are they so angry and so aggressive?” the source quoted Chau as saying.
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