myrmepropagandist
Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful and visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... and The Other One.
Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now & dotes on her mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/
Paul Cantrell
@futurebird
Computer Science eventually falls in love with Fine Arts. She was afraid to tell her mother at first, but mother was entirely supportive of the match. Computer moved in with Fine Arts. It’s a happy relationship inside the walls, but people outside don’t understand. They keep shipping her with MBA down the street. She sees MBA all day at work, and they get things done, but there’s no romantic spark there. Only her close friends understand.
myrmepropagandist
Computer Science, the youngest daughter has some disturbing, mostly repressed memories about playing with "the lady in the wall" when she was little. She shudders to think how she used to look up to the strange and often unkind creature.
But she also still loves her sister maybe more than anyone. Though being quite cold and detached in manner she has no idea how to help her.
Economics doesn't want to be helped. She doesn't want to get "better."
She wants to get WORSE. 3/3
myrmepropagandist
It really seems like only three women live at the house, but there is another.
Economics raids mother's closet (mathematics) and plays dress up stomping around in her most fancy and intimidating notation with none of her precision or grace.
It would be cute, but Economics is pushing 100, feral, and lives in the walls. 2/
Chris L
@futurebird @inthehands Awesome. I have a background in math, tho I've worked in software my adult life, now my kids are grown I'm getting a masters in .. maths. My wife had a PhD in physics (and mocks all the care my classes take to prove calculus true) but is an artist now, abstract expressionism with painting at the moment. Of all of them, I believe mathematics is the one with the most purely joyous experiences.
myrmepropagandist
The first time Fine Arts came to the house for the holidays with Computer Science, Economics surprised her in the guest bathroom and bit her. She and Computer Science had to spend most of the holiday at the emergency room getting rabies and tetanus shots.
Computer Science finally opened up about her childhood and it made them a lot closer.
Log 🪵
@futurebird @inthehands CS and FA having their own brood in Computer Graphics and Music Technology.
Floaty Birb
@futurebird Economics is definitely the child of mathematics and social science who hates both of her parents and steals from both of their wardrobes.
myrmepropagandist
I'm thinking of looking for an artist to commission a drawing of this family. Gotta go poke around on tumblr. If you know of anyone who might be a good match drop me a DM.
myrmepropagandist
I think I have someone in mind for this. Someone I've worked with before... and dredging up this thread and surfacing it has reminded me that they may be the perfect person.
Now is a great time to commission some art. With all that little stash of coin you have since abandoning newspaper subscriptions, amazon and The Economy in general.
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