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what uni are you in
im not doxxing myself what
as a struggling astrophysics student, any advice for studying physics or science in general
hi i rawdog my degree crying and screaming so idk how useful my tips will be but i think try not to skip classes/lectures and if u do, try to catch up asap with the lecture notes or recordings, do more practice questions & past exam papers if ur uni/school has that, consolidate ur understanding & knowledge regularly over the year, when revising in exam season prioritize understanding the core concepts (and the math skills) rly well first and then do it in detail, a lot of details can usully be derived from the core concepts anyway (like if i cant remember all the forumlae i remember the most important and the others can be derived.) dimensional analysis also helps w getting the form of equations right
Hello xiying, thank you for loving fengqing and haikaveh and always have a lot to say about them. Thank you for being you. I hope you always have a wonderful every day (and may ur period cramps stops)
hellooo thank you for this kind message!!! i love to talk about fengqing and haikaveh <3
hi xi :-)
HI!
(hi xiying this is ruru ^_^) the idea of haunting makes me crazy. afterimage of the other person in your memory…. voice in your ear telling you how x y z thing is done after they’re long dead/estranged from you…. flash of hair the same color or a similar silhouette and you chase after them to find out it was no one at all…. bright eyes or a ringing laugh reminding you of them and suddenly you’re brought back 5 years when nothing went wrong btwn you two…. (this is about hkvh)
omg i love haunting. and like haunting metaphors even if its stuff like your own past haunting you. I LOVE THE THING ABOUT SUDDENLY YOURE BROUGHT BACK 5 YEARS AGO ETC its so good like when theres a ghostly string tugging at your ankle and you think you’re walking along fine and suddenly theres a sharp yank and you’re thrown backward 10000 steps and youre like oh fuck
XI how honest do you think kaveh is
omgomg let me think. so like i think he’d try his best to be honest for integrity reasons since i think he does value that, in terms of transparency in work and stuff, honest with his clients about every step in his commission etc. and with friends (or haitham) when it comes to matters that do not touch the things that he feels wounded by. like if he’s speaking about everyday events like idk what he did in a day or his opinion on a building or a concept, things like that, he’d be pretty honest
BUT when it does come to the things that he keeps buried inside himself i think he’s a very good liar who even lies to himself so much that he’s almost gaslighting himself. whether that be an actual vocal lie or him omitting the truth/circumventing it in crafty ways. he’d lie about how much he takes care of himself to his friends like if someone asks if he’s eaten he’d say yes even if he hasnt, or play down the number of bottles he’s drank during one night, etc. he’d also lie about being okay / not needing help bc guilt / his inability to ask for undeserved help. pre-reconciliation he lied about not living with haitham (or at least hid the truth) because it makes him feel guilty + humiliated too. he wouldnt really be honest about his feelings (but theres an inconsistency because i think he’d be fine showing how angry he is at a client if they disrespect his craft but he would be not fine showing his self doubt or grief, stuff like that)
with haitham specifically he probably lies the most (pre-reconciliation also) because he just . yeah. thinks haitham disdains him (False) . and he even lies to himsefl about haitham disdaining him becuase
i think deep down he can see the acts of kindness haitham’s offering but because he doesnt know how to face haitham if he were to accept the fact that he really is doing them out of his heart and not for the sake of receiving benefits in return, he’d rather make himself believe that haithams doing it out of derision and turn it into a whole transactional thing. probably the biggest lie hes ever woven in his life and its so seamless that it almost becomes the truth to his mind. & then everything else haitham does gets twisted to feed this fallacy so its just this Giant Web of fabricated lie
ie he’d be honest about impersonal topics or opinions he feels strongly about (like beauty art creation science integrating into design etc) but an extremely good liar about the deeper personal things
hi :33
hello!!!
you talking a lot about words and writings is one of the things that motivates me to pick up writing btw, i can see how much you really love writings and it makes it looks fun to me. have a good day always <3
omg i'm so glad thank u yes i love writing i hope u have fun writing !!!!
HI XIYING
HELLO
i think al-haitham really doesnt care how hes perceived lmao. i think maybe he probably had a bit of it as a kid but i like to think his grandmother was a good influence who helped him through it & he's confident enough now that he doesnt care at all. i feel like haitham dresses in whatever way he likes, like its more internal reasons rather than caring abt how his looks would be perceived, like eg. him simply liking a cape because of the way it sweeps when he moves. wearing a tight shirt because it doesnt cause the fabric to shift/brush against his skin when he moves etc? for kaveh he definitely likes being stylish bc thats a part of beauty but yes exactly lmao hes also practical abt it.
omg haikaveh and socmed... ngl haitham probably doesnt care for it and probably thinks half the people on there are just showing very surface level sides of themselves, he'd probably on socmed but like retweeting academic journals and arguing with people about philosophy/language/etc. kaveh would probably have an art account, also has like advocate tweets + thinkpiecing threads about his opinions
trust—i think haithams pretty straightforward when he says stuff, hes unlikely to lie, but his unreliability comes from the fact that he'd omit things if he doesnt think them to be important, even if others would consider them to be important. kaveh is also pretty honest i think he thinks its a virtue, but he'd probably tell white lies if he thinks its better for the other party. with each other though i think kaveh would pretty much be all open since its clear haitham doesnt rly care for white lies, and haitham would always tell the truth too except he just. omits info as i said, not even intentionally but just bc he doesnt feel the need to say it. eg. platitudes, excessive compliments, overexplaining himself etc. (underexplainer x overexplainer lol)
questions!!! (this is ruru btw ^_^)
- haikaveh spice tolerance go
- it’s so interesting to consider the framework of love and relationship as the ship of theseus and how much you’re willing to be changed for the other person and how your relationship changes good and bad over time
- i’m obsessed with the idea of hkvh loving each other to the point of creation….. making each other small things to make their lives easier… al-haitham designs kaveh a wrist brace… kaveh makes al-haitham a pen/fidget spinner….
hi xi do you ever think (before his hangout event) kaveh wishes he went with his dad to the interdarshan championship so that he could have died alongside him, if nothing else
honestly consciously i think he loves survival (in spite of everything & out of spite towards everything) but alsooo he would spiral irrationally so probably yes but in those moments (eg during a particularly bad burnout/breakdown, when he feels like his work isn’t going anywhere, etc.)
what is your favorite color, and what is your least favorite shade of that color?
my favorite color is pink & my least fav shade of pink is fuschia
thoughts on fxmq’s favourite dimsum
feng xin: 鳳爪 because of the feng and 生煎包 奶黃包 煎堆 叉燒腸粉 almond soup
mu qing: anything he can eat relatively elegantly like 蝦餃 + shrimp 腸粉 but he secretly likes the sweet dimsum like 豆沙包 etc, black sesame soup etc
DO YOU HAVE MODERN HAIKAVEH HCS....
MODERN HAIKAVEH omg kaveh would still be an architecture student at college because i think i can never take that away from him lol & haitham would be linguistics,,, but he'd randomly look into other lectures if hes interested enough in them (so including the math/physics ones which kaveh probably also has to take lmao) and i feel like hed only show up to the classes he finds compelling 😭 but once he does show up to the classes if he disagrees w the professor he'd argue lol. whereas kaveh is like model student perfect attendance perfect assignments ambitious & overworked etc lmao. in a sense this is kind of the same as how i hc them in the genshinverse akademiya anyway. then for jobs i think kaveh would be an architect, aiming for the top architectural firms & dreaming to create buildings that last through time,,,, whereas haitham would probably just find a regular job that isnt too taxing ? like a 9-5 desk job or smth. which gives him ample time to pursue his own interests/reading outside of job time, hes the type who never works overtime always leaves at 5pm sharp (and probably does his own shit on company time if hes finished his work ngl) . alternatively i can also see him as a librarian or bookshop owner i think thats cute.
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