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Hello! Welcome!!

I'm CK.

I have many interests, but my main ones are over-analyzing stories, watching TV shows, and once in a while, drawing. My favorite activity, though, is to ramble about different topics.

I like to analyze things, then share my thoughts/ideas, which often leads me to ramble about many different things. Those posts are tagged #ckrambles .

I’m interested in story themes, character arcs, and world-building, so these are things I tend to focus on.

The main fandoms I’m into:

Devil May Cry

Transformers (TFP, TFA, and IDW MTMTE)

Most of my posts/reblogs will be about the fandoms above.

Occasionally I'll talk about:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Avatar the Last Airbender

Owl House

Ninjago (fav childhood show, not active in the fandom)

A Bird that is born for Joy and a Broken Cage: A Visions of V Analysis

An in-depth analysis on Visions of V that looks into specific moments of the story to understand V’s journey and what lessons he learned during his existence.

Part 0: Introduction

All parts of the analysis are pinned to Part 0.

#ck rambles #ck random #ck analysis #ck VoV analysis

elierlick

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

lucieslucidity

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

fleshengine

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

dancinbutterfly

Progress.

Onwards!

onthedriftinthetardis

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

#lgbtq #random

I wish I were joking, but I've started reading comics from right to left instead of left to right. And this has messed up my comprehension skills because I've been reading things out of order. It's getting pretty annoying....

There's one franchise to blame for this fact-

#ck rambles #I've been reading some comics and going.. why is this not making sense #OH it's supposed to flow like this-#Why does this keep happening??#Ah right I kept reading Japanese manga for the past few months

Was browsing around DMC wiki and saw this excerpt.

I think everyone has seen this at least once before because it reveals: that Vergil was a bookworm, (a bit of) his relationship with Dante, and how he received his book.

I also realized this: Vergil left such a deep impression on the old man that he continued to remember him, even long after he disappeared.

Which then led to another realization- Vergil was once capable of socializing with others. Or at least with old people.

#ck rambles #I saw this excerpt before and was like ow ow ow that hurts Vergil was once a young child who really loved books #But the more I thought about it I realized that this man continued to remember vergil long after he stopped coming back #And then I was like: how much of a good impression did Vergil make?#And current Vergil wouldn't able to be nice to old people let alone have patience for them (but this applies to everyone really)#I like these kinds of DMC details bc it reveals a lot about the twins' childhoods and their personalities before the attack #Well it's really only about Vergil rn #dmc #devil may cry #dmc5 #devil may cry 5

niuniente

Of course, he loved it.

I mean, he needs something,right?

#dmc #devil may cry #dmc fanart #dante #Dante dmc #dmc dante #lady #lady dmc #vergil #vergil dmc #lmaooo this is so funny #I'm actually laughing so much #Dante has no shame nor does he feel embarrassment and these facts work in his favor #my head canon is that Dante wears a hair clip to keep his bangs out of his face #and that vergil wears a headband to keep his hair out when washing his face or in the summer to keep his sweaty hair from falling lol

ghostboyravenight-deactivated20

I’m just saying if Daniel Radcliffe, the literal protagonist of the Harry Potter franchise since the age of ten years old, was able to disavow JK Rowling and move on from the HP universe then actually what the fuck is anyone else’s excuse. There is no one else on the planet who can say their entire childhood was HP more than that guy and he still cared about trans people more than the average tumblr user who says “we’re protesting by making all her characters queer and trans!!” like you can do better. You should do better.

#anti harry potter #anti jkr #daniel radcliffe #random

skittlesandham

Can you do a crossover where V (DEVIL MAY CRY 😈) meets Morpheus (the sandman TV series netflix) ? Please??

two goths walk into a park bench (ouch)

I honestly don't know much about Morpheus, but a friend of mine told me he likes feeding birds. Kinda dig his comic book look tho 👀. Him being the manifestation of dreams + V and his familiar's whole deal... there's some great potential here.

#dmc #Devil may cry #dmc5 #the sandman #V #V dmc #Griffon #Shadow #Morpheus #ok I don’t know much about comic version of Morpheus or in general but this is cool #Morpheus and V meeting? Hell yeah lol #that would be so cool #also Griffon would bully the heck out of the crow I forgot his name AND Morpheus lol #I love any form of V content so this made me smile

twiststreet

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

Edited down a long tweet. (x)

#random #ok this is very cool #It actually explains why I concentrate better after taking a 15 min walk then studying #so wow

daisanfar

cousins patty & nero you’ll always be famous

(grown up patty getting outgrown hair locks in front of her ears from her mom #1, anime ventilation bangs from dante and trish, and jacket inspired by lady’s one + nero with a mullet 😇)