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Hi! I'm Lou! I like to read, write, and draw, and hope to become an author someday. I love fishing, kids, Legend of Zelda, webtoons and manga, Cosmere, and Dwight in Shining Armor.

If you want to see what stuff I make:

Art Tag | AO3

#pinned post #might make another sort of masterposts someday. idk. we'll see.

grenapple0547

Rescuing her hero

#loz #eow #zelink #cuuuuuute

konoko

aubeebuzzbuzz

applying for new job:

frownyalfred

ao3 authors are something else…

First Comes Marriage, Then Comes Love

Bedtime was Zelda’s new favorite. The roaring fire keeping the winter chill out, getting snug under the covers to cuddle with the delightfully warm Link, and just talking and teasing each other until they fell asleep… even missing the side of the bed she used to sleep on couldn’t dampen her love of the end of the day. It was dreadfully cold now that winter had come, but for a few minutes at the end of each day, until she drifted off to sleep, she didn’t have to worry about the cold. It was warm, her sling wasn’t inhibiting her and her shoulder wasn’t hurting, and she got to focus all her attention on Link.

Read Chapter 32 on AO3

#legend of zelda #loz #minish cap #mc #zelink #mc zelink #minish cap my beloved #lou writes

pinkiepixels

"Time After Time" is complete!

Two years ago I started this fanfiction for Zelink Week, run by @zelinkcommunity . I thought surely I could keep it under 20k... and be done in a few months.... haha 😅

Well, 50k words later, my first Zelink longfic is finally complete!!

Thank you to the community of readers for supporting me on this two year journey. Thank you to my lovely friend and fan of the fic @leifygreeens for making the beautiful art for this cover, and thanks to my editor @writing-for-soup for helping me make this fic better than it ever would've been if I was doing it alone.

I wanted to make a book cover to commemorate the occasion, which I've done before, but this will be my first time actually printing it for real! Not for sale of course, just for my personal collection. But I added in little barcodes and reviews and stuff just for funsies ^o^

If you haven't read it yet, you can read it below!

>>READ ON AO3<<

#yayyyyy!!#this was a fun one!!#loz #zelink

ufoapproached

Song of Storms

#loz #oot #just saw it come up from my queue. putting it right back in bc it's one I LOVE

WHAT AM I UP TO?

Thanks for the tag @cooking-with-hailstones!! This was fun hehehe

Currently Reading: Honestly, I have been doing a lot more reading fics and this past weekend webtoons lately. But I did get Cinder by Marissa Meyer from the library last week so I should be getting to that soon.

Last Film: Super Mario Galaxy Movie. For the third time.

Last Show: I've been watching Spy x Family with my sister. Just been reading the manga a lot lately so kinda fun seeing the anime that I've kinda ignored since season 1.

Last Song: Uhhh that would be "Monster" from Epic the Musical. I was listening to it while working on cleaning and that's how far I got before I finished.

Coffee or Tea: I actually... don't drink either one. Water. I love water. Best beverage imo

Sweet or Salty: Oh sweet definitely.

Currently working on: ...Too many things. But this morning specifically it's been editing a sequel to the Telink fic I did last summer, and lately I've been doing a lot on a fic I'm writing for Zelink Week (also a Telink one... I have a lot of thoughts on them, okay?)

Gonna tag (but no pressure) @mailrebel @improbablescience @abbyz-elda @amelias-calamity-quintet and @miadearden

#tag game #ugh. the reading one is REALLY making me think how much I need to get back to reading books. I just can't do it and get through long fics #at least not at the same time. I need to focus on one at a time

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)

lamaery

Comic tiiiiime!!! The amazing @2shards donated an incredible generous amount for an art in the @fandomtrumpshate auction this year. So I offered to draw a small scene of their choice and that was Moash catching a whip with his bare hand in Oathbringer chapter 48. Very heroic! Very cool. I redrew that stupid punch so many times. But I am so happy that it all worked out, since I managed to hand 2shards a printed (and by happenstance bound) and signed copy of this at MCM in London! I hope (and am sure) we will see many more cool fanworks popping up over the year from the FTH auction, so keep your eyes peeled and perhaps consider joining next year ;) The beautiful alt-texts are written by @2shards with small additions and changes by me. :)

#I have no great love of Moash but aughhh he really is cool in this scene #cosmere #stormlight archive

exeggcute

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

terri-theslime13

I just heard about the recency bias, and honestly I think it's gotta be the best one ever

Drew Impa from @pelicanpig's AMAZING fic On My Honor! She's so cool I love her so much.

#legend of zelda #loz #impa #on my honor #idk how to tag for this there's not a game to include #lou draws

parkchanwoohoo

Realizing that I am not employing enough of my free will to become a nuisance at work

raine-of-auroria

Me watching this:

thesweetiepienovels

Someone said “The slow burn of becoming yourself” and I think that might be one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. It’s such a good reminder of how much it takes, how much character development, how much change, and beauty and courage it takes to reach your soul and I hope no one ever gives up on becoming themselves because it’s a never ending journey that only gets better.