"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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if i look back, i am lost
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Stranger Things
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Acquired Stardust
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Through Shadowed Eyes
An exploration of Roxy Lalonde's character through the vehicle of the Candy Epilogues, focusing on her relationships with John, Calliope, Rose, Jane, Harry Anderson, and her own gender.
Featuring illustrations by @meraki-sunset, @sarcasmprodigy, @sketchoodles, Griever, @ghostrally, @sollay-b, @vriskca, and @babanillustration.
Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19972756/chapters/47282059
i think the doctor (who) has a very “atheist in a dnd setting” view toward the great man theory of history. like he’s keenly, regularly, intimately aware that there’s a mechanic in the physics of the universe by which the actions of some certain influential people form the hinges on which history turns, HOWEVER this is repugnant to his fundamental values, so despite everything he maintains that the great man theory is a load of horseshit
the doctor calculates that napoleon’s return from elba is a fixed point and says “that doesn’t mean anything!! it isn’t necessarily ABOUT him!!!” out loud in case any historians are listening
the doctor, stomping around the control room afterwards: he didn’t make them come to him. the greatest general in the world, WHICH HE’S NOT, couldn’t do that just by saying so. they were following a dream, a collective dream that france had been dreaming for years, and it just so happened to have his face. he’s a boat in a storm. he didn’t tell the wave to lift him up
tardis: beep boop
the doctor: you’re right, it WAS fun hanging out with marthe and jean-baptiste :)
ramsay bolton is the worst character in a song of ice and fire because the frustratingly popular accusation that this richly detailed, morally nuanced, brilliantly colored world is nothing more than artless miseryporn schlock becomes true when he's around
gamzee bolton. is this anything
ramsay bolton is the worst character in a song of ice and fire because the frustratingly popular accusation that this richly detailed, morally nuanced, brilliantly colored world is nothing more than artless miseryporn schlock becomes true when he's around
"christian characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are atheist" "atheist characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are christian" stop fighting. all human experience is poorly written in movies because the writers are californian
is prev a warrior of light or an agent of darkness
warrior of light
agent of darkness
did you know that the nsmb soundtrack on nintendo music is called "New Super Mario Bros. " with a trailing space
other fun facts
there's some other trailing spaces (ex. the track "Approaching the Ghost Ship " in Phantom Hourglass)
"Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield" has non-breaking spaces around the "and"
"Fly or Dive, Shipshape Island!" in Mario & Luigi: Brothership originally had a trailing newline (this was fixed oops no it wasn't i got confused)
for like a year after launch the server served non-DRM versions of all of the tracks lmao (no, these were not used in any way)
some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it
Shakespeare is like this
Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away
Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal
Shoes by Van Gogh always takes my breath away
i dont know much about him, or art as a whole really, but this whole collection is neat. looks like it provides some context for each of the paintings/drawings too!
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)
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Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing
Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression
the horse is so fuckable
THE GHOST OF CHAIRMAN MAO, WHO HAS BEEN FOLLOWING ME AROUND: These posts which claim to be "investing" in another post at a certain number of notes? They're ascribing value to social capital. Ignore these liberals.
ME: haha thats right chairman
THE GHOST OF CHAIRMAN MAO: And kill every sparrow you see
ME: no chairman
Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube
… I am unironically here for this
this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?
Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.
So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.
A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️⚧️
Actor and Writer
There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made
sometimes trying to be more social and talk to people u know are already in an established friend group feels like
(via @usamirenko)
laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!
i trusted you
Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people
Scientists have discovered there are only two universes: the normal one, and “the cringe AU.”
All scientists willing to reveal which one we live in have been killed by the CIA.
