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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@rj-anderson
My short story collection TALES FROM THE OAKENWYLD has been out for a week now! I haven't done much promo, because my mother's been unwell and eldercare is a lot. But I'm grateful to everyone who's bought a copy of the ebook or paperback so far, and especially those who took the time to review!
Book Details and Buy Link
Has either of your parents ever accidentally called you/your siblings the wrong name? (someone else's name, like other sibling, pet, etc)
Yes, at least once
No, but I've seen it happen to someone else
No, never
I don't have pets/siblings/parents/hair
I have three older brothers and no sisters. When I was in my teens my mom tried to shout upstairs to get my attention and went through all three of my brothers and the cat's names before she got to mine. "Pe-- uh Ste-- uh Ma-- uh Ming-- REBECCA!"
This from In Writing, a collection of writers reflecting on practice, really resonated with me.
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Sophie Mackintosh, novelist
I find the concept of the bay leaf very helpful when I'm redrafting.
The bay leaf is something you have in your work - a scene, or a description, or a character that you're attached to - but eventually you realise you have to take it out. You think, 'I really love this scene, and I don't want to remove it, but I don't need it any more. It's not working.' That's fine. It served its purpose - it helped you get to this point, and now you can let it go. It's the bay leaf.
I really admire Stray Kids' commitment to getting more epic with every comeback but if they keep on at this rate, the next time they drop a title track they're gonna have to blow up the sun
parenting commitment level 3000
apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy
Oh my goodness you read Behind Five Willows!! I’m so excited for it!
It is SO GOOD I hope it becomes a runaway bestseller and gets made into a kdrama
In further news, I am a prophetess, go me:
Also, I got to meet June at a launch event and she is lovely!
“Irritated fans produce fanfic like irritated oysters produce pearls.”
— Anne Jamison (via pen-in-hand)
@rj-anderson saw your book at the library today
Thank you for sharing! I love to see my books in the wild!
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My dearest followers and mutuals and friends and lovers. I am going to extend one deadly serious question to you on this beautiful afternoon.
What is your #1 video game recommendation
A minimalist text adventure
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)
Viking dresses by Savelyeva Ekaterina
Another visual demonstration that historical clothing wasn’t dingy and monochrome.
All of these colours can be obtained from vegetable dyes, producing different shades depending on what mordant (colour fixative - alum, different metal filings, different vinegars) was used. See here and here for examples.
BRING THIS FASHION BACK.
Not clothes, but this was a palette developed by the National Museum of Denmark based on paint residue from archaeological finds for the purpose of painting a reconstructed hall.
Apparently, they can tell from the chemical composition that the colours wouldn’t be mixed with black or white to mute them, but be used in their brightest form. Bright yellow and red was achieved with expensive dyes (orpiment and cinnabar) and was thus fashionable. (Source in Danish)
@athingofvikings
What is a man? An ecstatic little pile of pigments.
^reblogging for that comment
Forever reminder that the ancient world was colorful everywhere, and every attempt to brownwash it in modern fiction is sheer laziness.
In a multitude of hot takes on Fanny, I haven't come across any that interpret her through the lens of the fawn response, so I guess that's what this eventual paper is going to be about.
In this reread, I'm currently at the conflict over the play, and what I'm seeing is the fawn response that Fanny has had so engrained into her clashing with her slowly developing a sense of self. She builds up enough courage to assert a boundary rooted in her own values, and the immediate response to that is vicious backlash from people who equate her having a voice of her own with her being a Bad Person. And of course the whole thing with the fawn response is that you try extra hard to be a Good Helpful Submissive Person so that people don't hurt you. So this is the worst thing that could happen for someone in Fanny's position, and it's made even more difficult by her starting to process, perhaps for the first time, that her refusing to comply is not inherently evil, that she might in fact be right when her "superiors" are wrong. And this is a bit much to handle--she's not ready to accept this because it challenges everything she was raised to believe.
And then Edmund--the person whom she has built her whole ethos around--starts rationalizing why violating his principles would be a good thing actually, and he wants "her opinion," i.e. her automatic validation, which he's used to be able to get from her. And she can't give it, because her emerging individuality with its strong conscience won't let her, but the compulsion to fawn is still strong (what nightmares would be unleashed if she were to alienate someone whom she believes is her only friend and protector?), so she tries to keep it as diplomatic as possible, but she's so torn. For the first time, she's seeing that Edmund can be falliable, and she's had to merge so much of herself with him that she can't accept that that can be true. It can't really be him. It must be Mary Crawford's influence--Mary is someone whom Fanny feels she can safely express dislike toward (in her own head, at least). But then it's Mary's influence that gets Fanny off the hook for the possibility of being forced to participate in an undertaking she can't condone when she has already refused to, and this is frustrating because it now places Mary in the category of people that Fanny is obligated to be Grateful toward and thus (according to everything she's ever been taught) isn't allowed to have any negative thoughts toward.
And she is so stressed, and so alone, and it's like people are trying to mind-control her, and she feels powerless, and it's so very real. I know this response. I've lived this response, and this is exactly how it is.
How on earth do you read this text and think this traumatized young woman is the problem here.
The X-Files Small Potatoes | 4.20
Byzantine mosaics found on the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.
the oedipus complex is such an unnecessary element to add into hamlet. like it’s okay. i promise his relationship with his parents is already horrible
One of my favorite things Harriet says throughout all Sayer's novels is this, when asked by Lord Peter if she thought life was worth living:
"I've always felt absolutely certain it was good--if only one could get it straightened out. I've hated almost everything that ever happened to me, but I knew all the time it was just things that were wrong, not everything. Even when I felt most awful I never thought of killing myself or wanting to die--only of somehow getting out of the mess and starting again."
