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Writing meme about me. My favorite topic.

I wasn't tagged officially, but @KISAHAWKLIN SENT ME.*g*

1. How did you get into writing fanfiction? I started by being a voracious reader of fanfic in 2000 on the due Slash archive, which morphed into writing on Livejournal in Popslash fandom in 2006 because I had ideas that were becoming a bit more than vague imaginings.

2. How many fandoms have you written in? I have 58 fandoms listed in AO3, but a bunch are Yuletide fandoms and one-offs for holiday prompts, so probably only about 1/2 I would call true fandoms.

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction? 18 years. I started writing and posting in 2006.

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction? Read definitely, although I am over 900,000 written words which is mind boggling! But, particularly during my depressive episodes, of which I have had waaaay too many, I read voraciously, usually in a new-to-me fandom, so I can glut myself on the stories. Sometimes I would huddle on my couch for a week (no exaggeration) reading nearly every damn story in a fandom. Looking at you Losers

5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer? Tenses!!!! Particularly in the start of my writing career, I could not keep to a given tense to save my life. I could follow a POV fine, but I switched from present to past tense without rhyme nor reason. I think I am better at it now, but it is still hard for me to notice it. It slips under my radar unless I am paying attention.

6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project? I don't think I have researched anything of note. I mostly do house-hunting and college information, since I've been in Glee for the last decade or so.

7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work? Here's another revelation about me. I actually LOVE the one sentence comments that point out a thing the reader loved. It isn't overwhelming like answering a long comment, is more than a kudos, and gives me something to connect with the reader on. I know it isn't politically correct to have a preference, and it isn't like I poo-poo on other types of comments- I try to answer all eventually, but some are easier with respect to that.

8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about? Partner Betrayal. It is one of my favorite tropes because of a host of life experiences and emotions that I refuse to delve into even in therapy (but I am aware of, yes, I know). But it is like catnip to me. This works particularly well in a lot of my fandoms and pairings, since the Powers that Be will often do nonsensical things for year-end cliffhangers on TV shows, which includes a lot of my fandoms. For example, I now can't stand Klaine in Glee fandom, while I had been a huge fan for their first year or so. But then they ramped up the angst and trashed their characters and it left a bad taste in my mouth, so I moved to Seblaine with Klaine partner betrayal.

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write? PLOTTY. I'm working on it! Also, I love reading gen stories with worldbuilding and overarching themes, but I am pants at them too.

10. What is the easiest type? PWPs. Even though I am quite demure in person and settled on demisexual/asexual for my orientation, I can write sex scenes like no ones business. I don't know what this says about me either. Ahaha.

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When? I write in Word and post to AO3. I tried Scrivener, but it turned out to be too complicated. Since I write linearly and don't really need all the bells and whistles, it just ended up being confusing and not a good layout for me.

12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day? Plotting beyond hooking characters up. I have 2 works in progress that have some variation of plotting circumstances outside of the relationships, so I am trying, even if I haven't been super successful yet.

13. What made you choose your username? That is a story, but to condense, I said my username while tripping on LSD while trying to describe the tracers as spiderwebs. It came out as sperrywink. I had an exploratory college experience. Ahaha.

I'm tagging: any of my Glee Seblaine fandom followers. I seem to only follow those authors except for a couple of folks who I stole the meme from, ahaha. But I won't call you out officially. Just like kisahawkins said, TELL THEM SPERRYWINK SENT YOU.

#@kisahawklin #writing

madsteter

Because of me, we'll all die of thirst, but at least we have pictures

depsidase

neptuniumochi

nope.

it's closer to "the poor dont want to be exploited"

frontmansdefender

RIP to the legend

silvermoon424

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

mockva

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

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the-davest-of-uncles

*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish

depsidase

darrencrissdaily

DARREN CRISS Final day in Maybe Happy Ending | May 17, 2026 | ✖

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)

artemisia-black

Do you remember when I joked that a new sin was about to drop regarding AI being used to write homilies.

Our boy Leo has only gone and written an Encyclical Letter.

“Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.“

It’s mind blowing to me that the pope also shares my thoughts about being human in a digital age that increasingly detaches us from our humanity and is dumbing us down:

“Without careful attention, an educational system lacking in a love for truth may emerge, in which an incessant flow of information replaces the essential exercise of research, reflection and discernment. As knowledge becomes increasingly fragmented, it becomes difficult to grasp reality as a whole, to ask profound questions about meaning, or to develop authentic, critical and creative thought.”

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [