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Check out my new hualian story Peach Blossom Prince!
🌸No ascension and Hong-er grew up in the palace AU
🌸Prince/servant romance
🌸Xian Le trio and royal family dynamics
Xie Lian is about to get engaged in a politically advantageous match, but then Hong-er returns after having been believed dead! Will Xie Lian be able to go through with the marriage? And what is Hong-er hiding from him?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
🌸Chapter 2 of Peach Blossom Prince is out, in which Xie Lian hates change with a passion, and Hua Cheng is definitely super happy about Xie Lian's upcoming marriage, he's definitely not cracking a molar from gritting his teeth so hard.🌸
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85626211/chapters/227612691#workskin
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Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
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.
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Hey! You totally don't have to answer, but I'm curious... I saw the Dom/sub tag, and I was wondering whether Xie Lian was the Dom, or if it was Hua Cheng? I enjoy both, but I wanted to know if you could give me a heads-up, and maybe tag it when you get to the smut. Thank you!
They switch, but I would say Xie Lian doms more often 🤔 They dom in different ways too. Hua Cheng likes to tease but he's also more gentle and worshipful, while Xie Lian is a little overwhelmed by the force of his desire and affection and is consequently also overwhelming Hua Cheng with it. He's more forceful and possessive about it (which Hua Cheng very much enjoys). Theyre both equally unhinged, but yeah, in general, I'd say Hua Cheng subs more often and with greater passion. They also switch up topping and bottoming, although that won't play as much of a role. And yeah, I'll try my best to tag any sexual dynamics that come up in the chapters' notes.
🌸I just posted the first chapter of my newest tgcf fic, Peach Blossom Valley!
🌸This is the first part of a series, in which Hong-er grows up in the palace with Xie Lian, with all the ups and downs that come with that.
🌸Let me take you into a world of spring, of happiness and tragedy, of desire and family, and most of all, of things that are fleeting.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/83256086/chapters/219284926
It's finished now!
I'll start posting the second part of the series this week, and I'm really excited, guys!
Prepare for a steamy prince/servant forbidden love story with plenty drama, sexy shenanigans, an arranged engagement, fun side characters, not so fun side characters, Qi Rong, and true love!
Finished my Beast Peak Shen Yuan!!! Oh Shen Jiu finds him completely insufferable I just know it. He's the type to tell Shen Jiu to extend his hand just to put a whole lizard onto it and then run away.
curiouser and curiouser
Prompts reveal time!
The day has come! We’re here to share with you the official list with the event’s prompts.
As we promised, we’re sharing the prompts several months in advance so you can plan and find your inspiration with plenty of time :)
Text version of the prompts under the cut.
I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.
This is one my favourite things the internet has ever made.
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This remains one of the great art objects of modern times and nobody will convince me otherwise.
Not a week of my life goes by without me or my spouse asking the cats whether they want chickens from a can with a picture of a cat on it, or whether they’re sad because they don’t have poposable thumbs.
shizun (work in progress)
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One of the reasons people headcanon Grace as aromantic is the unfortunately realistic scene where they go "you don't have a family or a loved one" as if that's enough of a justification to send him on a suicide mission. As if not having a family makes Grace inherently less valuable and means he should be more willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
Grace wasn't sad and lonely, he was happy, he had a good life, he very much did not want to die. They have to do a looney tunes chase sequence and drug him because Grace was *very* unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb. Humanity's savior was dragged kicking and screaming into the role and called selfish for daring to be a coward, as if most of us wouldn't be.
And then he befriends Rocky, who never demands a sacrifice from him, who willingly prolongs his journey home so Grace can go back to his. Rocky has a mate back home and his species depends on his return, and still risks his life to save his squishy human friend. And Grace returns the favor.
And thus the power of friendship saves two planets.
I don't disagree with the aromantic thing or that being aromantic shouldn't be a reason to send someone on a suicide mission more readily than anyone else, but I think op is misunderstanding the reason behind them mentioning that Grace doesn't have loved ones. It's not that they think he's less valuable because he doesn't have a family or loved ones, it's simply a ruthless calculation of trying to cause the least pain (and also difficulties to their mission). Him not having loved ones means he's the only one who suffers from his death, unlike someone who has a family who will also suffer because their loved one died. It's better to hurt only one person than several, to a very strategic, ruthless kind of mind. A family also means someone from the organization has to go and explain to them what happened and face their grief and anger, and that's always uncomfortable. This doesn't really add any deep meaning to the post, but it bothered me enough to want to add this.
I watched project hail mary and it was a really fun, heartwarming movie, I enjoyed it a lot!!
At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...
This is incredible.
