akorah

no more gendered dress codes. no more gender markers on passports, driver's licenses, ids. i'm not talking about "adding x" or "adding a third category" i'm talking about no more categories, period. why does the government need to know what my genital situation is? why does the government feel the need to assign me a sex on the basis of genitals? why does the cop who pulled me over need to see an m, or an f, or an x?

no more "gender is a social construct, sex is the thing that's binary." sex is not binary. abolish the idea that it is. normalize conversations about intersex traits. being intersex is natural. the sex binary is a thing imposed by the state.

no more gendered sports. if you really care about equity, sort people into categories based on skill level and athleticism, not gender or sex. the concept that there are only two sexes and that one is inherently weaker than the other is pseudoscience. the male/female hunter/gatherer dichotomy is not based in fact, and is a product of modern sexist cultural biases. one gender is not inherently subservient to the other. people are not inherently different on the basis of sex or gender. it is just more complicated than that.

the concept of multiple genders and sexes beyond the man/woman male/female dichotomy has existed as long as humans have existed. the sex binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. the gender binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. continuing to impose it just controls (and harms) the people it forcibly categorizes.

Happy for any tags (angst, dead dove do not eat, fluff, smut, etc)

Thank you ☺️

I will start with my current favorite, that I have been talking about for month now

Over Troubled Water - ongoing

slow burn that will burn you but also- the plot is so good, and the vibes are so immaculate and well thought out. it's the 70's and we got vampires, drama, romance angst and it's so good I have a few art piece for this fic in the #Over troubled water tag.

The Herald of Second Chances - Finished 18 chapter 🌶️

I may have reread this fic a few time at this point and it's always get's me emotional and giddy and heart breaking. a reincarnation story in future Roshar about Adolin who lived through many years and Kaladin that has been dead and now came back to life but with a twist of course ( a KNIFE TO THE CHEST) 10\10 read. did I mentioned it has an excellent smut too? and it's written by the amazing @the-mxs-of-manyofmany (who also draws very pretty) (this one is happening after W&T ! but like - a lottttt after it - and also changes a few things so take that into consideration)

Full Count - Ongoing 🌶️

Baseball. I have little knowledge about this sport but did it stop me from devouring this fic ? absolutely not ! the dialoged, the tension - the dramaaa the smut ??? shut up and take my money. I do love present\flashback chapters story, especially with SLA fics cause it gives the vibes from the book? this story is so much fun I can't stress it enough.

Almost series - Ongoing (but both parts can be read as oneshots)

If you ever wanted to get your heart cut out, thrown out of the window and then being kissed on your forehead? well ... this is the series for you! cause my god. did I feel pain but also giggled and twirled my hair around my finger. the writer is out to get me personally I know but that's ok cause this series is excellent, touching almost romantic you can say? HAHAHAHA sorry. the writer is very skilled the character characterization is absolutely fantastic. both parts are one shots that revolved around their friendship - relationship in a deep dive into pain-land :) and it's written by the amazing @calcifur96

A Surgeon's Calling - Ongoing

what if- Kaladin had listen to his father and went to study medicine instead ? well let me tell you - an absolutely BANGER of a story - the plot? is plotting, the yearning ? is yearning. the attention to details? is insane - this is dark at times and touching and light hearted on others. THIS? this. it's everything. and it's written by the amazing @akorah

Butterfly Wings - Ongoing series

WHAT IF - Kaladin was born a light eye? and Adolin a dark eye? this is fantastic plot that really puts a magnifying glass on new subjects with our characters that we already know and love, with such intriguing way to tell it and I CANT get enough of it! and it's written by the amazing @kiminsocks

between shadow and soul - Ongoing 🌶️

this is a Leshwi x Kaladin fic that dives deep into the politics but oh boy is this one hell of a ride ! it got it all !! takes place between OB - RoW I really don't have enough words in my English vocabulary to explain how insane this fic is and how great it is, but this writer knows what they are doing! and it's written by the amazing @cuubism

ok that were a lot ongoing series, let me also suggest a few that are finished and shorter - I had another list a few month ago right here as well if you're interested :)

The Tide - one shot 🌶️

this takes place around book 2, fun, smutty and excellent written fic by the same writer who wrote "Full count"

Adolin Kholin’s Guide to Living Out a Not so Fictional Romantasy - One shot

Absolutely hilarious and sweet read, also around book 2. and honestly the tittle alone is a selling point for me xD

Don't do me any favors - One shot

this is not a ship fic but oh boy did it ruined me completely, the twist is also a knife to my chest and oh boy did it leave me dead on the floor but also I re read it like 100 times? it takes place between OB and RoW and also by @kiminsocks

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.

Hello all, hope you'll enjoy the upcoming Pride month content! This year, I'm planning to post comics every single day until the end of June. If you caught a glimpse at comment sections under recent strips, it has already pissed off thousands! It's just the beginning.

It's been a while since I gave you any life updates. My husband and I are still on the IVF train - it's slow but steady. We are being crushed under the weight of debts because of it, but at least we got to keep our car after this spring's threats, for those who wondered. Such is the price for growing our little queer family! At least we've got health.

I'm still trying to make a living from my art. I believe covering the internet with queer and trans comics and making bigots foam at the mouth is an important job, and you can help make it happen by getting me a coffee or by subscribing on Patreon. Every bit makes a huge difference!

So I hope Pride month will be good to you all. Except the bigots.

Be gay, trans, hydrated, or not,

shes seven thousand years old she dies before we learn her name shes immortal shes a crab person shes incredibly honorable shes fighting a war against honor she attacks her own troops she can fly shes even transgender

“Wouldn’t that be a sight? Renarin Kholin dancing on a rooftop while…”

In the Sanderlanche in Oathbringer there’s a brief moment when Renarin mentioned he felt like dancing, so to celebrate my 1k milestone on Tumblr I decided to let him dance with Rlain. :D

Work in progress - that I hope to finish -

I actually want to draw more scenes from the books themselves - but I’m not sure what to draw … so many good options.