36/married but poly with kid. Agender she or they/Geeky Things, Politics, Writing, Animals, Dan and Phil apparently. I tag for big obvious tags but otherwise never use them.
I noticed a lot of people follow my main back when I follow their blogs, and that fine if you like whats on my main go for it, but I thought I would put my sideblogs here too just in case you are looking for other content.
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I am aware that my "sincere" tone often comes out as "passive-aggressive" and I'm working on that. So, with the knowledge I'm going for "sincere" here, I want as many people as possible to know about a key difference between renfaires and SCA events.
Renfaires have audiences. SCA events have participants.
This means that SCA events are often a lot cheaper to get into, because there are no actors practising skits, just nerds like you who have been doing it a bit longer. You still can watch people sing and swordfight, but there's no plot to follow. Because we are doing this for ourselves.
And you can join in! We want you to join in! We want to teach you how to spin flax and swordfight and forge armor and build kilns!
Because you aren't an audience. You're playing the same game as the rest of us and you have to play by the rules. We will loan you garb. It's free, we're happy to do it. But if you refuse to wear it, we are permitted to ask you to leave, because you aren't following the rules of the event.
I know you don't have to wear garb at a renfaire, but the SCA isn't a renfaire.
Anyone can reblog this. Even if you don't intend on attending an SCA event or a renfaire you should know the difference.
I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.
Every single day I think about how you said thereβs probably a pro shot of the cake scene because of the story of tatinof clips. I wonder if she still exists.
LIKE THEY DID PERFORM IT AT THE DOLBY!! THEY DID!!!! THE PPL WHO WERE THERE CONFIRMED IT WAS FILMED! they just hate us. my own personal vegas videoβ¦ maybe it just needs 12 years to marinate before we finally get it next year. or maybe instead of sitting on a hard drive in a box they accidentally deleted it and im not sure which option is worse, that theyβre evil or itβs gone </3
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sym's psd template dump
a couple character sheets and wcif templates i made in photoshop when i was bored. i tried my best to organize the layers (but you should've seen them before i was gonna share them...) and the fonts i used i made sure to add beneath the preview <3
i don't care what you do with them (the character sheets took me 1hr MAX like...) use them as a base, recolor them, post them as yours, but if you make anyone pay a single cent for anything i post/make i WILL cyberbully you <3 :3 i do like tags so i can see your creativity tho....
all font links are to the adobe font site [note: you don't need to download the fonts!]
everything below the cut !
WCIF Templates
fonts Whomp [Regular]
Oskar [One Light]
Download [SFS]
fonts
Whomp [Regular]
Oskar [One Light]
Download [SFS]
fonts Gurkner [Jump]
Oskar [One Light]
Download [SFS]
Character Sheets
fonts
Neonoir [Slim] [my fav cursive font...ever]
Lullabies [Text] [reid's old font]
A Day Without Sun [Bold] [eden's old font]
Download [SFS]
fonts
Flower Power [Regular]
Six Hands [Black]
RL Limo [Regular] [a great story font!]
Download (with pngs) [SFS]
Download (without pngs, smaller) [SFS]
folder link if you prefer that idk
if you're weird with the photos of eden i didn't bother deleting...i'll live he's made of pixels
also hey if you made it to the bottom of this post, you should check out my first tutorial!<3
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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Reblogging because pissing on Sparta is one of my hobbies. And yes, totally check out the link above. Brett has a lot of great discussion and scholarship on why Sparta was proto-fascist garbage, and he presents it with both snark and accessibility.
No one should get their concept of history from 300, and I say that as someone who enjoyed 300. 300 is a comicbookification of a legend, and legends are already exaggerations.
My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying
Happy Pride, everyone!! π³βππ³οΈβππ³οΈβπ We will be celebrating
HEATED RIVALRY PRIDE WEEK
β€π§‘π from June 21 to June 27!! πππ
All types of fanworks related to the Heated Rivalry series/Game Changers universe are welcome - gifs, graphics, photosets, art, web weaves, fic, fanvids, etc. - as long as they're made completely by you (fuck AI fuck it to death!).
Our prompts come from Gilbert Baker's original Pride flag to celebrate the breadth of the queer experience - feel free to join in for as many or as few as you want! You are encouraged to interpret these in any way you want, but there are some ideas below the cut!
Day One (June 21) - Sex
Day Two (June 22) - Life & Healing
Day Three (June 23) - Sunlight
Day Four (June 24) - Nature
Day Five (June 25) - Magic & Art
Day Six (June 26) - Serenity
Day Seven (June 27) - Spirit
While our focus is on the original rainbow flag, this is a trans-inclusive event open to creators and works of all queer orientations and identities. π³οΈββ§οΈπ
Please make sure to mention Heated Rivalry Pride Week and the prompt in your post and tag with #HRPrideWeek so we can all see and share your work! Feel free to reach out with any questions, and thank you so much to @ilyasmole for designing the amazing banner! Can't wait to celebrate with you all! β€π§‘ππππ
Sex - Favorite sex scenes/moments. Headcanons / scenes we'd like to see. Explorations of sexuality / characters' relationships to sex. (This should be an easy one lol.)
Life & Healing - Hurt/comfort!! Sick fic!! What does queer life look like for our characters? What will their lives look like down the road? Where/how do they find healing, and what does that look like for them? (Also: Frankenstein AU??)
Sunlight - Explorations of light/dark, daytime/nighttime. What does the show shed light on? Where do the characters shine? Characters who embody sunlight? "Sunshine" as a pet name?
Nature - Scenes and moments in nature. Nature vs. nuture. Analysis of the presence of ice/water throughout the series? Exploration of the characters' natures.
Magic & Art - Bring on the fantasy AUs!! Moments that feel like magic. How does HR fit into the catalog of existing queer art/cinema/TV? [Character] + the art of...
Serenity - Appreciation for the quiet moments. How/where do our characters find/seek serenity? What does serenity mean to them? Firefly AU? Serenity Prayer?
Spirit - Queer joy!!! Exploring the spirit of the characters, their relationships, the show as a whole. Analysis of relationships to alcohol? Ghosts?? (Spirit Halloween AU??)
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?