I've come to enjoy it here

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 up for being our interns for the day? we'll pay you in extra giveaway entries!

just make a promo post for the drive and if you get a donation that mention your name you’ll get 1 extra entry 🙂‍↕️

RULES

Make a promo post (anything you'd like!) for the drive

Tag us so we can reblog

paper craft dan n phil phanart for pride month <333 🍀〰️

everything below the cut !

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.

No cops at pride, just Dan and Phil and their army of Lesbians. 🧡🤍🩷

For Eve (@internetisqueer on twt) as part of the fanworks raffle organised by @PhandomGives 💜

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

https://toyhou.se/Tsuni/characters/folder:5298944

Mostly PWYW $5+, but Velai is $95 USD and Lance is $75 USD

Examples from Pawborough cats I've turned into fakemon

Happy Pride, everyone!! 🏳‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 We will be celebrating

HEATED RIVALRY PRIDE WEEK

❤🧡💛 from June 21 to June 27!! 💚💙💜

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. 🏳️‍⚧️💖

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! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

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

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!