#andy clark

“Our brains are (by nature) unusually plastic; their biologically proper functioning has always involved the recruitment and exploitation of nonbiological props and scaffolds. More so than any other creature on the planet, we humans emerge as natural-born cyborgs, factory-tweaked and primed so as to be ready to grow into extended cognitive and computational architectures—ones whose systemic boundaries far exceed those of skin and skull.”

i couldn't decide if i wanted to do a school spirits or a ck post so why not both !

princess - claire standish - sam larusso and claire z.

(note: claire has like three different last names when i looked it up so idk what her real last name is BUT they all start with z so she's just claire z for now)

do i even need to explain this one?

"oh that's [insert name], she's rich from her daddy's money, she's the most popular girl here, she's so shallow, everyone views her as a sexual object and not a person despite her literally not being all that promiscuous"

athlete - andy clark - robby keene and wally clark

hear me out: wants to desperately get the attention and approval of their parent in their chosen sport and in their reputation but always seems to disappoint them. one big accident happens while they're caught up in their parent's approval and it ends up hurting them and/or others in the long run (balcony fight, locker room tape, homecoming game)

listen, yes, they were assholes in the past but aren't all men? they're trying to be better, that's what counts (/hj)

criminal - john bender - hawk moskowitz and xavier baxter

asshole city

jk (but not really)

lowkey tragic characters with a pretty justified crash out due to fucked up school and home lives

yeah, everyone hates them, yes, everyone is scared of them and thinks they're super crazy and violent but they can be silly guys, they just need someone to keep them in line

basket case - allison reynolds - tory nichols and maddie nears

I DIDNT INTENTIONALLY JUST PUT PEYTON LIST I PROMISE

i'm thinking more about these girls who feel the need to be defensive and protective of themselves but don't realize some people genuinely just want to help them (they view the world against them but really they have people on their side)

obviously not a perfect comparison bc maddie isn't level 200 crash out like tory and the two of them aren't level 2000 crash out like allison but ya know

brain - brian johnson - demetri alexopoulos and simon elroy

i mean, did you expect anyone else?

MY SHAYLAS, literally all of my fav boys

lowkey got gifted kid burn out syndrome but they have an essay due at 11:59 so they don't have time for that

for some reason, everyone and their mother puts so much PRESSURE on them but they're just human, they're gonna make mistakes and not be good at some things and people have to learn to just deal with it

unfortunately no space for miguel/nicole :(( there's the janitor pero i'm shoving LAVA up my ASS before i make the only two latin characters a fucking janitor

just pretend they're the super cool sixth hidden member of the breakfast club that sits in the back and actually does the essay while the other five get high, trauma dump and cause mischief

"...Today the Epona Omnitank fighting vehicle system, takes mobility and firepower a leap forward. Giving the Clan Hell's Horses Toumans a combined arms team..."

~Clan Hell's Horse Merchant Caste

Once again I have commissioned pencilbrony to help bring a idea out of my thinkmeats and into the world. I stumbled across the old promotional video from the 1980's from FNC.

Allison's team

Main types : Ghost/Poison

Eevee given by Claire.

Andy's team

Main types : Water/Fighting

Eevee given by Claire.

Brian's team

Main types : Grass/Psychic

Eevee given by Claire.

Claire's team

Main types : Fairy/Normal

She got Mawile after meeting John.

John's team

Main types : Dark/Fire

Eevee given by Claire.

Spring 2026: favorite books I read

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men (Katrine Marçal, 2021)

"Drawing on examples from electric cars to bra seamstresses to tech billionaires, Marçal shows how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back, delaying innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and distorting our understanding of our history.

While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the “Ceramic Age” or the “Flax Age,” since these technologies were just as important.

But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way."

—

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality (Andy Clark, 2023)

"We don't passively take in the world around us; instead our mind is constantly making and refining predictions about what we expect to see.

This even applies to our bodies, as the way we experience pain and other states is shaped by our expectations, and this has broader implications for the understanding and treatment of conditions from PTSD to schizophrenia to medically unexplained symptoms.

From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, it is our predictions that sculpt our experience.