Blythe

23 || Tennessee || horse girl by day, gamer by night, book worm in between, metalhead forever 🤘😈

[Blythe @BlytheKnight__]

III and Vessel both wore my bucket hat!! i tried passing it off a few times and by the time we got to TMBTE i said “f it” and threw it on the stage and hoped for the best. it was thrown back in the crowd after and it passed back to me, with some additional sweat and body paint😉

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

COUNTRY ROADS, TAKE ME HOME TO THE PLACE I BELOOOONG, WEST VIRGINIA!!!!!

[Blythe @BlytheKnight__]

@PokemonTCGIntel i was on the checkout screen and got kicked out… queue 7.5+ hours. i hope i can get back in & get something 😔

[Blythe @BlytheKnight__]

@PokemonRestocks i was in the checkout screen putting my card into in… got some random error about my billing address not matching my shipping address, and got booted out of the checkout screen and back into a 7+ hour queue 😔

[Carry @boatgirl3]

Florida being Florida

[Softboy @softboywin]

Before ChatGPT, it was a community of students, warriors, who’d upload full tests to QUIZLET.

[tsu ྀི @tsuakies]

how it feels being dogshit at a game you’ve played for ages

[vi @heartdambi]

born too late to see dinosaurs too early to see flying cars but just in time to witness faker azir

[ぴか @pika_nekopanda]

もうすぐ月曜の朝を迎えるアメリカ人へ

助けは来ない。さあ、働くぞ

[⟢emi 🦇 @wifugf]

when I’m on a 7 game losing streak and my duo asks me to hop on

[Bear @Beargirl_1]

If Persephone can be the Goddess of flowers and the Queen of Hell ,then you my dear can be full of whimsy and rage.

[Angry Cops @AngryCops]

Imagine hearing some kid yell “I choose you” and then feeling the sting of a master ball right to the face.

[The Catholic Engineer @TheCatholicEngr]

I figured out why the Artemis stream felt so different

It's because for the first time in decades, we collectively witnessed something that was untouched by politics, celebrities and influencers

[Blythe @BlytheKnight__]

@FlyQuest @gryffinn unironically where do i get one? 😭

[feviknight @feviknight]

every league of legend player ever

[Miilato @miiilato]

me when I'm trying to delete stuff because of my storage but can't let go of a random screenshot I took in 2021 because I'm too nostalgic

[Blythe @BlytheKnight__]

i have multiple that we’ve been friends for 2+ years. my longest is 9.5 🙂

[` @ymmayerr]

who actually has an online friendship that has lasted more than 2 years??

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

“I need to go out more"

Also me every time I’m free