Rémi So What

Black Writer | Animanga fan | Co-hosting @The_SafetyNet | EN/FR/PT/ES OK!

[Rémi So What @remi_sofa]

Come hear about anime, manga, storytelling, and creativity on #TheSafetyNet twitter space on Sundays at 9AM PT/Noon ET!

If you’re #BlackCreators with dope work, we can shout you out during the space!

Co-hosted with @kayyoungcomics and @vynssweetbuns

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

The jokes are funny in I Love Boosters. That's why the gifs work. Let folks know that it's from I Love Boosters so they go to the movie instead just seeing the gif.

[facesofhaiti • 🇭🇹 @FacesOfHaiti_]

Designer Stella Jean has released “L’Haitiana,” a capsule collection that reframes the Haiti national football jersey as a fashion statement. Blending sport aesthetics w/ editorial touch, feature three colorways of Haiti’s iconic kit reimagined as polo jerseys & Tshirt dresses 🇭🇹

[来栖さとし＠漫画家 @kurususatoshi]

This pen practice method was the first thing I learned when I became an assistant to Hirohiko Araki.
It's an important technique for drawing manga.

[🥥 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝘼𝙈 🥥 @TheLatamGuy]

El acento de Guinea Ecuatorial 🇬🇶, el único país soberano de África donde el español es lengua oficial.

[islay ⋆˚✧ @islaysmind]

it is so heartbreaking how the deaths of palestinians are painted as an inevitability because israel targets journalists. we also hear less & less about it. because israel targets journalists.

keep talking about the genocide in palestine, fuck israel

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

Made by humans for humans.

[WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER  @blacktwiterthrd]

9th grader Demi Johnson wins National Geographic award for her plan to restore Mississippi’s oyster reefs. She already produced 1,100 oysters that will spawn millions of larvae, delivering a major boost to the ecosystem.

[☽☾Hussamurabachi #TENOÍ🔻🇵🇸 @HussamAfton]

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[🖌🎨MIITOONS✏️ | COMMS OPEN! @ArionMiitoons]

The target audience for ANYTHING you make will ALWAYS be you first. Everyone else who views your art is secondary.

Its a courtesy to even consider your *potential* audience at all, & makes sense if your goal is to connect with people emotionally. But its YOUR baby first ❤️

[Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈 @RasberryRazz]

None of the dude bros who love this film want to admit this movie is queer as hell. Guy falls for a girl disguised as a boy and has a massive crush on the strongest samurai in the group.

[shy🎀 @mewfeuille]

Loving this book of '90s rave flyers from Japan. There's such a wonderful hodgepodge of disparate art styles, collaging, and blatant copyright infringement. The perfect visual analogue to the plunderphobic nature of the whole scene.

[Amanda Killian @eroscestlavie_x]

I can't find it now but recently saw someone describe being an interdisciplinary artist as "doing crop rotation on your brain" and I can't think of a better descriptor

[schway lex. @Lexual__]

Need writing inspiration? 👀📝✨

Black Women’s Writing Habits https://t.co/9zSuQfRa43

[🏳️‍🌈Donate to food banks & shelters please @SamAburime]

That's cool where the fuck are the people who'd been caged there, they're still missing. Everything this admin does is a waste of money, I'm more concerned about the immigrants they're disappearing from these places

[Tatyana 𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔 @melanwisegirl]

When they said you me and Tuscany was unrealistic cause why would be doing a one way ticket to another country. God forbid black girls have whimsy

[Tellem the truth @NYtellem]

Big Congratulations to…

Stephanie Williams!

She was nominated BEST NEW SERIES and BEST WRITER for Temporal.
And it’s been 30years since the last Black person was nominated for an Eisner.

Well, let this be a New beginning.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Julian☽◯☾ﾟ｡⋆🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈(OBSESSION SPOILERS) @onewitchwillow]

Davonta Curtis
Juniper Blessing
Lucas Redbeard Knapp
Aleanna Royal Belcher
Dannielle Spillman
Shyyell Diamond Sanchez-Mccray
Lanessa Rodriguez
Hailey "Spotsie" King

These are the trans people we KNOW OF who've been murdered this year for being trans. Remember all of them.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

70% more bookstores today than there were in 2020. Huge win for society. Let's keep it going.

[🌸🦄🩷unicornthorns🩷🦄🌸 @T_Marie60]

Quit begging Disney and dreamworks to go back to 2d animation and look for 2d animated films outside these companies
There are so many hidden gems out there that’ll inspire you