This blog's almost at 200 followers (omg what. When.) So. Is there any sort of little celebration thing you guys (gn) are interested in?
Ideally not something *too* involved because i'm chronically fatigued as is and my depression hit bad yesterday, but i never, ever imagined this community growing like this?
I mean
Diabetes in fandom, you want to talk about niche interests?
But i've reblogged over 1k posts. Got nearly 200 followers. There's 40 people in the discord. Ao3 has over 800 fics in the diabetes tag.
I'm definitely not responsible for the ao3 numbers jumping up, but when i started this thing 2 (3?) years ago, there was, i think, 300 fics? And many of them were, ah, mistagged.
Now look at us!
Im just. I'm really sick rn and I'm shook to see these numbers. I'm so happy about this.
And it isn't just fandom either! Purple Hearts was the #1 Netflix hit for over a month straight, in over 10 countries. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood and What Happens After Midnight by K L Walther were both nominations for the 2023 Goodreads Books of the Year award, and Love, Theoretically won!!! (In the romance category, i think)
That's three mainstream, popular stories with diabetic main characters! Not side characters. Main characters!
To all the people who alluded or told me outright that diabetic stories weren't interesting or marketable unless the diabetes WAS the story can go dig a hole. To the close-minded clouts who told me no one wants to read about diabetes, and accurate representation only detracts from good storytelling didn't ya know? To the tradpub author and editor who told the room that #ownvoices was in rn and aspiring authors should use that if they could when pitching or querying and then two minutes later told me, in front of the entire workshop, that diabetes wasn't important to the story if it didn't affect the plot and i shouldn't include it in my pitch.
I told you were wrong.
Look at me now.
Got derailed there. Ok.
Please send in suggestions if there's anything you'd like to see for a follower celebration!
Potential options off the tip of my head are:
a q&a session (about anything vaguely related to diabetes or fandom)
a review of the rep in something specific wther book movie tv etc
an actual essay discussing the ableism I've unfortunately and frequently come across in the writing world (both fic and original) instead of just that one ranting paragraph
a short fic (1-3k is my usual short fic range so i could probably offer like 3-5 requests over the next month or two? If people are interested i can list some fandoms i'll write in) diabetes ralated, obv
fan art (i... have never posted my art online??? But i do art. Sometimes.) Also diabetes related
And please remember we have a discord! We're small but friendly and there's been some really good discussions on diabetic experiences, and ofc geeking out over shared fandoms. Come join! The link is listed in my pinned post i think
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Interesting Papers for Week 46, 2023
Spatiotemporal bias of the human gaze toward hierarchical visual features during natural scene viewing. Akamatsu, K., Nishino, T., & Miyawaki, Y. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 8104.
Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation. Crivelli-Decker, J., Clarke, A., Park, S. A., Huffman, D. J., Boorman, E. D., & Ranganath, C. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 2946.
A Measure of the Complexity of Neural Representations based on Partial Information Decomposition. Ehrlich, D. A., Schneider, A. C., Priesemann, V., Wibral, M., & Makkeh, A. (2023). Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Retrieved from
Cortico-cortical feedback engages active dendrites in visual cortex. Fişek, M., Herrmann, D., Egea-Weiss, A., Cloves, M., Bauer, L., Lee, T.-Y., … Häusser, M. (2023). Nature, 617(7962), 769–776.
Perceptual History Biases Are Predicted by Early Visual-Evoked Activity. Fornaciai, M., Togoli, I., & Bueti, D. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(21), 3860–3875.
From Prediction to Action: Dissociable Roles of Ventral Tegmental Area and Substantia Nigra Dopamine Neurons in Instrumental Reinforcement. Fraser, K. M., Pribut, H. J., Janak, P. H., & Keiflin, R. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(21), 3895–3908.
How overconfidence bias influences suboptimality in perceptual decision making. Hainguerlot, M., Gajdos, T., Vergnaud, J.-C., & de Gardelle, V. (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(4), 537–548.
A rapid theta network mechanism for flexible information encoding. Johnson, E. L., Lin, J. J., King-Stephens, D., Weber, P. B., Laxer, K. D., Saez, I., … Badre, D. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 2872.
Neither Enhanced Nor Lost: The Unique Role of Attention in Children’s Neural Representations. Jung, Y., Forest, T. A., Walther, D. B., & Finn, A. S. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(21), 3849–3859.
Human-Like Modulation Sensitivity Emerging through Optimization to Natural Sound Recognition. Koumura, T., Terashima, H., & Furukawa, S. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(21), 3876–3894.
Silencing hippocampal CA2 reduces behavioral flexibility in spatial learning. Lehr, A. B., Hitti, F. L., Deibel, S. H., & Stöber, T. M. (2023). Hippocampus, 33(6), 759–768.
Functional specialization and interaction in the amygdala-hippocampus circuit during working memory processing. Li, J., Cao, D., Yu, S., Xiao, X., Imbach, L., Stieglitz, L., … Jiang, T. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 2921.
Multi-scale goal distance representations in human hippocampus during virtual spatial navigation. Liu, J., Chen, D., Xiao, X., Zhang, H., Zhou, W., Liang, S., … Wang, L. (2023). Current Biology, 33(10), 2024-2033.e3.
Making memories last using the peripheral effect of direct current stimulation. Luckey, A. M., McLeod, L. S., Huang, Y., Mohan, A., & Vanneste, S. (2023). eLife, 12, e75586.
Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram. Okray, Z., Jacob, P. F., Stern, C., Desmond, K., Otto, N., Talbot, C. B., … Waddell, S. (2023). Nature, 617(7962), 777–784.
Neural dynamics underlying self-control in the primate subthalamic nucleus. Pasquereau, B., & Turner, R. S. (2023). eLife, 12, e83971.
Attention biases preferential choice by enhancing an option’s value. Pleskac, T. J., Yu, S., Grunevski, S., & Liu, T. (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 152(4), 993–1010.
Impaired perception of temporal contiguity between action and effect is associated with disorders of agency in schizophrenia. Roth, M. J., Lindner, A., Hesse, K., Wildgruber, D., Wong, H. Y., & Buehner, M. J. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(21), e2214327120.
Dynamic prospect theory: Two core decision theories coexist in the gambling behavior of monkeys and humans. Tymula, A., Wang, X., Imaizumi, Y., Kawai, T., Kunimatsu, J., Matsumoto, M., & Yamada, H. (2023). Science Advances, 9(20).
Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations. Vives, M.-L., de Bruin, D., van Baar, J. M., FeldmanHall, O., & Bhandari, A. (2023). Nature Human Behaviour, 7(5), 765–775.
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