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I had an interview with a local paper this week about this rock snake I started on the longest street of a nearby city (where I work) because it's bringing people so much joy:
I said something during the interview that the interviewer seemed really shocked by, so in case it's important for anyone else to hear: When asked about the rock snake and some scavenger hunts that I've hosted for adults, I said -
"We don't stop enjoying the things we liked as kids; they just stop being offered to us. And when you're a kid, fun things like art projects and scavenger hunts are always brought to you, so you're not taught to make a habit of seeking them out as and adult."
She said "Wow yeah... life is so stressful... and you don't think to... wow."
So if anyone else needs direct permission to be a whimsical adult child today, I hereby grant it to everyone. ❤️
She wants to learn photography. Do it stupid. Take a million photos. Don't think about why they're not good. Enjoy the process of taking photos.
Pick out tge ones you like the most and figure out why you like them. Is it because the subject is centered? Is it because you caught them doing something cool? Is it because the light made cool shadows?
Do it stupid. If you try to do it smart, youll get stuck. If you think too much you'll never get to doing. Do it stupid.
You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.
Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me
17. Pieces Verse - @/SoDoRoses (FairyChess) (ao3) vs. 21. lavender for luck - @/lovelylogans (ao3)
Propaganda:
lavender for luck:
Image ID: A screenshot that reads: Virgil is from a family of magic users who all bear a curse where any person they fall in love with will die. Inspired by Practical Magic (1998). Romantic LAMP.
I couldn't sleep all night and I was rewatching DWIT, and I'm analyzing dukexiety here we go!
I SWEAR why is he looking at Virgil like this? Hello? Is there a single non-gay way to make this face at your ex-buddy? What? Affectionate eyes and a slight smirk? Is that what we're doing buddy? I swear when Remus in particular likes someone he is really obvious about it.
Anyways,
He's so, like, soft with Virgil the whole episode, which is 100% not reciprocated, but.... it tells me that it used to be. Virgil probably was playful right back at one point. And he expects him to just keep doing it, despite any fallouts they may have had. Remus is the most hopeless about relationships and trust with other people, he genuinely seems to think everyone in the world wants to hurt him or judge him - except Janus and Virgil. Even if Virgil doesn't desire a friendship, they were friends before, and to Remus that makes him special and worthy of this eerie gentleness that I can only assume is genuine affection as he shows it. Because to him, no one ever changes, so Virgil will be right back as his and Janus's friend the moment he realises that he 'can't change'.
Janus feels the same thing, in a way, that Virgil isn't actually capable of change, but to him that reads as abandonment and that Virgil is trying to be better than all of them, light sides included. Janus and Virgil most definitely lost all trust in each other due to whatever fallout occured, but Remus? I don't think he even believes much has changed at all. They were all three rejected and feared before, so why would that ever change? Everyone on the lighter ends of Thomas's mind has feared him since he's ever existed, most likely, and Virgil and Janus were there in the dark as well. They are made to be scary - Virgil will be right back once he realizes that too, of course! 'It was just like old times!' both as a real expression of feeling and as bitterness that Virgil hasn't been with them in so long. And that is the meanest he gets to him directly. An air of bitterness. Compared to Janus's outright insults and ire and direct confrontation that's shocking.
Remus seems to still see Virgil as somewhat of a friend. Virgil does not want him as a friend ever again.