Gold Drop Cinna

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

I think what continues to draw people to the x files all these decades later is that Mulder and Scully are coworkers. like. all the insane shit they do for each other, and the whole time they're just. colleagues. sure, they're best friends, but we hardly ever get to see them hanging out together outside of work. they drop the craziest flowery monologues that could easily be mistaken for love confessions. but! they're coworkers. so they're like ok, see you monday at the office. they go to hell and back to rescue each other, both of them taking turns being Orpheus and Eurydice. but they're coworkers. they're the most important person in each other's life. they just work together. it's frustrating. it's beautiful. no one's ever done it like them. possibly because it's the wrong way to do it. compels me though

i ❤️ my phone so i made it a bedroom to go to sleep in when i want to reduce my screen time

Autistic folks will read "prefers to stick to a routine" and interpret it as "needs to do all the same activities in exactly the same order basically all the time and doing two things in a different order would be upsetting no matter what" (on account of the literal thinking) and go "nah I'm way more flexible than that! Couldn't be me!"