✨alchemist✨

Chessmasters when their opponent doesn’t make one of the five approved optimal opening moves:

#used to do shit like this when we fenced#for real tho a newbie is way more of an issue than a master because WHAT are you doing???

When I was ~13 I also used to win Pokémon battles like this and people online got really, really upset with me. So out of spite and a desire to keep winning I started doing it on purpose.

This kind of reminds me of practicing with white belts in karate class (white = the first belt level, the newbies). Yeah, the black belts (and even those just below them) can wreck you or hurt you, but they have the control and knowledge on how to not do that.

Most experiences are unsayable; they become real to us in a space no word has entered.

Becoming free of depression and anxiety after you've cut out your toxic family makes you feel like an invasive species being introduced to a new environment. Like oh look, won't you look at this beautiful world. I have no natural predators. I can just touch anything, there's no penalty for doing whatever. I can be cringe if I want to. Everything I pee on is mine.

I was thinking recently about how "alt" subcultures are so aestheticized now but they used to be much more about your societal views than the clothes you wore or even the bands you listened to, and my brain connected some dots. Idk if this is anything

biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

okay but this is what the best render of a human cell looks like

“I want you to do this with me for one month. One month. Write 10 observations a week and by the end of four weeks, you will have an answer. Because when someone writes about the rustic gutter and the water pouring through it onto the muddy grass, the real pours into the room. And it’s thrilling. We’re all enlivened by it. We don’t have to find more than the rustic gutter and the muddy grass and the pouring cold water.”

Getting a weird little hobby is actually so important bc it opens your eyes up to the world. You start crocheting or knitting, and how you see scarves and sweaters differently. You try identifying plants, now you’re seeing opposite and alternate leaf pattern. Bird watching? Every chirp draws attention and interest.