skylarking scofflaw

it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. they’re not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. that’s not too bad. there’s room for improvement and i still get a little winded but that’s a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, it’s one staircase but it’s kind of a long staircase. i’d always known it was kinda long.

except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out it’s a VERY long staircase. it’s ‘appears in tour guides and news articles’ long, actually. it’s ’annual citywide step challenge event’ long. it’s ’i can’t tell you the number of steps without doxxing myself’ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because it’s nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, i’ve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. i’m pretty sure i’m currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parents’ house feels like flat ground to me now.

In 2000 the record was 25.5 in 12 minutes. In 2001, Kobayashi ate 50 hot dogs, almost doubling the record. The judges ran out of pre-made signs to track how many he had eaten and had to start making handwritten signs on the spot

it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. they’re not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. that’s not too bad. there’s room for improvement and i still get a little winded but that’s a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, it’s one staircase but it’s kind of a long staircase. i’d always known it was kinda long.

except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out it’s a VERY long staircase. it’s ‘appears in tour guides and news articles’ long, actually. it’s ’annual citywide step challenge event’ long. it’s ’i can’t tell you the number of steps without doxxing myself’ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because it’s nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, i’ve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. i’m pretty sure i’m currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parents’ house feels like flat ground to me now.

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

bc like the way i see it she really did not need to pretend grace had a choice. those 3 hours she gave him were meaningless as far as the project itself and the fate of the world were concerned. and yes, it was in the hopes that he would come around on his own, but i don't think that was for grace's benefit. if anything, it probably would have been less painful for him if he'd never thought he had a say.

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’