Akula

my dad said in just a couple days I already look way healthier, and I probably agree

it takes a lot to resist the urge to dive immediately when the surge of inspiration and ex*****on hits, but I suspect that they’re pretty right that more rest will go a lot further

to more Gatorade, singing, movies, and conditionally adding side quests each day

I was warned about 8+ months ago that a particular path could come with a lot of … speedrunning through character development in the life falling apart (many times over), confrontations of so many kinds, and existential and practical uncertainty.

Bravely and semi-naively (like most good stories), I’ve stayed on this path anyway, and WOW has the character development delivered on its promise.

Even as a serial agathist, some of the weeks of overlapping crises, expectations, failures, and pressure ducked the reach of my optimism for far longer than usual.

I’ve also experienced dreams, bucket list lines I’d almost forgotten, and feelings I forgot I wanted to experience coming true in ways I sometimes planned and sometimes by surprise.

There’s so many patterns that ended angry, loud, and audibly, and so many whose absence I haven’t noticed yet — but I’m excited to be Being & reaaaally want to cut through a few particular ones in these weeks.

I’ll be letting you know how that goes.

To more phoenix and forge 🐦‍🔥

more on the humanity of octopi + realizing that the real terror of the Dan Brown book that made me unable to shower or step into an aquarium was actually a human villain

maybe part of my insistence to not eat calamari at Italian restaurants shifted from fear and disgust to a bit more of empathy and … dare I say, affection? they’re basically swimming brains of thought and electricity

& essentially the previous caption’s thoughts on video format that I found just now