I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.
Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.
But now I’m just like.
Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.
Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?
Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.
That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.
Edit: Someone (on fandom aka wikia) told me they thought this was ai generated but it's not I usually don't color so I'm a bit rusty in that department but I really tried to make it look presentable, it's my first badge and all, though i did use Google photos to remove the background after I finished, I hope that's ok...
But other than that it's completely done by me, and I even added that little soft colourful shading around the cursor!, and I really enjoyed the gradients!
Etho: (overlapping) Without moving, sitting up straight uh with, you know how you do the, the O with your legs
Gem: An O with your legs?
Etho: So you have them up, right, but they're kind of folded on top of each other
Gem: Oh, you have like your, your, your ankle on your knee?
Etho: Exactly, yeah
Gem: Your ankle's on your knee, okay, yeah
Etho: This is kind of me right now
Gem: This is you
Etho: Some- something like this
Gem: Uh-huh. Boy, you'd fit right in in guess the build
Etho: Yup (laughs)
Gem: (laughs)
Etho: With, with Skizz, right?
Gem: Yeah, okay, yeah, chat I think, I think, well, I think that's typical
Etho: Uh-hum
Gem: We'll diagnose that as typical
Etho: Does it mean something or what?
Gem: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. They're just curious
Etho: Yeah. Yeah, you reposition all the time, otherwise you get sore
Gem: Okay, follow-up question from, again from the chat, has nothing to do with me. If you were to have like your dream couch, okay, in your house. What color is the couch?
Etho: What color is the couch? Well it's gotta match the place
Gem: Well yeah, but like your dream couch. Like the whole room maybe is coming together or whatever. What's the couch color?
Etho: Boy, that's a hard question
Gem: I know, it took Grian a while to answer this one
Etho: It's not like, it's not like a great answer. But it would probably be brown of some sort, just, just 'cause I don't know. I don't feel like couches should be like a feature?
Gem: Oooh, okay
Etho: More like background, right?
Gem: Yeah, no, I agree, and I do - brown is good, very natury
Etho: And like if you get a white couch. Someone - you invite someone over, there's gonna be stains
Gem: If you had said white. No, nuh-uh, no it can't be white. Well -
Etho: What's, what's your answer on that one?
Gem: Green
Etho: Green like a forest green kind of thing?
Gem: (overlapping) Like a dark green. A dark - maybe like an emerald or olive, something very deep, sprucy colored
Etho: That's a good choice 'cause that's kinda like a brown, like it's a, it's a neutral color, right?
Gem: Yeah and not like lime green, that, that'd be crazy, that'd be wild. It's gotta be still natury
Etho: Uh-hum
Gem: That's my dream. Chat, are you satisfied now? We've got our answer (laughs)
Etho: (laughs) This is what you put up all day with, weird questions like this Gem, okay
Gem: They take after the streamer, really
Etho: Right
Gem: Yeah. Yeah, I, I agree with your diagnosis, chat, I agree. I think we already knew that, but I agree, I concur
Etho: Okay now I gotta pull up the chat. What are they saying? What is this diagnosis?
Gem: (laughs) Well it's pride month Etho, so. You know there's just certain answers
Etho: You can tell by how someone sits?
Gem: No, no, no. You can't actually, to be clear. But me and Lizzie were in a call the other night and we were both sitting a certain way. And then the dads were both not sitting that way. So we started to make jokes
Etho: Were they cross-legged?
Gem: That maybe there's a correlation. No, the dads were sitting like proper in an office chair. Just normal, like feet planted, arms just on the desk, just normal sitting. At least you've got one leg up, a little bit of spice
Etho: No, no, both legs, both legs
Gem: Oh, both legs and right, both legs. Both - wait, you're cross-legged basically?
Etho: Uh not - like the legs are on top of each other, I guess
Gem: So like ankle on knee, but both, both ankles on your knee. Both ankles are on the knees
Etho: (overlapping) One, one, one ankle under knee, one on top of knee
Gem: Oh
Etho: Folded together, you know
Gem: Okay, alright. I see
Etho: What do they call that? Crisscross? Hmm
Gem: They're saying crisscross. Pretzel style
Etho: That's, that's pretty much it yeah, pretzel style
I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.
I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.
every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).
Going easy on a new or less experienced player at a game in order to make them have a better time does kinda turn me on. Gently guiding you towards achieving a climactic victory against me. Upon my defeat I reveal my hand to show you that I had nothing at all, that it was truly all you (having previously subtly discarded all my outs). You dance victoriously kicking and shouting. Unaware that I'm looking down on you from above, twisting my marionette piloting a little figure to play out cleaning up and bemoaning my loss. All the while i grin and watch you with hungry eyes, tasting your false victory and beckoning you in ever deeper. Keep playing, come closer, I have more things to show you. You'll have so much fun here with me. Ignore how perfectly everything lines up, don't mind the strings that hunt your limbs, you have nothing to fear in joining my performance.