KingBlizzardAndTheScissoredVisard

This scene almost always gets me

@capstellium I believe this is how heart tissue comes online during pregnancy. All the cells are firing out of sync But eventually, they all fire at once, and from then on, the heart just works

my daughter never spoke a full sentence until today. she was holding some toy ducks and said "how many ducks do I have?" and then "hi, my name is joanie" and she's been talking normally in full sentences the rest of the day. it's like she just powered on and realized she's alive

アメリカに留学して3ヶ月ほど経ったころ、1つ上の日本人の先輩と一緒に、はじめて大学生のハウスパーティーに行った。英語がほとんど話せない日本人の男2人にわざわざ話しかけてくるアメリカ人はいないので、当然のように僕らの定位置は「壁の花」だ。つまらなくなって広い家の中をふらふらしていたら、アコギが置いてある部屋があった。弾いてみたかったが、他人のギターを勝手に触っていいものか迷っていたところ、酔っ払った先輩が長渕剛やミスチルを弾きはじめた。ちょうどそこへ家の主が通りかかり、「Sounds good 👍」とかなんとか言いながら去っていったので、「ああ、弾いてもいいんだな」と思い、今度は僕がメタリカの『Master of Puppets』のリフを弾いてみた。するとそれを聴いた何人かが「おい！こいつギター上手いぞ！」「ファッキンMETALLICA！」などと騒ぎ出し、次々とその部屋に人が集まってきた。酔っ払った彼らからは「お前、スレイヤー弾けるか？」「アイアンマンは？」「ニルヴァーナの曲、何か知ってるか？」とリクエストが飛んできて、しまいにはMr. Bigの『To Be With You』の大合唱がはじまった。その夜は「壁の花」だった僕が主役をかっさらうことになり、今でも付き合っている友達もできた。翌週からは大学のキャンパスで声をかけられることが増え、僕の名前を呼んでくれる金髪ギャルの知り合いもできた。芸は身を助けるので、趣味は大切にしてください。

人生の節目な気がしてるんで自画像を描いた。油絵にもする。 26をこの絵でスタートした事覚えておこう。

@zionszzn I trained a lot for powerlifting. I got really strong and muscular (and fat). I stopped training and eating so much because I didn't want the accompanying fat. I still got fat anyway

this weightlifting thing, so you’ll just be increasing the weight and going higher and higher till you carry car or what

基本的に、肉食獣にはツノがない。 ツノは身を守るための防御武器で、狩る立場の肉食獣にはメリットが薄いため。 なんて話を聞いてから、強そうなドラゴンや魔獣のツノを見る度に 「おまえ、狩られる側なのか……」 って思ってしまう。 知るんじゃなかった……ってなったので、皆にもお裾分けするね☆

She had to use her belt-fed machine gun to kill this monster. She really made sure every shot was a headshot. 😂

"YOU MEAN KRILLIN?!!!" #dbz

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2006)

3yo: (joyously giggling) “daddy, you go hide!!” me: (also laughing) okay! i hide in a closet. 3yo’s face immediately goes slack, like t-1000. he walks to the table. he pushes a chair from the table to below the high cabinet where his sister’s candy is kept

As of today, I have officially drafted over 104 pages of prose for my debut novel. In my heart of hearts, I never really thought I would get here. It's time to celebrate a little bit I think.

A common hangup when reading older novels is the idea that there's something you "miss" if you don't parse every word, when the novel pre-teevee era was meant to be read to pass the time, even the difficult ones. Just like you don't fully pay attention to a sitcom, the enjoyable way to read the tomes is to let your eyes wash over the words and let your intuition ping you to focus. All of a sudden, attention focuses, and you realize the writing is good — *really* good, and poignant, and funny. And if something doesn't make sense, you can always go back. Older literature was meant for repetitive reading, partially bc books were fairly expensive until commodified, and bc there wasn't any other form of mass entertainment. I've always felt the American school system teaches reading incorrectly for this reason. Being able to recite plot points and answer questions isn't a useful test of literary interpretation after it's obvious you have reading comprehension. Great literature is about timelessness, expanding an anecdote or a plot point into a generalist statement about the universe and its participants. The quiz mentality induces pressure in people for no reason. They subconsciously assume they're supposed to be able to rattle off facts about the books the read, which makes reading stressful for no reason. I've read a ton of books where I would struggle to tell you what actually happens. But when a passage becomes relevant, or I discuss the ideas I remember from the experience described above, it's clear I "get" the ideas of the author. It's such a weird reading tip, but if you don't feel like reading a page, just go to the next! You never know if you'll find the right circumstances to get unstuck otherwise.

@justinskycak There's a lot of value in changing your resolution of analysis to be very high (and low order). This is what I did when I analyzed VODs of smash bros matches to help my friends. I remember being criticized for observing a very small, short interaction. That always stuck with me

Many learners fail to understand that grinding through concrete examples imbues you with intuition that you will not get if you jump directly to studying the most abstract ideas.

Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog..

the creative process

Resilience is physiological & actionable: Spiking your morning cortisol increase (which is what wakes you up & is healthy) with bright sunlight & exercise, shortens the duration and the amplitude of the cortisol response to afternoon and night time stressors, should they happen.

generalizes to all sorts of pursuits. the only* thing that matters is that you keep yourself interested in showing up and doing the next rep

They would get along