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small talk leads to big talk leads to deep talk people these days just wna get to 3rd base immediately like woah buddy no im not gna tell everyone my deepest darkest fear the first time i meet you and anyone that will do it is a psycho or has no boundaries

Just stumbled upon something absolutely incredible An extensive archive of hi-res photographs of NASA’s Apollo Space Missions from 1968-1972

artemis ii photos got me in a chokehold

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

this orion camera view is actually so pretty omg

Artemis II if it was shot on Apollo 11 era Kodak Ektachrome film.

i always associate the look of space/NASA with film, so i used Filmbox (a DaVinci resolve plugin) to emulate celluloid on these amazing shots taken by NASA's photo team. see the rest of @NASA's incredible photos: nasa.gov/gallery/artemi…

I was scrolling through NASA's images of Artemis II and found a shot of liftoff from that inconic angle used for Saturn V/IB launches. Wow.

it's qing Ming so if you're holding incense with h people around please don't hold it at face level jesus fuck

i'm in a korean restaurant. i've been here 3 times now. once with friends and twice alone. i'm here alone today. the owner greets me and i feel like he recognises me but maybe not. he's just being friendly. table for one. this restaurant plays kpop music and is decorated with idol photos. it's tastefully done. the food is authentic. when i came with friends, one of them lived in korea for a while and said it's just like over there it's 4.15pm. it's too late for lunch but too early for dinner. i order the lunch special anyway. a meal deal bento box style. korean fried chicken in sweet chili sauce, some dumplings, kimchi, garlic soy chicken, a side salad, doenjang jjigae, a drink of my choice. it is a lot of food but i have nowhere to go and all the time in the world to eat it the first time i encountered kpop was through my first love interest. she was a koreaboo. white irish, tall, taller than me, with cute glasses. she was a nerd's dream. she loved star wars, star trek, and anything to do with a star. i was her first bf and she was my first gf. me being asian made me worry that she only liked me because she was a koreaboo and while i wasn't korean i could pass as a member of an asian boy band if you squinted i lived a sheltered life up until i went to college. i went to an all boys school the entire time and my only interaction with women was through my mother and older sister. i was 17 and painfully shy. she was the one that asked me out. the first time a member of the opposite sex besides my family noticed me. ofc i said yes. the word no had not developed inside me yet when i went to college it was my first time living away from home. i had 5 housemates each sharing a little kitchen and bathroom. i became close with one. the one who was the polar opposite of me. he was a real gymbro, a ladies man, and in his own words “a top shagger”. he got me into the gym. he was a good guy, a bit macho but a good guy. we have since lost touch but i saw a picture of him with his newborn child not so long ago the owner brings the food to my table. it’s quiet. there’s a young couple in front of me each on their phone and a group of 4 girls giggling in the far corner. the owner smiles at me and says enjoy. i say thank you. i take a bite of the soy chicken and start to space out i don’t actually remember what we did for our first date but i remember it being perfectly friendly. i had never had a girlfriend but also never had a friend that was a girl. to me it was the same thing. idk if it was even a date. the word date wasn't used but it didn't seem to matter. we were chilling on the sofa in my dorm. one thing led to the next and we kissed. my first kiss! how exciting! i remember it being wet and uncomfortable. she used a lot of tongue. i didn't like that. it was too much. it was too overwhelming. i went with it tho. it was uncomfortable but also very exciting in an uncomfortable way she kissed me everywhere we went. i walked her to her lectures and she’d kiss me on the stairs. kissing in private was already uncomfortable. imagine how i felt kissing in public. this is when the word no started building inside me. it wasn't enough yet for me to say it but it was there. she’d kiss me in the university garden kiss kiss kiss. she’d kiss me in the student centre kiss kiss kiss. at that point i thought hey maybe i just don’t like kissing. i kissed her back anyway because that was what i was supposed to do i try some more of the food. i mix it with alternating bites of white rice. the liquids i always leave til the end to wash it all down. the young couple get their food. the woman gets up to go the bathroom. she is tall. she reminds me of my first gf. i start looking at the wall next to me. the kpop idols look familiar. i think it's bts but i couldn't tell you their names. kpop music continues to play. i used to not like it but now i think it's fine. i don't listen to it myself but i see the appeal we're listening to kpop on my single bed. she asks me which guy is prettier and to me they both look the same. she tells me what their hobbies are, their likes, their dislikes. she asked me if this changed my mind. somewhat i thought but i didn't really care. i tried to care tho because i could see it was important to her. she shyly told me her "biases". the world of kpop made more sense when she talked about it when we held hands her hands were always clammy. this made my hands clammy too. i've always been sensitive. my mom always told me this when i got upset over little things that didn't seem like a big deal when i was young. a month or two in i met her parents. they were lovely working class irish parents. loving but cautious of me. me being asian probably amused them. they were curious. i could see it in their faces. a month or two in i knew i had to break up with her. she was perfectly fine but i realised i wanted a friend more than i wanted a gf. me being me, it took 4 more months before i actually did break up with her. a fact that still brings shame to my face to this day the food really is good. the fried chicken is the right level of crunchy. i like crunchy food. i eat very slowly. i want to linger here for as long as i can. the 4 giggling girls laugh loud at something. it pulls me out of it for a moment. i take a sip of my drink and drift off again my birthday came around in december. she made me a lemon cake. the frosting was crude but it was made with genuine love. the guilt ate me alive. she got me two decks of pokemon cards so we could play together. we never did end up playing together. maybe i could make it work i thought. maybe i could just love her like she was loving me. love can be a choice too right. what if i just loved her the way she loved me i asked my gymbro housemate for advice. i asked him what i should do and he told me i should break up with her asap. do it quickly like ripping off a bandage we made love that night. well we tried. it was both of our first times. it wouldn't fit. i was a bit embarrassed but she was mortified. she kept apologising. i kept saying it's fine it's fine. she ended up crying so i cried too. we held each other through the night. us in my single bed in a dorm with 5 other people just next door. making love without being in love. i knew i shouldn't have done it. but i just got swept up in it all. i waited till after xmas to break up with her. no one wants to be broken up with before xmas the kpop song playing now is pretty catchy. i notice there is a karaoke booth in this restaurant. ive never done karaoke in the west. only in asia. im about half done the food now and im pretty satisfied but i tell myself ill finish the food i broke up with her in the city park. i really liked that park. even now if i ever return there it is tinged with sadness. we sat down on a bench and i did it quickly like ripping off a bandage. she cried a lot of course and of course i cried too. we held each other until the tears made our faces cold. she said what now and i said hey we can still be friends! wanna be friends? wanna go to the supermarket to get some cheese? she looked at me like i had 5 heads. i learned many lessons with my first gf a couple of months after we broke up, my housemate told me he saw my exgf on social media. she had a new bf. a new bf already i thought! that was quick but hey im happy for her. he showed me a picture of them and started laughing. i looked and looked and wondered what was so funny but then realised the guy with my exgf looked exactly like me except a bit thinner and a bit shorter. he's a budget version of you he laughed. i told him not to say that because it's kinda mean but i secretly found it kinda funny too. i was happy she found someone. some of the guilt lifted as i finish the meal, the owner asks me if i enjoyed it and i say yeah i sure did. i ask him if i can pay in cash. he says of course and gets me the bill. i look at it and at the bottom in caps it says service charge isn't included. i leave what the service charge would be. i put a £2 coin on the tray and tell him to keep the change. he says thanks and asks if i want the receipt. i think about it for longer than i should have but ultimately say no. ill return again at some point i tell myself. yes i think i will

“fuck it we ball” (malnourished, heavy eye bags, dehydrated and on the verge of insanity)

im a light slut

@LeonTai I just like how it's so red compared to everything else

@merovign Don't forget to pay your unclamping fee

deep in the trenches today but i dont feel like it aaaaafffgggggggggg

we are in hell and the algo is not fire

Let me break it down for u

@yuu_v4 dw its still here ugh

Either the haze is gone or my nose has adapted to the smell.

romanticise the mrt it deserves all these words and more

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