because picking favorites gives me anxiety

WHAT IF I MISS SOMETHING

which explains a little about me lmao

I probably should've done that lol. my brain goes "you have never seen/heard/done this in your life" and I draw a huge blank.

RIGHT??

last book you read (or podcast, audiobook, whatever)

the last book I finished was The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross, for canon reviewing a ns guy

it's very fun, the evangelical Eldritch cult is properly horrifying, and I think Stross's writing really starts to hit its stride in that book

did audiobook it - the narrator adds a lot, I think

last podcast was Dear Hank and John, which I'm listening to the whole backlog of while doing chores

what's something you really like about the area you live in?

not the favourite just something Neat

it's super GREEN for a big city - there's little Nooks of grass and bushes and trees everywhere in the little unused triangles made by the diagonal street grid

in the spring time I'm always seeing bees and robins and grackles

even in the urban center! i go to get my commuter fixed by a major inner metro stop and there's a giant bank of sunflowers and carnations separating the sidewalk from the street

ooo that is lovely

stuff like that

it's just NICE when there's nature in the hi-density urban sprawl

yeah! and it's not super common in america as far as I can tell

also, on the literal flip side, DC's metro was designed with this big Unifying Aesthetic of 60s concrete brutalism and it actually fucks hard

CrtHse_002waffle station design

feels a little bit like you're in a scifi every time you DESCEND

omg I love the crazy steep metro escalators, it's so trippy

INTO THE EARTH WITH YE

2 or 3 places you'd really like to visit

1) probably the cheesiest tourist one, but I'd really love to see Egypt

2) those places in central america with the bioluminescenet algae. that seems magical as hell

3) Pompeii/herculaneum

oooh, bioluminescent algae? How have I missed this? It sounds amazing

it's in like. just a couple of bays, at least one of them is in puerto rico i think

they light up when disturbed

omg, so you just... wade through it and create light as you move?!

I don't think they let people wade in, usually you go out at night in boats and you can like, splash your hand in and it starts glowing, yeah

it's not bright enough to see in the day

dayum, just imagine being the first person to discover that however long ago