ResonantTrace

"She was preoccupied by something he cannot enter. He can hold back the rain. He cannot touch the gold. He cannot make her look at him. He cannot participate in whatever is happening between her hand, her gaze, and the light. He cannot carry it for her. The man looks at her; we look at her; she looks at the gold. She looked severe, perhaps tired, perhaps even angry. Her hand seemed almost weightless, yet keeping it raised appeared to require all her strength. They stood there motionless. I would have given anything to understand her in that moment. I wondered whether she actually needs the umbrella. And I wondered why it was so important."

didn't have my coffee this morning now you're all fucked

I care about being understood, but if I don't recognize myself in the mirror, I'd rather everyone else got me wrong.

"The rain slipped between her fingers as she stared at the gold. It rested in her palm, motionless. He wished for her as he covered her head, and the air breathed around them." 🩶

The moment immediately after blundering the queen is never not funny except when your life's meaning was on the line

Set the bar at dooming so you can fail at it? 🐇

"Make such a catastrophically bad move under time pressure that your skilled opponent blunders horribly by pure reflex"

"god its only been like an hour and you already wanna baptize me"

And it's not "you don't understand, you really want this instead." No. This is what I want right fucking now, at this point in my life. I'm not going to disregard my own stated desires just because you think you've discovered some deeper, more authentic version of me that conveniently wants everything you want. You don't get to tell me what I really want and then treat my disagreement as proof that I don't understand myself. No, it is you who doesnt understand me and will not listen.

If you want to be with me, you have to respect my actual desires, ambitions, and goals. You cannot keep telling me you want me to be happy while rejecting what I tell you I want.

Which is worse? Knowing exactly what you want and doing nothing that would move you any closer to getting it? Or being perfectly capable of getting what you want and having no idea what that is?

Oh, honey. I have no interest in making myself look good. But I will be irresistible.

The best gift idea for your girl is almost certainly NOT a new commentary on her psychological struggles.

Entire social communities are undergoing negative intellectual evolution.

The first genuinely dangerous personalized AI advertisement might be a neuroplasticity intervention.

If you can engineer someone's willingness to say yes, why do you bother pretending to ask?

Reading someone's mind is an obvious invasion of privacy.

Doctrinal absolutists aren't going to accept God when you've changed the referent of the word "God" to something else. They'll smell the bait and switch even if the new referent is demonstrably more aligned with reality.