HERE’S A YUGIOH PROTAGONIST JUST GIVING SOME RANDOM GOONS THOSE HANDS
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Gamers this has been on my mind for a while, and I've been Going Through It so I can't thoughtfully articulate it yet but: the little things can, and absolutely will, save you.
It's noticing the bunny in the yard eating dandelions one by one. It's buying lemonade from eager kids at a stand using change scrounged from the center console of your car. It's enjoying the smell of hot pavement steaming after a brief summer rain. It's taking a breath that feels fuller and more satisfying than usual.
It's painstakingly training your brain to notice the small but rampant string of good things woven through every single day. It's that same kind of training that you have to do in order to undo the years of anxious patterns that have been ruthlessly hammered into the soft pathways of your mind.
I don't know how to connect the two dots, but the connection is there. I know it's there because something as silly as the satisfying crunch of a knife cutting a crisp grilled cheese sandwich in half has meant the difference between hanging on and panicking during a stressful day.
I can't explain how the many small things I did and asked for and noticed over YEARS finally coalesced into something solid and real and steadying but they did. I'm not saying that petting the one patch of fur between your pets ears that's a little softer than any other spot is going to cure your depression tomorrow.
But I'm suggesting that when you stitch it together with a thousand other things from a thousand other days, it might just rescue you from the one day in your future that would have destroyed you otherwise.
Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn't committing to the bit
I mean, we're talking about people whose lifespan is Yes.
"Oh, the weak wine? That is for children. I am two thousand years old, and I daresay one sip from this highball would knock you on your ass for a week."
Look, there's this weird thing people do with high fantasy where they want elves to be immortal/extremely long-lived snooty aristocrats and also somehow incapacitated by imagining the taste of salt too hard. "Orcs and dwarves have the hardest booze" no they don't, they have work in the morning! In any of these settings, elves would pregame harder than hobbits party and everyone else has shit to do tomorrow.
The average high elf builds up the drug tolerance of a mid-70s Hollywood producer and then spends three centuries studying alchemy. While humans seek immortality, the Immortals seek the elusive "philosopher's cocaine."
No gonna argue against elven booze superiority, but can we talk about weed? There's no way elves have a higher tolerance than halflings, those little fuckers huff and puff all day and still go to work high as hellfire
Not saying that halfling weed is stronger than whatever elves smoke, I'm just saying any elf would be giggling themself silly after what halflings consider a 'short, 13-hour smoke break'.
People do like to bring up the point that despite living for, like, 700 years to forever in peak health, elves never really seem to get anything done, and when they do, it's the dumbest, worldfuckingest project imaginable despite being a "wise" people
It's because of the pot, this is pothead behavior
Personally I think Elves would have something resembling that really strong hallucinogenic absinthe that may never have existed, the kind of thing they were using in “Moulin Rouge”. That’s in addition to the tasteful elegant bongs they use to smoke the strongest weed you ever smelled (which they grow in super fancy grow rooms), and some kind of ceremonial acid handed out like Catholic priests passing out the communion wafers.
But anyway, if you’re in the sort of setting that includes this kind of thing, there are a LOT of options with a variety of effects to play with:
i cannot emphasize enough how much elon musk is very much not killing twitter on purpose. he is not that smart. you are giving him too much credit. he makes cars that melt. a few weeks ago a billionaire imploded several other billionaires and himself in the ocean because of this same brand of born-rich brainworms. destroying a social media site because of a petty, long held grudge over his paypal co-founders not letting him rename that to "X" is not a stretch.