develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich with treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. forget yourself.

• flannel pyjama pants
• the smell of wood smoke
• pocket knives with inscriptions
• luzon bleeding-heart doves
• f1 drivers patting their car after winning a race
• songs with a mix of dirty and clean vocals
• making playlists
• violin-heavy classical and drum-heavy jazz
• learning about anything and everything
• sitting in chairs improperly
• transhumanism in media
• female metal vocalists
• petting cats until they fall asleep
• care from my team as a support player
• weird stock photos
• wintermint chewing gum
• sticky notes
• bottom eyelashes
• sharpie fine liners
• bts shots of the cast with blood or gore prosthetics on them
• statistics, graphs, and data
• detective duos
• stags shedding their antler velvet
• ribcage / waist tattoos
• the tiny peppers on canlii that show how "spicy" the treatment of a case is
• fanart of male characters with black nail polish
• browsing libraries and thrift shops
• african rain frogs
• trading music recommendations
• cartilage piercings
• working dogs
• video games with quasi-retro low poly graphics
• people using hard slang with silly and whimsical images (e.g. picture of a little mouse baking captioned "typa shit i been on")
• animal motifs
• songs sampling movies
• rappers barking as an ad lib (woofwoofwoof)
• the sore feeling after flossing
• singing along to music in the car
• statues and paintings of angels
• watching a bruise or wound change colours as it heals
• when dogs tilt their head and one of their ears flops up. sensational
• compliments from strangers i'll never see again
  • "i like your jacket" (my favourite)
  • this guy on campus who silently watched me draw for a few minutes then quietly said "nice drawings" and left before i could talk to him
  • comments on my band t-shirts, c is a repeat offender (never met a band t-shirt he didn't like), also s/o the guy at the cafe who complimented my nirvana shirt and showed me his playlist
• sitting on the floor of my friends' bedrooms or dorms and having a group conversation long into the night. so fucking peak. i feel like we're the school of athens