So Judging By How Astonished People Are By It Every Time We Explain It To Anybody, It Seems Like My Wife

so judging by how astonished people are by it every time we explain it to anybody, it seems like my wife and I might really be onto something here

during the pandemic, we invented something we call "astronaut time."

when it's astronaut time, it's like we are two astronauts wearing the big helmets, moving around the station on totally separate tasks. one of us is outside the space station and one of us is inside the space station. our radios do not work and we have no way of communicating with each other. we might see each other through the lil porthole windows, but we ignore each other because we both have different things to do.

"astronaut time" is how we get total privacy when we live in the same apartment. I will pretend you don't exist. You will pretend I don't exist. we have a nonverbal, zero-contact signal for when astronaut time is over (usually "I'll draw a smiley-face on the whiteboard in the kitchen when I'm done"). No talking, stay out of each other's line of sight, we are actively avoiding each other, unless you are currently experiencing a medical emergency goodbye.

it has been. a godsend. imagine living with your partner and being able to close every single tab in your brain related to social interaction. no fear of being interrupted by a "hey, quick question--" or "sorry to bother you, but do you know where the scissors are?" or "did you want something to eat, too?" Once or twice a month, we look at each other lovingly, hold hands, and say "baby I think I need some astronaut time tonight," and the other person goes "okay cool. bye! have a nice night!" and nobody's feelings are hurt and we both go and have a lovely evening completely by ourselves.

like idk it's a small thing but it's made our lives so much nicer, so if you and your partner/roommate are both people who sometimes need total privacy in order to recharge, maybe try it

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This is honest to god the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life

.₊⚘·₊˚𐐪𐑂˚₊··₊˚❀˚₊·Fairy Keys·₊˚❀˚₊··₊˚𐐪𐑂˚₊·⚘₊.

I made them from green wire and I’m very happy with how they turned out. I like to think of them as enchanted metallic vines. 

Not quite sure what these keys would open… But maybe following a cabbage butterfly has lead you to a small moss-covered treasure chest hidden in the woods, nestled in the centre of a circle of white clovers in a large hollowed out stump. 

Inside the chest are several smooth, almost egg-shaped stones. They’re grey, like the colours of various clouds on a rainy, stormy autumn day. The stones are translucent and slightly murky, they have crackling patterns and fractures within them, which reflect an iridescence similar to the mother-of-pearl of an abalone shell. 

These stones have a certain warmth to them, like gentle sunlight shining through the bedroom window in the morning. When you hold them close to your ear, you can hear a faint noise, like the gentle thunder rumbling or ocean wind and waves. It’s comparable to holding a seashell up to you ear

Their purpose is entirely unknown, but they have a goodness to them. They would probably make for a good luck charm, for safety on your travels. ⋆⍋࿐༄࿔ . 

^^Went on a bit of a tangent there, just wanted to describe something pretty to give the keys a bit of story. ¯\_(˶^◡^˶)_/¯

kids were roleplaying with minecraft figurines and one of them had their figure go up to the other and say “i’m in love with you” and the other one replied “sword slash to the chest. and you’re on fire”