It's the poignancy of wanting the pirate to wave back without enquiring what that means for your relationship to the pirate.

9-11 in the proper date format 😬

Drawing a hard line and only making 11-9 jokes

I can't help it but when I type something like this I always put on this ironic voice and say "really Jeroen? Insecurities? This must make life very uniquely hard for you, because no person dancing on stage would ever experience anything like failing to find themselves sizzlingly hot some days"

Its weird because 'remember you're sexy' comes so easy to me some days where I'm fucking the mirror and then some days I just want to crumple up into the smallest ball rather than face my own reflection. Makes it so bizarre to realise its a skill I'm using rather than a vibe I just naturally have.

I especially didn't realise I had learned to manage my mindset to be more stage-present, actively look like at the very minimal *I* think of myself as sexy. During a class choreo brought be close to the mirror and tired-from-ill me looked back and I immediately was like 'well I'm not buying that'.

The real moment for me came when I realised that if I see a stupidly tall person do some of my hard boulders without breaking a sweat, I could turn to the person next to me and just say '6-7',.. and upon that I received enlightenment.

Like how 'just go up' became a meme with bouldering for me, like its a nonsense thing to say that simultaneously says something? Like you see some basketball players, they're supposed to be tall to win, or you're surprised at how tall they are idk, so you just start saying 6-7 like 'what dee fuck'.

It also started to reference the height of some basketball players, and then there's this kid who at a game clearly has some in-joke with friends about it youtu.be/XEFZ30Cvdnc?...

I'm being told in my earpiece I'm on bluesky, the platform for people frighteningly close to embracing being old.

It would have been so easy. Just some more gorgeous levels, keep up the music, set it on some different planets. And like some mild lateral innovation, the airboat is now also a submarine. So simple.