Sonder! I really like these first two pieces. Your formatting is so neat and polished and the word choice is somehow just the right blend of academic/scientific and poetic.
This phrasing was beautiful: "you gesture vaguely to the turbid galaxies roiling above overwhelmed" I love how nonchalant that is and yet the turn to "overwhelmed" at the end.
you should know i am a time traveler & there is no season as achingly temporary as now
I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use". — Patrick Rothfuss, A Wise Man's Fear