Things I like seeing

April 12, 2023
@nisipisa

things i like seeing

♬ Claire de Lune – Ave Maria

Working on another Supernormal post while I keep chunking through TikToks. Juggling two or more projects is something I’ve never been good at, but always known I need to practice, and right now it feels really good! I have a clear vision and it takes the stress off of being barely halfway through my liked feed (!).

I’ve been running into some good ones, though! Like the above, by nisapisa! It’s weird, I’m starting to draw a lot of connections between TikToks, and I’m remembeirng one where a woman is talking about how misanthropic it is to hate on things that most people do. Or like, we want to mythologize certain things because few people are capable of them, rather than cherishing everyday activities. This is a good counterpoint to that: the things nisapisa describes are very human.

In honor of that, here are things I like seeing:

  1. Anyone dining on a restaurant patio. Double if it’s a nice restaurant and they have a nice bottle of wine or something. You know they’re having a moment.
  2. Older men dancing. Too many men are made to feel unattractive or uncomfortable in their bodies as they age, but nothing in the rulebook says you can’t still do TikTok dances!
  3. Women building anything, especially those videos where they open with “I wanted a greenhouse but I have zero carpentry experience” before building a whole greenhouse. Scientists were all like “hOw DiD rOmAnS bUiLd ThE pAnThEoN,” dude just give any woman a long enough Spotify playlist and they’ll figure it out.
  4. Couples on electric scooters. I knooow they’re like a blight on urban transit or whatever. But I never don’t smile when I see people zoom by on those goofy lil scooters — I was a scooter kid growing up, so it feels really whimsical to me.
  5. Related, but anyone just getting from A to B on a skateboard or roller blades, or any non-car non-bike vehicle. Hell yeah, zoom!
  6. People when they notice a photographer is around. Like you just keep doing you dude, but everyone suddenly becomes an actor portraying themselves and I think that’s really charming.