Okay two things

1) every time I see something like this, or photos of wild unrealistic landscapes that really exist, or spectacular architecture, whatever it is, I think again that when we write fantasy, we NERF REALITY. That is, here’s some dude with a special interest and a brain that somehow lacks basic self preservation mechanisms, and he’s out here looking like a super hero. Regular humans are capable of things we seem super human. Real landscapes are more fantastical than our fantasies. Reality is more fantastical than our fantasies.

2) how the fuck did he not kick out any windows that’s the most impressive part of the whole video.

this man is his own zombie apocalypse team, adding anyone else would just slow him down

So as someone who used to teach parkour back in the day, this dude isn’t just talented. His technique is amazing.

It’s not just about not kicking out windows. Controlling how you land is about shock absorption, about minimizing the strain on your joints. It also makes you quieter when you move. A good landing should be as silent as possible, because loud landings hurt. That’s the foundation of everything else you do in parkour. So by the time you’re climbing buildings, if you’re breaking windows it means you don’t have enough control to land safely and it’s time to go back to your ground basics.

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Yeah so this is the guy who tests the Ninja Warrior stuff. He’s like an Olympian of parkour, that’s why this looks so good.

a man who has not forgotten that humans are primates with all the deeply weird stuff that entails

And I want it to be like a sad ode to humanity how we basically fucked everything up and now like the only survivors are just a bunch of ragtag humans lost in deep space who’ve never even seen earth and the story is structured as a bunch of short stories to be told orally with some of the details skewed because the stories have been passed down through generations but they’re skewed in clever little ways that highlight certain strengths of humanity that we’ve managed to hold onto over the years

And I want it to be like a sad ode to humanity how we basically fucked everything up and now like the only survivors are just a bunch of ragtag humans lost in deep space who’ve never even seen earth and the story is structured as a bunch of short stories to be told orally with some of the details skewed because the stories have been passed down through generations but they’re skewed in clever little ways that highlight certain strengths of humanity that we’ve managed to hold onto over the years

And it makes the reader really feel their desperation to hold on to humanity’s history and they know they can’t hold onto it forever because with each passing year more and more is forgotten to time and the point of the story isn’t even to save humanity anymore, it’s to save the memory of humanity. It’s the fear of being forgotten. It’s the fear of leaving nothing behind saying “hey! We were here! Look at all the amazing things we did! Look at all the amazing things we learned!!” Like I want the reader’s heart to ache not for humanity, but for the memory of humanity