I love the second picture in that first post too - reminds me of the ending of Antichrist, but in a nice, soothing way...if that makes any sense at all!
For me, it's picking locks in a quiet room. The feel of a binding pin, the click when it sets, the ping when a padlock gives up and pops open... Gets me right in the dopamines. It's weird, because generally when I'm in a bad way I have
absolutely no tolerance for tricky, fiddly, potentially frustrating things. Maybe lockpicking is different because I know, in an emergency, I can go watch the
Lockpicking Lawyer doing it like a pro, and narrating everything in his thoroughly soothing tones.
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