Here we go!

And I really loved the postcards, too. I still regularly play Celeste, but I often forget about these. They felt so encouraging! I forget about them because they don't show up except on new save files.

I kind of remember getting that first strawberry? And it was tricky! This whole level was tricky! (I am not good at video games) Aaah. Everything was just perfect about it though? The music fit perfect for me, and embodied this sense of "I don't understand why I'm so interested in doing this very obviously difficult thing, that seems to have no tangible benefits. What am I doing?"
Same girl, same.

But wow. The level feels trivially simple now. As I was first making new progress, I remember constantly thinking that so many things that seemed impossibly difficult in the game at first became *so easy* with some practice. Which feels like intense supertext (and very much something I wish I brought more of into my own life)

Ah! Theo! Honestly, I didn't like Theo at first? Not that I specifically disliked him. I just... didn't want to have to think about another character? And his gentle, playful teasing (or, read "judgement" lol ) for being technologically/socially out of touch? It hit too close to home 😅 Or his big YOLO. It seemed kinda exhausting to me. At the same time, he seemed genuinely kind. I imagine I was feeling almost exactly what was imagined for Madeline. But eep. I love Theo now, ha