• dmention7@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Man, imagine seeing a field of fireflies IRL for the first time, if you had never heard of them before! That would be pretty mindblowing.

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      8 hours ago

      I knew about them but didn’t see them well into adulthood. It’s underwhelming

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        6 hours ago

        I feel like fireflies have to be pretty perfectly whelming? like on the level of a swarm of pretty butterflies: cool, but not that cool.

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          I don’t know man, I’ve seen an actual swarm of butterflies (it took days for them to fly through) and it was pretty fucking awesome.

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          I think it’s just because the only idea I had was from cartoons. They don’t exist where I’m from.

          They are still eery and cool though.

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        8 hours ago

        Really? I’m a seasoned adult-er, and I still get a little flicker of wonder when i see those lights floating in the field behind my house on summer evenings.