Status Updates From Potential Energy

Why are so many main characters alcoholics!?

I really dislike when my main characters use brothels/prostitutes. It makes me dislike them as a person.

Still standing at the sink, he looked down at his open palms and thought about the things those hands had done. The weapons they’d wielded, the ships they’d steered, the lovers they’d caressed. Unlike his brain and his leg, his hands had never betrayed him.

MY HEART

"that's not optimism, that's obstinacy."
"Maybe those are the same thing."

okay that should not have hit me so hard wtf