Ice cubes. Ice cubes + bath tub = a very satisfying need for breakage and noise (and no clean up!) when I need to break things. Just throw them as hard as I can in an empty tub.
nice new lipsticks. like, when you open them for the very first time and they're all shiny and perfectly shaped. bonus points for that nice vanilla scent. petting soft things. like mice and cats. really soft sweatshirts and sweaters. words like blep freshly cleaned sheets/blankets glittery stuff dice
Squidging your feet through really thick, soft, clay-based mud. Brushing long hair Spiral-peeling mandarin oranges Eating sun-warm berries off the vine/cane
this gif (epilepsy warning probably). it's usually hard for me to be hypnotized by gifs/pictures but holy shit this one is calming, it even manages to shut my brain off and let me go to sleep without random anxiety/restlessness spikes (which is a hell of an accomplishment).
peeling the protective sticker off things getting to lie down after spending all day on your feet making perfect cubes out of blutack getting your hair scritched just so trying out a new pen or brush for the first time (bonus points if its a brushpen and it does the elegant swoopy thing) on that note, the feeling of a dip pen on smooth/hot press paper when you open up a sheng jian bao and get a lil waft of steam picking seeds out of multigrain bread crusts and seeing the little indents they leave i got a new pj set and the top is so soft i've basically been stimming with it ever since i got it
Carving wax. Linking chainmail rings. Making plate armor articulate smoothly without leaving any gaps. Peel milling hardened steel and watching the flurry of chips as they fly:
Biting into mochi, and the temp + texture is juuuust right. Being covered by blankets, but my head isn't uncomfortably cold compared to the rest of my body. A brand new latex eraser. The texture is so easily 'ruined'(read: smoothed out) by just handling it. Alternatively, splitting the brand new latex eraser in half by bringing the two ends together. Seeing the steam droplets swirl in the air after a blazing hot shower. Figuring out nearly perfectly parabolic trajectories/projectile speeds for videogames. (I played a lot of Doombringer for Tribes: Ascend.) My got dang avatar image being exactly how I feel about these things.
dimensional analysis in physics lately if it counts? it's compicated at first but super satisfying to work out all the units as equal at the end! 38O
When you roll your shoulders or flex your back and your spine cracks in like three places. One of those cracks where it feels like all the tension in your body just disappeared.
Some of my personal favorites: Crisp autumn weather. Living in Florida means I don't get this very much so I never take it for granted Sweater weather in general. Also, sweaters. Especially if they're oversized and soft. Laying cozy in bed under the covers about to take an afternoon nap while it starts pouring down rain outside and the world becomes tranquil Taking off a bra at the end of a long day Picking up cats/dogs and hugging them close Touching shiny/sparkly objects, or picking them up and moving their position so that they're shimmering under light Scrubbing your body with those shea body scrubs and then washing it all off and feeling your new super soft skin ngl but my first time completing Undertale's pacifist run was one of the most satisfying feelings I've ever gotten lol idk if that counts Writing in a different language. I don't mean with roman letters similar to english but ones that use different scripts, like Chinese/Japanese, etc. This is something I've genuinely grown addicted to doing (and it's educational) Using copic markers & smelling them Cat purrs Holding a watering hose in just the right position under the sun so that a rainbow can form in the water the taste of Chick fil-A waffle fries, or Checker's curly fries, the burgers from Culver's etc. I could go on. Lots of satisfaction exists even if it's not texture/touch-related
...Okay, ONE more but only because I love this one so much: When you laugh so hard that you fall over and run out of breath and your laughs become inaudible and whoever's near you asks if you're okay but you can't talk because you can't stop laughing inaudibly while out of breath and your sides start to hurt and after a minute you finally catch your breath and take in a huge gasp and laugh a little more until it slowly dies off, and then try mentioning the thing that made you laugh so hard but start laughing again before you can finish and the cycle repeats, yeah, that.
carving into a brand new jar of peanut butter seconding those protective peels. at my job pretty much all the engraving stock and plates come with peels. I get to peel them aaaaaaaaallllll daaaaaaaaaaaay when I wake up and the cat climbs up on my back and makes biscuits (unless I've gone too long without trimming the pointy bits off her nails and then it's not so pleasant) mother. fuckin. corner brownies. Preferably the chewy/fudgy kind, not the cakey kind. Corner lasagna, too. Basically the corner of anything that's baked in a square/rectangular pan and is sweet and gooey or savory and cheesy and gets a nice slightly crispy-caramelized-chewy bit where it touches the edge of the pan. But especially brownies and lasagna. Edge brownies/lasagna are okay. But the corners, man. the fucking corners are the best. leaving the boiled egg in the tonkatsu ramen for last, until you've eaten all the noodles and all the bits and most of the broth and then you cut the egg open with your spoon and swish it around a little so the yolk mixes in with the broth and hnnnng. gifs/videos of factory machines doing their thing hyper-realistic miniature fake food watching that Miniature Space guy on YouTube make miniature REAL food (like, look at this one where he uses a water bottle cap for a bento box and makes rice, chicken katsu, tamagoyaki, tiny veggie bits, and even OCTOPUS WEENIES to fit in it, it's unreal) (edited because I forgot to link to tiny bento box video)
@Lerxst thank you for bringing this miniature space guy into my life because !!!!!!!!! oh my god tiny food oh my god you can eat it!!!!!!!
cuddling is the single nicest thing ever in the world fixing stuff learning sleeeeeeeeeeeeep oh, also, gifs of anything smol and soft
