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Rain lashed against my apartment windows last Tuesday, mirroring the chaos of my mind after back-to-back Zoom calls. My phone lay dark and inert beside me – another dead slab of glass in a day drowning in screens. That's when I remembered the offhand Reddit comment: "Try that liquid wallpaper thing." Twenty minutes later, my thumb swiped open the lock screen, and the world changed.

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