my friend! 🫶 how have you been? it’s lovely to hear from you again

sorry for not continuing our chat, but, yeah, i took a break from tumblr. i just couldn’t deal with moral purity discourse with fascists knocking at my damn door, if you know what i mean. our presidential elections got postponed until may and, suffice to say, it’s not looking good, with trump & putin backing the pro-russian candidate and other useful idiots 🙄

so i’m trying to not read the news as much as possible, spending my days in a calm-before-the-storm mentality. i’ve finished act ii of bg3 around christmas time. i trusted shadowheart and she spared the nightsong, now she’s dyed her hair white and we’re besties forever. :)) but i didn’t manage to advance very much into act iii, i’ve only just reached rivington and took a break from the game because my former supervisor asked me to write an article for a journal he’s associated with, so i settled on investigating the incompatibility of the weberian state in non-european territories, with the drc as a case study. not thee most complicated methodology but i did what i could in a month lol ☠️

so i spend my january alternating that with various parties as many of my friends have their birthdays in this period, incl my bf, so it was a kind of alcohol-infused pseudo-cerebral time (very dark academia of me 😂). we made olive oil cake on valentine’s day and then took a few days off to go to a barbecue (yes, outside) during the first snow of this entire winter (it was cold af but we persevered!)

i really want to get back into the rhythm of reading so i pushed through and read The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein, which i noted down as a recommendation from our own mylestoyne here on tumblr (quite liked it!) and the very popular Capitalist Realism, which i hated. reviews are up on my storygraph acct in my bio if anyone is interested. since the start of the new year, i’ve also watched nosferatu (incredible!! loved it sm), babygirl (really rather meh), the jackal with eddie redmayne (decently suspenseful) and i have one episode left of black doves with keira knightley and ben wishaw (not bad! all the twinks are turning into snipers these days)

yea. that’s the problem the show created by trying to make daemyra as uninvolved as possible in laenor’s death. they’re not legally married and their children are bastards.

even if laenor is dead now, they’re STILL not legally married because they only had one ceremony and that ceremony is null and void as a result of laenor’s not!dead status

if you take any character and force them to follow plot beats, regardless of their overall logic in the story, they’re not going to end up looking good. they’ll either come across as inconsistent, illogical or downright dumb

there’s a high chance of that happening if you start the story from the ending and work your way backwards

hmmm… i don’t remember that being my theory, sorry! but i wouldn’t be opposed to it

thank you, friend. 🙏 we’re a pretty irreverent and knee-slapper kind of people (romanian memes are first class) so we’re mostly coping with that. but we are not psychologically equipped in any way to deal with proper political sabotage & destabilisation. i’m just glad that the manipulated masses who voted for the fascists are inherently lazy and cowardly & that no one is out there in the streets protesting for these morons. for once in my life i am grateful for this nation’s fundamental political lethargy

oh, bless you, sweetheart! 😘

i’m currently in the tube after having frozen my socks off for 3 hours at a pro-european-union protest 🫡 🪧🫂