Do you also feel a déjà vu?

Since 2017, I have only done stuff that I thought was interesting or useful regardless of whether it pays, because we have more than enough money, and despite what billionaires might tell you, there is literally no difference between "more than enough" and "much more than enough."

So I no longer work for money. But in retirement one must keep busy, which is why I have taken on an unpaid gig as the social media intern for a coffee and tea business that donates 100% of its profit to charity.

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(This response will first go into more general stuff that may be more applicable to all, and then into stuff about me specifically.)

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A new person comes into your life. You end up spending much more time with them than with anyone else. You only have so much time in a day, a week, a month, so by the inclusion of someone new you’ll have to decrease the time spent with other people unless you already had a lot of free alone time available that you didn’t want to spend alone.

At some point you start thinking about this relationship as something long-term. Is it a relationship you want to invest in? Do you see a future with them? Do you want them to be in your life every day and share your home and money and be together to the point that when people invite you to events they expect you to bring your partner, almost effectively becoming one entity? (Note: That part is a little different for polyamorous people.)

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Now, this might just be because I recently got into a new relationship, but I’ve thought about this plenty. There were a bunch of things in my life that were already tenuous. I had 5 biweekly game nights with friends (4 of which I organized), I volunteered at 3 queer organizations, I had classes, I did blacksmithing, I was driving across the country and the borders, I was managing 4 online communities and organizing monthly book club events… I had few times where I met friends 1-on-1 outside of group meetups because it’s easier for me to form and maintain friendships that way.

After I started dating my girlfriend 4 months ago, I decreased all this. Now I have 2 biweekly game nights (organizing only 1), 2 organizations I volunteer at, classes, no blacksmithing, fewer driving trips, still 4 communities to manage but a friend could take on the book club events… and I still prefer to meet in groups where possible. But I have more free time, half of which I now spend with my girlfriend and the other half I spend having some rest and working on projects I’ve wanted to work on for months/years.

Dangers of working on a set.

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

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Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”