Yesterday was our seventeenth (?!) CIEday. We are in Marrakech and went to the Museum of Marrakech, to the Madrasa Ben Youssef, for drinks and to dinner and bought a new coat.
Seventeen years is a wild amount of time - and it’s still surreal, and probably will always be surreal, that I just casually happened to stumble upon TDF when I was fourteen and it so completely and irrevocably changed my life.
2024 has not been the easiest year - to put it mildly - and really, I suppose, we have been struggling quite a lot since 2022. Life has changed and the world has changed and we have changed…and a lot of really, really difficult stuff has happened along the way. Having Theet has been vital during this time - or rather, we have both been vital to have for each other. Having a daemon - and, for a daemon, having a human - means that even in the worst times there is always something within yourself to fight for and keep going for - and always a part of yourself which you love.
Getting back into daemon community spaces - something that has really fallen by the wayside for us with everything else that has been going on - is one of our resolutions for 2025; we miss it and we miss the sheer fun of being around other daemians and daemons. I feel like we have missed a lot but that does mean there is a lot to read and catch up on - which is exciting.
Anyway, here is to seventeen years of daemonism and having Theet in my life; I have no idea who I would be or where I would be without him.
