#personal ramblings

Gym progress stuff again, showing me wearing similar outfits. The one on the left is me in August 2024 and the right one was taken a few days ago so it’s been 2 years. I’m actually wearing the same button-up shirt and binder in both photos, but with the difference of 1,5 years of strength training and an active lifestyle in the right photo.

I never actually wore the 2024 outfit in public tho since the silhouette made me really dysphoric back then. While I have always liked fancy and androgynous fashion as a concept, whenever I tried dressing myself into those kinds of outfits, I just felt like they made me look really feminine and curvy instead of androgynous so for the most part, I sticked to gargo pants and T-shirts. But this time I wore this outfit in public, even tho I can still definitely relate to those social media posts where people feel like you have to be insanely jacked for it to clearly show when fully clothed BUT I’m proud of my progress 💪

Hi, guys! It's been a while.

I meant to make this post sooner, but being quite honest I just couldn't.

First of all, I apologize for the lack of activity lately. I said a while back that my life wasn't cooperating with me, and although this is true I want to give you some context to what's actually happening.

I think I never told you this, but I'm a lawyer. I work with my uncle; he has his own firm, and once I graduated law school he invited me to work with him so that's what I've been doing for years.

Thing is, earlier this year, my uncle's father in law got extremely ill. My aunt is an only child, so it was natural that she and my uncle had to move in with her father to take care of him. That wouldn't have been much a problem if my aunt's father didn't live in another state.

Long story short, since February I've been handling most of the cases by myself. My uncle was working from home, helping with the paperwork and whatever else he could do remotely, but the daily shit that happened in the firm was all me. It' was a little overwhelming at first, to say the least, but after the first couple of months or so I was finally managing everything well enough to think I was finally getting my routine back on track.

Then last month my aunt called me and said my uncle had died. Just like that. He went to sleep and didn't wake up and that was that. Had a heart attack while he was asleep; he didn't even know he had heart problems. He had just talked to me the day before.

It's been tough. Because he wasn't just my uncle, you know? He was kinda my second father too. I grew up admiring him, I went to law school because I wanted to be like him. And now he's gone, and my life is even worse than it had been before.

I'm sharing this with you because I know a lot of you wait for my updates and I didn't want to leave you hanging. I probably won't be much around for a while, but I'll try to show up sometimes and I'll come back once things have settled, both at work and in my personal life.

Also, thanks for sticking with me. It's been weeks since I last posted anything and yet I haven't lost a single follower. You really are the best followers I could've asked for.

And I can’t even be mad because the lies are so blatant, they’re just funny to me.

In undergrad, I graduated with honors having done an Ancient Greek major with a special focus in Homeric epic poetry. I am in graduate school working on a further degree in Classical Studies. I have read the entire Odyssey and most of the Iliad (skipped the catalogue of ships) in the original Greek. I have read countless secondary scholarship about these poems.

And to top it all off? No one can say I simply don’t understand how a blockbuster movie must be. Because my honors minor in undergrad was Film and Media Studies.

I am in fact extremely qualified to tell you at length about why Christopher Nolan’s adaptation was dogshit. If you’re going to say I’m stupid and incapable of understanding the film, or claim I’m somehow wrong about what the original text says, you’d better have some great qualifications and evidence to back that assertion up.