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You look like a slut.

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@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’m not sure why I actually did this but here you go. XD

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Just discovered the “Children’s Hospital Color Theory” side of Tumblr...

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Back after a brief commercial break

It’s been roughly a week since I’ve posted an update and if I have to be honest, I was personally getting concerned I would not keep my word and stick to this project - but here I am! It’s been a busy week and I’m excited to share the news with you.

The past week has been my first at university. And even though I only attended one in-person class this entire week, as most of them are remote, I can officially call myself a university student. 

Now, I have to be really careful, because I don’t want to abruptly end this three year long journey just a week in, but in all honesty I doubt there is anything that I could say that would get me in trouble - I got into the degree I wanted, to the school of my first choice and even though most of my classes are remote I’m having loads of fun!

I’m slightly disappointed with the academic life, as my school is very panicky when it comes to the pandemic and hasn’t organized a single in-person event for freshmen and the only events that are taking place are parties and outings we organize ourselves, which isn’t really my thing as I don’t have a habit of going to clubs which is the go-to for the most events my peers organize. (No judgement, just not my thing).

I have to say that I love my schedule, mixed with remote learning I can sleep fourteen hours or just two and still make it on time. Shoutout to people who have eight hours of classes every day, couldn’t be me.

Today isn’t really about my thoughts or emotions, more of an update on my situation as I’m trying to keep every post focused on a single subject. This is why this one might feel a little bit short. 

Anyway, take care!

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Iconic inspirational confident hoe

My very good and totally not inebriated friend A.

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The Day After Yesterday

Day two of blogging. Let’s go.

As written previously, I don’t intend for this to be a project with a large following. While I don’t have too low of an opinion about myself, I doubt that many people on the Internet will be interested in what I think, how I feel or what I have eaten for breakfast (note to self: Start blogging about food in case of an emergency). 

Still, if you have somehow manage come across this little passion project, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt if I did give you some context about how I think and what is on my mind. 

Yesterday, I’ve written about my concerns associated with this blog, but I feel like I’ve missed a thing or two. This isn’t supposed to be a comprehensive update of the list in “The Start of Something New” - there are WAY too many things that could possibly end up there - rather I would like to talk about an observation relevant to this project, that I’ve made regarding how I’m perceived at times.

See, the thing is that I do like to express my opinions, talk about the current events or monologue about niche issues close to my heart. I don’t tend to stray away from controversial subjects (not that I will get into that here for the time being), even if it is with people who don’t know me well. 

And this is where it becomes a problem. 

Not necessarily because of the quality of my opinions or the difference between the viewpoints of me and my interlocutors, but rather the very simple fact that people make assumptions based on the environment they’re in when talking to relative strangers. For example: if you discuss LGBT issues around people who are used to hearing tons of positive conversations on the subject, they’re going to assume you have a supportive view on the topic. However, if the situation is the opposite, you will have to put in an effort to make sure that the other person doesn’t get the wrong idea about your own worldview.

Now, unfortunately in our busy lives we often find ourselves unable to have long-term discussions or debates, leaving little space for clarifications and elaborations. And I suppose that is another concern that I have with this project - being misunderstood and giving off the wrong impression. This is especially concerning, given that - admittedly - I have a tendency to be unthorough. 

To elaborate on the subject - if someone doesn’t hover over me while I do a task that is not extremely important and make sure that everything is pristinely done, I might give in to my tendency to cut corners to save time or out of pure boredom. That is a personal issue I could write about for days on end.

So, if I come across as aloof or mean, that’s probably not my intention. 

Either way, here’s to being understood!

P.S. Shoutout to A. who’s also been given permission to read this blog while knowing darn well who I am.

P.S.#2 I don’t know if I can curse here, so I’ll probably use the Good Place vocabulary if need be.

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BBC tasked the best person to report on the petrol shortages.

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Discord log

Me at 9.36 p.m.: (about this blog) enjoy the reading

hope you like it

please give me feedback

and if you tell anyone about this i will have you [actionable threat here]

C.: Omg

This is so cute

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Omg you really do have a heart underneath all of that fronted callousness and humor.

C. reacting to the blog

How will my reputation as a snarky lad ever recover :’(

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The Start of Something New

Is this thing on? Oh, okay. Greetings... all.

After nearly 20 years on this planet I have finally given in to my low-key fascination with blogging and done what I probably should have done years ago. I’ve started what one could call a personal blog... To be fair, I’m not sure what to call it - is this really a blog or just a random thought dump? Is it not to soon to label it anyhow? After all, I will probably lose interest in this thing in the next 15 minutes or so, as I usually do with my other passion projects. But let’s not jinx it.

Now, before I start going into detail about nothing and everything at the same time, let me introduce myself and my intentions with this “blog”.

For a long while I’ve searched for a medium for releasing my thoughts out into the wild. I’ve tried old-fashioned journaling, I’ve kept a diary under my pillow when I was eight and I think I even tried to create a website with my dad when I was five. (A backwards timeline, yay!) None of those things lasted for a longer while, mostly because I don’t like my own hand writing and because a bullet journal will not respond to anything you say. Even if it’s really funny. So here I am, on Tumblr, a platform I’ve heard so much about, giving journaling a yet another go.

This little project, oddly named “East by East-West”, doesn’t have a direction. It’s not focused on politics, long-form story telling, memes or cutesy art I find on the Internet or anything else I consider to be of interest. Rather, I want this thing to be a catalogue of my thoughts and feelings, a one-stop-shop for seeing whatever I may have on my mind at a moment. I’ll probably write about personal things as well as stuff completely unrelated to me. I like to talk, and while it’s by no means my only vice, it is the one that will be exhibited most prominently on this blog (unless it will get beat out by my other vice - laziness, in which case I will not update this thing at all).

I’ve been told that communicating your concerns is one of the most important things in life. And it’s true. So, with an undertaking of this magnitude, I suppose it’s worth saying a thing or two about the things that I am worried about in relation to this blog:

It’s going to be an incredible failure. - Basically I would be talking into the void, which would make this just a tiny bit better than when Creed from The Office wrote his “blog” in a Word document.

My big mouth will actually get me in trouble. - Be it tomorrow or in ten years, writing a blog with your personal thoughts in it can get you in trouble, be it because you are an awful person or because someone is trying to get under your skin. Either way, I know I can’t hold my tongue so I might eventually say something stupid or doxx myself somehow...

Oh yeah, I might get doxxed somehow. - This being a personal blog, I will discuss things on my mind and - more importantly to the issue at hand - my surroundings. Be it the people in my life, situations in or near [my place of residence] or on a trip to [a specific location at a specific time], I will be somewhat putting myself at risk of exposing who I am exactly. I guess that’s one more line I will have to make sure I do not cross.

I’ll get straight up bored. - I’m not expecting this thing to blow up in terms of popularity, so I guess this isn’t the worst thing to happen in that case, but I’m the first person to admit that I have a tendency to give up on things. I guess it would be nice to begin fighting it with this project. 

What if I sound incredibly incoherent? - What if every thought that I have that I consider coherent is actually a mess? What if I come off as insane? What if all of it is just ramblings of a crazed person who’s lost their mind a long time ago?

Now, I’m not famous and I expect that the only person interested in this project is more than likely going to be me, but I will somehow manage. If anything, this just takes away the pressure of having to be... calculated with my words. After all if I have nothing to sell, no product to promote, why not be myself, right?

Anyway, that’s it for now. I’ll press post and let my friends read this through so they can laugh at me and tell me this is a horrible idea. C. will probably be the first one I share it with. So, if you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing great bestie.

P.S. I am not a native English speaker, so if I do actually sound incoherent, please go easy on me. :*