Finding Out That Somebody Online Is Also From Aotearoa Is A Terrifying Experience, Because We're All

Finding out that somebody online is also from Aotearoa is a terrifying experience, because we're all only two degrees of separation away from each other in this fuckin country and that is far too high of a probability of a random person on the internet who sees me posting fanfiction knowing my parents irl.

house of the dragon x the unequal marriage (vasili pukirev)

I swear its always like 'oh yeah Jacinda's my cousin' (Jacinda Ardern is our former PM through covid) or 'I went on a harrowing journey through the fires of mount doom with your mother forging a bond that can never be broken.... how's she been doing recently by the way?'

Finding out that somebody online is also from Aotearoa is a terrifying experience, because we're all only two degrees of separation away from each other in this fuckin country and that is far too high of a probability of a random person on the internet who sees me posting fanfiction knowing my parents irl.

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

Bestie help I'm having ideas above my creative skill level and its overwhelming me T-T

"Sorry I have a boyfriend" is of course a time-tested and reasonably reliable no-fault rejection strategy. But what many tacticians may not realize is it has an even more powerful counterpart, the preemptive boyfriend name-drop. This is when a conversation with a stranger veers into high-alert territory and you make up a guy named Raphael (my boyfriend) who you mention due to his extremely-relevant interest in the current topic of conversation.