Hi there cutiepies!
I decided to write this as I feel extremely thankful last two weeks.
I won't overestimate the tagged folks if say that my entire 2020 with all achievements and progress is either way built up in virtue of them.
And the most interesting detail is that: despite the spreading plague and total quarantine, I managed to meet them all in real life this year, and mostly these meetings theirselves, not the online conversations, led to all that event chains and changes.
I. January Minsk and the first SGs I met IRL.
That obviously were @olgakulaga and @anclefairy. Moreover, @olgakulaga was the very first one who I started to talk with on this site!
That was super cool to meet and talk with them in the heart of winter night Minsk. If you do message with someone and think this person is lovely -- just go meet and you'll understand that (s)he's at least twice as lovely as you thought!
This event also brought me two important persons not related to SG: my soulwife (not married, just like the word I invented lol) and my copy-if-I-was-a-girl. Both were pure accidental and would not happen if I wouldn't go to Minsk impressed by SGs!
II.1. Soulloli and the cancelled spring.
Do you remember this year's early spring? Not really? Sure, as it was cancelled due to the quarantine.
In these mad days millions of us stuck at home with nearly nothing to do.
We started to chat with @nakami earlier, I do absolutely adore her pure-magickal livestreams. But seems like... this year we were sorts of personal spring to each other, despite being ten times a hundred miles away.
And still so nowadays. Nothing but a part of my life.
III. Golden Saint-P.
That is life: just one message "how's your health?" to a girl you barely know in June and you spend two months (Aug and Sept) living in another city to hang out with her (well, bunch of my old friend were there too, but that's another story).
@lecherylady hasn't lit up my year. She just burnt it, and both of us too.
"I shall burn every bridge
Just for you to be here"
-- that's exactly about this.
Easily two best months of last ~6 years of my life.
And hey, there I met @okkatana, another super-girl I'm proud to know.
(and her dogs, too)
II.2. Frozen Kyiv.
It's a continuation of the second story: in December, while living in fighting for freedom Minsk for a month, I finally managed to hit Kyiv.
As I've written above, if the person seems lovely to you in online conversation, (s)he'll be twice as lovely IRL. That applies to @nakami and @avecalluna with no doubt.
I came to Kyiv along with the disastrous blizzard that froze and chained the whole Ost-Europe. And they were the light that melted and warmed it all down.
(not only with mulled wine)
(and their pets, too)
This short trip also finally brought me to the music fest that I wanted to visit for years. What a bonus!
IV. Grey Saint-P.
To the end of 2020, I returned to Petersburg.
Why? -- But why not?
Japanese Gin is way tastier when you drink it not being alone.
∞.
Always remember y'all: even if we don't have talks every single day, I'm always with ye and always love ye.
And thank you lovelies for all.
Hope to see you all again soon.
Thus Spoke X A N D E R,
Your Idiot Lover
@lemon @missy @penny
