So I reopened my dating apps because my tarot deck said to
And then I matched this guy
So I was like “Ok I GOTTA message him”
THE RING WRAITH SAID TRANS RIGHTS
I think I’m in love.
I’ll try to keep you updated, but if I stop posting I’ve run off to Mordor.
Small update:
He replies pretty slowly, but that’s OK, I think I’ve got him.
I don’t think he knows what to make of me
I’m so invested in this romcom OP plEASE keep us posted.
It’s been really slow
GUYS IM SWOONING
How the fuck do you have this much chemistry with a nazgul
I’m a BARD
“Because my tarot deck said you” do you think they were just like, “you gotta see this out, it’s hilarious”?
To it’s credit, I’ve also met a guy I really like. That just isn’t funny.
GUYS
I THINK WE’RE GONNA DO THIS THING
Also I told him about you. Also I have cut out some parts of the Convo, but all the fun parts are here.
GUYS THIS IS HAPPENING
What do I WEAR?!
I could cry.
I have to announce a tragedy.
Naz Gûl was kicked from Tinder before I got his number. I’m heartbroken. :(
HE FOUND ME!!!!!!!
Update: the date is set!
OK COOL BUT DID YOU GET TO HANG OUT??? HOW WAS IT
I NEED AN UPDATE, OH-NAZGUL-CHARMER
Working on it! :)
So we moved on over.
I apologize for the lack of updates, but this update has us to the present finally!
We have a schedule. Both our lives have been ABSURD over the duration of this story, and there’s a lot of me and him in here.
A lot of folks seem to think that this is a romantic date? Pretty early on, Naz said that he wasn’t looking for romance. And I am VERY Polyamorous, but not really looking for new folks right now.
Still! We’re going to do this thing! We’re going to meet, and we’re going to take pictures (maybe even a video or two?) And you’ll get to see it!
Today’s the day
We opted for a coffee shop because of the rain, but I am here with coffee waiting.
Why am I so nervous? This isn’t even a DATE date. We’re bros. It’s gonna be cool.
Any car could be Him, and I keep looking up at each one. Is he gonna show up in the costume? Is the weather cool for that? Is it in the wash?
Thankfully I did think of a cool line to say when he gets here.
Gotta be honest, I wish I had done a “Tap To See More” on this post all those months ago, scrolling is a pain.
There’s a girl outside having an ANIMATED conversation about someone who wronged her friend and she is big mad. I am living for her. I want the best for her life. I will never speak to her.
Oh god oh fuck oh shit he’s here, he pulled up. How do I look? Is there anything in my teeth? Act cool, Guin, act cool
Elon Musk is the kind of person who believes that “free speech” means that only he, and people who think like him, can say and do anything they want without consequence.
Twitter already enabled and encouraged bullying, brigading, and harassment. Now it’s going to make that a fundamental feature of its entire platform. Twitter will now amplify his toxic male “in group”, and silence everyone else, who are his “out group.” This is what fascists and autocrats do.
I hate Twitter, and I hate the power it has.
That doesn’t change how powerful and influential it is. This sale just handed autocrats everywhere a megaphone that will drown out everything except their voices.
This is a disaster for human rights and capital-D Democracy.
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
