#did my reading russia/us fanfic when i was 13 somehow predict the gop's current entanglement with putin?

[littlebreadrolls]

I've been studying for the bar exam for the past month (8 hour days filled with unmitigated anguish, despair, horror, etc., etc.), and it just occured to me as I was lying in bed this morning, dreading the dawn of another new day, that I'm only in this position because my middle school self was way too into Hetalia Axis Powers. My autistic special interest in Hetalia directly led me to getting a geopolitics/history degree and ultimately to going to law school.

Middle school me wrote American-Revolutionary-War Era US/UK slashfic a little too close to the sun and now I have to take the goddamn bar exam and become an esquire