#pia's oversharing

[pia-writes-things]

Dearly beloved followers and mutuals gathered here to follow my nonsense,

I thank you very much for partaking in this humble gathering of opinion. If need be, I can provide more information on the writing project associated.

I bid you all a very good day <3

[pia-writes-things]

Hello Tumblr !

Dans le cadre de son mémoire de Master, j'ai une amie qui étudie la lecture en anglais par des lecteurs résidant ou séjournant en France, ou achetant des livres en anglais quand iels sont en France.

Le questionnaire prends 5 minutes à remplir, donc si vous avez ce profil, n'hésitez pas !

Merci beaucoup pour elle 😊 Et n'hésitez pas à partager ce post et à en parler autour de vous si vous connaissez des gens qui pourraient répondre !

Hello Tumblr!

As part of her Master's thesis, I have a friend who is studying reading in English by readers living or staying in France, or buying books in English when they are in France.

The questionnaire takes 5 minutes to complete, so if you have this profile, don't hesitate!

Thank you very much for your help 😊 And don't hesitate to share this post and tell others about it if you know people who might be able to answer!

[not-poignant]

4 updates a month is still a lot so please do what's best for you and your health Pia!

Thank you anon!

Right now I'm doing a good attempt at being as melodramatically over it as Howl is lmao. (I am still actually really enjoying the writing, I'm just noticing there's starting to be a lot of spillover negative effects from working quite hard.)

(Put the rest under a cut because I realised I overshare, as always, lmao).

I think it's also just that like... there's a lot going on in my life right now. Up until two weeks ago when I reshuffled a bunch of medical stuff, I was seeing two therapists, a dietitian, a psychiatrist, my GP for a lot of medical stuff, a hepatologist for some of that medical stuff (my liver is fine actually but also not really), and a physiotherapy so I could basically learn how to walk without agony again after developing Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome.

I've had to stop seeing some of those people because like, money and also because I'm just oof, ready for a break. Doing physiotherapy workouts that increase every two days in intensity for months has wreaked some havoc on my chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia, even if it has given me back some knee stability (yay!!!). And business stuff behind the scenes re: figuring out how to market an oracle deck (I'm very bad at it), and what to do with my writing to see if I can ever ever turn it into a liveable income (idk maybe? I'm bad at it too, and I'm a long way off still), plus increased costs of living (we're all dealing with this though) and stuff is just...

WELL. You didn't sign up for a recap of my life anon! But if you got this far have some good stuff as well:

My ADHD meds have actually been working pretty well! It's really really great to see progress re: my knee pain and injury and instability because for a while there we were pretty sure I had hit 'might need a wheelchair for the foreseeable future' and while that might happen in the future, it's definitely not going to happen now. Also my physiotherapist is great? (Physical therapist for people not in Australia).

And it's spring here, and everything is flowering in my garden and it looks so so nice. Here's some photos from my Instagram (yes, folks are welcome to follow if they want). I got a little new stationery organiser today which makes my pen collector soul so delighted. And I get to go to bed soon, and I get so excited when it's bed time. I LOVE SLEEP. Lol.

Sending y'all love if you read all of this. Long story short, I am pulling back and taking a bit of a writing break in October - still writing, just less! Partly because burnout, and partly because emotional wellbeing, and partly because next week is NaNoWriMo and I hope y'all are ready for me to absolutely smash it out re: writing in November :D I'll come back guns blazing.

[potential-fate]

MORE QUESTIONS! This time I'm gonna bug you about Kaeileen. 2, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, and 36!

oooho no one has asked about Kaeileen!~

2. 'mens' deodorant. no cologne or perfume though. They just prefer the scents available marketed to men over the floral scents for women's deodorant, though they'd probably be fine with the non-sceneted ones or the plainer ones like 'fresh cotton' or whatnot.

7. Kaeileen really wants people to like them. They wouldn't say it's a fear, but they wouldn't want to be alone or have to be the unpopular kid that they were when they were little again.

8. fashion magazines and seasons of Gossip Girl.

11. not really, but they quite like the bubbler.

13. Kaeileen isn't a fan of poetry, no.

14. Hmm, not really, if anything Kaeileen tends to overshare, but they also tend to not really have anything to talk about that's not superficial. so a little of both?

17. Probably pretty easily. Mainly due to not having a secure sense of what their morals are to begin with.

18. Kaeileen has made a lot of enemies. Mostly from their own actions, rather than the other person's. They're naturally inclined to start fights with people.

19. Actually becoming friends with Kaeileen would be pretty tough. They have a lot of superficial relationships though. so being 'friends' with them is easy, but not being good friends.

21. Friends are easily more important to them than family, minus possibly Pia, but that's mostly because she counts as both to Kaeileen at this point.

36. They haven't killed anyone. They probably wouldn't, at least not on purpose. but not out of a sense of morality, but that it would be a lot of work to cover up/etc. they're too lazy to deal with that. But being an accomplice to murder might be something that would happen to them, since they'd be worried about their friend not liking them or ditching them about it otherwise.

Questions here

[pia-writes-things]

Thanks for the tag ! I'm currently listening to this <3

I tag: @gay-impressionist, @saecookie, @capybaraonabicycle, @hemerae-ramblings, @earanie, @bourbon-ontherocks, @maikanna and anyone who wants to share their music !!

wanted to start something...

Put a link or a screenshot of what you're listening to rn or the last song you listened to

Npt: @thatsthewaythechrissycrumbles @kraekat29 @aidansloth @thatdelusionalnerd @swiftie-as-a-coursing-river @swift-of-corvids @petrichorandarson @wouldvecouldveshouldve @firebrand-witch @fclklqre @diqldrunks and anyone else who wants to!!!

[irenaemilija]

hshqtask005.

i can’t believe i haven’t done this task? usually i overshare whenever i can lmao

001. name / age / pronouns

laura / 19 (buuut my birthday is next week yay) / she/her

002. which character(s) do you play?

irena filipovic, keneilwe zulu, irina romanova, pia de jong, aarne talvitie & lucien talhouët! if someone would have told me a year ago i’d be having six characters now, i would not have believed that. i’m pretty sure the only one who is missing from the ensemble is johan wow

003. nationality / ethnicity / timezone

finnish / white as snow / i never remember what it is? gmt+2????

004. tell us a bit about your  ( home / current ) country / city / etc. your pick

i’ve lived in finland my entire life but i moved to helsinki in august. it wasn’t that big of a change since i had already gone to high school in helsinki so i pretty much knew the city already, but the transition to considering the city as my home has been nice! i really like finland bc it’s safe and small. the only thing i don’t like is the lack of light during the winter!!!

005.  favourite color / fruit / season

blue or purple / watermelon / autumn

006. favourite books + writer whose writing style you admire the most

i love reading but i have so little time for it nowadays. it’s sad. but my favorite books are the help by kathryn stockett, pride and prejudice by jane austen & ensemble, c’est tout by anna gavalda! i really love classics which is a good thing that’s what i have to read for uni. writer whose style i admire the most is probably a finnish author named laura gustafsson. her style is very interesting and captivating.

007. what kinda music do you listen to + any fave bands / musicians

mostly indie pop and then pretty much all sort of other genres, too. french music is close to my heart for obvious reasons, and my fave musician of all time is cœur de pirate!

008. what are you doing for a living / what are you studying?

i study french and i’m planning to take english as my minor! i’m also gonna go through a year worth of teacher studies (idk what the proper term in english is, basically just where they teach you to be a teacher) so hopefully in five-ish years i’ll be a teaching french and english to some high schoolers.

009. what’s your dream occupation?

i’m gonna become a teacher but i’m not sure if that’s my dream occupation? not gonna think about that too much or i’ll get sad

010. relationship status

s i n g l e

011. coffee, tea or hot chocolate?

tea! i love my hot leaf juice

012. dream holiday destination?

i would love to go to senegal! or then to martinique or guadeloupe. and also iceland. and the states. and vietnam. and thailand. the list goes on

013. the thing you’re most proud about yourself

uhhhhh maybe the fact i made the decision to study french? i come from an environment where i had a lot of pressure to choose a career from a very limited selection of options (law, medicine, economics, engineering). i am proud that i chose something that truly interests me over what was expected of me.

014. tell us a bit about your family!

i have a twin sister and a younger brother! my sister is basically the complete opposite of me but we’re still very close. i literally had separation anxiety for a couple of weeks after she moved out of our childhood home. my brother is 14 and he is a terrible little gremlin. but he’s kind of funny and can be a pretty solid guy if he wants. usually he doesn’t lmao

015. how long have you known your closest friend?

i have two close friends and we kind of form a triad together: i’ve known the other for 3,5 years and the other for threeish years? we met in high school and have been friends ever since.

016. superpower you’d like to have?

mind reading bc i’m a nosy bitch

017. celebrity you’d like to meet?

uhhhhh maybe natalie portman? or maybe helena bonham carter??

018. guilty pleasures

cheesy romance novels bc i love love and also asmr videos, especially those stupid soap carving ones

019. pet peeves

i have some but rn i only remember this one: when someone interrupts a speaker with a completely unnecessary and irrelevant comment! i hate that! it’s not all about you!

020. do you have any hobbies?

this. this is my hobby. i also try to knit socks but the heel part kicks my ass every time so maybe i should change my focus to making leg warmers lmao

021. where would you like to live in the future?

i’m pretty sure i’m going to be moving to france for the next academic year so that’s neat! in theory living abroad sounds cool and interesting but i’m probably going to stick with finland after i come back from france. we’ll see.

022. tell us a story about a thing that recently happened to you! it can be a funny, scary, sad story, your pick!

okay so in finland we have this thing called sitsit. it’s an academic mostly non-formal dinner event where students eat, sing and drink. i absolutely love them, and we had one yesterday! they usually have some kind of themes and yesterday’s event’s theme was the 90s. i really don’t know anything about the 90s since i was born in 2000, but i tried and i did get plenty of compliments about the terrible lip gloss i had. the best part of the evening was when we sang sinä lähdit pois, a classic finnish song from the nineties (that even i know by heart). imagine 80 drunk people singing very loudly a song they all know and banging the tables mostly in rhythm. awesome. then i proceeded to get absolutely wasted. it resulted in me missing the last bus home so i had to pay 30 euros to get home. still, no regrets.

[jorzuela]

Chants: answer #2 answer #2

Well i love mpregs but i just posted a short one. I would love to give a try to an actual chaptered fic about it and see how it goes. The other 2 things that come to mind are a got au and an egyptian one but as you know they are coming already.

But here's the tea: back in the day i used to be into neko fics and i even wrote one that i never posted and then my computer died so the world was spared of that. Pia read it and she was like

I don't know, there's not much i keep myself from doing if i want to. The egyptian au probs because i didn't know if i could do it justice but i know i won't post it until it is perfect.

That was a long answer but you know me, always oversharing.

[pia-writes-things]

I'm soooo late to this but thanks for the tag !!

last song : Well, I'm currently listening to Requime waltz by Emily Jane White

currently watching : Fais pas ci, fais pas ça more than 10 years after the facts lol It hasn't aged as bad as I though tbh, it's quite a nice watch ^^

three ships : This is always hard for me to answer but at the moment, I'd say River/Doctor, Marisa/Asriel and Florence/Antoine, but I will also mention Guenièvre/Arthur and Moiraine/Siuan because truly those five ships are constantly rotating in my mind

favorite color : bordeaux!

currently consuming : um, idk, music and good vibes ?

first ship : i honestly don't really know, probably something HP related

relationship status : single

last movie : exposing myself with this one but Meurtre à Cognac 😅 I discovered the wonderful world of France TV's telemovies just to quench my Éléonore Bernheim hyperfixation 😬 As a hate-watch that I livetexted to friends, it was very funny!

currently working on : answering all the asks and tag games I still hadn't responded to!

tag 9 people you want to get to know better tagged by @daughter-rhaenyra <3

last song: i think i waited for you - zach palmer

currently watching: nothing but waiting for mary & george

three ships: steddie steddie steddie

favorite color: yellow

currently consuming: water lol

first ship: johnlock... 😐

relationship status: single (& yearning)

last movie: you can live forever (2022) :(((

currently working on: too many things 😫

tagging @heartmis @theoldgaylion @rosamundpkes @eyeldritch @smithsparker !

[pia-writes-things]

Wow, the new episode of Only murders in the building was insanely good?? I mean, it's a really really good series anyway and they never miss, but that last scene was just perfection! The build-up, the music, Charles' emotion at the end 🥺🥺I was tearing-up

[pia-writes-things]

Idk if it's just because I'm in the good period of my cycle (haha.) but since I realised/accepted that I'm non-binary, I genuinely feel better with my self-image and how I present. Because I'm not a woman so who cares if I don't fit in patriarchal criterias of what a woman should look like? (And yes, I know it shouldn't matter if you're a woman either, bc fuck the patriarchy, but still.)

Not bothering with gender is actually really freeing and liberating. Even tho I haven't changed anything about myself, my presentation or my pronouns. I'm just not a woman baby, and it feels SO GOOD <3

[pia-writes-things]

I was tagged by @everybodyknows-everybodydies (tysm!) for Share Sunday but, well, I'm late, so this is gonna be Share Tuesday haha

Also I didn't write on Sunday but let's not talk about that

Extract from my Nano :

Approximate translation by DeepL : "The most striking difference, however, was the red paint in the shape of spirals that decorated Dorila's cheeks before moving up the bridge of her nose to stop between her eyebrows. Dotted lines encircled the outer edge of the spirals. Aelia remembered seeing a photo of Marc'haid's paternal grandmother with similar patterns. Aelia vaguely recalled that Marc'haid had explained to her that these spirals represented women's connection to nature, but also her life's journey. Sometimes, these paintings could be a presentation of a person's powers, but this was less common, as all the women of her people wore this type of make-up, witch or not. Aelia's first instinct was to go and see her cousin, but when she saw her face animated by the discussion with Dorila, she stopped in her tracks. She didn't want to interrupt a moment between the two cousins, who had never seen each other until yesterday, and she didn't want to interfere in a conversation and a family that didn't belong to her."

This is a very rough first draft so I don't know how happy I am about it but it's there I guess.

Don't really know who to tag but I know @saecookie and @hemerae-ramblings are writing at the moment so if you feel comfortable sharing...

[pia-writes-things]

The fact that today, I'm travelling from France to Germany through Belgium and don't have to pass any kind of border control, or that 2 weeks ago, my family and I just drove to Italy from France just to taste their ice creams is an eminently European experience and privilege, but I just wish this was the case anywhere in the world. It's so easy, and borders are a disgrace to humanity. We shouldn't need any kind of papers to be able to experience the beauty of the world !

[pia-writes-things]

STARMANIA IS THE BEST MUSICAL EVER. MUSICALS ARE THE BEST THING EVER.

[pia-writes-things]

I feel extremely validated as a writer rn 🤩🤩

Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.  Let me know which autor you got! 

[pia-writes-things]

Kaamelott 2 Alexandre Astier finalise son deuxième volet

[pia-writes-things]

I was tagged by @saecookie, thank you so much, this was so fun ! Link to the picrew

I don't really know who to tag, so, without any pressure : @hemerae-ramblings, @earanie, @capybaraonabicycle, @blatterpussbunnyfromhell, @thebusylilbee (i tried to tag people I thought would like to do this, but ignore me if you don't, and please feel tagged if you do and I didn't tag you !!)