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I am so damn slow both in my reading and in my writing. I have no idea, whether it’s new, or old and noticeable… I mean, I have time, but focusing on a book or on writing takes so much energy, that even such a simple thing as a post here requires a lot of planning…

Anyway. The year is gone. It started badly, with a death of a close friend of my mother – whom I also knew and loved. And it continued, well, we all know how it continued. There was a lot of canceled plans and broken hopes, and worries, and I am deadly tired. My mom had Covid, lots of people I know in Russia had covid (strangely, none of the people I actually know in USA or Canada had covid, which probably says something interesting, but not sure what.)

We bought a house. And moved, again. My kids had to adjust to another school, full online learning and having no friends. But in February we spent a great week on Hawaii with them! And memory of that visit warms me even now. Generally, my family is fine, both here and back in Russia nad Ukraine, and I am very grateful for that.

I actually wrote a lot, fanfiction-wise. I even participated in my first holiday fic exchange (I am a chicken to try Yuletide, so it was a tiny, Avatar tLA-related, exchange.) I got a nice fic, but the fic I wrote was apparently so horrible, that the person I wrote it for, didn’t react to it in any way. Oh, well. It is upsetting, but I have to cut my losses and move on. I can’t be loved by everyone.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28093746 Here is it, if anyone is curious.
I actually have ideas to write in other fandoms, but never seem to have time.


My movie of the year: The Old Guard. Charlise Theron’s performance is a lot how I felt this year.
My tv series of the year. I am not sure. It started with the Witcher, which I loved a lot, then during summer I enjoyed the final season of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, and now I am watching season 5 of the Expanse. Everything else kind of left little memory. Oh! I also evnjoyed weird and silly Colombian series Always a Witch/Siempre Bruja.
Not very highbrow.

The book of the year… I don’t know. My reading was a mess. The most memorable book, I think was Olga Tokarcsuk Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead that I wrote before about.

And here is my favorite place to buy face masks! Very 2020.
https://lolomercadito.com/ I bought several as gifts and two for myself. The beauty of embroidery is stunning.