EOY Meme 2021
1. What did you do in 2021 that you'd never done before?
Live through a pandemic! What?
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Never made any.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
None, not that I could.
6. What would you like to have in 2022 that you lacked in 2021?
Good work mojo.
7. What date from 2021 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
31 January, the day I confessed to Crofte.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Committing to a story a day for 30 days. That's a whole month of FFXIV stories! And getting a relic weapon, I never even considered that within my reach!
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not writing anything else.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Dengue Fever :'D
11. What was the best thing you bought?
...Stickers?
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
I'd like to say Crofte, but I'm sure I'm wrong.
13. Whose behaviour appalled you?
Anti vaxxers.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Frivolous Shopee/Lazada purchases.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Crofte.
16. What song will always remind you of 2021?
Shadowbringers.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Watching more shows, maybe? Levelling more?
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Faffing about.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Running the final dungeon of Endwalker, then laughing so hard at the SURPRAIZ APPEARANCE that I couldn't continue and logged off for the night.
21. Where did you ring in 2022?
At home, in game, with raids.
22. Did you fall in love in 2021?
Love is a very strong word, but I *am* getting along well with Crofte.
23. How many one-night stands?
In real life, none. In RP, *quite* a few.
24. What was your favourite TV program?
None.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
The country, the people, the world?
26. What was the best book you read?
I read a book or two but nothing that was ZA BEST.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Masayoshi Soken, same as ever.
28. What did you want and get?
Someone...?
29. What did you want and not get?
Someone...in closer proximity?
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn't watch enough movies to enjoy any.
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Eat a truckload of food, celebrated it with colleagues, with Tia in game, Crofte donated to the hospital's cancer research center in my name. ^^
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Travelling, without a doubt.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2021?
Now with 200% more apathy.
34. What kept you sane?
FFXIV.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The whole vaccine thing.
37. Who did you miss?
No one, this was the year I realised I could live without a lot of people.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Crofte <3
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021.
Communication never, ever gets old.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Yes, time circles endlessly, the hands of fate trained ahead
(Pointing to the edge)
All things change - drawn to the flame, to rise from the ashes
To begin, we first must see the end!
- Masayoshi Soken, To The Edge