baby don't you try to fight me.
hello, beautiful people.
i logged into lj and saw that the last time i had written anything was 91 weeks ago. that would be, like, almost two years.
i've essentially dropped off the face of the earth, several times, with no decent explanation whatsoever, and i do feel that i owe it. being a part of lj and of fandoms played such an important part, really, in the shaping of who i am. i'd almost forgotten the feeling of immersing myself in something outside of my own life until the release of harry potter 7 (when i timidly reread a few favorite fanfics and attacked previous books in the desire to stall, for as long as possible, the time when it would all have to end. *lotr flashbacks*).
anyway, that's just it; real life kicked in. i'm finishing my education in architecture & urbanism and have spent the last year in italy as part of an university exchange program. i haven't written or drawn anything outside the realm of architecture for ages and am constantly assaulted by the sensation that growing up is happening too fast. i am godmother and sister to an amazing, curious, bright and beautiful one-and-a-half year-old little girl, as well as girlfriend of the best (and cutest) guy i've ever met.
so that's most of what's happening. i just, don't know, wanted you to know. i feel like i've been ungrateful to lj, the community that took me in and the friends that i've made, even though rationally i know that i had to turn to the pressing responsabilities that started engulfing me.
i never like to say goodbye and then spring up out of nowhere again and again, so i won't. but i'll thank, with all my heart, those who have read what i had to say, those who were with me, those that didn't forget. i haven't forgotten.