No It's Ok Baby It's Just The Way You Left A Loaded Barbell On The Rack

if Albin Clavin was the people's choice after me, no need to orchestrate an assassination, I'd kms out of sheer embarassment

the sovereign update for the main game with the economy chart pop out and the status at the top is making me just giddy w how good at Modern Art with Symon Holl i am.

"im going to sleep" aka gonna close my eyes and imagine things in my head

i'm glad the ancient tradition of hating eurovision juries is still followed

wtf you dumbasses

r/suzerain is doing my fucking head in with the hatred for Monica

they got a well fleshed out character who's supportive and in love with the main character AND has her own interests. her crime is divorcing Anton when you turn into an absolute misogynistic family hating dickhead

like, let's reiterate, she doesn't divorce you out of nowhere, you need to be undermining and belittling her at every step and actively work to the detriment of the causes she cares for. which, by the way, she has every right to care for because she's the actual First Lady and that's not just a title!

to be clear, I did multiple runs of Sordland where my only antifamily decisions were 1) sacrifice family time for work in the prologue 2) not sign the WLA (for budget reasons, not ideology reasons) and she does not divorce me because outside of that, you get a ton of opportunities to be not-a-dick. even with the Benfi speech, you can double cross her to get Gloria's votes and then still resolve it diplomatically to have Monica and Cuntan Curtain Curtan Leste happy

again, this is a game where diplomacy is key, you're telling me you can be diplomatic with traitors, murderers, dictators and evil monarchs but not with your own wife?

god forbid a woman chooses the wellbeing of herself and the family in a game where you can literally dissolve people in acid and cause a nuclear war

I hate it here

bts of Suzerain posting, I am foaming at the mouth to make a Symon Holl finance bro aesthetic grid

something about grammarly fixing my spelling while I'm writing about getting railed by a man over twice my age is such a humbling experience

Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

yes Justyna yes get them triple digits baby!!!!

to be loved is to be known

oh my god I have so many thoughts on changing your last name after marriage

my husband and I had a thousand discussions about it and ended up deciding to hyphenate our names. no, not just me. he was Mr X, I was Ms Y - now he's Mr X-Y and I'm Mrs X-Y

the rationale behind that was that if marriage is a creation of new family from two existing ones, then both families should be reflected in the surname. I said that if he's not changing his surname, I will stay with mine as well. he actively chose changing his surname

we also discussed not changing our names and having potential kids named X-Y but that felt weird.

I said I don't want to change my name to his because my name is a part of my life and person. zero objections

our surnames are in different languages so it's very clear which surname came from him and which from me

and oh my god. the number of people who will disregard his new surname and call him Mr X is astounding. even when he corrects them and says his name is X-Y, they just say "yeah, sure". some will even double down on calling him X. he said it's a great test for meeting new people. some men treat his decision to change his name like an open warfare on their masculinity.

meanwhile, guess how many people referred to me by my previous name? that's right, 0, everyone respects the husband's added name.

we had people react to our names enthusiastically, like at a bank - these were all women.

there is no point to this story, just that society's views on names and marriages are weird

it's crazy how many super duper patriarchal things get retroactively justified in the name of being about love. yeah I'm sure women taking their husbands surname has always 100% been about recovering from trauma and distancing yourself from abusive family or whatever and has absolutely nothing at all to do with women being seen as property. great work here everyone, marriage as a concept has been redeemed through the power of pop psychology