Hi! Please call me Vasudev, going forward. I like it best unshortened, as it is, no nicknames, but if you want to nickname me, I won’t fight you.
More details under the cut for longtime friends, followers, secret admirers, lurkers, curious people, and anyone with too much time on their hands.
Those of you who’ve been following me on here since 2016 onwards know what my birthname is, but I’m retiring it. I want to be as true to myself as possible, which means not sitting on transgenderisms like they’re my own quiet little secret. I want to be as honest as I can be, about who I really am. And a big part of that is telling people what the name I’m choosing actually is.
For those of you who call me Ivy or any nickname that’s a derivative of that, that’s alright! There are specific people whom I’ve askedto refer to me this way, so if you’re one of them, keep doing what you’re doing. There’s a lot of sentimentality attached to “Ivy”; while I chose it when I was 12, it still is the very first name I ever chose for myself. While not something I’d ever legally change my name to, it’s also a name I’ll never sever ties with completely. That said, I’d encourage you to switch it up with Vasudev & its derivative nicknames such as Dev/Vasu or whatever else you can think of. Use everything.
For those of you who call me Div… my sister pointed out that Dev isn’t that far off, phonetically or spelling-wise or whatever else. An easy adjustment.
If you’ve been tagging me on your blog with my birthname or derivative nicknames, you can use the tag replacement thingie, or not, I don’t actually care. Just don’t tag that way from now on, and we’re all good. All that said: I want everyone who has a tag for me on their blog to know how much I love & appreciate that. I never actually thought I would change my name, but I’m at this point now, so. Swim with the current, my friend.
For those of you who had no idea what any of my names were until this point… fuck yeah! I’ve wanted to be mysterious and unknowable so bad. Anyway. You have my name now, call me Vasudev.
HUGE shout out to purple for being the only color that has like no losers. Deep purple royal purple bluish purple redish purple pastel purple dusty purple lavender periwinkle violet like. Banger after banger after banger!!
just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd
In a way Goncharov (1973) really is the greatest gangster movie ever made. There are thousands of people dreaming up their own versions of this movie. With more plot threads than could ever actually fit into a 2 hour movie. No actual film could ever compare to the imagination of a million strangers and that's weirdly beautiful.
“It funny because for many years people thought Goncharov was the main antagonist of the film, after all, he’s the one everyone’s out to get, right? But it seems people are starting to understand that in actual fact, it is time that is the main adversary in this story. There’s never enough of it and that torments a lot of characters, especially Goncharov, because he’s fighting so desperately to find his place in a world that is so keen on keeping him ostracized.”
i see your “goncharov can’t be made into a real movie cause that would ruin it” and raise you; someone does make a real version of goncharov but films 3 or 4 different versions of each scene/plot point, and than mashes them up to create like 30 different versions of the same movie. it’s released in theaters under the guise of being a perfectly normal film, but every person who goes to see it sees a slightly different version, which will just increase the confusion and amount of unconnected lore. is that possible? probably not. but it would be hilarious.