Books_vs_Reality

A little more than a year ago I started questioning my sexuality, some of you were even there to see it, and I wanted to share a bit of my personal experience.
          
          I never had a crush or was even remotely interested in anyone and when I started highschool I saw my classmates start dating and started to think that maybe there was something wrong with me because I wasn't interested in anyone.
          
          I started doing research online but at first all I found was things like "if you have crushes on people of the oposite sex your straight" or "if you have crushes on people of the oposite sex your gay" and stuff like that, which didn't help at all because I never had a crush before.
          
          I didn't have a lot of experience with the lgbtqia+ community and I started questioning a bit after I started taking interest in the community and learning more about it. It was also around this time that I met queer people irl for the first time.
          
          After months of research and questioning I finally found something that helped me get closer to the label that best fits me righ now: the a-spec.
          
          I started learning more about it and the different labels it contains and started using the aroace label to describe myself.
          
          I don't know if I'll use this label forever or if I'll ever fall in love in the future but that's ok! I use this label because it's the one that best fits me right now and as long as it fits I'll continue to use it.
          
          If you're questioning don't feel pressured to find a label that fits forever, don't be afraid to try new labels until you find the one that best fits you and remember that it's ok to change labels. If you don't want a label that's also perfecly alright.
          
          Above all just make sure you're safe and treat everyone with kindness and respect (everyone includes yourself). ❤️
          
          Happy Pride Month!!! ️‍

Hello everyone! Happy Pride Month!!! Am I late? Absolutely. Is it still June? Also yes! So shhhhh.
          
          Ok serious time. I'm sorry I spent so much time away but I was busy trying to keep my grades up and preparing for exams, which for me ended past Monday!!!  I wanted to update sooner but I kinda shut down after my exams ended.  I don't know my exam results yet but at least I finished this year with good grades so I'll consider it a win.
          
          New chapter of "The adventures of Fred and co. - The ten asterisks" to celebrate pride month, hope you like it!

Quick announcement: You will receive some notifications from "The adventures of Fred and co. - The ten asterisks". I'll make some edits including the description and later today I'll try to publish one or two chapters.
          
          In the past few months I either didn't have motivation or was too busy with school to update so this is me trying to make up for it!

Fun fact about me (not really): My mom teases me everytime I say something grammatically incorrect. What's interesting is that I'm portuguese so I speak portuguese in my daily life and it's not uncommon in my age and younger to make grammar mistakes BUT while other kids make mistakes because of all the brazilian portuguese content they consume on the internet I make mistakes because of all the english stuff I see, watch, listen, etc. on the internet and even though I correct it almost immediatly my mom still finds my mistakes funny and teases me about it 
          
          Example: "I'm thinking about you" means in portuguese "Estou a pensar em ti" but translated word by word you get "Estou a pensar sobre ti". And "Estou a pensar em ti" translated word by word means "Thinking in you" so it's a bit weird and confusing ‍♀️
          
          PS: I'll try to update "The adventures of Fred and co. - The ten asterisks" tomorrow or this weekend. Sorry!

Part 2:
          
          Besides, I don't think teenagers should be reading that describe a woman's naked body and compare her to a wild animal when they're doing the do, nothing too graphic but still. I honestly would prefer not knowing that the english wosekeeper does it in the backyard, hidden between the trees at 3 am with the guy who delivers newspapers.
          
          The story isn't even that interesting. To put it simple it's about a rich guy and his romantic life. He's called Carlos da Maia and lives in Lisbon with his grandpa, Afonso da Maia. I don't want to spoil it if anyone wants to read it in the future so I won't give a lot of details. The story starts with Carlos and Afonso moving to Lisbon from Santa Olávia (don't ask me to tell you where that is in the map 'cause I don't know either). The we travel back in time and the author tells the story of Afonso, his son Pedro and Carlos growing up. Then the author describes in detail Carlos' life during the 2 years he lived in Lisbon and his 2 lovers. Then one of my favourite characters die because why not (I really wanted to punch the author when it happened but he's dead so I can't *angry noises*). Keep in mind that I don't like most character so I have two favourites, two I like (I don’t know one of them that well though), several that I don't know that well, some that did bad things but are good peole so Idk what to think about them and some i absolutely despise. In the end Carlos and his BFF go on a 1 and a half year trip around the word, Carlos decides to live in Paris and there's a 10 year timeskip and Carlos visits Portugal. And that's it.
          
          
          I know this is a lot and I'm sorry but I needed to write this somewhere. You don't even have to read all that but this was my way of letting out all the anger and frustration this book caused me. 
          
          Hope your okay and that you have a good day/night! 

Hey everyone! I don't know if I should write something special because this is my first announcement but this is gonna be just me ranting about a book we have to read for school in Portugal. When my mom was in school she also had to read the book and even though we have to read it 'cause next year we have exams, most people just read the summed up version and have good grades. I promised myself I would read it all because I'm a proud and stubborn reader in a class of people who don't read that much (even though some read it's usually not everyday or even every week) and some even avoid books like the plague. 
          
          This book is called "Os Maias", is 719 pages long and I just finished it today. It was hard for me to read and I've been reading it a lot lately because school is about to start (I have a week of freedom until I have to go back to school T-T) and it's one of the reasons I haven't been updating.
          
          The story is a satire (spelling ?) to the portuguese high society in the 1850-1900s (I don't remember the exact dates). The story is easy to follow but there are a lot of descriptions and I need to have my computer or phone with me all the time with an online dictionary open because no one uses those words nowadays and it gets anoying. 
          
          If you read it there are characters you'll want to punch in the face because they are in favour of slavery, animal cruelty, losing our independence (which we lost a lot of lives to get) to Spain and they think that women are supposed to be stupid and beautiful little toys for them to play with. The book also envolves cheating and divorce didn't exist yet so some people ran away so they could be together. There are other stuff but I can't remenber it all right now.