What Even Is This?
Posted on August 26, 2025
Greetings and salutations!
To borrow the opening sentence from J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
So, here I go — hi, hello! My name is Radu (kind of) and I am turning 25 today. I am unemployed, I have written a book and two days ago I celebrated three months of marriage to a guy almost three years younger than me. Nice to meet you.
Well, now that we got the controversial stuff out of the way, let me tell you more about me.
Oh, wait — what more is there to say?
I am a person, I think. I have a cat and a rat. My favorite color is pink and black. I have tens of thousands of minutes on Spotify each year. I started following Formula One after becoming obsessed with the song “33 Max Verstappen” (Max is current world champion for those of you not familiar with F1 lore). I have become religious after writing a story about Max and Charles Leclerc. Sometimes, I cry for no reason, but usually I cry for a pretty solid reason (like not knowing what I’m doing with my life, knowing I won’t ever get to meet Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher, missing people who are not in my life anymore, etc.)
If you were to ask my mum about what she considers interesting about me, she’d tell you the following (I have asked, so it’s true) — one time, I have written 90 pages for a school paper because I was upset at the teacher; I got flirted with by a police officer and I did not realize it; I started learning English before I even turned five years old.
So yeah. That’s me. Nice to meet you.
If you have any questions, contact me on my personal tumblr or via comments on ma AO3 account (I have not thought of a way to add comments on here, yet).
And now, to quote M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen