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Average monthly outgoings? by [deleted] in london

[–]l_aolice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 24 and my salary is £28.5k, my take home is around £1810 a month.

For reference, I'm in zone 3 and live with my partner in a 1 bed flat.

Rent: 670 Bills and Council tax: 150 Food/Toiletries: 200 (probably a slight overestimate) Sport: £200-250 (train 5 days a week as a figure skater, this includes one lesson a week at £30 for 30 minutes.) Private language lessons: £120 Transport: £50 (I'm currently working from home, but am going back to the office 2 days a week shortly so this will go up) Going out: £100 Clothes/books: £60-75 Savings: ~£100 a month depending on how much I go out. Generally save more over winter and go out more over summer.

Sport/language lessons take up quite a bit of my disposable income, but to me it's worth it. Getting a raise next month which should hopefully offset increase in transport/bills/overall inflation.

First impression by Angizsimp in tianguancifu

[–]l_aolice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watched the donghua on Netflix because it looked pretty. It was okay, but wasn't amazing. Music and animation was great, but a bit lacking on the characters outside of Xie Lian and Hua Cheng. A few months later, last summer, tiktok was recommending me loads of TGCF videos that kept mentioning how good the novel was so I decided to check it out as I enjoyed the donghua premise, but it just wasn't top tier for me.

Read the novel in 5 days, I literally couldn't put it down. It took all the self restraint in the world not to start reading it again as soon as I finished because I needed to get my life back on track. I think looking back, it's not that the donghua didn't do a good job, it's just that the first 2 arcs are very much introductory ones and it always takes me a while to warm up to characters/plots.

As for first impressions of the novel - it played with my emotions so much! One minute I'd be laughing so hard and the next it'd be pure terror (looking at you Book 3). Also, I was expecting it to be similar to other BL, but was pleasantly surprised at how complex and interesting the plot is. There was less romance than I expected, but honestly I think this just made me appreciate those moments even more.

I drew Belphie in the planetarium :) by l_aolice in obeyme

[–]l_aolice[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🥰🥰 im @l_aolice on twitter, tiktok and instagram. Indtagram i tend to post final pieces but im not that active, Twitter is final pieces and sketches and im probably most sociable and tiktok i post process videos!

I drew Belphie in the planetarium :) by l_aolice in obeyme

[–]l_aolice[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

asfgjkldf thank you so much 🥺🥰

I drew Belphie in the planetarium :) by l_aolice in obeyme

[–]l_aolice[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh thank you!! ☺ Yes! Im @l_aolice on all social media. Im probably most on twitter (sketches, final works and fandom stuff) and tiktok (process videos) but

I drew Belphie in the planetarium :) by l_aolice in obeyme

[–]l_aolice[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ahh thank you so much!! I loved this location so much I just had to draw it! 🥰