I know this has a lot to do with the fact that the twenty-teens was a lost decade for me- no travel, no fandoms, no writing to speak of, and remorseless increasing debilitation

//gloomy fistbump

Yeah, the '10s started looking up (Obama! some solutions to longtime personal problems!) and then like a year and a half in, and just went to shit in about 2015 personally and then politically.