I find the most difficult subject to talk about is yourself.
I don't mean just describing yourself - everyone has a couple arms, legs, some hair, one or the other eye color - but describing who you are, your personality, your life experiences and your thoughts; things that make up who you are and not how you look.
I respect people who can do it easily; for me, every experience or story I share, I live through it again.
I was born with a very good memory, a strong will and strong feelings; those traits are definitely assets, but they do come with their own sets of downsides.
The biggest one is probably that I get emotional and cry easily, some of my viewers might have noticed it when i was talking about how i felt about the community and the rest of the #NoSleepGang.
I've learned to live with it and though some people feel put off when it happens, I still hope that they won't judge me too harshly.
Let's start with my Name: Dmitri Dmitrievitch Barabanov
Similar to the Arabian & Nordic culture, in russian culture the kids get a middle name that is related to the first name of their father.
Since my father is called Dmitri as well, that explains the Dmitri Dmitrievitch ;)
Born in Russia, I've moved to Luxembourg when i was 6 years old and have lived here ever since.
I've started my gaming career at the age of 4 (possibly longer, but that's as far as I can remember) when I was playing war and other simple card games with my grandparents.
My first gaming console was a Tetris console followed by a fat grey Game Boy with the first Super Mario Brothers Game (yes I was a Gameboy OG xD).
A couple years later you saw me playing Batman and power rangers on the sega mega drive II, followed by the N64, Gamecube, PS2, WII, all kinds of handhelds and finally PC. That's what stuck - I'm still playing the wii with friends sometimes, but if I wanna game it's the PC for me.
Last year i've finally fulfilled my longtime wish of getting an actual powerful gaming rig for vr gaming, programming and music & video editing.
Careerwise I am a programmer and have worked on both front-end and back-end so far; Websites & applications, testing and servers - basically i dabbled a bit in the different programming fields and thus have a bit of an extended view when programming compared to a specialist focusing on only one field. This has a lot to do with my inborn curiousity for all things unknown and the fact that I always want to understand things at their core.
About 8 years and 16 days ago, I've met my lovely wife for the very first time and went to the movies with her.
We've actually met on the internet and were basically chatting for barely 2 weeks and i had a suspicion when I asked her out, but as soon as we met it became certainty - I was in love and the first thing i did was kiss her and tell her that.
For a second I was scared that the feeling wasn't mutual, but fortunately that wasn't the case and fastforwarding 5 years of ups & downs, we found ourselves in St. Petersburg my city of birth to celebrate our marriage with the whole family.
This is an unedited photo of our first dance and by pure chance, you can actually see my three siblings on the left side of the photo. Going from tallest to smallest they are:
There were 2 reasons why I was adamant about holding the wedding in St. Petersburg:
I'm sorry, i needed a moment to collect myself...
Let us move on to something positive that brings me and my wife joy every single day:
Let's begin with Gimli, we got him as a 5 months pup about half a year after our marriage and yes, the name comes from the dwarf in Lord of the Rings because he is a Longhaired Chihuahua.
When my wife was asking whether we could have a dog I said a small one that isn't a rat on stilts, and when we were in England the year before, we went to an irish pub and there was a permanent resident who was a 10 year old long-haired chihuahua lady that we both were quite taken with so we agreed on this race.
When we started looking I found out that they were ******* expensive, and that there were no breeders in the close vicinity so we drove for 3 and a half hours to go and get him.
He is a fighter in nature and a perfect mirror of the Dwarf as he is not afraid of any of the bigger dogs and let's them know about it.
Unfortunately, for his own safety, we need to keep hin on a leash now because while at first he simply had verbal disagreements with big dogs, about half a year ago, he actually got into a fight with a husky - luckily neither of the dogs had anything more serious than some scratches
Meet Trixie, his female companion that joined the family about one and a half years later because we wanted Gimli to live his life to the fullest including all the needs a dog has, especially companionship. ;)
While Gimli is not afraid of even the mightiest of dogs, Trixie is a very cautious lady.
I'd even call her a chicken sometimes, but she's starting to calm down a bit after having become a mother:
Meet Stella (girl that looks like the mother), Raven & Terra (boys that look like the father) that joined our family and gave our little Trixie a massive fright as she had no clue what was actually happening.
However, with a little help from our side, she bravely mastered all the challenges.
Terra has already made his way to his new Home in Switzerland and my mother is absolutely in love with Raven.
Currently we've set up some posts for Stella, but if noone is interested in taking her, my Mother will take her in as well. The only reason we'd prefer if she found a different home is because we all believe that an animal that lives with you is a part of the family and should live a fulfilled life and not be castrated which would be a necessity if you have siblings or parents and children living together.
So now that we've improved our mood with some cuteness overload, let's answer the question:
The Word is composed of two parts, Darth & Wolf, and I don't think i relally need to say much about the first part except that I've been a fan of the franchise and the whole Legacy Universe before Disney was like "Nu-uh, that shit ain't true" just so that they had an easier time coming up with their stories.
Wolves were always my favourite animals - they represent a lot of values that are very important for myself: honour, wisdom & family.
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Thanks lovesniper, will definitely check those sources out. :)
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