Pandora's box move out, there's a new blog in town!

Hello, it's a-Me!

Thoughts of the day, book and movies reviews, recipes, musings, art, short stories, and much more

Ciao! And welcome to my little online corner which, after a long while, I've finally decided to get off the dusty recesses of my head (not a funny place to be in, let me tell ya) and into the vast Internet wildness.

Another blog, yeah. And probably far less interesting than thousand other blogs out there, but is that going to stop me? Heck no!

So let me tell you a bit about myself. I'm a 33-odd Italian nerd with a load of issues going from autism to several handicaps to precarious job. I've been fighting with depression strenuously these last few years but I think I've made a few improvements, especially ever since I removed some highly toxic people from my life. 

All my existence, I've lived to be "average". I'm not the best at... well, really anything. And even the few things I'm good at aren't super good, just average. But it's enough for me to this time and day that I do what I do the best way I can (the world, especially working world, is often way less cavalier about this - but that's neither there nor here). 

What are the things I like? Well, as far as hobbies go, I like reading, writing, and drawing. 

As an artist I went fully digital way into the 2000s and I've got to say it's the right medium for me. Traditional art is simply out of my league. I'm self taught, because although we had art lessons at school they never really taught as anything except some very faint elements of "draw from real life". So I "broke my teeth" off comic books, especially the Disney "new wave" (PK, W.I.T.C.H, Monster Allergy, Kylion, X-Mickey, etc), ElfQuest, Diabolik and Tex Willer just to name a few of the titles that influenced me; I learned from the artists I loved, and from observing their work alongside that of Western and Eastern animators. Now I've tackled the momentous and crazy but awesome project of creating, scripting and drawing my own graphic novel which is probably going to take a lifetime but I'm so excited about it I can't even! I'll tell you a bit more about it in some future post!

I've read a lots of books over my life, but nowadays read much less because books are expensive and I'm always pretty broke. Libraries are a thing, yes, but I'd have to go there on weekends since they have the same time schedule as my office during the rest of the week... and during weekends, often, I'm too worn out emotionally, socially and physically to do anything much. (Not to mention my reading time is very limited, so I wouldn't be able to finish a book before I have to return it, and that'd piss me off).

It's the same reason why it's very doubtful that you'll find reviews of "new" movies on here... I can't go to theater because it's expensive, and I can't buy DVDs because they are expensive. All my old DVDs were lost when I was evicted into 2019, so I've got to rely on Youtube and Wikipedia and my memories - and tv, when it airs something decent at a decent hour. But hey - if youtubers like the Nostalgia Critic could make a business of reviewing old blockbusters, I don't think I have to apologize to anyone if I speak of old flicks on my blog either.

I love writing too and I've been using it as my means to survive in the years I spent without a job (I'm a phone operator now, but it's a story I don't want to get into for now). I'm proficient as a copywriter with good SEO knowledges, both in Italian and English. On a side note, I love love love love writing fiction! I've always enjoyed fiction, ever since I was a kid. Once I dreamed to write my own book and I've even made several attempts (as well as self-published a few works) - but over the years I grew disillusioned with it because all my written works hardly ever seemed to get any recognition. My "good enough" just wasn't "good enough", and I gave up dreams of becoming a published (or self-published) author. It's just not worth all the heartache. But now I have my own blog, which means from time to time I may post a short story or two... just for the fun of it, like in my fanfiction-writing days. 

All this you're going to find on my blog - but just like with the iceberg, there's more! I want to talk of literally everything that crosses my mind so there might be posts about traditions, or sayings, or recipes that I've been reminded by something I passed by on the way to work. Sometimes, not always, there'll be rants on topics from the news, like Covid-19. I don't dabble willingly in politics, so you shouldn't find much mention of that, if at all. 

And there will be rants about the things that I'm passionate about, namely why bullying must go down without mercy and why it's important to support to mentally ill or depressed people. 

There'll also be rants about some unpleasant people (the "toxic" ones I mentioned above) whom I've dealt with in the past; their actions have caused me a great lot of anger and I still mull about several of the things they did and said to me. I know the tendency online is to "think positive", "forgive and move on", "be wholesome" (a word they made me hate passionately, together with "healthy", because they totally warped it to excuse their shitty behavior) - well I'm not going to forgive them, not even with my dying breath, and I don't think it hinders my "moving on" at all. Yes I've moved on, I've built a better life for myself surrounded with people who really matter and make a difference, but I still remember the wrong that was done to me and I want to warn off others who may be in the same (or similar) situation. Clinging to resentment can be a form of healing too, because then you know you'll never let those people (or anyone else) treat you the same way.

Oh, nearly forgot -- among the things I love there's also animals (except spiders. I'm terrified of spiders!) and food so expect to find pictures and post about these subjects too. Not always recipes, I'm not that good a cook X'D But funny stuff like my top five ice cream flavors or my favorite kind of sushi (or pizza!), and so on.

And that's about it :) I don't know if I've got you curious enough to stick with my little blog but if I have, then by all means keep following!

Alla prossima!

 🌹Cri