#and achilles seems... nihilistic i think is the right word

[dumbbookreader]

1/3 of the way through the song of achilles and dang they sure do talk about feet a decent amount

[soulfulzebrablogs]

Let’s start this off with an intro of sorts.

Hi there. If you’re reading this, then this tells me you have found this page somehow. I might have told you about it, you might have stumbled upon it (does this website still exist? Also, if you remember this site, you’re just the right age for me fam), or if I really played my cards right, you might have been having a casual peruse on the all mighty Google and you typed some fun phrases like “entertainment blogs” or “pop culture hot takes” or something more generic like “writing blogs for dummies” and you saw this Tumblr page come up at the top of all the other sites and thought, “hmm I like it, I want it, gee thanks, I click it.” Or none of the above scenarios happened, I don’t know. To be honest here, I don’t like making introduction, or more specifically, introducing myself. It’s always been like that.

Being the first in an icebreaker game drives me insane, like “great no pressure, I have to set the standard of making myself sound more interesting than I actually am.” Or in job interviews when they ask the classic question “so tell me a little bit about yourself” and then I proceed to, again, make myself sound more interesting and engaging while also keeping in mind that my answers have to align with whatever the said career path requires. It’s not that I’m antisocial or anything, it’s just the whole idea of being put on the spot to introduce myself has always made me a bit anxious. There’s a lot to introductions, like where do you want me to start? Do I go all the way back to childhood? Highschool?

As an adult, the common thing to do is flex that you went to college, got some degrees, perhaps you graduated with honors? Always flex that. And then you talk about all these jobs you did in your 20s to work towards a career or something, again, setting the appearance of being “interesting” in a certain generic way. The truth is, educational and career backgrounds are the least interesting things about what makes us, us. People. Living and breathing, and as you become wiser in whatever moon phase of life you’re in, you realize you don’t have shit figured out and you probably never will and in some ways, you’re okay with that, at least I am.  

From that whole spiel above, you probably just figured out I’m a bit of a nihilist, if you’re cool and into philosophy like that. Like, I’m not full on dogmatic or hardcore about it, it’s more or less a basic level of believing that life has no grand meaning and no ones born with a particular purpose or a predetermined path (but I do believe in predetermination as well as free will and all that jazz… maybe I’ll explain later… but not in this post.), but you give your life meaning, a purpose; you create and manifest whatever is you want to exist, if you want it bad enough of course.

If you’ve made it this far into this intro of sorts, you’ve probably figured out that I overthink things, a lot. That’s why I love writing. It just seems like the perfect creative outlet to let all these wild, wild thoughts have a place to live, to roam, to exist out of my head. It should be noted that I often contradict myself, I’m at peace with this (sometimes). Most things in life are just never that simple, there are so many scenarios, patterns, questions with multiple answers. The flaw of us all is that we sometimes like to believe that everything needs to be figured out in the simplest of responses and answers. If these are the kind of blogs you enjoy reading, if you don’t question a damn thing and have a more definitive viewpoint on the world, I can tell you now, this blog will not be consistently like that. I have plenty of opinions like you but they are constantly changing and evolving. However, certain ideas and philosophies will forever stick, like pineapple pizza is delicious, tea is superior to coffee, and Beethoven is the greatest pop artist of all time. If any of that triggered you, you’ve for sure blocked me at this point and that’s cool, express yourself Queen, go off.

If I still have your attention up to this point, you’re probably now wondering “okay pero like, what is this blog about though?” A solid question indeed and you’re appreciated. I’m here to write about all things within the Entertainment industry, pop culture, music, film, digital media, the arts, politics, etc. that fascinate me and hopefully you find these array of topics interesting as well. From reviews to hot takes, analysis to research, many subjects will be discussed in the hopes that we can get into engaging dialogue. This is probably a good time to inform you as well: if you’re looking for a gossip column, celeb couple goals, or anything that reminds you of TMZ or People Magazine, no disrespect to those established brands but... this ain’t it chief. Like, I’m not going to sit here and act like I don’t enjoy the occasional gossip corner or the spilling of the superior tea or what have you, I just think there are much more interesting things to discuss within the realms of Entertainment that we all often look at through rose colored glasses. If I get into the gossip territory, it’ll somehow require a bit more depth and analysis like A Close examination into the timeline between Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande’s short lived relationship (I won’t talk about how much I obsessed over this if you don’t...) or The Selena Gomez Come Up Theory/Story and How Justin Bieber became her Ultimate Achilles Dick (honestly, this might get a post one day). Also, to be really good about celebrity gossip you have to be on top of it and post everyday, and sometimes multiple times a day, which is something I don’t plan on doing ever; and you have to have/find super sketchy insider sources. I’m just not into the idea of being a direct contributor to that world, none of it is interesting (our word of the day) enough on a long term kind of basis, but that’s just me.  

Yes, I’ll be another writer on the internet talking about things, people, places like everyone else, but they’ll be people, places and things that interest me and I hope they’ll interest you as well. At this point, you might have figured there aren’t a whole lot of guarantees for this blog, and that’s mostly true, I don’t have an extended planned out schedule of upcoming posts, I don’t even know what topics I’ll cover next or in what order, but I can offer you some rules and guidelines I have recently developed for myself and my varying creative pursuits that I will promise you. You can call them my 3 Don’ts list. They go as follows:

1)      I DON’T ever want my work to insight violence, harm, ill-will, hate, etc. to others well-being or even, myself.

2)      I DON’T ever intend or want to bore you. I believe that boredom is a choice and I know I can’t predict and/or control what you consider boring, just know I’m here to entertain you first and foremost, and then all that other good stuff comes afterward. AND

3)      I DON’T want you to feel or think that I’m trying to outsmart, out-wit or manipulate you in any way at all.

If it ever feels like I’m breaking any or all of these rules or that I could be unintentionally coming off in such a manner that conflicts with these said guidelines above, feel free to hold me accountable for it and I will come up with a course of action moving forward, within reason of course. But let’s hope we don’t have to get to that point, yeah? Agreed, okay cool. If you’re still here reading this, then congratulations and thank you for making it to the end of my Ted Talk.

I think that’s it, am I missing anything? Oh right the name game, icebreaking intro: hello again, my name is Kamaria and this is my blog.