Finally getting off my ass (I suppose technically on, since I’m sitting down) to start this thing. Around the time I registered adhdmovieclub.com I had this idea that I would be writing about movies and my “journey” of watching a new movie every day, but I got lost in a sea of crappy website management tools, which shot my enthusiasm with a tranquilizer dart. Then I was like “oh yeah, WordPress is a thing,” and it didn’t take me long to feel overwhelmed and confused by that, either.
But since Twitter is continuing to screech wildly off the rails, I return once again. I could post more on Tumblr, but who’s going to read that? Tbh, who’s going to read this? I’m not worried about it or anything, I’m just being realistic. I’m not good at self-promotion, nor do I want to be. If I wanted to be in PR, I’d be in PR. I am an ADHD-riddled goblin who tries every day to read a little more, write a little more, and I barely have the reservoir for that–how the fuck am I going to make TikToks to encourage people to read the long form ramblings of a middle-aged woman who crochets, drinks a lot of coffee, and is inordinately proud of finally staying on top of kitchen-related chores?
Anyhow: I started making little sites on the internet for fun when I was 16, writing the HTML myself, spending way more time than was strictly necessary looking for the perfect animated gifs, using alt text for images before it was more of an inclusive statement, eventually creating my own graphics in a copy of photoshop acquired from the back of a virtual truck (the bold aqua and green design with the chunky font choice and magical rollover graphics was my peak, and I’m still proud of it even though it’s been eaten by time). 26 years later, I don’t know how to do anything manually on this internet hellscape anymore, but I’m determined to have a spot where I’m not limited by characters and I might, once in a blue moon, write about movies, as was my sincere but unfulfilled goal of 2022. My sincere goal for this year is to read more books–at least a couple of pages daily–so, with fingers crossed and intent set, I may just write about both of those things this year.
So… howdy.
Cosmic’s Read-o-Rama 