welcome to my substack :)
Hey! Welcome. My name is Amalia.
I’m launching this blog because I’m running out of space on my google drive.
I’m the kind of person who writes an essay every time I have a critical thought. Unfortunately, this habit has been going on since high school, so the vault is filling up. I have a lot to share.
I’m not going to flatter myself by assuming that you will be interested in all the nonsense I plan to post here. To be honest, this whole exercise is more for me than it is for you, at least right now.
However, I doubt that I am the only one who has entertained the thoughts I will be sharing. I imagine others have them, too, hopefully in more depth and clarity. I talk a lot in real life, so most of these essays have come from ideas I have shared with the people around me. But I’m hoping that online, a wider range of you can respond to what I post, and we can have the kind of extensive conversation I’m craving. Selfishly, I hope I improve as a result of your feedback. Optimistically, I hope my writing does something for readers too.
My point is that I want this to be interactive. Feel free to ask for what you want to see, and I will try to provide it. Please tell me what you like and what you don’t. I write a wide range of content (prose, poetry, arguments, commentary), so I plan to post whatever I feel like sharing and see what sticks.
Thanks for tuning in to my first post. Subscribe if you’re curious. See you again soon :)
shoutouts to RFQ the 🐐; I found ur Substack bc of the link she shared (& have gladly read every piece) and I wanna say inadvertently this is my favourite piece.
how honest and refreshing and real!!! I feel like I’ve written this piece; or that you’ve been inside my brain because it’s scary how much deja vu I got reading this. I totally get writing starting a Substack for you and I’m excited to see you grow! One thing that stuck out in particular and smn I’ve been struggling with is how the contents of ur writing is similar to conversations you’ve had in real life yet you still crave these conversations online. I feel you. I feel like thinking too much about life is all I talk about and yet somehow I rarely have that feeling satiated by those conversations and I always ask myself why. I wonder if you feel similarly/how you’ve navigated that.
Also cruel optimism sounds like a really cool book I just ordered it!!
In terms of other content I’d be interested in? Reading lists of various forms!! Most perspective shifting?? Most fun?? There’s more buzzing around in my head, but this is already a weirdly long comment & im sure I’ll have more to say later haha. thanks for being real!!