My name is Amelia, this is a movie blog.
Last year I participated in Vulture Movies Fantasy League for the first time and I had a lot of fun really obsessively following the updates, but I wanted more granular data about the movie scores so I made a whole insane spreadsheet about it. And I had fun doing that so I’m doing it again this year too. Last year I also really wanted a place to talk about everything as it was happening, so this year I’m making a blog about it. I know there’s an official Discord channel this year but I want a dedicated place to get all my long rambling thoughts out. As anyone who knows me in any context knows, one of my main passions (along with shuffleboard, pretending I’m someone who knows things about movies, and gamification) is writing long paragraphs of run-on sentences on the internet. So here we are. (For now anyway. Another passion of mine is saying I’m going to do a new project and then immediately falling behind and never officially giving up but just never getting back to it.)
I’m usually bad at watching movies during the year so I like having awards season to make me keep up with everything and feel like I know things. It’s a decent distraction from the gestures vaguely everything else of the world. So this year I’m giving myself the option to further my hyperfixation by blogging about Movies Fantasy League, or awards season in general, or potentially even about movies™. Though there’s a reason both of my MFL team names have been references to this tweet, which encapsulates how I tend to feel about movies, which probably speaks to what I have on offer in terms of any sort of film criticism.
Lastly, I have decided to simply not disclaim or hand-wring about whether or not I presume that literally anyone is reading this. (Examining the extent to which literally everything I do online is or isn’t for attention is another blog post for another blog.) I’m happy with my movie blog diary. That said, I have comments turned on and I encourage anybody who has found their way here to chime in. Partly because I do constantly crave external validation, but mostly because rambling into the void is more fun if the void makes some conversation too.
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