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I am so tired

We live in supposedly the easiest times. People used to live much shorter, harder lives, they used to work 10, 12 or even more hours of hard work every day. They would have like 10 children and only 3 would survive to the age of 10 or more. The life was rough. Yet, today, we are likely more tired than ever. Most of us works in offices, or even from home, most jobs aren't that hard, wars are burning as they always do but hidden from a lot of us who can see only what media allows us to see. We watch other people's "perfect lives" on internet, we see too many almost perfect looking people or just perfect looking every single day, people with no apparent flaws in life or body or face, we know way too much but still not enough, we want to be liked by total strangers and we do not know what is real anymore. We can't create because we want audience to approve our work, we can't be ourselves because we want to be perfect too, want to be liked, want to live life that i...

Genetics is amazing!

 My Grandmother and me, aproximately the same age. Sure, her photo was created maybe in 1960s or 1970s so it's really bad quality and it was colored (badly) after. But I am amazed how genetics work, you can clearly see we are related. Except her eyes were blue, mine are black... as my soul (sorry, couldn't help it! 😊) Interestingly enough, I saw some really blurred photo of her in her 20s, that must have been taken around 1950 I think, or even at the end of 1940 and I did not look like that in my 20s. But here, as we aged and lost baby fat in face, some things look eaeily similar. Btw my kid looks almost nothing like me. But well, someone else can have stronger genetics than mine.

Everyone is ugly. Or is it just Marketing to sell us something?

When we are young, some of us have good genes and have beautiful face and body. That's like minority who fits into beauty standard and beauty standard is forever and for everyone and it's very important. That means you have to be whatever media tells you that is currently beautiful. That can change in time but the point is always similar. Youthful face shaped like upside down triangle, big eyes, tiny perfect nose, plump lips, perfect skin, big hair, slim body but nicely curvy where it should be. For men it's to be tall, muscular, square jaw. "hunter eyes" (whatever that means), nice big white teeth etc. That's beautiful, that's important and that's the goal, right? Old is ugly, small eyes are ugly, bulky or bumpy nose is ugly, small mouth is ugly, square face is ugly, any body but slim is ugly. Right? Wrong! You know what, all that is crap! That's all what we have been taught to believe and think and it's implanted into our brains over tv, medi...

My novel "Mima and life on planet Inferno": a story of adaptation and preservance

This is my novel, so far the only one I put on the Amazon. The reason for that is that I am not that good in English and I had no money for professional translator so I did translation myself. It's not the best but I did gave my best. It's very difficult to write in language that's not your native, but I hope the point is the most important. The novel is technically sf/horror/thriller but the point is adapting to completely new, harder lifestyle which can happen to all of us. finding something beautiful in new world that we don't know and we are not used to. The world that's not forgiving, not comfortable, does not allow mistakes. That is not set perfectly for you. That can be any situation in your life. We have no idea what will happen to us tomorrow, in a year, two, ten.. Finding your place is important. Finding purpose, beauty in anything. I am not saying I am smarter than anyone, and that I found the secret of life or adapting to any situation. I am as bad as a ...

Giant bug saga

So, I have been talking with my bank cosultant when I noticed it on the floor. A giant bug! Black with anthenes on its head and kind of segmented body. It looked huge and scary. Of course I made a sound and scared the lady from the bank on phone, and while talking I decided that I get the bug into box and let it out the window. Such huge thing has to fly, especially since it got in on fourth floor somehow (unless I brought it in on myself which is something I don't want to think about). So I get it under box and put it outside on window sill, pretty sure it will fly away. It didn't. I noticed that bug was sitting there panicking, tryng to get down thwn the sill and then getting scared and going back. No one expects to see the giant bug panicking. But there it was. So I felt sorry for the damn thing and trapped it again under plastic box with holes and brought it outside in the hall of the building. I mean, it can go downstairs, right? I noticed that while insde the box, the bug...

More or less famous men I find quite sexy

James Spader (timeless sex appeal, effortlessly sexy) Adam Ant (energy, moves, voice, personality and perfect face) David Bowie (strong unique looks, animalistic sex appeal, self-confidence and talent ) Sam Rockwell (boyish charm, energy) Mads Mikkelsen (weirdly sensual, incredibly attractive, great face, talented ah) Noah Segan (bad boy charm, amazing bone structure) David Howard Thornton (I know, I know, but there is something about him, I just adore him) Roger Taylor (Queen drummer, incredibly cute, always smiling, smart and educated, great face, talented) Tom Hiddleston (I am sucker for British men, he is sexy in weird British way)

Killing the angels

 This is not religious text in any way. It's more ecological and emotional. I am a cat person, I like cats, I help them whenever I can. I respect nature and animals in general, but I can't say I am consistent and I am not a hypocrite, because I am. I am not vegan, not even vegetarian, I wear leather (mostly boots and belt I have for decades now), I am as bad as anyone else. I am trying to excuse myself that I am too small, non important, nobody, I can't make any difference whatever I do. And that's probably true. but it still gets me a lot. A day ago, a little male kitty, maybe 6 months old, the only one from a litter of three kittens that survived, was found dead, run over by car. Their mom is one small greyish and white cat, who is so smart that, for now, for all the cats I fed and loved in that small area, she is the only one alive after 3 years.  There were summers when I was happy to visit a bunch of happy, cute and healthy cats, on that little hill next to the dum...

Buy my course and become like me

There are a lot of videos and essays laughing at alpha males, their roaring and yelling at camera and their... acolytes? students? whatever. They flash their muscles, their big expensive cars, they surround themselves with young (often, very young) women, they wear a lot of jewelery, and they like to show us how better they are than anyone else. They get up at 4am, they run or workout, lift heavy weights, drink only bottled water and eat expensive organic food. People still laugh at them, I mean people who are not obsessed with them, which are most likely very young, impressionable men. Then, there are influencers who like to show us how their life is basically clean and perfect. We saw too many videos about that too. Clean, expensive stuff, overally healthy food, everything esthetically pleasing to the top, bodies and hair and make up perfect 24 hours a day... you know the drill. Lately, I noticed on our Serbian social media our own influencers. Usually, they are women, young, in thei...

Rating Fran Drescher's series

 Fran Drescher was born in September 1957, and she is mostly known for her comedic role and specific voice. Fran made three of her own series (at least, three that I know of, so sorry if I am mistaken) and I watched them all from start to finish multiple times. So, I will list them here from best to worst, with some amateur reviews. 1. The best : The Nanny (1993 - 1999) The idea of cute, street-smart girl, who starts working as a nanny in rich family was pretty good from the start. The seies are also beautiful to look at. Fran is always dressed to the nines and she carries the amazing clothes better than any super model could. One of the best things about these series is chemistry between actors, which is also what's missing from other two series (hense, why they ultimately failed). The chemistry between Fran Drescher and Charles Shaughnessy is amazing, and although their characters in the show are both far from being perfect people, you can not help but to root for them. Anot...

Where we happier before androids and social media?

 As generation X, my youth was mostly during 80s and 90s of 20th century. Growing up during 80s and 90s was vastly different than growing up during 2000s or 2010s or now. Here are some nice perks of growing up before 21st centiry: We didn't know too much This may sound silly, but hear me out. Sure, to get some information you need it took time, books, magazines, asking around.. you couldn't just google "how to fix blender" or "Javascript tutorial" or whatever, you needed to work for it. A lot. Even for minor things, like how to saw something, or how to clean stain or how to prepare pasta. It took effort. If you skipped classes you had to put effort to go to public librabry, get books you need and do hours and hours of research not just google the freaking thing! But that made if feel important, accomplishment! And you didn't have many people with whom you could compare yourself, mostly people around you, not the whole freaking world. We were neer made to...

Story about one black kitty called Baby

One old lady had a black cat in my building. The lady was over 80, and she didn't spay the cat because she coudln't afford it. So when the lady died, they kicked the cat out. The little cat, then maybe 1 year old, managed in the streets, she had kittens several times, I am not sure any of them survived, as they usually don't. Then, in summer 2022 she gave birth to 4 black female kittens who all survived and I really liked them and helped their mom to take care of them. One was quite feisty and I made a mistake of trying to carry her, mistaking her for her sisters who were more cuddly, and she would try to fight me. I mean, this little tiny ball of fur trying to fight me, over 120lbs monster. I would let her go, of course, because she has the right of  not liking to be carried. They were kind of miracle kittens because they all survived which rarely ever happens in this part of town. Now, almost 3 years later, 2 of daighter cats are still alive, and I spayed them to spare th...

Female friendships: powerful or just a myth?

 Since I kind of reached an age of reason, I wanted to have female friends, mythical girlfriends, mythical, powerful female friendship that so many movies, tv series, medias, and now social media on internet talks about. I never had one. Never. Never had a female friend. I watched movies and tv shows about strong women in great friendships that made each other lives richer, fuller, better, that would do anything one for another. But I've never lived anything even close to that. I had some male friends, but there was always a wall between us, sometimes smaller, sometimes big wall, wall between two people desperately trying not to cross any boundaries. Because, no matter if we are not attracted to each other sexually, or in any way but as friends, no matter that it's just a friend intentions from both sides, that wall is kind of always there. It's always a bit awkward, we can not talk about everything, there are topics that we can and topics that we can't talk about. Ther...

Perfect beauty

 Someone once said we were not meant to see so many faces of people as we see during last couple of decades. Thanks to social media, we are all exposed to way too many people and faces and bodies and way too exposed to seeing our own. It's probably not natural (for mental health) to see yourself every day, multiple times on social media, photos, selfies, and let your looks and you as a person be validated by strangers, by number of likes, by current beauty standards, by comparing yourself to thousands and thousands of faces and bodies you can see on hundreds of cable channels and even more social media networks, especially Instagram and TikTok. Being woman can be really tough. Constantly being bombarded by "theories" how your worth as a person depends on your looks, age and looking expensive, and even by your acting as a person. There are multiple channels where you are taught to behave like a princess, or queen, and how to treat people, and how to treat men, and how to b...

AI : Friend or Foe?

 I am gen X, so I am old hehe, and I am not a tech or sociology export, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I might be wrong about this, but this is my blog so I can write my opinions and who wants to read it is (literally) free to read it. From my perspective, the best concept of AI use would be to do jobs people can not do, or jobs that carry high risk of death or injuries and could be better maintained by machines. That would include also jobs that are boring, repetetive, in bad conditions, in toxis or dangerous environment, or jobs that require too much precision that human can achieve. And instead, what does AI do now? Literally STEALS artwork from people online and uses it so that someone who does not want to pay for art, illustration, poster, essay, even music or music video etc can use other people's life work stollen by AI and get it for themselves! Isn't that nice! And it gets better! Not only art, poetry, essays, novels, stories, even comics and other personal a...

My novels for those who want to read some sf / fantasy / horror

Small reminder to my online novels, "Mima and life on planet Inferno", which you can read for only 3,60$ on Amazon Kindle (illustrations for my novel made by me): https://www.amazon.com/Mima-Planet-Inferno-Biljana-Malesevic-ebook/dp/B09PLQHQKB/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= and my second online novel on Inkitt, free of charge "The Vortex" (again, my illustration for this novel): https://www.inkitt.com/stories/horror/1008401 and if you prefer short content, there my short stories on Inkitt too: https://www.inkitt.com/BiljanaM

Some men who dm me on social media

Horny Psycho Sends right away messages of what would he do to you, what would you (according to him) want to do to him, all sexual, does not share almost anything about himself, does not ask anything about you, he is not even pretending to care, he does not expect any answer, if you never answer he will not care he will continue, he just wants to send sexy messages and someone, who is preferably female, to read it. He will send those messages until you block him, or ask him who is he or what does he want, in which case he will try to keep it sexual, but if you insist to know who the hell he is, he will write you that you are an idiot. Don't waste time, block him. Just Psycho Start as "nice guy", asks you regular things, seems interested in friendly conversation, but quickly turn into someone who sends you loads of messages every day and tries to call you multiple times, even if you never answer to any message or pick up his calls. He will not stop or give up, even if it t...

My 2023-2024 paintings - mixed media