First time!

As-salam Alaikum! After time and consideration about where I ought to blog on, I figured a place at Medium would suit me best. I’ll introduce myself in the best fashion I can.

I’m a 14-year-old Englishwoman and my name is [REDACTED] but I go by Alissa Meanswell online. I used the handle Anna Randall but thought it sounded too generic so I dropped it 3–4 years ago. I have other aliases but they won’t be covered in this story. I like writing narratives and creating characters, game designing, crafting, listening to any music (my taste is focused particularly now on the music in South Korea that is more nuanced than the globally popular idol circle), and scouring around Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Because I have the habit of spending time on computers with the addition of a family-owned pretty purple laptop, time for talking in school is scarce. Besides, socialising for prolonged periods isn’t naturally my top priority.

Enough about my way of living, here are the pieces you are going to expect from the stories on Ali’s Meal:

• Storytimes — about current affairs, situations and encounters from memory and original fiction prose writing
• Topical opinions — now this could be where our differences meet
• Occasional news—let’s get RIGHT into da news
• Reviews — my favourite type of opinion writing, this is where I get to bully the fuck out of a song
• Mini biographies and accounts — I feel as though anyone’s journey to something should be written at a point in time where they’re just starting to be forgotten

I’ll start off Ali’s Meal with a few themes:

• Introduction posts related to life
• Opinion pieces
• The lesser-discussed and appreciated facet(s) of “K-pop”
• Couple reviews

Tune in next time, and we the fawns faffin’ around here!