Chiara C. Rizzarda
@crshelidon.bsky.social
Construction professional, comics lover & videogames player, writing quirky Gothic and Fantasy. She/her.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crshelidon
Blog: https://www.shelidon.it
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crshelidon
Blog: https://www.shelidon.it
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My blog will celebrate Pride Month with one post a day highlighting the presence and persistence of queer people from ancient times to the Renaissance. Let's debunk the myth that queerness is a modern phenomenon: we have always been here.
And that’s where we’ll stay.
www.shelidon.it/category/cal...
And that’s where we’ll stay.
www.shelidon.it/category/cal...
Grief is that thing when you think you're okay, and then the theme of Skyrim comes up, and you're crying like a baby.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Grief is that thing when you think you're okay, and then the theme of Skyrim comes up, and you're crying like a baby.
What better way to go through #Spooktober than dreaming of a new witchy book? I just backed "The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders" on @kickstarter.com
@signemaene.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
@signemaene.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
www.kickstarter.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
What better way to go through #Spooktober than dreaming of a new witchy book? I just backed "The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders" on @kickstarter.com
@signemaene.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
@signemaene.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
Reading people giving out 1-2 stars reviews to books because of a bad audio narration really gives me an itch to reconsider the whole "audiobooks are the same as books" stance.
What. The. Fuck.
Is like giving a book a bad review because you didn't like the font they used in printing. Fuck you.
What. The. Fuck.
Is like giving a book a bad review because you didn't like the font they used in printing. Fuck you.
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Reading people giving out 1-2 stars reviews to books because of a bad audio narration really gives me an itch to reconsider the whole "audiobooks are the same as books" stance.
What. The. Fuck.
Is like giving a book a bad review because you didn't like the font they used in printing. Fuck you.
What. The. Fuck.
Is like giving a book a bad review because you didn't like the font they used in printing. Fuck you.
I know, I know.
We don't.
We don't.
July 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I know, I know.
We don't.
We don't.
Still the only rendition of Galactus that actually works.
#FantasticFour
#FantasticFour
July 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Still the only rendition of Galactus that actually works.
#FantasticFour
#FantasticFour
I will never *not* dance by myself while walking alone at night if my random mix decides to play "Walking on Sunshine". Sue me.
#SpnFamily
#SpnFamily
a woman wearing headphones is dancing and holding a cup
Alt: Charlie, one of the leadig female characters in Supernatural, dances in the elevator wearing headphones and holding a cup. She's going to the office and it'll turn out she's working for the season's supervillains.
media.tenor.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I will never *not* dance by myself while walking alone at night if my random mix decides to play "Walking on Sunshine". Sue me.
#SpnFamily
#SpnFamily
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Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
The full moon in paintings 🌕 ⋆⭒˚.⋆
July 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The full moon in paintings 🌕 ⋆⭒˚.⋆
Casa degli Atellani is closed.
At 65 Corso Magenta lies a ghost of Milan’s layered history: gifted by Ludovico il Moro, reimagined by Piero Portaluppi, and sold with dreams of hotel luxury. Come and visit it with me, hoping its future won't be behind closed doors.
www.shelidon.it/lets-visit-c...
At 65 Corso Magenta lies a ghost of Milan’s layered history: gifted by Ludovico il Moro, reimagined by Piero Portaluppi, and sold with dreams of hotel luxury. Come and visit it with me, hoping its future won't be behind closed doors.
www.shelidon.it/lets-visit-c...
July 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Casa degli Atellani is closed.
At 65 Corso Magenta lies a ghost of Milan’s layered history: gifted by Ludovico il Moro, reimagined by Piero Portaluppi, and sold with dreams of hotel luxury. Come and visit it with me, hoping its future won't be behind closed doors.
www.shelidon.it/lets-visit-c...
At 65 Corso Magenta lies a ghost of Milan’s layered history: gifted by Ludovico il Moro, reimagined by Piero Portaluppi, and sold with dreams of hotel luxury. Come and visit it with me, hoping its future won't be behind closed doors.
www.shelidon.it/lets-visit-c...
I'm reading concerns on the introduction of AI in schools and you're right, I see you. Then again, we did better. Our new National guideline on how to teach history to students is colonialist, outdated and supremacist. Who needs AI to make mistakes when you have a far-right government?
July 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm reading concerns on the introduction of AI in schools and you're right, I see you. Then again, we did better. Our new National guideline on how to teach history to students is colonialist, outdated and supremacist. Who needs AI to make mistakes when you have a far-right government?
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
Like the world needed to be any shittier at the moment 😔
RIP to Julian McMahon. A wonderful actor who I fell in love with way back on Charmed and Nip/Tuck 💔
RIP to Julian McMahon. A wonderful actor who I fell in love with way back on Charmed and Nip/Tuck 💔
July 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Like the world needed to be any shittier at the moment 😔
RIP to Julian McMahon. A wonderful actor who I fell in love with way back on Charmed and Nip/Tuck 💔
RIP to Julian McMahon. A wonderful actor who I fell in love with way back on Charmed and Nip/Tuck 💔
This year at Milano Pride, I marched because activism is about making space, holding space, being the space so others can feel a little safer, a little stronger, a little more seen.
I walked with my colours, instead the usual 🏳️🌈, to show I'm not just a one-day ally. I *am* queer. And I am here.
🩷💜💙✊️
I walked with my colours, instead the usual 🏳️🌈, to show I'm not just a one-day ally. I *am* queer. And I am here.
🩷💜💙✊️
June 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This year at Milano Pride, I marched because activism is about making space, holding space, being the space so others can feel a little safer, a little stronger, a little more seen.
I walked with my colours, instead the usual 🏳️🌈, to show I'm not just a one-day ally. I *am* queer. And I am here.
🩷💜💙✊️
I walked with my colours, instead the usual 🏳️🌈, to show I'm not just a one-day ally. I *am* queer. And I am here.
🩷💜💙✊️
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
Here is are some otters to help calm your nerves.
June 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Here is are some otters to help calm your nerves.
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
Oscar at the Crown. A futuristic, dystopian Mad Max biography of Oscar Wilde set in a nightclub.
Every bit as bonkers as it sounds. The story lost me (more Real Housewives than Oscar at points, but that's for another day), the design, staging and the cast's enthusiasm made it absolutely worth it!
Every bit as bonkers as it sounds. The story lost me (more Real Housewives than Oscar at points, but that's for another day), the design, staging and the cast's enthusiasm made it absolutely worth it!
June 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Oscar at the Crown. A futuristic, dystopian Mad Max biography of Oscar Wilde set in a nightclub.
Every bit as bonkers as it sounds. The story lost me (more Real Housewives than Oscar at points, but that's for another day), the design, staging and the cast's enthusiasm made it absolutely worth it!
Every bit as bonkers as it sounds. The story lost me (more Real Housewives than Oscar at points, but that's for another day), the design, staging and the cast's enthusiasm made it absolutely worth it!
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
Pendant jewel in the form of a Nereid with child incorporating baroque pearl. Late 16th century, western European make. (British Museum)
June 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Pendant jewel in the form of a Nereid with child incorporating baroque pearl. Late 16th century, western European make. (British Museum)
You don't side with a bully, even if they hit someone you happen to dislike. They didn't ask you before they striked them, they won't ask you next time they strike. And, as far as you know, the next one might as well be you. That's what a bully does.
June 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
You don't side with a bully, even if they hit someone you happen to dislike. They didn't ask you before they striked them, they won't ask you next time they strike. And, as far as you know, the next one might as well be you. That's what a bully does.
Friends don't ask stupid questions to friends who appear to be in trouble. Friends lead friends to the Bucklebury Ferry, no questions asked.
#rewatchingLOTR
#rewatchingLOTR
June 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Friends don't ask stupid questions to friends who appear to be in trouble. Friends lead friends to the Bucklebury Ferry, no questions asked.
#rewatchingLOTR
#rewatchingLOTR
To give you an idea, today I discovered that I can't promote a post on Instagram (by clicking on the wrong button) because I never agreed to have my data used outside the basic functioning of the app. If I don't give them my data, they won't take my money. That's how much your data is ACTUALLY worth
June 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
To give you an idea, today I discovered that I can't promote a post on Instagram (by clicking on the wrong button) because I never agreed to have my data used outside the basic functioning of the app. If I don't give them my data, they won't take my money. That's how much your data is ACTUALLY worth
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
Sort of for #BookWormSat but mainly for #caturday this gorgeous poster advertising holidays to #Egypt in the 1920s.
#artdeco #posterart #illustration #cats #artsky #catsky
#artdeco #posterart #illustration #cats #artsky #catsky
June 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Sort of for #BookWormSat but mainly for #caturday this gorgeous poster advertising holidays to #Egypt in the 1920s.
#artdeco #posterart #illustration #cats #artsky #catsky
#artdeco #posterart #illustration #cats #artsky #catsky
My blog will celebrate Pride Month with one post a day highlighting the presence and persistence of queer people from ancient times to the Renaissance. Let's debunk the myth that queerness is a modern phenomenon: we have always been here.
And that’s where we’ll stay.
www.shelidon.it/category/cal...
And that’s where we’ll stay.
www.shelidon.it/category/cal...
June 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My blog will celebrate Pride Month with one post a day highlighting the presence and persistence of queer people from ancient times to the Renaissance. Let's debunk the myth that queerness is a modern phenomenon: we have always been here.
And that’s where we’ll stay.
www.shelidon.it/category/cal...
And that’s where we’ll stay.
www.shelidon.it/category/cal...
Darling, I don't care that he's not involved in the production. He gets money from it. I won't watch it.
May 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Darling, I don't care that he's not involved in the production. He gets money from it. I won't watch it.
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely."
Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.
Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.
May 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely."
Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.
Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.
Yes, my ADHD and I will always have something that's out of place. A label sticking out, a scarf weirdly wrapped, a loose button.
Let's assume I appreciate your will to signal it (which I don't).
What gives you the idea you can FUCKING TOUCH ME to FIX IT YOURSELF? It drives me ballistic, I swear.
Let's assume I appreciate your will to signal it (which I don't).
What gives you the idea you can FUCKING TOUCH ME to FIX IT YOURSELF? It drives me ballistic, I swear.
May 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Yes, my ADHD and I will always have something that's out of place. A label sticking out, a scarf weirdly wrapped, a loose button.
Let's assume I appreciate your will to signal it (which I don't).
What gives you the idea you can FUCKING TOUCH ME to FIX IT YOURSELF? It drives me ballistic, I swear.
Let's assume I appreciate your will to signal it (which I don't).
What gives you the idea you can FUCKING TOUCH ME to FIX IT YOURSELF? It drives me ballistic, I swear.
✨New blog post: "The Architecture of Memory: Calvino, Borges, and the Digital Archive"
What can imaginary libraries teach us about cloud storage?
From The Name of the Rose to curated archives, this is a journey through digital design and the ethics of what we choose to keep.
www.shelidon.it?p=19080
What can imaginary libraries teach us about cloud storage?
From The Name of the Rose to curated archives, this is a journey through digital design and the ethics of what we choose to keep.
www.shelidon.it?p=19080
May 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
✨New blog post: "The Architecture of Memory: Calvino, Borges, and the Digital Archive"
What can imaginary libraries teach us about cloud storage?
From The Name of the Rose to curated archives, this is a journey through digital design and the ethics of what we choose to keep.
www.shelidon.it?p=19080
What can imaginary libraries teach us about cloud storage?
From The Name of the Rose to curated archives, this is a journey through digital design and the ethics of what we choose to keep.
www.shelidon.it?p=19080
Reposted by Chiara C. Rizzarda
"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
Henry VIII A3 S2
#ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
Henry VIII A3 S2
#ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and the words `` listen '' written on the bottom .
Alt: a close up of a the 12 Doctor's face with his eyes closed and the words `` listen '' written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
Henry VIII A3 S2
#ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
Henry VIII A3 S2
#ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho