Giulia. Italian. 30 years old. Two brothers, four dumbass cats, one stupid dog, one mortgage, one boyfriend, one tiny flat of my own.

Living in a very small, very sleepy town on the foggy hills of northern Italy and working in a not-so-small town in the Po valley whose thriving economy is based on pig farms.

Exciting. I know.

Former accountant, former tax consultant, former insurance agent, former waitress, former janitor, former census taker; I've done a little bit of everything and I still don't know s--t. I currently work as a civil registrar: I record every birth, marriage, divorce, naturalization and death that happen under my watch. I thus have power of life and death on people - at least on paper.

Been writing fanfictions (first in Italian, then in English) since 2008 or something, though I cringe thinking about the trash I wrote back then.

Favourite books.

In no particular order: The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), 1984 (George Orwell), Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier), the Harry Potter saga (apart from that sorry excuse for an epilogue that is the seventh novel); and then Stephen King- my devil child, whom I love with a burning passion, James Herriot, Terry Pratchett, Octavia Butler, Beppe Severgnini, Andrea Camilleri, Eoin Colfer, George R. R. Martin (up to a point), Ray Bradbury.

Tv Shows

I watch (or have watched) Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Once Upon A Time (only the first three or four seasons), The Good Place, Downton Abbey (though I asked myself why many times), BBC Sherlock, LOST (I had the worst tv crush you can imagine for Ben Linus), House of Cards (Doug Stamper, you abhorrent piece of shit, you failed imitation of a human being - I love you so much), OINTB, Grace and Frankie, Brooklyn99, Galavant, Dark, and probably many more I can't remember at the moment.

Movies

Too many to be listed there, but I have an unhealthy obsession for both James Cameron's Titanic and Don Bluth's Anastasia. Oh, and Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre. (I also know all of the lines from Mulan, The Aristocats and The Emperor's New Groove by heart, but that's another story)

I also love cheesy 1980s adventure movies, probably just because they're the movies of my childhood. Zemeckis, Spielberg, Ramis, the whole lot - The Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the 80s. Can't help it.

About my favourite characters and my ships.

I really love secondary, unheeded, neglected people, all of those obscure minor characters nobody really remembers the name of. They are my lil' trash babies and I love them all like they were my own children. The less screen time characters have, the more attached to them I grow.

I also love May/December romances.

I really do.

Give me Jane and Rochester, give me Edith and Anthony. Give me Doug and Rachel, Belle and Rumple, Lupin and Tonks, Sansa and Sandor, and I'll be happy (until the producers decide to separate them, forget about them, or kill them all off, that is).

So beware: there's gonna be a lot of 'em in my stories. Like, LOTS of them.

If large age gaps make you uncomfortable - that's absolutely understandable, but my page may not be a great choice for you.