One lunatic's love-hate relationship with the Pokémon franchise, and his addled musings on its rights, wrongs, ins and outs. Come one, come all, and indulge my delusions of grandeur as I inflict my opinions on anyone within shouting distance.
What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Crema di limoncello. It’s an Italian liqueur made from grain alcohol, milk, sugar and lemon peel, traditionally served chilled after meals as a digestive. The best comes from the Amalfi Coast, but I also make my own by soaking lemon peel in vodka for a month or two.
Do you like Italian food?
Not really. I don’t like cheese, wine or coffee, and that’s like 60% of the Italian diet right there. Aaaaaand then I decided to be a Roman archaeologist, so I have to go to Italy for work from time to time…
What kind of music do you listen to?
I sort of don’t, really. I have a great big iTunes playlist of my favourite video game music (lots from Pokémon, lots from Civ V, lots from Undertale, lots from Homestuck which isn’t a video game but sort of acts like one, quite a bit from Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights, little bit from Starcraft, little bit from Final Fantasy), but I don’t follow any bands or performers, and to be honest couldn’t even name many, or describe them in terms of genre.
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You need to post more you exist solely to provide entertainment.
Yeah, I probably should.
At the moment I’m sort of sitting the exams that decide whether I get to write a PhD thesis and become a career academic or have to go home to New Zealand and get a real job, so… y’know, no pressure there or anything. And the truth is, even when that’s over it’s probably not going to get better because next year they’re actually putting me 100% honest-to-goodness in charge of a university lecture class for the first time in my life (I’m teaching Roman civilisation) so who even knows how that’s going to go, and then after that I might wind up spending a year in Athens, so I should probably try to fit learning modern Greek in there somewhere…
I think for a lot of people who write or make videos or draw comics or whatever on the internet, there’s sort of a distant but aspirational goal of one day making money off it so you can actually treat it as a job, but for me… well, even if that were an easy thing to do (which it isn’t), what I do in the real world is interesting and important to me, which sort of puts a cap on this blog ever being more than a hobby. Having said that… well, everyone needs a hobby, and I happen to like this one. So I guess what I’m saying is I’ll do my darnedest.
Thoughts on the first presidential debate?
Billy, didn’t your mother ever tell you not to get your political commentary from obscure Pokémon blogs?
I do find US federal politics tremendously amusing, actually. For all its faults, this country knows how to put on a show; I wish New Zealand could sustain this level of spectacle and drama for months at a time. I did a running commentary for my friends on Facebook, which I shall reproduce below:
Continue reading “VikingBoyBilly asks:”how’d you sleep last night and how do you think you’ll sleep tonight
Um. Fine, I guess? Could be better, could be a lot worse? Probably predicting the same tonight, more or less. Had a bit of a spell earlier this year where I was waking up with back pain a lot but I seem to have that under control. Thanks for asking. I suppose.
I don’t make a habit of talking about current events or politics on here, and I also normally don’t talk much about my personal life or feelings because I see Tumblr as more or less a public place and I’m just not altogether comfortable with that. However, if you’ve been paying close attention to my rambling nonsense for a substantial period, you might have picked up that I am a gay foreigner living and studying in the United States of America. And unless you’ve been asleep for the past two days, you’ve probably heard something (perhaps courtesy of this very website) about this country’s new “high score” for mass shootings, which took place on Sunday morning in Orlando, Florida at a gay nightclub. So this is one of those times when not talking about it feels, in itself, like taking a position, and it’s not a position I like, so you’ll just have to put up with me for a minute.
Continue reading “Okay real talk for a minute”If nothing happens, just assume I’ve died. It’s possible I’m dead already and just haven’t stopped writing yet. I may be becoming a sort of lich-like entity, in which case I look forward to the vast magical powers that will surely be mine when the transformation is complete.
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