WordyTalks

Introduction

Hi there! It's going to sound silly but I had been interested in Wikipedia since I was a kid (revealing how young I am there) and just finally got into actually joining from a friend's recommendation.

I'm a master's student pursuing a graduate degree in Public Administration and my hobbies include organizing information, playing Magic: The Gathering Commander and the occasional other format, researching, roleplaying games, reading and writing stories and talking politics. In between ranting about people with power like a broken clock, I like to learn as much as I can. The universe is endless and the fact I don't have multiple lifetimes is a pain.

Hobbies/Activities

• Arguing with people who are confidently and laudably incorrect.
• Organizing my Zotero library and working Excel spreadsheets.
• Playing video and tabletop games.
• Reading.
• Skating on my board when I have time.
• Watching horror movies and absolutely awful movies. They usually go hand-in-hand.
• Writing. Primarily short stories and the occasional poem but I'm hoping to get a novel pumped out within the decade.

Books

Favorite non-fiction book(s).

• The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna.

Favorite fiction book(s).

• Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. It took me years to get through this book but I finally finished it and it was amazing.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Games

• CompetitiveEDH. Elsha of the Infinite for life.
• Project Zomboid.
• Rimworld.
• Roleplaying in Fate. It's the superior system in my opinion but I'm biased.

Movies

Favorite Bad Movies

• Double Down by Neil Breen.
• Super Hot directed by Taylor King.

Favorite Good Movies

• Atlantis: The Lost Empire directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.
• El Conde by Pablo Larrain.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson and Kemp Powers
• The Old Guard directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Favorite Horror Movies

• Let the Right One In
• The Nun directed by Corin Hardy.
• The Ring directed by Gore Verbinski.
• The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme.

TV Shows

Favorite Bad TV Shows

• Supernatural created by Eric Kripke.
• The Magicians created by John McNamara and Sera Gamble.

Favorite Good TV Shows

• M.A.S.H. developed by Larry Gelbart.
• Serial Experiments Lain created by Yasuyuki Ueda.
• The Expanse developed by Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus.
• The Good Place created by Michael Schur.

Favorite Horror TV Shows

• Archive 81 developed by Rebecca Sonnenshine.
• [[Midnight Mass (miniseries) created by Mike Flanagan.

Writings

Poems

• In the Works

1. A Familiar Sight

• Finished

1. Forget Me.
2. Time Will Sweep All.

Short Stories

• In the Works

1. My Sister is a Box.
2. The Inner Voice

• Finished

Memberships

Guild of Copy Editors.

• Start Date: October 15th, 2024

Project Magic: The Gathering.

• Start Date: October 15th, 2024

My Contributions

This is just me adding a list of my contributions so I can track it more for myself than others.

1. Magic: The Gathering Commander. I added cEDH to the list of variants in Commander.

Copy Editing Contributions

1. Magic: The Gathering Commander. Added grammatical revisions.
2. Nigel Satterley. Edited the grammar significantly. Planning to check the references section.

Future Research Topics

1. Luther Halsey Gulick. I want to edit this as a major work before I go into producing my own articles. I bought the biography Making Democracy Work by Lyle C. Fitch which has no online texts available to help with this. 450+ pages is a lot...
2. Donald James Parker is a notable Christian evangelical author and screenwriter who I want to try writing my first article about as more slight test run.
3. Organization Theory. I want to join this editing crew and work on this article since it's directly related to what I want to study for my doctorate degree.
4. Political Science. Politics is one of my main topics of study.
5. Public Administration. My master's degree is directly related to this subject and I can help refine my knowledge and contribute as well.
6. Anarchism. It's the ideology I identify with and growing my knowledge and adding to it is a key point.
7. Antisemitic trope. Dealing with anti-semitism is a vital point of ensuring understanding the world today.
8. Israel and Palestine. Maintaining the historical record especially as documentation on the events surrounding the Nakba and events following October 7th continues to be suppressed.

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