Prologue of Whimsy

So I wanted to have a crack at writing a blog. But what the hell do I write about? Has someone else already done it? Would I truly be contributing to the online community with valuable unheard of information? Of course not, don't be daft.

Then I was shown a picture from memebase of this mock letter written to the Internet at large, describing a fairly attractive young woman who enjoys nothing better than playing games, reading comics and watching anime. She enjoys the company of geeky boys and will happily sit by them offering sexual favours so their hands are free while they play their favourite games. The letters ends yours sincerely and a small trollface appearing. At first the letter seems really sincere then it does come across a little far fetched. The joke being of course that this girl does not exist.

But she does exist.

I am a Girl that likes to play games, watch anime, read comics, loves Picard and Kirk equally, Japanese horror films and many more wonderful geeky things.

So where did this mock letter come from? Yeah I know it's intended as a joke but there are thousands of girl gamers out there. But I'm a rarity don'tcha know? Hey, I know the types your thinking of and as these guys put it http://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-girl-gamer-stereotypes/ I've gone through this list and I'm not in any of these categories. I guess the ones like me don't want to be found or have unfortunately been drowned out.

I'm very much interested in research into this kind of topic which spurred me to pick up this blogging malarkey. So here we are. To answer those questions: I shall write about myself as is the trend for all bloggers these days; I don't recall anyone writing about me in their blog and again, don't be daft.

All I'm offering is a different perspective of the gaming world from my eyes and a continuation of the work I was interested in when I did my degree focusing on Cybersociology. Which includes this whole business about gender-swapping in games, particularly MMO's, Game Addiction, and forget about this Boys V Girls crap. We all know there are some girls out there better at C.o.D than the boys, turns out we're much more competitive, we got more to prove. So why not, lets explore this avenue. I've got plenty of time on my hands to do so.

That's all rather academic so I will also fill in these spaces with my own reviews on games I've played or currently playing. “how do you have time to do all this?” I hear you say. Well, I've been suffering from a Chronic Pain disability for the past 12 months due to an injury. I am on the road to recovery but this may take over a year or I may never fully recover at all. Life.

Additional note: I have recently opted to have surgery in the hopes that it will aid in my recovery. Most of my blog entries were written months ago when I was flirting with the idea of starting a blog in case I wasn't able to post regularly due to being in hospital etc. And I have decided to document my time in hospital if any of you are so inclined to read about that too.

So all I have is time baby and I'm filling that time with playing games!

p.s The banner isn't finished and I am open to suggestions of any loveable characters you want me to make a likeness of to fill in the space :)