Best known for: Changing my username from gamer boy and posting WAY too much (almost exclusively in tl;dr posts).
Hello, I’m Martin. I am an Brit (genetically 9/16 English, 3/8 Irish and 1/16 Welsh based on my parents and grandparents) who was given a ladybug for the OU forum in generation 6. I have been given low-severity diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome and have been cited to have a very high attention to detail. I have a very stereotypical posh British accent, and my main interests consist of listening to music, chatting on Discord, playing Pokemon (mostly just casually nowadays) and more occasionally other video games, watching TV and movies, reading and talking about media. I’ve been called a Japanophile by both of my parents due to my large interest in and liking for Japanese culture, language, history, food and media, but I also like to retain a large connection to my own family’s culture (I love my Irish heritage, which comes across in my tastes) and intend to learn how to speak Gaelic at some point in the future. I have a twin sister who is pretty much the stark opposite of me. My top four TV shows as I’m writing this are Shinsekai Yori, Death in Paradise*, No Offence and Scrubs (in that order), and my favorite movie is The Grand Budapest Hotel. I’m always trying to build up a varied skillset (at the time of writing this, I am learning to draw and code while also learning how to speak Japanese).
*The writing in this is awful (as is a lot of the acting), but it’s the perfect late-evening show imo and I enjoy watching it a lot.
I like most music that I listen to (I exaggerate how much I dislike most of the stuff I say I don’t like a lot of the time), but I honestly can’t stand trap music. I don’t really keep up with new releases and the charts or anything like that and generally prefer listening old and/or foreign music. If I had were to identify myself with one genre of music it’d be jazz, and my three favorite instruments are the French horn, trombone, and accordion (the first of which I play in a concert band, wind orchestra and regular orchestra while also playing the tenor horn in a brass band). The prettiest language for singing in is Gaelic in my opinion, although I also have a soft spot for French, Japanese and Russian music when it’s done well. Also Vocaloid can sound extremely good when put into the hands of a good producer such as wowaka, Hachi, Hitoshizuku × Yama△ or Kikuo.
My main forum presences at this point are in Cong and Firebot, but I still post occasionally in OU and enjoy dabbling in C&C and Flying Press every now and again while also posting in Orange Islands very rarely. I try my best to get on with everyone I come across on the site, and I only really think I have only really consistently not got on with one person in my time here. Politics generally depresses me more than it interests me, so I mostly stick to threads which aren’t about the current political climate or anything else that’s down that rabbit hole, and my vision for Cong is one where people feel welcome to talk about whatever they want without fear of being trolled, flamed, condescended, or whatever else. I also want to dispell the image that it seems to have accrued up until now of being the “cancerous political forum” to outsiders before the time I resign, and I want the forum to become a melting pot of users from all over the website like it apparently used to be.