{"id":37,"date":"2018-01-02T20:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2019-01-31T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:31:55","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I sing the body electric,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My name is Veronica Hamilton (you can call me V or Vee). I am&#8230;<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>a game designer<\/strong> &#8211; I developed the tabletop roleplaying game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/146509\/Unwritten-Adventures-in-the-Ages-of-MYST-and-Beyond\"><em>Unwritten: Adventures\u00a0in the Ages of MYST and Beyond<\/em><\/a>, a game based of the Myst franchise by Cyan Inc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>a conlanger<\/strong> &#8211; I create languages for fun and, occasionally, profit. I created the <a href=\"https:\/\/linguifex.com\/wiki\/Brooding\">Brooding<\/a> language for the Riddlesbrood Touring Theater Company and sketched out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/brennanrtaylor\/posts\">Temetar for Galileo Games<\/a>. Besides some of my own language projects, I am also a fan of the D&#8217;ni language from the Myst game series, and a member of Slakgedakru, a fan organization dedicated to the the Trigedasleng language from the TV show <em>The 100<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>a MYST fanatic<\/strong> &#8211; I am a long-time fan of the games of the Myst franchise (if you haven&#8217;t noticed from the frequent mentions of the game already in this page). I was an active player in Myst Online when it was active, and played a quasi-official character named J.D. Barnes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>a transwoman<\/strong> &#8211; I am a proud transwoman, in transition male-to-female. You may find my work under my previous name &#8220;Scott Hamilton&#8221;, but that&#8217;s still me. Pronouns she, her, hers, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>a parent\u00a0and spouse\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; I have three wonderful children which have all pretty much grown up by this point. I have a lovely wife who puts up with me and has developed a wide and nuanced range of long-suffering facial expressions in response to my sometimes frenetic goofiness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>a rampant typo-ist<\/strong> &#8211; My fingers move slower than my brain, so that leads to some spelling messes as they trip over each other.<\/li>\n<li><strong>a rabid language descriptivist<\/strong> &#8211; Language prescriptivism bothers the hell out of me; it just flies in the face of everything I have picked up about linguistics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. &#8211; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass My name is Veronica Hamilton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9wbfp-B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocosm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}