About Me
Created: 2025-06-15 (08:48:40) — Modified: 2025-07-02 (13:05:54)Status: in progress
Hey hello it is me!
I was born in the nineties and have lived in the same city, Canberra, my whole life. I’ve previously had aspirations of being an artist, a linguist and a writer of niche text adventures. Circuitously these trajectories have all led me to become most recently some weird combination of database engineer and policy development dogsbody.
I prefer to remain loosely pseudonymous to try maintain even a thin boundary between my web presence and real life existence. Everything on this site is an honest reflection of me and my diverse and sometimes contradictory interests. Anyone who knows me and stumbles over this site would still probably make the connection pretty quickly.
Other facts about me. I spend a lot of my time wandering around the mountains near my home or lazily bicycling around and napping in the grass. My favourite bird, maybe my favourite creature full stop, is the white-winged chough. I like divey bars and cafes that let me hole up and write for hours. My dream is to live in a sprawling apartment with lots of beds, all of them mine.
On Orm
I’ve been using Orm as my online handle pretty much since first learning about the Ormulum in a university History of the English Language course.
The Ormulum is a twelfth century biblical exegesis. Orm, its author, wrote it on low quality parchment in a dense and untidy hand filled with corrections and marginalia. The final work of around nineteen-thousand lines has for centuries been described as repetitive, tedious and ugly. But it enjoys something of an afterlife among philologists because it used an idiosyncratic, phonemic orthography that preserved the language as it may have actually been spoken.
I have a soft spot for this obscure canon, for someone whose eccentric lifework was simultaneously a failure and an enduring success. It resonates with my feelings about my own work: messy and incomplete but somehow always mutating into something else. Strange ruins.
Þiss boc iss nemmnedd Orrmulum
forrþi þatt Orrm itt wrohhte
On the web
I don’t maintain too many other web-presences, but you can also find my games at Itch
If you have comments or feedback about my games and writing, or anything else, feel free to contact me at wrmisorm[at]gmail[dot]com!
I’m also testing out bluesky, follow me @ormulum.net
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