This is a collections of thought, reviews, code snippets, guides, ramblings, ravings, and recommendations from the mind of Whaliam Wallace.
Many years back now, somewhere in the early 2010s, I had a thought pop in my head. This was a time of vampires, werewolves, and increasingly other were-beasts. Underwold and True Blood had not quite given way to The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. The increasing pantheon of were-beasts (werecats, werebears, and so on) lead to an obvious fascination, “What other creatures could be given the were- treatment?” And in the tempest of that context I had an image resolve in my head: a werewhale. More specifically I had an image of a were-humpback-whale (because Star Trek 4: A Voyage Home was my go to movie as a kid). It was in the ocean, racing to the shore, trying to outrun the sun as it crested the horizon behind it. The werewhale had already begun to change, and his powerful fluke had returned to the naked legs of a man, massively disproportionate to the rest of the body. He wasn’t going to make it.
This paradoxical creature intrigued me. In the fashion of a reductio ad absurdum inquest I conjured scenarios that, to me, seemed hilarious, and tested the theoretical bounds of the were- mythos. What happens if a were-beast dies while transformed? Do their remains stay in same form the person/create was in at the moment of death? Are there were-humans, beasts who turn into humans during the full moon? These and many more questions and there, often grotesque, answers became a recurring theme in the random spaces the mind wastes time in when the Wi-Fi is bad in the doctor’s lobby.
Of all the beasts imagined though, none stayed with me more than the first, the werewhale I named William, no… Whaliam. And if you are a William fighting for the survival of you’re kind, mythical or otherwise, you might as well be a Wallace, and thus was crafted the idea of Whaliam Wallace.
Nothing.
Honestly, it has nothing at all to do with it really. It gives me a ridiculous pseudonym to write under, and it is a unique (while still short) name for a website. Moreover, the domain was only $25/year for a dot com. Me, with an actual dot com domain. If you’re a nerd of my echelon you need not read more to understand the significance of this. If you are not, you would not be here…