About this site

• It adapts to any sized screen gracefully!
• Petergreenwell.com is a personal home page – that is, it contains various things ranging from fiction to reflections on existence.
• I try to maintain a light-hearted tone throughout this site, except where I can’t be, i.e essays. Academia reacts poorly to cornball and bad humour in essays.
• Unless noted, everything on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• Exceptions to the above include screenshots from video games, album/single covers, and captures from films, etc. They belong to whoever the copyright holder of said product is – I’m using them under the Australian legal concept of fair comment, analogous to the US idea of fair use.
• I maintain three other domains. Two of which point here, and my shop which is at this site.
• Note! If you cannot see flag emojis, i.e 🇧🇾, 🇰🇳 and they render as country codes instead, you are most likely using Windows 11 ≥ 23H2 update. The Segoe UI Emoji font that Windows uses for emojis lacks glyphs for flags. To fix this, install the font found here.
• The site uses WordPress as a foundation. Some of the blurbs you see on this site were AI generated. I think the blurbs are funny in a cheesy way, so I’ve left them there in their hackneyed glory. I’m not trying to sell anything here, so it’s not important.

About me

• In age, I’m somewhere between Daniel Craig and Viggo Mortensen. I’m Australian, and I’m probably bits and pieces of everything European.
• I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and a Bachelor of Environmental Science.
• My Arts major was in Gothic and Dark Romantic literature.
• My Environmental Science major was in environmental resource management.
• What this means is that I could give you advice on the anti-Catholic origins of the Gothic while out doing fauna surveys in a rainforest.
• I don’t “do” social media in the main – I should, as I want to run a business but…
• I have a Twitter/X account but use it rarely. Here, if you like.

Still here?

• I write, which is the primary purpose of this site. What am I writing? Try this.
• I listen to music that largely reflects my age bracket. 70s/80s post-punk, Gothic music in its various forms, paisley underground, metal, psych rock and prog rock. Dark, weird stuff. I’m one of these dinosaurs that despises most modern music.
• I read mostly science fiction and fantasy, though I’ll devour anything that’s well-written. Elmore Leonard is an excellent resource on how to do dialogue right.
• Although I’m straight, I support and encourage LGBTQIA+ lifestyles and rights. I’m not woke in outlook – it’s called applying critical thinking and coming to a logical answer.
• And on the critical thinking subject, although I hold a few conservative values, I’m probably best regarded as a bleeding-heart liberal. As an Australian, “liberal” means a whole lot more than the narrow definitions that are prevalent in some parts of the world. As does “conservative” for that matter.
• While finding many of their policies and approaches needlessly confronting, I support the Australian Greens, and the Fusion Party, of whom I’m a member.
• I’m in love with Midjourney and other avenues of AI generated art. AI is the future – embrace it! Well, to a point. It’ll never replace pure creativity, but it can bolster it. I believe so, anyway.
• Pictures generated by Midjourney are used on this site.
• I am Choronzon Dragon on UDIC though I’ve probably done nothing Ultima-ish since the late 90s.
• Walla Walla is a town in the US, and in Australia, and what Ale the Parrot says in Ultima 7: The Black Gate. Oh, you read down this far? Marvellous!