Interview with Vertigo22 · 1:13pm Aug 22nd, 2019
Interview with Vertigo
by Nailah
“Alright, now tell me my dear friend, what inspired your username?
Response: It's a mixture of simply thinking the word sounding cool and my own proneness to having vertigo. Not particularly fun.
“What drew you into Mlp?
Response: My ex was into it. I decided to watch it. I admittedly stopped after roughly a month and haven't watched an episode since… July of 2015. I did watch the season six premiere to kill time one morning. Is the show sitll any good?
“Who is your favorite pony and why?
Response: Rarity. It's nice for a socialite to not be portrayed as an unlikable snob. As enjoyable as it can be for an extrovert snob to have karma slap them across the face, it grows old after the fifty-six decidillionth time you see/read it.
“Favorite episode and why?”
Response: Ponyville Confidential. It was the first one I watched and it reminded me of why tabloids are so great—albeit for all the wrong reasons. Hi, National Enquirer!
“What inspires you to write?”
Response: Many things! The primary inspiration however is simply how much I love to share what I know about various topics with others—it's a great outlet for emotion. I started writing about a decade ago because I had severe emotional trouble. Slowly, it blossomed into nonsensical crackfics before growing into writing non-fiction; mysteries and true crime. Whether it reverts to fiction is something I hope and pray doesn't happen as I adore where I am now. Nothing will ever quite compare to the awe on someone's face when they learn about some of the most haunting unsolved mysteries.
“Tell us about your favorite story, and why it inspires you to write. It doesn't have to be mlp specifically!”
Response: Robert Graysmith's book on the Zodiac. In many ways, that story was made fascination for unsolved mysteries explode. I always wondered who he was and what exactly made him do what he did. The film is also a masterpiece of cinema and if you haven't seen it, you absolutely should. It's an unrivaled work of cinematic genius.
Bookwise: Graysmith was a quack and… definitely had issues—obsessive ones anyway. That doesn't change that his work has inspired me to write something that'll rival true crime/mystery authors. God willing, I won't die before I actually publish something! Just gimme about 5 months before I finish another paragraph.
“Give us the background of the author! Tell us all about you. Well in a short summary.
Response: I'm 23 and love to read about things that make my friends worry about my well-being. Evidently, saying, “I'm into the criminal mind” is a sure fire way to make people think you have mental health problems. Oh well, it helps me know who I can and can't talk to about the details of what Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer did to their victims!
I'm also autistic. I once told someone this. They blamed the vaccines I did.
“With Mlp coming to an end, tell us one thing you have learned from your experiences, and how it has helped you to grow?
response: I learned not to be such a raging bastard towards my sister. About a month later, we got into an argument. At least I brought her to see a movie!
In all seriousness: it's taught me to value her more than I did.
“Is there anything else you'd like to say?
response: Writing is great fun and I can never dream of doing anything else in my life now that I've cemented my life goals to it. However, I do wish that people wouldn't think my fascination with true crime was so disturbing and a sign I'm mentally ill. I understand that the details to a murder aren't exactly… appealing. But c'mon. You sound like Jack Thompson. Lay off the Kool-Aid.
Admittedly, this is partially due to my psychiatrist having been worried about it. Hell, a few of my friends have found it weird too. I don't want to stick to being some sort of Friedberg and Seltzer bonehead when I write. If I can't share my knowledge of those who we pretend don't exist because “ugh, it's weird!”, then who the heck do we inspire to make sure they never do exist? The bloody crack addict who will kill David Ray Parker 2.0 for a crack rock?
"You're glorifying them!"
A documentary or book isn't glorification. Printing Ted Bundy a face on a shirt is.
Saying he's "daddy" is glorifying. Writing about them isn't glorification unless you're making them into a Batman villain. People have taken the idea of a serial killer and make them into something so “normal”. A serial killer shouldn't be the norm in any society. The idea should invoke unbelievable terror because they're hair trigger people whose minds don't process the concept of pain.
If you make them socially unacceptable to talk about, you remove an entire field of psychology. The criminal mind is something we shouldn't be afraid to discuss. Stop thinking glorification is the same as writing about them.
Anyways: thank you for this opportunity, Nailah.
Thank you for allowing me the pleasure of interviewing you, you have truly been a pleasure to talk too. I hope you continue being awesome.
Thanks for the interview, Nailah. It was a lot of fun. ^_^
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Nice interview, true crime/music guy.