Garhdo Goes Geek

Hello my friends. Today's blog has partially been inspired by my PTSD therapy. Part of confronting the trauma and dealing with the PTSD is going back and putting things in a timeline as best as you can, especially in the case of absent or repressed memories, which is a large part of what I am currently dealing with. However as part of that i am in a generally retrospective mood, and as someone who has always felt very drawn to my fandoms, wanting to learn as much as I possibly could about them and following them intermittently for years to an almost obsessive degree (not saying I'm AudHD but also not saying I'm not) and so I wanted to do a sort of timeline for my fandoms. And so that is what this blog will be, me discussing what properties I have found myself being a large fan of over the years in a rough timeline order of when I was introduced to them. Through doing this I hope to explain in some ways why this fictional media tends to mean so much to me, and why I have suc...

Hello my friends, and welcome to the first Garhdo Goes Geek blog post.  Garhdo Goes Geek is a podcast that I, Garhdo, have been running and publishing episodes for for over 3 years now. I began in April 2021 during the last COVID lockdowns here in the UK, as a way of combatting some of the mental health stresses I was under by giving myself fun things to talk about, discussing some of my favourite fandoms in film, TV, comics and video games. What started as an occasional hobby soon became something I very much looked forward to, and a shining bright spot in periods of very low mental health. I got excited thinking about what I would discuss next, what things on my long watchlist I would like to finally cross off by talking about them with my small but loyal audience. I even gradually bought in both of my partners to help cohost on selected episodes, to give alternate perspectives.  It has been a lot of fun over this past 3plus years, and while I have absolutely no intention of...