User:Quizmelon
Hello! You’ve reached the new and updated version of Quizmelon’s user page, finally refurbished after being left to fester for four and a half years. The last one was a shameful disappointment. Though chances are I’ll feel that about this one in four and a half years too. (Remind me in July 2025 to come check up on that. Since I have just done a bunch of updates now though I’m feeling pretty good about it at the moment.)
Who am I? Quizmelon, a real human person from England.
What do you do? I’m best known on the wiki for formerly writing the TV Tomorrow column in the ‘Shroom, which I did between June 2016 and September 2024, never missing an issue in between. I wrote exactly 100 of them in the end, which apparently (and I genuinely didn’t know this until I read it in the ‘Shroom) makes me the first writer to write 100 articles of the same section. Which is pretty cool!
I loved writing TV Tomorrow, though nowadays I’m retired cause my life is much busier. But if you want to read all 100 of my TV Tomorrow articles, that is not only possible but very easy, as in my final issue I wrote the TV Tomorrow Commentary Tracks, a purpose-built archive of all the TV Tomorrows I ever wrote, complete with my own writer’s commentaries. With this you can conveniently review the entire history of my work on this section (and quickly discover that I really don’t get good until a few years in. The later ones are well worth reading though I think!).
Cool! Yes, I know!
...anything else? Not really. I’ll admit that I’ve never been the most active user on the Mario Boards forum; if you want to contact me, it’d probably be faster to reach me through the Wiki.
So if you weren’t on the Mario Boards forum, where were you talking to other people about Mario-related topics? Well, it’s funny I should ask that. For the ‘Shroom’s 150th issue, I wrote this article about how I used to be a member of the once-thriving but now-very-much-not-thriving Mario Universe community on the trivia app QuizUp. I know it doesn’t look that pretty, but it’s still worth a read in my opinion. It’s also the only non-TV Tomorrow contribution I’ve ever made to the ‘Shroom.
What sort of skills do you think you have? Writing and Mario Kart are my two major talents. I really hope those are considered valuable in the workforce.
Plans for the future? While I wasn’t retired, this section used to say ‘Writing TV Tomorrow until I get a Nobel Prize in Literature for it’. When I retired from TV Tomorrow, I did so expecting to win said Prize the following October, though it actually ended up going to South Korean author Han Kang that year instead. Fair enough, I won’t begrudge her. There’s always next year!
Anyway my plans for the future now don’t really involve the Wiki in any great capacity, though I may yet return occasionally. And my obsession with Mario is certainly never going away!
Got an interesting visual representation of yourself? Unfortunately I’m terrible at art and always have been, so for ages I never had one... but thanks to The Pyro Guy, who designed this excellent representation of me for the ‘Shroom’s Halloween special Trick or Treat section in Issue 175, I do now have one!
Any important Mario-related opinions? I’ve put a few below this section.
Thanks for bothering to read my user page! Quizmelon (talk) 16:48, October 13, 2024 (EDT)
I really need to get a better signature.
Favourite Mario game: Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Favourite Mario Kart course: Maple Treeway.
Favourite Mario Party board: Shy Guy’s Perplex Express. (Is it obvious that I like the Wii?)
Favourite non-Mario game: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Favourite article on the wiki: MarioWiki:BJAODN. I highly recommend it if you’ve never read it before.
Favourite Mario music: Buoy Base Galaxy. (Also my favourite song of all time. I don’t really listen to non-video game music.)
