User:Gideoncrawle

How providential when you find

The face an index to the mind,

And evil men compelled to call

Themselves by names like Gideon Crawle!


 * --W.S. Gilbert, Ruddigore

I am the "evil man" who calls himself Gideoncrawle. Regarding who I am and what I'm about, let's start with the proverbial elephant in the room: I am vastly older than most of the folks on this wiki. We're talking decades older. Some of the teens on this wiki are almost young enough to be my grandchildren.

So, what is a middle-aged man doing on a wiki for a kid's show like Total Drama? That's a good question, and here's a good answer: if it's well-written, what does it matter if it's (allegedly) a kid's show? Besides, my darling wife and I are longtime animation fans. (We like TD's sister series, 6Teen, for the same reasons.) In addition, my main hobby is sports photography (mostly volleyball and girls' basketball) at my former high school, so I spend a lot of time around teens, whom I have never been inclined to treat as anything but equals.