User:Wemyss
| Name/s: | Wemyss (Mr GMW Wemyss) |
| Fandom/s: | Harry Potter (2004 - present) |
| You can find me at: | http://wemyss.livejournal.com/; http://community.livejournal.com/britpickery/; http://community.livejournal.com/britpicking/; http://community.livejournal.com/wemyssfic/; http://community.livejournal.com/verse_albion/; http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/wemyss/ |
| On Fanlore: | My contributions / email me |
Wemyss: WEMYSS, GERVASE M W, [degrees] [university]; late [rank], [regiment]; s. of [rank] DONALD VALENTINE L S WEMYSS, late [regiment], and ALIS JOAN, dau. of Rev’d CHAS L R DAUBENY and HELEN MARY née WARD. B. 13 JULY 1962, nr Houston; educ. [prepper], [school], [university and college].
Arms: Quarterly, 1st, quarterly, 1st & 4th, Argent, a cross Gules, between four passion-nails Sable, 2d & 3d, Azure, three piles in chief Or, on a label Gules a leopard’s head cabossed of the second; 2d, quarterly, 1st, Or, three lions rampant Gules, langued and armed Azure, 2d and 3d, quarterly, within a bordure counter-compony Gules and Argent, 1st, Or, a lion rampant Gules, langued and armed Azure, 2d , Argent, a Scots pine proper growing out of a mound in base Vert, in the dexter canton a dexter hand couped at the wrist holding a dagger, point downwards, all Gules, 3d, Argent, in the sinister canton a dexter hand couped at the wrist holding a dagger, point downwards, in the dexter base a sinister hand couped at the wrist holding a heart, all Gules, 4th, Or, a lymphad sails furled and oars in action Sable, flagged Azure, surmounted of a fess chequy Azure and Argent, 4th, within a bordure Sable, Or, a lymphad sails furled and oars in action Sable, flagged Azure, surmounted of a fess chequy Azure and Argent; 3d, quarterly, 1st, Azure, on a chief Or a demi-lion rampant issuant Gules, langued and armed of the first, 2d, Sable, between two lions rampant combatant Or, langued and armed Gules, a sword palewise point upward Argent, hilted and pommeled Or, on a chief of the second a saltire of the first, 3d, Argent, a chevron Sable between three cocks Gules, 4th, Gules, four mascles Argent in fess; 4th, quarterly, 1st, Gules, two chevrons Argent, 2d, Gules, a saltire Argent between twelve crosses crosslet Or, 3d, barry nebuly of six Or and Sable, 4th, Gules, a bend engrailed Argent between six crosses crosslet fitchée of the second.
Crest: A mailed fist Argent (a dexter gauntleted hand couped at the elbow palewise proper).
Motto: Cogito.
Interests: Cricket. Hunting, shooting, and angling. Beagling. Squash. Polo (No. 4). Real ale, real cider, real perry, wine. Rural pursuits. Steam railways. Draught horses. Bristol motorcars. Classics; history, geography, agriculture, archæology, sociology, anthropology, politics, philosophy, classical liberal economics. Parish matters; campanology. Heraldry. Fit and likely lads. Music, largely the Baroque and the corpus of English classical music, with an emphasis upon choral works.
Memberships: Various local and regional historical societies; various learned societies in the disciplines of politics, economics, and history; various hunts; the RSPB; the Royal Agricultural Society of England; the Rare Breeds Survival Trust; CAMRA; the British Beekeeper’s Association; the Countryside Alliance; the British Deer Society; the British Horse Society; the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; the British Association for Shooting and Conservation; the Conservative Party; the Henry Jackson Society; the Prayer Book Society; his Regimental Association; the Campaign for Christ Church (Oxon); &c.
Clubs: [redacted]
Mr Wemyss, having an appallingly ramified extended family, has spent a goodish amount of time in numerous places, including Mid Yell, Dallas, Turriff, Montrose, Elgin, Crosby, Repton, Romsley, Earls Barton, Staunton, Pylle, Westbury, Wilcot, Little Cheverell, Pennington, Mount Pleasant, and a rather nice urban bolthole not a million miles from Long Acre. In that context, it is worth noting that his mother was a classically trained contralto. He himself studied violin and composition, and sang basso at university and in various parish choirs. Fortunately, for all his æsthetic interests, he was never debagged and tossed into Mercury Pond, due to the protective colouration of tweeds and an interest in field sports.
Fandom interests and activities: Under the username wemyss, he is the maintainer of the LiveJournal community britpickery, and its indexed archive community britpicking. He has written a certain amount of often controversial or contrarian meta. He has also contributed to Britticus Totallus!, and several essays at Fiction Alley.
Mr Wemyss also maintains the LJ community verse_albion, for original verse in and original translations of verse into English.
Mr Wemyss’s fanfiction consists primarily of H/D slash, with some gen, most of which concentrates upon the post-War politics and government of the Potterverse. Much of his fanfiction has been described, fairly enough, as ‘one long Britpick’; he has himself noted that, at bottom, his fandom is, simply, England, with occasional forays into Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. He regularly chronicles the more richly comic doings of his neighbours (the lambs at the High Street solicitors, the butcher and the greengrocer, and that Rabelaisian figure the Baker’s Daughter) at his LiveJournal.
His fanfiction is available at his LiveJournal, wemyss, at his LiveJournal community of wemyssfic, and at Fiction Alley; some portions are available also at HPFandom. He has also created personal and civic heraldry, and mock OS maps, for the Potterverse, again at his wemyss LiveJournal.
He is as great an anorak as this profile suggests. Mr Wemyss is also, as it happens, like his profile, wholly fictional.