What’s this Evil Queen thing?

It started off as sort of a joke. About a year ago (June 2003), I was playing the game of BlogShares [it’s a fantasy stock market game based around blogs] and I began to write this fictional storyline set in a world that was sort of a combination of ’30’s gangster world combined with future high technology. The Evil Queen, aka Eve Quinlan, was a ruthless, high-stakes player in the stock market who used every means at her disposal to gain a significant advantage over her competitors. I modelled the character after a combination of characteristics I’d observed of women that I didn’t especially like. She’s stuck up, she’s ruthless, she’s arrogant, she’s never satisfied, and perpetually unhappy, even though she has everything materially anyone could possibly want. The story hasn’t come to a complete halt just yet, but my writing on it has slowed significantly as I’ve gotten more involved in other online activities. Many of the entries can still be found among the archives over here.

I adopted the personna of “the Evil Queen” and began to use it on this blog during a re-design, caused in part by my changing blogging applications from Nucleus to MovableType (and currently I’m using WordPress, so that’s three application changes and the blog is still, relatively, in one piece. Impressive, no?). I mainly did it just for fun, but then as things in the U.S. progressed politically and militarily, I began to see how it all fit in.

I mean, think about it, Dubya has this “declared war” against what he perceives to be “evil,” as if he’s some sort of “knight in shining armor” out to save the world, while he’s actually destroying it. Someone over at the Agonist referred to this as the “Church of the Big 180,” which I think is hilarious, but fitting. Politically and ideologically, I stand in sharp contrast to Bush’s politics and his policies, I’m a disabled veteran against the war, I believe in telling the truth, I understand in a very real sense what the old concept of “honor” means (Celtic and Asian conceptions of “honor” are very similar), so it only seemed fitting to associate myself with “evil” since my ideologies are the reverse of the Bush administration. I guess if speaking out against what you think is wrong is evil, then I definitely fit the moniker of “the evil queen” of politics.

FWIW, my real-life sister is the Swamp Queen.

Update 3Feb06 : Some supposedly studly grown-up Serbian stranger recently told me that my calling myself “The Evil Queen” was rather childish and that I should drop it and grow up. He, of course, never read the FAQ’s to avail himself of the information here, so he had no clue where the moniker came from, and I told him so. I also told him he was like old wood, stuck in his narrow-minded judgmental ways, and that I had no intention of being like that if that’s what growing up means.

Actually, if he hadn’t said anything at all, I might have been well on the way to dropping the nickname altogether. But now…? Not on your life, mister. I’ve spent a few years with this nickname, and now, I think I’ll keep it.