User:GabeMT

Hey! I'm Gabe (aka Gabriel, Murder, MTC, whatever you like the most). I'm a 19 yo Linguistics Student from Coimbra, Portugal. And I guess I'm a (mostly retired) Content Moderator for this Wiki :)

Be warned though, English is not my first language so it's likely my profile will be filled with small grammatical mistakes. Sorry about that. If you spot any, you have my permission to edit this page and remove them. Otherwise I'd appreciate if you don't make any changes :)

My "rewritebox" --- My "sandbox" (Eh I just wanted to feel cool and have one as well).

How I Found Goosebumps
My story with the Goosebumps franchise began when I was about 5 or 6. I found two books at my grandparents' house - My Hairiest Adventure and The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. The cover art really caught my attention so I started reading... and I was instantly hooked. I remember reading MHA in one night, and I've been a big Goosebumps fan ever since.

My GB Collection
Okay so since I live in Europe I can't buy these books as easily as most of y'all. From the hundreds of books in the franchise, only a small bunch (I think 56 total) have been released here. And buying them online isn't really cheap at all because of the shipping prices... Anyway, here's my collection as of the last time I edited my profile page:

OG Series
Out of the 62 books, only the first 40 books were released in my country - I have them all (with a few duplicates). Maybe one day I'll buy the other 22 (in English, of course). That might take a while to happen though since they're so expensive lol.

I also have a special edition Collection book called Super Goosebumps (I believe it's the only Goosebumps collection ever released in Portugal), which contains books #1, 3 and 5 (Welcome to Dead House, Monster Blood and One Day at HorrorLand).

On top of that, I have the British release of Welcome to Dead House.

GYG
I only own books #1-6 since these were the only ones they cared to release here lol

HorrorLand
I own all 19 books in English, plus the Portuguese releases of books #1, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10.

Hall of Horrors
Although none available in Portuguese, I bought all the 6 books from the US.

Most Wanted
Same situation as HoH. I own all of the regular books, plus Sp. Edition #2

SlappyWorld
Same as HoH and MW - I have all the books from #1-16, and I plan on ordering the new ones as soon as they come out.

Spin-offs and other books
I bought a copy of 30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps from Amazon, I also own the Movie Novel and the Classic reprints of Vampire Breath and The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena. Oh and when I was about 13 I for some reason decided to manually translate a pdf of My Best Friend Is Invisible I found online, and then I printed it, so that was cute.

And uh that's it lol

My drawings
One of my favorite hobbies is drawing. I guess check out my Instagram for some of my works? I'm far from a professional but I hope you enjoy.

https://www.instagram.com/gabrielmarquestrindade/

Books
I've always loved Diary of a Wimpy Kid books because well how can you not like them??? I also love other book series by Stine, like The Nightmare Room or Fear Street (not counting Ghosts of Fear Street or whatever that garbage series is called lol).

Aside from that I guess I like most Linguistics-related books? Oh and Alice in Wonderland, I'm a big fan of that chaotic beautiful mess.

TV/Movies
Well for movies it's easy: I like most animated movies. I'm a hardcore Disney/Pixar fan, I also like DreamWorks, Studio Ghibli. Some of my favourite animated movies are Pinocchio (1940), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Ratatouille (2007), Princess and the Frog (2009), Luca (2021), and the entire Shrek franchise ahahah

As for TV shows, I'm a pretty big fan of Survivor lol. I also love The Twilight Zone, La Casa de Papel (Money Heist), Stranger Things, some comedy shows like The Office, The Good Place, American Vandal... and again, a lot of animated series, such as Regular Show, Close Enough, Infinity Train, The Amazing World of Gumball... I'm probably forgetting some but oh well.

I also watch some YouTube channels like Ryan George, VSauce, Cellbit (brazilian YouTuber)... some Survivor content like Idoled Out or Peridiam, as well as some Linguistics channels like Lingthusiasm.

Music
Well... my music taste is pretty much all over the place. My all-time favorite artists are Polo & Pan, a french Indietronica duo. They're the two guys in my profile picture lol

Other artists/bands I really like are Voyou, Nickel Creek, Tony Bennett, Kid Francescoli, L'Imperatrice, Capitão Fausto, Philippi & Rodrigo, Elton John, Mort Garson, Blues Traveler, Morningsiders, Ornatos Violeta and The Pirouettes.

My Spotify username is GabeMT, I have a bunch of playlists so I guess you can check those out.

Animals
Yeah I'm a big fan of animals and nature in general, some of my favorite creatures include crabs, orangutans, two and three-toed sloths, octopi, man-o-wars and other jellyfish, platypi, pangolins, and red pandas.