About this site

What do you get when you take a highly burnt out autistic man with a need to info dump, a crippling lack of friends and a weirdly high amount of time for someone with a full-time job?

You get this, The Midnight Dispatch from Meroog.

But first, what is a Meroog?

I started Meroog in its original form back in 2022 with a funny Irish feller from primary school, the name coming from a portmanteau of our online aliases at the time, we made YouTube videos on and off for the next 2 and a half years, mainly on gaming, sometimes on other things, but always on us struggling to function as humans, before work, education and life caught up with us, and we had to make the somewhat difficult (for me anyway) choice to wind things down

You may be asking, why did I not continue on with the video side of things by myself, and the completely honest answer is that I'm just not that funny, I relied on the bounce, you know the feeling, when your style of performance is that reliant on someone else that you just can't do it alone, think the Mario to my Luigi or the Teller to my Penn.

So why still a Meroog?

After it all went to pot, we'd discussed ad nauseam what we wanted to do with the YouTube and the brand and the identity we'd spent the last few years of our lives creating, he made it clear he was wanting to step back, I knew I still had some sort of creativity to pour into it, so we agreed I could take what was left and run with it, so we wiped what was then Meroog off the face of the planet and I kept the name, mainly because the last time I tried to come up with a name for a brand it didn't go very well, I mean we ended up with "Meroog" c'mon I clearly struggled.

It's taken me a long time to work out where I'm taking Meroog, what I wanted this to be now it was just me, but I think a nice little internet blog is a good way to start, I can keep a log of all the awful ideas I have and one day, maybe I might have the energy to make them into video form again.

So about myself...

And here we come to the bit you've all been waiting for, why should you be reading my blog over all the hundreds of others that do and have existed, and it's simple, you probably shouldn't do if you need to ask yourself that.

If you're here just for the hell of it then here we go, I wanna tell you all about life, my life specifically but just about existence, I have things rattling round in my head constantly, enough to where I struggle to shut down ever and maybe someone might find something I have to say intriguing.

As for the bullshit generic stuff...

I'm Harry, I typically go by HT though thanks to a speech impediment that got me bullied through high-school and made me feel way too awkward when having to say my own name, I'm a 20-year-old autistic dude from some magical place known as "Ingerland" I got a fiancée who's also a little bit autistic so we're just a barrel of laughs, I don't have an awful lot of friends at this point, a combination of their university choices and my own social mismanagement let the few I did have fall away so it's just me floating at this point, I got into writing as a way to stop bothering people, as lovely as my fiancée is, there's only so many times I can ramble about the history of a little known gospel group until she just doesn't want to hear any more

So anyway, stick around, enjoy the reading, and I'll see you on the internet - HT