My name is of no importance. What about you? Do you remember your true name?

before you ask or really start to wonder, the header title is a quote from Xemnas, a Kingdom Hearts character.

do you remember when all you knew people by was their handles? lazy_potato would've been known as potato. xXCrazy*Fangirl*ExtremeXx was CFE or Extreme. no one ever used their actual wholeass legal name in any shape, for the most part. we miss that. we go by our username maleviolent. you can craft any derivative you like from it and we'll probably accept it. we only have one collective name we all like and it is unfortunately our legal name which is too unique to be using online.

we're plural, like three or five times over. more on that later. if you don't know what that means, check this out for now.

how do you define who someone is, anyway?

demographically? we're insane, we're autistic, we're nonwhite, we're queer and nonbinary, we're Leftists, we're poor, we're physically disabled.

through the lens of career? (of capitalism, even, to an extent?) we're currently in a service job that's slowly destroying our hollowed out reanimated corpse body. but we're aiming to get a counselor's license or maybe to be a psychiatrist if we really hit the academia grind.

if you boiled down our SpIns and got the raw essence, the resulting magic-8 answer would be that we love stories. we've seen more anime than most people we know but less than a rare few who win the heaviest real gold 1st place award for lifetime NEET lonely nerd (affectionately). we started writing a novel when we were seven. we're technically a published poet. we're not much of a capital G gamer because that shit costs money but we do love indie cozy games. we like when characters are extremely fucked up. we like fucked up ship dynamics. we like fucked up smut.

some of us are ethereal, dreamlike, pastel childish cutesy cartoon forest friends and unicorns and clouds and rainbows. some of us are as our username "persona" implies and demented sorceror locked up in its tower for a century before cursing the whole town. some of us do not fuck with anybody or anything and want to be outside, in the woods, on the beach, on the road. we contain multitudes, as they say, but dude we mean it.

i'm just writing this real quick actually but we'll come back to it when we know better what we want to say and how to say it. peace and love -aq