That new blog smell...

Okay, so I decided to follow the crowd and make myself a blog. Two blogs, in fact. Abandoning my old LJ blog. Seperate from notes. Not sure why, but I always feel a compulsion to write about how my life is when I right on LJ, rather than just commenting on things that happened.

So maybe here I will just comment on things that happen, not on how my life is going in general.

Logistical information:

This is the Lightside blog:

I noticed that Leah has two blogs - one for positive things and one for negative things. I saw it and I liked it. I think that the two blog setup will help me avoid every post segwaying into whining about my life, whining about my computer, etc. The Darkside blog is whatsdownnil.blogspot.com...

Title is temporary:

Reference to newspeak, obviously. Wish I could get Nil to be capitialized, but Newspeak is based off of english, and English doesn't work like that. Anyway, I'm hunting for a new, better title. If you have suggestions, tell me.

The names I go by:

Online I go by Nil Athelion, Nillion, Aelaris, and Patience. Nil Athelion is my full-blown psuedonym; Nillion was when I needed no spaces and more than three letters; Aelaris replaced Nillion, as Nillion is a modification for Nil and I was already going by Aelaris for some purposes; and Patience is my gamer-name, since Nil Athelion is two words, and Aelaris is a pacifistic personality.

Aelaris and Patience are both female.

Aelaris is female because Aelaris the name is based on Aelaris the character (Much as Nil the name is based on Nil the character), and Aelaris has a vivid and remarkably feminine personality. I used to go around as Aelaris as an alter-ego, and even still I will act differently under the name.

Patience is also female, but that stems mostly from the name. As a gamer, I tend to be either aggressive as Nil or predatory as Patience. Nil plays Halo 2 and Super Smash Bros: Melee, Patience places Magic: The Gathering, Chess, Gladius, etc. Aelaris gets some game-time too, in the sort of games she would be comfortable playing. Many games force you to be violent, though.

What do call me:

I would prefer not to go by my actual name online, so if you comment, refer to me by Nil, Nil Athelion, Mr. Athelion, etc.

Other names of importance:

There's a certain Toshi in my life these days. She is my lover and girlfriend.

The other people will be explained or not explained, as the situation entails.

Happy Reading,

-- Nil Athelion