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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Hattifatteners are a race of peripatetic, enigmatic beings from Tove Janssen's "Moomintroll" series of childrens' books. I was feeling a bit of unrequited wanderlust when I made this account and the name seemed appropriate.

I've turned off memail because I don't like having another inbox, so if you were looking to memail me please email me instead.