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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.

It's from a book I happen to really, really like. Better cosmic horror than that old fart lovecraft ever came out with, (hardly racist at all!) and published 10 or so years before he even picked up a pen. Really gets the "cosmic" angle of cosmic horror, and makes it properly horrifying. not just unknowable, capricious, immortal aliens - you get to see the universe gutter and extinguish itself, experience deep time, dying gods, hideous swine-creatures, the whole bit.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 William Hope Hodgson. MeMail me if you feel similarly!