on the header of the site<\/a> are taken from a black&white cheap japanese cyberpunk movie (Tetsuo) that focuses on this idea of junk. If you refresh the site you could see a guy nearly completely covered with scrap metal (or junk) at some point. That’s Tetsuo, the iron man. Which is also a principle: discovering value in what’s considered junk. The reality always need a point of view so that there can be a value. Poetry, in my definition, is a way to rediscover the value in some commonly used words (as opposed to use words that are rarely used). So there’s this sum between the two parts: the cultural interests and cues I receive from the internet, and my point of view. The ideas and revisions. <\/p>\nThis is also referred to the possible readers, since this isn’t a private text file on my computer. This place is a collection of junk. Every kind of junk. It follows my interests and my ideas. It’s MEANT to be biased and absolutely subjective. This is why I didn’t want to “buy legitimacy” through a more friendly name. There is no purpose to write for an audience or buy the esteem of someone. I’m not trying to reply a Lum the Mad and create a “point of reference”. This is just a junk deposit. A window to my room. And yes, you can take what you like, if you find something you can use.<\/p>\n
HRose<\/b>: This is the nickname I started to use when I “migrated” to the american mmorpg community. The one I used before opening this site. Originally it was “Hunter Rose”. This is the real name that was then contracted into HRose. It’s a character by Matt Wagner. Maybe you know the mask, “Grendel”. Grendel is a comic book character that is the perfect concept of “alter-ego”. There isn’t just one Grendel, it’s more like a cult, a culture. So each time has its own Grendel. Hunter Rose was the first. The romantic anti-hero. Since I love Matt Wagner, the character and the idea that fits so well with the multiple identities of the online (and non) games, that’s the name I started to use, long ago, pretty much everywhere. Every character I created in the pen&paper games (well, beside “Stephan Scarsdale”, but that’s a story on its own) and computer RPGs had that name. It was contracted into “HRose” when I started playing the Q3A multiplayer, so the “roleplay” name was converted into a “tag” that was more appropriate. And then I started to use it more and more simply to have something recognizeable. Also because not every forum and game allows to set a name and surname.<\/p>\n
Abalieno<\/b>: This is the name I use on this site and it started with the site. The main reason is that HRose was giving bad ideas to people (like “horse” mispelled). Abalieno is a latin world (so my origin) that also fits with my personality. It means “enstrange” and it’s also near the actual english word: alien. It’s that word turned into a verb, to alien. So it has the meaning of “Stranger in a strange land”. Both because I write from somewhere else, in a language that is not my own and because people see me as strange and stranger in the real life. I don’t fit anywhere. I’m like a distorted note in the harmony of reality. I also look a little like Charles Manson when it was arrested, or the cover of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung, just younger. Abalieno also means “insanus”, mad, insane. As you can see it’s really appropriate :)<\/p>\n
Innsmouth<\/b>: This is the name I use on this site to reply to the comments. Innsmouth is a city in Lovecraft’s mythology. Lovecraft is another of my old passions. In particular Lovecraft as a person, more than Lovecraft as a writer. The “nickname” was used becase the engine of the site asked to make two separate accounts. So it’s just the site admin, which is still myself. I use it because I’m logged in like that by default and I cannot change my name on the fly, without having to log out and relog as Abalieno. So it’s for practical reasons and the quirks of the engine.<\/p>\n
Kadath<\/b>: This is another city from Lovecraft mythology. I often use this in the mmorpgs, in particular when I play dwarves. I use this because Hunter Rose is usually not possible since most of these games only accept one name with no spaces. And neither “hunter” nor “rose” would be appropriate alone.<\/p>\n
That’s it, all the mysteries are revealed :) As you can see it isn’t anything too odd. <\/p>\n
To conclude, a note about anonymity. I would have no problem to post under my real name (you could also get my real name by looking up to who this site is registered). If I keep using aliases it’s exactly for the opposite reason: to be recognizeable. On the internet noone knows me under my real name. So I would be more anonymous using it instead of an alias. If I stick with these nicknames it’s because I started to use them along with everyone else and now I’m stuck with the habit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I decided to interrupt the usual blathering to explain some of the “mysteries” surrounding the name of this site and the nicknames I use here and on the forums. There isn’t anything elaborate or secret and, no, HRose isn’t “horse” mispelled. The Cesspit: This site is my “repository”, my memory, my virtual workroom. It’s really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}