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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1741816" data-attributes="member: 1891">My screen name and avatar are both very good reflections of me."Haiiro" is a somewhat archaic way of saying "grey" in Japanese; "color of ash" is another translation. It sounds a bit cheesy, but I strongly identify with the idea that people (myself included) come in shades of grey, morality-wise. The movie Unforgiven is what really got me thinking about that one, oddly enough.I'm not Japanese, but my degree involved a lot of Asian Studies courses, and I've been fascinated ever since. It's deliberately uncapitalized for two reasons: one, I'm a big fan of e e cummings, and two, I'm not that important. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My avatar is the cover of the 20th anniversary limited edition of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG. I love the game, Lovecraft is one of my favorite authors, my license plate says HASTUR...you get the idea. I also read a lot, and my apartment is full of books; having a book as an avatar seemed very appropriate.Can you tell I put too much thought into these things? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />[size=-2]It's all worth it in the end, though, because every few months one of these threads comes along and I get to subject people to my long-winded explanation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[/size]</blockquote>

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