true to my roots, i chose "hylander" for my first icb nick, in honor of my 7000-foot upbringing and my best friend's attachment to the legend, which happened to be the only story her scientist father made sure she knew. i quickly became acquainted with "kwikning," but never noticed the power of androgyny until the first time i signed on as "artemis) (my current steady nick) and was suddenly receiving scores of /m 's from georgia tech boys. i selected "artemis" after taking myth and gender and learning legends that involved slugging through forests and rivers and wreaking vengeance upon peeping toms, thus vicariously avenging a rather aggrevating fisherman incident of my youth. i started posting as "the were-fish" at ucsc when i was inspired to distraction by a full moon and desperately needing a suitable body of water. since then, i picked up the accounts mermaid@resort.com, and mermaid@brimstone.com, and have been saisfied with them ever since.
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