The Picture Has Nothing To Do With The Text

365 Toy Project: Day 143, originally uploaded by esmereldes.

I guess another indicator of Spring is that I just had to renew my Flickr subscription. So my lucky "public" (ha) gets another year of flickrness from me! ;P

I considered renewing for 2 years, but I always worry when I do that - what if something happens that I don't want the service anymore? Then I have wasted my money. I seriously HOPE nothing happens to Flickr, but you just never know. I'm still sort of bitter about my Newtype USA subscription being converted over to some new magazine that I'm not as excited about. Mostly I am sad that Newtype USA is gone, but the fact that I am now a hostage of the new magazine makes it even more annoying... I guess maybe in time I will get to like it, I like Shojo Beat, which is what I got in compensation for my lost subscription to Animerica. But even there, I still miss Animerica... <.<

I was also just thinking of subscribing to DeviantArt, but I am annoyed because there's already a Nightfall on there. One thing I am noticing is that unless I sign up to a brand new service, there's *always* a Nightfall. Which is fine, I can see it being a popular name. But here's the kicker - whoever it is that grabs the name pretty much inevitably doesn't use the service!! It's like some loser just runs around and grabs the user name and then does nothing with it. The Nightfall account on deviantart is blank. The Nightfall on Flickr is a blank account. The Nightfall on livejournal is not precisely blank, but is *nearly* blank and has a message telling people off for criticizing the person for hogging the user name and not doing anything with the account. What's up with this?

So, anyway, the debate is now "What username to use? Some weird variant of Nightfall? (N1ghtfall? Nightf4ll? Niightfall? Nightfall21? bleh) or esmereldes, like my flickr account?