I feel strange about, but also really good about, using "khyperia" as an alternate name. I've been going by it for *far* longer than Ashley (Ashley = 3 years, khyperia = half my life), so it's definitely firmly rooted as a real name for me. (1/2)

However, historically, people who knew me as khy didn't know my meatspace name, and people who knew me as deadname/Ashley didn't know khy. Yet both are still very much my identity (well, deadname not so much), so it feels really nice to be open and honest about both to everyone.

At Mozilla there's a good chance you'll be known as khyperia even at meatspace events if you consistently use that name on bugzilla/IRC/etc. This happens a lot :)

I'm so hecking down for this <3 <3 <3

You may wish to give pronunciation guidance. (e.g., separated k vs. Russian "kh" versus Sanskrit-derived "kh") We've known people who say that their nickname wasn't designed to be pronounced and decline to state a canonical pronunciation. The pronunciation was picked for them.

Where do you suggest doing so? (kai-peer-ee-uh /kaɪpɪəriʌ/, or just kai /kaɪ/)