About Cycloneblaze

I'm just this guy, you know?

But who are you?

I am a person, assuming I'm not a sentient comet. My pronouns are he/him/his.

I'm from Ireland and I live in Europe (this site is also available at cycloneblaze.eu!).

'Cycloneblaze' is my online handle. It's my identity on the internet, used in part purposely to obscure my real-life identity (as you do), and in part because it's how I started out here on the world wide web 🙂 'The Blue Comet' is from my icon; it's, like, an epithet.

What do you do?

I like to create and to learn things. I also do things to help out communities I'm a part of. Some of those things:

Internet things

I used to play Minecraft regularly, and I contributed a guide to editing GUI textures that got a bit of use. It's called the GUIde! Get it? I also maintained a very simple mod for a few versions.

I also used to be active on Reddit where I helped to run the HobbyDrama subreddit and also its Discord server. Here is one of my favourite posts.

I am still a member of staff on Global Pokédex Plus, a Pokémon adoptable site that's pretty fun!

I have some bits of code on my GitHub, not least a certain website...

Real-life things

I studied physics and I still know some things about that. Now I touch computers.

I put some old art on my deviantART, both drawings and pixel art.

You can find more about where I am and what I'm doing via the links page.

Where's the name come from?

This Mega Bloks dragon that was sat on a shelf nearby while I was searching for a username in about 2006.

It has no special significance beyond that, but it's usually available and I still think it's a pretty distinctive online handle, and I like to be consistent, so I keep using it.

You may find me elsewhere under the names 2Cycloneblaze2 or Cycloneblaze2 if the name I wanted wasn't available. Most notably, Twitter.

Most people shorten it to Cyclone (which is much prefereable to 'blaze) or Cyc. That's cool. If I'm lazy and need a temporary username, I might use cyclo.

Also, I like to riff on it by forming other "Cyclone-noun" words. Like this, the Cyclonesite.

What's that icon?

This thing is a comet. The Blue Comet, eponymously.

It originated in a pattern that I made for on Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City (no less) and I've adopted it as my symbol.

I like space and comets, and the colour blue, and pixel art, so I feel like it's pretty fitting. And it was too hard to create a visual representation of "a cycloneblaze".

I want to know more

You'll have to make friends with me and ask 😄