lettered | Where'd you get your user name?

I woke up today and thought it was the 23rd. Yes, I was excited about Mole Day. I was prepared to celebrate celebrate things like Avogadro and stoichiometry. Now all I have to be happy about is avocados and Elvis Stojko.

Today I enjoyed this post (scroll to the end), in which

yhlee lists reasons why she loves BtVS/AtS characters. One of them is, "Why I love Angelus: it may never occur to him that in all the ways he destroys people it shows how strong they really are." Go read and miss your shows. *sniff*

Lastly,

stultiloquentia and I recently discovered that we'd spoken online four years before under different names. That made me wish I hadn't changed my nickname things so much out of sheer boredom. The user name tkp is from the Kora Personality, which wouldn't fit on lj. Kora is another name for Persephone. I was having some twisted, uninteresting thoughts about the woman who spent half her time being queen of the dead and raped by the damned, and the other half frolicking in the flowers with Mama and nymphs. Anyway, I'm guessing this has been a topic of conversation before, so sorry if you've been over it before, but I've been wondering:

Where'd you get your user name?

Even if it seems obvious, I'd love to know. Also: why Joan?

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Because it's all a lot of amphigourious, stultiloquential fiddle-faddle! It's from my favourite play, Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning, which I demand you read instantly. My name means "foolish words." I enjoy the fact that when people abbreviate it -- "Stulti, Bangel is so much better than Spuffy!" -- they're addressing me as "Fool." My other pseudonym was a trial run, toetipping into online discourse; this one's my keeper.

I like The Kora Personality. Eerie, but its syllables are very cool.

yhlee's list deserves to be a meme.

Yes, yes, yes!!! Oh, Stulti ;) you must start the trend....

Will comment more later, but right now I'm seconding

lostakasha's nomination. You have to start it.

Amphigourious! That's great.

which I demand you read instantly.

Nope. It has to get in line. But it will be done ;o)

they're addressing me as "Fool."

Never thought about it that way. I'll have to call you Stulti more often.
(I wouldn't, except that I love the way it sounds.)

My other pseudonym was a trial run, toetipping into online discourse; this one's my keeper.

I've used so many, for no good reason other than I really do just get bored. I'm really fascinated by names. I used "Ilandra" for a while, but everyone thought that was actually my name so I dropped it. Now I'm sad to know that I might have been running into the same people over and over again without knowing it.

Now hop on that meme.

Nope. It has to get in line.

Don't tempt me to tempt you with quotations.

"You're a pestering parasite. If I had my way you'd be got rid of. You're mad and you're violent, and I strongly resent finding you slightly pleasant."

"Now, no poetics, Tyson. Blow your nose and avoid lechery."

and one more--

"I am interested in my feelings. I seem to wish to have some importance in the play of time. If not, then sad was my mother's pain, my breath, my bones, my web of nerves, my wondering brain, to be shaped and quickened with such anticipation only to feed the swamp of space. What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have deeply. What is good, as love is good, I'll have well. Then if time and space have any purpose, I shall belong to it. If not, if all is a pretty fiction to distract the cherubim and seraphim who so continually do cry, the least I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world with human deep-sea sound, and hold it to the ear of God, until he has appetite to taste our salt sorrow on his lips. And so you see it might be better to die. Though, on the other hand, I admit it might be immensely foolish."

*prying my fingers away from battered script, now*

I'm really fascinated by names.

The pemberley.com mods ask that people use their real first names, believing it creates a warmer, more civilized atmosphere. I did, and they're probably right (though Janeites aren't known for their hooliganism, anyway). Even if you have a completely common, untraceable name, it's one less wall; there's a desire to keep it unsullied. Not that I'm terribly secretive about either my real name online, or my pseud in real life. Hell, on the phone last night, my dad said, "I found your Christmas list on your site; thanks," and I said, "Oh, did you see the gay vampire porn, too?" But I digress... The pemberley downside is that it's enormous fun to see what people choose for themselves, and have threads like this to find out why.

Don't tempt me to tempt you with quotations.

Are you suggesting Christopher Fry cut Tom Stoppard?

Eh, okay, because:

the least I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world with human deep-sea sound, and hold it to the ear of God

you've seduced me! Naughty!

Now all I have to do is find out your real name so I can get you arrested for internet stalking, and then I can go find you at the RoP archives. RoP was my first foray into fandom. It's where I discovered fanfic. And I used my real name too (JoyceElizabeth. Don't you ever call me Joyce. It's Joy). As for Janeites not being hooligans, you're totally wrong. Okay, maybe not. I was always very polite and civilized. Plus I avoid confrontation. But I'm rather certain me and a couple of other people are the reason Bits of Ivory got clamped down back in 2002. Or something.

Are you suggesting Christopher Fry cut Tom Stoppard?

Wait, what? No! Read Arcadia! Read Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead! *flails*

The Player: The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter.
Rosencrantz: Good God. We're out of our depths here.
The Player: No, no, no! He hasn't got a daughter! The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter.
Rosencrantz: The old man is?
The Player: Hamlet...in love...with the old man's daughter...the old man...thinks.
Rosencrantz: Ah.

I didn't even have to look that one up. /dramageek

you've seduced me! Naughty!

Oi, you're the one waving the handcuffs! *points below*

Now all I have to do is find out your real name so I can get you arrested for internet stalking

Cameron. *shakes your hand* *palms handcuff key* I think I was actually there before brightweavings, and yep, that was the first fanfic I read. Good grief.

the reason Bits of Ivory got clamped down back in 2002

Tsk. You hooligan, you. BOI's a great little archive, but doesn't really match my philosophy of fannish writing and babble.

Wait, what? No! Read Arcadia! Read Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead! *flails*

lol. I asked for the complete Tom Stoppard for my birthday (I knew I needed to read him). I didn't get it, but I got a copy of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (and also, the movie version! Which I thought was quite good). So it's what's up to read next...just as soon as I stop reading so much fanfic.

Cameron. *shakes your hand* *palms handcuff key*

Pleasure, and all that. And--hey!

BOI's a great little archive, but doesn't really match my philosophy of fannish writing and babble.

Me neither. Which is, of course, why we got in trouble.

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