Where'd you get your user name?

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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?

Comments

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

I went with "viola" because of Twelfth Night--I'm a huge Shakespeare geek--and "claire" because it's my middle name.
And I love the myth of Persephone. One of the best pieces of writing I ever did was based on that myth.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I saw "Twelfth Night" performed at the Globe Theatre in London. I had my elbows on the stage and Malvolio spit on me! It was one of the highlights of my life.

One of the best pieces of writing I ever did was based on that myth.

! Really? You should share some time.

One of my favorite poetry anthologies (Mother Love by Rita Dove) examines the myth from various angles (many of them modern). It was like reading really good fanfic--better than most published things and with characters I loved already ;o)

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

Yay, more book recs for my giant "to read" pile! I've never really found a retelling of the myth that I like. Most of the good retellings of Greek myths seem to be reserved for The Odyssey and The Iliad.

! Really? You should share some time.

I might post it some time, but I'm not sure . . . I wasn't really going with Persephone as strong heroine, more as lost little girl.

Malvolio spit on me! It was one of the highlights of my life.

lol, and *happy sigh* I love the Globe. I love Twelfth Night. Shakespeare always makes me sappy.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Mother Love isn't a retelling, though some of the poems come close. It's one of the best books I've ever read, though. The things she does with the myth just blew me away.

I wasn't really going with Persephone as strong heroine, more as lost little girl.

Demeter is a strong heroine. Persephone is a lost little girl.