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

[lynnenne]

An old boyfriend told me I was kind of like Germaine Greer--tough and independent. The "pet" is short for Petrov, which is the name on the back of a hockey sweater I got in the Soviet Union. He was a star player back in the days of the Red Army.

I don't really like my user name because of the old boyfriend associations. One of these days I'll get around to changing it. *is lazy*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Old boyfriend associations suck. You should just go by Petrov.