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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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a2zmom.

kind of a double meaning user name. All moms are a2z people to a large extent. But, in my case, since my kids are named Aaron and Zachary, it works out even better.

Reason: Have a friend who used to tell me, "Shine on, you crazy diamond!" (from Pink Floyd's, uh, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond.")

Bonus: Totally unusual - can use it for almost all sites and emails.

Minus: Long-ass and difficult to spell and often shows up on LJ as "unknown user." Meh.

I always loved the Persephone myth, too.

My friend J came up with my name. I wanted to join LJ but wanted to come up with a cool name. She suggested southernbangel because I'm (a) born-and-bred Southern to the core and (b) I am a HUGE Bangel shipper. It fits me quite well and I still love, even over a year later.

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.

There's a Rosicrucian phrase that I love -- it says that everything we do in our lifetimes is is written on the impenetrable film of the akasha, or the soul. It's a creep out/comfort thing for me :-)

So lostakasha made sense for this lost soul who loves writing about Angel.

(But damn, I had no idea that akasha was the name of an Anne Rice vampyra. Blech. Not so much for the AR, you know? Again, I tell you, blech.)

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.

Mine is not as interesting as everyone else's I'm afraid.

'Ignoramus' is the title of my favourite song by the - now defunct - Scottish band Baby Chaos.

Unsurprisingly 'ignoramus' seems to be a pretty popular screen name so I had to rethink what I was going to call myself. I love word-play so I came up with ignorAmouse. It's a wee bit quirky, a little tongue-in-cheek - which I like *G* - and I've gone by it since '97.

Well you can take comfort in the fact that Anne Rice won't be writing any more vampire novels.
She's found religion and from now on will be writing a biblical series based around Jesus' childhood.

Wow. That's . . . interesting.

But never fear, Elton John is writing a Broadway musical about Lestat.

I've gone by it since '97

I admire your tenacity. I change names a lot, just because I get bored. I realize now I might've been running into a lot of the same people, and will never know about it. Bummer. Guess I'll stick with tkp (though I'm already bored of it. Again.)

It's a creep out/comfort thing for me

And now for me too. What an awesome name.

Not so much for the AR, you know?

I first saw Buffy about 6 months ago. The reason I stayed away for 9 years? Anne and her vampyra Rice. I thought BtVS would be more of the same.

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.

I always like a name that tells me who I'm dealing with. Thanks for sharing. I love it too!

Joan is just so . . . I had a friend tell me I looked like a Nancy once.

Can't identify with the long part ;o)

I always loved the Persephone myth, too.

I'm . . . a Pershepone/Hades shipper. That's what I am.

All moms are a2z people to a large extent.

It's so true. I have a feeling this is something I'm going to say one day. You're very quote-able.

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.

Elton John is writing a Broadway musical about Lestat

And I thought it was all over and done with.

I'm not sure what's scarier/funnier... that Elton John is writing it (might it be musically reminiscent of The Lion King?) or the thought that the local vampire community might give up Cradle of Filth for showtunes.

I saw that and passed coffee through my nose. I'm no christian, but I don't think Jesus deserves that kind of treatment;)

Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only late-comer to BTVS and Angel. Saw Angel first in March '05, then started the slippery slide into BTVS. I never bothered with either show because I thought they were for kiddies. Live and learn!

I thought it was a hoax at first ;)

The article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785289/site/newsweek/) makes it sound unbelievably cringeworthy.

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*

Uh... Mole Day? *confused* I mean I like Mole as much as the next person, but I prefer my Enchiladas with cheese. ;P

Where'd you get your user name?

Well, m- is my first initial, shep - are the first 4 letters of my last name and - nj is for the state I live in. *zzzzzzzzzzzzz*

I wanted "Quirkygrl", my favorite moniker and a nickname that I'm told suits me *shrug*, but someone was poaching my username! The nerve! So I stuck with the boring one that one else would ever want.

"Semby" is something like "Joan", as it often makes me go "and why did I pick that again?" because it really has no meaning or significance to my life in any form. I've occasionally tried to think up some sort of meaning "well, I have an S and an E and an M all at some point in my full name..." just in case someone ever asked ;) rather than outing myself as a weirdo who makes up strange names, but that would be a lie because it really was a random thing. Plus I get stumped at B.

I just wanted something short and easy to say/spell/remember that probably wouldn't get confused with anyone else's. And yet still I've had people mispell it...

"makd" are initials in my name. My first name - Mary - provides the "ma". My surname - which is hyphenated - begins with K-D, so, voila! "makd". It's been my cyber-name since 2003, and I'm quite pleased with it.

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)

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

Elton John. Anne Rice. :::shudders:::

If I needed proof that we're living in the "starts with A, rhymes with pocalypse" here it 'tis. Eeek!!

but I prefer my Enchiladas with cheese. ;P

At 6:02 pm. I wish I'd thought of bringing that kinda mole when we celebrated Mole (Avogadro's number, 6.02 x 10^23) Day in high school chemistry. Yeah, so I'm a dork.

So I stuck with the boring one that one else would ever want.

But it's very recognizable.

I like "Semby". I've often wanted to ask you where you got it from. I like it because, as you say, it's short and simple. But also, it's unusual enough that people probably won't also think it's your name. (I don't like that, because if you ever meet people you know online, they're are all like: what, your name really isn't ____?)

"makd" says to me "no nonsense, bud." That's how come I like it.

I'm glad to hear so many people like the names they've given themselves. I'm already bored with mine and I've had it less than a year. I don't know what my problem is. I think I'm rather too fascinated with identity issues.

Actually, I'm rather looking forward to it.

And I'm also looking forward to Rice's Jesus books.

Yes, I scare myself too.

mine's pretty boring too... when I went to buy my first pc, they were going to load AOL on for me and I had only a few seconds to come up with a screenname... my first and middle name is Teresa Lynn so Terilyn was all I could come up with..... pathetic much? lol

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.

joining in late....are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.....
naa, is too much, let me sum up.
bisi is one of the names of my youngest, it means something that's being added to, kind of 'here's more'. For hotmail I use bisi mama, which I might be called by somebody meaning to be polite - hang on, no I wouldn't, I'd be called 'eldest child's name' mama. Anyway, bisi because it's short, easy to spell, and impossible to mispronounce.
Bisi is one of those names a kid gets when their parents are running out of inspiration - oh well, here's another kid, it's all good -

I thought "Terilyn" must be your first name; it's surprising to learn it's not! Anyway, I think it's rather pretty.

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.

I'm glad you like it even tho it isn't original... I forgot to say I used to love the Greek and Roman mythology and the Persephone story was one of my favs. I did briefly consider changing my screenname to Aphrodite but didn't cause I knew I couldn't live up to the name :( lol

oopsy, forgot to login, thats me above, heehee

Bisi is one of those names a kid gets when their parents are running out of inspiration - oh well, here's another kid, it's all good -

lol! Just becomes too much bother after a while, eh?

But don't be too sure about it being impossible to mispronounce. By-see? Bi-sigh? Bees-I? Sometimes people misprounounce "Joe."

What would be interesting is if it wasn't you.

Greek and Roman myth is fun because it can be applied to anything. And won't seem out of place.

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.

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.

ah but whats in a name really ??
I gave my eldest child an unusual name in that there are very few Mallory's around but is she grateful. Bah she wants to have a common name like "Jessica, Ashley or Amber" cos you can buy cool stationary for these names & everybody can spell them. I ask you what was I thinking all these years ago.I picked an easy net name for myself & like Terrilyn only got seconds to consider it so I used some of my name (Mel)and something that was easy to spell. Yep boring thats me...............
Besides every combination with Buffy & Angel I wanted to use when I signed up for some of the lists was taken.
And dont despair people who came late to the Buffy/Angel party , it took me until the shows were over to catch on. I watched the original Buffy movie & thought the TV show would be more of the same crap so never tuned in. It took the teenager with the uncommon name to get me interested in them last year & then I became an addict. Books, posters, dvds, you name it I have them. Wonder if therapy is too late ???
By the way tkp, love your new fic. You rock !!!

Yep, it's definitely too late for therapy :o)

Hi, thanks, and welcome!

I already told you where I got my name, but I just wanted to say that I really like your username, actually. Originally I thought "tkp" were your initals (first, middle, and last), but I like "the Kora personality." I'm glad that you explained you name to us. =)
Oh, and I really love mythology, folktales, and fairy tales, so yeah! =)

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