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General Category => Forum Games => Topic started by: syaoranvee on January 26, 2012, 04:46:04 am
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Here's where people can explain the history behind their internet names.
Me, I decided a few years ago that changing up my internet names too much was too much of a hassle, so I decided to have a total of five to rely on with only three decided on so far.
VyseDarkmane - My first name used on a roleplaying game while being in a clan of vampires back in 2003, generally my choice when a requirement is a proper first and last name for something.
Veemonthedemonking - A name using my favorite childhood series's character and a awesome title, probably my best known one although I don't use at much seeing how alot of websites cap out characters long before 18.
Syaoranvee - Based on my favorite anime character over all, Syaoran Li, though I knew that name would likely be taken everything and knowing that "Li" is generally pronounced "Lee" I went with "Vee" and decided to go with vee theme throughout my names.
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My current name, Alkaline, is taken from a Circle of Dead Children song.
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Once upon a time (actually 1978) I owned a Suzuki GS400 that had been nicknamed 'Tigger' by friends because it was so bouncy (terribly soft suspension). It was the first motorcycle I owned to which I attached a sidecar, and it was this outfit ('Tigger & Co.') that I was riding when I met my husband. By this time, people had started giving me Tigger paraphernalia which became a tradition that continues to this day.
Fast-forward a couple of decades and many, many motorcycles later and we became the proud owners of a GoldWing. Unfortunately, I hardly ever got a chance to ride it because hubby loved it so much! So a year later I bought my own GoldWing when I found one for sale that had been fitted with a sidecar and simply fell in love with it. I called this one 'Tigger Too' or Tigger the 'Wing' to distinguish it from the first Tigger & Co. The name 'Tigger' started to be attached to me as well as the motorcycle in the bike clubs.
When I needed to get an online pseudonym somewhere, I tried 'Tigger' but it had been taken; I found 'Tigger_the_Wing' hadn't been and have used it ever since.
The actual Tigger the 'Wing is at home with my daughter; as well as being in the photo below, with me on the West coast of Ireland.
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But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
Yes, it's all right...
Jumping jack flash is a gas, gas, gas!
Thanks to EBA, it's the very first song I've downloaded. And it's still one of my greatest favorites.
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Rosenewock21 comes from early in 1999 when I'd gotten a computer for christmas. My very first computer, my very first time using the internet at home (public library since directly after my 12th birthday, bot not at home). And the loves of my life were a pair of bottle fed kittens named Rose and Ewock. Rose was named after Titanic. Ewock had had a condition when he was a newborn that made his eyes look all buggy and alien like, so I named him after the first aliens I could think of. I was not a Star Wars fan and would not learn until much later that I had misspelled Ewok. And the 21 was because my family was doing rescue work at the time, so between our personal pets and our fosterlings there were 21 animals roaming around between 2 houses.
I also used to use yamiawaiitsu for aol. Yami=Darkness, Awai=Light, Itsu=Peace. I told people it meant you had to find the balance between dark and light to truly find peace.
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/3107/3203040031_f7667daa18.jpg)
Look familiar? No... Fine.
L Word season 3. Shane doesn't have a job anymore. So, her friend Chase has a skateshop called "Wax" and he decides that Shane should have her own 'chair' there (Shane's a hairdresser). So... Shane for Wax was born. And I took it up because it was less conspicuous than my old name (Which is my gamertag and other people have stolen. >.<)
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My first screenname ever was based on my IRL name and a character from Jimmy Neutron who was allergic to everything and constantly got sick. Also SQUIRRELS.
Deadpandoubter...I dunno, I first came up with it right after I figured out that all of my religious views were lies, that I'd been lied to all my life about things as basic as "where did we come from?", so I joined up at Yahoo!Answers, chose this user name, and heckled everyone in the Religion area. Pretty sure Satan's still my buddy there.
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But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
Yes, it's all right...
Jumping jack flash is a gas, gas, gas!
Thanks to EBA, it's the very first song I've downloaded. And it's still one of my greatest favorites.
Huh. And all this time, I thought it was because you were born in a crossfire hurricane.
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My original name on the old forum was "untilitsleeps" from the Metallica song. I entered the IRC with that name, and Shivahn (Cagnazzo) said she was going to call me Sleepy. And so a new name was born.
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(http://jackofspade.com/Queen_Of_Hearts/Queen%20Of%20Hearts.JPG)
:P :P :P
I can't think of any overall great reason, just a lot of small reasons kind of fell into place.
1. I've always had a thing for Harley Quinn. I remember watching Batman when I was seven and thinking she was just the coolest person (all but the battered women's syndome, but that's the Joker for you :(). I figured if the Joker had the joker playing card, then Harley would be best represented by the QoH.
2. I used to play Texas Hold'em, and the Queen of Hearts was instrumental in me winning a fair amount ($500+). I ended up hitting a straight flush to the queen. To this day, that is the best hand and most won off a single hand I've ever had (although to be fair, I don't play poker any more, so those records will likely retire). Since winning that, the QoH card has become a good luck symbol for me.
3. I liked the sound of it as a screen name when it came to me and was very surprised no one had taken it.
4. I love the band Queen.
5. I love heart designs and like the band Heart
6. To an extent, I enjoy people lusting for me. I find it an affirmation of my femininity (i.e. I enjoy being the Queen of their heart).
7. Most importantly, I feel like its a somewhat unique screen name which accurately represents me.
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I hate mondays. Monday = maanantai. Kind of love/hate relationship I was having with myself when I needed a name to use at fstdt related things (I like to keep different areas of my life separated).
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I have no imagination.
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It's clunky, clumsy, and doesn't roll off the tongue well. However, it was my first username and has continued to be over the years. Mostly because the name is always free... and for good reason.
Oh and I like Space and Progressive Rock.
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I was reading Marilyn Manson's autobiography back in the day, and in it he said he once had a chicken and he named in Jebediah and I loved the name and it stuck.
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Comes from the Smurfette Principle, which is the trope that in a group of fictional characters, all but one of the teammates will be male. Most of the groups I've been in, I've been the only girl, hence the name.
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Lexikon is a type of italisn typewriter that was the first to use a golf ball. A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language. Lexikon is German for lexicon, but I just realized that.
And now my pseudonym is Lexie Kahn.
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A few years back, a friend of mine asked me to think up a new handle for him to use on some forum. I had just re-watched the LOTR movies, so I came up with something vaguely elvish-sounding, and malendras was the result. It means nothing, has no relation to Quenya or Sindarin, it just sounded kinda elvish. He ended up using it on that one site, posted like 5 times, and then completely abandoned it. 6 months later I'm thinking up a new screenname for myself and I realize he hasn't used the SN anywhere since I gave it to him. So I stole it back and now it's mine.
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Horror Story Ex started calling me by my first initial at some point. After a while, i decided I liked it as an online handle: something recognizable by people who knew me, that still kept me from giving too much away to total strangers. ;)
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My nickname is Nicki(real first name Nicole), and I have no clue how I came up with the rest of it.
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Sigma is the first letter of my name in Greek. "The Aleph" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.
I used to go by Current, but I changed it. (Some would tell you it was because I was tired of people thinking "Current is currently here" is clever wordplay)
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Mine is a portmanteau of my first name and last name.
And I love how "ski" is so common in Polish last names, so that none of you will ever be able to guess what my last name actually is, unless I tell you :P
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Take a guess where mine is from. I chose it because I couldn't think of anything else, I'm lazy and had recently seen the Brian Blessed GPS video.
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Several years back on another message board, I had used the name Homer (from the Simpsons). After a few negative ranty threads, the forum smartass commented on it. He joked that I should look into rageaholic anonymous. Five years later, I signed up on another message board and was desperate for another handle. Well since I was in a ranty mood and do have a tendancy to rant a lot, I picked this handle and have been using it for several years now.
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Ironbite's my beast wars fanfic character.
Ironbite-so.....thus I became me.
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It's Latin, meaning "god out of the people" or something of that nature. It was originally a straightforward mashing-together of the phrases deus ex machina and vox populi, with no regard for how the phrase would actually be put together. I eventually got around to correcting it to be at least slightly less wrong, and that's been the form ever since.
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I've always been a loner, so "stranger" sums up the majority of my personal interactions with other people. Even on the internet, I tend to just lurk a lot instead of actually posting.
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Mine is just a nickname that a friend came up with as a wordplay on my last name. (Shouldn't be too hard to guess what that is. :P )
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Ever seen Seinfeld?
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My current username has a very simple origin.
When I was a little kid (and even into my late teens/early adulthood by one of my dad's now deceased friends), I had the nickname "B Man." My first name starts with a B.
I used to not really like it, but I don't mind it anymore.
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Got tired of people assuming I'm a guy whenever I used a gender-neutral username online, and wanted something that identified me as female. It was originally "Mrs. Antichrist", which came from a joke about me wanting to marry the Antichrist (can't remember the exact context), but I eventually decided that it was a dumb handle, so I change it to its current form (French for "Ms. Antichrist"; evidently, the Antichrist and I got divorced).
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I have no imagination.
Me neither.
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Depends... which one do you want? I have roughly 30 of them.
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A stall chaser is a type of poi move. These are some stall chaser variations: (because I doubt many people know what it is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjLhfJb9QZw
Not me, btw.
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My first ever screen name was JerJerrod, after this dude (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tiaan_Jerjerrod) from Return of the Jedi who greeted Vader to the Death Star. I only used it a little bit as I didn't use the internet much then. I later used the last names of two characters that I had drawn and used in a (crappy) short story; first the villain's, who died in it, then the hero's, which has now actually become my last name.
That lasted until almost 5 years ago when I realised I was a girl, whereupon I then decided to use my screen name to test out girl names on myself, to see how well I would identify with them. I quickly latched onto Oriet, which was a middle/last name of a great aunt (I think; the relation might have been a little more distant, and it might have been spelt Oreit), and I found very quickly that I love it, and it has become my middle name (I always liked the idea of being called by my middle name by friends, but didn't like my birth name). I've also used MadamOriet as a variant of it.
I've also used sanjahime, which is what I finally decided on as my first name appended with the Japanese word for princess (I was/am such a weeaboo), though interestingly if the 'j' is not pronounced like a 'y' (as the name is German) it actually means "three shrine princess", such as from Sanja Matsuri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanja_Matsuri).
The other one that I've used is Robyn Locksley, the name I used for a hunter in the game Ragnarok Online. As should be obvious it's a feminisation of Robin of Locksley, better known as Robin Hood, which I found appropriate since hunters use bows and arrows.
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A stall chaser is a type of poi move. These are some stall chaser variations: (because I doubt many people know what it is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjLhfJb9QZw
Not me, btw.
Really? I thought it was like, a reference/mocking of Larry Craig, what with his gay bathroom sex.
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Depends... which one do you want? I have roughly 30 of them.
Priestling
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Started using the name on the mainpage. I figured that if the name was connected to any other of my internet identities, it could potentially lead to unwanted conflict if it turned out some of the people I interacted with on other boards were more sympathetic to the people being quoted. So I wanted to start over with anonymity. And I picked a name that reflected that.
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Sigma is the first letter of my name in Greek. "The Aleph" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.
I used to go by Current, but I changed it. (Some would tell you it was because I was tired of people thinking "Current is currently here" is clever wordplay)
So, would things that happen to you be Current events? Or have you already heard that one aleph-null times?
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Or have you already heard that one aleph-null times?
No, I'm pretty sure it was an uncountable infinity.
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Depends... which one do you want? I have roughly 30 of them.
Priestling
Fair enough. It was back when I really delved into the older civilizations, and Egypt really grabbed my brain. Combine that with reading Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', and Anubis just really appealed to me to the point I was looking around for any possible information about old rituals that they used to do, and I basically got so far into it that I thought myself a would-be initiate of those old, lost ways. Thus, a priestling.
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The name came out of a time when my life had pretty much fallen apart around me. My fiancee left me, I wasn't making enough money to both make rent and eat more than a couple of times a week, I had to quit school, my car died... all regional shit hit my fan at about the same time, like it had a laser-guidance system in it or something. So there was about a year when I did nothing but feel sorry for myself and try to get back on my feet, and my analysis of the timeline for recovery included the prospect of "maybe never".
As someone else once commented, "Perhaps you should start going by 'Everything Turned Out Okay!'" 'Cause it basically did. But I kept the name because it is easy to make jokes with it.
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Really? I thought it was like, a reference/mocking of Larry Craig, what with his gay bathroom sex.
[rant about minority group of people I dislike taking away my rights by existing]
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Yla originated when I was in a phase of making Fantasy-flavoured Age of Empires II maps. Princess Yla was the new name of the Joan of Arc unit (there's not a lot of choice in AoE for female knights/heroines). It was just a typical Fantasy-sounding name, and the map in question was never finished. Except I subsequently used it as a screenname in multiplayer games, sort-of-roleplaying as the army of that shortlived character, and it went from there.
I also used another name in the past (Nemeter), which has a practically identical genesis, and replaced Yla for a while, but then I actually started to write a novel about her, and I thought it no longer appropriate to use.
Both my screennames are female, take of that what you will. :D
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The name I use here has a couple of reasons. I'm a theme park and architecture fan, so I chose the name of the observation tower at Six Flags Great America(my home park) when I joined an architecture forum. I used the name again when I joined TGWTG(That Guy With the Glasses), as it is an appropriate "geeky" name, even though I myself don't like Star Trek(where I assume the ride's name came from), and again here out of laziness.
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For the last 14 years or so I have been working as a facilitator/troubleshooter/problem solver in the defence industry in the UK and the US. At times I have had to be quite, er, forceful in getting my solutions implemented, the defence biz being ultra conservative. A colleague commented that I had sorted out a particular problem along the lines of "that's what Jack Bauer would have done!" - so I appropriated the name. My two other internet persona are Wolfie and Sniper800 - but they are another story!
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Its the rank i want to achieve when i get in the Navy
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Its the rank i want to achieve when i get in the Navy
So shouldn't it be "captain"?
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I wanted to come up with something unique when I joined the forums, so I made up this moniker. Later someone associated my name with an alternate spelling so I changed it to that.
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Depends... which one do you want? I have roughly 30 of them.
Are you PaleoSteno (http://www.youtube.com/user/PaleoSteno) on YouTube?
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I wanted to come up with something unique when I joined the forums, so I made up this moniker. Later someone associated my name with an alternate spelling so I changed it to that.
It was me! I was the one who made the association! All adoration and gratitude can be sent via PM.
Flames can go to Mrs. Antichrist.
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I wanted to come up with something unique when I joined the forums, so I made up this moniker. Later someone associated my name with an alternate spelling so I changed it to that.
It was me! I was the one who made the association! All adoration and gratitude can be sent via PM.
Flames can go to Mrs. Antichrist.
I just smote her instead.
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I wanted to come up with something unique when I joined the forums, so I made up this moniker. Later someone associated my name with an alternate spelling so I changed it to that.
It was me! I was the one who made the association! All adoration and gratitude can be sent via PM.
Flames can go to Mrs. Antichrist.
You get an exalt.
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(http://i41.tinypic.com/29f5clw.jpg)
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Reminds me of:
(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/972/bestfaceevery.jpg)
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(http://i44.tinypic.com/o7vuza.gif)
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If it were 4 a.m. right now, that would keep me from sleeping for a good hour.
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Once upon a time, I was known as BananaHurricane. It was something my brain cooked up in that half asleep/half awake state.
After a while I decided I wanted a shorter name, so I picked Hades. I don't really remember why I chose it, other than its shortness.
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I chose Often Partisan due to its connection to Birmingham City Football Club. I'm a massive Birmingham City fan, and we have a Club chant called "Keep Right On" which is a modification of a song by Sir Harry Lauder. One line of the chant goes "we're often partisan, la, la, la" which is where the name comes from.
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I chose Often Partisan due to its connection to Birmingham City Football Club. I'm a massive Birmingham City fan, and we have a Club chant called "Keep Right On" which is a modification of a song by Sir Harry Lauder. One line of the chant goes "we're often partisan, la, la, la" which is where the name comes from.
Which Birmingham? AL, Michigan, or UK?
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<-- I stole my nick from this dude. He's Stig Carpelan, a character in a Finnish skit show. There's nothing particularly meaningful behind the choice of name, I just wanted a new nick that's easy to remember. When trying to think of one I happened to remember that I had once taken one of those "Which character are you" tests and gotten him as a result.
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I chose Often Partisan due to its connection to Birmingham City Football Club. I'm a massive Birmingham City fan, and we have a Club chant called "Keep Right On" which is a modification of a song by Sir Harry Lauder. One line of the chant goes "we're often partisan, la, la, la" which is where the name comes from.
Which Birmingham? AL, Michigan, or UK?
UK.
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Football Club
Sir Harry Lauder.
Which Birmingham? AL, Michigan, or UK?
I'm gonna say UK
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^ Yeah, it's Birmingham, England.
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With that said I'm not a fan of Birmingham. :P
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Same as my Avatar. (http://forums.fstdt.net/fstdt-lounge/where-did-you-get-your-avatar-from/msg11008/#msg11008)
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My first name is John. My last initial is E. So, yeah.
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Gyeonghwa compose of the characters 경(競) and 화(花) meaning strong flower or fighting flower. 競 is reference to my real name which comes from the Germanic name for spear. Flower can mean blossoming youth but now it's in reference to my sexuality as being labeled a "pansy". I've actually adopted this as my courtesy name - a reference to my more distant Hàn/Hán heritage.
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I used to be Morninglight (play on my RL first name), then I became Renaissance Blonde (sounded cool), then I became Runa (because I began to identify formally as a Norse pagan).
Now I'm What the Futhark as a combination of trying to be funny and referencing the name of the Norse runic alphabet. You may laugh now.
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I used to be Morninglight (play on my RL first name), then I became Renaissance Blonde (sounded cool), then I became Runa (because I began to identify formally as a Norse pagan).
Now I'm What the Futhark as a combination of trying to be funny and referencing the name of the Norse runic alphabet. You may laugh now.
It's cool because IIRC the word "fuck" comes from Old Norse anyway.
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I used to be Morninglight (play on my RL first name), then I became Renaissance Blonde (sounded cool), then I became Runa (because I began to identify formally as a Norse pagan).
Now I'm What the Futhark as a combination of trying to be funny and referencing the name of the Norse runic alphabet. You may laugh now.
I had no idea that Runa and Renaissance Blonde are the same person.
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My given name is Sakura, which most people likely know means "Cherry blossom" in Japanese. Yaezakura, meaning "double blossom", refer to varieties of cherry blossom with more than the traditional five petals.
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Normally, online I go by the name 'dyanaprajna', which is two Sanskrit words, dyana means meditation, and prajna means wisdom, in a gnosis like manner. But this was too hard for alot of people to type out, and there was no easy way to shorten it. So I came up with one-shot off the top of my head, because it just sounded kick ass. But the more I thought about it, the more symbolic meaning it took on. Like, I don't drink as much as I used to, I generally just drink in a social way, or a few beers in the evenings. It also applies to when I studied martial arts, I would stay on the defensive, until I could make an opening that would allow me a power shot for a quick win.