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[nny]

Why the LJ name, guys?

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[campkilkare]

If you translate the meaning of my last name to Chinese from Latin, it's gao. There is a more complicated explanation involving my webcomic, but that's the core.

(it means tall)

[innerbrat]

Self explanatory?

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

It's a concept from that darn book I've been writing since I was 17.

[ms-ntropy.livejournal.com]

Back in college I was lounging on a Soccer field waxing philosophical about the tentative nature of our...well, nature. How everything we are depends on the diligent "typing" of chemicals and one misplaced "key" can bring everything that is us to a screeching halt.

And how, given the nature of Entropy it was amazing we were here at all.

The friend I was with at the time proclaimed me the Mistress of Entropy. Things kind of went from there.

[frejasanne.livejournal.com]

I... Well. There was an HP trivia game I wanted to play at a Swedish HP website ages ago, and you had to be a member to do so. So I signed up with the first username I could think of, and it sort of... stuck. I actually got it from the names of my two favourite horses at the time, Freja and Sannemön.

[spacedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Nickname from best friend because of my short attention span and hyperactivity.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

[via friendsfriends]

Railfan from a young age here: "Brewster North" used to be a station on the Metro-North (http://mta.info/mnr/index.html) in NY. (The station's still there, but it's called something else.) It sounded like it might actually be a proper name, so I adopted it as a nom de blog. Also, I'm a fan of tea, so there's the pun on "brewing". (As per the icon.)

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

It's from one of my very favorite bands Jump, Little Children.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I like bees!

[lunar-echo.livejournal.com]

PLEASE PELASE please can you check your gmail now. i'm assuming this will go there anyway...but i need a favour - forgot a document. emailed it to you but hope i got your address right!

if not pelase email me at: s0706533@glos.ac.uk

thanks muchly

[melloniel.livejournal.com]

How's this for geeky: I got Nilmelloniel in an Elvish name generator, then it eventually got shortened to Melloniel in LOTR fandom.

(Mellon also means "friend" in Elvish, and is featured in the gates of Moria scene, so. :D)

[gramarye1971]

Dark Is Rising Sequence reference. ^_^ And Gramarye's been my Internet handle since I first set fingers to keyboard.

[muji]

There's a longer story, but the short one is that Stephanie is a fucking shitty name to have as a child with a lisp.

[skygiants]

LJ name comes from IM name because I am lazy!

IM name comes from fondness for books (self-explanatory?) + fondness for elves at the age of 13 (since then, mostly vanished; elves generally too froofy and impractical for my taste these days!) + the fact that I would rather add random letters to my IM name than random numbers + regrettable adolescent tendency to want to Mary Sue-ify names/random words by adding extraneous 'e's and 'y's where they were neither wanted nor needed.

[bohemian--storm.livejournal.com]

When I joined LJ, I was big into the Moulin Rouge fandom and on the soundtrack CD booklet is the quote, "A bohemian storm is brewing." Sometimes I want to change it, but I've had it for five years now.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Uh, mine's kind of obvious I guess? Tora for me, Kowalski for Ray - I kind of wish I had something less tied to one fandom now, but I can't think of anything to change it to!

[naye]

Because I was born in the shadow of Rochers de Naye, and left something of my heart behind there.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Back in the day, me and my Boyz (as I called them) would hang out every so often to play RPGs, shoot the shit, tease each other unmercifully and eat way, way, too much junk food.

During that time I was also vegan (and how I miss it), so of the junk food, basically all I could eat was the jellybeans one of the guys brought especially for me because they didn't have geletine in them. They did have lots of sugar, of course.

One of the guys would start saying 'gluuuucoooose' in response to my happiness over the jellybeans, and pretty soon it was a kind of nickname. But 'glucose' was already taken as an LJ name, as well as every permutation of glucose, sugar, carbohydrates etc. that I could think of.

But glucose is sweet. That worked. ;->

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Old, old nickname, which talks about me being bitchy, and bitchily requiring being petted.

I'd change it, if I knew what to change it to.

[agonistes]

In 2002 I was looking for a new handle on Open Diary because I was bored. I flipped through my complete Eliot and saw 'Sweeney Agonistes'. It looked like a first name and a last name. I've been Sweeney Agonistes on the internets ever since.

The 'agonistes' part is, I think, obvious from there.

[renshai.livejournal.com]

from a series of books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Renshai) I read as a teen. When I picked it at, like, 15, I was probably thinking about equality and the warrior ethos, etc etc.

Now I just like it because it's familiar and relatively unique.

[minkhollow]

End of a Todd Rundgren album title. (My MM journal (hermit_of) is the front of said album title.)

[perardua.livejournal.com]

First half of the RAF motto "per ardua ad astra", which translates as "through struggles to the stars".

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

"beth" was taken, and so was "beth_h" and "bethbeth" and "beth_beth" - so...

(also, Fraser - in Due South - occasionally tried to get Ray's attention by saying. "Ray. Ray. Ray.")

also friendsfriends!

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

S'my name!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

She's a boring character with a good name in a thirteenth-century Middle English poem.

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

When I got my LJ, I'd just bought several of Tove Jansson's comic books (http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/artPreviews.php?artist=a43cd43019761a&type=1) so I had Moomin characters on my mind. Gaffsie is a minor charcter in the books and comics (and I don't think she appears at all in the Japanese cartoon) and I find her very intriguing.

(http://photobucket.com)

That's what she looks like in the children's book Who Will Comfort Toffle? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Will_Comfort_Toffle%3F). She looks much more benign in the comics though.

[genarti]

Once upon a time, back when I was joining my first real internet community, I had to pick a name. Slightly at random, I picked "genuine artificial." (This is stolen from a Robert Fulghum story in which he buys a cuckoo clock made of "genuine simulated wood." I liked the absurdity of it, and the turn of phrase stuck with me.)

Because that's a long name to type, friends there shortened it to first GA and then Genarti/GenArti. And thus, Genarti (and thence Gen) has been my internet nick for six or seven years now. I like it, and it's never taken anywhere, so!

[kenovay.livejournal.com]

Kenovay is the township on Tiree where we have a cottage.

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

Album by Roger Taylor that I was really into at the time, and it's a kinda nifty description of the sort of really cutting edge science I love.

[shaenie.livejournal.com]

Was the name of my first character in an MMORPG I played a million (um, seven?) years ago. My unoriginality, let me show you it.

[cupenny.livejournal.com]

My nickname has been 'Penny' since... well. Forever. ('Star' is rather recent, comparatively!) When I started going online and needed a handle, I wanted something a bit different than all the other Pennys out there, so I added 'Cu' to the front of it, as the chemical symbol for Copper. I was always so pleased when someone got it.

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

The first syllable of my RL name sounds like "cat" and some years ago now I wanted to join a discussion somewhere (can't remember where now, probably a good thing!) and wasn't sure of the etiquette of just jumping in. Hence the "uninvited" prefix.

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

Because I am a curious little star: "Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder." ~ from Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie

[alienpigpen.livejournal.com]

It's an anagram of my real name. X3

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

My last name is sort of unweildy, but the last syllable is usually pronounced "bloom" by English speakers (i.e. pretty much everyone I interact with daily) so, for a while, I considered it as a pen name. I have since gone "fuck it" and decided that if I get famous people can just bloody well remember the bloody silent i in my bloody name, and if I don't nobody is going to care. But I'm still maggiebloome on all the websites I signed up to in the interim.

[bansidhe]

My internet handle's been Banshee since I first got on it *coughcough* years ago: When I came to LJ eight years past, it was already taken, so I went and used a gaelic spelling.

I'm actually more fond of the bansidhe than banshee, now. :D

[khyrra.livejournal.com]

I used to be pretty heavily involved in a fantasy/medieval reenactment group. I really only go to one major event a year, now. Khyrra is my persona name.