tell me the story of your username and how it came to be your handle.
when i was a senior in high school, i had a friend who always teased me about my rosy cheeks. he nicknamed me "rozee", and "cheeks" was an occasional add-on. i thought it made for a fun username.
your turn!
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05-Homotastic: Tales of a Teenage Fag Hag - Fail.
06- Homotastic (take 2) - Epic Fail.
07- 36 -WIN!
08- What Goes Around Comes Around - Loser
09- ctrl+alt+murder
1,516 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 21 18
Buckshot George was given to me by my band's singer because my real name (Jason Smith) is unusable in the entertainment business. The name was inspired by Young Guns or Young Guns II, I don't remember which. The funny part is the guy who gave me the name reminds me of Emilio Estevez. Hahaha
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11,076 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 21 43
I was on a trip to Texas when we stopped in a mall by the airport. There was a cool store by the name of Sephora. Now, I wasn't into make-up at the time and had no idea what they sold, but I loved the name, so I took it. And now I'm Sephora XD I guess it means bird in Hebrew. It turned out well, haha.
----------"Shining brightly, even for a split second, is better than living a dull-grey life for eternity."
2008 - Grains of Sand - 55,000 words
0 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 10 58
Hoi Sum is my Chinese name. I am not Chinese, but my husband is. He gave it to me and I love it! My car license plate even says Hoi Sum. Hoi Sum means "joy," "happiness," or passion" in Cantonese. My middle name is Joy, and so that is how he came to give me the Chinese name of Hoi Sum. When we were dating my first Chinese name was Dai Lo Yau or "Big A**"-he thought it was pretty funny-once we were engaged though I asked him to give me a serious Chinese name.
51,453 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 12 21
I'm slimequeen because I'm the queen of slimes. No, really. I'm a collector of Dragon Quest slimes. Within the video game series, slimes are the first monster you usually battle. They look like a blue Hershey's kiss with googly eyes and a red smile. I had a thing for slimes, even when I was a kid. Geez, they look downright adorable as you bash them to death.
I don't import many slimes now because of the cost and the fact I make almost no money, but I still love my slimes.
0 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 22 56
~dramatic 8-bit music~
A slime draws near!
Command?
That was one of the first video games I can ever remember playing. It's hard not to love the slimes!
As for my username, I came up with it when I was around 14 or 15. I wanted something different as everyone back then used the same popular characters for their usernames(usually with a few random numbers after it, Sephiroth1627 or some junk like that)
I kind of feel like I've grown out of the username, but in all the years I've had it, I've never found anyone else to ever use this name. It feels like the name pretty much is a part of me after all this time, so I keep it.(or shorten it to just GS for some places)
----------~First Year Participant~
2009- Marred by Magic
0 / 50,000
oct. 7, 2009 - 07 41
My story is not a funny one, but I'll share anyway. I love the color purple and found purple uniball Signo gel pens two years ago. I love they way they write and pretty much use those types of pens exclusively when I'm writing (I do all my writing by hand first, then type it up later, I just can't think creatively when facing a glowing screen). I did a mini zine about my writing for a swap and somehow came up with the title The Purple Ink Spot (probably from some of the ink on my hands, as the ink from uniballs can sometimes smear when you write faster than the ink can dry). This lead to a blog by the same name (where I had planned to chronicle my writing adventures, but it remains sorely neglected most of the year). So it just seemed like a natural username for NaNoWriMo.
----------2008: "Guardians" = >9300 (big ol' FAIL)
2009: "The Agency"
51,453 / 50,000
oct. 7, 2009 - 09 10
Gamerstud: It's always awesome when people recognize slimes and can pull out the old school NES references!
5,514 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 00 50
Well, Lyara is a username I made for TarValon, a site based on Robert Jordan's book series. And I achieved the rank of Aes Sedai there a couple years ago..... so basically, I just used that. :p
Lyara is just another part of who I am as a whole..... and it's a really pretty username to write. :p
----------TO WRITE!!!! That's really the only reason I'm here. SOMEthing has to motivate me. :p
39,576 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 07 33
Virg is short for virgin. I started attending hockey games with the boy about two years ago and last year began a funny faux hockey blog. Some of the hockey friends started calling me virg. I've recently revamped the blog into a personal/home/crafting blog cause I don't really hockey, but I kept all the old posts on the site. http://virginhockeyfan.blogspot.com/
Plus, I like the virgin reference cause its a smidge naughty and I love the idea of trying things I haven't done before.
9,164 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 16 10
I recieved mine from a college professor/boyfriend (yes I actually dated one of my college professors) who started using it when I dressed up as a fairy for halloween in Ireland. He started writing it to me in emails with fairy as faery in order to keep the old irish english spelling. I've kept it ever since.
----------Heather
51,453 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 18 11
Virg, great story on your name. I'm in a hockey family, too. My husband is a huge Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but we support the Coyotes, too. He also plays roller hockey. It's always nice to find other hockey folks out here in the desert.
14,623 / 50,000
oct. 9, 2009 - 10 57
This could get me kicked out of the wannabe literary community but mine came from Larry the Cable Guy. I stole it. He was making fun of the people that work in fast food and that degenerated into making fun of retarded people and how after he ordered his burger he was asked "Wiggy Fifes?"
biggie fries.
I swear I don't like...ok...I don't prefer "dick and fart joke" humor but it still makes me chuckle. You can flame me but I won't care.
BTW...What's better than winning the Silver Medal at the Special Olympics?
NOT being retarded.
Couldn't help myself.
----------2008 "What Color Is Your Sky?" 55,000
38,070 / 50,000
oct. 9, 2009 - 11 45
Aw, y'all have such fun little stories behind your usernames! Mine's not so amusing, and you can probably figure it out for yourself.
A: First initial of my first name.
N: First initial of my middle name.
Pesch: Last name.
a.n.pesch. Pretty straightforward. Although I admit that it was inspired in part by J. K. Rowling, a favorite author of mine, and I got the all-lowercase idea from e. e. cummings, because I just love the curious oddness of no capitals.
~a.n.pesch
----------"Procrastinate today. Don't put it off."
~Ellen Degeneres
28,040 / 50,000
oct. 10, 2009 - 11 50
Mine is just my name. I wanted to be more official for NaNoWriMo, dont ask me why. If I do publish books it will be under my awesome pseudonym "Hank Frost". I got that nickname in the Army. Its a long story but in any case it stuck. My parents even call me Hank now!
Another pseudonym that I go by is Archmagician. I use this a lot because of my love for Fantasy Roleplaying, which is what got me into this writing business in the first place. It also got me into software engineering so I can say that Roleplaying has made me millions. :) My first computer program ever was a dungeon map on a computer screen back in oh 1981 or so and whats funny about that is I hadnt even started Roleplaying yet. I just had someone describe the game to me and I knew that I would love it.
----------My Blog: http://hankfrost.blogspot.com/
My Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjrVZlCFzU
3,133 / 50,000
oct. 11, 2009 - 12 00
A long time ago, there was a pen-and-paper roleplaying game called Tales From the Floating Vagabond (aka T2FV). It was a comedy game with all sorts of absurdities. One of the main bad guys was Simon Trask, CEO of Trask Industries. The company was kind of like what you would get if you combined Microsoft, 3M, GE, and a few other gigantic multinationals. So a year or two later, when I needed a nym for Tradewars (a turn based online[1] strategy game) I chose trask, and it just kind of stuck.
Notes:
----------1. "online" in this context means "on a dial-up bulletin board system"; at the time the internet *did* exist, but there were no commercial internet service providers so common folk like myself couldn't get access to it.
37,555 / 50,000
oct. 11, 2009 - 15 46
My friends told me a story about planning to throw grapefruits at three boys who proceeded to take their shirts off (the boys, not my friends). Also, I like grapefruits. But simply 'grapefruit' was taken, hence the '1'.
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oct. 11, 2009 - 20 22
Tradewars! I havent played that game in like 20 years!
I used to run a bulletin board called the Daemons Den and had that game online.
----------My Blog: http://hankfrost.blogspot.com/
My Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjrVZlCFzU
17,118 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 12 51
Way back when I was in middle school, my friend and I had a tendency to add "mus" onto the end of words to make them into a sort of fake Latin. At the time, I also had a fascination with things that were ridiculously fluffy, and especially the word "poofy." It was fairly natural to put the two together, with a spelling tweak to make it look better as one word. When I started posting fanfiction and doing other online things, I naturally grabbed that made-up word, since it sounded cute and was very unlikely to be taken. (In fact, in all my names of using it, I've never run into anyone else using it.)
The "unique" part has a lamer story. I was originally registered on AIM as just "Poofiemus" (as I am most places), but somehow I either forgot or inadvertently reset my password. I tried to recover my password, but for some reason or another it didn't work, so I just made a new account, with the extra faux surname stuck on there. Now, every once in a while Autofill grabs that version instead of my usual shorter one, which it did when I registered for NaNo, and now I'm stuck. ^^;
----------2006: Emryana (Success! 58000)
2007: Sayonara, Sanity! (Epic, imploding fail. 25000)
2008: Voice of the Voiceless (Hijacked, but 50000. Success?)
2009: Stratosphere White
26,712 / 50,000
oct. 20, 2009 - 20 02
I ripped mine off from a video game called Guilty Gear. One of the character's aliases is 'the Corrupt Flame' and I thought it cool...so I started using it for user names here and there, and when it came time to give one up to the NaNoWriMo site, it was available and convenient...it works out though. He's still one of my (quietest, rudest and grumpiest) muses.
----------"...Larry? Did you eat the map?"
"Maybe."
20,214 / 50,000
oct. 20, 2009 - 20 16
Mine is nothing exciting... my full name is Sarah Jane and I used to have a co-worker who called me Lady Jane (before she new what my middle name was).
And thus, it has absolutely nothing to do with Doctor Who.
1,557 / 50,000
oct. 22, 2009 - 22 31
M.E.B. is what I plan to publish under. If I ever get around to finishing anything worth publishing >.>
----------My first year participating! Hopefully I can reach 50k... Or even close to it...
26,307 / 50,000
oct. 22, 2009 - 22 44
G. L. Ward is short for Guinevere Lee Ward, which takes the place of Jennifer Lee Carruthers. There, now y'all know my real name.
The story? Simple... most people mispronounce my last name when they see it, or misspell it when they hear it. So why Ward? Well, once upon a time, I almost became a Ward. By the time that was no longer an option, I'd Already been using the name for several years, and had it plastered all over Cyberspace. I think I'm stuck with it now.
As for the rest... I'm a Trekkie. "Far Beyond the Stars" is one of my favorite DS9 episodes. I write what can be considered Science Fiction. K. C. Hunter was so named in honor of female Sci Fi writers of the '40's and '50's. My mother always called me Guinevere when I was growing up, and G. L. Ward just looks and sounds more poetic than J. L. Ward.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
----------Genre? Can I choose more than one? How about this year we call it what it really is: Post-Apocalypse/Fantasy/Romance/Literary Fiction.
Ever look into the Eyes of a Dragon and Find a loving Soul? Welcome to my World.
39,209 / 50,000
oct. 23, 2009 - 12 17
Mine is pretty simple and I've used it for a long time. I like cats, and I always liked the way Tweety Bird calls Sylvester a "Bad ol' Puddytat." The whole phrase was a little long so I shortened it to Puddytat. Then I added my birth year, because it seems I'm not the only one who likes that name. Puddytat is usually already taken.
----------My Live Journal Account http://brandy-bean.livejournal.com/
Feel free to friend me!
2008: Mosaic - Won
2009: Familiar Footsteps - In progress
31,451 / 50,000
oct. 24, 2009 - 08 18
My name is kinda boring. It's just my name (Thomas) backwards with my favorite number at the end. I just like the way it sounds when it's actually spoken.
32,108 / 50,000
oct. 25, 2009 - 12 49
For Halloween in 2005 I dressed up as a court jester. Not long after, I forgot about it.
Several months later I was signing up for a site and all the good usernames were taken. I remembered my costume and, being a girl, naming myself Jester Girl only seemed appropriate.
Recently, though, my username has taken on a life of its own. I've used it on several different sites and I now have a pseudonym based on it: Jessie Chester. So, when/if I ever get published I'll probably use that.
costume->username->pseudonym ^_^
~Jessie Chester
38,543 / 50,000
oct. 25, 2009 - 22 00
So I finally remembered my username *pauses for applause* and realized that I did indeed use my current username from Fictionpress and most of my other writing sites/forums.
Story behind mine is rather simple. My first email address was the name of a favorite character from an anime, my second was a bit odd, and then I got a Gmail account and couldn't think of what to use. At the time I was watching a Japanese Anime called Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl) and the opening song was "Sakasama no Chou" by SNoW. It was then, and is now, my favorite Japanese song and that why I chose it.
No matter what forum, anime or otherwise, I've joined in the last 4 years I've used that name or some variation. I've yet to find a person on any of those forums with that name so I guess I got a pretty unique one.
----------Juan: You do realize that talking about your characters that way makes you sounds schizo right?
Me: Why yes, yes I do.
Writing: Making me sound like a schizo since 2003.
34,276 / 50,000
oct. 25, 2009 - 22 32
Ever since I can remember, I've always been called Rose, or Rosie, by people. It wasn't ever anything that I encouraged (or even liked, until a few years ago), but it was something that was just...there. Then I made this friend who shared my love of musical theatre. I went to see one of the shows he was in, and was wearing this red blouse that had a vaguely Spanish look to it, sort of like something that Rosie Alvarez (DeLeon) would wear in "Bye, Bye Birdie". After that, EVERYONE called me Rose, and it never went away. And the Kauai part is fairly standard. I'm from there. End of story. lol!
----------"The first draft of anything is shit." Ernest Hemingway
42,080 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 18 18
Mine is slightly lame too. All my sisters and I have Lord of the Rings ladies, Arwen, Galadriel, Eowyn, Goldberry, and Rosie. I'm Galadriel, obviously. I used to be Eowyn and my little sister was Galadriel, but then there was a little bit of confusion about the identity of Faramir, so we had to switch. ^_^
----------The number is just my birth year, since plain old Galadriel is not available anywhere. ^_^
"I was with book, as a woman is with child." ~C.S. Lewis: Till We Have Faces
42,003 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 18 53
I'm going to tell you about my name while I procrastinate writing some more!
miss lovely comes from a song from the most influential artist in my life, Ryan Adams. Some people know who he is, other people assume im talking about Bryan Adams.. regardless one of my dear friends sent me a live show of his from 2001 when he started his solo career. During the show he played some of his new material and in it was a song called "Hey There Mrs.Lovely" and there was just something about it that i sincerely adored and related with. I always felt like the song was about me. He later revamped the song (basically decimated it) and called it "These Girls"... I dislike that song with such a passion I ranted to my friend about it, which she found incredibly amusing and eventually she started calling me Miss Lovely (since i'm not married) and it caught on like wild fire in our group. I even had my senior class ring inscribed with "Miss Lovely"
I feel more comfortable having people call me Miss Lovely rather than my real name.
13,570 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 10 34
Hrm. My name started out as Pariah, after the band I was in back in high school. How it the -ic got added is a bit of a long, boring story that no one really wants to hear which I am going to tell anyways. Because I'm self centered like that.
On a usenet group I used to frequent, (alt.gothic) a discussion broke out about the difference between saying using goth and gothic as adjectives. As a joke, I changed my name to Pariah(-ic), because everything is more cool with an -ic. I tried to switch back (because really, pariahic sounds like a skin condition) but people still kept refering to me under that name. So I caved and switched it back.