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Mar. 14th, 2007
LJ name meme
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baffledking.
Rules: Post the explanation of where your username came from. Then tag TEN users whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged post the explanation to your page.
My story: When my family first got internet set up, I was but a wee Lily - twelve or thirteen years old. As such, I was warned over and over again to never use my real identity online. This coincided nicely with the fact that I was having issues with my real, full name (Liliya) at the time. It wasn't American enough, and it looked funny written in Roman letters. I went by 'Lillian' for a time, but that was only at school and I wasn't particularly happy with it anyway.
I picked out another name to use online - Lauren. Unfortunately, the first forum I cared enough about to join already had a very active Lauren. To avoid confusion, I changed one letter or my intended name and got Laurel.
Yes, I deliberately picked names that started with the letter L, like my real name. I was in middle school. My creative skills were taking a nice vacation in Bermuda.
It bears mentioning that I started overidentifying with my online persona, to the point of signing "Laurel" on several of my homework sheets. Those were some lovely parent-teacher conferences.
Moving on. My first major/active fandom happened to be Les Miserables. (Yes, I did read the unabridged version of the book. Even the slow bits.) The 'Mlle' was added to my name in order to make it sound more French.
I no longer remember what my first AOL e-mail was. For my second one, however, I picked the name I'd become accustomed to using - lowercased and de-spaced, because that's what happens with e-mail addresses. (Either AOL mail didn't allow underscores or I hadn't yet managed to locate that key.)
When I ditched AOHell in favor of a DSL connection, I lost the company's email access. So I got a Yahoo account. With the same screenname, because I was busy with college applications and my creativity had gone into the essays, then detoured to Disney World.
Soon after that, I got a livejournal. Guess what screenname I used? This time, my classes were responsible for my creative skills' enforced vacation.
Ironically, soon after this, I started using my real name (shortened version) online.
Tagging:
yunatwilight
wired_lizard
livii
rampala_quistis
yoritomo_reiko
shoiryu
thesleepingcat
tiamatschild
triedandwired
ruebert
baffledking.Rules: Post the explanation of where your username came from. Then tag TEN users whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged post the explanation to your page.
My story: When my family first got internet set up, I was but a wee Lily - twelve or thirteen years old. As such, I was warned over and over again to never use my real identity online. This coincided nicely with the fact that I was having issues with my real, full name (Liliya) at the time. It wasn't American enough, and it looked funny written in Roman letters. I went by 'Lillian' for a time, but that was only at school and I wasn't particularly happy with it anyway.
I picked out another name to use online - Lauren. Unfortunately, the first forum I cared enough about to join already had a very active Lauren. To avoid confusion, I changed one letter or my intended name and got Laurel.
Yes, I deliberately picked names that started with the letter L, like my real name. I was in middle school. My creative skills were taking a nice vacation in Bermuda.
It bears mentioning that I started overidentifying with my online persona, to the point of signing "Laurel" on several of my homework sheets. Those were some lovely parent-teacher conferences.
Moving on. My first major/active fandom happened to be Les Miserables. (Yes, I did read the unabridged version of the book. Even the slow bits.) The 'Mlle' was added to my name in order to make it sound more French.
I no longer remember what my first AOL e-mail was. For my second one, however, I picked the name I'd become accustomed to using - lowercased and de-spaced, because that's what happens with e-mail addresses. (Either AOL mail didn't allow underscores or I hadn't yet managed to locate that key.)
When I ditched AOHell in favor of a DSL connection, I lost the company's email access. So I got a Yahoo account. With the same screenname, because I was busy with college applications and my creativity had gone into the essays, then detoured to Disney World.
Soon after that, I got a livejournal. Guess what screenname I used? This time, my classes were responsible for my creative skills' enforced vacation.
Ironically, soon after this, I started using my real name (shortened version) online.
Tagging:
yunatwilightwired_lizardliviirampala_quistisyoritomo_reikoshoiryuthesleepingcattiamatschildtriedandwiredruebert