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What's in an alias?
I'm curious what some of the usernames around here mean. I've seen a number of interesting aliases and wondered at the significance of them. A good portion of them I sure are just made up names which have no real meaning, but not all. So what is the significance of your username?
Why am I asking this? Well it's spurred by people's own curiosity over my own username. I've already been asked about it a number of times and I was asked again today.
So what exactly does my username mean?
My username is a tribute to DAW Books a science fiction and fantasy publisher which in turn uses the initials of the founder Donald A. Wollheim, as it's name.
Also a quick update on my writing
Don't worry I'm still writing I've written more in the last three days than I have in the last two weeks. I've had a lot of family drama, and work related chaos in the last little while that has kept me busier than I would have liked. I'm up to 16,000 17,000 words on Destiny, the sequel to transfigured and I think I've passed the half-way point. I keep thinking of new things to add and loose ends to tie up.
The Jotun finally rear their ugly heads as well as does the villain who's behind it all. We get to find out where all the male Gods went and I finally reveal what Aryanna's debt to the Elf Queen entailed.
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Well Darn it all I missed it too
I guess I will be all over the internet now so I might as well come clean that I am really a 6' tall, blonde hair blue eyed supermodel in my late teens who lives in Hawaii in the lap of luxury ;-) Just to save you the trouble of a Google search ;-)
Kim
lucky dog
You lucky dog! :P
Have delightfully devious day,
Names!!
D.A.W. - you have certainly generated a lot of interest!! I was in Toronto in the early "90's in a book store next to Walk on The Wildside buying a bra when I was asked for my femme name - which I didn't have. The proprietor was shocked & declared that I looked like a Ruth. When I was just starting investigating my gender in 2002, I was invited to a New Year's Eve costume party - didn't have a clue what to do to fit in with the theme of an ancient royal court. Decided that, even though it was a private party thrown by a couple who were were fellows members of a sport club that I have belonged to for 44 years and other clubs members were invited, I would go in drag. Rented a blue brocade floor length gown with all the accessories - did my own makeup - shocked my youngest son when I appeared ready to depart into the freezing rain - and attended the party which had at least 4 couples from the club who all met the Queen for the first time. Added the name supplied by the shop owner from Toronto & became Queen Ruth.
When I transitioned full time in 2005 it was no surprise to some members of the club!! The acceptance by nearly all the people at the party was so strong that it helped give me the courage to continue through full transition last January at the ripe old age of 73. So never say it is too late to be true to yourself.
Ruth
May the sun always shine on your parade
Ruth
May the sun always shine on your parade
Interest
Yes, I just wish I could generate this much interest in my stories. ;)
Have delightfully devious day,
Angharad
It's a close as I could get to my legal name Angela. I wanted something which reflected my nationality, I'm Welsh by birth, hailing from Llandaff, a city within a city, the larger being Cardiff. I also have a strong Scottish element in me, having a Scots mother, but my Dad's name was William so apGwillym (son of William) - he died when I was a kid so he wouldn't have known about my transition.
Angharad means 'well loved, or beloved one' so I obviously chose the wrong name :)
Angharad
Angharad
I love you
You are one of the more open people I have met here. My only regret is we are separated by a large pond, you are someone I would truly love to meet in person.
OddPOV, as in odd point of view. I felt I had to choose something. I don't feel I can go public, though that could change over time, and I'm the odd man out, with a different point of view than most. I guess I'm a bit of a coward, I could never express myself when my parents and brother were alive, I kept it bottled up tight. Now they are gone, and I'm allowing the other person in me to peek out (mostly at these sites). I honestly do not know how my Dad (or rest of the family) would have reacted, perhaps it might have been the same way many other people describe, maybe not. It is moot now, I'm who I am and will never be anything else.
One of the reasons I'm a recluse is I work with kids. I started this when I raised my brothers kids, his son (now mine) needed friends badly. So I got him into DeMolay, and since I was going they recruited me too. It worked, he has aged out, I am still there. If my point of view ever really came out I would be told to leave and not come back. Having said that we have had several openly gay kids and the other kids and advisors never made any notice of it, I've very proud of them.
Many people view anyone different sexually as a pedophile. It is just the way it is.
Actually....
A lot of people translate it as 'much loved', but the prefix 'a' as an intensive should take the spirant mutation, treiglad llaes, so it should be "Acharad" in old Brythonic or "Achariad" in more modern Welsh.The version Angela uses is derived from the Mabinogion, in which it is actually a nicely clever pun.
The prefix 'an' followed by the nasal mutation, treiglad trwynol, means 'without', and the alternative punning origin of the name is actually 'an gwarz' or 'an gward' in Brythonic, or 'an gwarth' in modern Welsh. 'Shameless' or 'without stain'.
So, the original name's use refers to the much-loved woman of unblemished virtue. You can send me my cheque later, Angharad.
My name? Well, it was changed to Stephanie Anne when I first looked at the idea of becoming more myself than I was born, which was probably around the Cretaceous. 'Cyclist' is just descriptive.
I have two - now. When I
I have two - now.
When I first signed up for BC I used JC which were (are) my IRL initials I didn't and don't feel comfortable revealing much about myself... Over the years since then that hasn't changed but I have become more attuned as to who I am. My main online identity nowadays is Lost Ninja, taken from a character I created in City of Heroes (DM/Rgn for those who care) her real name is Hilary Campion...
Now my 'femme' name is Hilary Campion and I use Lost Ninja or LN for pretty much everything that doesn't include my 'nearest and dearest'... :D
Oh yeah and this thread(?) finally got my round to updating for JC to Lost Ninja after all these years. :)
The Legendary Lost Ninja
Just some famil initials
RAMI
Just a grouping of some family initials. Nothing complicated or significant.
RAMI
RAMI
my story is pretty boring
I went looking for a name that connected to my male one, and so ended up reversing "Todd" to get "Dot". Then I lengthened "Dot" to "Dorothy" and added "Colleen" as my middle name first to separate me from any other "Dorothy", but also because it would have been my name if I had been born with female bits.
Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels
Mine isn't an alias
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
My first user name at BCTS
My first user name at BCTS was KD7MVS, which is my amateur radio license number. Given that its been over seven years since I've done anything with amateur radio, it doesn't really pertain anymore, so I switched to LibraryGeek, which reflects my being a geeky librarian, well, former librarian, I'm on disability now. But my sig reveals all, in regard to my name, so I'm not really aliased that much, other than the middle name actually being Robert, not Bob.
Yours,
JohnBobMead
Yours,
John Robert Mead
Well...
For my old one:
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/30271/003-origins-my-acco...
For my current one, my mother wanted another daughter and was going to name her Abigail, one of my older sisters named her daughter Abigail Lynn, so I couldn't use that even though it'd be a similar name to my current middle (Lehi).
My self-chosen nickname of my younger years to avoid being an Andy was "Drew", and Drew could be either gender, so I decided to just keep it as my middle.
So now this is my pseudonym, I may or may not end up using it legally, depends a bit on my mom. If she can't definitively choose one for me, then I'll be Abigail Drew when I transition.
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.
of what dreams may come
At first I was hesitant to attach my name, indeed I may have been banned from one of my employer's, customer's work sites, due to the security head knowing that I wrote stories at several of these web sites.
Growing up, I did not pay attention in school, indeed for most of my life, I have escaped into fiction and daydreaming. So when I dip into my own fiction creation, the stuff of my day dreams, Dreammaker became a pseudonym.
but "IF" I was to be published, I would need a proper name so...
after awhile I decided to use more to my given name, so Dean is my middle name and Vandeusen is the original spelling from the old country of my last name.
Too Old to Change
Dean Vandeusen
yet I am still a "Work in Progress"
At one time a pseudonym, now a place to put work not fit to be read in other words potential stories.
Thereby hangs a tale.
When I started on the internet, we were trying to come up with a nick for an email account. Cathy came to me naturally, because I always felt like that shoulda been my real name. We fiddle-farted around with various additions to the name til we finally came up with one that Yahoo email would accept and ended up with Cathy_t_ 99, which became my pen name... or Cathy_t_
Long story longer, when I began to realize I needed to transition, I kept Cathy, lengthened to Catherine, as my first name, added Linda, which is what Mom would have named me if I had been born GG, and kept my real last name, Michel. Thus, Catherine Linda Michel became my pen name, and then my real name as of november 2011.
Yeah, I know. Dull and boring. LOL
Hugs 'n stuff,
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
I just use my real middle
I just use my real middle name. If someone realizes who I am, I am not all that worried, because they certainly didn't find me by googling my name.
Mine's an anagram
If you work it out, please don't let on in a comment.
A rose by any other name.
Novawoman came from my feelings about my life when I got out from under the Illusion of trying to pass as a man. When I dropped the mask my real personality burst out. Friends told me just how much brighter I looked and acted liked I was a nova. The 99 came from my honoring that I still was a work in progress.
The only bad question is the one not asked.
A day late and a dollar short...
Answering this,
As you might Guess from my chosen name I have some Scandinavian heritage: Also German and Irish (What is it about the German and Irish Americans that has made German/Irish almost a cliche?).
My grandfather was Olaf (Ole) and he passed it on to his first and fourth sons. I never knew my grandfather, but his forth son was my favorite uncle: So I chose "Ole" to honor them.
I've always been a bit of a "lone wolf" for many reasons, among them my gender issues, my boredom with sports and roughhousing and my outspoken ability to verbally demolish most anyone who bothered me. I was so good at this that I only had one actual fight in school.
I had a small circle of friends, boys and girls, mostly from what would be call advanced placement now, but I wasn't really open with them. Another thing that set me apart was that I didn't abide bullying and had friends that others would disdain. I didn't give a damn: If I found something to like about someone they became a friend.
Lone Wolf! Hence "Ulfson": "Wolf's Son" or "Son of the wolf".
Ole
Gender rights are the new civil rights!
We are each exactly as God made us. God does not make mistakes!
Gender rights are the new civil rights!
Late to the party on this
Late to the party on this one. I might have posted a comment to another topic like this before, but here goes.
The alias I go by on the site is what I will change my name to if I am ever able. Jennifer was a childhood friend who moved away her dad was in the Air Force and the C is for Cavazos my grandmother's maiden name. Anyway I'm Jenn (see) C get it.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Simples.
An Extravagance is something that's not essential, but will significantly increase the quality of your life. : )
I'm also quite extravagant in my tastes. = )
Well then....
Well then, I think Extravagance is the purrrrrrrfect name for you! ;P
Have delightfully devious day,
LJ or Luke Jacob Diaz. I
LJ or Luke Jacob Diaz.
I carry the name of a child of mine who was never born. I could only grieve for my angel that sometimes I wished I was the one who bore him in me. The thought of motherhood excites me that sometimes My wife calls me daddy hen. Unfortunately, I can never share nor experience the agony of my wife on the loss of our child. So now I carry his name and my angel is my muse.
Very interesting
My appreciation for your homage to Donald Wolheim unfortunately dates both of us to the era of Sci-Fi that required an image of a vertical silver rocket poised on its fins about to land or take off on the cover of the pulp fiction. I read every one. Don was a great editor and distiller of what was meaningful and of both literary and sociological value to the reader.. He also could write. I am returned in my minds eye to my grade school and junior high libraries and reminded of the stacks of books checked out and returned without any fear of approaching their due dates.
My moniker and image, as I have explained previously and elsewhere derived from a need to pay homage to Ellen Hayes for her Tuck series but oddly it was selected from her fanfic representation of ValTuck in the Aunt Jane series, "Tuck Season, Wabbit Season,Tuck Season" in which ValTuck dyes her hair red and black. Given Tuck's intense fear of all sorts of infections not the least of which are viruses both human and computer I thought that the name Valcyte was apropos. It's a potent antiviral agent.
Val
Firebringer Trilogy
Jan (use name) or Aljan (spirit name) is the main protagonist and POV character in Meredith Ann Pierce’s Firebringer trilogy. In-story, “Aljan” translates to “Darkmoon,” for which he was named because he was born on the night of a new moon. Starting as the rebellious adolescent son of an angry and scornful father, Jan develops into the long-prophesied warrior prince who leads his people, the Unicorns of the Vale, out of their 400-years exile to retake their ancestral home from the usurpers.
During my period of interest in and infatuation with unicorns (which are as ancient as dragons in human history), I found two epic modern unicorn fantasies, the other being The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. Both Firebringer and Last Unicorn are classic “hero’s journey” stories, in the sense that Joseph Campbell described them in The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Interestingly, Ms. Pierce made her protagonist male, while Mr. Beagle made his female; this pattern fits the animus/anima concept of Carl Jung. Both stories, though, speak loudly and powerfully to all of me, to both the male and female aspects of my consciousness. Both are stories about journeys to wholeness, but the experience of being in exile with the hope of eventually finding my way home (Firebringer) speaks to me loudest.
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