time to be utterly selfish

[burntcopper]

Pondering changing username, as kabukivice is... I've had it for fucking years, and it dates back to a time when I was in awe of David Mack. (my patience with him has since grown thin - he's still immensely pretty, but the re-using of art and the poetry... meh) Even though it's what I'm known by on the web, up to and including domain.

My main peeve is that nearly everything aside from burntcopper that I can think of and like is taken. By people who haven't updated their journals in over three years. In the case of snapdragon, she posted *once* with a 'hmm, I got one of these' back in about 2000 or so and never posted again. Grrrrr. I just wish there was a way to contact these people and go 'hi, could you please delete your journal so someone else can have your username since you're not using it?' without seeming incredibly rude. Not to mention at least one, there's no email to contact them with and they probably don't use that email anymore.

I have darkisrising, but that's used specifically for nano. (thus blocking all the Dark is Rising comms from using it. Whoops. But I host the main slash archive for the fandom, so I feel vindicated. :g:)

:pouts muchly and sulks:

...This has actually been building for near on two months. Just to let you know.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

the thing is on the web asking to use someone elses username is like asking if you can be them when they're gone. slightly odd.

some people don't post because they're dead, forinstance.

other people go around making sure they are them at all the places they can get a name, so that nobody else is them in a different domain.

with only having a name to hang all this identity stuff on, seems more important to keep it distinctive.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

I'm of the opinion that usernames are much like any other object : if you're not using it and it's gathering dust, let someone else who wants it use it.

:shrugs: I've never been precious about names as it is. Think how many people share your own given name, for instance. No-one gets finicky about someone having the same name as them IRL. Not to mention a lot of people are different names in different places on the web, or change it when they feel that name no longer represents them.

Kabukivice anywhere on the web is me, but that's only because it's a made-up word. I was ghoststar3 when I first started on the web, changed that to kabukivice, my penname is gunbunny, but most of the time I refer to myself as Heather.

[hackenbacker.livejournal.com]

So, if you like burntcopper, why not go with that? As you say, you already have the domain, so if having a consistent identity is important, you'll already have it. Although I can see why burntcopper, and (the artist currently known as) kabukivice may need to be distinctly separate entities.

As for the unused accounts, our nameless friend does have a point - an unused account may mean that the owner isn't in a position to delete it. I guess some people need to petition LJ into instigating a 'dead account' policy - if you don't log in / update your journal after 6-12 months it should be frozen and then removed. Although it wouldn't be entirely fair to apply this to already existing accounts (or at least, notify people and start the counters from now).

Otherwise, we've already got the 'nudge' facility for friends that don't update in a while. Maybe we should just have 'poke' for those we don't know and haven't updated in even longer.

[(Anonymous)]

The Kabuki stories written by David Mack are incredible.
Have you seen the newest series that right now coming out from Marvel called KABUKI: The Alchemy?
It is the most innovative and creative and well written book on the market.

And the art is completely new, and nothing like it as ever been made before.
Mack's early Kabuki work was great, but it as become increasingly more sophisticated in his newest story.

I think Kabukivice is a name you sould be proud of! :)