Because I'm curious...

[burntcopper]

[Poll #1487113]

ETA : you know, one day I'm going to see who can name all the ticky quotes. most've these are pretty easy, and admittedly they're all themed, but I do wonder who can actually complete the last one...

Comments

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

I kept half of my first fannish id, the 'merit', but cut out the latin half. At the time, latin seemed so precocious. Ahh, 15 judging 12.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Although almost nobody recognised "Gidjabolgo" or where it came from. I stopped using it when I started to meet fandom people, and they started to call me by my handle.

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

yeah, this bugs me so much when people call me "Lemur" or "Saint Lemur" in real life.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:sigh: I got used to it. GB, bunny, gunbunny, BC, KB...

[sassy-lion.livejournal.com]

See part of my user name comes from my uncle's nickname for me anyways, so I have no problems personally being called by my handle at cons and stuff.

[gmh.livejournal.com]

ISTR you explaining it somewhere about 12 years ago.

For my part, I've always gone by my real name, partly as a reaction to receiving heavy mockery about it as a child; it's a way of saying 'up yours!' to the people who found it funny at school.

(And; personal hot button; I have a certain level of disdain for Gideons who have given in to the pressure to be normal.)

Fortunately, it's a rare enough name that I can use it without major danger of confusion, though it caused a small amount of disruption when caerleon turned up on AFP back in 1996; he settled on Gid, I stayed as Gideon.

[birdsflying]

I'm still Megolas for writing fic (so frex: Yuletide and my domain email etc) but for LJ purposes, as I use it less and less for fannish purposes, I changed that.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

the quyestion is whether you still admit to the n****b***....

[birdsflying]

Yes, I do admit to Nightbird and Xanderspet (ahaha, 13 y/o self, what.)

[sassy-lion.livejournal.com]

Nope, I've always been sassy_lion.

I had another name once on mIRC, but it just kind of link back to sassy_lion anyways....

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I had a different username once, and once I actually started getting involved in fandom I shifted gears and got a different one. But I still use the old one on a few places (including Twitter). *shrugs* So I guess I have dual identities? :P

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Been snowballjane since 1997 for all fannish stuff, but have different username for things like skating comms to avoid weirdness.

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

For the bonus one -- just changed the journal name the first time; second time I moved to an entirely new journal and put a little bit of effort into separating the two, though I've stopped caring as much as time's passed.