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katallisonI've been really enjoying the comments on my earlier post about names, and find myself moved to follow up by tossing out a few questions for anyone who feels like responding:
1) Your LJ user name--how did you come up with it, where did it come from? And do you have a different pseud for writing/lists/whatever? How do you decide when to use which?
2) Any stories about how your family chose your RL first/middle names? Is there something you were *almost* named until saner heads prevailed?
3) What's the coolest name you've encountered (either real or pseud), one you really wish you had?
Answering for myself: (a) Kat Allison is simply a slight revision of parts of my RL name; it's the only name I've ever used in fandom. (b) My mother once told me that, if my father had had his way, I would have been named "Ariel," which ... well, let's just say I'm very glad he lost that one; it would have been wildly incongruent with both my RL last name and my basic temperament (I'm not remotely ethereal and poetic enough to be an Ariel). And (c) there are two public figures whose names I've always envied: Tai Babilonia (figure skater) and Moon Landrieu (former mayor of New Orleans). Those are just ... *cool.*
1) Your LJ user name--how did you come up with it, where did it come from? And do you have a different pseud for writing/lists/whatever? How do you decide when to use which?
2) Any stories about how your family chose your RL first/middle names? Is there something you were *almost* named until saner heads prevailed?
3) What's the coolest name you've encountered (either real or pseud), one you really wish you had?
Answering for myself: (a) Kat Allison is simply a slight revision of parts of my RL name; it's the only name I've ever used in fandom. (b) My mother once told me that, if my father had had his way, I would have been named "Ariel," which ... well, let's just say I'm very glad he lost that one; it would have been wildly incongruent with both my RL last name and my basic temperament (I'm not remotely ethereal and poetic enough to be an Ariel). And (c) there are two public figures whose names I've always envied: Tai Babilonia (figure skater) and Moon Landrieu (former mayor of New Orleans). Those are just ... *cool.*
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Date: 2003-07-05 05:38 pm (UTC)Verdandi: The Norn (Norse goddess equivalent to a Greek Fate) in charge of present-day events, which seemed appropriate for a journal. Violetisblue: Violet Baudelaire, the Lemony Snicket character who is my favorite I'm Going to Jail and/or Hell Inappropriate Crush.
Writing pseud Valeria: An MST3K villainess best remembered for sneering repeatedly to the hero in an Elmer Fudd accent, "You and your daughter are DOOMED!" All those V's aren't a coincidence: V = Roman numeral five = my lucky number. Silly, I know, but still.
"2) Any stories about how your family chose your RL first/middle names? Is there something you were almost named until saner heads prevailed?"
Not too exciting a story--my mother picked a first name which, thanks to a certain First Lady, is now very popular (and misspelled, thank you!), but at the time the maternity ward nurse deemed the choice "a little strange." She liked its meaning and its medieval roots. Middle name from my father's late mother. I have no idea what I would have been named if I had been a boy, because my mother was so convinced she would have a daughter she didn't plan for that eventuality.
"3) What's the coolest name you've encountered (either real or pseud), one you really wish you had?"
I have a strange affinity for old-fashioned girls' names--Virginia, Maud, Matilda, Philomena, Augustine, Isabelle--or the floral variety--Violet, Daisy, Rose. Don't know why. As far as actual online names, my very favorite is a since-deleted LJ chum who went by the handle Dipsticklesbian.