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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 05:52 pm (UTC)1) A lot of people think Rowan Fairchild is some kinda pagan thing, but it's not, like, at all. *g* Originally, I was gonna be Elaine Fairchild (after the plainspoken puppet from Mr. Roger's Nieghborhood) but when I arrived in DS, there was a bigtime writer named Elaine Walker and I didn't want any Elaine confusion. The book I was in the midst of reading at the time was Anne Rice's "Witching Hour" (which is one of only two Rice books I've ever read) and her protagonist was named Rowan, who was tall and tomboyish and had a big black dog. So... *g*
2) My RL first name is compromise on my mother's middle name (which my Dad deemed just a tad too plain.) Everyone in my family have 19th century sounding names. If I'd been born a boy, I would have been named Russell.
3) When I get crushes on people, I tend to fall in love with their names. In HS I had a dumb little pash for a girl named Cybele. Yeah, I'm a dork.