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Jul. 5th, 2003 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 05:59 pm (UTC)My online pseud, Luminosity, has been around since I've been online. Back in the days of FidoNet and EchoNet, I frequented the Mindless Chatter net, and we all had umpteen nicknames, each of which meant something silly. Luminosity Deville (Light of the City) was my "World's Greatest Authority" pseud, since someone else had already taken "Professor Irwin Corey." And I liked the way it looked and felt. I've had it for so long now, I'll answer to my given name or "Lum" equally .
My real name is for my mother and my grandfather. I saw the list of names that my mom had picked for me when she was pregnant with me, and among her choices were "Jillian," "Marshall," and "Marguerite." I would have loved "Jillian" or "Marshall," which is my father's name, but I like my real name, too. Had I been a boy, I would have been "Henri Marshall."
As I said earlier, "Fantasia Spite." :)
When I was in high school, I knew a girl named "Superficial." I was just brusque enough to ask her mother why she was named that, and her mom said it was the most beautiful word she'd ever heard. Go figure.