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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 09:30 pm (UTC)1) When I started writing, I wasn't really thinking about having a pseudonym as such, so I just used my nickname, which I usually signed in lowercase in emails. There was already a shell on LJ, though, so I went with my email username, shellmidwife, which combines my nickname and what I do.
2) I know my mom picked out my name, as well as those of my two sisters. And I have the same middle name (Jeanne) as my mom does. Other than that, I have no idea ;-).
3) When I was in kindergarten I had a friend named Rosemary, and I thought that was a better name than mine, which was always being mispelled and mistaken for being short for another name. Now I really like my name, but I also really like Sinead, Hannah, and, uh, Callum ;-).
On a side note, I once had a patient (back when I was a labor and delivery nurse) whose last name was Arroyo. She married someone with the last name of Stiffy. And hyphenated her name. Which made her Mrs. Arroyo-Stiffy. *Not* a good choice for hyphenation, but it might make someone a cool pseud--hey, look, royalstiffie's written a new story! ;-)