It is mine and my mother’s middle name. It originated from my great grandmother and I always like how the letters flowed together.
Unfortunately it can be a little confusing for some people to announce. For future reference: R-low-ah
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I wanted something spooky/strange for characters to be asked in a D&D game, so I borrowed this humorous question from Armitage The Third. Eventually, it became my handle.
I like puns and electronica and it seems to have worked out so far.
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I was chatting with a friend online some years ago about Jet Set Radio, and how I thought the american title of Jet Grind Radio sounded stupid. I immediately went “but Jet Grind alone is kinda cool…” and history was made. I later added the Future part at a friend’s suggestion because my twitter handle at the time was JetGrindSA and I was trying to distance myself from SA since I didn’t do anything on there from a year or so prior onward.
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The first time I played D&D, the DM gave me the option to play as a half-fiend (which is ludicrously overpowered but none of us knew that). I was a big Simpsons fan and general jackass, so I insisted my character be named Fiendly McFiend. I have that original character sheet framed on my wall because I am literally the single worst thing in the history of the world.
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Dani (my real name) + Dandelion (my favorite flower). I’ve been using the internet for 18 years, but this is the first time I’ve used my actual name as a forum username.
The “dandelion” bit is just my latest naming phase. I like them because they’re one of the first flowers to pop up in spring. They’re tenacious, edible, my favorite color, and represent happiness in the language of flowers. It’s in my current tumblr and twitter usernames as “tanpopo,” the Japanese version. Since I have a vested interest in the language, and all.
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Yeah, I was one of those people that thought, “Oh dang, I need a username, what’s two things I like?” So I crammed Fefnir (because I like Mega Man Zero) and Masamune (because I like Final Fantasy) and called it a day. But I usually just go by Fefnir in an unsuccessful attempt to sound like less of a huge dork and also because it’s easier to say.
I have a tendency to act like the people around me. 20 year old (dumb) me described this as being a “Culture Goblin.” These days it doesn’t mean anything, just dig the name.
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in college I was hanging out with a couple of friends at like 2 in the morning. One of them was playing through Final Fantasy VII while the we all talked about random bullshit. then while me and my other friend were talking my FFVII-playing friend just randomly shouted out “I’m all frogs!” That made us laugh from the sheer randomness of it. We didn’t know what he was talking about until we looked at the screen and his party had been literally turned into frogs in the game. It became like a running inside joke among us for months and eventually spread to other people we knew. It’s just kinda stuck with me for almost a decade now and is my go-to throwaway uersname when I need one.
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And here I was thinking you were Scottish! (There’s a small town called Dingwall up in the Highlands, I think it might have shared a name with the Dingwall in Nova Scotia, haha)
My name’s literally just a shortform of my usual name. Sometimes I’ll add things onto it, like Chaz Serir or Chaz GELF, but if I can get away with it, just Chaz works for me.
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It’s taken from my actual name, I used to add other things onto it but when it’s available I just register "sout."
I kinda want to change it because I intended it to be pronounced like “suit” but everybody says “sowt.” Now I don’t really care how people say it.
Unless a site has a massive userbase (or requires 5 letters) it is usually available.
@Geop: It’s a good thing you’re not a geologist - a lot of them suffer from health problems due to their sedimentary lifestyle.
@Staghorn: You just gotta sing it for them. Here comes the Thnikkafaaaaaan!
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I misspelled “ken doll” while typing fast on ICQ years ago, and immediately thought “that’ll never be taken anywhere, unlike my current username of choice” which was at the time samael - a band I liked.
Before that I went by “sothslayer” because again I can’t spell. That was originally a MUD character I played way back in 1996 when I first went to polytech (university for dumbies).
I needed a username for GaiaOnline (hahahaha) back in… 2003/4(?) and wanted to use the name of my favorite Final Fantasy character Cecil + a-bunch-of-syllables-mashed-together to make up an anime sounding last name that I won’t repeat here. Eventually I found that incredibly obnoxious and wanted to change it.
One of my friends knew that I really liked Fennec Foxes and started referring to me as Fenns, which just stuck.
I have chronic inflammations in my elbow joints that made both my hands pretty much unuseable during my last year of highschool so I couldn’t make long textposts online, and even after ~4 years of therapy they’re not really healing. I figured I might as well own it, so I started using “MrElbows” for pretty much all my social media (previous one was “sevanslcanzate” a bad transscription of an Etruscan tomb that I thought was hella metal which is where the “Sev” comes from).
then I kept dissociating more and more from masculinity and maleness, so im doing away with the “Mr”.
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“Quintalian” is a name with no inherent meaning, like Kodak or Häagen-Dazs. (Pronounced “quin-tal-ee-an” with the accented syllable like “talc.”) Like those trademarks, it was intended to be a brand name, for the video games and other projects which I imagined one day creating. I first began using the name near the end of high school, posting video game thoughts on various message boards and forums.
It has nothing to do with the first century Roman rhetorician, Quintilian, who I only learned about several years after choosing the name.
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Take Pikachu and put him at Machu Picchu. That’s it. I am probably the only one who finds this amusing.
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I like spooky ghost rats, Latinate naming schemes and Terry Pratchett.
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when I was 12 and far too interested in edgy poetry, I named myself ‘heavy ashes’ on deviantart. the name stuck as i made friends and a few years later decided to just make it ‘ashes’ because of how cringy it used to be
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Mine is an old Pokemon TCG expansion that I thought had a lot of really neat cards.