How did you choose your avatar and username?

[JennyCapricorn]

I’m one of the 10,000,000 Jennifer’s on this site, and have been a Jenny since elementary school. And I was born in January.

I used to have an actual photo of me from behind but decided to change it to a proper Femme Fatale, and hubby found this photo of a character from the early comic strip The Spirit.

 

[AG31]

I would've assumed Millie D had answered this.

Hey, @MillieDynamite, wanna tell us about your username and avatar?

 

[Meekly_Anna]

I really like this threat. In future I can just link here.
The username is a very free translation of my very ironic nickname. Although irony is one of those things. Meekly can be a very good description when I'm in the right mood. If not, Tetchy fits much better.
I don't know how many self-proclaimed Doms wanted to be mothered by me after a short time. Poor blokes.

The picture is based on a photo. I did a lot of post-processing on it. No, I didn't enlarge my tits, the picture is from behind anyway, horndog.
I just simplified it a lot, I don't want to be recognised by my arse in public.

 

[Meekly_Anna]

A lot of folks prefer a simple arse: more than two buttocks throws them

Some might think that the multi purpose outlet in between has some significance.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My father (adopted) always called me 90 pounds of dynamite or dynamite. My middle name is Dee, so I used Millie Dynamite. That's my eye, but it wouldn't be there anymore if I could change it. I changed the main one, but somehow, I can't change this one. When I was first on here, you could see one on the main page, which was also a pic of little ole me, but Jo made me change this one when I rejoined. But somehow, my right eye survived the change.

Here's looking at you!

Hey, @MillieDynamite, wanna tell us about your username and avatar?

 

[MetaBob]

I chose MetaBob as my username for two reasons:

1. The MMC of the first story I posted here, which was written from his perspective, was named Bob. That makes me MetaBob.
2. The site wouldn't let me use MɛtaBob (which uses a lowercase eta rather than an "e") because it's a "special character"

My avatar is a statue of the Greek poet and playwright Diphilus, who I fancy that I resemble based on the sculpture I chose as my avatar, and also because he was reportedly the favorite intellectual and emotional companion, and lover of, the hetaira (courtesan) Gnathaena, who was one of the most renowned hetaera in the history of ancient Greece, and much of my life I have been fortunate to consort with intelligent, witty, accomplished, beautiful, and wonderfully creative women.

 

[Abbafan]

I might've been listening to ABBA at the time. Anyway, the two ladies in the band are like fantasy characters, beautiful and talented. Obviously I didn't put much thought into it.

 

[FidelityBoss]

I'll go first.

I chose my user name without thinking. AG are my initials. 31 is about as far from my favorite number, 14, as you can get and still be two digits. I'm not talking mathematically, obviously that would be 99, but vibe-wise. I don't remember if 14 wasn't available or I was just wanting to be really, really anonymous. Anyway, I always get a faint whiff of alienation when I type it.

My avatar is a photo of lupines and day lilies from our summer place. I really love colors. I can't imagine what I would do if I had to actually be creative about choosing an avatar. No ideas at all.

Your username and avatar backstory is so cool! AG31 has that mysterious, slightly detached vibe, like a secret agent or a character in a dystopian novel. And the lupines and day lilies avatar is such a vibrant, personal touch, it’s like a little piece of your summer place wherever you go. Love how it reflects your love for colours!

 

[YmaOHyd]

My username is a song, and my avatar is a smoking orangutan, which is basically just the coolest thing (or would be if it weren't so sad). There is no meaning or purpose behind either one.

 

[AG31]

Never. I came from the sea like this, and I will return to her like this.

I have no visual memory, so I can't be sure, but have you changed your avatar in the last few months? If so, want to tell us why? If not, my apologies, but thank you for the clarity.

 

[yowser]

I have no visual memory, so I can't be sure, but have you changed your avatar in the last few months? If so, want to tell us why? If not, my apologies, but thank you for the clarity.

I don't know this positively, but I think she changes her avatar every time she gets a raise at work. She's done pretty well over the years.

 

[madelinemasoch]

I was deeply inspired by the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, namely Venus in Furs, from whom the term ‘masochism’ gets its name. I innovated a new philosophy of the subject as a living art form and a force. Taking on that name epitomizes what I am trying to do in this particular area of my creativity.

The first name, Madeline, was given to me by someone else, a woman of the same name.

My avatar is a picture of my character, Eleanor Winter, from the story of the same name and my old Cuckold Camp. I generated it using AI. The old avatar was also a portrait of her, looking more like a painting than a photograph like the recent one. I consider this new one more beautiful and I was hoping someone would have noticed I changed it about a month ago. She is my favorite character I’ve written for on the site. Unfortunately her stories are removed, but we have plans to continue and revise and do more with her in the near future.

 

[AG31]

I was hoping someone would have noticed I changed it about a month ago.

I definitely noticed.

 

[Scarla]

Mine is the first name of the pen name I choose for my novel (monster romance).

My avatar is a picture I generated with AI, based on a photo of me.

 

[Hardnfast93]

My profile pic is a good picture of my ass, and my username is how I like it fucked.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I originally used this name on Reddit [and then RedGIFs], it's a weed pun. I also post my writing and pics on there and wanted the same account name across these platforms.

For my profile pic I looked through my existing stash of tons of avatars for something I thought was fitting--I saw this one, a girl asleep at her desk after, perhaps, writing. I thought it fit, I like it.

 

[CyranoJ]

It's funny, I thought I had responded to this thread back when it was first posted, but maybe not.

My username is just an abbreviation of the pen name Cyrano Johnson, which in turn was a play on the name of a minor character from an old Star Trek episode. At the time when I first started actively writing and posting here, I was conceiving the project that eventually became "Space Princess." So the tie-in is really to that.

My avatar is the Babadook, and has been for some years now. I just like the look of him.

 

[Bloodandglitter]

Blood and Glitter is part of a line from Re-wired by Kasabian.
My avatar is Clive Owen who I have the hots for

 

[Areala-chan]

"Areala" is a name I've carried with me since I started going online back in the late 90s. I'm a redhead IRL, and Warrior Nun Areala was a comic book with a red-headed protagonist I enjoyed reading. The -chan part comes from my Japanese studies; it's a diminutive added to a person's name to indicate informality, closeness, and endearment.

My avatar is the character Nene from the anime Bubblegum Crisis. The artwork is taken from a official merchandise t-shirt sold in 1994 by ADVision and The Right Stuff, called "Reflections on Nene". The scene never appears in any of the videos, but I've always described myself as a depressive creative, and this image has always spoken to me. And yes, I still own the shirt.

If you visit my profile page, you'll see another image of Nene, this time wearing her glasses, as my "background" image. Since I now wear glasses myself, I felt like it fit, and her goofy face serves as a counterpoint to her sad one in the avatar.

 

[WittyUserName]

I'll go first.

I chose my user name without thinking. AG are my initials. 31 is about as far from my favorite number, 14, as you can get and still be two digits. I'm not talking mathematically, obviously that would be 99, but vibe-wise. I don't remember if 14 wasn't available or I was just wanting to be really, really anonymous. Anyway, I always get a faint whiff of alienation when I type it.

My avatar is a photo of lupines and day lilies from our summer place. I really love colors. I can't imagine what I would do if I had to actually be creative about choosing an avatar. No ideas at all.

I wanted a clever name and I couldn't think of anything actually witty. So, here I am! My avatar is because I love Dungeons & Dragons.

 

[filthytrancendence]

Somebody just linked this elsewhere, probably @AG31 but I don't feel like clicking off the thread to check, lol...

But it was fun to look through and there's a few of us newer folk lurking around lately that aren't on here yet.

I'm surprised nobody's ever called me out for misspelling transcendence, and my excuse is that the correct spelling was taken when I made the associated gmail account and now it's just how my brain spells it.

Anyways, I had a pretty transformative sexual experience that set into motion my writing of erotica. It's colored my outlook on a lot of things, frankly. And filthytrancendence is kinda my mission statement as a writer, I suppose. It's also too long and very pretentious, so it fits me well.

My avatar is a photo I took. I've got a thing for dead trees, especially in shadow against an interesting background. This was at a park in my city at dawn, one of my favorite photos I took early getting into photography and editing. I've got probably a half dozen similar shots of dead trees on various colors of sunsets/rises but I went with orange because there's not a lot of orange avatars around.

Here's the... not full res but highest res the forums will accept version... lol

 

[AG31]

Anyways, I had a pretty transformative sexual experience that set into motion my writing of erotica.

Do you describe this anywhere? I, too, had a transformative experience that marked my beginning to write erotica.

 

[filthytrancendence]

Do you describe this anywhere? I, too, had a transformative experience that marked my beginning to write erotica.

Not directly. The first sex scene in A Wind Blew Through Me was heavily inspired by the experience, and Amy is heavily inspired by the woman I had it with.

Still not sure I'm comfortable going full autobiographical with anything, but obviously there's shades of me in everything I write, as I imagine there is in all of our work.

 

[ElvieG]

Elvie is the diminutive of my given name. G is the first letter of my family name. The avatar picture was a random snap my husband took with a camera he'd just received in the post.

 

[Writer61]

Bodington was my favorite beer to imbibe when I first joined Literotica. That beer is no longer available on the shelves of my local supermarket. Besides I get grief from my oldest daughter when I buy beer on the premise that I should not deteriorate my health unduly. So, I only drink hard liquor nowadays. Perhaps I might consider changing my user name to Johnny Walker Black. Red of course is too plebian and Blue is beyond my means. As to my avatar it is picture of a woman, who I happened to come across randomly while surfing the internet. To my mind she seems to represent the quintessential alluring woman whom I would be instantly attracted to based purely on physical appearance alone. I pattern some of my female characters with such physical characteristics in mind.

Umm, shouldn't that be Boddingtons?