Origins of your net name and title.

[PennameWombat]

Penname is... well, obvious. Wombat is because I like wombats. I consider them the antipodean equivalent in my adopted hone to groundhogs, of which I'm a big fan. Yes, I've been to the Punxsatawney Phil ceremonies. I also once owned a house which had a family of groundhogs living in the back yard.

I also like that I can choose from various meanings. "Waste Of Money, Brains And Time" or, a "A wombat is a slang term for one who eats, roots and leaves" (keep in mind "root" is Australian slang for "fuck.") Taken from a children's book that said "wombats eat roots and leaves."

 

[Biggalute]

Interesting thread. I'm a large, clumsy oaf. My wife, tired of me breaking things and making everything look untidy, called me a big galoot. I spelt it differently but the name stuck

 

[Rob_Royale]

When I first joined Lit as a reader I was unconcerned with my moniker and came up with Robroy1968 based on my name and birth year and a movie I'd recently watched.

As I began writing I decided that my screen name didn't feel very memorable, or authorly, so I modified it a bit. But not so much that people wouldn't connect the two naturally.

As for my title, if you know Pulp Fiction, you know it just works. And I've been known to be a bit chessy at times.

 

[KachinaDoll]

I'm small, four feet ten. On a shelf above my design work area, under a glass dome, is a Kachina Doll by the Hopi artist Kevin Pocheoma. It's that simple.

 

[MajorRewrite]

To start things off, “Achtungnight” is an invocation of a moment of creative imagination. It’s a translation of “Hello, Darkness”, which was not unique enough for me.

I assumed you were a U2 fan. Or a Hitler fan.

My alias comes from my habit of making huge changes to stories while writing. The finished product rarely resembles the original idea. And it sounds like a person, which is amusing to my simple mind.

 

[friendlyoldman]

I wanted to create an email address when I was travelling to Cape Wrath in Scotland and chose lighthousenorth. Since I've always been using that name on forums and in chat rooms, although it absolutely does not make any sense here on Literotica. Except that some people have a Freudian explanation for the fact someone is interested in lighthouses. I'll leave it up to the readers to adept that explanation or not ;-)

 

[AchtungNight]

I assumed you were a U2 fan. Or a Hitler fan.

My alias comes from my habit of making huge changes to stories while writing. The finished product rarely resembles the original idea. And it sounds like a person, which is amusing to my simple mind.

Lots of people make such assumptions. Regarding Hitler, I actually have multiple characters who are based on people like Count Stauffenberg, Max Radl from The Eagle Has Landed, the Scholl siblings, and others who turned against the Nazis. People forget Germany includes these people also, not just supporters of that annoying git. Whom I’ve killed a hundred times over in early Wolfenstein games and would gladly take out again if later games in the series where the Nazis actually win didn’t disgust me these days. Honestly, who thought it was a good idea to invalidate the badassery of so many people like that? Including the game hero and two of my great uncles and my grandfather who actually were in the war… but I digress. Let’s just say I will never enjoy those games.

I am a U2 fan. But I thought up the name not knowing they had an album with the title Achtung Baby. I still tell people it’s a portmanteau of the album title and the Rush album title Fly By Night sometimes, when I don’t remember the true origin.

I like your net name. It reminds me- I once had a Civil War veteran character called Major Fleming Looney. He fought for the South as a damn fool living up to his name, like the Saint of Killers from the Preacher comics. Then he turned on them and became a conductor for the Underground Railroad during the war’s last few years. He had a daughter named Liv who was a total pansexual in Victorian England and ended up seducing Evie Frye from Assassin’s Creed as one of Evie’s many failed relationships before she got with her canon love interest. Others included a wizard from Magical Britain, Methos from Highlander, and Spike before he became a vampire. Sadly the crossover grew beyond my ability and had to be scrapped before I could finish or publish it. Memories. Maybe I’ll bring back Fleming, Liv, and their other family members someday. His wife was named Ima and she died in the war during the family’s abolitionist work against the Confederacy while Fleming still served in the Army before they left America to escape the confusion and persecution of Reconstruction… I really didn’t detail how that happened or anyone else in the family (there were a few cousins and Liv’s younger brother Frank). If anyone picks up this story the Looneys all better follow my canon and have appropriately punny names.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Like Smutty (and sidekick Fun) I had to quickly come up with something unique when I posted my first story.

Name generators were no help, so I went with something from antiquity (Syleus was an evil man killed by Heracles. And the name given to a vase painter from ancient Athens famous for depicting that story). And it snows a lot where I am.

Meh... good enough for a smut writer, I guess.

 

[Winter_Fare]

Comfort food mmm pie...

 

[MetaBob]

In the first three stories I published to this site, which are really one larger story cycle that I might eventually get back to finishing, my main male character is named Bob. So that makes me, the author of Bob ... MetaBob. Elsewhere, I have used MɛtaBob (with the lowercase "eta" instead of an "e"), which I prefer, partly because it's pronounced the same way as it's written, but this site didn't support that.

I haven't fiddled with a title here; too few characters available, so I just use the default.

My profile pic is of the Athenian poet Diphilus, who is reputed to have been the favorite companion of Gnathaena, one of the most well-known of that city's hetaerae, famous for her lavish parties and wit.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I'm a big fan of Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, and an eighteenth-century feminist.

 

[CyranoJ]

"CyranoJ" is an abbreviation of the pen name "Cyrano Johnson" which I used originally to start writing a pornographic series of Star Trek parodies. It was a crude play on the name of a character, Cyrano Jones, in the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles."

 

[SimonDoom]

Random. It's not connected or related to anything and it has no meaning. I think it originally popped into my head as the name for a potential character in a story, and I decided to co-opt it for myself when I joined Literotica. I would choose something else if I did it all over because "Doom" has nothing to do with my life perspective at all.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Random. It's not connected or related to anything and it has no meaning. I think it originally popped into my head as the name for a potential character in a story, and I decided to co-opt it for myself when I joined Literotica. I would choose something else if I did it all over because "Doom" has nothing to do with my life perspective at all.

I thought you liked Simon Says and the first-person shooter game Doom. Silly me, looking for meaning where no meaning exists.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Mine too is random and completely unconnected with any other facet of my life.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It can be explained with a photo:

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[oneagainst]

It can be explained with an image:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjM5NTgzMDk4Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTgxNDQyMTI@._V1_.jpg

ah, so you did the same thing as that other guy that used to write here, emtwentyfiveinterchange

 

[ruddygore]

Throckmorton P Ruddygore from River if the Dancing Gods by Jack Chalker. I can only wish I had the élan and style that Ruddygore has.

 

[AchtungNight]

I thought you liked Simon Says and the first-person shooter game Doom. Silly me, looking for meaning where no meaning exists.

I thought you were related to the famous Dr. Doom from Marvel Comics or at least a fan.

 

[Wonderer67]

i am a Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter. But wanderer was taken. I am also curious and a wonderer. It works.

 

[purplelavendar]

My biggest passion is gardening! The smell of Lavender is always one of my favourites so I thought it was fitting. I was also staring out at my lavender bush when I made this account

 

[purplelavendar]

My biggest passion is gardening! The smell of Lavender is always one of my favourites so I thought it was fitting. I was also staring out at my lavender bush when I made this account

And as I write this I realized that I spelt my net name wrong…*sigh*

 

[Mastered_again]

It comes from a rebirth. Discovering my younger self again once all the distractions and responsibilities of parenting and childrening (caring for our parents) were over. Still love my kids, but they have their own lives now.
It made me happy then and does now too, maybe more so, cuz I'm no longer self conscious about it.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Mine suited me much better when I first joined 10 years ago. But I still feel bright and shiny even though I’m a middle-aged mom now.

 

[NoTalentHack]

I wanted a self-deprecating nickname in case I sucked. It turned out I didn’t (mostly), but it’s turned out to be useful in another way: the least creative trolls that want to throw insults will start with my name, which makes them easy to ignore.

Loving Wives SME (Subject Matter Expert) because I write there most often and have put a lot of thought into the audience, the category’s evolution over time, scoring, factions, etc.