Would you consider changing your lit name?

[johnnieblue44]

That's for sure, and I'm not even a cat person.

I've tossed around the idea of changing mine occasionally, because I think it gives people the impression I'm a bit dim-witted. However, people know me now as TK, and I don't want to be a virgin again and have to explain and all that.

Anyway, if I changed, it would be to a more regular pen name.

you!?! Dim-witted!?!

never!!!

 

[BlackShanglan]

This name was my second choice. My first choice was taken.

I often wonder how different my experience would have been if it hadn't been. I'd have had a gender, to start with. Probably a different posting style as well. It's amusing how much can hinge on a name.

It's certainly become a surprisingly active part of who I am. Even the SO calls me "horsey" from time to time.

 

[Elianna]

I thought I was being clever about mine. I even looked it up in baby names and gave it to one of my characters. I like it. What I like best, though, is that people shortened it the way I never thought of.

I like Eli. Yeah, it could be Eli Whitney, but it's still just... Eli. and I'm happy with it.

 

[Stella_Omega]

This name was my second choice. My first choice was taken.

I often wonder how different my experience would have been if it hadn't been. I'd have had a gender, to start with. Probably a different posting style as well. It's amusing how much can hinge on a name.

It's certainly become a surprisingly active part of who I am. Even the SO calls me "horsey" from time to time.

I positively refuse to ask what that gender would have been!

 

[only_more_so]

I thought I was being clever about mine. I even looked it up in baby names and gave it to one of my characters. I like it. What I like best, though, is that people shortened it the way I never thought of.

I like Eli. Yeah, it could be Eli Whitney, but it's still just... Eli. and I'm happy with it.

I just think it's a pretty name. And a hot avatar.

 

[damppanties]

It all goes back to the early 70's when we listened to the popular radio show "Novel Writing" and this particular episode broadcast live from Dorset.

The didn't exist in the 70s. You know who I'm talking about.

 

[Elianna]

I just think it's a pretty name. And a hot avatar.

Thank you.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I positively refuse to ask what that gender would have been!

I bear always in mind your threat to never give me a good hiding again if I tell. Any time a gender begins creepily stealthily up upon me, I fend it off.

 

[fieryjen]

I bear always in mind your threat to never give me a good hiding again if I tell. Any time a gender begins creepily stealthily up upon me, I fend it off.

I don't want to know either. It allows for a much less restricted kind of interaction.

*pets*

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

A few months ago, an AH member asked me what my name means. He joked that I should put, "I need to buy more vowels" in my signature. That's when I added the link to the song "Yeah" in which Ludacris says the phrase.

But no, I wouldn't change it.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I don't want to know either. It allows for a much less restricted kind of interaction.

*pets*

Yes, it does, doesn't it? From both sides, I think. Being a genderless horse turns out to suit me more than I would ever have guessed before trying it. You meet all sorts of interesting people.

 

[cantdog]

I been cantdog, on line, ever since I first came on. Delphi, Prodigy, aol, and many others. This is me. I haven't the patience to be something else.

 

[Vermilion]

This, exactly, except my PMs are, "So, how damp are you?" I'd have changed my name long back if it hadn't been for the stories I had posted under it already. I could have taken down the stories and resposted them but I'm lazy. Also, now, it's not quite so bad.


What's with cute male Brits and their 'The' fetish?

I signed up an alt with my writing pseudonym and got all my stories (and their scores and editor awards etc) transferred to that name. Laurel is very helpful

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[Saucy_Sage]

Damn SS your "food porn" Avs are just too HOT!

(never thought I'd get turned on by a hot dog. Got any taco Avs?)

Thanks! I LOVE yours.

Not yet. But I'm still collecting!

 

[Just-Legal]

I go by many names across the net - I probably should change the one here as I'm no longer Just Legal but LegalByACoupleOfYears is too long hehe.

A couple of my handles I do answer to in real life - Tarista, Kittyn and Katrianah. They're all Warcraft characters.

 

[oggbashan]

Given that I place some emphasis on lit names (but one of many things that make up the whole), have you ever reconsidered your lit name? (I'm not talking alts). If so, what did you consider changing your lit name too? Does your lit name say more or less about you than you think? Why did you decide your lit name?

No. Except to add the alts Jeanne D'Artois for a different "voice" and Fag-Ash Lil just because.

My Lit name is a long-redundant nickname. It has the advantage of being unique and saying nothing about me, except that I'm ancient and have been dead a long time.

Og (oggbashan or King Og of Bashan)

 

[THROBBS]

yes. I would.
If the world was a different place. I would use my real name.

Sadly, this world/culture is full of fear (my own too), hypocrites and gossips.
I have changed my Lit name a couple times now. I used to be too open about my identity. In fact, I may be getting to casual about that again. But, I used to sometimes use my own photo as my AV, I would occasionally post references to my real life work, I even mentioned my real name.

Unfortunately, someone, being all clever, decided to "out me" on a blog. In another world, I would and could defend the dichotomy of me... this is not that world. And the general public cannot stomach te concept of what I do AND my erotic nature.

I can.

THROBBS is a stupid name.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Nope, not now. I already had to once already, but I like this one.

I'm known throughout the universe as this on many different sites I have used a variation of my current name.

There was even a book or two written about me or had me as a character in them.

 

[shereads]

Yes, it does, doesn't it? From both sides, I think. Being a genderless horse turns out to suit me more than I would ever have guessed before trying it. You meet all sorts of interesting people.

I've never thought of you as genderless, darling.

 

[fieryjen]

I signed up an alt with my writing pseudonym and got all my stories (and their scores and editor awards etc) transferred to that name. Laurel is very helpful

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I was wondering about that.

I'd like to do that as well, though not with all my stories, only with my better ones. You think she'd go for that?

 

[THROBBS]

... Being a genderless horse turns out to suit me more than I would ever have guessed before trying it....

I agree with shereads, I think you embody BOTH genders, and in doing so ar emuch more than each alone. I feel that with your thoughtful posts and without projecting a a gender bias, you allow us (me) to read what you say more clearly.


hmm there is something a bit God-like in that.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I've never thought of you as genderless, darling.

Genderless yes-- sexless, certainly not!

 

[sweetness6280]

I might, but I've been known as Sweetness for almost 20 years. It's my nic on many sites, and my nickname in many of my social circles. I have used other nics, but none seem to fit as nicely as this one.

 

[damppanties]

I signed up an alt with my writing pseudonym and got all my stories (and their scores and editor awards etc) transferred to that name. Laurel is very helpful

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Good idea. Since I already have a pseudonym picked out, it shouldn't be too hard to register it and shift.

 

[Handprints]

Had I foreseen, as I should have done, the number of PMs I'd get from semi-literates who felt certain I was both female and in search of firm correction, I might have chosen something else. What I find odd is that once I added the kettleball image to my posts, I stopped getting the PMs. If someone can explain that to me, I'd be grateful...