Now I have seen some cool usernames and always wondered how people got their names. I got my username from a sticker my brother got me, showed an orange dinosaur. It can be from anywhere; a magazine, book character or just your imagination ^^
Post your story/meaning behind your username in here!
You are like a blacksmith's hammer, you always forge people's happiness until the coal heating up the forge turns to ash. Then you just refuel it and start over. -Persistence (2015)
You have so much potential and love bursting in you. -Omnom
I actually based my username off of a race in a children's book. The name of the book was "Children of the Lamp" and I have always identified with the characters. Since then I've seen many different spellings of the word but I stick with Djinn because that's how the book spelled it. No matter how you spell it no one likes the term "Genie" - it's positively racist.
~When life hands you lemons, make grape juice and have everyone wonder how you did it!
it derives from my fondness for pirates and tigers, as well as two aliases I used online when I was younger, "GreatTiger" and "EyeOfTheStorm". Plus, I think Tigereye was taken on another writing website I tried to sign up for.
Well, it's more band related than anything else. surprising, I know One day in band, our old director wore something other than his normal suit and tie (he has a huge collection of ties). It was really weird - and history making at the same time. xD I looked at one of my clarinet friends, and jokingly said "he's not wearing a tie, he must be mad!" She responded with, "yeah, normally he wears...wears...normally he wears snazzy stuff".
...and that's been "my word" ever since. I only use it for 'special' occasions. xD The pencil part I just added on to make it sound "writish-y".
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Mine is pretty boring actually =P. I was signing up and thinking about what to do, and I looked outside and saw what a beautiful fall day God had made, so I was like "You know what, time for a new pseudonym!" so I got Fall. Wolves have always piqued my interest, because they are so loyal and wild.
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Mine was a line in The Crimson Horror from Doctor Who that just sort of stuck in my head after I watched it. When I was making my account here, I couldn't think of anything else. And that is the story of how I came to be here, gracing you with my clogginess.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -Douglas Adams
I've used mine for a while on various sites. Basically, I decided I wanted a username that was fundamentally me, and, well, it always came back to me and books. I've loved a lot of things, but I've loved books my whole life. I have no idea where I'd be if I didn't read. Hence, Meandbooks.
We're all stories in the end.
I think of you as a fairy with a green dress and a flower crown and stuff. -EternalRain
I think you, @Deanie and I are like the Three Book Nerd Musketeers of YWS. -bluewaterlily
My original name, JKHatt, was my initials (J and K) and hat with two Ts because why not?
Unsurprisingly, Hatt was a common nickname, but @Holysocks wanted something more than Hatt, so she started calling me Hattable ('cause it's fancyyy. Or not. I dunno how she came up with it.) and I eventually stole it from her. :p
SO YAY.
I quite like Hattable. Especially prefer it over JKHatt. Good name, I think.
"I remember I posted Klingon and it made the mods super hard" -Willard
Prok once said something about Nate and apple pie. I forget the context.
I was bored and went on a random username generator and I typed in food and nature. I loved Pretzelsnow, and I actually even used it on another website. Winter passed out here, and I wanted a change to my passion, singing, so I was Pretzelsing. And then of course, not too long ago I changed it to Pretzelstick in honor of the food that I love to eat.
People on here mostly call me Pretzel, and it just described "me" in one word perfectly.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads only lives once ~George R. Martin Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about recreating yourself. ~George B. Shaw
My name's AceOfPayds. People don't always get the real reason that I use this name though. It's really a bunch of reasons compiled into one big one.
Firstly, I know we're not supposed to share our personal info, but my first name is Payden. Yep, not to be confused with Peyton. So anyway, my friends were starting to call me "Payds" because my original name was so, and I quote, "dull and stupid". Whatever that means.
So, one day, another friend of mine and I were playing a harmless game of cards. He pulled out an Ace of Spades. He laughed and thought, "Hey, if you ever become a star poker-player, you should go by Ace Of Payds." He had this funny smile like he had just discovered some new planet. I thought it was pretty clever, so I ended up marveling at this new nickname my friend had mustered.
Now I use it on pretty much everything. And all my friends either refer to me as "Payds" or "AceOfPayds".
I originally used TriSARAHtops as a username on a different site, but the origins are pretty clear. My name's Sarah (shock! gasp!) and so it's a play on triceratops (which also happens to be, incidentally, the best dinosaur).
So, uh, on an old forum website, I changed my username (originally eastern_1 for reasons, I don't even remember why) at one point to 'live forever'. (It's still that, by the way, but you can't find any of my embarrassing old posts if you find said forum because they've cleaned it out. Hah.) I distinctly remember this was because I had something of a Thing about immortality at that time - I was 14 when I made the change, and I found the concept incredibly intriguing. I mean, hey, I'm only human.
Then the time came when I made an account on the NaNoWriMo website - that was when I was 15, shortly before I made my YWS account. I took that old username, 'live forever', and part of my email address (which I still use, so y'all ain't getting that), 'ancient', and mashed it into the little mess that was 'ancientforever'.
Well, I liked that so much, it carried over when I made my YWS account. (And that is the story of how I was nicknamed Anci/Affy/Ancifo. 'Cause.)
Obviously, I kept that username for quite a while on here, until sometime last year I started getting dissatisfied with it. It just didn't fit me any more, considering I no longer had my obsession with immortality, and the username itself was just a reminder of, basically, the worst year of my life. So I dropped the 'forever' part, translated the 'ancient' part (which did still fit me a bit, I felt) into another language - Greek, if you're wondering - and went with Arkhaion.
I was going to do Arkhaiion and be double-I twins with Auxii, but readability won out So there's the long story of why in Sam Hill my name is 'ancient'.
