What's the story behind your username? - eviltoast

And did you choose decent one this time or Rimjob_stew one?

  • cooljpeg@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I had an old internet friend on Tumblr when I was 13-14 or so who had the username “coolpng”. One day they just deleted all of their accounts with no warning, no trace, no nothing – just vanished, so I made the username “cooljpeg” in honor of them and in hopes that maybe they’ll run into my e-presence one day. It’s also just a simple 'n funny username, and I love jpegs so :+D

  • Feanor@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Feanor is one of the most important elves in the silmarillion. He is the creator of the silmarils and he led the noldor back to Middle Earth

  • TheGiantKorean@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m half Korean, 6’ 230lb. My martial arts instructor said to me, “You’re the biggest fucking Korean I’ve ever seen.” So Giant Korean just kind of stuck.

  • frog 🐸@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I like frogs.

    I also like to change usernames on a semi-regular basis, so it was time for a change, and this is the first time in a really long time that I’ve been able to have a four-letter noun as a username. So I shall celebrate the joy of being simply “frog”.

  • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
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    In Anarchism one of our most influential books is The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin, also known as the Bread book. I needed to burn my old social handles and at the time the anarchist meme sub reddits would call our dank memes yeasty memes (since bread) and so I chose the name AnarchoYeasty

  • YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s a line from a Pink Floyd song. I like the fact that when people see my name, if they know the song, they probably hear it in their heads. This is especially poignant since I once had a love like no other- it was our song. He died, but he would have loved my username. He would have loved Lemmy, too.

  • distractedcactus@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I have a fairly prickly personality IRL and online communities like this one make up the majority of regular interactions with people outside of my home; it’s my “distraction” from being an introverted grump. Plus my insides are mostly water and pulp, so I have that going for me.

  • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Misspelled ‘Fedaykin,’ the name for the fremen death commando in Dune.

    As edgelordy as that sounds, I mostly just liked the word. One spelling error creating a character in a game and I liked it better, so I kept using it.

  • ladydascalie@beehaw.org
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    In French the word “Didascalie” is used for stage directions, often scribbled in the edges of a play, oftentimes by the author. “Les” indicates a plural, so my name would read “Les didascalies”, or “the author’s notes”.

    It pronounces basically the same as Lady Dascalie, hence where the name came from.

  • CookieMeowster@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Awesome things I appreciate and/or identify with:

    • cookies
    • the blue monster that chomps them down
    • cats

    Surprisingly, so far my clever play on words has rarely been taken anywhere I signed up, so I use it for any accounts I don’t mind being link-able.

  • oomphaloompha@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka has Oompaloompas working as slaves(?) in his factory. I constantly have the Oompaloompa song playing in my head so it’s Oompaloompa with more OOMPH! Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, I am a moron and I know it would’ve been better as Oomphaloompa, but it’s too late now. At least there’s twice as much oomph now.

  • DSLeMaster@beehaw.org
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    Someone doxed me about a decade ago so now I use my first two initials and my last name. Harder to get doxed if you only say shit you’d say face to face with someone.