I never really had a non-name "handle," I don't think.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 11:24:44 am PDT #14682 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Jun 29, 2011 11:24:48 am PDT #14683 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I used at least portions of my actual name, mostly, because I got my first e-mail etc. account through school. When I could use aliases it was variations on Multipurpose Goddess, which was a college nickname. Should I be embarrassed by that? I'm not. Mildly sheepish, maybe. But I also still use it. So.
I have always signed everything online with "-t", (which is also from a college nickname, I used "t" and my friend Tish used "T" because she was taller than me and we were both too lazy/busy to write out our full names (it was the 80s, it was a hectic time!)) hence my current login name.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2011 11:25:07 am PDT #14684 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think I used my initials and last name for my first AOL account. But my current monicker goes back to 1997 on The Bronze, and I've used some variation of it ever since.
Fred Pete - Jun 29, 2011 11:26:20 am PDT #14685 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was Fred P. on Table Talk. (Very, very, very briefly.)
In other news, turns out I have a compressed spinal cord. Should be correctable by routine surgery, but I'll probably be off work for a week or two. Hoping this corrects the pain, tingling, and numbness in my left arm and hand.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 11:26:33 am PDT #14686 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Other early handles that I don't use at all anymore include dundus (Jamaican for albino) and Xaymaca (indigenous Jamaican word for Jamaica). I think I had AOL handles under both names. Everything else I used ten, fifteen years ago, I still use.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 11:28:25 am PDT #14687 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ouch, Fred!
I have some non-my-name logins floating around now, but it's pretty much the first time I've done that.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2011 11:29:04 am PDT #14688 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My first AOL screennames were all Mulder###, Mulder912 being the one that stayed with me post-AOL.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 11:30:34 am PDT #14689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I probably have ten handles in current use. Wait, now that I think about it, dundus is still active. I use it at AO3. Maybe closer to 15 active, really.
I should probably take lunch. I need a break.
Calli - Jun 29, 2011 11:31:47 am PDT #14690 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry, Fred. I hope the surgery goes well and you heal quickly.
I chose Calligrafiti as an online handle about 10 years ago and never really felt the need for another. Calli's just a nickname of that.
-t - Jun 29, 2011 11:33:20 am PDT #14691 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ouch, Fred! I hope the surgery is easy on you and does the trick.