'Never Leave Me'
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.
Other than my real name and occasionally just s, sarameg is what I've always been online.
Work gaslit all of us today. It was surreal.
My cats are strewn about like discarded dust rags. And it isn't that warm. If only they'd use their powers for good and you know, dust?
I have had many, many handles. Here, anyway. Other places I use aimeejmc (livejournal) and TheEmpressAimee (that one is only for HP fanfic sites).
I'm still using the only handle I've ever had for posting boards. other than my initials and last name for my email.
When I first went online, Salon was supercrazy about you using your real name. I gradually adopted an internet personality. I'm only vortex here, but sowilo (or some variation thereof) everywhere else.
not surprisingly, I have (and continue to have) a whole lot of nicknames on the internet.
petergabrielfan was one of my earliest. I also was naïvemelody, loveslaughter. all of those have been abandoned, but I continue to use about 3 others in addition to "le nubian" on various places including twitter!
When I first went online, Salon was supercrazy about you using your real name. I gradually adopted an internet personality. I'm only vortex here, but sowilo (or some variation thereof) everywhere else.
Is "sowilo" a Buffy reference?
You know, I had "le nubian" over on Salon. When were they crazy about real names?
Definitely when I registered, they asked for first and last names, and it didn't occur to me not to use my real name, although I don't think there was any reason not to, really. I went back in and changed it to my initial at some point.
Definitely when I registered, they asked for first and last names, and it didn't occur to me not to use my real name, although I don't think there was any reason not to, really. I went back in and changed it to my initial at some point.
Yep. I went to Salon directly from The Well in 1995 and it was definitely a "use your first and last name" environment back then (which is how The Well was).
When I registered for salon, the page said to use your real name, with some sort of "If you really don't want to, we guess it's OK, but we won't like it" sort of disclaimer.