I have had many, many handles. Here, anyway. Other places I use aimeejmc (livejournal) and TheEmpressAimee (that one is only for HP fanfic sites).
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'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.
Aims - Jun 29, 2011 3:33:14 pm PDT #14715 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
quester - Jun 29, 2011 3:34:58 pm PDT #14716 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I'm still using the only handle I've ever had for posting boards. other than my initials and last name for my email.
Vortex - Jun 29, 2011 3:35:18 pm PDT #14717 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
le nubian - Jun 29, 2011 3:46:37 pm PDT #14718 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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!
javachik - Jun 29, 2011 3:52:02 pm PDT #14719 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
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?
le nubian - Jun 29, 2011 4:00:54 pm PDT #14720 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
You know, I had "le nubian" over on Salon. When were they crazy about real names?
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 4:02:09 pm PDT #14721 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
javachik - Jun 29, 2011 4:03:14 pm PDT #14722 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
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).
Hil R. - Jun 29, 2011 4:04:02 pm PDT #14723 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
sarameg - Jun 29, 2011 4:11:49 pm PDT #14724 of 30001
IIRC, there was some huge kerfuffle when a salon writer did an article and used a bunch of quotes from posters, full names given, without seeking permission. From MWT boards, I believe. And that lead to a bunch of people changing to pseudonyms. I don't know it that was before or after I registered, but I did have knowledge of it. That said, I'd briefly been Full Name on the NPR boards, but didn't stay there long, felt too exposed as such, so used this one when I registered. To post about cats, I think.