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Bitternut
Stablehand

Date Joined May 2006
Total Posts : 45

Posted 5/17/2006 3:15 PM (GMT -5)

Curious if there is any particular significance to what your posting name here is?

Mine is Bitternut because when I was a kid I had a propensity for eating acorns...lots of acorns. Sometimes I would even eat the shell part on the top - something that only me and the squirrels would do.

Some of you may have noticed that under my main posting name, I put my "aka" name: the Sloth - this is because when I was in high school and in fact currently as well, I dressed rather slovenly and had a very laid back, take it easy approach to my studies and whatnot. I just looked up Sloth in the dictionary, and part of its definition is aversion to exertion or work, and slovenly: careless in personal appearance or work so it does fit me.

Some co-workers tell me that I have to stop showing up at work in baggy surplus store clothes and dress professionally...Nah, I like it the way I am!

Bitternut

aka the Sloth

PaulMc
Adept

Date Joined May 2005
Total Posts : 992

Posted 5/17/2006 4:38 PM (GMT -5)

Bitternut said...
Curious if there is any particular significance to what your posting name here is?

It's just shorthand for my real name.

I used to use handles, but eventually I figured there was enough anonymity on the Web and I just wanted to be me and not get caught up in the persona of a handle.

-- Paul McNamee

My Writings
The Tales of Doran Coyle
Contributing Editor, Sword and Sorcery.org

darkbow
Rabbit lord

Date Joined Oct 2005
Total Posts : 1711

Posted 5/17/2006 4:46 PM (GMT -5)

My posting name comes from a character in one of my novel manuscripts. "Rabbit lord" is just because I have three pet house rabbits.

TW
Bigger than a Breadbox

Date Joined Nov 2005
Total Posts : 540

Posted 5/17/2006 11:43 PM (GMT -5)

Geez, Ty, I thought it was because of your fascination with Hazel, etc. in "Watership Down". (What a great book, and I know you've given it props on different threads before.)
Me of litte imagination, or, rather, a stubborn insistence that if my parents were going to genericize me as "Tom Williams" then TW is good enough for me.

"Why just react, when life gives you so many chances to overreact?"

darkbow
Rabbit lord

Date Joined Oct 2005
Total Posts : 1711

Posted 5/18/2006 12:00 AM (GMT -5)

Tom, rabbits are my favorite pet, but they're not for everyone. In fact, I suggest most people not consider them as pets unless they are well aware of what they're getting themselves into. Rabbits aren't dumb, but they're not quite as self aware as a cat or dog; in other words, they don't know how to keep themselves out of trouble.
Still, they have unique and differing personalities. Some of them I would even consider as noble as the creatures in "Watership Down," though some aren't.

And my beagle gets along great with my rabbits!

Raph
Stubborn Scholar

Date Joined Oct 2004
Total Posts : 260

Posted 5/18/2006 2:06 AM (GMT -5)

Mine's the name of a Dungeons and Dragons character of mine from back when I played on a regular basis. Since my first name is pretty common, it's handy to use a less common one for a screen name.

Mike O.

Freke
wordworker

Date Joined Mar 2006
Total Posts : 47

Posted 5/18/2006 9:33 AM (GMT -5)

Freke is one of Odin's wolves in Norse mythology. I actually share a first name with Odin's other wolf. It seemed suitable...
Freke

Shade53
Acolyte

Date Joined Jan 2005
Total Posts : 240

Posted 5/18/2006 11:13 AM (GMT -5)

I have one of the most common names there is - Sarah - and so, I use the name of one of my characters - and the 53 is simply because it appears to be *my* number - everything I've done, everywhere I've gone - the numbers 5,3,&8 appear - so - 53 covers all three and 53 comes around quite a bit too. It doesn't hurt that I have the same name on every board/group I'm a part of.

~S

http://imaginaryword.betterfiction.com
http://www.freewebs.com/sarahwagner

cussedness
Adept

Date Joined Apr 2005
Total Posts : 849

Posted 5/18/2006 1:30 PM (GMT -5)

I'm cussedness on all the boards I post on, chatrooms, blogs, etc.

I picked it because I think of myself as an old curmudgeon or old "cuss" as a lot of my friends call me. I always had a tendency to spot the flaws in things which made me more of an observer instead of a joiner throughout my life.

Janrae Frank
Blood Rites http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook29989.htm

http://www.janraefrank.com

erazmus
Master

Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4546

Posted 5/18/2006 4:22 PM (GMT -5)

I also use my handle everywhere I go, but wanted one that didn't say anything about me personally. I generally let my postings do that.
I chose Erazmus from a movie, _The Raven_, it's the character played by Vincent Price- a reclusive sorcerer.
Mike

Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #9 Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises

von Darkmoor
Small Press Publisher (and Dancer still)

Date Joined Dec 2005
Total Posts : 3071

Posted 5/18/2006 6:00 PM (GMT -5)

I was reading Feist's Serpentwar when I had to create my first online name. I think it was for Snap games, for cribbage or something like that. I was quite in tune with the Erik von Darkmoor character in the series. It was 1998 and my best friend Howard, my grandfather, had passed away. He and I had always been damn proud of our Prussian heritage. So when the screen prompted me for a name I instantly chose Howard, thought for a second, and added von Darkmoor (not only someone I currently identified with, it sounded like a cool Prussian name to me!). I've been him ever since, online and elsewhere. Some venues don't allow such long names, so there I'm H von D or HvonD.

To sum it up, I'm named after my grandfather and a fictional character. Not only have I never come across any name close to mine, I get to be my hero every day. That means something to me.

"You will obey the rules, won't you?" [Marius] asked suddenly.

"Of course!" Again [Lestat] shrugged. "What are they, by the way? I've forgotten."

- Anne Rice in The Queen of the Damned

Freke
wordworker

Date Joined Mar 2006
Total Posts : 47

Posted 5/18/2006 9:24 PM (GMT -5)

Wow, another Prussian. Don't come across that every day.

BethS
Adept

Date Joined Jun 2004
Total Posts : 750

Posted 5/19/2006 7:58 AM (GMT -5)

Bitternut said...
Curious if there is any particular significance to what your posting name here is?

Mine is...just my name.

What does that say about me?

~Beth, pondering

Rob Santa
Sage

Date Joined Apr 2004
Total Posts : 1456

Posted 5/19/2006 8:10 AM (GMT -5)

I'm with you, Beth. Either we're particularly unimaginative or we're so chock full of it that we can't waste any on a mere forum name.

Heck, we're still just Acolyte's too. What are we doing wrong?

Rob Santa

von Darkmoor
Small Press Publisher (and Dancer still)

Date Joined Dec 2005
Total Posts : 3071

Posted 5/19/2006 8:24 AM (GMT -5)

"What are we doing wrong?"

Beth & Rob - after reading your writings, absolutely nothing! I had to laugh at your comment, Rob. Then I had to ruefully admit you may be on to something. You're created great writings, while I - I've created another persona. Thanks for the perspective!

"You will obey the rules, won't you?" [Marius] asked suddenly.

"Of course!" Again [Lestat] shrugged. "What are they, by the way? I've forgotten."

- Anne Rice in The Queen of the Damned

BethS
Adept

Date Joined Jun 2004
Total Posts : 750

Posted 5/21/2006 8:25 AM (GMT -5)

Thank you, Howard.

As to my title--

I don't know! Why am I still an acolyte? I demand a promotion!

~Beth

Stomphoof
Stablehand

Date Joined Feb 2007
Total Posts : 43

Posted 2/6/2007 7:48 PM (GMT -5)

My name comes from my World of Warcraft RP Character, Stomphoof the Shiny :P

I play on the Kirin Tor server for those who care. But yea, I just identify with Stomphoof's character ya know?

I will Revert to this Vicinity!

http://stomphoof.wordpress.com My Blog of Shiny Doom!

crystalwizard
Forum Moderator

Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 5069

Posted 2/6/2007 8:04 PM (GMT -5)

Bitternut said...
Curious if there is any particular significance to what your posting name here is?

I post under this name, because that's who I am.

Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!

Visit my art gallery on art wanted at
http://artwanted.com/crystalwizard

All my books in print:
http://sojourn.omnitech.net

xiaotien
Adept

Date Joined Jul 2006
Total Posts : 665

Posted 2/6/2007 8:21 PM (GMT -5)

xiao tien means little sweet
in mandarin. or "sweetie".
it was my nickname when i
was a little girl.

cindy p.

a little sweet, a little sour.

http://xiaotien.blogspot.com

MichaelEhart
Sage

Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 2341

Posted 2/6/2007 8:33 PM (GMT -5)

My mommy gave me this name...

"The Scarlet Colored Beast" The Sword Review, September 2007

"Nothing But Our Tears" The Sword Review. August 2007

"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" The Sword Review, July 2007

"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, March 2007

"The Death of Number 23" Dark Krypt, Fall 2006

"Servant of the Manthycore" Sword Review, April 2006

"Voice of the Spoiler" Better Fiction, Spring 2006
"Dancing with the Elder Gods"-- Thirteen Magazine, October 2005
"It's a Living" Byzarium---November 2005

"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" The Sword Review, October 2005
Host, 2005 Nebula Awards Live Chat, sff.net
http://mehart.blogspot.com/

von Darkmoor
Small Press Publisher (and Dancer still)

Date Joined Dec 2005
Total Posts : 3071

Posted 2/6/2007 11:39 PM (GMT -5)

crystalwizard said...

I post under this name, because that's who I am.

Touche!

Middle name 'Met' - Where do you hide your lab?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jason

Ever waltz with the Devil? Or devil with a Waltz? Visit www.vondarkmoor.blogspot.com to find out.

Rob Santa
Sage

Date Joined Apr 2004
Total Posts : 1456

Posted 2/7/2007 12:18 AM (GMT -5)

Now, this is why I like new forum members so much - they question issues that have been dead for some time. As you may have figured out by now, like so may others, my posting name is (gasp!) my actual name. It has no other signifigance than I can't remeber more than a few things at a time.

Rob Santa

Chaos, Perpetual
Acolyte

Date Joined Dec 2006
Total Posts : 283

Posted 2/7/2007 8:25 AM (GMT -5)

I tried acorns when I was younger also, but I just couldn't get into them.

Anyway, I've posted under this name here(since I'm also new to the SFReader forums) because it's pretty much what I've used as a handle on all message boards. It's my email address, after all.

Also, I use "Chaos Perpetual" rather than "Perpetual Chaos" because Perpetual Chaos would indicate a single denotation. The term I use is ambiguous, but I'll not carry on about the details.

Keralen
Adept

Date Joined Mar 2006
Total Posts : 557

Posted 2/7/2007 10:49 AM (GMT -5)

Keralen is a character in my book, the woman I want to grow up to be: maternal, intuitive, spiritual, organized, and smart as hell. Heh. A long way to go.

Beth and Rob aren't unimaginative, they're honest. I never liked my given name. All Ellies (Ellys) in pop culture are dumb blondes or bitches or both.

As for the title, how does that work? I started out as Stablehand, and now suddenly I'm Neophyte. Does it relate to number of posts? Who decides?

Jordan Lapp
Ebony & Ivory

Date Joined Sep 2006
Total Posts : 2859

Posted 2/7/2007 1:45 PM (GMT -5)

I've with Rob here. My posting name is my real name for one simple reason. Authors are always trying to get their name out there and be recognized. If you remember me from my forum posts, then perhaps the next time you see my work in a book or magazine, you might say, "Hey I know this guy", pick it up and buy it.

I think Christopher Heath has another great trick to getting noticed. All his stories start with "Azerian -Something something". Whenever I see "Azerian" I know it's him quite easily. It's cheap publicity.

Jordan

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