Origin of a Screen Name

[Doktor Estrella]

What is the story behind your screen name? What about it in particular made you choose it?

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I read a lot of Neil Gaiman before I ever ran across Susanna Clarke's work; one of my favorite series is his Sandman graphic novels. I came across his anthology, Sandman: Book of Dreams, which had Clarke's story "The Stopp't Clock Yard." In the story, one of the characters was named Doktor Estrella and I enjoyed her personality and confrontations with Morpheus. I chose it as a screen name because it stands for my love of both Gaiman and Clarke's works.

[Lillie]

Lillie is a variation on my real name

It's a sort of nick name.

Sometimes it's Lillie Frog, and the frog bit is because I have froggy toes (or so I am told)

I sometimes think I should have something more interesting.
But I never do.

I am Lillie or Lillie Frog on every forum I ever go to.
And always the same Beardsley avatar too.

[Crucifer]

Crucifer: When I first joined FOEM (the first forum I joined), I'd just been asked to become Crucifer in the Cathedral I just left. I was trying to think of a screen name, and that was the first thing that came to my head. I use it everywhere now, because it's easy to remember.

Alas, I am a Crucifer no more, save in spirit.

[Whitmore]

Whitmore is my middle name, given to my father, then me, Jr. His mother, Virginia Grace, was a Whitmore, and a very English-ish person she was. Even though she'd never set foot in the country, English genetics were very pronounced in her and her older sister Neva. It is mainly because of them that I have my affinity to things Victorian/English.

[segundus]

Segundus: Go on, guess :)

[segundus]

Whitmore is my middle name, given to my father, then me, Jr. His mother, Virginia Grace, was a Whitmore, and a very English-ish person she was. Even though she'd never set foot in the country, English genetics were very pronounced in her and her older sister Neva. It is mainly because of them that I have my affinity to things Victorian/English.

That's a nice name to have. My middle name is 'Barrington'. I've been ribbed about that for years...

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[Whitmore]

That's a nice name to have. My middle name is 'Barrington'. I've been ribbed about that for years...


Is that an old family name?

[segundus]

The only thing I know about it is that it was my grandfather Drake's middle name - so I'm guessing it's something that might have been passed down a number of times. Haven't done that much research into the family tree as yet.

[Catherine of Winchester]

I had originally contemplated Childermass, but while cross-gender names usually don't bother me, I decided to go for a female magician. If I had really been thinking about it at the time, I would have gone for the more obscure Donata Torel, but she was evidently too obscure for me to recall her then, and by now I've been Catherine of Winchester for quite a while.

[Bracton]

I just stole a name from an old (and largely unknown) English historical figure that made a fleeting appearance in something I studied a while ago.

I wanted something that sounded relatively old, obscure and English.

[The Colour of Heartache]

I spent a few days contemplating what to call myself before I joined the first FOEM. The only other messageboards I've joined are/were Tolkien related and I always used an epithet of Éowyn's, so this was a new problem. I didn't want to go with the name -- like CofW, Childermass would have been my choice, but I'm not a fan of cross-gender screen names. I also didn't have anything more generic and fandom-unrelated. In the end, I decided that the fairy colours were awfully nifty, but my first choice ('the colour of storms, shadows, and rain') seemed a bit long. Upon reflection, my choice is a bit more angsty than I'd like but it's kind of stuck with me now.

[Violet]

I'm absolutely awful at choosing names, so I just picked the first reasonable suggestion that came into my head. Although I think I might start using The Colour of Heartache outside this forum, thanks for giving me the idea ;)

[K.Richwood]

Hehe... It's a version of that which is written in my passport, just with the language changed. I am quite fond of my last name and its origin, so... :)

~K

[Edimene]

Edimene is the name of my great-grandmother.
I love it because I think it sounds really good and is very strange: no one knows where it comes from or its meaning or why it had been chosen; and so far I've never heard of other people named so.
I started to use this nickname in forums because it's so obscure and original that it never runs the risk of being refused during subscribing for the presence of another user called Edimene.

[otherlander]

Mine is straght from JS&MN. About halfway through the novel, there's a conversation that takes place between Mr. Norrell and I don't remember who the other character was (Childermass?). Anyway, Mr. Norrell talks about how you can tell if someone has Faerie ancestry based on their last name. Otherlander is, apparently, a common name among those with such ancestry.