I don't know... but I can guess.

[in_the_blue]

Because I'm entirely crippled today by backache and no, the meds aren't working, dammit, and I have no ability to be creative or witty or interesting or even get my shit together to make comments on anyone else's journal (although I am compiling a list of random questions to ask Beck if I ever get the chance, and that should be a good f***ing hint at how crappy I'm feeling), tell me why you picked your LJ username and/or what it means.

I'll go first.

Mine's pure Bebop lyric ("no black and white in the blue"). You?

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[misslucyjane]

My user name is a nickname my mom calls me. She also calls me Mary Ann, Sally Jane, Lucy Lu . . . etc, but I like Lucy Jane best. (I suspect she does it so she doesn't have to remember which of her daughters she's talking to, as I tend to get annoyed when she says, "Julie--Stephanie--Jenna!" to me.)

I get bored easily with names. My first one on LJ was einini, which is an Irish lullaby and I think it means "little bird." Nobody could spell it. My second one was minor_blue, which is from a very lovely cello instrumental, but I got bored with it. Like you do. So this time I went with something a little more approachable, and it's amused me how many people now call me Lucy. Which I don't mind at all, it's a good name.

[arasnaem.livejournal.com]

Mine's pretty easy: "mean sara" spelled backwards. It was the only nickname I was given in high school (by someone OTHER than Bernie), and I wanted something OTHER than my AIM name (billnmarygrl), because originally, this journal was started as a vent, and I didn't have any friends. I guess it just kind of stuck when I started getting more involved in the HP fandom, because I already had the journal.

[silveraspen]

Mine's from a dream.

I've always liked the aspen tree -- did you know that they're not actually a divided tree? An aspen grove is a clone organism, with a shared root system. You can tell which trees are part of which group in the fall by watching which ones all turn gold together.

Anyway, I dreamed of a grove of aspen in the fall, during that time when the sky is such a vivid blue that it's almost painful, and the pine and fir a deep and resonant green such that the white trunks of the aspen stand out against everything in sharp relief and shine in the sunlight, especially when the wind ruffles their leaves.

Except that in my dream, all the aspen leaves were a brilliant silver.

And then I woke up, but the memory of the dream stayed. And so did the name.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

that's beautiful, Aspen. :)

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

OK. This is going to be *awful*.

"Shellebelle" comes from a horrible rhyming tease my mom and her best friend used around me. Puberty, for me, came in the form of getting period at nine and then by ten, having boobs and ass. The rhyming tease was "Shelly belly butsy-wutsy." I was amused until it started to hurt my feelings. I just decided to take the name and make it not be so hurtful.

"93" is the year I got married, so it's a special year. :)

And that's the story.

[genarti]

Mine is, well, the name I go by online.

To backtrack from that: back in 2000, I registered on a bulletin board that was my first internet community. I don't hang out too much there any more, but it's an awesome place, and is the source of a lot of my internet friends and my understanding of internet friendship -- and, in fact, some people there are the ones who persuaded me to get an LJ in the first place. Anyway, I was sitting there drumming my fingers on the desk trying to think of a username, and what I came up with was "genuine artificial."

It's a more-or-less-quote from a Robert Fulgham story; he buys a cuckoo clock, and finds that it comes unassembled and is made of "genuine simulated wood." That phrase tickled my fancy and stuck in my memory, and I just edited it a bit to make the oxymoron more concise.

Because genuine artificial is fairly long to type, it got shortened pretty quickly to GA; a year or so in, a friend of mine asked me if I had another nickname, because there were half a million of us that went by various two-initial nicknames and with GA and GL and DL and DA and so forth it got very confusing. I told him that, well, I'd shortened it into Genarti for an RP thread for which I wanted something more name-like, and if he wanted to use that he was welcome to. And he did, and it stuck.

And thence Genarti and then Gen, which is what I go by pretty much universally online now, and answer to in person from the right people.

[heather916.livejournal.com]

Wow, some of your friends have great stories for their usernames. My LJ username story is boring as hell. I was hoping to use my LJ not just to share with my online friends, but also with my family, which is scattered all over the country. So I chose a username that would be recognizable to those who know me. Heather is my name. 916 is my birthday - September 16. Nothing more original than that.

I know... I win the "Dull as Dirt" award. :)

Hope your back starts feeling better!

Slaversbane:Behind the Scenes.

[slaversbane.livejournal.com]

I made up a character for a new concept world I had created whose sole purpose was to hold back those things that were useful in one existence that was ending, and carry them over to another where they could go on.

He was frustrated by the worlds he came to by the lack of love and compassion, and decided to change his purpose and mission.

He decided to free all slaves in all known universes whether they like it or not.

I played him as an NPC to gather far flung PC's from all corners of the universe and take them to the world he used, ironically, as a holding pen until he could find a good existence for those saved creatures to be in. Then he made the switch and never returned to the world leaving the new inhabitants to mix and match etc.

I based the character's looks and habits upon my own at the time which weresuper long curly hair and being completely selfish and smoking constantly. I added a good deal of comic book style cosmic power and good looks to boot.

After awhile Slaversbane became a myth.

The end.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite episodes of Buffy is 'Doppelgangland.' It aired when I was in sixth grade and when I went to get my AIM screen name I wanted 'doppelganger', which was already taken. So I went for doppleganglander. But since I was in sixth grade and hadn't taken German, I didn't realize I'd spelt it wrong. As years went on I just got so used to it that I never fixed the spelling but I didn't shorten it as needed for sites like this because the whole name was too long. Just like this story.

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

Um...

*scuffs toes in the sand*

...cuz prplhez8 was already taken?

Yes, I'm just that boring. :P

[h311ybean]

Mine is a mix of the title of my first blog and the number 311. Someone on LJ already had the username "hellybean."

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Nonono, you need to 'splain about the baaaaand. It's right in the middle of your name! ^_^

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

HtB gave me the name because he wanted to remind me that I'm brave even though I have anxiety disorder. ♥

[jules1278.livejournal.com]

(sorry, don't mind me, just dropping in to hug HtB for that and KtB because he's right, it's true.)

*hugs you both and G too*

[jothra]

Mine comes roundabout from one of my roommates in college. She was the great and terrible Katezilla.

And since I lived with her, we were partners! Mothra and Godzilla have fought together (and against each other). 'Jo' is part of my real name. And thus I was Jothra forever more.

[skygiants]

Mine originates from when I was very wee (middle schoolish) and had not yet discovered that elves often annoyed me. (Books I'm still pretty happy about.)

So it's been 'bookelf' various online places for ages, and I tacked an 'e' on the end for my IM around the same time, since 'bookelf' was taken and I rebel against numbers in name-type things and 'bookelfe' looked, I thought, sort of pretty written out.

And then I was 'bookelfe' on IM, and I was too lazy to think up anything different for my LJ!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Another banal one, alas, but I'll tell it for those who haven't seen it before.

I got online via GEnie, back in the days of the dinosaurs roaming the earth - y'know, when a 28.8 modem was WICKED FAST and nobody ever heard of Gbs yet. GEnie was a text-based BBS. That's where I met a lot of X-Files fans, and Selene and Jared and Keith and Yog Sysop. GEnie kinda fell apart eventually when it was sold, and the SF&F foras' (all three of them, very very busy places, like a 24/7 convention, woohoo!) mods decided to set up their own e-place. Well, actually, one went one way (Dueling Modems), and Yog teamed up with 'Unca Jade' to create SFF Net. I followed Yog, and I've been there ever since.

'Corgi', as you might guess, was kinda snatched up most places I had to create usernames for, but there was only one Corgi (and a corgi breeder, but let's not talk about her) on SFF Net. Since I am somewhat proud of my virtual home, I tacked it on as a difference. The only diff is whether it gets a dot/underscore/dash, in a vain attempt to get people to separate the two parts verbally. ^_^

And there, I just took up way too many of your pixels.

[jules1278.livejournal.com]

:( *huggles gently*

My username is super boring, as it's my nickname with my birth month (or day) and year tacked on the end since just plain jules was already taken. :)

I love you!!!

[ashavah]

My original fandom name was a very boring, very common one. ("Jedi Kenobi" - I was 14 and in love with Ewan McGregor.) That eventually got shortened, but "JK" wasn't much better, because most places require names of at least 3 letters or more. So after I moved to HP fandom, when I wanted to register a geocities account, I came up with a name for what I was planning to make my site's mascot, a phoenix. I wanted something with "ash" in the name, because I was corny like that at age 15. ;-) So I came up with the name "ashavah" and liked it and took it as my alternate pen name.

:-)

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

erised fro mthe infamous mirror, plus my birthday mmdd
uep. i remember signing up on fictionalley and misspelling it esired...