Just out of curiosity...
Dec. 30th, 2003 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
How did you pick your username? Full story, please!
My story
This starts a long, long time ago in a game far, far away....
I believe it was... okay, I don't really remember, but I couldn't get Connie or Tansy as a name. So I eventually just typed random letters and came up with Ulyyf. I didn't expecially like Ulyyf as a name, but it had the advantage of looking like a guy name, which was the person I wanted in this vaguely medieval game I was playing whose name I cannot recall.
So when I got to Dragon Court, Ulyyf was the natural option for me. I still didn't especially like it, and was starting to get irked at always getting confused for a guy, but I was used to it and I knew nobody else would have it. Incidentally, I was addicted to Dragon Court for a good year before I found...
Neopets. Where I took the name Ulyyf without even seriously considering anything else. After a few months on Neo, I ventured to the I&S board, and became quite popular. I&S means, of course, Insane and Strange, so nobody minded my weird fondness for instituting strange rules like "all nicknames must end in a Y (for example, mine, Uly)". In fact, I tried my darnedest to make everyone get a Y nickname except for my friend Nig. Now, Nig is sort for Enigma, as in the_true_enigma or i_am_enigma, but I do not think I am the only one who realized it almost sounds like a profoundly inappropriate racial epithet. And Niggy was completely out of the question, of course. So, as a joke, I decided to call her "the". That had long since ceased to be her username, which made the joke all the funnier mihi. In retaliation, she called me conuly, which is a pity, as I actually liked the name and am willing to use it.
As for why Xiggy made this account for me using Conuly instead of Ulyyf, I can only imagine, but that's why the name Conuly exists.
Your turn!
My story
This starts a long, long time ago in a game far, far away....
I believe it was... okay, I don't really remember, but I couldn't get Connie or Tansy as a name. So I eventually just typed random letters and came up with Ulyyf. I didn't expecially like Ulyyf as a name, but it had the advantage of looking like a guy name, which was the person I wanted in this vaguely medieval game I was playing whose name I cannot recall.
So when I got to Dragon Court, Ulyyf was the natural option for me. I still didn't especially like it, and was starting to get irked at always getting confused for a guy, but I was used to it and I knew nobody else would have it. Incidentally, I was addicted to Dragon Court for a good year before I found...
Neopets. Where I took the name Ulyyf without even seriously considering anything else. After a few months on Neo, I ventured to the I&S board, and became quite popular. I&S means, of course, Insane and Strange, so nobody minded my weird fondness for instituting strange rules like "all nicknames must end in a Y (for example, mine, Uly)". In fact, I tried my darnedest to make everyone get a Y nickname except for my friend Nig. Now, Nig is sort for Enigma, as in the_true_enigma or i_am_enigma, but I do not think I am the only one who realized it almost sounds like a profoundly inappropriate racial epithet. And Niggy was completely out of the question, of course. So, as a joke, I decided to call her "the". That had long since ceased to be her username, which made the joke all the funnier mihi. In retaliation, she called me conuly, which is a pity, as I actually liked the name and am willing to use it.
As for why Xiggy made this account for me using Conuly instead of Ulyyf, I can only imagine, but that's why the name Conuly exists.
Your turn!
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Date: 2003-12-31 02:02 pm (UTC)A long time ago, one of my friends decided that she could TOO shorten it into a nickname: Ril.
Then, when we were both in our DBZ phase and liked to use what random Japanese words/suffixes were common in the fandom, it became Ril-chan.
I used it as a default for almost everything I sign up for, despite that no one calls me Ril-chan (except when they're saying
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Date: 2003-12-31 06:49 pm (UTC)A long time ago, one of my friends decided that she could TOO shorten it into a nickname: Ril.
And if she'd been a little crueler, we'd be calling you Ape!
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Date: 2003-12-31 09:00 pm (UTC)Oddly enough, no one ever really used the Ape thing, not even the people who hated me. Huh.