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  • I had an old internet friend on Tumblr when I was 13-14 or so who had the username "coolpng". One day they just deleted all of their accounts with no warning, no trace, no nothing -- just vanished, so I made the username "cooljpeg" in honor of them and in hopes that maybe they'll run into my e-presence one day. It's also just a simple 'n funny username, and I love jpegs so :+D

  • It’s a word I made up in High School (mid 90s) for a D&D character. It’s based on the Latin word for truth - veritas - but with tweaks it sound “cool” and like an actual name. When my family finally got internet, it also became my go-to username/identity for all things digital.

  • I made the mistake on the r site of naming my account for what I used it for, which was wasting my own time. It was intended to serve as an active reminder that I could be doing better things with my time. I had about 50/50 split If people thought I was a troll or not, though, so I didn’t bring it with me.

    I wanted to go with a different but similar theme, and a lot has changed in my life and frankly, I’ve grown rooted and apathetic. The username is a reminder to be better.

    This probably won’t be the account I end up using long-term, but it’s a good one for now, as I learn everything.

  • I have a fairly prickly personality IRL and online communities like this one make up the majority of regular interactions with people outside of my home; it's my "distraction" from being an introverted grump. Plus my insides are mostly water and pulp, so I have that going for me.

  • Awesome things I appreciate and/or identify with:

    • cookies
    • the blue monster that chomps them down
    • cats

    Surprisingly, so far my clever play on words has rarely been taken anywhere I signed up, so I use it for any accounts I don't mind being link-able.

  • I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.

  • One, I like Corvids. Brilliant birds they are, various mythologies around them, etc.

    The latter portion is a reference to an old gaming clan I was a part of in my youth called MotR: Mercenaries of the Republic. It was a Star Wars Republic Commando clan, one of the biggest among them. I was part of Nyx Squad, and we were the biggest group of misfits and weirdos among the other squads. We weren’t always the most skilled, but damn we had character, and we had fun.

  • Rottcodd is a character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. He's the curator of The Hall of Bright Carvings - a sculpture gallery in a far distant corner of the castle that virtually no one ever visits - where he leads a simple and contented life. When he isn't working or loafing about, he spends time observing the distant life of the castle - or what he can see of it at least - through a single tiny window.

    For better or worse, I relate...

  • Mine is from the novel Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. Amazing book, very different and imo much better than the movie.

    • The movie was absolutely atrocious. They had to turn the biologist and her husband into rah rah military heroes because of course they did, the "DNA prism" thing gave me cancer, and the ending with the fucking grenade and the Crawler gave me double extra super cancer.

      It was a soulless cash grab that was made to look pretty and not challenge the viewer at all. The mystery and wonder of the first book was completely amputated and replaced with jingoism and an idiotic "explanation" for Area X, and topped off with a violent "solution" to the Crawler

  • I didn't ever really have a name for my fursona and then I got my dogs, Kona and Loki. I combined their names and came up with Kolonaki, but then misspelled it when I entered it in something the first time. Now it's Kolanaki.

    It kinda sounds Hawaiian (pronounced cola-nah-key). 😋

  • It's a reference to my favorite author, but using different words to get the same ve sound. So far no one had noticed

  • I've had the same (same or some iteration close to it) for over 20 years, 25 maybe? I used to be Valhalla in the 90s but at some point it became impossible to keep it as the name was popular and used on multiple forums and sites.

    Being a big Led Zep fan I had chosen it from Immigrant Song. So when it came time to change it I thought of their label Swan Song and just added my initials to it. I have a couple of other accounts for other purposes that are almost as old but not as meaningful as this one is to me.

  • Lizards are cool so I picked the first available lizard. It feels a lot nicer than keysmashing an username together.

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