Let’s Talk About Your Username/Penname

Mine is... a completely made up name for a roleplaying character I never actually got to play with :'D
I picked it without much thought when I decided to separate my art stuff from fandom-related stuff. Decided to go with it because it didn't have any particular meaning attached to it, which I thought was pretty fitting, as I was really, really in need of a fresh start after all the toxic crap I witnessed during my years as a part of that fandom.

It was only later on that I realized that my name includes the word "lyre"*, a music instrument that was very popular in Greece. My hometown was originally a Greek colony and the lyre was also Orpheus' instrument. Fun fact, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has always been one of my favorites. So yep, lots of cool hidden meanings... pity that none of them were picked on purpose, lol.

(*One more fun fact: although the word "lyre" is included in my nickname, the actual pronunciation in my head is something more along the lines of "Lee-rEH-l", so... yep, also unrelated to the instrument XD)

I misremembered a name and ended up with Xeuthis. It means absolutely nothing, but I like it well enough.

Dual Dragons is made of my constellations, that being Gemini and Dragon.

I wanted something that's close enough to my irl name so I can use it in a kinda professional setting as well. Like when I hand out my business cards and the like.

My full Pseudonym is Yulek Bagel

My irl first name is one of those common Juli- names and my last name is literally the brittish spelling of Bagel.

Since I'm from Germany, the pronunciation for Juli- names is Yuli... Like "You".

To make that clear to the English speaking realm and to make it look a bit more unique, I thus went with the Y instead of the J.

Lastly, I recently changed the first name of my pseudonym from Yulia to Yulek, since I wanted something more gender neutral.

While Julek is a diminutive masc form of Julian, it's lesser known outside of East Europe, so to your run of the mill internet user it's pretty undefinable :D.
And as a pseudo cryptid, I am very much in for that.

I am known by many names, and have many faces

My Username: Padduwu = Paddy + uwu
Paddy is my Nickname. Most of my friends call me that but it wasn't unique enough. So I added "uwu" because I unironically use "uwu" in conversations uwu.

oh heck, I was actually wondering if the uwu was intentional :0

I too am an avid user of uwu, owo and qwq
... much to the pain of my peers that have the pleasure of texting with me *cough

anyways. high quality username, ngl

My penname honestly just .. happened.
Lia is the last syllable of my name so when I started joining online communities as a teenager I just called myself Lia everywhere, and now several people call me Lia irl, so it just kinda feels as much like my real name as my full name does. It's just a nickname.
And then when I tried to think of a full name to use as a penname, I used Roger as my surname because I called myself Jolly-Roger on this one forum for a while and I love pirates. And that's it really. I've used this name everywhere for years and I'm just used to it now. It just feels like my name. XD

I think you can guess what my name means lol

But basically it's a satire name lol

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EncryptedWriting,

Well back on my wattpad days, we had only so many names we could think of without them being all gone. I wanted to do somehting writer, so I thought of EnchantedWriter, taken, will shoot what next? I probably spent a good 10 minutes being told that all my names were taken. So then I started to look darker, more fantasy orriented and, BAM, EncryptedWriting came to mind. Why Encrypted, though? I don't know, it came to me as being writing encrypted on a wall, there forever. How something can be encrypted into writing, and it never goes away, either being a light for some or a darkness to others.

My penname/username dates waaaaay back to my late childhood years/ pre-teens; I have always been a Chemistry gal, it was the only subject involving numbers in which I've thrived in my whole school career. And as I was researching about the Periodic Table, I really loved reading about the element Iridium.

It's one of the rarest elements we find in Earth, and most of the reserves came from space comets and debris that got stuck in here, so it's like a natural "alien" resource; also, it's mainly used for spacecraft devices, such as rocket gears or even their shells can be made of an Osmiun-Iridium alloy. Iridium shines in rainbow colours, and that's the origin of its name (comes from Ancient Greek, if my memory serves me well). Needless to say how amazed I was by such metal in a way that I decided to always go by Iridium in any media that I go, and, if the pure name isn't available, I always mix something else at the end.

There you go, that's why I go by Iridium: it's exotic, colourful, filled with possibilities and sometimes out of the silent planet, which embodies how I feel about the world in general and how I sometimes feel out of it.

It was supposed to be Aiwille Carreon, which when read sounds like I will carry on.

Mine is a reference to my first name, which is Evangeline. The pen name refers to the epic poem "Evangeline", written by Henry Longfellow. Below is an excerpt from the work, which can be read in full here: https://poets.org/poem/evangeline-tale-acadie.

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman
Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers,
Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands,
Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!
Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October
Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o'er the ocean
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.

Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion,
List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;
List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.

It was based on my OC Suren. Since I draw her a lot, you may call my works 'surenlicious'

Well, for my name- It‘s probably obvious that the stars and everything about them, the night sky in general, is just fascinating!
Hoewever, I first started using this name on a German roleplay forum for Warrior Cats way back in the day (like, 2012), where I used the username „Starwind“; but around 2014 (I think), when I started posting my drawings onto Instagram and DeviantArt and moved on from that fandom, I started to go by just Star and that‘s basically the end of the story.

In the early days of the internet (in the 90s) I used the name "alven" which is "elf" in swedish ( I do love elfs) but for some unknown reason I switched over to rumpenstiltzkin and been using it ever since. I did use just stiltzkin very early (final fantasy moogle) but after some jokes between friends about the grumpy child stealing imp from the grimm story I started using my current name.

I actually kinda miss using alven but now it feels weird to change after having a nickname no one can ever spell properly for over 20 years or so

Crystalrook isn't really my penname, it's just the name of my brand for my creative publishing. I typically use the name MG-Zero. It originated back in like...2001? I made it up for a zelda website, zeldagames.net (now long gone) and it was MasterGohan6000. Somehow through my days spent on IRC on a different zelda website, zeldapower.com (...also now gone) it just became MasterGohan, and then eventually MasterGohanZero once I got into Megaman. Fast forward to yet ANOTHER zelda site (zfgc.com, this one still exists!!), and it eventually shorted to MG-Zero.

The nobility title thing started as a joke in high school where my name was h-queen bc I dared to draw sexy dudes at a table full of guys, though it was rather tame looking back at it. I liked the haughty feel of the name but realized it wasn't that fitting as I branched out more on what I liked to draw.

I met a gal who was really fanciful in college and didn't mind my hyperactive imagination and would encourage it to the point that all my friends accepted it as true and then all my fictional crushes were put in a palace. The Bishie (short for Bishonen - Pretty boy) Palace where everyone called me Lady Cupcake (at the time my favorite pretty dude was dubbed cupcake for reasons I can't even remember anymore lol).

I graduated and started looking for work and started to think about how I wanted to present myself next to my art and design work so I went with Lady T Arts & Designs not the most creative, but it said what I did and used a part of my real name. The T for Toya.

After a few years of getting tired of typing that all out and trying to make a cool brand stamp with it I decided to keep the Lady T. and ditch the rest for something a bit more whimsical. I picked musings as I love the word and reminded me of my art history classes that I really enjoyed. When I finally settled on Musings I was like....yes...yes...this is me.

Lady T. Musings, all day all night.