Nothing exotic.
Anthony is my middle name.
Yes, I'm a good Sicilian boy.

Bump.:hk31::hk9::hk20:

It's one of my favorite movies. My real name is Jenny. I refer to my partner as Mr. Jenny but she actually has a very feminine Spanish name that she does not want online :superfunny:

That movie like... made my childhood. That and Neverending story.

Ferret is a nickname that I've had for several years. Or Scrappy. My real name is Susan, but I go by Sue :)

The tractor name John Deere!

I used the Chinese name of one of my students for a long time, until I was renamed Grainne, an Irish name, and well, I am most definitely (Northern) Irish.

I'm a writer, so, it's just simply what I am - a story spinner...lol...I've used storyspinner as my online presence for years and years.

I just made it up?? I'm Gay and my hair is mostly gray. So, Gayandgray!

My initials... Original I know.... Try not to be too jealous of my creativity :blink::king::shocking:

mine is..
 

flapdoodle means nonsense

my love of kissing💋💋💋💋💋💋

"Cathexis," is a Freudian concept referring to the investment of emotional, physical or libidinous energy towards a goal or object of attention.

Anyone that knows me knows I absolutely love jewelry!! and at the time I was registering for this site I was wearing a silver ring with a pearl...Silver Pearl to me sounded like a Femme version of a Silver Fox which didn't resonate since I'm not quite there yet...lol. So, I used Platinum Pearl since the pearl I was wearing was grey and set in silver.

"DaddyClyde" was the most ridiculous thing I could think of at that moment.

location location location lol

Freud-look it up.

I've used "homoe" on several sites. When I signed up on the very first one, I wanted "homo" but it was already taken so I just added an silent 'e' to homo!

Disclaimer: Unfortunately it's not a exciting story just a true story!

Femme - self explanatory
Wench - long ago in a universe called AOL, a butch I was interested in called me a wench. I loved the word, if not the literal meaning, and created this user name. I still love it.

I already posted in here years ago, but seeing this thread again I do have to laugh at myself. BullDog comes from real life where I just flat out refused to give up no matter what. I am definitely BullDog, lol. My bulldoggedness is my greatest weakness and my greatest strength. Despite the liabilities, I would much rather have it than not.

My name is Cheryl and I live in NYC.

Yup. Not much time for creativity.

Esme from Esme Weatherwax from Terry Pratchett's Discworld stories - bestowed upon me as a nickname (and used thereafter as an online alias by me) by a near 7ft rugby playing lad after seeing me lose my patience and verbally (textually?) tear an idiot to shreds that was simply being insulting to me in what was supposed to be a discussion on a serious matter. Said 7ft lad was thereafter always referred to as Detritus (another Discworld character - we were both in the Discworld chat group as well)

The rest is simply acknowledging that I am the daughter of my mother, in the style of name used by the Renunciates in Marion Zimmer-Bradley's Darkover tales.

Short for Lyteswitch ... a nick I created back in the early AOL days. I think I'm over due for a change!

I can't believe I've never posted in this thread!

I've been "Medusa" in various online spaces since 1996 but my penchant for all things snakey-haired-goddess goes way, WAY back to my childhood.

I first watched "Clash of the Titans" (the really awesome campy one from 1981) when I was 5 years old and immediately was intrigued by this creepy snakewoman who was basically minding her own business off in this banged up temple when all these assholes came and murdered her because they needed her head.

I begged my step-dad for stories about Medusa and he set about reading stories to me from a huge stack of books that lived on my nightstand for a couple of years. He made stories up when we ran out of Greek tales and I combed encyclopedias and art journals for pictures of what she might have looked like.

In many of the stories, Medusa had been a virginal fair maiden and a priestess of Athena (and granddaughter of Gaea!) and had been devoted to a life of purity until Poseidon came along and she fell for him. She was cursed after getting down with Poseidon in Athena's temple and turned from a beautiul maiden into the snakewoman.

As a child, I identified with the idea that this woman had done nothing really wrong other than fall in love (my step-dad protected me from the sex stuff) and also how she lived by herself after being turned to a snake and all these warriors basically kept coming to try and kill her.

As a young adult, I identified more with "love turns you ugly" after having been through a couple of hellish breakups.

As a woman, I identify with the "death-stare" aka how I can look upon someone and turn them to stone. And this is more about personal power than anything (and that thing where I don't put up with people's shit).
But also? I identify with the idea that it isn't really love that turns us ugly, but rather other people's perceptions of how we live our lives. And that doesn't make us ugly, it just speaks to how other people draw pictures of us in their minds when they often don't know shit about us.

And I'm actually ok being misunderstood. I'm also ok keeping to myself in abandoned temples.
I've also learned that if I'm minding my own, slithering through my life and not bothering anyone else, anyone who comes for me because of what they think they can get from me better bring a fucking army.
And it's not even that I'm bitter or whatever, because I'm pretty happy and optimistic.

I still think of the figure of Medusa as a beautiful, fierce Goddess...just with little pet snakes who are wildly protective.

Besides?

There's this:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d9/e0/e5/d...fd4db7e22d.jpg