Where did your screen name come from????? - Page 5

Tangle · 10-03-2011, 10:53 PM

I originally chose 'tanglelips' for two reasons. 1: b/c I, in 1999, listened often to the Dave Matthews Band, and they had a line in a song which i thought was very sexy: "tangled tongues and lips." 2: Additionally, a wonderful fairytale book I read as a little girl called -The Golden Key- had a protagonist named Tangle, whose long hair wasn't brushed regularly enough. Well I have very long golden hair just like she, and it can get plenty tangled when I don't brush it very regularly. I always identified with her name.

I am well aware that my name makes me sound a little slutty and juvenile, and I considered making a new name when I registered here, but I felt a little weird, as though I would be ditching one identity/past for another, and I didn't want to feel like i'd be perceived as sneaky. I wish I'd ditched the 'lips' now though, and just gone with Tangle. *laugh*

Alas.

NorCalStud · 10-03-2011, 11:22 PM

I was being funny really. I do not think of myself as a stud. Been called one. Wondered if it meant you get a stable of...pleasure...so add my location and it is a little me and alot fantasy. My mother named me Cheri...which I do not go by. Always kind of enjoyed that book by Anias Nin tho....

PumaJ · 10-03-2011, 11:44 PM

An ex of mine who was Two-Spirit, once told me I was as fierce as a Cougar protecting her young. Henceforth, she nicknamed me Pumawoman & sometimes called me PumaJ. A few years later when I finally got online, I decided to use those nicknames as screen names.

Ranger Butch Force · 10-04-2011, 12:21 AM

Its my Ranger radio call sign at Burning Man. I might put in for a change. Havent decided yet.

Bard · 10-04-2011, 04:18 AM

OK when I had found the dash site and was signing up I gave a lot of thought as to my screen name.. went through variations of my name yeah nope this was a new beginning for me ok next some nicknames in conjunction to what I do or my rank in the military yeah I am a cop and a medic nope STILL did not fit was to shy to let my Cowboi out to many years of hiding my self (but that is another story) then it hit me I love to write love the power of the word

and the Bard of old even perhaps someday I will publish my ramblings not hat anyone would buy my poetry but hey>>

perhaps I could call it Becoming Bard

*Anya* · 10-04-2011, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starbuck

My screen name came from a character on the scifi show Battlestar Galactica, the one that ran from 2004-2009. In this one, Starbuck is played by a woman named Katee Sackhoff, and is a badass Marine who doesn't take shit from anyone, not to mention she is H.O.T.! I really got into the show but I truly watched it just to see her. Short, blond hair and butch to boot, mmmmmm.

My other screen name on a couple of online games is Kara Thrace, which is the character Starbuck's given name. Starbuck was the name of the airplane she flew so all the crew called her Starbuck. BFP Starbuck and I share the love for that TV series as well as for Katee Sackoff!

Since I can't drop Georgia from my name, ( I asked) maybe I will change it to Kara Thrace...but I feel like an Anya.

Tawse · 10-04-2011, 05:47 AM

tawse

— n
1. a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher

Love a good tawse

luv2luvgirls · 10-04-2011, 05:57 AM

It is the one I used on another LGBT site over 7yrs ago. I made it up because I love my lil girl and,...... im all butch, I dig da femmes

Venus007 · 10-04-2011, 06:04 AM

I read a novel by Anais Nin called "Spy in the House of Love" and thus my screen name was born 007 for spy and Venus for love.

Cin · 10-04-2011, 07:23 AM

I believed that I never had trouble accepting myself as a woman. I always felt my sensibilities lay with women. However, there was a sort of disconnect when it came to identifying with society’s definition, as well as a sense of invisibility because I could never see myself reflected in other women. Then I found butch and that felt right. The masculine male thing was a bit of a struggle, because despite a real gender incongruence in my presentation in the eyes of others, I had never really felt like I was male. I looked it. At least there was always a good deal of gender confusion from the world in general regarding if I was male or female. But I never was confused. But I do find comfort in my masculinity, it fits like my old black t-shirt. But I am never comfortable with it. I hold it suspect and watch it like it was a cranky old dog prone to biting. In the spirit of this very tiresome way I have of looking at my masculinity I thought it would be great fun to give myself a feminine name this time around. Miss Tick is a very minor character in a couple of Terry Pratchett novels. I liked that it was a kind of oronym. So I decided to try it out.

I’m having such a hard time with it. When I see it beside my words I cringe. It’s beyond being uncomfortable with it. I pretty much hate it. But I’m going to keep it. At least until the fear and loathing of a too feminine name passes or it just gets too much to look at. I am pretty surprised at myself. I didn’t think it would be this hard. But it is. It's so hard that I sometimes feel detached from my own words once they are out there authored by this Miss Tick person. I wonder what that says about me. I think it needs a touch of masculine to make it more palatable. I keep telling myself that tick is kind of male. But really what the hell does that even mean? How can a word be male? I think I'm losing it. Maybe I should just give in and change it.

Just_G · 10-04-2011, 07:27 AM

My name is Gin, but the group I kind of hang out with here has 3 "Jen"s and it got really confusing so I shortened mine to just G.....and when I introduce myself I always say, "Hi, I'm G." Then they look at me and tilt their head like a puppy and I reply: "Just G". They nod and we are good to go!

Not so fancy shmancy!!

justkim · 10-04-2011, 07:35 AM

To me it seems simple... I have been asked more than a few times if my real name is Kimberly and I reply with NO it is JUST Kim... and like G I get the head tilt and reply with "really, it is just kim... not kimberly not kimmie, just kim...

JustJo · 10-04-2011, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JustJo

Mine is boring, sorry.

My real name is Jo...and everyone always seems to want to add something to it...calling me Joan, Joanne, etc.

Most of the time I end up introducing myself as Jo...Just Jo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Just_G

My name is Gin, but the group I kind of hang out with here has 3 "Jen"s and it got really confusing so I shortened mine to just G.....and when I introduce myself I always say, "Hi, I'm G." Then they look at me and tilt their head like a puppy and I reply: "Just G". They nod and we are good to go!

Not so fancy shmancy!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by justkim

To me it seems simple... I have been asked more than a few times if my real name is Kimberly and I reply with NO it is JUST Kim... and like G I get the head tilt and reply with "really, it is just kim... not kimberly not kimmie, just kim...

I'm detecting a pattern here

JAGG · 10-04-2011, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Julie

And...
Because people invariably always misspell:

INFINITE

BELLE!

Maybe you should take typo as a second language. I have and things are much easier. I can even understand my own posts now. Haha

*Anya* · 10-04-2011, 08:13 AM

Let it be known, that henceforth, Anya/Georgia will now be known by the double-asterisk name:

*Anya*

Thanks to PrincessBelle for thinking out of the box (that I was unable to do) and thanks to tech guru Linus for the change!

Let's not forget Dapper, who started the whole thing!

PS: just call me,

princessbelle · 10-04-2011, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by *Anya*

Let it be known, that henceforth, Anya/Georgia will now be known by the double-asterisk name:

*Anya*

Thanks to PrincessBelle for thinking out of the box (that I was unable to do) and thanks to tech guru Linus for the change!

Let's not forget Dapper, who started the whole thing!

PS: just call me,

It's PERFECT!!!!!!!

Hiya Anya!!!!!!

1QuirkyKiwi · 10-04-2011, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tapu

Afraid not. I was reading a Ngaio Marsh novel when I needed a screen name and Tapu popped into my head from that. I love her books, especially the ones set in NZ.

I love the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - UK TV was showing them in the early 90s when I was here studying. I have them on DVD, lol!

Random · 10-04-2011, 09:47 AM

Random is short for Randomnumbers

randomnumbers is a young cat in a book... He was named so because of the extremely changeable behavior that adolesent cats can have.

Random was my nickname in my twenties, because of my lighting train of though changes.... Lol.. Circular logic, linar logic... nope... Mine was A, B 7, %, Z... The result were the same as other people, just my process to get there was different....

I left the nickname behind and went back to my birth name when I left Atlanta... but used randomnumbers as my email.

I thought I left it behind... lol... I met and fell in love with a woman who hated my birthname... She called me Random....

Fast forward eight years later... we break up, I try to go back to my given name... (Hence the short lived Ms Cyn) but the problem is.. when I self talk, I name myself Random.. People call my Cyn or Cynthia, but I'm still Random..

DapperButch · 10-04-2011, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by *Anya*

Let it be known, that henceforth, Anya/Georgia will now be known by the double-asterisk name:

*Anya*

Thanks to PrincessBelle for thinking out of the box (that I was unable to do) and thanks to tech guru Linus for the change!

Let's not forget Dapper, who started the whole thing!

PS: just call me,

Woo Hoo! congrats!

intrigue_in916 · 10-04-2011, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by princessbelle

The name change thread gave me this idea a few weeks back. We all have screen names and some of us just use our real names but may have used screen names in the past.

I thought it would be fun to have a place to explain why you picked the one(s) you did and if it is meaningful to you in someway.

I'll go first....

I was SouthernBelle for many years because, well i am southern. I used this name for around 10 years on yahoo and in yahoo chat rooms. When i found the dash site, a few years ago, that name was already taken. I was at a loss. My dad always called me his princess so i just picked that and combined it with belle because most people called me belle anyway and still do.

Ok....now your turn....

My S/N ~~~ Is simple.~~ I have been Intrigued by another and also Intriguing to someone.

10-03-2011, 10:53 PM	#81
Tangle Member How Do You Identify?: High Femme w/o the high maintenance Preferred Pronoun?: Two guesses ;-) Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: mountain west Posts: 142 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 929 Thanked 319 Times in 101 Posts Rep Power: 7287899	well- I originally chose 'tanglelips' for two reasons. 1: b/c I, in 1999, listened often to the Dave Matthews Band, and they had a line in a song which i thought was very sexy: "tangled tongues and lips." 2: Additionally, a wonderful fairytale book I read as a little girl called -The Golden Key- had a protagonist named Tangle, whose long hair wasn't brushed regularly enough. Well I have very long golden hair just like she, and it can get plenty tangled when I don't brush it very regularly. I always identified with her name. I am well aware that my name makes me sound a little slutty and juvenile, and I considered making a new name when I registered here, but I felt a little weird, as though I would be ditching one identity/past for another, and I didn't want to feel like i'd be perceived as sneaky. I wish I'd ditched the 'lips' now though, and just gone with Tangle. laugh Alas.

10-03-2011, 11:22 PM	#82
NorCalStud Member How Do You Identify?: gaea's Daddy and Fiance Preferred Pronoun?: Ours Relationship Status: Engaged with gaea:-) Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Island Mountain Posts: 440 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,630 Thanked 1,465 Times in 359 Posts Rep Power: 18918588	I was being funny really. I do not think of myself as a stud. Been called one. Wondered if it meant you get a stable of...pleasure...so add my location and it is a little me and alot fantasy. My mother named me Cheri...which I do not go by. Always kind of enjoyed that book by Anias Nin tho.... __________________ "Love the questions" ...Rainier Marie Rilke...Letters to a young poet Che

10-03-2011, 11:44 PM	#83
PumaJ Member How Do You Identify?: High Femme Queer Feminist Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Portland Metro, Oregon Posts: 200 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,419 Thanked 500 Times in 147 Posts Rep Power: 1652642	An ex of mine who was Two-Spirit, once told me I was as fierce as a Cougar protecting her young. Henceforth, she nicknamed me Pumawoman & sometimes called me PumaJ. A few years later when I finally got online, I decided to use those nicknames as screen names. __________________ PumaJ

10-04-2011, 12:21 AM	#84
Ranger Butch Force Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Black Rock City, Nevada Posts: 182 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 40 Thanked 315 Times in 118 Posts Rep Power: 5084028	Its my Ranger radio call sign at Burning Man. I might put in for a change. Havent decided yet. __________________ THERE IS NO TEAM IN FUCK YOU

10-04-2011, 04:18 AM	#85
Bard Family Man How Do You Identify?: TG Male Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine ones Relationship Status: She just gets me Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ..... Posts: 2,828 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,997 Thanked 12,786 Times in 2,431 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	OK when I had found the dash site and was signing up I gave a lot of thought as to my screen name.. went through variations of my name yeah nope this was a new beginning for me ok next some nicknames in conjunction to what I do or my rank in the military yeah I am a cop and a medic nope STILL did not fit was to shy to let my Cowboi out to many years of hiding my self (but that is another story) then it hit me I love to write love the power of the word and the Bard of old even perhaps someday I will publish my ramblings not hat anyone would buy my poetry but hey>> perhaps I could call it Becoming Bard __________________ This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it? Don't dream it, be it.

10-04-2011, 05:47 AM	#87
Tawse Member How Do You Identify?: TG Gender Queer Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Atlanta Posts: 730 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,973 Thanked 2,733 Times in 642 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	tawse — n 1. a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher Love a good tawse

10-04-2011, 05:57 AM	#88
luv2luvgirls Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Asshole Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Kentucky/Austin/Wherever Posts: 2,310 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,387 Thanked 5,470 Times in 1,827 Posts Rep Power: 0	It is the one I used on another LGBT site over 7yrs ago. I made it up because I love my lil girl and,...... im all butch, I dig da femmes

10-04-2011, 06:04 AM	#89
Venus007 Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Serene Highness ;} Relationship Status: Dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Houston area Posts: 1,362 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,417 Thanked 4,750 Times in 1,139 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I read a novel by Anais Nin called "Spy in the House of Love" and thus my screen name was born 007 for spy and Venus for love. __________________ . "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. " Ayn Rand, Anthem "So you'll die happily for your sins. You'd rather die in guilt then live in love?" Timothy Leary

10-04-2011, 07:23 AM	#90
Cin Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Truly Madly Deeply Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: In My Head Posts: 2,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,333 Thanked 10,430 Times in 2,476 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	I believed that I never had trouble accepting myself as a woman. I always felt my sensibilities lay with women. However, there was a sort of disconnect when it came to identifying with society’s definition, as well as a sense of invisibility because I could never see myself reflected in other women. Then I found butch and that felt right. The masculine male thing was a bit of a struggle, because despite a real gender incongruence in my presentation in the eyes of others, I had never really felt like I was male. I looked it. At least there was always a good deal of gender confusion from the world in general regarding if I was male or female. But I never was confused. But I do find comfort in my masculinity, it fits like my old black t-shirt. But I am never comfortable with it. I hold it suspect and watch it like it was a cranky old dog prone to biting. In the spirit of this very tiresome way I have of looking at my masculinity I thought it would be great fun to give myself a feminine name this time around. Miss Tick is a very minor character in a couple of Terry Pratchett novels. I liked that it was a kind of oronym. So I decided to try it out. I’m having such a hard time with it. When I see it beside my words I cringe. It’s beyond being uncomfortable with it. I pretty much hate it. But I’m going to keep it. At least until the fear and loathing of a too feminine name passes or it just gets too much to look at. I am pretty surprised at myself. I didn’t think it would be this hard. But it is. It's so hard that I sometimes feel detached from my own words once they are out there authored by this Miss Tick person. I wonder what that says about me. I think it needs a touch of masculine to make it more palatable. I keep telling myself that tick is kind of male. But really what the hell does that even mean? How can a word be male? I think I'm losing it. Maybe I should just give in and change it. __________________ The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their “facts.” Neil Strauss

10-04-2011, 07:27 AM	#91
Just_G Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch, Switch, Comedian...G...whichever. Preferred Pronoun?: He....with an e! Relationship Status: I'll take kinky & twisted for $200, Alex!! Tournaments Won: 1 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: in the middle Posts: 2,281 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 874 Thanked 6,165 Times in 1,450 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	My name is Gin, but the group I kind of hang out with here has 3 "Jen"s and it got really confusing so I shortened mine to just G.....and when I introduce myself I always say, "Hi, I'm G." Then they look at me and tilt their head like a puppy and I reply: "Just G". They nod and we are good to go! Not so fancy shmancy!! __________________ Happy are those who dream and are ready to pay the price to make them come true!

10-04-2011, 07:35 AM	#92
justkim Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me... Preferred Pronoun?: ... Relationship Status: <3 myself Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ... Posts: 2,023 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,062 Thanked 6,799 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	To me it seems simple... I have been asked more than a few times if my real name is Kimberly and I reply with NO it is JUST Kim... and like G I get the head tilt and reply with "really, it is just kim... not kimberly not kimmie, just kim... __________________ Kim "A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Unknown -

10-04-2011, 08:13 AM	#95
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,460 Times in 7,283 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Let it be known, that henceforth, Anya/Georgia will now be known by the double-asterisk name: Anya Thanks to PrincessBelle for thinking out of the box (that I was unable to do) and thanks to tech guru Linus for the change! Let's not forget Dapper, who started the whole thing! PS: just call me, __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

10-04-2011, 09:47 AM	#98
Random Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: back in the land of trees and snow Posts: 2,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,017 Thanked 5,327 Times in 1,378 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Random is short for Randomnumbers randomnumbers is a young cat in a book... He was named so because of the extremely changeable behavior that adolesent cats can have. Random was my nickname in my twenties, because of my lighting train of though changes.... Lol.. Circular logic, linar logic... nope... Mine was A, B 7, %, Z... The result were the same as other people, just my process to get there was different.... I left the nickname behind and went back to my birth name when I left Atlanta... but used randomnumbers as my email. I thought I left it behind... lol... I met and fell in love with a woman who hated my birthname... She called me Random.... Fast forward eight years later... we break up, I try to go back to my given name... (Hence the short lived Ms Cyn) but the problem is.. when I self talk, I name myself Random.. People call my Cyn or Cynthia, but I'm still Random.. __________________ ~Volunteer~ "It gets in your blood"