I saw the “worst summaries in fanfiction” thread and asked myself, why not one-up them?

I’ll go with the worst name in fanfiction!

seriously, it’s pretty cringe

 

Came across the word in a flip book my friend and I were going through on a road trip once. It means the essential characteristic that defines something, and always gelled with me.

My previous nick was the first one I used on the internet, and came from a random throwaway character in a random kids book I flicked through whilst trying to work out what I should call myself on the internet. It was funny, but a disaster as no one could repeat it properly for tagging, and was too easy to search for, so I eventually switched.

 

To clear up the weeb confusion, it's pronounced "ūts-ayn".

 

Mine is a misremembered quote from The Simpsons. A late night show the TV was The Erotic Awakening of S. I thought it was adventures and now it’s stuck. I used to have “the” on there but some cunt removed it.



Click to view. Embed was acting fucky for me wasn't sure if it was for others. - Zombie

 

I was using dozens of usernames for various services when I read a phenomenally edgy Naruto fic where he said "Can you hear it? The sound of silence." Then he killed everybody. I liked the turn of phrase and so TheSoundOfSilence became a thing. The name was too long for IRC, so I went by SoS in some places. Once the era of VoIP came around, people would try to say my nick out loud and they'd fuck it up constantly. Ess oh ess, Etc. Someone called me Sauce and I was like let's go with that. The Bauss was courtesy of Jon.

 

The original reasons are lost to time, but the cause of my current name is the tyrannical admins of the site who discriminate against tomato-kind.

 

You know, that might have been the most democratic thing to ever occur on DLP. It required considerable backing from everyday members.

Like myself.

 

So what you're saying is it's the people that are discriminatory, not the leaders.

 

I mean, our founding identity was basically elitist HP fan fiction. It’s inherently discriminatory. We’ve chilled out a lot since then, and don’t discriminate that much anymore.

But against tomatoes? Especially wise ones? You bet your pink ass we do.

 

Those dirty transgenics make me sick.

I chose my name to avoid my online and forum life bleeding into my real life, but seeing as how it's been 10 years I feel like I can trust you cats with my real name.

I'm awesomeslut_69.

 

I'm just going to stop right here and accuse you all of thottery.

Ched is a gem though, and I'm thrilled to have her here.

 

“Gaius” was my Roman name in my introductory Latin class in college. I chose it then because the vocative “Gai” sounds like English “guy,” which I thought was fun.

 

Apologies if this is ignorant, but isn't one's legal name changeable regardless of one's gender status? Like I might be a cis/straight guy and there's no law stopping me changing my name to Anne or Beth.

 

Looked at my desktop background which back then was the picture of a Swiss longsword.

 

I read a lot of manga as a teenager, my local library had bits and pieces of all sorts of series. Eventually picked up Rurouni Kenshin, and the rest is history. Zanza> Zenza > Zenzao.

 

It was the name a friend of mine suggested for a character for the online game Tibia that we both played back in the day. I think I was maybe 11 then? xD

 

I used to do magic tricks, but more for the learning about them than for the performing - I studied them because it was going to be the closest I could get to real magic (and I'm a massive nerd).

So I bastardised the term as someone who studied magic. Although I took 'thaum' from a Pratchett novel, pretty sure Ponder Stibbins talks about 'microthaums' as a term of magical power when designing hex, and not from knowing Latin.

Since it was a made up word, nobody else (at the time) used it, so I could use the same username for every site. Since then, I've seen other people use it, and had users on other forums contact me to find out if I'm their old friend using the same name.