Why did you choose your username?

[bumpercars]

A bumper car track is a place where you can playfully do things, like run into people with your car, that in any other context would be terribly immoral. Since a fair bit of what I write is non-con, it seems apt.

There's maybe also a double meaning about bumps since most of what I write also involves impregnation, but to be honest I don't think I thought of that before I picked the name.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I started writing as part of my efforts at building a new and better life. So, Chose my name as an indicator of that new life, sort of like being reborn.

Secondarily, I expected that people will read it as if it were "Melissa.....BABY!" But there is no indication anyone does.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

While I was writing my first story, I heard Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" on the radio and decided that would be the perfect pen name. But it was already taken. I liked it so much though that rather than come up with something different, I fell back on my high school Latin and translated it to get the name I wanted.

I have since been told by an anonymous Latin scholar in one of my comments that I should actually have translated it as "SordidasMihiLoquere" but alas the dye has been cast and I'm stuck with it now.

True confession time - since I don't know any Latin at all, I really had no idea what your name meant. But in my head, I say it "LokiSortaDidMe" (possibly because one of my cats is named Loki). And the back story I came up with is that you'd been had (possibly carnally, but maybe just tricked) by that Norse trickster god, but him being a trickster god and all, you weren't sure what had happened.

I'm sure that will give you all some dire glimpse into the recesses of my mind, but... there you go.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

It's a shortening of "I reject your reality and substitute my own" popularized by Adam Savage of Mythbusters, which he appropriated from an old B movie.

I have that as a bumper sticker, right below my faded out "normal people scare me" sticker.

 

[DarkWhispers2U]

I don't know for sure why I chose this name. My family doesn't approve of the subject matter of my story ideas. So, I guess the elements of secrets and sin sorta came together in my mind as Dark Whispers. That name wasn't available though. So, I tacked on the 2U and managed to squeak through.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

True confession time - since I don't know any Latin at all, I really had no idea what your name meant. But in my head, I say it "LokiSortaDidMe".

I'd, um... I'd like to change my answer to that.

 

[EricasDreams]

I wanted my screen name to include my real name, and I wanted it to sound sensual erotic, and dreamy.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Originally Posted by BelleCanzuto:
True confession time - since I don't know any Latin at all, I really had no idea what your name meant. But in my head, I say it "LokiSortaDidMe".

I'd, um... I'd like to change my answer to that

Do you two need to get a room?

 

[SamScribble]

I didn't really choose it.

As I may have said before, my real name is relatively unusual. And yet, when I started school, many many many years ago, there was already a boy in the class with exactly the same name. 'I think we'll have to call you Sam,' the teacher said. 'Otherwise it will be too confusing.'

And then, in my early twenties, I was talking to a woman at a party. 'And what do you do?' she asked. I told her that I was a writer. 'A writer? OK. Then I shall call you Mr Scribble,' she said.

 

[jehoram]

Athalia chose it for me.

When we started writing erotica and beta-reading each other's stories, she chose "Athalia" because Athalia was a queen in the Old Testament of the Bible that she admired. I got stuck trying to figure out a pen name, and eventually she suggested Jehoram, who was Athalia's rather hapless husband. (Which was a kind of joke, since although we've known each other for ages, we've never been romantically involved. Either she would be in a stable relationship, or I would be, and both of us knew that joking about being married would be as far as it ever went.)

 

[Athalia]

Athalia chose it for me.

When we started writing erotica and beta-reading each other's stories, she chose "Athalia" because Athalia was a queen in the Old Testament of the Bible that she admired. I got stuck trying to figure out a pen name, and eventually she suggested Jehoram, who was Athalia's rather hapless husband. (Which was a kind of joke, since although we've known each other for ages, we've never been romantically involved. Either she would be in a stable relationship, or I would be, and both of us knew that joking about being married would be as far as it ever went.)

Guilty as charged. But here's the Rest of the Story:

Athalia was one of the few women in the Old Testament who actually ruled. The whole sordid story can be found in Kings II, although Wikipedia has a fairly good summary (and is also the source of my avatar):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaliah

There's a strong tradition that Athalia got bad press in the Bible because she was not Jewish but Baalite...a worshiper of a rival god to Yahweh. It's also been proposed that Athalia was really the power behind the throne, and Jehoram mainly did her bidding. As a Bad Girl, she ranks right up there with her mother Jezebel, and that's what attracted her to me.

As for my relationship to Jehoram (the writer, not the king), it's always been platonic and likely to stay that way. Which is fine with me. Screwy things happen to relationships once sex is involved, and neither of us want to rock that boat, particularly since his wife is a dear friend of mine.

 

[Chris4rp83]

It's my name and i like to roleplay.

 

[LAHomedog]

Ah, a resuscitated thread! My name is who and what I am. I'm retired and live in Los Angeles.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

My name is a play on "wanna fuck?" that went through a few detours in my mind, lol.

Juana sounds like wanna to me. Also it was too the nick name
I chose for high school Spanish class.

Salsa is for the dance, and like the horizontal tango, it's sexy! Also, I met my husband through salsa dancing.

I like chemistry, and often choose online usernames that deal with chemistry. And non-crosslinked polyacrylates look just like jizz, so it seemed appropriate for Lit.

Love this!

 

[SilkeeSmooth]

I chose it based on my aversion to hair below my neck.

 

[TadOverdon]

I inherited mine from a couple of guys.

 

[SimonDoom]

Related Sub Question

So here's a related question for everyone: would you change your name if you could, assuming there would be no consequences for the support and numbers for your stories?

I would. The more I think of it the more silly I think the name "Doom" is connected with me. It's short and punchy and it has a memorable sense of drama about it, I guess, but I'm about the least doom-focused person I know. I tend to think things are always getting better. I still think that, even as I'm pushing the upper bounds of middle-age (to my kids, I've long since grown "old"), my ability to name the artists on Top 40 lists is waning at an exponential rate, and I increasingly have that old-person sensation that "kids these days" don't appreciate the things that are being lost.

 

[XerXesXu]

So here's a related question for everyone: would you change your name if you could, assuming there would be no consequences for the support and numbers for your stories?

.

Mine could only improve, nevertheless, I'll stick with the nickname I acquired in the 2nd or 3rd form following a foray into ancient Greek history. Not sure where the Xu came from, but one of my classmates could pronounce XerXesXu in a hilarious - to schoolkids - way, and I began to sign XXX, which is far more legible than my actual signature that contains no recognisable letters. It's been with me ever since. I've only ever used one other alias, and I'm sure XXX will see me out.

 

[rjordan]

I didn't choose mine. My parents did.

rj

 

[TadOverdon]

So here's a related question for everyone: would you change your name if you could, assuming there would be no consequences for the support and numbers for your stories?

Yes..

 

[Comshaw]

I've been using my online moniker probably longer than most here have been on the net. How long? Well I don't remember the year, but I can date it by the equipment I remember using: a Tandy SX1000, 640 K of memory with an 8088 processor running at 7.8 Mhz, two 320 meg 3 1/2" disk drives, a 1200 baud rate modem using DOS 2.11 operating system. In other words, a very long time ago. Back then, EVERYTHING was done with text, even pictures. A real picture file at a baud rate of 1200 would take hours to download.

But back to the original question: my name is a perverted version of an old navy term. I had an uncle who was in the navy and always talked about "comshawing" this or that. The actual meaning is a gratuity or gift, but in navy slang its come to mean liberating something from its rightful owner. I thought it was kinda' cool so I adopted it as a username. Fast forward a few years, I was informed by a guy in a forum that I had spelled it wrong. When I went to check on it, damned if he wasn't right.
The actual spelling (and pronunciation) for that term should be "cumshaw." If I could, I'd go back and change it to the actual spelling. Kinda' fits for an erotic story author, huh? I won't because I've been using it this way much too long to give it up.


Comshaw

 

[_Lynn_]

So here's a related question for everyone: would you change your name if you could, assuming there would be no consequences for the support and numbers for your stories?

I would. The more I think of it the more silly I think the name "Doom" is connected with me. It's short and punchy and it has a memorable sense of drama about it, I guess, but I'm about the least doom-focused person I know. I tend to think things are always getting better. I still think that, even as I'm pushing the upper bounds of middle-age (to my kids, I've long since grown "old"), my ability to name the artists on Top 40 lists is waning at an exponential rate, and I increasingly have that old-person sensation that "kids these days" don't appreciate the things that are being lost.

I already did.

 

[yukonnights]

So here's a related question for everyone: would you change your name if you could, assuming there would be no consequences for the support and numbers for your stories? ….

I would keep yukonnights. It was actually from the last line in — I think my second story posted here. It was the ending line;

'… So now I leave you with this: The love kindled in our hearts has sparked a fire that brightens and warms our souls on those long, cold and dark Yukon nights.'

 

[Healwsteel]

An old surgeon's saying.

 

[rescatooor]

Yeah I'd change my name.

Rescator comes from a French romance novel series named Angelique. It's the pseudonym of a scarfaced pirate. Funnily enough, I could now be described as a scar-faced pirate. But the usual spelling is almost always taken everywhere so I have been using rescatooor for a good while as a username.

Apparently there is also a Hungarian hacker who uses the name.

I'd change my name into something more unique to minimize the risk of being confused for someone else. Also something more easily pronounceable, one where you wouldn't have to pay so much attention to correct spelling.