chosen names

[redbird]

I don't normally judge people by their names--if you're named Kevin, that doesn't mean you're anything like the Kevin I knew in seventh grade, or for that matter the other Evil Twin, it just means that your parents liked the name Kevin. (Or that you did--but my first assumption is that people are using the names their parents chose. [Aahz, Avedon, yeah, I know.])

Handles are different. On the one hand, everyone needs a unique handle here, which may be part of why filkerdave isn't just "Dave." On the other, okay, maybe your own name was already taken, but if someone labels zirself "Amok the Berserker," I figure that's like putting a "warning, dangerous cargo" sign on a vehicle, and I'm going to be careful.

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[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Well, yes.

Back in my old BBS days, I used Lost Johnny (http://home.ggn.net/~phydeaux/lostjohnny.html) as my handle, because the song had some personal meaning for me at the time; I stuck with it because people who knew me would know who I was.

Later on in life, when I needed to take a new handle (since we needed, it seemed somewhat sillier to hide behind a song that didn't have that same meaning for me anymore. I was no longer the person I was back then. But there are thousands of Daves out here in the Great Wide World; there needed to be something to connect it to me.

And I am very proudly a filker.

I can't not write songs; that's part of who I am, has been for longer than I can remember (I don't say that they're necessarily good songs, but they're songs).

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I say they're good songs. :) *wave to filkerdave*

Hmmmm. Now I'm wondering what people think my LJ username says about me. It's a reference to a poem I wrote about myself, and through that poem to issues of race and gender and beauty that are all important to my self-conception (but none of them all-important).

I usually use my given name's commonest abbreviation, but for various reasons my journal is semi-anonymous (yes, I know "semi-anonymous" is a concept much like "a little bit pregnant").

"Ayesha"