When we are interacting online - only online, never having ever met - we become (I think) our nicknames...... like Windy and Boosghost and Hermione and willie and PK and so many others.... and of course morningstar.
I for one create a persona based on the nickname...... and then flesh it out through comments and sometimes from the blogs you write. Today I am curious to know how you settled on your online name........ there must be some story behind it right??
I'll tell you how I came up with morningstar.
I have always been an early riser - often getting up before the sun... one morning I was outside and there was one star in the sky... one lone star. I thought 'ahhh a morningstar'. Every morning I would look up and feel comforted (for some reason) by the morning star shining down. Sooooo when I first logged on to my first BBS (Bulletin Board Services - wayyyyyyyy before the internet) I needed a screen name... because I only ever logged on first thing in the morning I decided on morningstar.
Way back then I had no trouble with morningstar - it appeared I was the only one using it!!! No "that name is in use" messages. Now however if I sign up for something new - the 'that name is in use' pops up frequently. Lately I have been receiving emails for some Morningstar charity..... their email is morningstar@..... .com whereas mine is morningstar@....ca I don't know how many times I have contacted them - forwarded emails to them ........ le sigh
So tell me how did you pick your online name? any interesting stories behind it???
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quiet peace in the early morning......with a hot cup of coffee
Mine is neither elegant nor beautiful. I jumped into blogging without giving it proper thought. I was going to be Elis - something from my childhood. But after an annoying online fuss - all in fun, they began calling me Pissed Kitty. Which got shortened to PK. When I wanted to publish I certainly wanted a beautiful, lovely, feminine name - but it was too late. My readers knew me as PK and that was that.
ReplyDeleteLOL I love it!! Pissed Kitty LOL
DeleteYou know now every time I see "PK" I'm gonna say Pissed Kitty right??!!
Sigh... yeah, I know.
DeleteI love your name because it has a dual and quite polar, meaning. Commonly it is nickname for Venus, since it is considered the predominant morning’star’. But it is also the name for a medieval mace-like weapon with a spiked ball on a fixed handle. You have to love that combination!
ReplyDeleteAs for me? Mine is a name I used as a nom de plume when I was writing and cartooning for the SandMutopian Guardian. It is a blend of my initials and a past role play persona.
I kinda thought it might be something to do with your writing :)
DeleteLol to PK. Can't imagine you as a Pissy Kitty. Maybe you can think of it as Purring Kitty, or Pretty Kitty, Precious Kitty now?
ReplyDeleteAnyway- I chose Wilma from the Flintstones because that seemed to suit my personality. However I giggle more like Betty ( a family name so that was a definite out! I didn't choose Fred for B because he's more like Barney in personality. He HATES it by the way- which is why I often shorten it to B.
Not long after I started blogging my good friend,Lillie, started calling me Willie. It seemed to be a better fit, but as my blog is named Barney Married Wilma, I still use her face. And to be honest it is still fun altering the cartoons to suit my posts.
willie ( oh and I don't capitalize the w simply because I like the look of all lower case- no submissive reason )
small w cause you like the look more!! Glad you shared that tidbit I thought maybe it was the old submissives always use lower case letters rigmarole
DeleteHi Morningstar,
ReplyDeleteI love your story. I'm always interested in learning how blog friends come up with their online names.
Mine is based on a childhood nick name.
Then there is Scrappy Doo (hence my pic). I can get riled up when I feel someone had done me or a loved one wrong. "Let me at em". Rick used to say I was getting my Scrappy on lol.
Hugs
Roz
LOL now there ya see - I did NOT picture you as scrappy!! another element to you - gotta love it!
DeleteNo great mystery about my online name. Prefect a name that I used to be called when I first started playing and DT another old name now unused. At the start I thought about just using Prefect but I suspected that there would be a lot of other Prefects out there, so I added DT, except in lower case letters to personalize the name to me. Since then, I have not seen one other person on the internet calling themselves Prefect :)
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mmmmmmm now see Prefect I assumed British background and all that you had been a Prefect when you were in school :)
DeleteI had been a prefect in school and I did use my prefect's badge as part of my schoolboy outfit in my early days of playing, that's why people started calling me prefect.
DeletePS: I stopped doing the schoolboy thing back in the early 90's
Prefectdt
For me, selkie was a given - D. called me that as a nickname as did some of my family - because I was a dreamer, loved the myths and stories of Ireland and was a child of the ocean so it worked perfectly!
ReplyDelete(smiling) I remember the picture you had on your blog
ReplyDeleteselkie does fit your perfectly :)
ohhhhhhhhhh Windy I love your explanation for your name and Storm's !! I always felt your names and the name of your blog were very descriptive and gave me a wonderful picture!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the question. I always wondered where your name and Prefectdt's came from, so now my curiosity has been satisfied.
ReplyDeleteI chose Hermione because at the time I had just discovered the Harry Potter series, and I really identified with Hermione. I was a lot like her in school, except for the magic part. I named my husband Ron because (spoiler alert!) she marries Ron Weasley in the final book.
Hugs,
Hermione
ahhh to be honest - that reveal wasn't that surprising - even though I am probably the only human alive who has not read/watched Harry Potter
Deletethe Hermione nick creates quite a visual of you in my mind...... long curly hair right?? (god don't disillusion me!! LOL)
Yes, pretty much the same style and colour as my avatar.
DeleteI am SO jealous!!! :)
Deletesugarsack is a lifelong nick name first given to me by my grandfather almost immediately after birth .... when Al Gore invented the internet and i was logging on my first AOL account i chose it and it has stuck... by this time everyone but people at work call me Sugar...
ReplyDeletess
I love your name Morningstar, however, PK wins hands down!
ReplyDeleteMine is a play on the Sheriff's nickname as a child. That's it.
Hugs
Boo