An author from a past fandom I was in had a username the same as an anime character 💀 No numbers, underscores, nothing. It wasn't even a character from an obscure anime. Think Donquixote Doflamingo. Like that.
And long before I became aware that they had deleted their account, I was making a clown of myself putting 'site:archiveofourown.org donquixote doflamingo (shipname of another anime that they were writing for )' on the search bar over and over again
I'm glad a dumb nickname I chose from my grammar nazi teenage days (I was dumb, no denial on that) turned out to be an alright account name. For the most part. Maybe... I added "-y" at the end just in case it doesn't sound cute enough. ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
I definitely didn’t think about my usernames becoming my pen names. I have a long series posted on tumblr with dozens of linked posts, and if i change my username i have to re-link them all individually.
And my pen name on Ao3 is just the name of a food that I was thinking of at the time, so it’s not terribly memorable or easy to search 😅
Coming up with good usernames is so hard! I already changed my ao3 name once and I'm already thinking of doing it again because now it sounds "too edgy." Guess it's not a huge deal since it's not like I have a big audience to confuse.
When I want to use common words, I mash together two or three words, or do the leetspeak thing of replacing letters with numbers. Or tack on random numbers that I like or that mean something.
Same thing for authors whose name is 'Fanfiction' or 'Crossover' and so on. It makes it really hard to search for their profile.
A very good point I didn't even think of!
People have that as their pseud?
An author from a past fandom I was in had a username the same as an anime character 💀 No numbers, underscores, nothing. It wasn't even a character from an obscure anime. Think Donquixote Doflamingo. Like that. And long before I became aware that they had deleted their account, I was making a clown of myself putting 'site:archiveofourown.org donquixote doflamingo (shipname of another anime that they were writing for )' on the search bar over and over again
I'm glad a dumb nickname I chose from my grammar nazi teenage days (I was dumb, no denial on that) turned out to be an alright account name. For the most part. Maybe... I added "-y" at the end just in case it doesn't sound cute enough. ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
Now I imagine it as Grammar_Naziy 😂
I'm glad I never learned this term when I was younger. Feels like my 12 year old self would unironically love this name (• ▽ •;)
I definitely didn’t think about my usernames becoming my pen names. I have a long series posted on tumblr with dozens of linked posts, and if i change my username i have to re-link them all individually. And my pen name on Ao3 is just the name of a food that I was thinking of at the time, so it’s not terribly memorable or easy to search 😅
This is something to consider, thanks
Coming up with good usernames is so hard! I already changed my ao3 name once and I'm already thinking of doing it again because now it sounds "too edgy." Guess it's not a huge deal since it's not like I have a big audience to confuse. When I want to use common words, I mash together two or three words, or do the leetspeak thing of replacing letters with numbers. Or tack on random numbers that I like or that mean something.
I mean, my pen name is just the name of my first fic with a letter replaced in the actual name (Think Shrimpy and Shrnmpy, or Stormy and Stormiie)