i chose mine because i wanted it to start with exe so that people in mmos would just call me exe and i wanted it to sound vaguely feminine so i played with every collection of syllables i could imagine until something stuck. now this has been my primary username/character name/blog name/whatever on basically everything for like 20 years. lol
we iterated through every morpheme we could think of for the ending, evaluating it on how we liked the sound of it, on how many people were using it per cursor searches of social media (preferring fewer), on whether it was diminutive (preferring not), and then we came up with one that has a hidden meaning that people with the appropriate background sometimes recognize but that typically goes unnoticed although its connotations may have subconscious effect.
so we went with that one, because we're all about that sort of thing.
I think of concepts I like and then look up words related to them that I think sound neat. Ring was actually a name I used for a while when I was younger, but naturally it's taken on most sites. Plasma Ring was kind of a happy accident because I started looking up stuff related to ionized air and ran across this. Trying not to get famous ever so my porn doesn't come up in search results for the people working on very normal stuff like fusion power.
I used to use the English <-> Sindarin dictionary to find several words that resonated with the project / character i was trying to name, and then smoosh them together and massage the syllables until it sounded pronounceable in English.
I took the word "arboretic" from a Bon Iver song I liked. This was not a unique username.
Later, when I realized my gender, I made the name more femme-sounding. I tried a bunch of variants that sounded wrong. Then I saw "arboretic" misspelled as "arborelic" in a twitch chat and it got me to "arborelia", which sounded enough like me that the "elia" part became my actual name.
i'm iris. i would've just gone with "irisjay" on here but i'm "irisjaycomics" on every other social media site, and also if you don't like my comics then don't fuckin follow me lol
Makyo are demons that, at least in Zen Buddhism, distract from the path to enlightenment. I was a sad boi in school to become a teacher and, the more disillusioned I got with it, the more that started to sound like what I was becoming. Sometimes 'Drab' is tacked to the front because I keep winding up as monochromatic species.
I'm not a sad boi anymore, tho. Or...well, not a boi, at least.
i picked "nisse" because it is a name that i thought sounded cute. then i got a new gender which it didn't fit, but i still liked it, so i changed it as little as possible
(possibly important to note i don't speak any of the languages where nisse is just a normal-ass name that, i assume, doesn't sound anything in particular)
...a little more complicated that that, but not much
I use "Starseeker" as a username a lot of places after coming up with it on pretty much a whim for the above reason - "Starra", though, comes from mashing that + an old high-school classmate's surname + a feminine ending (for Gender Reasons), and that's the "actual" name I use most places online
When I first started trying to really think of a username to use several places I went by XIII or a spin on XIII, just because I liked the ps2 game and thought it looked cool. Unfortunately it’s a pretty common username so I usually would have to put a spin on it. I was mrXIII a few places, but I found that kind of lame so I switched to a phonetic spelling of mistaXIII. Eventually the xiii just kind of fell off and I became known as just Mista. The Flip part comes from my name being blackflip a few places recently, but that’s a silly username that I didn’t want to use much.
I love robots and tigers and ‘Automatic Tiger’ was really distinctive snd rolled off the tongue well.
It replaced an older, much more masculine name that I felt uncomfortable with even before I started actively transitioning.
