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.
Oneironott is just a clever pun on Oneironaut, which is a term for someone who travels dreams (consciously, typically)
Fae is a word we started using because one proposed origin of changeling stories is that they were autistic babies. Many traits of the fae in these and other stories can be interpreted through the lens of autism. We also connected it with our sense of gender, though not in the sense traditionally understood by genderfae. When we chose the username, we hadn't yet begun to identify as otherkin.
Alchemist ties into our then-present fursona, who was an alchemist. Ultimately that trait fell by the wayside, only to be picked up again by Taliesenn. We'd probably have gone with our sona's species if we'd felt we had that nailed down, but that ultimately wouldn't have panned out either, given our plurality.
