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dorky femme droid

eggbug enthusiast

important eggbug lore

 


 

if you use the phrase "be normal" as if it's something to aspire to, kindly take a long walk off a short plank. or block me. whichever is easier for you.

 


 

child of the 80s

 


 

i escaped a cult.
all of the content warnings.
all of them.
tag: exerian's tragic backstory

 


 

                                 
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exerian
@exerian

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


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I can't even remember why I chose my base username (which is my blog name here, I guess), but I remember I added the esoteric part when making a steam account because triangle was unsrurpisingly taken. I wanted something that rolled off the tongue nicely and added flavor, and esoteric felt right.

What's interesting to me is I feel like I've grown into the name a lot; I continue to delve deeper into weird niches of information and amass a sprawling network of interconnected ideas. I'm a nice stable corner for all this weirdness but I've got some sharp edges. Names giving Form is endlessly fascinating to me.

(the bad part about my onlinename is it is 16 characters with no space and things tend to arbitrarily stop at 15!!)

it's hard but i brainstorm a lot of words i like and then start winnowing them down to what speaks to me most at the given moment.

in the case of Cohost it was also interesting because so many short and basic words were still available.

i have ~3 usernames

@a2aaron is the most common. its my name + where i live. i had this for basically all my life (literally since i was a child)

@gnar was chosen because i like gnar from league. hes very cute :3

i sometimes go by “DeltaRunicGnar” which is just deltarune + gnar, because i also like deltarune lol. tbh my usernames are not extremely deep

Almost 30 years ago I sent a straight-faced joke email around to my friends that got out of control and soon thereafter everyone was referring to me as “joXn”. That ended up being convenient for me in the end. It turns out that “joXn” is just odd enough to not be snapped up early as a username, so I usually manage to get it when a hot new website comes around.

in my case I performed a series of increasingly esoteric adaptations of the name I’d used since childhood (which more-or-less appeared to me in a dream)

could be better but I already wiped one identity off the internet and I’m not doing that again lol

bck356 was generated as my username by my college when I was still going and I just kept it

bck are my initials but I don't know what the 356 means

Brett is what the b in bck stands for