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

I think with many self-identifiers, it really helps if somebody else bestows it upon you, otherwise, it just doesn’t feel like it has social ”ring” to it/feels contrived. i like my “real name” (every name is a real name) that’s why i use it/a clip of it

R.A.P. Ferreira—U.D.I.G. (UNITED DEFENDERS OF INTERNATIONAL GOODWILL)

Purple Moonlight Pages (2020)

that merged a bunch of letters into just being 2x2 pixel squares. m was a 3x2 square and l was 1x3 and i was 1x2

the last time i saw an alphabet this degenerate (with this many merged letterforms) was book pahlavi

"Book Pahlavi was the most common form of the script, with only 13 graphemes representing 24 sounds. The formal coalescence of originally different letters caused ambiguity" - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_scripts