This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
Stole it from a user on a pirate bbs I was a member of in the early 90s, Digital Underground
I dunno, but people sure love calling me it all the time.
It sounds cute.
Bit warden made it for me
It’s classified
It’s from valarin (Tolkien’s language of the Valar)
https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html
Akasan is ‘he says’
-z suffix is a person’s name
So it’s basically ‘Teller’ (I’d say storyteller) in valarin.
The ‘h’ was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find
I have no imagination and my legal name is Tanis Nikana.
It scans like a username when it’s all lower case and jammed together though.
I’m a huge fan of Bathory, so I just combined Quorthon with his previous stage name, Ace.
Ehhh it is what it is.
Ranidaphobic; but going with Frog-Man was a too on the nose rip off of Bat-Man (and it’s taken anyway).
My girlfriend calls me that regularly.
I liked playing tachanka on R6, tht is short for TheHolyTachanka
Used to live in Norway when I joined reddit, and the whole Norse lore resonated with me. Back then I had a number attached, that wasn’t needed on Lemmy anymore.
I get dizzy during sex
I read it in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books
