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In college I took a “Latin and Greek roots of English” course. I wanted a new username around that time and wanted something that sounded cool, so I figured out the Latin version of zombie and chose that.

It's a reference to my favorite author, but using different words to get the same ve sound. So far no one had noticed

I didn't ever really have a name for my fursona and then I got my dogs, Kona and Loki. I combined their names and came up with Kolonaki, but then misspelled it when I entered it in something the first time. Now it's Kolanaki.

It kinda sounds Hawaiian (pronounced cola-nah-key). 😋

Part pun, part general description, part alliteration. Also, preferably easy to say/read without CamelCase or under_scores or hyphen-ation.

I like comics. I also like comedy. My mind is an absolute fucking mess, full of nonsense, and I have trouble keeping things in order.

I find the best way to deal with it all is to laugh at it.

Mixing it all together, comically cluttered. Amusingly disorganized, both physically and mentally.

I've had the same (same or some iteration close to it) for over 20 years, 25 maybe? I used to be Valhalla in the 90s but at some point it became impossible to keep it as the name was popular and used on multiple forums and sites.

Being a big Led Zep fan I had chosen it from Immigrant Song. So when it came time to change it I thought of their label Swan Song and just added my initials to it. I have a couple of other accounts for other purposes that are almost as old but not as meaningful as this one is to me.

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka has Oompaloompas working as slaves(?) in his factory. I constantly have the Oompaloompa song playing in my head so it's Oompaloompa with more OOMPH! Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, I am a moron and I know it would've been better as Oomphaloompa, but it's too late now. At least there's twice as much oomph now.

14 year old me thought it was a cool gamertag. 30 year old me still agrees.

it's a digital play on the word gadabout (one who wanders in search of amusement).

I blurted it out in a chat one day in reference to something, and realizing it would be a clever band name or something... Well when I need a new identity to serve as a vehicle for my current creative output, here we are. I realized that it was at least somewhat clever and oddly not taken anywhere. So I am running with it.

shameless plug: doomcough.bandcamp.com :P

It's just a cool sounding thing from my favorite anime that doesn't scream "I'm a total weaboo," also one of my favorite songs from said anime. (Eureka 7, well the song is from the """"sequel"""" and is one of the few redeeming parts, but anyway...)

I don't remember which forum I was on, but it was around the late 2000s. Me and some people were joking around, the subject of wrestling came up, someone asked what Triple H's name stood for, so a bunch of us started making fake answers. I really like one that I said, so I just made it my user name. Haven't really felt the need to change it since.

I like retro and vintage things.

Mine is a bad pun. It's not even an original pun, but you do need to be pleasantly weird enough to know the source.

Anyone heard of Mitchiri Neko? I want a cat marching band

I've got the same one here as on reddit, and on tildes as it happens. It is a variant on a local mythic being in my part of the world.

I had just been to Sonic that week and their best drinks are their limeades. I hate coming up with names for anything, so I went with something simple.

Incorporates my name with a positive attribute (at least imo), made the mistake at that other site, of a username that was pretty easy to reply 'user name checks out' in a negative connotation, even when asking legit questions or making positive comments. Hoping to get the same reaction on Lemmy but positive this time around!

I have no idea what the original words were. But my coworker at an old job had one of those magnet letter boards. I just haphazardly rearranged her note and it became Scrumpf Dabogy. I liked it so much I kept it in my head until I needed it for a new account somewhere.

It's shortened from what I actually wanted, NorthernLightMountain, since that was too long. That in turn is based on the main antagonist (MorningLightMountain) in my favorite book from my favorite author, Peter F. Hamilton.

I live quite far to the north so I figured it would be a nice twist on the name.

Used to go by other handles on other sites but figured I'd start fresh over here.

Still hoping for a change to a bit longer display names. :)

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So mine is because of Bell end of year 2022.

As things happens in Ukraine, we had one girl from Kharkov on summer camp. She started dating one friend here and he keeps "dictionary" of things she misspelle.

There is a lot of good usernames there but the plactagonic relationship is my favourite.

Considering I moved here after deleting my Reddit account, I present to you...

I chose the username "computerfan" because I'm a fan of computers. Soon I found a website where that username was taken, so I added my (at the time) favourite number to the end and kept it ever since.

I like Oscar Wilde and puns.

it’s the title of a YMO song!

The Matrix is one of my fav movies ever. The first one, anyway. That scene where Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack plays, this piece of magic is seen

I've always been small like a rabbit. You should probably follow me, too.

It's a play on words for my name and generic. If anyone I know sees my username, they won't know it's me lol.

It's a reference to my last name, which, at least in the U.S., is much more commonly spelled with an e on the end. I always have to clarify that there's "no e on the end" whenever I give/spell my name to anyone.

I also make no secret of my actual identity and only say things I'd be comfortable saying in person. I know there's some risk of running into a crazy stalker person, but thankfully I haven't dealt with anything like that so far in my Internet years.

Genesis, particularly Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, is my favorite band. I've played around with using names from their songs as usernames for years, but it's only when I joined Reddit that I decided I should try to settle on one. I've always been fond of this track off their 1972 album Foxtrot. So if you should see some variation of this username online, it's probably me.

I would tell anecdotes and stories but would constantly go off at a tangent. Someone said I had "Tangentism".

You can probably guess my two favourite indie platformers

For whatever reasons my friends were messing around giving each other weird nicknames and I ended up with metal toilet (we had just been in a gas station that must’ve had a metal toilet). I tried it out I a couple things and it’s stuck since.

It's a tribute to my husband and love for Studio Ghibli movies, specifically Howl's Moving Castle. He is my Howl and I am his Sophie ☺

I chose mine for two reasons: the first lofi hip hop song I listened to was titled wet season and everyone on social media shortened season to szn so I adopted the name with the shorter spelling. And my second reason is because I love the rain and the smell of the earth after it’s been raining :)

Boring, but I looked at my desk and saw a rolodex and a cisco switch. DEX CIS to DEXSIC

Well, have this thing where I like RnB, and also Perry the Platypus, so boom.

Now its time to..Kick out the JAMMs!

I like KLF, Illuminatus and peanut butter.

Mine originally was a reference to an album by Val Emmich, “Slow Down Kid”. I used that for a long time and finally decided that since I’m in my 30s it was time to drop the “kid” part. slowd0wn is now my online/gamer handle and has been for several years

It's my name.

When my wife and I first started dating she called me Bear.

I also like Skyrim.

My is just the name of my fursona. I came up with it years ago by just combining parts of random words until I got something I liked and that was unique.

it's my name, with a 2k tacked onto the end, because I started using it a long time ago..

dry sarcasm aside, I have many online "handles" I use but I found that I'm totally ok consilidating most of my online presence under my real google-able identity.... MOST

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