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1. My username is ______ because ______.
My username iselethian because esmestrella was too long to type and too many people seemed to have problems spelling and/or pronouncing it. (To be fair I'm not sure myself how it ought to have been pronounced; given its dog-Spanish esmeralda + estrella derivation "es-meh-STRAY-ah" would have been most correct, but even I normally used the Americanized "es-muh-STRELL-uh".) I knocked it together from syllables I liked the sound of without aiming at any particular meaning, although like most "gibberish" words you can still find some references if you Google.
However, I'm thinking of another change (once Dreamwidth implements rename tokens), because I've realized something about (user)names for myself: they need to be not only shortish in letters, but short in syllables. "Elethian" is four; I should strive for two, three only if I should think of something quite exceptionally perfect (which, ha, that'll be the day; I have never found a name which is comfortably "mine", probably because I have no idea what "me" is I want to attach it to). The longer it is the more grandiose it sounds and the more incongruous with unexceptional little me I feel it is. And yet at the same time names are a kind of magic and I don't want to invoke a negative influence with a bad name. It's a puzzler and has been ever since I heard of the idea of naming oneself anything other than a birth name (sooo... twenty years now, or so).
2. My name is _____ because ______.
If you mean "LJ name" as distinct from username, it's "pervy snape fancier", because I am. A play on "pervy hobbit-fancier" (hm, I ought to hyphenate it!) from The Very Secret Diaries (see Samwise Gamgee for example).
More generally, see above. I've got a collection, of different natures in different venues, and I wish I could use just one everywhere (although I'd still have a separate Harry Potter fandom journal because it's just too big a monster to keep it in my personal journal).
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
"bellatrix, we do not have time for marshmallows" -- from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Fifteen Minutes bycleolinda, under "The Part Where the Villain Talks Too Much (II)". Severus actually says it in CAPSLOCK; it just made me LOL.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
"other partakers of the poison" -- refers to a remark I made back when I was just getting into fandom that Harry Potter was a poison that, once ingested, spread inexorably to every vein and which one could never be rid of (or something along those lines)
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
Harry's Potions book from HBP, but not the one from the film (is this from a book cover, or something? I thought the "adult" HBP cover was Slytherin's locket...), with "Property of the Half-Blood Prince" text. Eh, I just like its aesthetic; it's general enough to be used for most things.
I change my default pic around every so often, though, when I get bored of it. Others that I remember having used as default lately are
(around the time of the HBP film earlier this year)
(ditto, somewhen thereafter; this bit is from the Advanced Potions book in the film)
and
(an oldie but a goodie, ca. the time I got the OotP DVD, so um, Dec 2007?).
et_tu_lj: 1. My username is ______ because ______.
My username is
elethian because esmestrella was too long to type and too many people seemed to have problems spelling and/or pronouncing it. (To be fair I'm not sure myself how it ought to have been pronounced; given its dog-Spanish esmeralda + estrella derivation "es-meh-STRAY-ah" would have been most correct, but even I normally used the Americanized "es-muh-STRELL-uh".) I knocked it together from syllables I liked the sound of without aiming at any particular meaning, although like most "gibberish" words you can still find some references if you Google. However, I'm thinking of another change (once Dreamwidth implements rename tokens), because I've realized something about (user)names for myself: they need to be not only shortish in letters, but short in syllables. "Elethian" is four; I should strive for two, three only if I should think of something quite exceptionally perfect (which, ha, that'll be the day; I have never found a name which is comfortably "mine", probably because I have no idea what "me" is I want to attach it to). The longer it is the more grandiose it sounds and the more incongruous with unexceptional little me I feel it is. And yet at the same time names are a kind of magic and I don't want to invoke a negative influence with a bad name. It's a puzzler and has been ever since I heard of the idea of naming oneself anything other than a birth name (sooo... twenty years now, or so).
2. My name is _____ because ______.
If you mean "LJ name" as distinct from username, it's "pervy snape fancier", because I am. A play on "pervy hobbit-fancier" (hm, I ought to hyphenate it!) from The Very Secret Diaries (see Samwise Gamgee for example).
More generally, see above. I've got a collection, of different natures in different venues, and I wish I could use just one everywhere (although I'd still have a separate Harry Potter fandom journal because it's just too big a monster to keep it in my personal journal).
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
"bellatrix, we do not have time for marshmallows" -- from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Fifteen Minutes by
cleolinda, under "The Part Where the Villain Talks Too Much (II)". Severus actually says it in CAPSLOCK; it just made me LOL.4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
"other partakers of the poison" -- refers to a remark I made back when I was just getting into fandom that Harry Potter was a poison that, once ingested, spread inexorably to every vein and which one could never be rid of (or something along those lines)
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
Harry's Potions book from HBP, but not the one from the film (is this from a book cover, or something? I thought the "adult" HBP cover was Slytherin's locket...), with "Property of the Half-Blood Prince" text. Eh, I just like its aesthetic; it's general enough to be used for most things.
I change my default pic around every so often, though, when I get bored of it. Others that I remember having used as default lately are
(around the time of the HBP film earlier this year)and
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Date: November 24th, 2009 10:42 pm (UTC)From:Skipping 2 because I'm not sure the difference between it and #1...
3. My journal is titled The Dream Mirror because: it's another Sailor Moon that's actually kind of hard to explain...
4. My friends page is called The Dead Moon Circus because: That's where Fish Eye lived. ^_^
5. My default user pic is a picture of Fish Eye because: I think you can guess that by now. ^_^
And a note from your post:
Harry's Potions book from HBP, but not the one from the film (is this from a book cover, or something? I thought the "adult" HBP cover was Slytherin's locket...)
The Slytherin Locket is the "adult" cover for DH, actually. This is indeed the British "adult" cover for HBP.
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Date: November 24th, 2009 11:22 pm (UTC)From:Finally I understand! I knew "fenm" expanded to "Fish Eye No Miko" but I didn't understand what that phrase really meant. (I still usually pronounce it aloud as "fen-@m", sort of like "venom", rather than say the whole phrase.)
Skipping 2 because I'm not sure the difference between it and #1...
I assume they mean the "name" field that can be filled in in your journal profile, which in your case is just the long form of your username, so it wouldn't be a different answer for you. For many people it is (witness my
The Slytherin Locket is the "adult" cover for DH, actually. This is indeed the British "adult" cover for HBP.
Ah, ok.
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Date: November 24th, 2009 11:29 pm (UTC)From:Ya know, with all these journal question, there's none about the style or colors people picked, or why. I thought of that because even my colors fit with the "Fish Eye" theme. ^_^
Glad I was able to help with the cover issue. I really like the adult U.K. covers.
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Date: November 25th, 2009 02:14 am (UTC)From:lol, I like it.
Out of curiosity what does the title of your other journal mean?
"Illustrent stellae viam meam" means "may the stars light my way" in Latin. Until very recently (as in within a week or two) it was "walking around lusting after the tasty masses", which was
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Date: November 26th, 2009 07:30 am (UTC)From:I liked both your usernames elethian and esmestrella. What does estrella mean?
How did you come up with the username elethian (and does it mean anything)?
Your journal title is sublimely funny. Cleolinda's movie parodies rock my world. :D
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Date: November 26th, 2009 09:43 am (UTC)From:esmeralda + estrella would be a grammatically wrong (hence "dog-Spanish", like "dog-Latin" which applies to a number of Potteverse spells) rendering for "emerald + star", or "star emerald" (which as a stone has its own different name in Spanish, IIRC).
How did you come up with the username elethian (and does it mean anything)?
Um... I suggest you reread this post, where I have already provided answers to both of these questions.
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Date: November 26th, 2009 09:17 pm (UTC)From:Oh, OK. Sorry for not reading your post properly. I found the answers to those questions now.