Explain your User Name!

[spark]

It's my real name.

[Shards]

One day when I was trying to register for a forum, my old standby, snowsage, was already taken, and so I began referring to myself online as 'Shards of Light,' which I liked the sound of, for some unknown reason. So when I came here, for IN consistency's safe, I shortened it.

[Jack T. Chance]

I already posted my explanation a few months ago in the Explain your User Name thread, as did a lot of other people! So, make with the clicking if you want to know what everyone said!

[Ratha]

Ratha is my favorite character from Clare Bell's The Named series, and I started using the name back in 1997 for RP purposes when I got my first computer. Over time, it's become my online persona.

[AnaKhouri]

Ana Khouri is my favorite character from Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" trilogy.

[InSearchOfSunset]

In Search Of Sunrise is a cd collection made by DJ Tiesto but I didn't want to copy that much but still give some sort of appreciation hence in search of sunSET

[taxguykarl]

I work seasonally at a large chain tax-prep firm. I am the only male at the office. And yes the last part is my real first name.

[Pony_Boy]

Pony Boy is a nickname a received from my ( now ex) girlfriend while we were attending a late night hot tub party ....... ummm.......yeah

[draftermatt]

Well I like telling mine as it's such an interesting way...

My name is Matt, and I'm an AutoCAD drafter (among other things).

[4love]

When I first signed up for an account on lj, I'd just started taking harp lessons. I was really into it (still am). I was easily the most dedicated student my teacher had, going to the practice room at odd hours to make sure I got my practice every single day, learning how to tune it, change strings, etc. I did a lot of things for the love of my harp. My lj name sprang from that.

Years later, I still love my harp, but I also have other loves- my husband, mostly, but also my younger sister and other family. Much of what I do, I do for love. Like keeping my retail job, balancing the household budget, taking good care of my health so that my... conditions... do not deteriorate and put extra stress on our life together. Even when sometimes I wish I could just sit back and coast. Etc., etc.

So, yeah. Thus was 4love born!

[EricKei]

First name + how the first letter of my last name comes out in Japanese. Been using it for a good 15 years now. I try to use it at any forum I go to, for good ol' times' consistency's sake. I also used it on online games when I can.

[Nurian]

Mine comes from an adventure in D&D. Nurian was a Warforged Cleric I ran in Eberron. He's my favorite character, so much so I still have his sheet somewhere.

[BookstoreEscapee]

That's cool that your initials spelled something. Mine spell JAM.

Well, that works... (My initials don't spell anything - AMS ... unless maybe if you're a lolcat. )

I already posted my explanation a few months ago in the Explain your User Name thread, as did a lot of other people! So, make with the clicking if you want to know what everyone said!

Ah, beat me to it; I was looking at that thread yesterday, as it happens, so I just pulled it up in my history. Longer explanation in there, but the short version is, I worked in the bookstore, and now I don't.

[Cat]

ummmm.....I like cats....okay, I wasn't creative, lol

[NorthernZel]

My username is split in two - Northern because, well, I'm from the North, and Zel is short for a Zelandonii priestess (character in some of the "Earth's Children" books that I loved to read some years ago)... the latter mostly because of my size.