Subject: Can we call you Ziggy?
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Posted on: 2017-01-04 09:00:00 UTC
Seriously, that N in the middle is going to catch me out every time.
How about Zigzag?
Or if you insist on correct spelling: Zing the Merciless!
...
... wait.
OMUGUH. Are you actually Xing, vanished founder of FFN?! I bet you are.
hS
(Because, seriously, that'd just be messy. Or maybe it wouldn't. No, it probably would. I'll leave it for now, anyway.)
So! Hi. You know me (or may have seen me around) as DawnFire. As of...about ten days from now, I'll have been a Boarder for four (4!) years. And I've been using this screen name since I was fourteen (though I came up with the name earlier) and, well, I've been feeling for maybe a year on and off that it no longer suits me. And now... I've finally come up with an alternative. *evil laughter*
...okay, scratch the evil laughter. It's just making me think that my fourteen-year-old self would've actually written "mwahahahahaha!!" or something. (I was Dark Side. We had brownies. It was a thing. Some of you probably remember it, actually. Any Light Siders here? Chocolate chip cookies? Share your stories! After all, this post is turning into a trip down memory lane before continuing forward.)
The names:
DawnFire comes from the Warriors series (the one about cats) by Erin Hunter (a pen name for three women in combination, unless there are more or fewer of them now. The series is still ongoing, but I stopped reading it a while ago). One day, my friend and I--she was also into the series--made up two names: Brightshadow and Dawnfire. She was actually Dawnfire. In the end, I've used both names online, with Fire capitalized because I liked the way it looked and because it stands out. Turns out there are a lot of Dawnfires out there.
Zingenmir brings the list of Yiddish Boarder names up to two, if I'm not mistaken (the other is Neshomeh). It literally means 'we sing', or 'we are singing'; I've been doing a lot of singing these past few years, especially in Yiddish (with which I've also been otherwise involved since starting university). It has the added bonus of reminding me of a song I like, which has a similar lyric in the chorus. It's pronounced "ZING-gehn-meer", with a hard G on the 'gehn.'
If anyone wants to keep nicknaming me "Dawn", I'm fine with that. I associate good things with that nickname. Officially, though, I'm now Zingenmir (Zing? Uh...yeah, I've got nothing else, except for a rough translation into Sindarin that takes 'mir' to mean 'jewel' rather than 'we'). I'll probably try out different signatures until I find something I like.
Updating the Wiki will happen...soon. I hope. We'll see. I've already set up a Dreamwidth journal under this name (zingenmir.dreamwidth.org), and ported everything from my dawnfire360 LiveJournal to there; I'm in the process of finally setting up a separate journal for Deleterius archiving (it's up under deleterius.dreamwidth.org, but the posts are waiting in the queue and then I have to delete the non-Deleterius stuff...give it another day or two before it looks right). If you have anything you've saved from Deleterius that you'd like archived, let me know. If you have no clue what Deleterius even is/was, there's an article on the Wiki you can check out! :)
And on that note...Happy 2017! Let's all have a really great year.
~Zingenmir
No matter what name you have, you will always be my dear and beloved brain twin. I will continue to call you Dawn, as that is Your Name to me, but henceforth I shall endeavor to refer to you as Zingenmir and also I love the name. You are beautiful and I love you.
Thank you. You're one of the reasons--most likely the first reason--why I have positive associations with the nickname Dawn.
~Zingen :)
PS: I...should probably post some more or something. I'm used to not being DawnFire now, but I'm not yet used to typing Zingenmir. That should change. Unfortunately, classes are starting up... ~Z
Seriously, that N in the middle is going to catch me out every time.
How about Zigzag?
Or if you insist on correct spelling: Zing the Merciless!
...
... wait.
OMUGUH. Are you actually Xing, vanished founder of FFN?! I bet you are.
hS
Totally. I'm very much an Asian guy. I just disappeared because of a tech accident, which made me get reborn as a Jewish baby girl... :P
The second N is currently catching *me* out, actually, but without it the phrase is complete nonsense. Or, well, actually Zingemir is basically misspelled German mashed together with Yiddish that doesn't fit with it--singen in German is to sing, ich singe ought to be "I sing" unless the verb is a very unlikely irregular, and then we get mir, which is the Yiddish equivalent of wir, meaning 'we'... Basically, that would be a mess. I'm gonna keep that N.
I'll accept Zing or Zingen or Zingemir or Dawn (from people who were already calling me Dawn). Maybe even Z. I'm sure there are other things. I would, however, like to suggest that whenever I make an okay joke someone replies with "Zing!" :P
~Z
PS: what are you talking about, I totally have mercy. You need it when you have a casual army of polar bears and don't want people thinking you're a tyrant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFaWwyZ5nm0
Thank you, though, 'cause that's a good song!
Also, nice change. Probably will take me a couple of tries, but now... I'm gonna treat you as a reborn-bie! Have a slice of Infinite Pizza
That's a nice song, too, all about a (potentially metaphorical?) tune that every generation sings. It's not the one I was thinking of (I'll link it in a moment), but considering the lyric translates to "we sing it, and it sounds so beautiful"... very nice association. I'm glad to have it.
The one I was thinking of is called "Sprayz ich mir", a title which I never remember. This is an old (80s) live recording of the Klezmatics; I've heard recordings I liked a tiny bit better, but, well, this has the lyrics in both Yiddish transliteration and a German translation in the description. (And it's not a bad recording; I just prefer a slightly more dynamic version.) Anyway, here it is: https://youtu.be/arXl62cl720
And ooh, infinite pizza! That sounds great. Does it ever switch toppings, or does it stick with what's on it?
~Z
PS: it's going to take me a couple of tries too--I hesitated a moment before typing the right name at the top, and just now I tried to sign off as ~DF. I think the change is a good one, though. I feel more comfortable, like it suits me better now than DawnFire does. I think I came up with the name at thirteen or so--the first email address I had that uses it has its oldest bit of communication time-stamped to early January 2008. On the other hand, I could have been using it earlier...I certainly may have been using Brightshadow earlier, because I know I used that first. So it's entirely possible my friend and I came up with those names when I was as young as 12 (she's a few years younger, which has always been easy to forget--she's this wonderful person with very similar reading tastes to me and this sort of vaguely ageless quality, I always felt. I mean, I knew she was younger than I was, but I never really felt it until we were in different levels of schooling. And even then, it was mainly just a shock to the system--'good heavens, she's not in high school yet!' or 'yeah, so this is what university is like...' Anyway. She's great--always has been, likely always will be--and I need to stop rambling and wake up a little more. זינגן∆ (=∆Zingen. I amuse myself :D)
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