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My old Internet handle was SoulFinder, because I thought I was insightful and I was gonna save the world one person at a time or whatever. Looking at other people's posts, this is a familiar tune by now, but basically I grew up a bit, realized my stupid teenage self was a stupid teenager, and decided I needed a change.

I was still in high school at the time, but never mind. >.>

I thought the "Soul" part was okay, because what are you on the Internet except your innermost self, without all that external "body" baggage, but I wanted something that sounded cooler than just Soul, so I went poking around other languages, and I landed on Neshomeh in an English-Yiddish dictionary my school had for some reason. It stuck, and here we are.

~Soul-in-Yiddish

Once upon a time, I was very young, and finished reading Captain Underpants, and decided: 'Hey, that was pretty funny. Those characters were pretty funny. I should be funny!'

Oh, bugger me.

I decided that I was to be the official class clown, and my comedic talents manifested in such ingenious, subversive gags as shouting 'Banana!' in the middle of class. You know, when you wouldn't expect someone to shout banana!
It plays on your expectations! It's a joke, right?!

Oh, bugger me.

So I then moved into the internet, into lord knows what bloody thing. It was probably Runescape or Club Penguin, or some bollocks. Or some DS game, I don't know.
I decided that, being the master jokester I was ('Banana! Hahahahaha!') I needed something to reflect that.
It was spelt 'laughinstok'.

Oh, bugger.

I made it my Steam name (It's still my username, technically... brrrrrr) but, in that dangerous act known as 'Growing up and getting marginally less stupid,' I realised how absolutely dumb looking that name was. (And also how dumb the class clown thing was, particularly when you're not funny.)
I jumped around a bit, trying all sorts of names (Steam has a nickname sort've feature, where your visible name is separate from your username,) none of which had that spark.
No, I decided. This cannot do. I require something... classic. Old, but new.
Yes, yes...
So, Larfen J. Stocke!
And then I added an 'Esq', when I remembered that I was the son of a knight, and/or also an American lawyer!

Back when I was a kid, I was bitten by a radioactive gorgon head on a field trip to the local art museum. . .

Honestly, there isn't much of a story behind mine.

Back when I joined, I was rather introspective, trying to decide the kind of person I wanted to be, which was something I wanted my handle to reflect.

Apart from it sounding cool, acting as a shield, a kind of protector, was something that I could try to live up to. So I went with that.

Seriously, though: I had to come up with a username for the Board before introducing myself. I figured that it would be like everywhere else on the Internet: Unique, long, etc. etc.

Welp. Turns out this is a relatively tight and active place, and people will refer to you by your handle and remember you by it. Needless to say, Good Mod Addict is a bit on the long side, so JulyFlame at one point said basically "I'm not dealing with typing that, I'll just say GMA."

But, I still haven't actually answered the question. Here's the real answer: I use over 300 mods for my Skyrim games. I probably spend more time searching for, updating, and fixing conflicts with them at this point than I do actually playing the game.

I would've used my old dA username, FawkesTheSkarmory, but I liked the alliteration better, and it seems that I made the right choice with this one. Besides, it's my Tumblr gandle as well, so there's that, too!

Nothing fancy,but led to a good result. At least I think.

Well , just two that I'll mention .

The one here is my initials , rather boring .

And my ' name ' used at WWOMB and FF.net is the same -

Grape White , which is a tribute to my mother because she liked home decor featuring grapes and it's also a reference to WWE's Sheamus , who she also adored ( * blushes * )

Sergio is my first name, and Turbo is because I am a car enthusiast. That's pretty much it.

:D I'll do my best to defend it .


Oh , I'm a female ( did I already mention that ? Probably not , knowing my memory ) .

'Matt' is short for 'Matthias', which is the closest English equivalent of my name.

'Cipher' has two origins: I do like riddles, puzzles, code-breaking, etc. The other comes from the TV show Gravity Falls and its character - Bill Cipher.

I'm a huge World of Warcraft nut, but my gateway drug into the world of MMORPGs was... Runescape.

I started playing when it was in the days of being able to either use a randomly-generated username, or you could make one up yourself. Of course, you couldn't actually use anything that sounded like a name (I guess to keep people from using their real ones?), but that seriously irritated me. And there was no way I wanted to be called "CamelotOrc3327" while on a quest to save the world.

So, being the idiot twelve year old I was, I played around with letters and sounds until I came up with "Iximaz". That totally sounded like a name, right?

Right?

Eh. :P I did end up using it as my internet handle pretty much everywhere, though, so it worked out in the end.

My friend and I were playing an imagination game and came up with two names for our cat characters: Brightshadow and Dawnfire. Funnily enough, I was originally Brightshadow and she was originally Dawnfire. I started off using Brightshadow as a screen name (notably at Deleterius) and then just moved on to DawnFire for some reason. I've actually thought of switching screennames since then (let's face it, I've been using DawnFire since I was about *fourteen years old*) but have figured it'd be pretty confusing for people. Although, seeing as a number of people have been doing it recently...I might go for it anyway. We'll see.

~DF

PS: 'Dawnfire' is apparently an incredibly common screenname, as it turns out. If you search 'Dawnfire' on FFN, for instance, a number of people who are not me come up. The capitalized Fire helps distinguish me, though I think I first used it mainly because I liked the way it looked.

Have a Weighted Companion Cube! This Weighted Companion Cube will accompany you through the PPC. Please take care of it.
Also, my usual question, what are your pronouns?

(Sorry for the double-post.)
I've been sitting on this piece for way too long — I guess I shouldn't have waited on other people to publish stuff first. Here goes:
The aftermath of "Grey Area" is explored in "Lasting Damage II".

(This piece is set in September 13th, 2015 HST, so I'm a bit more than a year late in releasing this. Yay.)

We haven't had one of those threads for a while, so I figured I'd ask: where'd you get your handle from? Is there an interesting story behind it?

I'll start: I got my handle from a totally insignificant Yu-Gi-Oh! card quite a while back; I decided that I liked the name and have been using it ever since.

Awwwwww , thanks for the advice ^U^ I'll make a note to stock up on extra noseplugs , just in case . Bwah ha haaaaaa !!

Thanks & I appreciate all of the gifts . ^u^

Here's a bookmark and a tiny hot chocolate mug! The mug comes with its own stirring spoon :)

Oh well. At least now I've got the mental images of Mal eyeing the various candidates all disapproving.

~DF

It would have to be pretty freakin’ bad one if they had to put assassins and god slayers together.
Missing word "a"?

She then pointed one finger and Charlotte and leaned in.
Should be "at"?

Come on, you’ve got one part of your new self done, time to enjoy rest of your day off!
Missing word "the"?

HG

"Running Laps in an Escher Room" A White card that any Drill Sergeant/Fitness Instructor (Perhaps Skarm's Whitney?) had to have utilize a some point.

As in, "you can't take the sky from me"??

Is there a Silmarillion reference in the Firefly theme song and no one ever told me??

Alternatively, is that just a Firefly reference being made within a Silmarillion politics post?

~DF