Juuust out of curiousity, where do y'all get your pennames? I've seen some rather fascinating names here; I'd like to know where they come from.

I'll start with introducing mine. It was originally Okami (no relation to the game), which I came up with when I wanted to write a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic. There was a character in the series that called another by a Japanese word, yadonushi, which is commonly translated to "landlord" (if you don't know why he's called that, it's not really worth explaining), so I wanted to make a pair of characters with the same situation (I know, creative of me), and the closest thing to "landlady" that I could find in Japanese was "okami", which is like a geisha mother or something like that. Then, when I tried to open a livejournal account, the name was already taken, so I turned it into a palindrome (the same word forwards and backwards), and I've been using it ever since.

What about everyone else? Do your names have fascinating origin stories?

I named mine backfromwoodstock for the love of music and the great legends of the 60s and 70s.

Woodstock - look it up on Wikipedia. It's only the largest concert ever performed!

I've been NotMyShoes in some form or another for what seems like forever, and it actually has two origins, if that makes sense.

NotMyShoes first came into being as a companion to my friend's screen name, SomeWorriedShoes, and it just seems to have stuck.

Then, a couple months ago, I stumbled upon an acting website called Not My Shoes while I was looking for a monologue for my acting class. Imagine that.

I also love shoes, which could have something to do with why I'm drawn to it.

well...i like birds, especially fat ones. They're so adorable! and my favorite number is three, so why not have two threes and have it doubley awesome?

On fanfiction.net, my Penname "Cannibal Lawn Gnome" was just a funny idea I had. After all, a lawn gnome that eats other lawn gnomes? That is absurd, and therefore funny.

Here, I simpl,y stole my penname from A song by a metal band I love, Helloween.

I first used this pename when I made my Fanfiction account. I was at a friend's house, she was sleeping, and I decided to make an account. But I couldn't come up with a username! So I thought about how it could describe me. "I have auburn hair," I thought. What else? "And I'm a sadist."

It was perfect! So I typed it out, adding the dashes to make it more unique.

auburn-haired-sadist

But it felt like something was missing...so, at the end, I added on the XD smiley face since I seem to use those smiley's the most! ^o^

My first penname was Silver Eyed. I was 13 when I named myself that 'cause I thought it'd be cool.

But now my penname is bringmayflowers. Let's just say, I wanted a change. I was tired of being Silver Eyed. It seemed immature to me. So I decided to be someone else. Haha. At least by penname. May is the month I was born and you know the little rhyme "April showers bring may flowers" - thus I had my penname!!!

I loved Michael Flatley's Lord of The Dance character protrayed by the brilliant Bernadette Flynn-O'Kane... Oh yeah and I'm part Irish too.

and i like looking at bloody roses and i write stories, so... viola! Bloody Rose's Pen! My penname! :)

Concerto came from Lover's Concerto - a song? Can't exactly remember now. Guess it also had to do with music and what not. I use to use this name for most things until somewhere said it was used, but I didn't want to change it so added 4 and 9 to it. Think it was astrology or something that said 4 and 9 had more luck, so I hoped for the best and...

Mine's not too fascinating. My name is Megan and I love The Crow.

:|

My name's Randall, which comes from the Old English: Randwulf, meaning "Shielded by the Wolf" - which is awesome.

My name is Ferret and (for some reason unknown to me XD), people always say I disagree with anything they say, even if I don't really disagree with it. I just argue for the sake of arguing (which is a horrible habit of mine)...So I decided, why not go with FerretsRevolution....

my last name is Xu, and For some weird reason, I think x-dripdrop creates the image of my last name. ["x" is x... and dripdrop is the "u", which looks like a water drop xD]

I was ReganBaxter, to match my fanfiction account, then I changed it to Perceived as Insane.

Peeceived as Insane came from me wanting to be insane, and um, people thinking of me that way.

I'm really into Animal Crossing, so my cousin got me a Tom Nook plushie from the Phoenix Comicon. He's my favorite character - me and my cousin joke that he's the "head of the Animal Crossing mafia" 'cause you always owe him money. It's a really cute plushie, and I carry it around a lot. My friend took a picture of me giving it a kiss on the nose (part of an inside joke), and for some reason I thought of that when I was creating my account.

StoryPictures are kind of like 'mental movies', I don't know if anyone besides Blondie understands this when I say it, which are what I get when I read.

My penname came from my love for Camaros + my first name (Camaro+Mary=Camary), The 69 just happened to be the first two numbers that happened to pop into my head.......enough said.

My penname doesn't have a particularly interesting story.

It's just a nickname brought out from the name "Euphemia."

*grins* Do you watch Code Geass?

I'm a science nerd, and I'm streetwise.

'Nuff said.

auburn-haired-sadist-XD: Nope.

Someone mentioned in another forum on here that there was a character named Euphemia in Code Geass.

But I hadn't heard of that up until now.

I actually got the name from an A-Z of Babies Names. xD

DStone has always been my screen-name online as soon as I ditched my old kid one, so I used it as my pen-name here on FP. Specifics? It's a nickname of sorts for me, like a tag. "39" is often added because of the similarity to 93 which was on my Dad's old AOL screen-name.

Well, it's Nolaknowsmyname cause... well... Nola knows my name, lol. If you can find her ask Nola she knows.

I actually had a lot of trouble thinking of a name, so I combined the two things I am most interested in: guitars and the story of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake after she was found guilty of heresy by the Cathoilc Church. Shredder? Well, I want to be one of the best someday. I'm absolutely in love with my instrument, metal, punk, classic rock and all things hardcore. XD

EDIT: I'm no longer Perceived as Insane.

Abbigail Cross came from a strange obsession with the name Abbigail. And cross, well, it just sounded kickass.

(Abbi)

Mine comes from a Christopher Moore novel called "Dirty Job". One the characters, a young goth-type girl, explains her fascination with the French language, stating that French best describes "the profound noirness of my existence."

I used my real name for my screen name. My Chrisitian name is Mary Rose Valentine. :)

I was simply bored and thought fictionpressusername would be funny. After all, I already have fanfictionusername over at ff.net. xD -Bunny

Mine is kind of a back-and-forth thing. I've had a character called Seciden Ivellius Mencarde for a long, long time. His nickname is "Velly" (from the middle name) so I took that for my musician name so that it wouldn't be too obvious. It was either that or Seciden, and I thought it would be strange to call myself -exactly- after one of my characters. I threw on the DJ for two reasons: one, there are lots of people calling themselves "Velly" already, and two, I wanted to make it obvious that I'm an electronic musician. Then when I came here I just kept that name since it's kind of an identifying mark for me. And I want to self-promote. :)

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