On a good day I’m up around 5 AM, but I often find myself up even earlier than that. I joined my first Lemmy instance during one of these bouts of insomnia, prompting my username.

My avatar is from a worldbuilding project I work on.

  • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    No avatar because I can’t be bothered. I don’t see them on my app anyway. As far as I can tell, nobody has them.

    I was watching some movie, and I was like ooh, centipedes would make good farriers; they can use their body along the hoof to draw a stencil by just passing a pencil along all of its feet!

    And that was silly so here we are.

  • papalonian@lemmy.world
    5·
    22 days ago

    I’ve been using this username since I was like 12. I think I’d just watched Babylon 5 and was trying to come up with a username that took a cheesy cringey self given nickname (Papa) and mixed it with some sci-fi sounding stuff (Babylon) and came up with papalonian.

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    4·
    22 days ago

    My username is a play on a very esoteric old /tv/ meme.

    My profile picture is one of my drawings from my worldbuilding project. It’s a froglike alien commando.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
    4·
    21 days ago

    Lemmy.zip has/had a mismatch between frontend and backend validation on usernames. When the frontend allows something that the backend rejects, you get some random “InvalidName” pop-up on form submission.

    I tried several different variations of my preferred user name, but I couldn’t figure out what was violating backend validation, so finally I settled on InvalidName. Which triggered a server error (500 error or timeout or something, I don’t recall).

    But finally, one glorious moment in time, the lemmy.zip server accepted InvalidName2 without choking, and the rest is history.

  • GreyShuck@feddit.uk
    4·
    22 days ago

    It’s a variation on a local folkloric figure, and the image is modified from the album of a poem about the figure by Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band.