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.
romanized real name; result of clicking in Inkscape for 2 hrs.
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.
I wanted something short and unique and this was somewhat pronounceable with a vowel in the middle
Picked a random space word and a random object in the room at the time.
My avatar was created by me a long time ago based on the “Astro” part of my username.
Should be obvious
Just being honest and upfront, no reason to question otherwise.
It’s from the Wug Test.
“This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____”
Also, what client are you on that shows you avatars? I have not used one yet that shows avatars.
My use name is cobbled together from a word list of Tolkiens valarin language. Akasan means story telling and the -Z suffix makes it a personal name. I thought the extra h would aid in pronunciation, but I’m practise most people just say aka.
My avatar it’s my own Photoshop of one of the doges of Venice, with a Shibu face. Mind that I made this before musk ruined the doge meme and I won’t let him run this. A clan mate took it, drew a mustache+soul patch on it and made the texts instead of historical, lewd as she thought that more appropriate (I do sport a mustache and soul patch irl)
I really liked watching B-grade 90s-00s SciFi movies with my dad when I was a kid. That was the name of one that came out around the time I made a reddit account, I don’t know if I ever even watched it, it just sounded like a good username. Reminds me, I should probably make a new lemmy account that’s not tied to the same name
I had just heard the expression: “It helps the general effort.” It was in a Discworld audiobook. It made me think: “Yeah, I could use some help right now.” That was still rattling around in my head when I had to come up with a username. I don’t remember what I was having trouble with, so I guess that worked out.
I typed some alphabets and numbers that just popped into my mind at the moment.
I turn things.
“We all turn the wheel… I am the one who decides the way in which it turns.”
Took the name I use everywhere online, put an _, and chose the lowest number I could, which I do on basically every platform
I’m a… doctor lady.
Despite what you might think my name has a story. The first part has to do with the sound you would hear right before you died in an early FPS game, and the second part was the clan I was a part of at the time (happy). None of my name has to do with drugs.
