Oh.
Fuck.
Yes, my day is going great.
Sorry, Nilly, I had no idea.
"LameKev"
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Kevin - Oct 20, 2005 12:32:14 pm PDT #6652 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 12:33:32 pm PDT #6653 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For the record, not that I can imagine myself whedonesqued, but "ita" is grounds for brains smashing -- not mine own, and not with a bat.
Kevin - Oct 20, 2005 12:36:20 pm PDT #6654 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I un "Nilly"'ed Nilly, because I'm great, and can't write grammatically correct sentences.
Allyson - Oct 20, 2005 12:39:05 pm PDT #6655 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Kevin, just putting it out there...
The name someone chooses for themself online is for all intents and purposes, you know, THEIR NAME. So it's not about you and your issues at all. Yeah?
Allyson - Oct 20, 2005 12:42:20 pm PDT #6656 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My grammar makes me laugh.
Kevin - Oct 20, 2005 12:50:57 pm PDT #6657 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Allyson, I agree to some extent, but my posts are my posts, so I reserve the right to style them as I like.
P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2005 12:53:23 pm PDT #6658 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The name someone chooses for themself online is for all intents and purposes, you know, THEIR NAME.
This. Having been online for a very long time, I can assure you that my long-lasting online names are ones that I occasionally use when thinking of myself in third person, and answer to in real life.
Also, if I were to use my actual factual first name as a login anywhere (which I don't, on account of it being too uncommon), it's just the sort of name that people would assume wasn't a name, and might encase in scare quotes, causing me to go all ragetastic about it.
My various writing and posting names are a part of my identity, some more closely rooted in my everyday life than others, but they're all me.
Kalshane - Oct 20, 2005 12:53:34 pm PDT #6659 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I didn't think it was particularly scary/craxy so much as unbearably pretentious hyperbole.
I can see the pretentiousness, but really, most people who aren't hardcore fans aren't going to look at all the little things, and "Serenity/Curling/Underwater Basket Weaving is teh best thing EVAH!" seems to be a pretty common among fandoms, IME. Not saying it's a great post, just doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.
As for online nicknames, I don't have an issue with them. While I'd prefer to be called by my real name in facespace, it doesn't bother me when people who've met me online call me Kalshane. It's just another name, much like my family calls me "Robert", my friends call me "Rob" and one of my best friends calls me "Bob" despite nearly two decades of protest. Beyond that, I have a very common first and last name. A vanity Google nets me hundreds of results, none of them me. Google my nick and you get nothing but me (okay mostly me. There's apparently a man from CA using that nick as well. Weird.) I'm Kalshane wherever I go on-line, (now, anyway. I did a couple different ones when I first hit the net) so it's as much a part of who I am as any version of my "real" name.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 12:54:12 pm PDT #6660 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
my posts are my posts, so I reserve the right to style them as I like
I'm an extreme case, but my name is my name, and it makes me all reservey too.
P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2005 12:56:01 pm PDT #6661 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Heh. A vanity Google of firstname-legal lastname gets me online petitions from 1994 and some old, old, old BBS listings.
Oh, and like, two Usenet/mailing list posts from the same time period.