I had a teacher in middle school who refused to use nicknames and only used first names. This was a problem for a classmate whose name was Vicky. The teacher kept calling her Victoria and Vicky would refuse to answer because that wasn't her real name.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
askye - Sep 14, 2011 12:27:00 pm PDT #26192 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 12:31:43 pm PDT #26193 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He named a moon after you.
He's very silly.
Don't tell him I said that.
Cashmere - Sep 14, 2011 12:32:54 pm PDT #26194 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
In happier news, Owen brought Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azikaban home from the school library. He's almost through Sorcerer's Stone and I told him if he reads all the books, I'll buy him the Lego Hogwarts Castle.
Scrappy - Sep 14, 2011 12:33:54 pm PDT #26195 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I feel that the named always gets to choose what they are called, whether it's a nick, or a long version or an honorific. Unless, of course, it's an elderly person or someone like that, in which case it's more polite to let it slide.
I always ask new employees what they want to be called. Once in a while they HAVE NO PREFERENCE. You don't care if you are called David or Dave? WTF? WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
Allyson - Sep 14, 2011 12:36:02 pm PDT #26196 of 30001
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
Hrm. I'm unsure what my ish is.
billytea - Sep 14, 2011 12:36:05 pm PDT #26197 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Aw man, I'm sorry Cash.
meara - Sep 14, 2011 12:40:29 pm PDT #26198 of 30001
Once in a while they HAVE NO PREFERENCE.
...I don't care if you call me (realname), meara, or Indy (drag name). I answer to all three. I like all three (well, OK, I like Indy and meara better, but I answer to realname a little easier because it's so uncommon...)
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 12:41:46 pm PDT #26199 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You don't care if you are called David or Dave? WTF? WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
Seriously! You're Deb, Debbie, Deborah? Can I call you Suzie? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?? WHERE DOES IT STOP??
Sophia Brooks - Sep 14, 2011 12:42:08 pm PDT #26200 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have carefully called my BFF's husband and brother (2 different people) Billy and Philip, which is what she calls them. Turns out Billy goes by Bill and Philip "has no preference". I now work with Philip and everyone except me calls him Phil.
P.M. Marc - Sep 14, 2011 12:43:39 pm PDT #26201 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I call my sister Al or Ali, but I don't think people who know her outside of family get to call her that. Anyhow, as she saddled me with MY name, she can suck it if she doesn't like it.