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When I was getting an LJ back in the day I had recently imprinted on the Mads Mikkelsen version of Tristan and was thinking about how certain stories seem to have infinite variations.

Explain yr @ the pigeon. he grips it. (My display name on the old site used to be “Ding Rong’s Pigeon Grip” and this evolved from that.)

pigeon, gripped

Explain yr @ I’m not immune to a Lovecraft fishman joke

Iseult Variante

Gutenberg Panini Press

Explain yr @ It's a letter of the ogham alphabet (this: ᚔ), the one I use as my own signifier in my personal divination system. I'd stopped identifying very much with my old username and needed a new one, and I knew there was very little chance iodhadh would be taken anywhere online.

Toby @ The Xue Yang Torment Nexus

Explain yr @ I was really into Young Frankenstein when I was 12-13 and starting to make accounts places. And I am a creature of habit.

Gwen Frankenstien from the internet

Explain yr @ I deleted my LJ because of ridiculous fandom drama and needed a new name and I'd just gotten back from following MCR around America wherein I'd had Frank write 'sharpest' for me to get as a tattoo and had given Gerard a rose. Listen I am not a very complex person it's never deep.

Mary Borsellino

explain ur @ it took me forever to come up with a username when i was signing up to fanfiction dot net, i.e. my username was 'under debate'. (also there was a (semi-edgy) author i followed (either there or on fictionpress? or maybe both?) who went by ChemistTheGreat, and i liked that it rhymed.)

admin at the vampire mansion

Explain your @ Isagel is a character in the 1956 epic sci-fi poem Aniara by Swedish author Harry Martinson, which I happened to be reading when I needed an internet handle. She is a pilot on a doomed ship drifting through space.

Isagel

Explain your @ In 1996 I was 16, really into Audrey Hepburn, & trying to come up with an AIM handle. I initially tried to use FairestLady, but that was one character too long. I didn't actually go by "Cat" yet, but I was starting to want to, so I combined the two impulses and became FairestCat.