Hey Pandas, What’s The Story Behind Your Username? (Closed)

People usually aren't careless when choosing a username. Any interesting reason behind your choice?

The name Kalmar is Swedish, a large part of my ancestry. I also read the name in a book and loved how it sounded, even though it's not a female name

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Bored Retsuko 2 years ago (edited)

I have a silly question. ☺ I know the word Kalmar as a type of octopus/squid (that's the German version, in other languages it's similar, e.g. "calamar" in Spanish), so does it have that meaning in Swedish too?

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Oh! I remember when turtwig was your pfp lol

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Im a goth and my nickname everyone uses instead of my real name is Mouse 🙂🐭

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The main character of the Anime series Aggretsuko is called Retsuko, and she's a red panda. I don't mean to advertise N*tfl*x but I really love this series, and when I discovered BP, I figured, well... a red panda is a panda, right? So now I'm a bored (red) panda.

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My friend pushed and pushed for me to watch this because she said I reminded her of Retsuko. I am now in love with the series.

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The book and Netflix series Heartstopper has a character named Charlie Spring and he is just like me on so many levels because he has friends who protect him and I also have friends that are the same way, and I find him really cute (i simp for him). The he/him is because I was assigned female at birth but I didn’t feel like it was who I truly am and I’m who I am and I’m finally happy with my identity. So I guess by that, I’m coming out of the closet as a trans boy.

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Lia Salvatore 2 years ago

I watched Heartstopper and it was sooooo good

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Not Telling you 2 years ago

Gotta ask, why do people on here feel the need to state their sexuality? I’m not planning on dating you so why do I need to know? Please don’t take offense I’m just kinda ignorant about this kind of stuff

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I'm a 90s kid and I always liked Emily Strange. Never had any of the merch but I wanted it.

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#13

as the oldest child of four (the youngest being 7mo old currently) Im often forgotten in my household. and i call everyone a loser, including myself so decided to make a username out of it. not really creative but whatever

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Hey, fellow oldest child!!

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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

That sounds so cool! Would you consider posting some on bp?

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My name sounds like Emlin and Emlin sounds like Gremlin and my friends basically only call me Gremlin now

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Well, I took a Harry Potter quiz and I'm a Hufflepuff, and my lucky number is 7, so there you go

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Lia Salvatore 2 years ago

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#20

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#21

It’s my middle name.

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#22

I just kinda made a a character named Aspen who’s an anthropomorphic wolf and boom: username

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#23

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Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano 2 years ago

My name rhymes with both (and I'm a teen as well, so infinite dad jokes for my father)!!

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#27

It’s the name my parents gave to me.

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#28

Oh boy I've always wanted someone to ask this. I made a character for a story I was writing a few years ago but eventually figured that they don't exactly have a purpose in the story. The character doesn't exist now but I liked the name enough to keep it and replace my placeholder name.
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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

Hello fellow author! What was the story about?

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I came up with my name in the middle of the night. I was so tired that everything was amusing and the jukebox inside my head was playing Michael Jackson's song Billie Jean. So Lillie Mean is an inside joke with myself.

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#30

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Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago

If you change it, I won’t be able to recognize your comments and posts!

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#31

I love frogs and my mom is always telling me to let go of my grudges from elementary school, so it’s fitting

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#32

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#33

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#36

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#37

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#39

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Caro Caro 2 years ago (edited)

LOL. What a great story. Are you a musician ? EDIT. Found you! Cool.

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The Forgotten Loser 2 years ago

OMG YAAS!

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The Forgotten Loser 2 years ago

Nice!

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My mother and father gave me this name.

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Onion Cutting Ninja 2 years ago

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Dawn is what my parents almost named me as a baby

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Mattewis is a cartoon cat from an 90's cartoon/puppet show called "Liewe Heksie"
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The 88 is my birth year which I only add if the username is already taken.

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I created my pfp as an oc from a base and asked friends on zoom what I should name it.

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It is my name. Well near enough. No story.

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I’ve always been super paranoid about someone I know recognizing me on here, so I came up with the idea of not really using a name at all. Now I’m “not telling you “ my name

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I love Greek Mythology, and thought that Persephone hates Pomegranate would be funny.

The story is that Hades (the God of the Underworld) was lonely and wanted a wife. So he snuck up to Olympus and looked for a suitable wife. He saw Persephone, the goddess of agriculture, and kidnapped her and brought her back to the Underworld.

He decided to give her six pomegranate seeds to eat. She did, and he then told her that she would have to spend 6 months out of the year. Persephones mother, Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, was super sad, and left the harvest to die as she went to go look for her daughter, which meant the harvest died. This is why we have winter.

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The Forgotten Loser 2 years ago

I love it!

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Karma is a b***h. I pushed my brother and he fell down two steps. I was about 8 and he was about 5. 10 years later, I fell down the stairs and broke both my legs and one arm. Well played Karma *slowly claps*

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So I've made this account pretty recently, and when I was coming up with a username, I had two criteria I wanted to fulfill:

1) Has only the vaguest connection to me
2) Was nerdy(like me)

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So I decided to play around with scientific names for animals to come up with usernames. Potential ones included:

Falconidae
Lupina
La Scrofa
Indica Maxima

Eventually I settled on Lea Panthera. Why? Because it was a variation of Panthera leo, the scientific name of the lion. Assuming that the feminine version would then be Panthera Lea, I just switched the words around for a pinch of originality.

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Is it my name, or is it not?

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My sister has a aunt in law named Minnie Ellen.
I am 5 feet tall, short, and me neices and nephews started calling me Aunt Mini.
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Put them together you have Mini Yaya

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My actual name is spelled Lyndsey. Rhymes with Catastrophe. I needed something to give a clue to my personality, and that one worked. I'm a mess, rugs purposefully trip me and chairs move on their own. Clumsy doesn't even begin to describe me.

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Since 2008 I've been dealing with blood issues, and in 2015 was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera, which is a rare type of blood cancer usually found in people in their 60-70s, and I got diagnosed at 28. So because my life basically revolves around my blood, I figured "Blood Candy" sounded fitting because despite the unpleasantness, I'm also pretty sweet :)

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My husband's nickname for me is penguin and I'm a cat mom to a Maine C**n mix boi.

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They censored C**n?

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Megatron. Cause hes cool, and why tf not?

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I couldn’t think of anything, I tried my normal username Low_Wifi but it didn’t let me use that for some reason, so I thought “What if I went unnamed?” And I added Hooman to the end (like Human) so I am Unnamed Hooman

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#76

My username is anime_girl. Basically, I chose this because ‘anime’ = literally the best thing in the entire universe and ‘girl’ = me (biologically female and she/her)
Not very inspiring, but just wanted to share the fact that anime is the best thing in the history of the world.
✌🏼, anime_girl

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I Am, In Fact, That Weirdo

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#77

Pretty self-explanatory.
And the pfp is Charlie Spring's phone screen in Heartstopper.

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that one ace lesbian genderfae

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an ace lesbian demigirl (Submission author) 2 years ago

well it used to be until i changed it!!! darcy is my favorite Heartstopper character btw

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#78

sonic.exe is cool.

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Astor.exe

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#79

Live in the east end of London, "bird" is slang for woman.

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#80

Fahrenheit 451 was always one of my favorite novels and I like the was "Lee451" looks. Even had that as my licence plates for about 10 years.

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Lee Henderson

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#81

Bgray is my first initial, followed by an abbreviation of my last name. 450 was my driver number when I drove a cab in Prescott AZ in the early 2000's, one of my favorite jobs.

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Bgray450

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#82

My name is Robert, and I'm nearly totally left-handed, so ...

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Robert Trebor

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#83

It's my name.........TADA

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Chris berkley

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#84

I really like Street Fighter II, and have beaten it while maining Guile. It's pretty self explained if I'm being honest

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Guile main

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#85

I really love weird core and loved the name of "Azure Delta"
I changed it up to be more memorable to "aZUre d3Lta" but it still didn't feel quite right, and changed it to "aZUre_d3Lta"
I couldn't quite master the feel until my cousin said azzy would be a cute nickname for an azure
so here i am, aZZy_ d3Lta.

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aZZy_d3Lta (they/star/bun)

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#86

My name is Simmer. Fin.

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•SIMMER•

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#87

I loved snakes and warriors so…

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Master Of Puppets

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#88

I like reading about Greek mythology and I think Hestia is the only one who didn't ever mess things up.

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Hestia

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#89

my sexuality+ my nickname that my sister gave me when she was a baby and mispronunciation my name

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#90

A DJ in Philly randomly called me by this name at a party in our 20’s & it stuck… that was 25 years ago.

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#91

I am very secretive and i like dogs.

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#92

Mine is from a comic book Pinocchio the Vampire Slayer. There's these little black rabbits called the rabbits of ill portent and they're adorable despite telling Pinocchio that bad things are going to happen

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