meme, myself and I (and Jensen Ackles)

[flambeau]

Startling discovery of the week: there is another fanfic writer with the same pseud. Or almost the same pseud, since s/he seems to capitalize, but then people usually write Torch instead of torch according to their own personal preference anyway. Feels very interesting, like discovering a long-lost twin or something. Also makes me wonder if I

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[sageness]

I have a similar problem with my name. There's another person with an LJ who uses Sageness as her journal name, though her username is totally different. And there are other sagenesses on places like MySpace, etc. It makes google searches kind of a pain in the ass interesting.

Apart from that, I was the only Sage in my first three fandoms, but in SGA I seem to be one of four or five. It's very confusing, especially since people have been calling me Sage for more than ten years now. It makes me wonder if I should change my username to something entirely different. After all these years, I wonder how confused people would be...

[ratcreature]

Well I think people can deal with others having the same name better than with names or pseuds constantly changing. I mean, unless you have weird and cruel parents who like to be "inventive" and "unique" you aren't likely to be the only person with your first name in RL either, no?

[sageness]

*nodnodnod* I get that, it's just a little odd after so long of being the only sage in the room. :P

[flambeau]

Yes, see, that's it -- confusing. Things that make you go hmm. And now I wonder, do you get a lot of people assuming that you're Sage as in rosemary and thyme, rather than as in standing in God's holy fire?

But I think it's much better to stick with the name you've had for such a long time. Being someone else all of a sudden, now that's really confusing.

(Completely irrelevant: I keep thinking your icon is a picture of a parasol.)

[sageness]

*laugh*

Yeah, it's always been more about the plant and color and it being a pretty name (and all the plants on my balcony) than anything. I definitely don't make any pretensions to wisdom. :P

I agree that changing my username after all this time without a solid RL reason would kind of suck.

And isn't the lemon nifty? It made me think of beach umbrellas and tropical drinks. :D

[flambeau]

It's very very pretty, and I just today made lemonade so I should know a lemon from a beach umbrella, really. *g*