Getting to know you!
Since I don't know half of you half as well as I should like,* I thought I'd try a "getting to know you"-question!
How did you choose your LJ username?
For me, it all started with the fact that I am title- and pseudonym-impaired. Right from the start, the name I used in fandom was my real name: Sylvia. When I migrated from mailing lists to LJ, I wanted to claim sylvia, but of course it was already taken. (I actually wrote to sylvia asking her whether I could take over the name, since her LJ was obviously abandoned. Unsurprisingly, she never responded.) I considered variations of the name, but wasn't happy with any of the ones that were available.
So I considered historical, literary and/or mythological precursors, and immediately settled on Rhea Silvia. I'm a mythology buff, so she is highly relevant to my interests. She herself is mostly side-lined in the myths (someone's daughter, someone's lover, someone's mother and so forth), but her mythological context still makes her interesting for me.
How about you? How did your name come about?
* Sorry about the random Tolkien quote. ;-)
How did you choose your LJ username?
For me, it all started with the fact that I am title- and pseudonym-impaired. Right from the start, the name I used in fandom was my real name: Sylvia. When I migrated from mailing lists to LJ, I wanted to claim sylvia, but of course it was already taken. (I actually wrote to sylvia asking her whether I could take over the name, since her LJ was obviously abandoned. Unsurprisingly, she never responded.) I considered variations of the name, but wasn't happy with any of the ones that were available.
So I considered historical, literary and/or mythological precursors, and immediately settled on Rhea Silvia. I'm a mythology buff, so she is highly relevant to my interests. She herself is mostly side-lined in the myths (someone's daughter, someone's lover, someone's mother and so forth), but her mythological context still makes her interesting for me.
How about you? How did your name come about?
* Sorry about the random Tolkien quote. ;-)