Memespam. Wheee.
Was tagged by nscangal. So.
Write a little paragraph about your name, why you chose it, what it means to you, etc.
Well, it really ought to have a hyphen in it. Whisk-y Business. It's a pun, see. Because of the Whisk.
The Whisk is kind of starting to take over my brain. I got the real-life Whisk two years ago for my birthday. It's just over three feet long and really freaking impressive. I had a bit of a whisk penchant- I wouldn't say 'obsession' really, but I rather liked them- before that, but that was the point at which it exploded. Now the Whisk shows up in almost everything I do.. it hasn't shown up in my novel or the sequels I'm planning in my head yet, but I figure it's only a matter of time.
When I started writing my PPC agents, I gave the Whisk-wielding job to Flip, as agent!Rez had most of my personal traits and I was attempting to make Flip more interesting. (That's also how the unstable-character-blip thing arose.) Then when I got this LJ account to put my PPC stuff on, I needed a creative username. Badfic missions are a pretty risky business, and we were using the Whisk, hence 'whisk-y business.'
And I could tell a bunch of stories about the name Rez. I can't remember how I came up with the name, but I used it for my PPC alias because I had recently cut the name out of a fanfic that I was changing to an original story and it was flapping around loose in my head. (The fanfic was a Hitchhiker's Guide one, but it only had a few tangential references to the books, so I cut them out and changed a bunch of things- which was a lot harder than I thought it would be- and it eventually became my NaNo novel. Rez was the main character's towel. You may snicker now.)
What would you change your name to, if you were changing it?
Hm, I dunno. My LJ username, I think, was going to just be 'rez' but it was already taken, IIRC. Later I gave agent!Rez a last name, Montrose, which has absolutely no meaning behind it save that it sounds nifty. So I suppose I could use that. 'Rez Montrose' is my name on other sites- deviantART, the NaNoWriMo site, and I'm debating changing my Pit name to that as well. But I like whiskybusiness.
What is your favorite username? Why?
I'm a fan of names with puns or obscure fandom references in them. chelonianmobile is one of my favorites. I'm also quite fond of ones with multiple meanings.. I had a friend who used 'Pendragon' on AIM for a while, setting my all-time record with three. (He was an artist, hence 'pen,' a dragon sign in the Chinese zodiac, and we had some kind of in-joke linking him with King Arthur that I can't remember now.)
Now, tag five other unfortunates whose usernames you would like to hear about:
Oh, mostly everyone's done this already. yattara, I want to hear about yours, since I haven't yet, and.. anyone else who hasn't done this yet and wants to. I'm always the last one to get around to memes. Ragh.
Write a little paragraph about your name, why you chose it, what it means to you, etc.
Well, it really ought to have a hyphen in it. Whisk-y Business. It's a pun, see. Because of the Whisk.
The Whisk is kind of starting to take over my brain. I got the real-life Whisk two years ago for my birthday. It's just over three feet long and really freaking impressive. I had a bit of a whisk penchant- I wouldn't say 'obsession' really, but I rather liked them- before that, but that was the point at which it exploded. Now the Whisk shows up in almost everything I do.. it hasn't shown up in my novel or the sequels I'm planning in my head yet, but I figure it's only a matter of time.
When I started writing my PPC agents, I gave the Whisk-wielding job to Flip, as agent!Rez had most of my personal traits and I was attempting to make Flip more interesting. (That's also how the unstable-character-blip thing arose.) Then when I got this LJ account to put my PPC stuff on, I needed a creative username. Badfic missions are a pretty risky business, and we were using the Whisk, hence 'whisk-y business.'
And I could tell a bunch of stories about the name Rez. I can't remember how I came up with the name, but I used it for my PPC alias because I had recently cut the name out of a fanfic that I was changing to an original story and it was flapping around loose in my head. (The fanfic was a Hitchhiker's Guide one, but it only had a few tangential references to the books, so I cut them out and changed a bunch of things- which was a lot harder than I thought it would be- and it eventually became my NaNo novel. Rez was the main character's towel. You may snicker now.)
What would you change your name to, if you were changing it?
Hm, I dunno. My LJ username, I think, was going to just be 'rez' but it was already taken, IIRC. Later I gave agent!Rez a last name, Montrose, which has absolutely no meaning behind it save that it sounds nifty. So I suppose I could use that. 'Rez Montrose' is my name on other sites- deviantART, the NaNoWriMo site, and I'm debating changing my Pit name to that as well. But I like whiskybusiness.
What is your favorite username? Why?
I'm a fan of names with puns or obscure fandom references in them. chelonianmobile is one of my favorites. I'm also quite fond of ones with multiple meanings.. I had a friend who used 'Pendragon' on AIM for a while, setting my all-time record with three. (He was an artist, hence 'pen,' a dragon sign in the Chinese zodiac, and we had some kind of in-joke linking him with King Arthur that I can't remember now.)
Now, tag five other unfortunates whose usernames you would like to hear about:
Oh, mostly everyone's done this already. yattara, I want to hear about yours, since I haven't yet, and.. anyone else who hasn't done this yet and wants to. I'm always the last one to get around to memes. Ragh.