Ahri Boy · 11 answers · 1y
What is the origin of your Fediverse handles?
What is the origin of your Fediverse handles?
It stems from my twitter account, which I made in 2017. Back then it was my fursona's name and species, but after egg cracking I made it into my own name.
Lucid idiot, the lucid was initially because I was into lucid dreaming and the idiot part because I do think of myself as an idiot. It changed meaning over the years (I'm using this name since 2015). Now it means I have the lucidity to know I'm an idiot and I try to take that into account in my actions
Already posted about it before so I'll do the old copypasta here~ :3
So... back around 2012, I used to play on a lot of cracked Minecraft servers before I had a paid account. I used to bounce around between a few usernames as I often got banned for xray and such. I was just a kid having fun! I started using the username of Epicness for a while, which then became Epicness2 as almost a taunt, which then became EpicnessTwo.
I stuck with EpicnessTwo for quite some time and started playing more fairly so this account handle became my main.
Flash foward to 2013-2014, I started getting into modded Minecraft, especially a mod called ComputerCraft. I used to be active on the forums and noticed they had IRC which was kinda new to me so I joined and used the handle of EpicnessTwo on there too.
I eventually got familiar with IRC and explored other channels, eventually starting #epic which is the origin for Land of Kittens.
During one of the chats that we had in #epic, someone noticed my love for cats and made a joke that I should be EpicKitty instead of EpicnessTwo so I switched my nick to that and it just kinda stuck.
Nearly 10 years later, I'm still using it as my main handle!
Eh, AMoonRabbit came about partly because moonrabbit would already been in use on most social sites, and partly because I vaguely recall a trend of people using usernames that usually flowed with the reaction notices people received e.g. "AMoonRabbit is now following you".
"Cats Who Code" is named after my cat Garp, who used to sit on my keyboard and coincidentally open coding related programs like the text editor and bash. So I joked that she was a cat who codes. My current cat does similar things!
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