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On a good day I'm up around 5 AM, but I often find myself up even earlier than that. I joined my first Lemmy instance during one of these bouts of insomnia, prompting my username.

My avatar is from a worldbuilding project I work on.

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[-] lol_idk@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago
[-] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Username checks out

[-] queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I'm proudly a queer weirdo:)

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

As a fan of portmanteaus, portmanbravo (ok this one is pretty tortured)

[-] WhereAreMySocks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Occasionally, my socks go missing.

[-] a_person@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

I am just a person, you dont need to know anything more about me.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Keys on a qwerty keyboard. Just so that it's different here from everywhere else.

The only reason I have a username and not an avatar is because I was forced to pick a username but not an avatar when registering.

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was the first online user name I ever created back in '92. I got it from the Nocturnus album Thresholds. The song was Nocturne in B Minor, which is from Chopin's Nocturne.

My avatar is my cat, Mouse Police wearing a yellow feather boa.

I also use the SHARPS logo as an avatar.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

She is quite the character.

She has a cat tent, it sits on top of the box in the background, Mouse loves to jump into the tent and knock it over and then hide in it.

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

Metastasio was an Italian poet and librettist who lived in the 1700’s. Being someone who creates poetry and music, I wanted a name to reflect that but with a modern flair, so I swapped “meta-“ for “giga-.”

Also, as “metastasis” translates roughly to “changing states,” “gigastasio” can be taken to mean “billions of states,” which is an apt description for how my mind works.

My pic is just some random pic I took. It’s my kid’s shark stuffie. His name is Chocolate Milk.

[-] anas@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

It’s my actual name, I got it for my birthday.

[-] tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

I read Berserk.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

My name is Joseph, and a lot of kids mispronounce it as "Jofish" or something similar. I can't remember who actually started the nickname for me, but it caught on. It doesn't hurt that I enjoy being in and around water anyway.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I think the name was just something that sounded cool and was either made for gaming or when I helped mod a sychtube channel.

The avatar is just one of my family's old chihuahuas staring at me with a toothless unhinged look.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago
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[-] OutwateredFish@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Moved from one end of my country all the way to another not too long ago, and I've felt like a fish outta water since. Or, an Outwatered Fish.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Lemmy has avatars? I don't see them, and I don't want to. It's one of the annoyances with new reddit. I just have no use for them, nor do want to waste space seeing anyone elses.

My username? If you know you know, if you don't you wouldn't care anyways.

Mash up of minglewood and August West.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I am not Rick, but I’m also NOT the Krusty Krab

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

"What would 'palindrome' look like if it was a palindrome?"

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You guys have avatars? Too much effort...

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[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

We call someone who can't do anything right, or is “useless”,“un zero a l'esquerra”, a zero to the left (as in the zero in 01, which is the same as 1, making the 0 irrelevant).

I consider myself one such zero to the left, but that's too long, so leftzero. 🤷‍♂️

Also... lemmy has profile pictures..?

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[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

My avatar is the GOOD BEE from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Because I'm locked away in my cave, but if you manage to find and befriend me, I am loyal and will slay your opponents.

[-] WR5@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Avatar: my current DnD character (art found online). Name: Initials and favorite number. Not very clever or funny, just practical.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

My avatar is a picture of a large ceramic cow in northern Michigan. The cow is named Jillbert.

The name is largely self explanatory.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Penguins are cool. I ride dual sport motorcycles. (And other motorcycles. But definitely those.)

[-] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Kinda/remotely/vaguely is the phonetic version of the surname my best friend gave me some 40+ years ago.

The avatar is a red blob hinting at what I'm into (plus my name) ;)

[-] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

No avatar because I can’t be bothered. I don’t see them on my app anyway. As far as I can tell, nobody has them.

I was watching some movie, and I was like ooh, centipedes would make good farriers; they can use their body along the hoof to draw a stencil by just passing a pencil along all of its feet!

And that was silly so here we are.

[-] thedoctorlady@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'm a... doctor lady.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I combined my dogs names, Kona and Loki, to come up with KoLoNaKi; but when I actually made the original thing using this name, I mistyped it as KolAnaki and didn't notice until like a week later.

Avatar is an early ass AI image gen image of my fursona when they were still a totally new thing and I was checking 'em out. When I have some money to spend, I'd like to get a better one made by the artist who did the banner I'm using on my profile currently.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It's the first letter of my real name.

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had a friend since college whose first name started with a Q, he always went by Q. A couple years ago he started to use a QAnon logo as his avatar. Someone informed him of its meaning and he did a deep dive on it and never came back from it. I ended up blocking him on all social media because he went off the deep end.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I've had my share of people associating my username with that. Also Star trek, but that ones OK.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

It’s my first initial and last name.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

There's this epic show called Psych. Hidden pineapples appear in pretty much every episode and movies.

[-] nett_hier@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

It's kind of the slogan of my state

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

It's my real name, and I don't remember which avatar I have right now but either way it's from a webcomic.

[-] altasshet@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Probably misremembered term from an Anne Rice novel. Google gives me nothing. As such it seems pretty unique.

[-] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Somehow it just seemed to tie things together.

[-] sailormoon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Sudomeapizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

im always hungry

[-] sparkles@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I do a lot of play therapy and wear a lot of costumes. Arts and crafts necessitates shiny objects such as gemstones glitter/glue. The photo I think I’m dressed up for some silly hat day thing. I may be a crow.

[-] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

M is the first letter in my real name and 137 is my favorite/lucky number. I made my avatar about a decade ago, inspired by synthwave music and style (specifically after seeing waveshaper play live).

[-] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I really liked watching B-grade 90s-00s SciFi movies with my dad when I was a kid. That was the name of one that came out around the time I made a reddit account, I don't know if I ever even watched it, it just sounded like a good username. Reminds me, I should probably make a new lemmy account that's not tied to the same name

[-] treep@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

A long time ago my when my little brother was in first grade, he got a homework sheet where he had to unscramble a bunch of names. I thought this scrambled version sounded cool, and have been using it as username everywhere ever since.

[-] HollowV@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Hollow is a song title by an EDM artist named Dabin and has themes about loneliness, emptiness, and inner turmoil. Also depression makes me feel hollow. V is the first letter of my first name.

Here's the song: https://youtu.be/K-AD0iMs_ak

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I use names that may seem creative, but have no real meaning. Just made from spontaneous ideas.

I always have several of them (prepared or in use), because you never know when some ultra crazy mod turns up.

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