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oh display names... that's pretty cool
5 months ago
i miiiiiight change my display name to my actual name, just people know it's me if they've seen me around elsewhere.
but i will never change my @. someone contacted me recently about art i made when i was literally 17 that linked to this account, and it made me realize that having that unbroken connection to the past is valuable after all. i would've changed my name a long time ago if i could've, but "irrisorie" is a relic from my childhood and it would feel very strange to cast it off now.
idk. i guess i value holding onto that little bit of my past self emerging into the present day some 15+ years after the fact more than anything else.
if you want to know the story behind the username "irrisorie," i am notoriously bad at picking names and always have been. when i was a kid, i needed to come up with a name to use as my identity online, and since i couldn't think of anything, i resorted to using a "latin translator" to come up with something. this was before google translate's latin language existed (it being a mere 3 years old at the time), so i used some random website that came up if you searched "latin translator." i only found out many years later that it was complete garbage, and the word "irrisorie" isn't latin. what i wanted it to mean was "ridiculous." it was meant to be a self-disparaging joke, like nicknaming yourself Boo Boo The Clown in a round-about way.
however, sticking it into google translate now, it spits out a translation of "negligible" from, apparently, italian. so maybe it is a real word. i really have no idea.
but i will never change my @. someone contacted me recently about art i made when i was literally 17 that linked to this account, and it made me realize that having that unbroken connection to the past is valuable after all. i would've changed my name a long time ago if i could've, but "irrisorie" is a relic from my childhood and it would feel very strange to cast it off now.
idk. i guess i value holding onto that little bit of my past self emerging into the present day some 15+ years after the fact more than anything else.
if you want to know the story behind the username "irrisorie," i am notoriously bad at picking names and always have been. when i was a kid, i needed to come up with a name to use as my identity online, and since i couldn't think of anything, i resorted to using a "latin translator" to come up with something. this was before google translate's latin language existed (it being a mere 3 years old at the time), so i used some random website that came up if you searched "latin translator." i only found out many years later that it was complete garbage, and the word "irrisorie" isn't latin. what i wanted it to mean was "ridiculous." it was meant to be a self-disparaging joke, like nicknaming yourself Boo Boo The Clown in a round-about way.
however, sticking it into google translate now, it spits out a translation of "negligible" from, apparently, italian. so maybe it is a real word. i really have no idea.
That's an interesting perspective... Keeping the same username for a long time is similar to never deleting old art posted online; I've personally changed usernames and deleted stuff a lot in the last 20 years because I often feel like it doesn't reflect me, has bad memories, etc. I respect people who still keep their old stuff around, both approaches are very personal and both make sense.
I've also had some #thoughts about connections to the past, but I feel I tend to veer more towards "burn it all down" lmao. I dunno, I think in my case it's because "Kajy" was just a corruption of "Kaji" because I thought that it was a very cool japanese sounding name as a 12 year old, and used it in online games. It has baggage that I don't like, so while I haven't made an effort to deny that name completely, I've stopped using it for anything new. I think the last place it survives still is here on FA.
i think the old names we come with as kids can be very charming, but it's completely understandable to want to come up with something more representative of who you are as a grown person.