102 - My LJ username doesn't match my username in most other places since it was taken when I first came to LJ, but my nick' everywhere else is 'Azurite.' It used to be 'Andromida.' I don't know, to most people, do those immediately conjure a particular fandom? Short of having a popular fandom's name or a primary character's name as part of your SN, isn't it possible that someone will see a username and NOT know what fandom it might be from?
Andromida was a variant of Andromeda, the character from Greek myth. I've always liked Greco-Roman myth, but in this case, I liked the name because someone else had already 'discovered' it and used it in a fic that I read for an OC Sailor Senshi.
Sailor Moon was my first fandom, and for a while, I went by 'Sailor Andromida.' When I started to notice a to of other 'Sailor (Whatever)s' I switched to 'Azurite,' but I had the same problem with people asking me if the name was based off an OC Shittenou from the same series, even though that was never my intention-- it's based off the actual gemstone (coincidentally, what the other Shittenou are named after).
If I see people with 'Sailor' or 'Senshi' in their names, I automatically think they are/were Sailor Moon fans, but that's not always the case (I think there's someone else who responded to this topic who says the 'Senshi' in their name is just because 'Senshi' literally means 'Warrior' in Japanese and you might have a TON of reasons for wanting to call yourself a warrior, e.g. because it's your favorite monster type in Yu-Gi-Oh!, because it's your favorite D&D/RPG class, whatever). You shouldn't judge people with usernames that MIGHT be based off a [particular] fandom, because if you actually bother to get to know he reason and find out the origins of their name, you might be pleasantly surprised.
At least some people bother to make interesting conjunctions of names, even if they are just two (or more) fandom-related terms/names smashed together, like Sailor Andromida or NinjaMedic or whatever. It's certainly more creative than SailorMoon56266123451 or NarutoFan2111 as a username.
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Andromida was a variant of Andromeda, the character from Greek myth. I've always liked Greco-Roman myth, but in this case, I liked the name because someone else had already 'discovered' it and used it in a fic that I read for an OC Sailor Senshi.
Sailor Moon was my first fandom, and for a while, I went by 'Sailor Andromida.' When I started to notice a to of other 'Sailor (Whatever)s' I switched to 'Azurite,' but I had the same problem with people asking me if the name was based off an OC Shittenou from the same series, even though that was never my intention-- it's based off the actual gemstone (coincidentally, what the other Shittenou are named after).
If I see people with 'Sailor' or 'Senshi' in their names, I automatically think they are/were Sailor Moon fans, but that's not always the case (I think there's someone else who responded to this topic who says the 'Senshi' in their name is just because 'Senshi' literally means 'Warrior' in Japanese and you might have a TON of reasons for wanting to call yourself a warrior, e.g. because it's your favorite monster type in Yu-Gi-Oh!, because it's your favorite D&D/RPG class, whatever). You shouldn't judge people with usernames that MIGHT be based off a [particular] fandom, because if you actually bother to get to know he reason and find out the origins of their name, you might be pleasantly surprised.
At least some people bother to make interesting conjunctions of names, even if they are just two (or more) fandom-related terms/names smashed together, like Sailor Andromida or NinjaMedic or whatever. It's certainly more creative than SailorMoon56266123451 or NarutoFan2111 as a username.