What's in a name?

[judecorp]

Does anyone want to pay for me to switch my LJ name from smurfchick to judecorp? I'm so tired of smurfchick. It was never supposed to be something that stuck anyway.

When I was interning at Stonewall Columbus, I was doing a lot of research on Out in Columbus and didn't want to make a profile that would easily be identified as me. I was trying to think of some sort of generic pseudonym and came up with "smurfchick." Then when I was signing up for LiveJournal I tried several names, all of which were already taken. (And this was over three years ago! I can't imagine how bad it is now.) So I defaulted to smurfchick.

I dunno. I just don't feel like it suits me or represents me. What do you guys think?

Comments

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I just don't feel like it suits me or represents me. What do you guys think?

Would you stop being smurfy if you changed your name, or would you retain your inherent smurfiness?

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

If you really want to do it, I don't mind funding it, after the 15th.

If it were me, I wouldn't do it. Oddly enough though, if it weren't for 9 years of people knowing me that way, I'd drop Arwen as my TIM name in a mouse-heartbeat.

It's like the difference between a tattoo you pick at 15 and one you pick at 30.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I was mostly joking about the funding part - but I am really interested in the opinions! :)

So I don't get it... you would drop Arwen but I shouldn't drop smurfchick. Why? Because I picked the name in 2001 instead of 1993?

Shoot, I think I'd almost rather be D'Arcy for consistancy, except that I don't like people calling me D'Arcy in public. Or smurfchick for that matter. At least if people wanted to call me judecorp they'd be close to my name. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The smurf is always in me, Young Skywalker. Sometimes I worry about the chick more than the smurf. ;)

I've been associated with smurfs for /so/ /long/. I have smurf stuff up the wazoo. I don't even have it displayed anymore. Maybe that's why I've been feeling disconnected.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Well, there aren't 1 million and 1 HTML links to Arwen that reference me. ;)

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Have got turtle stuff out the wazoo. =)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

dunno. I realized the other day that it's been 20 years sometimes this year that I've been going under the name thespian - 'Shakespeare' was actually the step out for me (ZoloThespian on TIM was aliased to 'thespian', which is why I didn't use it there). This came up in a discussion of aliases on Kingdom of Loathing, where I also am 'thespian', despite the fact there were 100k users on there before me. I used to have problems getting the name from time to time, but I suspect that I've used it consistantly and widely enough that any thespian-poseurs who might use it are using something else :-)

oddly, despite that, I don't think you should bother to change your name - I really don't think it's all that important. Do you really feel that it has any actual impact on your life?

[michael622.livejournal.com]

I think I would be sad to see the smurfchick go. :(

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

When I was younger, my mother decided that I liked cows, and that I was collecting cows. While I did like cows just fine, I certainly wasn't collecting. So she started getting me little cow things here and there. No problem.

One Christmas I got so much cow paraphernalia that I wanted to positively DIE. What put me over the edge were the cow underpants. Dear gods.

Now if I never see a cow item again, I would be just fine.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Are there a million links to me? Somehow I seriously doubt it. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, yes and no. It's a nails-on-the-chalkboard thing whenever someone should ask me "who I am on LJ" or introduce me as such. I dunno.

No, it's not a huge deal or I would have ponied up the money and done it myself. But, you know, if someone wants to just do it for me... ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Awwwh, why sad?

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Do not push me or I shall create them.

[happy2beso.livejournal.com]

To me it represents you.

But I'm not sure how important that is.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

You know Carrie collects pigs, right?

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

Oh, smurfchick.

smurfchick, smurfchick, smurfchick.

You realize you have just secured your Decemberween presents with everyone on LJ, right? :)

I have a lot of links to smurfchick in comments and stuff (like, for instance, the 6 in this comment) that can't be edited to reflect a new name, and all the people who come by my journal later and wonder what makes me tick won't be able to find your awesomeness. Does LJ fix those automagically if you pay for the name change instead of just ditching the account?

And if you were judecorp, when you eventually come to Philly, could we still have Smurf 'n' Turf?

I don't really have a strong feeling about the name smurfchick (or, for that matter, judecorp). You're always Jude to me (I had to try very hard a couple weeks ago to remember "D'Arcy"). Go with your heart. And if you change it, I'll try (at least a little) not to make smurfbrother feel silly for his unchanged name.

Of course, this is from a guy that waited a year and a half too late to get his most common online name here, and had to go with the backup. Never shoulda let jadefu talk me out of Darl_Bundren.

[livinganthology.livejournal.com]

:)

[smithee.livejournal.com]

hey, i'm just happy to have contributed to the smurfs up the wazoo. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I had no idea.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

*bats eyelashes* Promise?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Everything you say is important. You're my Lara!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Okay, so those are totally the best smurfs I have ever gotten.

Not to downplay anyone who gave me smurf stuff, or any stuff that was given, but there's something about this totally hot guy poring through back entries in my LJ for clues about where I lived, locating my apartment, and showing up at my front door with a box of smurf toys. All in answer of an LJ post stating: First person to show up at my front door gets a big kiss.

What a memory!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't know if it changes all that stuff. I'd imagine not. That's a good point.

And you also make a good point about my smurfbrother. Aye, there's the rub!

However, regardless of my name, we can always have smurf and turf. I promise. Also, I am glad that you couldn't remember "D'Arcy." Gosh, that seems like a million lifetimes ago. But it was a pretty good name. :)

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

aww i happen to like smurfchick. i don't think i could picture you as anything else...