I'm tired of seeing "PatriLususNaturae" in my browser's title bar.
People on DeviantART who put thought into their names usually have names that reflect them as people, as artists, etc. whereas I I joined here almost three years ago, an amateur, wanting to look fancy and literate. So I made up a Latin name.
PatriLususNaturae does have a meaning, of course; it's just that the meaning has nothing to do with me as a writer, photographer or poet. It's scrambled a little; it means "Father, freak of nature".
Certainly I'm a freak of nature, but for some reason putting it in Latin makes it sound like I'm lamenting that when in fact I love it that way.
And I've had some hellish experiences with this account- look at all the journal entries I wrote in the beginning, with Caleb, with Lyle, with my issues being Christina's friend, with all that stuff.... but here I am about to be eighteen and about to at least attempt to come into my own. I want to be known for my writing, my photography.
Not for a ridiculous moniker like this one...
And even though it means I'll have to redirect my email/start a whole new gallery, I suppose it's worth it. I can always shift this account to another of my sixty million emails, after all, and just link people to this account's gallery if they want to see my old stuff.
Seems like a lot of hassle for just a name, doesn't it?
Until you think about it. Juliet was very wrong about names; what you name a person, a thing, a place, shapes it. You give a person a name like a gentle flower, nine times of out ten his soul is soft and gentle at its core, like Lyle (his name is English, for "lily"). Or if you name someone after a philosopher, a writer, a poet- they'll grow into that sort of person.
Just the same, if you give people names like the people at my school- Eushekia, Yeika, Japonika for instance- they're typically loud, ghetto people.
That doesn't mean they'll be awful people who don't speak correct english, or that all people with names like Lyle's or Caleb's or Zack's are going to be upstanding elegant people. But more often than not, that's the case.
So, with all that said- I'm wondering whether I should create a new DeviantART account. It'll take some deciding before I create it, of course, although its name is leaning toward my pen name, which is Phoenix Moth (there is a nice story behind that name).
What do you think?