Pseudonymous lives

[franceslievens]

P. asked me to write this entry some time ago. "When you have time and nothing else to say, I'd love to read it." That time has come.

I call her Hadise, because she's Turkish and likes the Belgo-Turkish singer who currently hosts Turkish Idol. I've got to give her a name anyway, so why not give her the name of someone she adores. With most of them I'm not that innovative: P., A., J. and S. kindly provided me with their real life initials. I don't have to hide for someone. The possibility of being found out is still rather small, and I don't mind someone knowing who I'm talking about. I generally know when to keep my mouth shut.
Other bloggers use other names, other handles to refer to house-mates, house-guests and spooks without a weblife. First and foremost there's the significant other, mostly refered to as Mr or Mrs. But she's a girl has Mr bsag. Bitch Ph.D. talks about Mr B. He sometimes posts as well. chrissie_linnit makes it easy and has a spouse. I think in the earlier days on the Cross and Stake he was also called Hagrid, because of the hairy legs and masculine chest. Chrissie is also one of the most consistent bloggers I met in naming what she affectionatly has come to call "the Linnit clan": there's of course spouse, but also 4 Linnit sprogs concurrently called EldestGirlLinnit, EldestBoyLinnit, TeenLinnit and MiniLinnit. If chrissie_linnit's clan owned a cat it would be called LinnitFur – or Crookshanks.
Children do seem to live with the most interesting pseudonyms on the internet. gingerpig's Little Man has grown up to something Small & Stinky. MK is living with the only pseudonym I thought somewhat through before posting it: an abreviation of the Dutch word for goddaughter. It does echo Bitch's PK, the only real Pseudonymous Kid ever to live in this realm of ideas.
With pseudonyms come wishes. Not only do we make something of ourself by posting and writing, we also make something from the people we live with, the persons that we hang out with, the ones that ask us (not) to blog certain things. You can wonder what they will say once they read the words that are written on them, for certainly they will never agree with anything that might offend them.

Comments

[chrissie-linnit.livejournal.com]

Only MiniLinnit has ever taken any interest im my LJing... and that was really because he shared my love of the BtVSverse. I'd never really want the rest of the Linnits to get in here. It's my secrit space and somewhere that's especially for outpourings of the ChrissieHeart... the pseudonyms suit my needs and inner feelings. Ours is a small, oft cosy, frequently noisy, nest where I chatter and fuss and fret and get my feathers all ruffled.

How do I look on my Friends and their adopted pseudonyms, hmmm? I see, in my minds eye of course, frances_lievens and P... open toed sandals, relaxed and liberal... very much children of the 60's. Clever and knowledgeable but never letting go of the freedoms and spirit of expression in all it's forms - does that make sense? I hadn't realised that the alphabetical labels were initials, and I've always created my own 'names' for P and others... and oddly, P has transformed to fit the context... in one thread you'd started he was Penis! In another, Pastor Peter... a chamelion P *lol*

frenchani however, in my minds eye, again has all the intellectual, spiritual(?) and emotional capability to be free of spirit like Frances, but is actually carefully restrained in deed... it's something to do with my perceptions of the French elegance, I think *g*. And, sister_luck... is my enigma. The pseudonym does not match the mental image. I always want to drag sis into the LinnitNest and cosset her. She's my (calmer) inner me... observant, occasionally self-critical, and always there with the right words... Hmmm, maybe the pseudonym does fit, eh?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I always thought sister_ray, like we came to know her on the BC&S, fit her better than sister_luck, but the first name was already taken when she got an LJ!
I've always been Frances in your mind. LJ simply added a last name, but I stay Frances.

I don't know if I fit your description Chrissie. I do have the feeling that I'm more liberal on here. I seem to be less restrained when typing, than when talking. But a true child of the sixties? First, I was born in the 70s, and second, I've got a big mouth, but a small heart. ;-)

LJ is private for me. My family knows about me spending too much time on the internet and making friends there, but they never care to ask where I make them or how I keep in touch. It's my own little playground and they let me have it. My sister has the link to my LJ, but doesn't care to read it. She also took a look over on the BC&S, but didn't want to participate there either. She's more the lurky typ of person and mainly uses the internet to find information rather than have fun, and that's so for most of my family.

I like that you fit P's initial to the context. Funny. Now I'll wonder what P. will mean for you every time I mention him. *g*

[(Anonymous)]

Yhe 60's thing is all because of a couple of posts you did a long, long time ago... in one, you described P as wearing open toe sandals. They bring to my mind the sandals of the Hippie's of the 1960's - Jesus Creepers, we used to call them (the sandals NOT the Hippies!)...

In the other post (it probably stretched over a fre posts actually, and drifted into Chani's LJ as well) you started discussions about open relationships, polygamy and stuff... again, in my mind, very much the mindset of the liberal, flower in hair wearing, 1960's...

Please, please don't ever tell me that you and P go out picking Magic Mushrooms! *g*

;D

I think I always think od Sister Luck or Sister Ray as Sis... Although I have a sis, our Sis, and you guys, knows more about me than my own siblings. And you're all mine... MINE, I say!

[(Anonymous)]

Good Lord! Could my typing get any worse! *looks up at my last post in shame*

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's impossible to typ any worse.

You can forget to log in for starters. :-p

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

No magic mushrooms. Just the ordinary ones. Not even funny cigarettes these days.

Yep, P. wears sandals, and slippers. But he isn't the only man in my life walking the world barefoot when it's hot! The different outfits of those others even go as far as pink flipflops. Not really Jesus Creepers, hey. (At least P. won't be caught wearing flipflops, thank god. His feet aren't made for them.)

The relationship thingy is something rather new to me, to be honest. I made that post ages ago, I know, but was just coming to understand that certain way of living. And of course I'm a jealous bitch and not one woman will ever be good enough for my P., so don't go thinking about lending him. ;-)

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not around and then everyone starts talking about me. (Exaggerating grossly of course.) Go on, you've been saying nice things, so I don't mind.

sister_ray is very much me. sister_luck was secondbest, but not entirely meaningless. I'm a lucky gal in a lot of senses and there's also the song by the Black Crowes and I'm very fond of that band for various reasons.

*hugs*

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

hahaha

You're such a nice lady. ;-)
I don't know that Black Crowes song. I like the couple of songs I know by them and that's it, I guess.