Maxch

TAG YOUR MOOTS AND MAKE THEM EXPLAIN THEIR USERNAMES LORE

Starting with me:

Hyyl18 because when i was youngest i had a group in a random app with some friends and i didnt knew qhat username to use so i decided to create one with things i used to read since we were talking abt fanfic in this group so: Hot Yaoi Yuri Lemon +18 stuff (i was in my dirty era dont dare to judge me). Hyyl18 thats it. Now i use it everywhere yay

@privygrid

So mine comes from among us, specifically around the time they added the account feature and you could generate random names and at some point i got "privygrid" and it like immediately resonated with me so i use it everywhere now

tags with my questions/guesses below the cut

tags below the cut (holy hell i have so many mutuals)

uh, for mutuals, imma tag those I see more often lol

Fun fact, while you can pronounce however you want, i like to pronounce "og" like in the word "hog"

so then goldenstrawberrytiger was born.

but tbh I might change it.

MOOTS:

Moots :

See this painting here?

It's from the 16th century. The Ugly Duchess.

I found it like, 5 years ago, when I was searching for something deliberately ugly to humoristically use as a profile picture, mainly on Discord. It was a success, and everyone was often praising me for my very beautiful profile picture. Unfortunately due to size rules I didn't get to show this especially enticing cleavage, but even then, I was in a North African server and virtually married to a Moroccan there, and he'd use the command IMG to highlight this face and type "HOT 😍", increasing my confidence.

When I was in another device and wanted to reuse this picture, probably to my AO3 account (where I use it to this day), I found this version (for sale) where someone edited the painting to add cat ears and nose.

Funky! I decided to use it (by the way, I downloaded and resized it for better visibility, couldn't find the original edit even with Google Image Search).

When I came to Tumblr, knowing it's nice for fandom reach, I found it repetitive to use the same username all the time and wanted variating and contrasting. Aside from removing the "ugly" part (I never used the picture here), I was thinking about a musical group that I like of the name Enigma.

Enigma of the Duchess sounded like a perfect name! I had and still have the goal of making the profile fit the premise better, having a theme, but I still have to think of ways of doing that.

Aside from fairyecstatic above and blog-total and luesolar whom she already mentioned, I have mutuals with apparently clearer nick motives (which I could talk, but I'll let them if they want) and others that appear more enigmatic.

Mutuals with clearer usernames: @milihamada • @clairemari29 • @purpura-xiao • @livelovelarisa • @dancarvalho04 • @talitinha002 • @cute-drawings • @octavia-thewierdkid (not that I am calling you weird lol)

Mutuals with enigmatic usernames: @arcaneweaving • @blackwhisper • @authenssion • @jinniexiong • @lionsteelmaiden • @the-falling-ember • @cemntrht • @thecenteroftheheart • @hanzhengsan • @lepabrenkraljica • @machabre • @2pacula • @las-lus • @hkt-3-gipsy • @m0rbidgh0stx • @derpyskittlezz • @mrsnorrishater • @lfgwrites • @fleshywulffbitez • @cheeki-chan • @velocifer0 • @foocha • @swallowed-by-the-void

Mine's very simple actually. I like the exposed insides of machines and cyborgs or tech gore so it's just machine + macabre