Account name changed.

[mc776]

I've taken the advantage of the option to have all links to the old URL redirect to mc776 but I will be changing things where I see them.

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[steorra]

You did it!

[mc776]

Kinda wish I'd have been able to come up with a "real" name rather than just a unique-ish arbitrary string that's basically a serial number, but for now I'm just glad to have finally dropped the old handle.

EDIT: this looks a lot less bad than I thought. Though interestingly enough, only one person on my DW network has a similar naming pattern and he's also named Matt...

[mc776]

In case anyone's wondering why, I'll just copypaste what I said on Mastodon:

on a purely aesthetic level i like it less than "pulchritude"

in terms of its origins it reflects a lot of pretentious thinking i'd rather distance myself from

[mc776]

Three weeks later I'm still typing the first letter of the old name when trying to get to my reading page.

A name I've come to detest so much I've purged it from my browser history and deleted my old Youtube channel to avoid.

I'm still trying to think of a replacement that has a recognizable starting substring that can be entirely typed with the left hand on a QWERTY board.

So far the candidates have been delightfully inappropriate.

[mc776]

Here's the shortlist, for posterity:

reagent dregs
crater cadaver

barf carcass
cadaver crabs
the great wax cadaver
harshest dessert
crabs at the gates
desecrated twee
twee thrasher
caca crater
the hanged chad
trash twee aesthete
(f)artbarf
ragebarf
swarthy badger
fart reagent
cacasaurus rex
twee dreg
gathered dregs


EDIT: Final result provided on website.
Half wishing I were a girl just so I can make the "lesbiab" jokes what with all the times I've typoed it.

[mc776]

Am seriously considering revisiting these, keeping in mind why most of them were rejected at the time.