frankenstein's meme #4

[moriendum]

4. What are the origins of your penname/username?

I have so many usernames because I'm not terribly attached to any and I don't care how people address me, so whatever works, works lol not to quote sunwoo but literally, my name is what you want it to be. *side moonwalks into the room*

moriendum comes from vivamus moriendum est (let's live, we're dying anyway). I was clearly very into my latin classes in college.

on ao3 I use gunwoong, which is the old testament ship name for oneus' keonhee/hwanwoong, back when people called keonhee "gunhee". it sounds confusing now since everyone knows the ship as "keonwoong" (hwanhee?) but I love calling him guni... he's just a little guni.


look at that hand! they're a happily divorced couple who sometimes like to revisit some old memories, okay
however! I've also used sessrumnir on ao3 (and sess as a nickname). it's the name of freyja's hall in norse mythology, because I'm vaguely interested in it. vaguely because I never actually studied it, I just really liked the 2~3 first seasons of history channel's "vikings" and read 2 viking books in college LOL I'd like to read/learn more, though.

and last but not least I adopted mun because my twitter username in 2019 was a reference to moonbyul, so moon -> mun -> 문 -> 🚪 (since that's also "door" in korean).

Comments

[adore]

i love reading about username origins :D

moriendum comes from vivamus moriendum est (let's live, we're dying anyway).

that's sincerely a comforting quote. <3

[moriendum]

me too!! I was even thinking about that yesterday clicking on a carrd and thinking how many different urls we see everyday, and how each and every one could have a specific meaning haha

and right, isn't it a good one?! <3 I wrote it flippantly but one of the most popular translations is "let us live, since we must die".

[greetingsfrommaars]

ooh this is cool! i remember realizing like months later that the accepted way to spell keonhee's name had changed, and i was so confused lol. even though his name hadn't actually changed, it felt like "what do you mean it's shaped different now"

[moriendum]

"what do you mean it's shaped different now" PLS that made me laugh LOL it really is shaped different though, it feels so different for some reason.

and it's cute that you were there to see the change 🥹 <3 I first heard about it because I had a friend who had watched broduce, so she was the one who introduced me to the ship (and therefore the ship name) in the first place haha