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Huh.

Thoughts?

(selfie, no eye contact)

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Snake

Injun (I was not offended as it was in terms of affection, yes I know it is offensive, but I was not offended)

Gelharness

Subsidal quetzal

Manyskins

ML

K1kker

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I have been called many names that were not mine, e.g. Victoria, Vanessa, Vivian, Virginia, etc.
But the nickname that's stood out is "Miss V"

@thraeryn Several, but the two that come most readily to mind are "Bat" (after the gunfighter, for some reason), and "Perfesser" (because kids are jerks).

@thraeryn I have had so, so many. One of my online friends has called me Beavis for decades (yes, literally), and I have no idea why. He says that's just my name.

@thraeryn I was once in a play where five of us had the same first name, and three of us had the same first name - last initial combo, so I ended up being called simply "Buddy".

@thraeryn The only nicknames I've had were ones that came from online handles: "sol" and "wombat." (Wombat you know about; "sol" was derived from "solanum dulcamara," which I'd used on a BBS as a teenager.)

@thraeryn my cousins used to call me derivations of my name (Igor) such as Igo and Gige.

at school i was first "crazy scientist" — my personal career aspiration from a young age, but also by demeanour

later, much, much later, i was called "old man" — because, thanks to starting late, and then, basically never finishing, i was the oldest one in my class. but again, a lot of it had to do with my demeanour.

@thraeryn I've been called Roach a lot. A teacher called me rocketman for a few months.

A girl I don't speak to anymore called me Andy for several years.

And I've been drew or drewbie (or even 'rubie or scooby when kids couldn't say Drewbie)

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Banjo

although its turned into a real name since then

@thraeryn my little brother couldn't pronounce Elizabeth so he called me Ebeda (like EH-bed-uh) XD @demimom called me Bella for similar reasons, iirc?

@thraeryn leaving out any that are diminutives of my assigned name at birth, and any that I've chosen as my own names along the way, I've had two: Pedro (in the late 1970s and early 1980s, long before Napoleon Dynamite started asking people for their votes on Pedro's behalf), and Zeke (in the mid to late 1980s, but not for super long because it really didn't stick and I was okay with that, because I'm totally not a Zeke tbh)