Username Meme

[milieva]

I constantly wonder what the story is behind usernames, so I thought I would make a meme. I am sure some of you have wondered about mine at some point.

What is your username? Milieva

Do you use it on any other services (tumblr, fanfiction.net, etc)? Yes. I use this user name in various forms. Fanfiction.net, tumblr, Teaspoon, various forums and variations of it on Yahoo Messenger and Gmail. ETA: and youtube, though my channel's not that interesting.

How long have you used it? Hm… I want to say at least six years now. I can’t remember exactly when I changed it.

Does it mean anything? Beautiful place (see: second paragraph below)

What is the story behind it? I used to go by Mitsuko Hime on fanfiction.net back when fanfiction.net was rather small and my fandom at the time was only about thirty fics large. Then as the site began to grow, everyone was something Hime, so I thought I would change my name to something more unique. I had been working on a semi-original story at the time, and I had come up with a place name, “Milieva or Milievana” and thought that was nice and different.

Milieva was pulled from two words “milieu” and “vanya”. “Milieu” is a setting or place in which something happens and “vanya” means beautiful. So it was in essence to mean “beautiful place”.

I have gone by Milieva for some time on the net now. It has been shortened to Mils as a familiar name, and I have been known to use the nickname in my real life as well. I don’t like people using my given name. I’m strange like that.

Is there a fun fact about your username? Apparently it is a surname, though I am not sure of the origin. Which is funny because I use it as a surname in an original story I have been working on which is a revamp of the old one that this one originated from. It is also almost the given name of Einstein's first wife, Mileva.


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Comments

[bratflorida.livejournal.com]

I actually thought your user name might be your last name, which is what I usually assume when it's not something obvious.

[milieva]

Nope. My surname is bastardized German and starts with a W. I don't know that I have seen many that use their actual names in their usernames.

[bratflorida.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha...talk about bartardized German--my ex's last name (and Paige's) is Hempfling. Yeah, I've learned most people on LJ want their identity kept private. I came here to hide from Facebook, but there it's much more common to use your real name so you can be found. *puts mask back on*

[kilodalton]

I wasn't sure what it meant, but the -va ending reminded me of something Russian =)

[milieva]

Yeah, I've gotten that before. I made it up while I was going through a phase wher eI loved LotR and the Elvish languages. "Vanya" is Quenya for beautiful. Quenya is the susposed to be the original Elven language.

[jellybean728.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be where you lived.

[milieva]

Interesting. Where I lived. I'd like a place named that. Perhaps when I am filthy rich and can afford my own private island, yeah? ;)

[capemaynuts.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be a character from some fantasy novel.
Cooler then mine. LOL

[milieva]

Technically it is. Just not one that has ever been published, and it was only her surname--that she rarely ever went by.

My other one was unoriginal. Mitsuko Hime or Princess Mitsuko... Just a name I liked and a title. I did go by Mitsi in high school because of it thought.

[dsanti-queza.livejournal.com]

What your username makes me think of? Hmm... I'm not sure. Haha, I guess I got so used to seeing and reading and calling you that, so it never really occurred to me that I might have a picture in my head when I hear it.

But now that you mention it, I guess I think of MKR, and Cephiro, and Umi actually. It could possibly - actually, most probably - be because that was where I met you. But then, if you think about it, it does sound like it might fit in just fine as a place for somewhere in Cephiro - just that it isn't a car name, 'coz I hear that's where CLAMP got most of the names for MKR. XP

P.S. Yes, this post is good. I shall post this too~ Username meme~ <3

Kihana

[milieva]

Could do. You know... on of the stories in this universe the name comes from, actually started life as a Rayearth fic, and then gained a life of its own.

Yes, most of the Rayearth names came from cars. Ferio had a scar on his nose because CLAMP had a Ferio with a scratch on the bonnet.

Usernames are always fun.

[stillbrainfried.livejournal.com]

It sounded a bit Eastern European to me and I assumed it was the name of your great great grandaunt or some such...

BTW, I just friended you.

[milieva]

Hee. That could have been a possibility. Honestly, where usernames are concerned, anything is possible.

ETA: I'll friend you back, but be warned I am not the least bit sane. ;)