Meme: Explain to us why you do the geeky things you do

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

Because it is Monday, it is raining, and I don't think we've done this one since 2008. Wording stolen from rocksthescarf.

Fill this out for each character. Or just one character. Or two. Whatever you want. Tell us the reasoning behind your choices for your character :D

1. My username is ______ because ______.
2. My journal is titled ____ because ______.
3. My friends page is called ____ because ______.
4. My default userpic is ____ because ______.
5. My birthday is _____ because _______.

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Juliet Darling

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

1. My username is twintuitionist because Juliet is convinced she has a psychic link with Jeremy.
2. My journal is titled Someday is Today! because it's what Juliet says when she's leaving her parents' house for the freedom of the big scary world in the pilot. Note: This escape attempt does not last long, but it's a nice thought! The subtitle is "The private world of a well-behaved twin" because the narration during the opening sequence on the show calls Jerms & Jules "the well-behaved twins" and "private world" sounded like something she'd pick.
3. My friends page is called Real People because Juliet has a whole thing about wanting to live with 'real' -- that is, not rich or related to her -- people.
4. My default userpic is this one (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/106912036/32476890) because simple, pretty, neutral. Not actually in character, but close enough.
5. My birthday is Oct. 24 because it was the original air date of the Jeremy-and-Juliet-turn-25 episode.

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Because it's Monday. Because my hiatus from the game will be over soon. It's not raining but sunny but I'm locked away from sunshine. So. Meme.

1. My username is childhood_taunt because it's the basis of what Matt will use for his alter ego in the future. Before Matt was blinded by chemicals, he spent most of his time locked away in his room studying. He was also forbidden to fight by his father so that Matt wouldn't end up as an "Uneducated Pug" like his dad. This made him a target from all the bullies in the neighborhood who sarcastically called him "Daredevil". So his childhood taunt became his superhero identity.
2. My journal is titled Matt Murdock because that's his name.
3. My friends page is untitled because I couldn't thing of anything clever
4. My default userpic is the one I used above because it's a fairly neutral expression that can be used for being amused, serious, etc. Very helpful if I'm posting a reply through Gmail.
5. My birthday is I forget because I'm lame and I don't think I set it up.

[suitably_heroic]

1. My username is suitablyheroic because when I run out of creative ideas for names I look at quotes. Plus it's a quote that's very Atton, coming off of three other people walking into shot making Badass Boasts-- cue Atton. 'And here I come in, saying something suitably heroic.'.
2. My journal is titled I'm good at shooting people, cracking wise, and pretending to know how to fight because I have a serious quote addiction, and that one's very Atton in terms of 1) describing him and 2) being part of a giant yarn of lies he's spinning (he's just had it pointed out to him that someone saw him using distinctly advanced hand-to-hand techniques that as a regular Han Solo-esque smuggler he shouldn't know. He bluffs it away with this).
3. My friends page is called When I open my mouth I'm usually lying anyway because quote again; he does have a tendency of lying to pretty much anyone and everyone, so it seemed appropriate.
4. My default userpic is the sinner one because it's one of the few icons of him someone's actually made, and the word 'sinner' really covers the load.
5. My birthday is not yet set because I am lame.

[whenshewasnice]

1. My username is whenshewasnice because... Natalie is supposedly Envy when she was nice. Yes. It comes from a quote from Scott, exclaiming "She used to be so nice!!" to Envy's boyfriend Todd before kicking him in the face.
2. My journal is titled you're the fairy bomberman and subtitled call me every damn night because they're both (unrelated) Nat quotes. The first is an admittedly less than nice barb at Wallace while they're playing video games with Scott, and the second is Nat's reply when Scott asks if he can call her tonight. So, basically, two sides to Natalie's personality. The first one's kind of too early for the Natalie we have here, though, but I like it.
3. My friends page is called how did you end up friends with that guy, anyway? because it's the only pre-Envy quote I have with the word 'friends' in it. It's about Wallace, again.
4. My default userpic is this because it just read to me like a Natalie pic even way before I apped her.
5. My birthday is February 15th because canon says it's in February, and I wanted to stick it close to Valentine's Day to have a reason to use Valentine as her middle name.

[endsthegame]

1. My username is endsthegame because I'm a pretentious bastard who likes the multitude of meanings you can extrapolate from it.
2. My journal is titled Just a military education & a flair for words because in... I believe Speaker for the Dead, there's... I think a discussion, between Jane and Ender, where it's pointed out that he's not exactly an academic scholar or any kind of superhero or someone with real credentials: he's just a guy with a military education who is good at words. Which I think fits with him at Fandom. (Ah, here we go, it's a Jane quote: "All your education was military, and the only other gift you have is a flair for words.").
3. My friends page is called When you were young because that Killers song has always reminded me of Bean/Ender (or even Jeesh/Ender in general; I prefer it as a Bean song, though) and so I associate it with people Ender's close with.
4. My default userpic is this one because sometimes I think I can make icons. And also because the AFI song 'The Boy Who Destroyed The World' reminds me of Ender.
5. My birthday is December 23rd because I always figured Peter for a Leo and I wanted Ender to be pretty much the opposite. I don't remember the rest of my reasoning, beyond not wanting it to be Christmas because OSC already gives Ender enough Christ parallels.

[forhisfriends.livejournal.com]

1. My username is forhisfriends because after gaining a few of them, everything Simon does is for his friends, and he would do anything for them. Covering up deaths included.
2. My journal is titled I'm not a panty sniffer. I'm not a pervert. because it's a quote from Simon, and he really is neither of those things, whatever Nathan may think it's funny to say. The journal's also subtitled When do I become this... superhero? because it's another quote, and he's still not quite sure about the fate that seems to be ahead of him, because he's not sure he can be the hero he's supposed to become.
3. My friends page is called For them. because see above in the username bit.
4. My default userpic is this one (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/109271567/33026656) because I like it, and don't need a reason better than that.
5. My birthday is May 13th because that's Iwan Rheon's birthday. Also oops, I forgot to do anything about it.

Surreal SaDiablo

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

1. My username is harpy_daughter because Surreal's mother was so full of power and rage when she died that she transitioned to one of the demon-dead, and is currently Queen of the Harpies. Not that Surreal knows that, yet.

2. My journal is titled Hey Little Sister from the lyrics to Billy Idol's White Wedding, because the subtitle used to be What have you done?. I picked it because Surreal is Sadi's little Sister, at least to him, and the long list of things she will do with her life is very 'what have you done?'

The current journal subtitle is Everybody dies but not everyone lives from Superchick's Cross the Line, which is a very Surreal-song to me.

3. My friends page is called Witches, Warlords, and Princes, Oh My! because I think I'm funny.

4. My default userpic is THIS ONE (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/110088891/25413181), because it's a neutral, wary look.

5. My birthday is unknown because Titian didn't exactly register Surreal's birth with the authorities.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

1. My username is trickydemigod because well Luke's a demigod and Hermes is the god of tricksters. At least for the Greeks. And also he tricks a whole bunch of people into thinking he's not an asshole for a while.
2. My journal is titled the lightning thief and subtitled a single choice shall end his days because it pretty much bookends the PJO series for him. In the beginning he's just the guy who stole lightning from Zeus and in the end he becomes more complex and you realize the whole Great Prophecy is about him and it's his sacrifice that saves the world.
3. My friends page is called ____ because ______. Look we're skipping over this because I never name my flist ever idk why
4. My default userpic is this (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/117405298/28123085) because I just changed his hair to make him look more his age/match up with movie Luke. I usually like to keep my defaults neutral and that's...sort of neutral.
5. My birthday is October 7th because idk, Luke felt like he'd have a fall birthday.

[ultron_junior]

1. My username is ultron_junior because It is one of Vic's many, many, many canon nicknames, and it establishes both the thing he feels he's atoning for and his tie to Marvel history.

2. My journal is titled My Mom was Mexican because it's a quote I may need to change. The full quote, which Victor delivers after being insulted in the middle of a fight, is "My Mom was Mexican, you racist dipstick ... and my dad was a machine" -- the second half is my subtitle, and I decided the "racist dipstick" business could be lost to the ages. As a whole it explains Victor fairly well, but the truncated version makes it sound a little like he goes around singing "La Cucaracha" all the time.

3. My friends page is called 0101011101010100010001100000110100001010 because at one point in canon, Victor gets knocked out and starts spouting binary while he's coming to. TV Tropes says the code translates to WTF. The above is the binary for WTF. I admit I am not hardcore enough to actually compare it to what's on the page. Anyhow, "WTF" struck me as an appropriate reaction to Fandom.

4. My default userpic is this one because it's one of the two most iconic images of Victor, he looks hot, and it has his name on it. What more do you want?.

5. My birthday is April 15 because his first appearance was April 2005, and the 15th is the middle of the month. I briefly tried to find the date the issue actually hit shops, but then I decided that was a tiny bit insane.

[bitten_notshy]

1. My username is bitten_notshy because I thought it was clever. And the nice part is, it works with the werewolf thing as well as it did when Jack was just a boy with a vampire fetish.

2. My journal is titled Emancipated and Quite Capable because it's how Sebastien describes Jack. The subtitle, "I'm Difficult," is how Jack describes himself.

3. My friends page is called Fellow Courtiers because random wampyr court references, for the win.

4. My default userpic is this one because Edward looks like Jack to me in it, it's a neutral expression, and I like the white-on-white.

5. My birthday is December 14 because the December bit is canon. The 14th is me aiming at the middle of the month again.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

1. My username is liarallmyown because when he gets accused of being a liar like his father Jace replies that he's his own kind of liar, thank you.
2. My journal is titled "you may have the face of an angel" and subtitled "but inside you are just like your father" because once Jace finds out his father is the eeeevil Valentine he gets a lot of comparisons to being like him and he struggles a lot between accepting that and fighting it.
3. My friends page is called ____ because ______. Non. Non, I say.
4. My default userpic is this (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/112675687/37921394) because it fits, what can I say? I don't get to use it often and it's a rare exception to my "keep defaults neutral" rule.
5. My birthday is May 4th because I have no idea and I forgot about his birthday this year. I always forget birthdays. Happy belated 16th, Jace, sorry I'm a flop.

[catchmeifyoucan.livejournal.com]

1. My username is catchmeifyoucan because it had just been purged when I was setting up his account and I lack creativity. Also my original intended username was a misquote and the correct version was too long, so I went with this one.
2. My journal is titled Frank Abagnale, Jr. because of that lacking-creativity thing.
3. My friends page is untitled because what did I just say?
4. My default userpic is this one (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/116041206/46583237) because he makes that face a lot and it's close to how he dresses.
5. My birthday is April 27 because that's when the real Frank Abagnale's birthday is. Even though it's annoyingly close to Topher's.

[halfman-lion.livejournal.com]

1. My username is halfman_lion because Lannisters are lions, and Tyrion is called "halfman" when he's not being called "imp." Not terribly creative, really.

2. My journal is titled I once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel.... because it's one of the things Tyrion says when he's "confessing his sins", and it made me laugh. The subtitle is Tyrion, son of Tywin because oh hai daddy issues. (And Tyrion is way more like Tywin than either of them will admit.)

3. My friends page is called A Great Judge of Character because quote again, this one from the show. It seemed reasonably friends-related.

4. My default userpic is this one (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/112457599/39663364) because it's neutral, and I like the super-saturated colors.

5. My birthday is nonexistent because trying to figure out how the Westeros calendar maps to ours gives me headaches. I doubt Tyrion is much for nameday celebrations anyhow.

[dollpocalypse]

1. My username is dollpocalypse because in one of the last few episodes of the show, Topher declares that since he instigated the end of the world, he should get to name it. 'Dollpocalypse' was not one of the things he suggested but it fits and rolls off the tongue better than his ideas, so there.
2. My journal is titled if i think i can figure things out, is it curiosity or arrogance? because it's one of my favorite Topher quotes.
3. My friends page is untitled because I am lame.
4. My default userpic is this one because he makes that face often.
5. My birthday is April 24 because that's the original airdate of the Dollhouse episode "Haunted," which is set on his birthday.

[district12baker.livejournal.com]

1. My username is district12baker because he's from District 12 and he's a baker. Look, all the book quote names are being used, do you have any idea how many people RP Peeta?
2. My journal is titled You here to finish me off, sweetheart? because I looooooooove that line. He's like half dead, covered in mud and he still has the strength to be sassy to Katniss and irritate her with his Haymitch impression.
3. My friends page is called ____ because ______. Nein.
4. My default userpic is this (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/116603096/47760123) because it's neutral and showcases he's blonde even though the majority of my icons has him as a brunette. That'll change once I get decent screencaps of the movie.
5. My birthday is September 1st because I actually put some thought into this, hold on to your pants. Katniss' birthday is in May and she is the complete opposite of a happy springtime birthday so I decided to make Peeta have an opposite birthday too since he's described as a "dandelion in the spring" numerous times. Also it's the day the Hogwarts Express leaves and for some reason I never forget that so maybe I won't forget his birthday like I do everyone else's except Luke's.

[hatesmoststuff.livejournal.com]

1. My username is hatesmoststuff because she admits in her wedding vows that she "sort of hates most things" and I didn't want that double-t because it looks awkward. So.
2. My journal is titled April Roberta Ludgate because I think you can figure this one out.
3. My friends page is called ____ because ______. Nope.
4. My default userpic is here (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/117223484/49318265) because this is a typical April face.
5. My birthday is May 13 because the Parks and Rec episode "The Master Plan" aired then and it's about April's birthday.

Stephanie Brown

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

1. My username is batwaffles because when I made the journal, I was thinking of playing a Batgirl-era Stephanie, since it's in her wonderful and sadly short-lived (damn you, reboot) Batgirl title that the whole waffle running gag takes place.
2. My journal is titled Robin's Not-Quite War Journal because it's an allusion to the way her internal narrative sequences are set up in her appearances in the Robin comic: it's a "Dear Diary" motif while she's Spoiler, and when she becomes Robin that changes to "Robin's War Journal." That not quite being the situation in Fandom, the "Not-Quite" got added.
3. My friends page is called -- well, I haven't named it, actually because I kept meaning to find a good reference for it and then forgot. I'm lazy like that.
4. My default userpic is this one, just because. No real reason. See above re: lazy.
5. My birthday is August 12, 1994 because it's the (approximate, I think; I couldn't get a concrete issue release date) date of Steph's first appearance in the Batcomics.

Cara

[wrongkindofsith]

1. My username is wrongkindofsith because we have ALL THE JEDI and meta jokes amuse me.
2. My journal is titled Mistress Cara of the Mord'Sith because I couldn't think of anything better. The subtitle is "Who Needs "The Force" When You Have An Agiel?" to continue the not-a-Star-Wars-Sith joke.
3. My friends page is called Friends because I am teh creative.
4. My default userpic is this one because it's vaguely neutralish, and she's carrying a backpack so it's schoolish too.
5. My birthday is unknown because Mord'Sith don't celebrate birthdays :'(.

Anakin Solo

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

1. My username is nonelikemesince because of a line in Fate of the Jedi where Ben tells Anakin's Force-apparition that since Anakin's death, there hasn't been another Jedi in the Order like him since. Which is a scene I absolutely love (there were so tears).
2. My journal is titled . . . um, it isn't, because lazy.
3. My friends page is called -- see above. Sigh.
4. My default userpic is this one (again, see above re: lazy) because it's pretty, okay?
5. My birthday is . . . I do not think I gave him one. This "lazy" thing is quite a theme.

[life_inshadow]

1. My username is life_inshadow because it's the first line of Tara's big song in "Once More with Feeling", and it fit where she was when she was coming in.

2. My journal is titled I saw a world enchanted because yet more song lyrics. The subtitle, spirits & charms in the air is more of the same.

3. My friends page is called Under Your spell because guess.

4. My default userpic is this one because it's neutral, and I like that her hair is up.

5. My birthday is Oct. 16 because it's on her canon gravestone. It's not the original airdate of "Family" or Amber Benson's birthday, so I'm not actually sure why the prop people picked it, but canon is canon.

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

1. My username is faithandscience because they're the two biggest influences on William's life
2. My journal is titled I assure you, I *will* get to the bottom of this because it's a quote that pretty much sums up what William is all about. The subtitle is Sometimes these things just... come to me because it's another quote, this time regarding how he solved a particularly unusual case.
3. My friends page is called While he's bloody annoying, the man is almost never wrong because of the following dialogue exchange:

Brackenreid: And he also said that while he's bloody annoying, the man is almost never wrong.
Murdoch: I can't imagine having to put up with this kind of behaviour on a regular basis.
Brackenreid: And yet somehow, I can.

4. My default userpic is this one (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/107685418/29084097) because it's somewhat neutral-ish and because I like it that's why.
5. My birthday is July 2nd, 1863 because the books' author says so (http://www.maureenjennings.com/?page_id=25).

Lex Luthor

[hasadestiny]

1. My username is hasadestiny because Lex has a destiny dammit!.
2. My journal is titled nothing because I haven't though of a good one.
3. My friends page is called Friends because again creative.
4. My default userpic is this one because it matches his header.
5. My birthday is 11th July, 1980 because canon for the year, Rosenbaum's birthday for the day and month.

[lockestheway]

1. My username is lockestheway because see Ender's re: pretentious, and I wanted a username that fell in with that same theme plus referencing his online persona a la Val's username.
2. My journal is titled "I'm being used by God, not by Peter Wiggin." because it's the first quote about Peter we read in the books; it really pokes at how he deals with people, especially when you take into account that it's a denial then followed by a dry, "Well, I bet Peter Wiggin sends a lot clearer messages than God does." (subtitle) That's descriptive of the way Peter got to power, folks. Also, it just amuses me.
3. My friends page is called ____ because ______. Peter doesn't have one of these, for a change.
4. My default userpic is this one because idk; it seems casually smug in a way that makes it easy for me to use it if I'm feeling too lazy to pick an icon. Plus while I know he's smoking, it also kind of looks like he's setting shit on fire, which works for me somehow.
5. My birthday is August 1st because Peter is so totally a Leo and I didn't want him to have a birthday too far into August.

Gabrielle

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

1. My username is ancientbschamp because I wanted to allude to something from very early on in canon (read: the first episode), and "notcyclopsfood" was far too specific so I went for the reference to her making crap up to talk her way out of (and into) trouble.
2. My journal is titled "Wait, You Mean I'm An Amazon?" (subtitle: "This Is Going To Make Such a Great Story") because again, early-seasons reference, from "Hooves and Harlots," when Gabrielle tries to save Princess Terreis's life and ends up being part of the tribe for her actions. I felt like it was a title that encapsulated a lot about her: the Amazon aspect, the bardic aspect, and the blundering-into-situations-by-accident aspect.
3. My friends page is called "While They're Telling Adventures, You And I Can Be Living Them" because it's another episode quote. ("Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards," thank you, Fame reference.) Seemed like a good quote for the friends page title.
4. My default userpic is this one (SEE, LAZY) because it's hard to find good S5/S6 icons for Gabrielle, or Gabrielle icons in general, and this was one of the nicest-looking fairly neutral-ish icons I could find.
5. My birthday is May 15 because I misremembered the original air date of "Many Happy Returns," her sixth-season birthday episode (in which Xena spends the whole episode trying to get them to Athens in time to see Sappho recite poetry because THEY WERE SO NOT EVEN BEING SUBTLE ANY MORE BY THAT POINT). It's actually May 14. Then again, her S4 birthday episode, "Takes One to Know One," aired on April 26, so I'm calling Yet Another Xena Inconsistency to excuse my inaccuracy. Nyeah.

Oz

[thefearwasreal]

1. My username is thefearwasreal because it's a quote referring to his team-building exercises that involve fake peril and real terror.
2. My journal is titled it doesn't have one because I was only going to play him for a summer session wtf happened.
3. My friends page is called Friends because see answer 2.
4. My default userpic is this one because it's the first icon I made for him and it kinda fits as a default expression.
5. My birthday is a sekrit because Oz.