I’ll start! I joined lemmygrad around the whole “SOSCUBA” thing, my name isn’t actually Jonathan. Duh. I was mocking the “spanish first name bunch of numbers” guys who were shitting on Cuba and pretending to be Cuban from Miami.

I’d like to hear your stories!

  • Arachno_Stalinist
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    My username is a mix between ironic pun and wordplay.

    Arachnid + Anarchism + Stalin

    Also I was low on ideas for a username lol

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    I think it was a New Yorker or Wall Street Journal article or something where they were humanizing Buttigieg. I wish I remembered more about it, I think it was either right after Biden won and he got a position in the cabinet or it was when Buttigieg was running for pres, but basically the reporter described the layout of his office and was like “he’s normal and not extravagant, he wears his hair in the style of Mike Pence, he reads newspapers, he keeps in touch with constituents, he has a map of Afghanistan’s minerals and resources above his desk, he has a framed picture of his husband, y’know, TOTALLY A NORMAL GUY” and I died laughing, I think they mentioned it a few times on Chapo or something and decided to name my reddit username after it and then I joined lemmygrad on the same name

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      Don’t you have a map of the world’s precious resources above your desk?

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        Just Yemen and Iran, and that’s only because my CIA agent friend told me there’s interesting pics of mineral maps to use as screensavers, pretty cool looking and innocent 😇

  • Nocheztli ☭
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    When first joining Lemmygrad I chose “Commie Beetle” because, well, I like beetles. Then I changed it to “Escarabajo Comunista” which is basically the same but in spanish. Now it’s Nocheztli, which is the nahuatl name of an insect used by indigenous people in Mexico to make red dye.

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    At first I chose Spanish Commie because it was simple and descriptive, but later on I started using Al-Andalusian since I’m from Andalusia and I perceive Al-Andalus to be kinda like an alternative to Spain.

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    It stayed from reddit and I didn’t bother to change it, it was originally named because of well, Kirby and whip because I like whips, and because of this image:

    And 1987 is because of the Bite of 87.

  • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩
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    Well, to be honest, I wasn’t actually sure what Username I should go with lol. They’re pretty hard to come up with.

    But I will say this, at the time I was still venturing /leftypol/ (not anymore though, place’s a crack den), and I loved its mascot (Catgirl named Alunya). I decided to combine it with “Nyanners”, a VTuber (that I don’t watch, but still, makes for a pretty punny name).

    And so there you have it, Alunyanners.

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    Interkosmos - Branch of the Soviet space program

    61 - 1961, year of Yuri Gagarin’s flight

  • Anatolianin
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    Hmm, I need some cool sounding nickname for this fan fiction site. Yeah, Anatoly sounds cool, but it lack something… Yes, this is ideal.

    10 or so years later still use it

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    My two favorite dungeons in Skyrim are called Mzuflt and the Tower of Mzark. So I fused them together.