What the name you call me says about you

[alias_sqbr]

This is a twitter meme but I was like 400 characters over because I am not cut out for twitter. As I said there, I kept thinking about doing this meme then remembering I'm trans and getting a little depressed, but it was overall fun to ponder.

[Variants on my deadname]: you either don't know I changed my name or have forgotten

sqbr: We met on the internet

ess...kewbee...arr? sqi...bber?: We met on the internet and this is the first time you've tried saying my name out loud

Square Bracket: You are taking a guess at what sqbr stands for

Square Bear: you found out what sqbr stands for, or are That One Friend From Highschool I Don't Talk To Any More

Satan's Quintessential Bagel Reamer: You are a member of the Cult of Dan usenet group time-traveling from 1998

Dr Sean: We met during my Phd

Auntie Sean: You are Livewareissue's son

SEAAAAAAAAN, Wei Wu Sean: You are moonvoice

muffin, cupcake, or, for some reason, highway: You are one of my Animal Crossing villagers

Sean: Everyone else

Comments

[lilacsigil]

...highway? I get lollipop but not highway!

highway???

[rdm]

And all lower-case?? Um?

No! Wait! I have it! "Animal Crossing" is only *part* of the name! The full name is "Animal Crossing With Dada".

Makes a lot more sense.

Re: highway???

[alias_sqbr]

Wait..no...I've got it! You're right, it was all in the title- ANIMAL CROSSING. Crossing what? THE HIGHWAY.

[alias_sqbr]

Right??

[pauraque]

My brain always wants to say your name is Senatus Populusque Romanus even though I know the letters don't go in that order. (And the B isn't a P.) Is it really Square Bear? Maybe this knowledge will help my brain!

[jesse_the_k]

+1000.

Even though your pi icon is how I recognize you the fastest, my mind throws up a helmeted person bearing a square standard pendant from a T-shaped pole.

(Ugh, Duck Duck Go just told me that fascists have coopted that symbol too. NEVERMIND!)

Forever Square Bear from now on!

[pauraque]

My understanding is that some white supremacists have tried to use SPQR as a symbol but it's not widespread (yet?).

[alias_sqbr]

Like this? (ugh to the fascists though)

I drew a Square Bear once if that helps your imaginings!

[jesse_the_k]

THAT'S FUCKING FABULOUS!

I love that fluffy white bear with square glasses and a pi-shaped ribbon! (You call it round, but I think it's closer to rounded-rectangle.)

[alias_sqbr]

:D

[alias_sqbr]

It is! Though given how much asterix I read as a child that may have subconsciously influenced my choice of abbreviation.

[jesse_the_k]

Ha ha ha.

For a short time* I had a brother-in-law; he read me Asterix, which makes the same amount of sense no matter what language one hears it in.

• divorce, not death.