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vulgarweedLooks that way!
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defaultlyric: Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
Very well. My college had a rule against "secret societies," which means of course that like every right-thinking person, I was a member of no less than three, and sometimes more. All of which were Pagan in some way and of course had considerable membership overlap. Of all of them, only the actual coven ever actually did anything. The fun of secret societies is in inventing the funny names and secret codes, really.
One of them was a Discordian cell--which, like all Discordian cells, was proudly disorganized. But that one had the best funny names. I took "Vulgarweed" out of a listing in the back of a Scott Cunningham herbal encyclopedia--yes, it's an actual plant--for my surname. At first my first name was "Absinthe" and then I thought that was too goth and pretentious (even though I was both), so it became "Absentia" so that any of my arguably-way-too-numerous bed partners of the time could be judged in absentia. And "vulgar" after all, only really means "common" and what is a "weed" but a hardy plant that grows where it wants, not where people tell it to?
It makes a splendid fanfic handle because it is a built-in shield against taking myself too seriously. Hail Eris!
Tag: Whoever wanteth! I'm learning a lot about people from this and loving it.
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defaultlyric: Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.Very well. My college had a rule against "secret societies," which means of course that like every right-thinking person, I was a member of no less than three, and sometimes more. All of which were Pagan in some way and of course had considerable membership overlap. Of all of them, only the actual coven ever actually did anything. The fun of secret societies is in inventing the funny names and secret codes, really.
One of them was a Discordian cell--which, like all Discordian cells, was proudly disorganized. But that one had the best funny names. I took "Vulgarweed" out of a listing in the back of a Scott Cunningham herbal encyclopedia--yes, it's an actual plant--for my surname. At first my first name was "Absinthe" and then I thought that was too goth and pretentious (even though I was both), so it became "Absentia" so that any of my arguably-way-too-numerous bed partners of the time could be judged in absentia. And "vulgar" after all, only really means "common" and what is a "weed" but a hardy plant that grows where it wants, not where people tell it to?
It makes a splendid fanfic handle because it is a built-in shield against taking myself too seriously. Hail Eris!
Tag: Whoever wanteth! I'm learning a lot about people from this and loving it.
