I have no special attachment to it, and I only registered it due to a lack of imagination. I’ve never had sex with any dead folk (or any live folk for that matter), and I’ve never reanimated the dead to do my bidding. I’m just not sure I like my name. I want a name that sparks conversation in chat rooms. Conversations that may expose my posts for the substanceless crap that they are, but more importantly show appreciation for the handle that appears above them.
So, should I change my name? Does anyone have suggestions? Mocking is, of course, expected.
Gee, I always thought is was a play on the word ‘necromancer’. You know, magic and spirits and things like that. Necrophilism never crossed my mind, well a little maybe.
I’d shorten it to Necromancer and avoid the confusion. Besides necromancer sounds cool and it removes any direct references to copulating with corpses.
I went through the name change thing too a while back (used to be whuckfistle).
I didn’t know you could change your username. I’d like to change mine, so that people would stop asking me if I’m Egyptian or a muslim. I’m not. The horrible truth is that I’m named after a John Crowley book and that I’ve always loved pyramids. In a non-sexual, completely Platonic fashion, of course.
The process for changing your user name isn’t causal; you have to contact the mods and stuff, and then sacrifice an unblemished bull for the Great Cecil.
Specifically, you need to email an Administrator. They’ve stated in the past, and it’s spelled out iin the FAQ, that you don’t need a reason to change your name once. They have no problem with that. However, to change it again requires a very good reason. It’s probably a good idea to think long and hard about any considered name change before actually making the request. In any case, good luck to you name-changers!
Considering that, (a) your moniker suggests that you romance the dead (and you don’t,) and that (b) your moniker is a joke on an evil sorcerer (which you’re not,) and that you have no attachment to it, I’d vote “ditch it.”
Nobody has ever taken my advice on name changes so far, so I’ll let you know that I spent 2.1 seconds to think of suggesting Take a wizard.
As I recall, it came in in second place in the Great Rename the Moderator Poll Thread (behind Czarcasm) – and, of course, we are not playing horseshoes.
