21 days of DW

[clare_dragonfly]

So I am copying several other people by doing the first two days together... because I forgot to do this yesterday.

1. Why did you sign up for Dreamwidth?
Because foxfirefey kept talking it up, and it sounded pretty awesome. And in fact it is. And then she set me up with an invite and some paid time, which was also awesome.

2. Why did you choose your journal name?
I guess it would be a cop-out to just say "it's my LJ name." Heh. It does, in fact, have more of a story behind it than that. Basically, it all starts with Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block, which is one of my favorite books, even though I haven't reread it in years. My best friend and I discovered that book and loved it like crazy. We really found ourselves in it--she was Violet and I, of course, was Claire. So we started calling each other by those names. At some point, I'm not sure when or why, I decided that Clare was a better spelling and I would use it. (Saint Clare may have had something to do with it, because she was awesome.) And the Dragonfly part... well, it's partly to do with my love of dragonflies, partly to do with having wings, and partly just because Clare-Dragonfly feels like my name on some visceral level. It felt that way even before I started college and people actually started calling me Clare. The hyphen is fairly important; I use an underscore because you can't use a hyphen on DW, but I use the hyphen where I can. And "Clare Dragonfly" is definitely wrong. Makes me itchy.

Comments

[sweet_sparrow]

The itchy feeling is so awful. T_T I hate it. Clare-Dragonfly is a lovely name, though. It's almost like gossamer to me, a little thicker but not a whole lot and no gauze-iness, 's entirely opague. Except for the C and the D sounds. Those are more rocky, which gives it some nice sturdiness as well. ^-^

[clare_dragonfly]

Why thank you very much! :D