Tenno, wake up. It’s time to put on the silly norg fish mask from cetus and make it look good.

I was making a silly joke on Reddit…

I saw a watch company use the name Omega, before I even knew it was the name of a greek letter.

The way I drove and the papers I used for rolling joints back when I was a teenager

At first I lurked on my boyfriend’s account. We had both left Reddit during the API debacle, but I wasn’t ready to rejoin social media yet, so he hopped on Lemmy first.

But as he shared links and news and memes with me, and I scrolled the comments, I started wanting to participate. The first few times I felt drawn to comment (but didn’t yet), I wanted to ask people what the reasoning was behind their thoughts. That stuff is interesting to me.

So when I finally sat down and made an account for myself, it was the first thought in my head. I haven’t found myself asking anybody about their reasoning since then, but I still like the name.

It’s an auditory pareidolia I often have, everytime someone says “courant d’air” (which is draught in french), I hear my first name.

It sounds cute.

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

School nickname

In Portuguese “zero hora” is the midnight shift, people started making jokes when I slept in class and the name got stuck.

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

I dunno, but people sure love calling me it all the time.

Stole it from a user on a pirate bbs I was a member of in the early 90s, Digital Underground

It’s from valarin (Tolkien’s language of the Valar)

https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html

Akasan is ‘he says’

-z suffix is a person’s name

So it’s basically ‘Teller’ (I’d say storyteller) in valarin.

The ‘h’ was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find

It means bare, naked, possession-less.