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My last prompt was from

edenfalling: There are many snakes in the world; why a krait in particular?

The short version of this is: Sometime in 2012 I unexpectedly needed a new username, but wanted to keep the same general style (the last one was a venomous snake, too), so I compiled a shortlist of good candidates and eventually picked this one.

It had a number of points in its favour:
* short
* no non-alphanumeric characters
* there are not only multiple species of snake called a krait, there are multiple species in multiple genera! Which opens up more options for icons
* I really really love blue animals, and some krait species are blue
* Rikki-tikki-tavi is a sentimental fave for me, and a krait is featured in it

All told, it's served me well! It's been my name for almost 9 years now - its 'anniversary' is next month - and I hope to keep it for many more. ♥

I've been neglecting LJ lately! However, I have not been neglecting DW, or at least not so much. The Foreigner read-along has been lots of fun! We'll be finished with the book on Thursday, and I sort of hope I can talk some more people into reading another one, or possibly reading Loveless along with me -- I do better brainstorming when I have people to bounce ideas off of. :D

Even more than LJ, though, I've been neglecting IJ. I'm starting to think about dropping it entirely, in fact; I suppose I should do a little headcounting first, though, and try to identify anyone who's over there and not on LJ/DW... maybe find out if they're now on one or the other. Apparently three journals is one too many for my brain to cope with. (Erm, yeah, "three" -- heh. We won't discuss JF... What with the continually-closed journal-starting, the wonky formatting issues I can't seem to shake, and the fact that of all the people on my watchlist over there, only one of them posts regularly, I'm essentially writing it off as a loss. The only thing I use it for now is posting private-locked snippets of whatever I'm bunnied by/working on at the moment, for backup and for inspiration.)

Journaling January: username

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