March 25, 2013
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New Name, New Outlook
First off I want to thank everyone for all the minis and helping me get enough points to change my name!
So goodbye forever_musing, and hello to thegunslingergirl.
Why that name? Well, firstly for those who will inevitably ask, yes I have seen/read the anime/manga and I loved it. It’s a nickname that was also given to me a long time ago and I really liked it. As I have shared before, I’m not really a girly girl, if I were to share all my interests and likes and activities and nothing more about myself it would probably be assumed that I was male (I tried it once as an experiment and I was right haha). Anyways, I’ve always liked that kind of image in my head, the no-nonsense, tough, strong type of girl. That and I do have a special place in my heart for firearms (but no, I will not get into any discussions about gun control, and if anyone thinks this username has anything to do with any of that mess well, you’re laughably wrong).
There’s also a lot going on in my life right now, and a lot of stuff coming up that I am just going to have to man up and deal with. I spent a great deal of last week just being a crying mess over it all. I whined. I complained (and many of you put up with it). But I’m done wasting my time dreading the inevitable. I can either let it get me down and render me useless, or I can step up to the task at hand and handle it the way it should be handled. I just have to accept that sometimes I’m not going to be strong enough, but I’ll be damned if I’m bested before I give it my all. I’ve been through so much in my short time on this planet, and I know I have a long ways to go before my journey is over. There will be times of joy, and there will be times of grief. There will be adventures, and there will be catastrophes. There will be memories I will hold on to forever as well as ones I will want to purge and never think of again.
That’s life. But I won’t let it get me down without a fight.Because I’m the gunslinger girl.
Comments (32)
a toast to a fresh start!
It’s interesting how we form impressions about users’ genders. A few users mistaken me for a girl. (I guess teapots, in general, aren’t very masculine.)
I thought you were a guy too, but it’s only because I mistaken your profile picture the top of a man’s balding head. It was only after studying it for more than a second that I realize that it’s likely a dog.
@Celestial_Teapot - Actually, my profile pic is a sloth (my spirit animal)!
@thegunslingergirl - Ah. I would imagine sloths make very cute but very slow metaphysical traveling companions.
@Celestial_Teapot - If you had not been a guy I would have been shocked. But then I always knew what the Celestial Teapot was. Your write in a very masculine style
@thegunslingergirl - I guess the profile pic is not feminine but your writing is. I am not sure what exactly feminine writing is, but it usually shows
@trunthepaige - masculine writing style = unadorned and aggressive?
I’ve never been good at reading tone and style online or in real-life written passages. (The SAT & GRE reading comprehension sections stole away most of my lost verbal points.)
@Celestial_Teapot - Exactly, very concise, blunt, zero talk of feelings. Not that a girl can not be like that. But most are not . I am blunt and aggressive myself, so there is more to it than that. No one seems to think I write like a guy
@trunthepaige - Heh– I’ve actually identified with your commenting style & approach. (Probably why I didn’t dislike you outright despite political disagreement. =P).
I think you misspelled it dear . . . . hehe kidding!!!
I like!!!
@Celestial_Teapot - The good old days of trolling the theologians cafe
@olwd - you scared me for a second! like really badly!
HEHEHEHE, sorry dear. hehehe, but kind of funny too. BIG HUGZ!!!
I am with trun on this one about you and CP. I knew you were a woman and would have been shocked if you were a man. I also assumed CP was male.
I like your new outlook on life. It is a good one to have.
@Erika_Steele - I figured it was pretty obvious here I was female. I haven’t tried to hide it here. I did my experiment on another weblog just for shits and giggles because I noticed on my OKC account that everything I listed was basically the same stuff all the straight males listed and my profile sounded nothing like the other females on there. It amused me. I would actually be surprised if anyone actually thought I was a guy here because I figured it was obvious that despite how much I want to be a guy, I’m not
I had a feeling you’d go with this. I like it! Props well spent.
What @Love_in_102 said.
What a relief! For a second there I thought you where another gun nut!
@thegunslingergirl - Dolla, dolla, bill ya’ll. http://i.imgur.com/jiPMSEV.gif
I like your new name!
@my_words_are_my_sanctuary - aw so cute! I love sloths!
@PorcelainDoll_xo - Thank you!!!
your new name is cool. i actually thought of the anime when i saw you on the top feeds and clicked on it. i never read you under the old name but i think you sound pretty cool though
GREAT new name and reasons why! YAY, you go, Girl!!!
I am rooting for you and believe in you!!!
HUGS!!!
Reminds me of Hellsing!
Use the new name to troll the ish sites.
I love fresh starts and I am 79. Wishing you the best.
frank
lol I thought your name was a play on the Gunslinger from the Dark Tower series that I’m reading! But, I think your story is way better.
@MyxlDove - I’m really excited to get into that series but I have to finish the books I’m reading first before I can pick that up. I can’t stand to not finish a book once I start reading it!
@HUMOR_ME_NOW - Thank you!
Great new name and good luck with it!
ur blog sucks dick jus give up already