> > Erm, I see I have to do something about the gender-aspect of my Wolfspirit rubric. Shortening it to "Wolfie" obviously didn't cut it. I guess I'll have to take on a name transplant. We'll see.
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Oh. And just when I'd decided to prune it further to just "Wolf"... :)


> I thought Wolfspirit was cool, and Wolfie is just ... well, nothing in particular.

Well, yeah. I agree. The problem is that it's a bit unwieldy (I keep typing in "wolfsprit") and maybe a tad pretentious (or not. You tell me). It also doesn't shorten well. I have yet to meet anyone on any forum who *didn't* think I was a guy the first time I posted. While I personally don't mind if you think of me as an XY, it seems to embarrass others when they find out otherwise. In that sense, words have certain meanings, and names have power.

So I've been toying with the idea of taking on another alias. Maybe something along the name of the roman catholic saint "Thecla", perhaps. Thecla of Iconium was the saint who couldn't die -- fire would not burn her, wild beasts refused to eat her, men were stopped from attempting to, uh, molest her... You get the picture. Naturally her circumstances are considered unlikely and apocryphal. But it's a great story nonetheless. My concern is that that might be even more pretentious than "Wolfspirit" -- given the content of some of my postings! -- and it's probably already been taken numerous times in religious chat circles. No one takes on long names, fortunately. So if I can find a "female" name that is long, and shortens well (that part's important for me), and inherently carries the *meaning* of the wild "Wolfspirit", then I'm all for it.