How long have you been on DeviantArt? Since March in 2012!
What does your username mean? It means "two-tailed fox" in Japanese (二尾狐).
Describe yourself in three words. Tails-fan, loving.
Are you left or right handed? Right-handed.
What was your first deviation? My first deviation was My deviantART Story.
What is your favourite type of art to create? Well, I like making websites so if there's anything therein that counts as art then yeah xD
If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be? Vectors - I'm familiar with them, but I wouldn't say that I've mastered them.
What was your first favourite? My first favourite was Checkmate~ by GrowingLight... you know what, I just went ahead and set it as my desktop background right now ^^
What type of art do you tend to favourite the most? Well, I'm a Tails-fan, so... generally any art of Tails that looks awesome!
Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist? This is hard because I favourite art from all different kinds of artists... let's just go with GrowingLight!
If you could meet anyone on DeviantArt in person, who would it be? You know, I had a long hard think about this and I thought about all the people who were special to me, but it was all too complex... I will take something simpler, meet GrowingLight in person, say "thank you", say "I love you" (as any other human being), wish her well and if she wanted anything I could give it to her, and that would be all. In German if possible. I'll give her all my points right now (90).
How has a fellow deviant impacted your life? shdowhunt60 reached out to Furianu to help me.
What are your preferred tools to create art? InkScape.
What is the most inspirational place for you to create art? My room.
What is your favourite DeviantArt memory? Probably writing this journal.
As my username was "Miles--Prower", my bio used to say "Ich bin mir bewusst, dass mein Benutzername unkreativ ist... eines Tages ändere ich ihn.".
I've been contemplating usernames for quite some time, and it climaxed as in the last few weeks I REALLY wanted to settle on one unique username for myself, especially as I was buying domain names.
Let's go over the username ideas that I had, we're rewinding back now:
Vulpecular: I found this at phrontistery.info, and it's an adjective of a diminutive of "fox" in Latin. However, it was taken here.
Alopecoid: I found this at phrontistery.info, it's the Greek word for "fox" with -oid suffixed. I wasn't quite satisfied with the meaning.
Vulpecularity: Aha! A nominalisation of "Vulpecular"! Also taken here.
ChristFox: I thought that it'd be cool to do this fusion for a username, however, I wasn't satisfied with some unpracticalities.
LalLumbar: This means "red fox" in Punjabi, and I'm a purebred Punjabi. Now, I was deciding between "ChristFox" and "LalLumbar", and the indecisivity was peaking here. I made a username change request at OCRemix that I quickly neverminded. Several days thereafter, I painfully bought the domain name lallumbar.com in a desperate attempt to escape the indecisivity. It just didn't cut it.
NibiNoKitsune: Frustrated, I decided to look for alternatives, so I thought about how to say "two-tailed" and "fox" in Japanese, and I ended up with this, which means "fox of two tails". Whilst Tails the Fox and Japanese I really love (I love Japanese because of Tails actually ), so the meaningful part of this username was good (comparingly, I wasn't too sure about LalLumbar meanings-wise), the two unpracticalities were the lengthiness and the complexity (I liked how LalLumbar could easily be interprettable as a name but this is complexer).
Vulpinity: Nominalisation of "vulpine". Although the taken-ness was foreseeable, I wanted to see anyway.
On 2014.08.10, everything changed for me. Before sleeping the night before, I made a plan to reduce my browser tabs, so I made a wager with God that I would have <=12 tabs by tomorrow's end and asked for help, and I gamified & storified it a little to help myself. Why mention this? It has believable relevancy, as a few tabs were being held back by my username indecisivity.
One thing that always got me about "NibiNoKitsune", was why it had to have "No", and why it can't just be a compound noun like any other language can do, Japanese surely can't be this inflexible! My main way of researching how to say "many-tailed" and "fox" in Japanese was through nine-tailed fox. And lo and behold, on the Wikipedia page for nine-tailed fox was "Kyuubiko". I figured that "ko" was a different reading in compound, and Wiktionary confirmingly stated that "ko" was a Kan'on reading whilst "kitsune" was a Kun reading.
Basically I did a bunch of research then to clear up everything hereupon. 39 to Wikipedia, Wiktionary, various automatic translators, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Google (I even searched "39, Google!" so that they could track my thanking ), Sukotto of answers.com, Zack of hyakumonogatari.com, chopsticks of nma-fallout.com, deviantART, and FanFiction (the last two for corroborative example usages). (if you don't know what "39" means, see this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nour6a…)
Throughout all this, I was like THANK GOD EXTREMELY MUCH! My username indecisivity woes had come to an awful (full of awe) end I couldn't have asked for a more perfect username ^^ I was also really glad, as this problem had been holding me back for quite a while. This is also one of innumerable reasons why 2014.08 has turned all the badness of the first 7 months of 2014 on its head and been just perfect. I bought nibiko.com and also a one-month dA premium membership (just to change my username) on 2014.08.10.
Why is this the perfect username for me?
Tails-related and Japanese - I am most happy therewith.
It's so small - only six characters.
nibiko.com was available - this is a real privilege, as small domain names are frustratingly hard to nab (this is actually the smallest domain name that I own now).
It's available - on deviantART, as well as most places... which goes hand-in-hand really .
It's unique - searching "Nibiko" on StartPage gave me under 100 results.
This is truly miraculous, as if everything just fit in place with the username "Nibiko".