I've been dropping the "-san" from my usernames and using heytanuki for a while, and noticed that back when I signed up on meow\.social I used the -san

visually I love that name (no descenders! typographical bliss) but also

- it's Japanese and I'm not (young me thought a reference to the kids' rhyme was cool)
- it gets translated as Mr (it's not), & I'm done with masculinity for myself
- hey + my name is cuter

so I'm distancing myself from it