#name nerds

[knittingwithhighlighters]

OK y'all, let's have a battle of the names.

so it's Rodney Copperbottom (robots) vs Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona). let's goooooooo!

[sirchubbybunny]

In my ongoing series where I lament how annoying and hard it is to find a new name, I finally have a few written down. Now I'm just not sure what to go with if I stick to these.

Tumblr, I'm stoned and need some ideas while I wait to pitch these to my roommates. I'm still on the fence with keeping my first name, but if you know my other blogs, then you already know. There's some other names I had in mind too, but I can always use that as an alias or pseudonym.

Here's what I have so far. I'll include a default option for suggestions as well. I'm not in a huge rush to change my name just yet, but if the stars align, it would be great to have it changed either before the year ends or before next spring.

Some of these follow the namesake trend I've been going with for a few years, so feel free to call me out on being an absolute nerd for these. When I suggested one to a friend, they, a fan of the source material, loved it.

There's some figures I connect with that I'd choose, but for one reason or another, no combination of their name meshes well or sounds right to my ear.

I also genuinely thought about going with something closer to certsin corners of heritage and connect with those roots, but something about going with a name that's more aggressively Italian or Japanese as opposed to vaguely English, French, or whatever doesn't feel right to me for some reason. I'm also not Irish or Scottish, so I don't know if being a geek about something is worth it or it's not that big of a deal.

[alinacapellabooks]

Officially decided on the first and last names for the MCs of my next book, Night Of The Blue Moon! I went with…*Drumroll*

Ariel Gianapoulou

Solana Bellamy

As for why I chose them…Ariel is the name of one of Uranus’ moons, and Uranus is the father of the titans in Greek Mythology. Ariel gets her powers from Phoebe, the titan of prophecy, intellect, and the moon. Gianapoulou is the feminine form of Gianapoulous, which is derived from the Greek form of John, meaning ‘God is gracious’. Ariel is working directly with the titans, as well as Hades and Hecate. Also, she’s half Greek on her father’s side, and it felt wrong for me to write about Greek mythology without a Greek protagonist. When I wrote The Tengu And The Angel, I knew that the only way I could make the tengu imagery work was with a Japanese protagonist, so I applied the same principle here.

As for Solana, Solana means ‘sun’, and Solana’s magical girl name is Red Sun, which she chose just to match Ariel’s magical girl name, Blue Moon. Bellamy is a surname believed to be of Saxon, possibly French origin, which roughly translates to ‘beautiful friend’, which totally describes Solana. She’s known for being very, very naturally beautiful, and she’s a kind soul who wants to make the world a better place.

Ok I’m done ranting about my latest batch of silly gays now bye-

[eleanorskys]

Someone in my little sister’s first grade class is named Khaleesi

Help that child

[hearsayhorizons]

Is Snow a Dog's Name?

Most dogs in my Boston USA-area apartment complex have people names: Gracie, Willow, Brogan, Charlie, Stanley, Abbie, Frank, Anya, and my own Hector. There's more, but this post isn't a list of names I can't use for kids because they belong to dogs.

Frank's cohort is Zero, and there's also Lady the pitmix next door. And there's a beagle, Spot.

Hector is the first dog I've ever had as an adult; I wasn't bossing around Silver the mini schau when I was ten like I must the voracious, willful corgi now that I'm thirty.

I feel, though, that I wouldn't have the genuine monologues I have at Hector almost every minute we're together (it's dialogue if you count facial expressions)--praise, discipline, concern, information--if "Hey, Hector, does that squirrel look suspicious to you?" was instead "Hey, Spot."

I feel as though I speak to Hector like he's a person most of the time. A clumsy, goofy, sweet person who is mostly bark and stomach, but still a person, like a kid or a teenager who has yet to get it together. But if we'd named him Hoog (instead of using that as a nickname in my never-ending chains of Hector-Hec-Bug-Bugatti--Boog) I feel as though I'd think of him, and speak to him, differently. Like he'd be simpler, or that I'd have to be so to speak with him.

I would talk to him differently. Instead of "Good job, Hector, let's keep going!" I feel as though "Good, Zero!" suits as well.

Maybe that's a limitation on my part, a self-consciousness associated with the idea of casually saying Snowbelle. Anything is a name if you use it regularly.

Do Alaskans have more words for snow than Floridians, or does it just come up more often? Does using "dog names" for dogs put a layer of separation between us, or is that just my perspective from within The-Next-Dog-is-Hypatia Island? Or hell, can I just not see that separation because of who I am, and who Hector is, and my relationship with a different dog would be different no matter the name?

Maybe "Hype, come!" will be as natural as "Hec, come here a sec'."

I kind of doubt it.

[eddiemunsonappreciationsociety]

Help me name my vampire

I am writing a story about a witch and a vampire, the vampire is around a 100 years old, from a Nordic country and I have him physically described as the following:

Even through my irritation I’m taken aback by Fray. He has tanned skin, long chestnut hair pulled back from his face, plaits and various pieces of coloured string, stones and feathers braided throughout. He has a neatly trimmed beard that covers the bottom half of his face, but even with that I can see his sharp, angular jaw.

He has three big scars on his face, one from the top right of his forehead, through his thick, dark eyebrow, almost to his nose. Whatever caused it seemingly just missed his eye, the other two scars are from something different, like a claw, both on his chin, one slightly snagging the bottom lip of his perfect, pouty mouth. The perfect head sits upon broad shoulders and a thick neck, covered in ink, he’s adorned in a dishevelled suit, sleeves rolled up to expose thick forearms covered in more tattoos. I recognised some ancient runes. He looks like a Viking god.

He is seemingly a happy go lucky vamp but with a dark side, help me name him please 😭

At the moment I have him has Hendrixx Fray, nickname Henry but I’m already sick of it - I’m still happy with the surname.

I want something either Nordic or gothic feeling.

[hubedihubbe]

I've been dabbling in cartoon rodents, maybe some of you will enjoy them too!

[hinamie]

thank u canon plant nerd megumi for my life

bonus:

[phewgitoid]

v quick silly post of these loser nerds b4 i fall apart or sumthing

[redcallisto]

A really big post of just my star rail doodles (more below)

[buildoblivion]

[cobaltfluff]

started the metaphor refantazio demo and I cannot believe this is my experience (I love it)

[ashleyeveerson]

Haven't been able to think about anything other than the victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink and his 80's punk almost-boyfriend for a week, send help

[astronomodome]

Rendog’s cousin being named Renbob implies that ‘Ren’ is a family name and thus that Mr. Diggity’s parents named him Dog

[paintedcrows]

Tfw your [REDACTED] starts dating the guy who tried to rob you (context)

[starcurtain]

Hear me out. I know it's unlikely that Ratio would ever have been foolish enough to directly get taken in by a scam, but considering that we know:

One of the groups specifically tricked by Kakavasha before he joined the IPC was the Intelligentsia Guild

What he tricked them about was Tayzzyronth's Swarm remnants, the exact same thing we see Ratio investigating in his very first appearance in the game, and

The researchers were described as "extremely cautious"

I am surprised that "Ratio was at least somehow connected to the Intelligentsia Guild team fooled by Kakavasha before he was ever even a Stoneheart" isn't more popular with the Ratio and Aventurine fandom.

Like imagine being Dr. Ratio. You tell your colleagues, "This seems like a scam. Are you sure you should trust this 'local guide' you've made contact with? Tell me about him. A picture? Does this even look like an Egyhazan native to you? I won't save you fools from making idiotic decisions." (You end up having to clean up the aftermath of their idiotic decisions anyway. There is sand in places on your body you didn't even know existed before this. How mortifying for the Guild. For you, by association.)

Then, next thing you know, you get a mission briefing slid across your desk from your IPC connections. They want you to work with their new Stoneheart. You open the packet to see... that little bastard with the enthralling eyes who had your moronic colleagues scrambling in the dirt on a backwater planet for months. Apparently he's made a career out of fooling you your supposedly competent guildmates.

You run off to confront him. You never met him personally back then, but you deserve compensation for the idiocy you were subjected to nonetheless. He deserves to know how much of a pain in the ass he's been in your life already without ever having met your eyes--

He proceeds to shove a gun into your hands and tries to make you an accomplice to a suicide. Apparently, this is normal behavior for the man now called Aventurine. Somehow, it's supposed to prove to you that he is a sane and reliable individual.

Absolutely nothing in your life has been normal since Egyhazo.

You would like to have mundane problems, sometimes.

How do you keep ending up in this beautiful manic clever conman's orbit, and why, like binary stars, can you not escape the gravitational pull?