#naming things
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New goths are baby bats.
New punks are puppy punks.
So what do we call the newbies in the other subcultures? Grunge, emo, scene, metalhead... I always use "baby bat" as an umbrella term but we can get more creative than that. Put your ideas in the comments!
#alternative#punk#alt#emo#grunge#metal#goth#scene#metalhead#naming things#baby bat#puppy punk#baby punk#emo kid#q&a#questions#help#give me ideas#get creative#alt subculture#newbie#nicknames#punk rocker#rock and roll#rock genres#alternative rock#alternative lifestyle#alt fashion#alt aesthetic#alternative aesthetic
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So I’ve always thought, and it’s been reinforced by fanfiction, that Dick re-named all the gear to have Bat- prefixes (ex. The Batcomputer, Bat-A-Rangs, Batmobile, etc)
but I’ve been watching “The Batman” 2004 animated series and in one episode there’s a whole joke that Dick makes about Bruce and Lucius naming everything to go with the bat theme, and they refer to all the gear with bat prefixes long before Dick or Barbara join the Batfam,
So I just wanted to put that knowledge forth, because “9 year old names all of his gadgets” is adorable, but “20 year old picks bat themed names for all his equipment to match his mission to save Gotham in a bat suit” is absolutely hilarious.
#batman#bruce wayne#dick grayson#robin dick grayson#dick grayson robin#batmobile#batcomputer#bat-a-rangs#naming things#alfred is an accomplice either way
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A friend recently asked, among others, “how does one get good at naming a fic?”
I don’t have any good answers, because naming is hard. Really. (There’s a famous maxim in computer science that naming is one of the two hardest problems in that field.) Hopefully, maybe, like all other things writing-related, one gets better at it through practice, though I still struggle with it sometimes (there are some real head-scratchers among my fic titles).
That, unfortunately, is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem when you’re starting out. (I have no-so-fond memories of this. Not that I have a huge number of great names or fics to my name now, but you get the picture.) So maybe throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks? 😂
Seriously, though, naming is hard. It is often the last thing I do with a fic. It’s very rare that I have a good name for a fic before I start writing or even soon after. (There’s a reason I tag most fics here with a semi-descriptive phrase, like Roman Republic Hosie.)
Exceptions include my first fic, Have At Least One Totally Epic Love, which gets its name from a famous Hayley Marshall quote from The Originals S5 which in part inspired the fic, and, among others, my most recent, The One with Hope’s Wedding, which is a twist on the name of the Friends episode that inspired it? See a pattern here?
(There’s also a kinda anti-example, Two Scoops of Hosie Delight, where I had the title to start and tried to write a fic around it; it’s not a great fic.)
Sometimes an idea will come to me when I’m writing. In that case, it’s usually because I’ve made someone say something I really like. This is also my go-to option when I get to the end of writing and/or editing and still have no title: I look for a fun line or sentence. Even better if it captures something unique or descriptive about the fic. (As an aside, all of the Legacies episode titles are lines someone spoke in that episode.)
The other major area I try to mine for name ideas are things related to the fic’s content in a broader sense: the theme or subject, the mood, or something related to the description. I don’t have a good example off-hand from my own work, but let me dissect (from a reader’s POV) a title I really like from a fellow author, pins, needles & hexes by vitrisimbre.
This fic is a Hosie Hogwarts AU, and one of the things I really like about it is the dual meaning of “pins [and] needles.” On the one hand, “pins” and “needles” go well with “hexes” in a magical sense, e.g. poking dolls with pins as representational magic, while on the other hand, the phrase “on pins and needles” is a way of describing excitement, anticipation, and even sometimes trepidation. In this fic, the Saltzman twins are yanked from the Muggle world and thrown into the world of magic at Hogwarts, so Josie is experiencing a bunch of those emotions from that, and then again from a burgeoning attraction. There’s also a third meaning of “pins and needles” in English, which is that tingling of numbness in a limb when it goes to sleep—but I have no idea if that is relevant to this fic yet. (It’s a great fic, so you should read it!)
If you have a series, you can have a pattern or theme that carries through all of those titles. My Tales from the Salvatore Kitchen series features titles that are either—and often both—bad puns and food/dessert related, for example. The “model Josie/painter Hope” trilogy started with Hope painting a landscape, and that theme carried through with the titles: Landscape of Your Skin, Landscape of Your Heart, and the unfinished Landscape of Your Secrets. (The actual series name there, however, is the very uninspired, though descriptive, The Model and the Painter.)
tl;dr
Some good sources of ideas for fic titles, in my experience:
Quotes from the real world or other media, and riffs on them
Titles from the real world or other media (including song titles!), and riffs on them
Favorite and/or fun lines from the fic itself
Riffs on descriptions/subjects/themes/moods of the fic
Fellow writers, any other advice on naming fics, and how to “get better” at it so that you feel like you like your fic titles?
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My Mom let me name her car! Her name is Marina! She is a pretty sea foam/aquamarine/aqua blue.
Marina (the car) reminds mom of sea foam, and green sea turtles, so I discovered the turtle by the tame of Testudo Marina Vulgaris. Vulgaris mean common, like how Marina is a cutie on the regular, and Testudo refers to the Roman shield formation with the shield on top, also called the tortoise formation.
Lemme know if you want a pic of the car
Edit: here’s some pics
#yeah i ñame just about anything and everything#the ñ is a typo but idc to fix it#cars#car#naming cars#car names#naming things
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not an ask per se, just really looking forward to hearing Rie's story! I do tend to read her name in French, like "queen" :D
THANKS SO MUCH!!
her story is both very detailed and very lacking in detail ahaha we'll see how it goes, but I'm glad you're excited!! I'm also here to chat about any OCs, I'd like to get to get to know how they are in this fandom :)
And yes! It was hard to pick a real name, I almost went with "Roux" I think, but Reinette Rose seemed to fit the most after my research. And I like how Reine (even though Reinette is technically the diminutive, Reine is shorter, so I tend to use it as a nickname - Rie is pretty much the only channel through which I'm researching French if you couldn't tell 😭) fits too. Plus, a Reine Rose, or Queen Victoria rose, looks like this:
And I think that's very Rie-ish.
I talked a lot AAH SORRY! that's probably going to happen lots on this blog
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I need to come up with a bakery title.
A magical sounding bakery title.
Magick Dough
Bread & Sparkles
Mythic Desserts
ugh i dont like any of these. sad noises.
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guys
i have a phobia that doesnt have a name (fear of arteries and veins) so i get to name it. you know how the ppl who named the fear of long words were really mean about it? im gonna do the same thing. its called youwillbleedoutphobia
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There are two wolves inside me when naming things. One is a name from some ancient mythology with a long and intense origin and deep philosophical meaning that I have done extensive research on, or it’s Bob, and there’s no inbetween
#jörmungandr#Bob#shitpost#naming things#names#lol#random#i have two moods#there are two wolves inside me#there are two kinds of people
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Apparently I should not be given the ability to name celestial bodies.
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So happy that the BTVS fandom switched from using the term Jossverse or Whedonverse to Buffyverse. It centers the hero and the star and fuck that other guy. Hell yeah!
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I personally call them low-quality-rotating-thingies but any other names, like squiffs and burfs could also work for this genre
what the fuck is this genre of gif called. i had a collection of these kinds of images and i lost them all these are only ones i can find.
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#adding tags on the original post so curious people can find out who he is#he is my sona#his name is gator#he is a sharkgator thing (im not even sure#you can send asks about ot if you want#you can also see his full ref if you go to my pinned post and go to sona refs
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i propose that instead of pride month, we have queer year (queer people are treated like actual people all year long)
edit: @ilackhumanqualities wins best addition to this post
#queer#pride month#pride#asexual#aromantic#aroace#agender#aspec#acespec#arospec#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbtplus#lgbt+#lgbtq+#lgbtqia+#transgender#nonbinary#genderfluid#genderqueer#intersex#aplatonic#gay#lesbian#bisexual#pansexual#multigender#i don’t usually tag things with 40 billion tags#i started quizzing myself on how many i could name but so many got deleted bc of tag limit#described
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