Names - Blog Posts
every bradley i've ever met in my life was a complete asshole
guyyssssss i just went to green acres and i found these adorable little fucks i need to name them. please. suggestions????
I don’t know what to answer cause my name is NOT gender neutral like at all. If a guy were to have my name people would stare at him weirdly.
Long story short tho I was named after a male stripper doing a drag performance.
for me I make up a name and I'm like "Oh don't worry, this is a placeholder name bc it's not the most amazing" and then fast forward to 3 months later and I still haven't changed and I can't because I GET SO ATTACHED and they wouldn't be the same without that name
I also see my relatives having names, or my friends, and I'm like NO I WANT THAT and then I get super conflicted (bc should I let them have it, steal it for one of my characters, or use it for a future kid I might have?)
Why is trying to name a new character literally the hardest yet best and most rewarding part of writing sometimes?
This makes me realize that my family has a bit of a unique thing. On one side of my family, peoples legal names and their casual names are different. From birth. My grandparents just decided that they wouldn’t use the legal (first) names they themselves had given their children. And I don’t mean they shortened the names, the casual names stand on their own. Some* of my cousins are in the same situation. It’s not a big deal, so I didn’t realize that most people don’t do this.
On other side of my family, some* people have a double name but just the first part. Which is not that unusual, I guess. Though one slightly chanced it, so it’s more to their liking, and another uses two (nearly identical) names, their original and a variant for their international friends.
I had also a cis family friend that changed their casual name in their 50′s. And I know of someone who thought their name was too childish, when becoming a teenager.
So yes! Don’t let your legal name keep you from using a name you’re comfortable with. You don’t have to feel uneasy when people call you. My examples are about first names, but the same goes for last names. Legal names are for legal documents, not much more. When you’re not doing paperwork use something you actually like!
* I recently realized that I don’t know the legal names of all my cousins, just the names they go by. So, ‘some’ might actually be ‘all’.
People take names and especially surnames so damn seriously and act like they’re written in stone but the big secret here is they’re all fake, it’s all made up. David Tennant picked out his name at 16 because his real name was barred from the actor’s union he joined on account of their No Doubles Allowed rule, and he wound up naming himself after Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys of all things, and now many years later his whole family carries on that same made-up name he committed to as a teenager. All names are made up and fake as hell, call yourself whatever feels right.
alr srs question. i want to name a new oc i have thats essentially a fantasy character. hes v much that soft looking outside but tsundere and a bit violent if that makes sense? anyway ive been searching and i came up w/ 舞英 (wǔyīng) and from what ive found it means dance; flower, blossom. i just want to check if thats accurate. i want a flowy flowery kinda name for him idk how to describe it. these are first names btw. i was also thinking 青蓮 (qīng lián) meaning blue, green, young; waterfall, lotus
what should i name this baddie?
quick description: shes a bad ass bitch who takes to shit from anyone. she grew up fighting and may or may not be a hitman. shes either is or will be married to a cute chubby sweet man who would never hurt a fly. they have a kid then she dies. ill prob make a link to one about him when i figure out how to art.
what should i name this baddie?
quick description: shes a bad ass bitch who takes to shit from anyone. she grew up fighting and may or may not be a hitman. shes either is or will be married to a cute chubby sweet man who would never hurt a fly. they have a kid then she dies. ill prob make a link to one about him when i figure out how to art.