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⌈ Secret Post #1819 ⌋


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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

19. http://i28.tinypic.com/2uho7bl.jpg

[trekkiesara.livejournal.com]

At least it's not their baby. I know someone who named their child Dexter after the fictional serial killer.

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

....

not even my friend the HUGE Dexter fan would do that, I think.

I don't think fandom names for kids are necessarily bad, but you have to like the name beyond the fandom.

[trekkiesara.livejournal.com]

indeed. And they have random Dexter merchandise up around his room....I am a bit worried for how he will associate his name with blood spatter as he grows up.

[checkerblob.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, the names of my pets aren't really a big part of my life. My pets themselves are, sure, but their names? Usually my pets just get named whatever name my family agrees sounds nice. If you want the name to have a little special meaning by using the name of a favorite character, why not?

[mskye.livejournal.com]

Oh, please.

[havemy-heart.livejournal.com]

I remember a secret very similar to this awhile back. Said the same thing on the secret: my best friend named her dog Arwen and she's not even in the LotR fandom. People name their pets names that they like. Who cares where the name is from? It doesn't mean they're obsessed with fandom.

[stuck4aname.livejournal.com]

I'd be more worried about people who name their kids after fandom characters.

But I think you have to remember that there's a difference between naming people/pets after characters, and just liking the name enough to give it to your kids and pets. I mean, all of my favourite names (ie. the names I want to give my kids someday) can be related to fandom, but I'm not really naming them after the characters. I just think the names are nice.

[(Anonymous)]

The only time it bothers me is if they name them after a character they're attracted to and write smutty fic/draw sexy art for. Because that just seems awkward to me. There's this one character who I love and want to write fic for, specifically him being roughly bent over flat objects and fucked six ways from Sunday by various other characters, but he has the same name as my brother, and I find it difficult to forget that fact. I didn't exactly have a choice in that situation, so I can't imagine willfully inflicting that kind of trauma on myself. DX

[(Anonymous)]

LOL I can see why that would suck.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe make up a name and write that, then find-and-replace with the real name when you're done writing?

[alice-alaizabel.livejournal.com]

My assorted pets/sims/gadgets are not going to be bullied for being named after a fandom character.

If I want a hamster called Dumbledore, that's what he's being called. He doesn't understand. Hell, he doesn't even know it's his name.

I agree with the people who say that it's better than doing it to kids. You need to like the name on its own, and it probably shouldn't be anything too unique. IE: If you wanted to name your son "Harry" after Harry Potter, that's fine because it's a common enough name that no one will connect the two (unless your surname is Potter, I suppose) but if you name him "Albus" for instance, people are probably going to make the connection.

This can also happen with names that aren't weird as such, but are fairly uncommon until a bit of media makes them popular. "Edward" isn't that uncommon a name, but if you had a son between about 2007 and probably 2013, say, it's a safe bet that a lot of other people will assume that you named him after Edward Cullen, even if you didn't. This is why I really wish Bella had been called "Sarah" or something"; Isabella is a lovely name, but I can't bloody use it now without thinking of Bella Swan. I'm just hoping that by the time I have a daughter (if I have a daughter) Twilight will have left the public consciousness enough that the connection won't automatically be made.

And I am really rambling on today. I am desperately trying to stave off sleep, is my problem.

Also, AWWW, THAT KITTEN!!

[icarian-ink.livejournal.com]

I think it's cool when pet names actually come from someplace definitive. I'm currently considering naming my next cat after a character in a Zola novel. Some people might think that's weird. I don't particularly care what they think.

(and I second the first comment - at least it's not a baby. It's different naming people.)

[cleverthylacine]

I named one of my cats (since departed--she lived to be 19) after a character in a story that I wrote, but I didn't do it out of great attachment to that character--who was a very minor character. I did it because I thought it was a cute name and I acquired the cat unexpectedly (she'd been abandoned in our apartment complex and I took her in).

[llrael.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess that puts the kibosh on the race my sister and I are in to each get a job, move out, get a black cat and name it Beelzebubbles.

[xxsomeoneelsexx.livejournal.com]

Dude, I named my truck Gwaihir, and I'm not even in LOTR fandom. Methinks you are worrying a bit too much.

[poisontea.livejournal.com]

Dude, a lot of pets -- and people, for those going "well at least it's not kids!" -- are named after fictional characters. My best friend was named after a soap opera character her mother adored; I was named after a character from Anna Karenina. This is not a weird thing, believe me.

Besides, when you name a pet a fandom name, you soon come to associate the name more with the animal than the character. I should know; it happened to me and my parents with Scheherazade, Pinklepurr, Mystique, Baron Humbert von Gikkingen, and Sam -- most of whom my parents named, not me. :P