Things that are tiny [link] or as I like to call it Things You Can Squee Over.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Jan 21, 2011 9:20:08 am PST #18054 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Jessica - Jan 21, 2011 9:20:19 am PST #18055 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was named after Jessica Atreides (Dune) and my sister Megan was named after a character in The Thorn Birds, which just happened to be the books my mom was reading in her respective third trimesters. My other two sibs have family names. My middle name is my paternal grandmother's maiden name, which coincidentally turned out to be the branch of the family I most resemble.
My kids are Dylan Zaphod (Dylan by parental consensus, Zaphod after the President of the Galaxy) and Aeryn Sylvia (Farscape, DH's grandmother).
Jessica - Jan 21, 2011 9:25:36 am PST #18056 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh Jilli, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Tom Scola - Jan 21, 2011 9:26:40 am PST #18057 of 30001
hwæt
I'm so sorry, Jilly.
Liese S. - Jan 21, 2011 9:31:25 am PST #18058 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
When you named Aeryn, I was thinking to myself that you use fannish names like I use Japanese names.
So do my other friends, you guys might remember Jacob Treebeard. And there's Amelia Eowyn. And others, that I'm not thinking of right now, but I know I have lots of fannish names in my circle.
Kathy A - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:30 am PST #18059 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My brother was named after a sports reporter writing for the Sun-Times back in 1961, just because Mom and her first husband really liked the name "Kip." They thought to make it longer, so they fleshed it out to "Kipley." His middle name was after the husband's favorite uncle Hans, but after Mom divorced him and remarried Dad, when Dad adopted him it was Anglocized to "John."
ETA: About 25 years later, my sister was in a wedding for one of her best high school friends, and the ringbearer's name was also Kip. Turns out, the kid's father had gone to high school at the same time as my brother, and even though they weren't close friends, the guy just really liked my brother's name and decided to name his son after him!
Nora Deirdre - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:34 am PST #18060 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I have no idea where my name came from! Maybe I should investigate that.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:42 am PST #18061 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jilli, I'm so sorry. You, your dad, and all who love your mom are in my thoughts.
Beverly - Jan 21, 2011 9:32:55 am PST #18062 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Our deepest sympathies, Jilli, to you and your dad and to Pete.
My mom wanted something that kind of sounded like Velvet (Brown, of National Champion) that wasn't actually, thank goodness. The middle name is my dad's first, with an e tacked on at the end.
I do have stage name, pen name, and several online pseuds, thanks. No, I'm not sharing, that's why they're pseuds.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 9:33:44 am PST #18063 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have no fake names lined up. Which is why I just use my own name everywhere. I just registered somewhere with a fake name for the first time!