The "What's a good name for this?" thread

What do you mean by "focusing strictly around a person's severed arm"? Is the arm an anthropomorphized character, figuratively or literally?

With regards to my last line of questions, I've settled on "overmouth" and "undermouth" as the default vernacular names, with "headmouth" and "clawmouth" (the latter referring to the claw-like appearance of the arthropodal mouthparts around it) as secondary vernacular names.

New question: I'm working on a race with Bizarre Sexual Polymorphism-type Bizarre Alien Sexes, modelled after such real-life sexually polymorphic species as the ruff and the side-blotched lizard. The sex system is technically binary, but each sex is subdivided into multiple morphs whose phenotypical distinctions include behavioral differences, particularly in reproductive strategies; in effect, the race takes "gender" out fo the "social construct" category and into the "biologically hardwired" one (notwithstanding the occasional abnormality; outliers do exist, after all).

The gender-morphs are as follows, with all names are under Translation Convention for convenience; italicized names are tentative placeholders. Oh, and for the curious, you can consider them as egg-laying mammals.

So with that said, I await name suggestions for each gender-morph, especially the tentative ones.

EDIT: Changed "beau" to "swain", added a bit to the femme morph, folderized for neater look.

edited 18th Aug '16 8:16:34 AM by MarqFJA

Well, the plot includes people who pick up the arm and wondering if they should use it as a backscratcher, spatula, or to wipe their butt with it.

Is the arm going to 'think' or narrate the story, or is it basically one of those stories about following the interactions of random people with an inanimate object?

The latter.

The Misadventures of a Missing Arm.

Update: Some of the gender-morph names have been changed after long hours of painstaking amateur research yesterday.

• Domme —> Virago
• Femme —> Modor
• Fille —> Nighean
• "Rinc" is now spelled "Rink"

Feedback will be appreciated.

Need an alternative title for a female dragon I was originally calling "the Eternity Drake." The thing is, drake is supposed to be a male noun. The female version is just cow, which I'm definitely not using. My current ideas are:

• Eternity Leviathan
• Leviathan Eternal
• Eternal Behemoth
• Eternity Titan

I like "Eternity Titan" - the others are rather long and thus rather... ungainly, so to put it.

How does "Walpurgisnacht" sound as a title for a story about an elven princess whose home country is a German-inspired Fantasy Counterpart Culture, and who rises over the course of the prologue to an Evil Overlord Villain Protagonist known as "Hexenkaiserin Walburga" (lit. "Witch-Empress Fortress-Ruler") and proceeds to wreck havoc on the world?

edited 20th Aug '16 1:54:40 AM by MarqFJA

Does she have a circle of other magical folk around her? The name "Walpurgisnacht" is usually associated with groups of witches/warlocks coming together. Though I guess it does have something to it that most people would just relate to witchcraft in general.

edited 20th Aug '16 11:48:03 AM by Kiefen

Well, she does gradually build a cadre of elite witch-queens to serve as her lieutenants and vassals. And her end goal can be summed up as casting an eternal "night" (in the metaphorical sense of the word) upon the world.

Looking for: A title (1-3 words, the shorter the better) for a concept fantasy mobile MMO. Natural/environmental theme, any language root is alright but something faux-Latin-ish and ending with "-ia" would be preferred.

Evolutio Mundus Natura

Saga Silva

Does Axis sound like a good name for a formed Neutral faction in a conflict of Order Versus Chaos? If not I will use CORE.

Well the word Axis will probably let most people think off the Axis Powers.

I believe that depends on the names of other factions. If all use physics/mechanics/mathematics-related names I believe the comparison would be unlikely (unless they are authoritary, genocidal and/or are Putting on the Reich). It also has more personality than CORE

i have a question, what do you call something that's a star that comes out of people's hearts when their happy or inspired? Before you say anything, my story takes place in a universe where almost every living being has a star in their heart. So, my main character has to use this device called hlide (hard light disguise emitter) to transform into his pop star persona, ruby starlight or his other personas in order to catch them all so that the aliens can repair their ship in time.

Stelladium? A portmanteau of the latin words for Star and Excitement (stella and stadium).

I'd suggest stellunculum or astridium, diminutives of Latin stella and Greek astron (both meaning "star"). The latter is Latinized Greek, BTW; the actual Greek form would be astridion... though I'm not sure if it should be astridion or astrodion.

edited 5th Sep '16 6:25:44 AM by MarqFJA

What would be a good catch-all term for all cases of Two Beings, One Body that are biologically possible, from conjoined twins to genetic chimeras and even anglerfish ^Explanation Simply put, males are incredibly diminutive and incapable of long-term survivial, and must find a female to bite into, then effectively digest themselves until they're reduced to little more than living lumps of male sex organs permanently fused into the female's body. They're on Bizarre Alien Reproduction for a reason.?

edited 5th Sep '16 8:10:50 AM by MarqFJA

What would be a good name for a Wes Anderson-style movie with a university setting?

(It's for an amateur photography project)

What would be a good name for a cruise ship going to Antarctica?

Hmm... "Aurora" comes to mind, perhaps.

Thank you. :)