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# Naming (Day?)
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On names, changing them, and JD leaving
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Points to consider:
* Initials
* The meaning of 'Madison'
* Jesse as first dog
* Keeping Scott - why, why not
* Clary and that baggage
* Author names (keeping MJSC as a pseudonym)
* Plurality
* Being weird
* Meaning of the name as a whole
* Coming up with names as a writer, all that time on behindthename
* JD story:
* Do I start from marriage? From dating? From his mother's death?
* I should try to keep it from just being a bitch session.
* But also bring up Jujube losing Zephyr and him.
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* Discussions in the past about him leaving
What text?
* Could do some Jeff VanderMeer texts? Like, there's Ghost Bird in Southern Reach, and there's the strange bird, and there's Borne who was named almost deliberately...
* Texts with weird names (esp in 'normal' contexts) that just treat them as normal.
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Names bear power, I promise myself, my characters promise each other. Names bear power and yet we are in so many ways beholden to them. They bear power over us, even if we don't want them to. They bear power over us sometimes *because* we don't want them to. We don't choose them, do we? At least most of us don't. The vast majority don't, even, to the point where the joke goes in trans circles, "Nice name, did your mom pick that out for you?"