names and other lists

lyra

[moonlit-floruit]

-°- floruit - the dates of a person's birth and death, commonly as noted on gravestones. -°-

hello! my name is lyra (leer-ah), and I like making lists of names and words that tickle my fancy. on this blog, you can find inspiration for character names, place names, names for real life, and pretty much anything else you can derive from a word or a root. lists will be tagged according to theme and purpose.

[masterlist]

aside from these, I love cats, reptiles, art, history, writing, and plants.

sources: cemeteries. books. word nerds' lists online. colour swatch sites. species identification guides. more to be remembered.

requests: open.

[tylerbutbetter]

The whimsical and diverse names of tumblr

[warmfuzz-ies]

@moonlit-floruit names mention

[moonlit-floruit]

Cemetery facts that might come in handy for writing idk (coming from the US and in reference to culturally Christian areas at least)

Graves are typically aligned roughly east-west, and bodies are buried with the head on the western side of the casket. This is because of a Christian belief that Christ will come from the east up on his return, meaning that a risen person will automatically face east. In turn, the Christian practice stems from older and varied European/Middle Eastern belief systems' worship and/or symbolism of the sun, leading them to bury bodies so that they would face sunrise. It isn't unique to those cultures and the cultures influenced by them, either; solar symbolism and the burial practices related to it are common worldwide. Y'know. Because the sun isn't exactly unique to one region.

The Christian intention isn't as much of a driving factor today, but cemeteries typically continue the tradition for aesthetic and practical purposes. For one, making graves face the same direction saves space. And two, it's just more ~satisfying.~ So you might get cemeteries whose newer parts face the older gravestones, burying all the dead with their heads on the east side, but still in a matching east-west alignment.

Clergy members were/are an exception in many cases, being buried with their heads on the east end of the casket. This is said to be because that way, they could face their congregation.

Caskets = rectangular boxes. Coffins = the type with a broader half for the shoulders. Coffins are more common in Europe.

Headstones can deteriorate in condition EXTREMELY quickly. A stone cleaned in 2024 be unrecognizable by 2026, obscured or discolored by lichen, bird poop, erosion, and simple bad weather. So if you have a character looking for a grave that was clearly photographer recently...it might not look so clear on the ground.

K thx byeeee I'll update with more when I think of them

[ladycreep-deactivated20201127]

[talkshows-deactivated20150818]

the anniversary of library paste man’s death is in four days.

[basketghost]

One hundred and ten years ago to the day. Amazing. Incredible.

[1dietcokeinacan]

RIP😔🙏📚🍯

[mel6ncholi]

"older men do if better" "i love older men" girl you're fourteen what are you doing

[muzzledspellcaster]

As a longtime enjoyer of whump and hurt/comfort, I have to say I don’t like the term ‘caretaker’. It carries to much real world connotation, medical baggage ect and feels icky. I get why it’s used bc it’s sort of a catch all term, since they can be anyone technically taking care of the whumpee. I tend to just use friend, rescuer ect, to avoid the term. As a hurt/comfort enjoyer, I propose ‘comforter’ something along those lines.

[erdarielthewhumper]

tbh as someone who's been around the whump community a long time as well and is maybe a bit stuck in my ways, it's also kind of weird to think about bc like... i remember when i started hanging out in these circles, that's... not really a word that was used? (nor was whumper in the sense of the character role, actually, i'm pretty sure, though we did call ourselves whumpers - usually for the character role you'd just say "villain", but also back then you used to see a lot more environmental/wilderness whump and other scenarios where there wasn't always necessarily anyone actively purposefully inflicting harm on the whumpee, the harm just happened due to other forces)

like, in the prompts and scenarios you'd see around, it would never be "caretaker" it'd be "medic", "teammate", "friend", "s/o", or whatever, something more focused on what the character doing the helping is to whumpee outside the moments when the whump is happening. Like the specific word caretaker wasn't really used at all when I was new to whump, though I couldn't tell you when it started being common

tbh i think i kinda preferred things that way, too, though for me that's less because the word itself feels icky and more because i do actually like that specificity, i'm very much interested in who the characters are to each other outside of the context of one of them being hurt and vulnerable and in need of help or comfort, and how what they are to each other colors the dynamic when one (or both) characters are hurt and need all that

[yet-another-heathen]

I think a lot of that shift has happened because people have gradually taken "whumpee", "whumper", and "caretaker" to be rigid archetypes, rather than temporary, situational descriptors.

Your last paragraph really hit the nail on the head.

A lot of what makes whump compelling as a storytelling device gets lost when these dynamics stop shifting. A medic who sometimes gets hurt themself, who gets too stressed and turns snappy when they shouldn't, and still has a bond with the victim where they mutually support one another when no one else does is far, far more intriguing than 'the one whose role is to be a one-way, endless source of comfort-giving, full stop'.

For as much as whump is centered around empathy, the way these archetypes sometimes get used is very dehumanizing. It flattens the stories, and takes away so much. I wish we saw the average whump story focus more on characters—complicated, messy, multi-dimensional characters—than roles.

[lumpsandwhumps]

This is an EXCELLENT breakdown and I’d add that this type of flattening has become really prevalent across all media and fandom over the past decade.

There has been a noticeable shift towards “tropification” of stories. Like, I was a fan of TVTropes back in its heyday but this is an extreme. It feels like now people are actively seeking out specific tropes and creating based almost solely on strict interpretations of those tropes. And with that has come a certain subset of folks who seem to get upset or even offended when their preferred tropes aren’t “done right” or don’t go the way they want or expect.

(Caveat: I’m not saying this mindset didn’t exist before, but the predominant way fandom operates nowadays is strongly influenced by this sentiment in a way that it wasn’t before.)

Tropes aren’t rules. They’re not even guidelines. They’re just patterns that repeat across stories.

No one should be beholden to these sort of strict archetypes - they’ve never been meant for that.

[defire]

Yes! This is why I tend to use a more specific terms even when I'm being general. It helps establish some context. And I really prefer that.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Pigment by Lefranc, 1927.

[junoinouterspace]

had a dream about my ex and now i have spent all morning missing him i need someone to bash my head in

[peachmoths]

Why would you think about him he was evil you dont miss him YOU DONT MISS HIM

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[yayculture]

[bothpalms]

Baba's domain 🐈 Collab with @ceeejus 🌟

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[moonlit-floruit]

name list: starting & ending with the letter A

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Aaliyah, Abelia, Acacia, Acadia, Acantha

Acherea, Achillea, Aconia, Ada, Adalia

Adalinda, Adamantia, Adamina, Adara

Addolorata, Adela, Adelaida, Adelina

Adina, Admiranda, Adora, Adorinda

Adrasteia, Adria, Adriana, Aelia, Aelina

Aella, Agata, Agatha, Agnessa, Agrippa

Agrippina, Aicusa, Aida, Aidana, Aizivella

Aja, Ala, Alanna, Alaia, Alaina, Alastríona

Alba, Albana, Alberta, Alcina, Alda, Aldara

Alejandra, Alesinda, Alessandra, Alessia

Alethea, Aletta, Alexa, Alexandra, Alexandria

Alexandrina, Alexia, Alia, Aliana, Alicia, Alida

Alireza, Alita, Aliva, Allegra, Alma, Alodia

Alondra, Alora, Aloysia, Alphonsa, Altabella

Altagracia, Althea, Alva, Alverda, Alvira,

Alwilda, Aluna, Alyssa, Ama, Amabilia

Amadora, Amalia, Amanda, Amara

Amarantha, Amata, Amaya, Ambrosia

Amelia, Ameria, Amika, Amina, Aminata

Amira, Amora, Ana, Anamaria, Anastasia

Anatolia, Anca, Anda, Andra, Andrada

Andrea, Andromeda, Angela, Angelica

Angelina, Anima, Anissa, Anita, Aniyah

Anjana, Ankara, Anna, Annabella, Annalisa

Annia, Annika, Annora, Anselma, Antheia

Antonella, Antonia, Anya, Apollonia, Apphia

Aquila, Aquilina, Arabella, Aralia, Araminta

Aravinda, Arcadia, Arcelia, Aretha, Argenta

Ariadna, Ariana, Ariella, Arilla, Arizona

Arjuna, Arsina, Artemisia, Aruna, Arwa

Arya, Asa, Asia, Asha, Asimina, Assunta

Asteria, Astoria, Astra, Astraea, Asya

Atalanta, Atalia, Athanasia, Athena, Atia

Atlanta, Aubriana, Audovera, Audrada

Augusta, Aura, Aurelia, Aria, Aurea

Aurica, Aurisma, Aurofina, Aurora, Ava

Avelina, Aveza, Avia, Aviana, Avicenna

Avila, Aviva, Aya, Ayala, Ayanna, Ayla, Aza

Azahara, Azalea, Azaria, Azélina, Azha

Aziza, Azolla, Azora, Azucena, Azzurra

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I think my favorites are Aizivella, Ada, Asimina, and Audrada 💙💙💙

Want more lists? Check out the masterlist!

[moonlit-floruit]

names starting and ending with the same letter (consonant version)

I'm trying to limit this to names/nicknames whose bookend consonants make the same sound as well as being the same letter, but even though most people pronounce Hannah with a silent H and Willow with a W that isn't pronounced either, I had to include them because they're just too lovely

Barb, Bob; Caradoc, Cormac; David, Desmond, Diamond, Donald, Drummond, Durand; Greg; Hannah, Havilah; Kendrick, Kerrick, Kirk, Latrell, Laurel, Lauriel, Lemuel, Liesel, Lilabel, Lindell, Lionel, Lisabel, Lovell, Lowell, Lunabel, Lyall; Malcolm, Mariam, Maxim, Melhem, Miriam; Nadeen, Nan, Napoleon, Nasrin, Natalyn, Nathan, Nelson, Neon, Nolan, Noreen, Norman; Pip; Rainier, Ramir, Ranger, Rayner, Reymar, Riomar, River, Roger, Rosaflor, Rosewinter, Ryder, Ryker; Septimus, Severus, Shields, Silas, Sirius, Solaris, Solis, Stellamaris; Tempest, Trent, Tybalt; Viv; Willow

enjoy 🩵

[want more lists? Check out the masterlist!]

[creekfiend]

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

[alipeeps]

[podcastwizard]

saw a comment that misspelled “kind gesture” as “kind jester” and am now imagining a beautiful world where we praise good samaritans by calling them kind jesters. good on you, you gentle fool. you’ve made the world a sweeter and sillier place.

[jesterbots]

“Larper” being used like “poser” is so annoying bc actual LARPers are cool as hell. Get me some armour and a fake sword too

[redhairandpronouns]

yall are so fucking weird about gnc people. a woman wears a suit and she's "conforming to the patriarchy". a man wears a skirt and he's Secretly A Trans Egg. have you considered It's Fabric

[moonlit-floruit]

name list: names starting with k (excluding the silent k)

[this is not an exhaustive list! Feel free to leave more suggestions. What are your favorites?]

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fem: Kaeina. Kaia. Kalaia. Kamala. Kara. Karen. Karina. Karla. Kate. Katelyn. Katherine. Kathleen. Kathryn. Katina. Katrin. Katrina. Katya. Kayla. Kellen. Kehlani. Kendra. Kenna. Kennedia. Kenora. Keren. Kezia. Kiana. Kiara. Kimberly. Kimora. Kirsten. Kollana. Komana. Kyla. Kylie. Kyra.

masc: Kael. Kaius. Kamal. Karl. Katherin. Kayden. Keanu. Keaton. Keenan. Keith. Kevin. Kellam. Keller. Kelmund. Kelvin. Kendrick. Kenneth. Kent. Kenton. Ketill. Kian. Kieran. Kilian. Kingsley. Kingston. Kip. Kirk. Koa. Kurt. Kyle.

neu/uni: Kai. Kamari. Kay. Kaylin. Keagan. Kelsey. Kendall. Kellan. Kelly. Kenley. Kennedy. Kerrigan. Kestrel. Key. Kim. Kimber. Kol. Kori. Kris. Kyan. Kyrie.

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enjoy 🩷

For more lists, check out the masterlist! :)