#naming myself

[massacre-girlypop]

Person: “Your name is so well thought out and it fits you perfectly. It must have taken years to figure that out!”

Me, a transgirl: “Hahaha yeah, a lot of thought went into it for sure…”

Reality:

[lmsr-lilitu-sephiroth]

So apparently, all I have to do is call myself either Lilith or Lile to figure out the male or female bit.

That said, the moment I become nonbinary, this method falls apart. I’m tempted to come up with some other name for general nonbinary to use as an initial test. I’m thinking perhaps Lilu for this.

Because for whatever wacky reason, I don’t always trust my ability to visualize on its own.

Also I’m still figuring out the nonbinary pronouns I want to use. I don’t like they/them very much, don’t really know why. She/her and he/him are fine if I’m either female or male respectively, but I haven’t decided on what I want outside of those. I am thinking maybe xe/xem, though. Which was, to myself, unsurprisingly inspired by a discussion with my girlfriend. Also I have a thing for the letter x because of Kingdom Hearts and Organization XIII.

In fact, I think I’ll actually just try it out next time I’m nonbinary. If I like it, I’ll go with it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just figure it out from there.

[luna-actually-looneylovegood]

Laine

+1000 points for gender neutrality

+500 points for butch energy

+250 points for low outing risk potential

+500 points for not being my grandmothers name anymore

+5000 points for being my own

+200 points for being pretty to write

+300 points for sounding nice and one-syllable

+50 points for not being common

I’m really happy with this!

[idontknowhowtodrawmyself]

How about Ella?

Ever since my mom told me about the names they had in mind for me before I was born, I have really liked the name Ella, specifically for myself, as sort of a “secret name”. Maybe I should give it a try and see how it fits…

This was the immediate follow-up to this post: [x]. It was scary when I first asked friends to use a different name for me, but now it just feels normal and so, so right.

[problemed-motherfucker]

I wish I had another me to talk to cause I feel like im so much more pragmatic with other people's problems ;>

(The naming myself struggles is realllll)

[angstemperor]

question to anyone who's changed their name irl

have you gone through a period where a name fits perfectly and wonderfully and then the moment you tell someone for something serious (like actually introducing yourself) it's just. No longer your name? Or am I just that traumatized

[dem0litionl0v3rz]

Personal blog!

Okay so I HATE my birth name- I was named after my abusive bio dad and my mom is finally letting me rename myself!! The only problem is my name is already pretty unique (never met or heard of anyone knowing someone else by my name) and I want another unique name. I genuinley LOVE the name DeForest- I think its so pretty but honestly what do you guys think...