#aptonyme

[arsenicetvieillesenseignes]

Desroches, le tailleur/vendeur de pierres. Encore un qui n'a pas eu besoin de trop se creuser la tête pour se trouver un métier. Aptonyme quand tu nous tiens... Mâcon.

#aptonyme #enseignepeinte #desroches #pierres #granit #marbre #tracesdupasse #commercedisparu #vieillefrance #macon

[english-history-trip]

Oh, my friends. My good and glorious nobles. I grace you this day with what we in the biz call an aptonym, which is to say, a name uncannily suited to its owner.

Here we have a treatise, published in 1719, on a cure for gonorrhea. This is already funny because Penis. But ah my foes, and oh my friends. The author of this work. Is Doctor W. Cockburn.

#more naughty bits #18th century #DOCTOR W. COCKBURN #Courtesy of librarian extraordinaire Sarah Norland Park

[rouge-wall-enthusiast]

Let me know in the tags if more than one applies to you!

Inspired by many delightful polls from @inthefallofasparrow

#polls #hyper specific poll #hyper specific polls #poll #dghda poll #my polls #I think the references should be pretty clear to dghda folks #and hopefully it’s fun for other people! #dghda

[starry-bright]

For the OC ask game, 1 for Phoebe and 7 for Joy!

(oops sorry this took so long 😅)

1. How did you choose their name?(Phoebe)

So Phoebe is one of few characters of mine where I intentionally decided their names based on their themes/motifs! her full name is Phoebe Tinnes, which is a loose aptonym (literally when on a rabbit hole search to figure out this term 😂) of Photinus, a genus of fireflies; because Phoebe’s superhero gimmick was based on fireflies!

7. What attribute of them (some facet of their personality, their history, their look, or whatever etc) would you find most important to somehow preserve if they were transplanted to an AU fanfic? (Joy)

I mean, in every universe Joy is constantly making sex jokes and being 100% committed to the bit. But I also consider Joy’s past lives and her twin soul to be a deep part of her character! I toyed with thoughts about a real world AU where Joy would have DID, her past lives (and Irvan) being alters. I’d have to do a lot more research into the condition in order to do it respectfully and accurately tho 😅

#ocs #ask #Joy #Phoebe

[oflightningandstars]

It’s called the Pittfall Building. In a series with many pun names and aptonyms. Everything’s going to go fine, right???

#moth reads mbs #the prisoners dilemma #the prisoners dilemma spoilers #mysterious benedict society

[the-unseelie-court-official]

Hello, representative. May I request an appraisal of a name?

I first took up the name Anathema as a cynical aptonym, then as a mantle I clung to, and now it has settled to rest on my shoulders as many names do in time.

I enjoy the discordance of it.

In exchange I offer the first apple to fall from a tree in winter and the thorn of a rosebush that was uprooted years ago

You know I do get to all of the name appraisals eventually, there’s currently quite a backlog. Unless you’re by some odds the second anathema in my askbox.

It’s a funny name with a beautiful story, I have respect if not understanding for such a life.

[ihatecispeople]

ok i wont share my full last name but part of it contains the word haj and im just very sad ill probably never become a hajji haj for aptonym reasons bc the amount of ppl at mecca genuinely scare me. i wont even become an imam (<- is a hedonist) oh god ill never become a marine biologist either nor an ikea worker (blåhaj)

#ok maybe im doxxing myself here but the other part is very fun if it matched how long i last in bed (it doesnt) #the amount of shark jokes i got as a kid. in hindsight how didnt it make me the coolest kid on the block #ah the shark last name and the 'was born in a town translated to panties' evened each other out

[draftingtides]

watsonian explanation for bnha aptonyms: at some point people started differentiating people based on their quirks and it became their family names like how people used to differentiate people based on their profession and ended up with family names like "farmer"

#bnha #my post

[syssyadmin]

every time i hear 9-to-5 by mx dolly parton i am forced to remember being cast in my high school's production of the show as the aptonymed husband, Dick, and wonder who made that decision. and also if they were expecting me to put my spin on his character (making him out to be a huge sissy. big hit with the audiences). anyway it's just funny to think that my first (hopefully not last) time being a huge faggot onstage was years before i would ever come out as any sort of anything <3

#ttrpgs rekindling my need to roleplay. slowly. #someday i will be on a real stage being a real fag 💜

[sonictalismans]

does an actress on a medical drama having the last name "Apothaker" count as an aptonym?

[bobmorane]

Bois-donc chez Boisdon : l'ouverture du premier débit de boisson en Nouvelle-France

Le 19 septembre 1648, le Conseil de la Nouvelle France accorde à Jacques Boisdon l'autorisation d'ouvrir la première auberge au Canada. On peut alors parler pour ce tenancier d'un bel aptonyme, puisque son nom colle parfaitement à sa profession.

On sait même avec précision l'emplacement de cette auberge, au coeur du Vieux-Québec, à l'emplacement du magasin Simons, côte de la Fabrique.

La toile « La visite » de Pierre Laforest, représentant la taverne de Jacques Boisdon recevant une inspection surprise du clergé, est une commande de Peter Simons pour illustrer l'histoire du site, où une plaque commémorative immortalise cette auberge.

#Québec #Histoire

[graywyvern]

( martha heimberg on fb / jesus chairez on fb )

Little Syria.

"placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines" --@MobyDickatSea

Nornettes.

"aptonym"

turquoise steel inflection points my story sifts so much out

Barn Owl.

"Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs— something, anything." --EM Cioran (via @djp1974)

Revolutionary Letter. (via de villo sloan on fb )

#kvidhuhattr a-lipogram

[philoursmars]

Je reprends mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 52461 photos (oui, ça a encore augmenté !).

2003, Douai.

- “Aptonyme” : dont le nom semble prédestiner au métier. J’en ai trouvé un !

- Al et Audrey pour ses 30 ans ! Classe !

#souvenirs #douai #aptonyme #piquet #acupuncture #al #audrey #nord

[doolallymagpie]

idk, something about darling screams “this man wears sock garters”

#control remedy #casper darling #also that name is very much an aptonym

[posthumus]

cymbeline, william shakespeare // the left hand of darkness, ursula k. le guin

#once again. thimking thoughts #cymbeline #tlhod #parallels #my posts #also i do wonder whether you could dig more into the name parallels bc obviously 'posthumus leonatus' is PEAK aptonym #posthumus is a very interesting character in terms of his loneliness which his name obviously reflects -- comparable to genly's 'ai'?

[ljussangen]

32. Do you believe in star signs?

64. How consistent is your perception of time?

93. Do you draw meaning from your dreams, or do you disregard them?

Thank you for answering, I hope your day is well.

32: I do not really think of star signs for the most part. It is interesting and sometimes accurate, but other times it is far off. Some people use them to excuse their manipulative tendencies, or to judge people without knowing them truly. I do not have much of an opinion on them though. Nor do I mind if other people put a lot of thought and hope and time in them. As long as people realize that there is more to a person and their actions than their time of birth, I think it is interesting enough. But not really something I am terribly interested in. It is a tool, and nothing more. If you put a lot of energy into it, then you will get more from it than someone who does not. But it is not the only way to interpret someone. I find my own intuition and senses to be a better tool for myself, personally.

64: Time is relative. It changes according to our perception: how focused we are, how busy or free we are, the changing of the seasons, the darkness and light. Some days span on for an eternity, yet some pass in the blink of an eye. The future seems so far off, as does the past, and the present is always moving. What seems far off sometimes is relatively close, depending on how you choose to see it. I have never been one to care too much about the clock, or to focus on our modern measuring of time. Most days I do not even know what day of the week it is, nor the number of that day, just that the time is passing and we are moving cyclically through the seasons, that the moon's face is hiding or showing, and that the sun is once again low on the horizon or high in the sky.

93: Some dreams have meaning, I think. We often dream about things that we are thinking throughout our lives. Sometimes the imagery is a metaphor, other times it is blunt and straight to the point. Some dreams are messages from our higher selves, or our intuition, some are our due to our brain trying to work out some anxiety or stress, and some are just creative playtime, I think. It depends. Anything can have meaning if you choose to see it.

#aptonym #ask game #thank you!