m2pt5:

petercottonster:

katimus:

sassiest-assbutt-in-the-garrison:

moniquill:

dorothy-cotton:

THE WORST PART ABOUT CONSTRUCTING YOUR OWN FICTIONAL UNIVERSE IS

FUCKING NAME

FOR EVERYTHING

AND EVERYONE

AHEM.

http://www.squid.org/rpg-random-generator

http://nine.frenchboys.net/

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_most_common_surnames

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Rebageling for reference.

Seventh Sanctum is one of my favorite sites for names, as well as just plan old google, although I try to avoid the Popular/Common Name Lists unless bullied into it by other people.

Also reblarging for reference. Could be useful at some point.

If I have not written to you before, it is owing to low spirits. I have not been able to take the pen, because it would have been dipped in too black a melancholy.

Mary Shelley, from a letter to Marianne Hunt c. April 1827 featured in Letters of Mary W. Shelley
(via violentwavesofemotion)

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

my favorite thing about the contrast between early christianity and ancient greek and roman religion is that the difference in the ways they think and talk about their gods is really similar to the difference between how dog and cat owners talk about their pets

early christians: this is our god he’s omnipotent and omniscient and he is better than all of the other gods
greeks: this is our party god dionysus he got into an argument with a bunch of frogs once and we love him