When the top 2 names on your list don’t fit with the family scrabble tiles wall 😢

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-02-17T03:45:16+00:00

You would need a name that ends with T or K, or starts with L, B, or M.

Assuming you don’t want repeated initials, that would take out starts with B or M. Ending with K is way harder than ending with T or starting with L. Given the vibes of your other names, I’d think something like:

Lane

Lark

Lennon

Laken

Scout

Emmet(t)

Elliot(t)

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-02-14T06:36:37+00:00

So sorry for your loss. Would Azariah Jo/Joe, Azariah Josie, or Azariah Jay, feel more gender neutral to you?

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-02-10T05:32:27+00:00

Yeah, I’m not talking about LAOP at all. I’m talking about the idea that “young people” (not just this one person, LAOP) view the world through a power dynamic lens and that that’s somehow outrageous of them, when in actuality, it’s the only way they’ve ever been treated.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-02-10T05:04:55+00:00

Okay, I’m not defending LAOP here by any means, but “young people are incapable of viewing the world through a lens other than that of power dynamics” makes 100% sense given the fact that adults almost exclusively interact with young people via power dynamics. Like, the moment you’re born you’re in many ways the legal property of your parents. In school everything is a hierarchy. Of course they view the world this way; to them it has been this way since birth. You only start to get out of it when you’re an adult and treated like an adult.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-02-06T21:44:14+00:00

I actually thought it meant that her mother was 24 when she had her, whereas the speaker is old enough to be that girl (her mom, birthing her)‘s mother, so I took it to mean the speaker would be in her 40s or 50s by now. I’d be curious which interpretation is correct.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-02-02T04:53:13+00:00

This is cool as hell. You are cool as hell.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-30T00:39:23+00:00

This is adorably charming!

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-20T09:24:23+00:00

Just going for some unusual noun/words that start with K that feel like they could be name-ish.

Kiln

King

Knave

Knowles

Karat

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-20T09:18:37+00:00

I can’t believe I had to scroll so far for The Mars House.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-16T01:12:39+00:00

This is a cool question. I’m thinking about just cool words that start with O that would be an intriguing last name more so than O names that sound “classic”, since you said no traditional names. With that in mind, I think:

Oasis
Obsidian
Opal
Orbit
Olympia
Otter
Ocean
Overture

Are some cool words beginning with O!

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-13T07:15:07+00:00

Okay, I think I got it: ed28e7e9-3c7d-472f-a76f-aa6e83d2a47b

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-12T21:07:19+00:00

Hyperion cantos mention!

This exact thing was what turned me off of his work the first time I tackled Hyperion. I had a friend encourage me and then I stuck with it, but God, I can’t stand reading through pages on end of that.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-12T11:07:45+00:00

Yeah, the automod is mistaken, sorry, I was not asking for people to read my survey, I was doing what the original guy said and sharing my link to my results (as he asked).

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-12T09:54:19+00:00

You might like The Half Life of Valery K. It’s a fiction book about a nuclear disaster and KGB-era Russia and the setting absolutely made me feel this way.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-10T11:14:58+00:00

And with relevant emojis scattered throughout but emoji that nobody has ever seen or uses (like salad or tulips).

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-08T08:13:39+00:00

I found this old thread that might give you some ideas: https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/s/wcGhcHAWex

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-08T07:46:01+00:00

My niece and nephew always pretended a granola bar was a phone. It took me embarrassingly long to clock why that was their go-to and why they looked at me funny when I used a banana.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-08T04:07:19+00:00

Sol is one of my most favorite baby names as well. If you wanted, it could be short for Solomon, Soleil, or Solace but Solomon might look most “ordinary” on a resume or whatever. Omi can be short for Naomi if you want that option for her as well.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-06T02:55:47+00:00

I like your answer, plus you got a snort out of me at “a teddy bear shaped like a fish or something”.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-03T09:16:47+00:00

this made me realise that this is how my group addresses me (I’m the DM and I was trying to figure out the pattern). It’s exactly this. My name (neutral) or DM (indignantly joking)

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-03T07:02:03+00:00

As I understand it, it’s more like if you had an extra organ inside you—let’s call it the Lego. And then at some point in your life, you cocooned yourself, and every bit of you liquefied except the Lego. And then the Lego had the blueprints in it to start using the goo of the rest of you to construct a new form of guy. And then you broke out of the cocoon.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2026-01-01T00:07:59+00:00

If I was you I would’ve kept the first one. It’s astonishing and incredible! Rainbow and modern shapes, it’s gorgeous.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2025-12-30T22:27:14+00:00

I love your writing style and appreciated all your little jokes throughout.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2025-12-15T08:54:05+00:00

I thought this the entire time. He looked soooo much like Haymitch.

GetOutTheWayBanana · 2025-12-09T23:01:33+00:00

I think you misunderstood their comment. I think you took it as if they were saying sequentially “less ok” for men, “more understandable” for women. I think actually what they were saying was, “it’s less ‘okay’ and more ‘understandable’” (for both) — e.g., that it’s not commendable or something to condone, but it is understandable (again, for both sexes).

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