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Welsh names - Baby Names - Parenting.com - 0 views

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  • the tone
  • rhythm
  • history
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  • personality
  • It's not a major problem when they link their work directly to earlier stories.
  • A direct link might not always be desirable to readers
  • distracting
  • It's when you drop coincidental names into the book that things get bad
  • flourish
  • There are a number of names that have stopped being allusions and have become spoilers.
  • distraction
  • No one is going to be surprised
  • Step away from the spoilers
  • Unflattering Comparison
  • rarely subtle enough
  • Rarely can the piece of work top the name.
  • well-suited to the material
  • subtle
  • an expansion of the usual list of names used in fiction stories
  • too many shout-outs
  • an invitation to judge the material harshly
  • Killed By Overuse
  • minor character allusions
  • good the first few times around
  • thoroughly worn-out
  • the default name
  • tend to cast long shadows
  • literary allusions
  • The prohibition of names in fiction has to depend on context.
  • overly common names
  • creator names
  • what you call your main female character when you realize you can't call her Main Female Character
  • It has turned, hydra-like, from a name into a multi-headed monster
  • ubiquitous, and therefore meaningless
  • It's a way to make sure your main character won't make an impression on literary consciousness, but will go through the story with a serviceable everywoman demeanor.
  • just means a statistical blank
  • Samona
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Pen name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Some authors who regularly write in more than one genre use different pen names for each
  • An author may use a pen name if his or her real name is likely to be confused with that of another author or notable individual
  • Sometimes a pen name is used because an author believes that his name does not suit the genre he is writing in.
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  • Collaborative authors may have their works published under a single pen name.
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  • In an effort to make their characters more attractive without having to do the leg work of natural character development
  • superficial
  • It's when a trait exists more to make somebody stand out than to develop them as a character that it starts going into Mary Sue territory (unless it's Played for Laughs)
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  • the character for amazing stuff to happen to
  • fantastic romances
  • special powers
  • other characters will be drawn to her
  • all of her jokes are funny
  • all of her ideas are brilliant
  • trust her immediately
  • even if she hasn't done or said anything to make them feel that way about her
  • named after the author
  • Mary Sue doesn't have to actually do anything to be considered a good person, she just is good
  • she brings more good into the world simply by existing
  • A massive amount of time gets spent on describing her every feature
  • major plot points (that aren't solved by the new girl) are done entirely off screen
  • tends to appear in all of the works by a particular author
  • persuasive, regardless of the actual content of their conversations
  • her opinions are just better
  • She gets Purple Prose
  • The author takes personal offense at any criticism of the character
  • Friend to All Living Things
  • ither brave and cheerful (despite her past), or unnecessarily mopey and depressed
  • an unusual spelling of a normal name
  • Incorruptible
  • unaware of the possibility of temptation
  • generic Japanese name
  • the author will create a fan club for her own Mary Sue
  • aggressively ships the Sue with a canon character and makes a fan club for that.
  • Nobody will call her out on her abrasive, casually abusive behavior
  • Often results in name which doesn't mean quite what the author intended
  • she "puts them in their place."
  • her every action gets a heavy emphasis
  • Over a hundred illustrations of a single OC is an obsession.
  • Her "major flaws" will be stubbornness and a bad temper. These will only ever help her, never hurt her — because she's always right, so whatever cause she dedicates herself to with such stubbornness will be a good cause, and whoever she loses her temper with will deserve it.
  • New words get made up to describe her
  • combination Japanese/Western-type name
  • practically a six-foot-high neon sign flashing I'M A MARY SUE when it comes to fanfic
  • the author knows what's going on and only wrote the parts that he/she wanted to fetish-obsess over.
  • the name is inconsistent within their particular culture
  • everybody is too busy taking an interest in the new girl's life
  • Mary Sue claims she wishes she was normal even when there's no actual downside to her powers.
  • overly long, complicated, usually Meaningful Name
  • Insanelylongandhardtopronounce
  • Inexplicable and/or poorly defined abilities
  • When the character is off screen, if ever, the other characters are still talking about her
  • only there to make the character seem even more awesome
  • Clumsiness is a popular flaw
  • it is never inconvenient, and only ever embarassing in a cute way
  • if she isn't already skilled at something, she'll pick it up in a fraction of the time required
  • Magical powers similar to what the other characters have, only with the limitations removed.
  • A perfect singing voice
  • Extreme proficiency with an instrument
  • if it's a Song Fic, she'll possess the ability to compose her own lyrics and songs
  • Speaks several languages fluently
  • Skilled in a type of martial arts
  • random magical powers
  • Absurd natural athletic ability
  • excellent fashion sense, even if she's meant to be a rough-and-tumble, Tom Boy type who doesn't care about that sort of thing
  • effortlessly beautiful
  • isn't as high maintenance as other girls
Sunny Jackson

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  • Lee      English, Meadow
  • Leib      Yiddish, Lion
  • Leith      Scottish, Harbor, river
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  • Lev      Latin, Lion
  • Lex      English, Short for Alexander, Alexandra
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  • Evanna named her cats after Harry Potter characters: she has a cat named Luna and one named Dumbledore. She also had another cat named Crookshanks, now deceased.
  • She is a frequent visitor to the Harry Potter fan site MuggleNet
  • Evanna likes making beaded jewelery. She made the radish earrings that her character wears in Order of the Phoenix herself.
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  • she also made a bracelet worn by Luna when she attended the Slug Club Christmas Party. The bracelet depicted a hare, like her Patronus
  • She was given a hare and moon pendant by J. K. Rowling.
  • "Do you think about the film when you write?" Rowling answered "No", but that "the only actor or actress who has ever, ever intruded while writing was Evanna Lynch, who is absolutely perfect as Luna.
Sunny Jackson

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  • Reed      English, Scottish, Red-haired; slender piece of grass
  • Reeve      English, Steward
  • Reid      English, Red-haired, slender piece of grass
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  • Rhys      Welsh, Enthusiastic
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Lord of the Rings Wiki info

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  • There Melian came, the Lady grey, and dark and long her tresses lay, beneath her silver girdle seat and down unto her silver feet.
  • She had a child with Thingol, a daughter named Lúthien, said to be the fairest and most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar.
  • Melian's line of descent is the half-elven.
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  • Her name Melian is Sindarin for Beloved. The name derives from the Quenya "Melyanna", either "Dear Gift" or "Gift of Love"
  • Melian and Thingol thereafter founded the kingdom of Doriath in Middle-earth. Their daughter Lúthien Tinúviel, married the Man Beren.
  • Thingol
  • Melian
  • Lúthien
  • Beren
  • Galadriel
  • Celeborn
  • Elwing
  • Elrond
  • Celebrían
  • Aragorn
  • Arwen
  • Eldarion
  • Beren
  • Idril
  • Elwing
  • Galadriel
  • Elrond
  • Celebrían
  • Arwen
  • Aragorn
  • Eldarion
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  • Accio (Summoning Charm)
  • Accio (Summoning Charm)
  • summons an object to the caster
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  • the caster must concentrate upon the object they wish to summon
  • caster doesn't necessarily need to know the location if they say the name of the object to be summoned
  • also used as a quicker way to find objects
  • a quick and effective way of fishing
  • summoning charm is limited only to items and small animals, as it has been shown incapable to summon people
  • it is still possible for items to be enchanted so as to be impossible to summon
  • Age Line
  • Aguamenti (Aguamenti Charm)
  • Aguamenti
  • Alohomora
  • not effective on doors bewitched to resist this spell
  • open and unlock doors
  • Anapneo
  • Clears the target's airway if it is blocked
  • Aresto Momentum
  • Used to slow down an object or being that is moving
  • Ascendio
  • Lifts the caster high into the air.
  • Cave Inimicum
  • Warns of any approaching enemies
  • Cheering Charm
  • Causes the person upon whom the spell was cast to become happy and contented
  • Colloportus
  • will magically lock a door, preventing it from being opened by Muggle means
  • Colovaria
  • used to change one's hair colour and style
  • Depulso (Banishing Charm)
  • This spell is said to turn its target to stone
  • Episkey
  • Used to heal relatively minor injuries
  • Evanesco (Vanishing Spell)
  • Expecto Patronum (Patronus Charm)
  • Expelliarmus (Disarming Charm)
  • Featherweight Charm
  • Fidelius Charm
  • enables secret information to be hidden within the soul of the recipient, known as a Secret-Keeper
  • not even those who have the Secret revealed to them can reveal it to others
  • Those who have been informed of the secret by the Secret-Keeper are unable to tell the secret to those who are unaware of it
  • Finite (Incantatem)
  • Negates spells or the effects of spells
  • Firestorm
  • conjures a ring of fire
  • The caster is able to control the movement and direction of the flames with enough precision to strike specific targets
  • Partis Temporus can create a gap in the flames to allow safe passage through
  • Flame-Freezing Charm
  • creating only a gentle, tickling sensation instead of burns
  • Causes fire to become harmless
  • Geminio
  • Creates a duplicate of any object cast upon
  • Gripping Charm
  • Harmonia Nectere Passus
  • Causes the object/person in a vanishing cabinet to pass in its twin/other vanishing cabinet.
  • Herbivicus
  • Makes flowers and plants bloom in an instant
  • Homenum Revelio
  • Reveals human presence in the vicinity of the caster
  • Homorphus Charm
  • Causes an Animagus or transfigured object to assume its normal shape
  • Immobulus (Freezing Charm)
  • Renders target immobile
  • Imperio (Imperius Curse)
  • Places the subject in a dream-like state, in which he or she is utterly subject to the will of the caster
  • those who are strong willed may learn to resist it
  • Imperturbable Charm
  • Makes objects such as doors impenetrable (by everything, including sounds and objects).
  • Impervius (Impervius Charm)
  • This spell makes something repel (literally, become impervious to) substances and outside forces including water.
  • Incarcerous
  • Ties someone or something up with ropes
  • Incendio
  • Produces fire
  • Legilimens (Legilimency Spell)
  • Allows the caster to delve into the mind of the victim, allowing the caster to see the memories, thoughts, and emotions of the victim.
  • Liberacorpus
  • Locomotor (name of object)
  • auses the named object to rise in the air and move around at the will of the caster
  • Lumos
  • Creates a narrow beam of light that shines from the wand's tip, like a torch.
  • Muffliato
  • fills peoples' ears with an unidentifiable buzzing to keep them from hearing nearby conversations.
  • Obliviate (Memory Charm)
  • Obscuro
  • Causes a blindfold to appear over the victim's eyes, obstructing their view of their surroundings.
  • Orchideous
  • Makes a bouquet of flowers appear out of the caster's wand
  • Reparifors
  • Partis Temporus
  • Creates a temporary gap through protective magical barriers
  • Periculum
  • Creates red sparks/flares to shoot from the users wand
  • Permanent Sticking Charm
  • Placement Charm
  • Point Me (Four-Point Spell)
  • Portus
  • Turns an object into a port-key
  • Protean Charm
  • Causes copies of an object to be remotely affected by changes made to the original.
  • Protego (Shield Charm)
  • The Shield Charm causes minor to moderate jinxes, curses, and hexes to rebound upon the attacker.
  • Protego Horribilis
  • A powerful shield charm against dark magic.
  • Protego Maxima
  • A powerful shield charm against dark magic. Was so powerful that it did also disintegrate people that came too close.
  • Protego Totalum
  • Casts a shield charm over a small area that will not let anything pass through. Except for the Unforgivable Curses: Avada Kedavra, Imperio and Crucio .
  • Quietus
  • Makes a magically magnified voice return to normal.
  • Sonorus
  • Refilling Charm
  • Refills whatever the caster points at
  • Daydream Charm
  • Reverts minor magically-induced ailments, such as paralysis and poisoning.
  • Relashio
  • A spell used to make the subject release what ever it is holding or binding.
  • Rennervate
  • revives a stunned person
  • Reparo
  • Used to repair objects.
  • Rictusempra (Tickling Charm)
  • Scourgify (Scouring Charm)
  • Silencio (Silencing Charm)
  • Sonorous Charm
  • Sonorus
  • Magnifies the spell caster's voice when one's wand is pointing to the side of the caster's neck.
  • Spongify (Cushioning Charm)
  • Stealth Sensoring Spell
  • Detects those under magical disguise
  • Stupefy (Stunning Spell)
  • Supersensory Charm
  • causes the caster to have enhanced senses, or to be able to sense things they would not normally sense.
  • Switching Spell
  • Causes two objects to be switched for one another
  • Tergeo
  • A spell used to siphon matter from a surface, eg. blood, ink, dust, etc.
  • Unbreakable Vow
  • Causes a vow taken by a witch or wizard to be inviolable; if they should break it, the consequence is death.
  • Unbreakable Charm
  • Makes something unbreakable.
  • Undetectable Extension Charm
  • Causes a container's capacity to be increased, without changing the object's appearance on the outside.
  • Verdimillious
  • A spell that shoots green sparks at the end of the wand.
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  • fan's explanations becoming Canon
  • the crazy fan explanation happens to match the one the author had planned all along
  • Peeves uses the name "Voldy" to refer to Voldemort
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  • Rowling said on her official site that she "thought it was very amusing when [she] found a chat room full of people calling him 'Voldy'
  • The Draco Trilogy popularized "Malfoy Manor" as the name of Draco Malfoy's family home. Seven years later, the name was used in Deathly Hallows.
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  • Cal is utterly brilliant. He also has an awkward body language and very little regards to things like tact and the like, and the first line of his second book was, ‘Let me be clear. I understand very little, least of all the people close to me.’
  • Briefcase Full of Money: What Dr. Lightman purported to be trying to hide when he tested Ria Torres at the airport. After he and Dr. Foster end their hiring pitch, they leave behind the briefcase; when Ria calls them on the "forgotten" item, Lightman says nonchalantly that's her hiring bonus.
  • Last Name Basis: Characters address each other by last name more often than first name.
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  • Lie Detector: Dr. Lightman points out all the ways polygraphs suck. One of them involves getting a guy to fail the control questions by use of a woman in a sexy outfit.
  • The daughter specifically asks Dr. Lightman not to do any "covert" lie detection. She neglected to include "overt" lie detection as well.
  • Loophole Abuse
  • Cal and Ria's techniques of information gathering waltz into the distinctly unusual.
  • Cal has admitted to Emily that he loves Gillian.
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  • Van      Scandinavian, From the family of
  • Vic      Latin, Short for Victor
  • Vin      Latin, Short for Vincent
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Characters

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  • Aero      Greek, Air
  • Aiden      Irish, Fiery
  • Akeem      Arabic, Wise
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Lord of the Rings Middle-Earth

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  • BenjaminSon of the right hand Máfortion(Mah-fore-tee-on)
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Characters

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  • Kael      Irish, Warrior
  • Kell      Scandinavian, Spring
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  • Pip      English, Short for Phillip
  • Quest      Latin, Journey; search
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