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derigueur July 27 2009, 00:18:34 UTC
A vacuum of such mighty proportions needs an epic, epic name.

I offer some suggestions.

If you feel its power comes from some primordial urge for predation upon these microcosmic invaders, perhaps the dinosaur formula would apply. Thus:

Mitovorus Rex! KING of Dustmitey DOOOOOM!

Or, if perhaps you see it more in the light of Discworld mythology, simply:

Death-of-Mites

Third option, inspired by the Robert E. Howard references above:

Hepa, The Dust-Devil, Slayer of Eyeless Horde, Unsatiable Hunger of Tapetaria, Whose Breath Quenches The Flame of Life Itself.

I hope that provides you with some meagre inspiration for your own eventual selection.

Also; Djimon Hounsou? Thulsa Doom?!?!?! Swoon!

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SO. TORN. kali921 July 27 2009, 00:24:57 UTC
Hepa, The Dust-Devil, Slayer of Eyeless Horde, Unsatiable Hunger of Tapetaria, Whose Breath Quenches The Flame of Life Itself.

I'M SO TORN. And I KNEW you'd come through! Out of all the people on my flist, I knew you'd be the one to step up to the challenge.

Death-of-Mites

Simple, Pratchettian, and true. Does that mean that Death-of-Fleas now gets a tiny Death-of-Mites on its shoulder?

Mitovorus Rex! KING of Dustmitey DOOOOOM!

ALSO a hot contender. You know, I have one of those Brother label-makers RIGHT HERE. All I have to do is choose and start tapping at the little keyboard...

...and there goes my night, as I'm paralyzed by indecision.

Yes. Djimon Hounsou as Thulsa Doom. If you look at the preview interior art of the mini, they've drawn Thulsa Doom to look as closely to Djimon as possible, which, even if the film doesn't pan out, is a better way to preserve your legacy in comics than, say, being poor Simon Pegg and having Darick Robertson immortalize you in Garth Ennis' The Boys as a hopeless bystander who is the brunt of ( ... )

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Re: SO. TORN. derigueur July 27 2009, 00:44:26 UTC
How could I *not* rise to this one? Naming is a vitally important task, and one that must be conducted with as much forethought and support as possible. You are unleashing *elemental forces* in your home! If you do not know their name, they may turn upon you...

You could always do labels of all your options and apply them individually. See which ones cause the machine to writhe and buck and which settle effortlessly onto its petrochemically-derived armoured shell.

As for Death-of-Mites, if I may simply paraphrase Jonathan Swift?

"So, naturalist observe, a Death -
Hath smaller Deaths that on him slay;
And these have smaller still to smite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum"

[Which of course leads me to conclude there must be a Death-of-Quarks out there somewhere...an idea both charming and strange.]

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In which I demonstrate my appalling lack of knowledge of leptons. kali921 July 27 2009, 01:01:58 UTC
[Which of course leads me to conclude there must be a Death-of-Quarks out there somewhere...an idea both charming and strange.]

Death-of-Quarks resides on Death-of-Hadrons, right? It HAS to.

Death of muons! And death of muons has to be a QUANTUM Death-of-Muons, right? Wait, no, strike that. Even the smallest and swiftest death can still be privy to the Grim Reaper and still be privy to an absolute state of unbeing.

Naming is important. Now, take me. My real name, that is, the one we don't discuss here but which you know.

My mother told me that I was named after my grandfather's mother, who was an elegant and cosmopolitan lady from Poland and who spoke...four or five languages.

My father told me that I was named after Queen What's Her Name. Who was a very unfortunate woman.

My friends tend to just tell me the following: "Fuck all THAT noise, your name totally sounds like a Old West gunslinger. YOU HAVE A GUNSLINGER NAME. Now, just get the gunslinger walk down and we're golden."

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Re: In which I demonstrate my appalling lack of knowledge of leptons. derigueur July 27 2009, 01:39:14 UTC
O.o ( ... )

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