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Wednesday Lyra is super nice, I really like it and I am super psyched about a little goth composer kid.

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But I agree that it is a pretty "expectation-full" name that seems to go against his ideals about feeling. That is really interesting. I actually find observing the psychological motivation behind people's name choices really fascinating. Like my friend who's expecting a boy, her husband is wildly paranoid that his son will be "girly" and get beaten up so he's decided he needs a "strong" name so that he can be the one doing the beating up because that's so much better. But don't worry, Aunty Chloe will buy him poetry books and let him wear makeup at her house.

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But I mean names are really hard, is it even possible to make a name that honestly lets a person come to their own conclusions about it? What one person might think is timeless and versatile another might think is conservative and restrictive and blah blah blah.

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Also I love and adore the name Stanley and all Steves are asses (in my experience) so I'm glad a cool guy like Stanley is named Stanley.

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GOOD TALK