Anonymous #2 9w

I can’t even be mad, I love Morel Orel and Scott Adsit as a VA lol

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Anonymous #3 9w

“Oh, you must be Bartholomew! We can just call you Bart, right?” “No, it has to be Bartholomew.” “…What? Bart makes more sense, though.” “No! You gotta say the whole thing—Bartholomew. It’s like A Tribe Called Quest.”

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Anonymous #4 9w

I do know a Cole actually, chill dude

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Anonymous #2 9w

the duality of Clay

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Anonymous #5 9w

Unfortunately I did take Basil off the list this morning :/ but Clay is still the number 1 pick so far!! The original list I had was more extensive and this was the list I had after taking a few options off

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Anonymous #5 9w

Not his name, but his last name is Claypool and that was my first thought when I saw the name

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

that’s chill, gotta narrow the list down one way or another. some great picks here regardless, always fun seeing how other trans people go about the process of self-naming and which factors end up informing those choices

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

btw, I like your username too. becoming “just some guy” has unironically been one of the greatest joys of being a trans man for me

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

oh! I’d heard this guy’s name before but I didn’t realize til just now that that’s the Primus guy (or that he was so handsome??)

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Anonymous #5 9w

Tbh only like 4 of these have real inspirations, Marshall came out of nowhere, and the rest were the result of me looking up the most popular names for men for each letter and picking my favorite 🤷

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Anonymous #5 9w

It’s honestly been great, it started as an inside joke with friends and it evolved to this

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Anonymous #5 9w

Primus is my favorite and Les Claypool is my inspiration for bass! (And if you want more, my personal favorite era of his (tied with this one and one pther) was his 1997 look for the Brown Album and it almost made me want to steal this haircut)

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

that type of process is every bit as interesting imo as being inspired by a particular person or character, cause then you’re operating off of an (arguably) even more personal relationship to aspects like the sound & meaning

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

I ended up picking a name from a movie I love without actually feeling any type of kinship with the character who gave me the idea. I’m a David Cronenberg fanboy and when I was rewatching Dead Ringers while looking to rename myself I was like “damn, ‘Elliot’ sounds so cute and dignified when Jeremy Irons says it 🤔” lol

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

I’m not really familiar with their sound but I hear them mentioned regularly enough in experimental music spaces to have respect for them by proxy + hot damn, bro has exactly the type of face that’s always inspired Goatee Envy in me

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Anonymous #5 9w

Definitely would recommend them. They’re definitely experimental for sure, and Les was named the best bassist in rock/metal music in a lot of magazines and interviews. They even bring upright bass in a few songs and they even have a few cover songs and albums (my favorite covers was Have A Cigar by Pink Floyd and The Devil Went Down To Georgia by the Charlie Daniels band and they recently released a cover of Holy Diver by Dio a couple months ago) And SERIOUSLY THO like I know I wouldn’t be to—

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Anonymous someguyjason 9w

—rock one but seeing this always makes me want to try

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Anonymous #5 9w

I honestly love that for you, it’s great!! That’s how I picked one of the names on the list tbh!!

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