lvne

I am the offering, and the fire which consumes it, and the one to whom it’s offered

I'm still doing it, I've still got a couple to go. I just paused in writing answers. Anyway: CAT NAMES! CAT NAMES!

I've done this by category because otherwise I'd take all year.

Food. There's (nearly) no item of food that will fail. All of these evoke a cat: Mushroom. Cinnamon. Clementine. Cupcake. Biscotti. Pumpkin. Pannacotta. (Radish.) Hit after hit after hit. Even though names like Momo and Mochi are decidedly oversaturated, I think they're still good enough to be highly rated anyway. What if you have a cat and they ARE just a little mochi? What else are you meant to call them???

I think generally "high contrast human names or titles" is its category here. So I like the dissonance between That's a Cat and a Big Convoluted Name or an Important Title, right? Like, a cat called Professor Terrence? Mr Merryweather? Very good.

Literary and mythological references can be good or they can be devastatingly overexposed, like all 481,850 cats that got named Loki or Luna (NB: sorry to any Loki/Luna cat owners reading this — statistically some of you would be). But I do like a cultural reference, especially if they're iconic but interesting. The more unnecessarily grandiose, the better. Agamemnon. Sir Lancelot. Morgoth. Nyarlathotep (the vet will not like that one, I fear).

Names that describe something about the cat. Paws. Whiskers. Mittens. Fluffy. Patches. Shadow. Socks. You know? This is a real workhorse of cat naming. I feel this is a very traditional but also respectable way to name a cat.

@thatlittleegyptologist

“I don’t find you that interesting.” / “You will.”

"I see his madness, and I want to contain it, like an oil spill."

"I let you know me. See me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it." / "Didn't I?"

"You cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love."

"I would have liked to have shown you Florence, Will."

“I don't know if I can save myself. Maybe that's just fine.”

“No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them.”

"You were supposed to leave." / "We couldn’t leave without you."

"I wasn't decided when I called him. I just called him. I deliberated while the phone rang. I decided when I heard his voice." / "I wanted to run away with him."

“Hannibal… I forgive you.” / “You dropped your forgiveness, Will. You forgive how God forgives.”

"Do you fantasize about killing me?" / "Yes." / "Tell me, how would you do it?" / "With my hands."

"I have never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him."

"Is Hannibal in love with me?' / "Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes. But do you... ache for him?'

“I need you, Hannibal.”

“If I saw you every day, forever, Will, I would remember this time.”

“And the bluff is still eroding. You and I are suspended over the roiling Atlantic. Soon all of this will be lost to the sea.”