"Chaotic Good Spillage" (Art/Writing filter) Unfiltered.

[capri0mni]

This is the kind of entry I'd ordinarily post to my custom creativity filter, but this time I'm crowd-sourcing. So I want my whole circle to see it.

(poll on DreamWidth; same questions to answer on LiveJournal, via comments):

Poll #6455 My Zazzle Store!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 4

First Level: What word or concept root should my store's name have?

Something based on "Chimera" (Specific ancient Greek monster, any monster of mixed animals, any bizarre figment of the imagination)
4 (100.0%)

Something based on nickname I've had
0 (0.0%)

Something based on a common saying or idiom
0 (0.0%)

Level two A: "Chimera" based names I'm considering:

"Chimerae" (keep it simple)
3 (75.0%)

"Kimmeer-Eye" (or some other phonetic spelling?)
0 (0.0%)

Chimer-icons (alluding to emoticons and geekdom)
0 (0.0%)

Chimericles
0 (0.0%)

Chimeragons (alluding to hexagons and geekdom)
1 (25.0%)

Level Two B: "Nickname" based names:

Daffter Designs (My father called me his "daffter" because "daughter" should rhyme with "laughter")
0 (0.0%)

McGiggle's _Something_ (a volunteer where I first learned to ride gave me then nickname "Andelugia McGigglepus"
0 (0.0%)

CapriUni's _Something_
2 (100.0%)

Level two C: "Idiom or saying" based names:

"Off the Cuff" (alluding to conversation-starting and/or commentary)
0 (0.0%)

"[A] Word in the hand" (that just popped into my head, this moment -- for all the sayings on mugs)
2 (66.7%)

"Monsters, Myths, and Musings" (oh, my!)
1 (33.3%)

"Figments of Reality"
0 (0.0%)

"Beasts of Bedlam"
0 (0.0%)

"Cephlaquad" (based on my first design for sale; suggested by jesse_the_k)
0 (0.0%)

Just because Tickyboxes are Love -- Monsters that need more love and attention:

Gryphons
1 (33.3%)

Manticores
3 (100.0%)

Chimerae
1 (33.3%)

Hydra
2 (66.7%)

Sphinxes
2 (66.7%)

Basilisks
1 (33.3%)

Kraken
2 (66.7%)

Levithan
1 (33.3%)

Nixen
3 (100.0%)

Trolls
1 (33.3%)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Nixon I know was a monster, but what are nixen?

[capri0mni]

(Usually) Malevolant freshwater versions of mermaids and mermen, or animal shapeshifting versions of same. "Nixen" is one plural form of Nixie that I remember somewhere.

Wkipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(water_spirit)