[Fashion is nice but what about your naming skills?]

@Rikimaru.7890 said:

@notstephcooper.9852 said:I’m an entomologist irl, so I named all of my characters spider species; Phidippus audax, Argiope aurantia, Dysdera crocata, etc. Have considered branching out into other Orders (Diptera/Hymenoptera offer some v cool species names) but digging the spider theme atm.

Actually recently met an arachnologist in-game and was able to chat about spider taxonomy for bit as a result!

sidenote: s/o to whoever snagged Misumena vatia, Phidippus regius & Loxosceles reclusa before I could

Very interesting idea. If I may ask, do you select the names randomly or do you also select it based on behaviours and/or habitats of a specific species?

Somewhat random. At times it will be related to specific color-scheme I plan to make use of in Fashion Wars. Other times, such as with P. audax, I just like the species and want to use the name. :tongue:

Edit: I’ve also considered using names for certain proteins relevant to specific pathways I study (my work is biochem/molecular bio of venom mechanics) because some proteins have really funny names (looking at you Drosophila Toll Signaling Pathway)

[Fashion is nice but what about your naming skills?]

I’m an entomologist irl, so I named all of my characters spider species; Phidippus audax, Argiope aurantia, Dysdera crocata, etc. Have considered branching out into other Orders (Diptera/Hymenoptera offer some v cool species names) but digging the spider theme atm.

Actually recently met an arachnologist in-game and was able to chat about spider taxonomy for bit as a result!

sidenote: s/o to whoever snagged Misumena vatia, Phidippus regius & Loxosceles reclusa before I could