I accidentally named myself entirely after book characters 🤦‍♀️ (self.mtf)

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My first name came from The Numbers trilogy by Rachel Ward about 16 years ago when I was still 15 years from realizing I was a girl. I put it aside for when/if I ever had a daughter, but I wanted to try it when I figured out I was trans and my wife and I weren't planning to have kids, and it was just, right. My middle name came from For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn, which I read in January, then again in March. It was such an impactful book for me, so I love that I'll have it as part of my identity. I've been living with my first name for the last year, so the origin of it was well out of my brain when I settled on my middle name last night, but then the realization struck 😆

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[-] quantumgenderino 5 points 14 hours ago

I really just find it hilarious that I picked names from literature twice entirely independently 🤣 proof I'm a book nerd

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