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Please help me come up with a - clever name- for a local parents with kids meet-up group. We're goths, we don't have special snowflakes, we have coal dust...
Please help me name my new local group started because so many of our Phoenix-metro club goers have children and we're losing touch with each other.
We'll be getting together for family-friendly events and comprise of goths (of all varieties), rivits, dark punks, death rockers, and all our little spawns. Most of the children will be young, from 8 yo to newborns.
I'd like the name to tie in to our scene and to our locale. Phoenix is also known as Valley of the Sun.
Please help me name my new local group started because so many of our Phoenix-metro club goers have children and we're losing touch with each other.
We'll be getting together for family-friendly events and comprise of goths (of all varieties), rivits, dark punks, death rockers, and all our little spawns. Most of the children will be young, from 8 yo to newborns.
I'd like the name to tie in to our scene and to our locale. Phoenix is also known as Valley of the Sun.
Sun (son...baahaahaa get it?) Spawns?
posted by kinetic at 11:04 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by kinetic at 11:04 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
Let's see what I can come up with:
Dark Suns
Night Sky
Little Chollas
posted by Gneisskate at 11:08 AM on June 20, 2013
Dark Suns
Night Sky
Little Chollas
posted by Gneisskate at 11:08 AM on June 20, 2013
45 Cradle
posted by A god with hooves, a god with horns at 11:10 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by A god with hooves, a god with horns at 11:10 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
The Unkindness.
You know, like a group of ravens.
posted by One Hand Slowclapping at 11:11 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
You know, like a group of ravens.
posted by One Hand Slowclapping at 11:11 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
The Brood
Spawn of Shadow
Spawn of Orisis
Dark Side of the Sun
posted by runincircles at 11:12 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Spawn of Shadow
Spawn of Orisis
Dark Side of the Sun
posted by runincircles at 11:12 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Black Hole Sun.
posted by Celsius1414 at 11:12 AM on June 20, 2013
posted by Celsius1414 at 11:12 AM on June 20, 2013
I think you should try to fit the word "crow" in there somewhere. Then, based on the fact that a group of such birds is called "a murder of crows," your meetups could be Murder.
(Yeah, I kill myself. But probably nobody else.)
Also, a crow's nest comes to mind (the lookout from a ship), if only to fit in a reference to family. Maybe: Crow's Nesters?
posted by Michele in California at 11:18 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
(Yeah, I kill myself. But probably nobody else.)
Also, a crow's nest comes to mind (the lookout from a ship), if only to fit in a reference to family. Maybe: Crow's Nesters?
posted by Michele in California at 11:18 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
Phoenix Spawned
Off & Offspring
Dark Sun Progeny
posted by eralclare at 11:19 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Off & Offspring
Dark Sun Progeny
posted by eralclare at 11:19 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
The Groovy Ghoulies
Cthulhu's Family Time!
Although I really like "Off & Offspring"! :)
posted by Hanuman1960 at 11:20 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Cthulhu's Family Time!
Although I really like "Off & Offspring"! :)
posted by Hanuman1960 at 11:20 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Children of the Night.
posted by sweltering at 11:20 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by sweltering at 11:20 AM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
Black Ties
posted by Benny Andajetz at 11:23 AM on June 20, 2013
posted by Benny Andajetz at 11:23 AM on June 20, 2013
Less lame:
Corvus Phoenix (Et Hatchlings?)
Corvus is the genus for crows. It is a made up black bird that self immolates and is perhaps reborn with little hatchlings?
I mean take that and do what you want with it.
(I would still call the gatherings Murders.)
posted by Michele in California at 11:54 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Corvus Phoenix (Et Hatchlings?)
Corvus is the genus for crows. It is a made up black bird that self immolates and is perhaps reborn with little hatchlings?
I mean take that and do what you want with it.
(I would still call the gatherings Murders.)
posted by Michele in California at 11:54 AM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
In California, almost all of the goths in my social circle who have children refer to them as "baby bats."
posted by infinitywaltz at 12:07 PM on June 20, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by infinitywaltz at 12:07 PM on June 20, 2013 [3 favorites]
Eclipse (blocking out the sun)
Murder of Crows and Crowlets
That's all I got.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 12:17 PM on June 20, 2013
Murder of Crows and Crowlets
That's all I got.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 12:17 PM on June 20, 2013
Shady Characters.
posted by tilde at 12:27 PM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by tilde at 12:27 PM on June 20, 2013 [2 favorites]
Black Parasols?
Boys (& Girls) Don't Cry?
Playing-fields of the Nephilim?
Ithilien Chapter of the Sierra Club?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:35 PM on June 20, 2013
Boys (& Girls) Don't Cry?
Playing-fields of the Nephilim?
Ithilien Chapter of the Sierra Club?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:35 PM on June 20, 2013
"The Elder Things"
posted by furiousthought at 1:08 PM on June 20, 2013
posted by furiousthought at 1:08 PM on June 20, 2013
Er, I tried to resist but cannot:
"Eldritch Elders" goes together real well, but I have no idea how to tack on a family/kid reference.
posted by Michele in California at 2:09 PM on June 20, 2013
"Eldritch Elders" goes together real well, but I have no idea how to tack on a family/kid reference.
posted by Michele in California at 2:09 PM on June 20, 2013
The Phoenix rose from the ashes. Therefore: Ash-holes.
posted by ColdChef at 2:51 PM on June 20, 2013
posted by ColdChef at 2:51 PM on June 20, 2013
The Addams Families (For Elder Things and their Baby Bats)
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:22 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:22 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Going off runincircles' suggestion of The Brood, you could use the name of one of the cicada broods. There's a Brood 13 even. And cicadas are kinda goth; they dwell underground for a 17 years before surfacing to reproduce.
posted by kindall at 3:23 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by kindall at 3:23 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
A Family Gothering.
posted by stray thoughts at 5:27 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by stray thoughts at 5:27 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
I was a baby goth in the East Valley in the late 80s/early 90s and I want to make a pun on Club DV8 or Blitz 777...
Blitz ABC?
L'il Bitz 777?
Club Post Due Date?
posted by padraigin at 8:07 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Blitz ABC?
L'il Bitz 777?
Club Post Due Date?
posted by padraigin at 8:07 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
You could call your gatherings Arsenic Hours.
posted by MonkeyToes at 8:08 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by MonkeyToes at 8:08 PM on June 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
Gomez & Morticia
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:35 PM on June 20, 2013
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:35 PM on June 20, 2013
Cindergarten (a tenuous riff on the coal dust/ashes of the Phoenix leitmotif)
posted by permafrost at 9:36 AM on June 21, 2013
posted by permafrost at 9:36 AM on June 21, 2013
Ah, I have a thought on how to include the kiddies:
Eldritch Elders and their Little Horrors
posted by Michele in California at 11:44 AM on June 21, 2013
Eldritch Elders and their Little Horrors
posted by Michele in California at 11:44 AM on June 21, 2013
Response by poster: Thank you all for such a variety of clever ideas. I'll run them past the locals and see which they like.
I'm sorry it took a bit to respond, real life gets in the way.
posted by _paegan_ at 4:52 AM on July 21, 2013
I'm sorry it took a bit to respond, real life gets in the way.
posted by _paegan_ at 4:52 AM on July 21, 2013
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posted by tilde at 11:02 AM on June 20, 2013 [7 favorites]