Your collective:
What is your current collective named after? jinkaku.org comes from several songs by some of my favorite bands, mostly from Rentrer en Soi. It succeeded genkaku.org, named after a Pierrot song, when it was forcibly shut down due to the host crashing. I wanted a similar "sound" when choosing a new domain name.
If your collective used to have a different name, why did you pick the previous name(s) and why did you change? Oh god, I've had a lot. Let's see, before jinkaku was genkaku. I had ensatsu.net too, named after Hiei from YYH's attack "Jaou Ensatsu Kokuryuuha" which is something like "Demon Killing Black Dragon." That one went down in flames with genkaku.org, though I would very much love to own that domain name again. I had nanatsu.org at one point, as well as my first two domains, garnet-depiction.net and cream-soda.org. They all have tragic stories with them :(
If you have any sort of collective subtitle, what is it named after? I call my collective the Dynamism Network (though I'm thinking of changing it to the Mushroom Cloud Organization since adding skyremix.org to the network) because "jinkaku" translates to "personality" which are the "dynamics" of a human being. So it's very loosely based off of that. I just like explosions.
Your fansites:
What are your fansites named after?
Nephologic, my Hibari site, is named after Hibari's role as the Vongola's Cloud Guardian and how his personality is comparable to the clouds. It's technically not a word without an "al" at the end of it, but I think this sound like it has more attitude!
Hailstorm stems from Hitsugaya's power of ice (hail) and his passionate personality, his inner turmoil, and all of the chaos he has to face throughout the series (storm).
Firebrand was a combination of Lavi's usually firey personality and his affinity for using his fire seal to attack enemies more than any other seal he has.
burn&rave comes from one of Zell's Limit Break attacks called Burning Rave.
Reticentia is the origin of the word reticent, which means silence. I thought it was fitting since Fran is rather silent about her past and her feelings, giving her an air of mystery.
Featherdance is a Flying-type move used by some Pokemon that I felt sounded traditional and perfect for Falkner.
As for future fansites/projects in the works;
Airwing is Hope's first weapon in FFXIII. And it fits my trend of using somewhat long one word names for fansites xD
syn*chronize fits the Hitachiin twins because of their synchronization as identical twins. I separated "syn" with the asterisk because of their "sin"ful relationship xD
Maelstrom comes less from his personality (although it would be fitting for his Black side) and more from the absolute chaos surrounding him and the problems he has to face.
Tremouille comes from the same concept as above, except it is the French origin word for "turmoil." I felt it was somewhat more feminine than the word turmoil itself which, to me, fits Hisoka.
Have you ever changed the name of a fansite? If yes, why? I recently changed my Hitsugaya fansites name from Glacial Doll to Hailstorm. I felt that Glacial Doll, while appropriate, was too feminine, and I like having one word fansite names :x
Did any of your fansites have some sort of "beta name" that was changed before the site went online? Though syn*chronize is not online yet, I was going to call it re*mixx. Also, Nephologic was called Wild Card for a long time but I changed it shortly after the site going live.
And more:
How do you tend to pick names for your sites? I usually try to name a site based loosely on something that relates to the character. I play around with a lot of names before settling on one that "sounds" right raher than what fits the best xD;
Can you see some sort of naming pattern with your sites? I usually use names that are one slightly long word that is a combination of two words xD I like to use origin words as well, and I have this weird habit of putting unusual characters into my website's names such as ampersands and asterisks and periods. You know, characters that don't necessarily belong in website titles xD
Can you name some fansites or collectives whose names you like? Oh, I love
cherudim.org,
reflera.org and
skycircus.org as collective names. They fit my naming habits xD I also am rather jealous of the domain
licious.org because no matter what subdomain is created, it's subject is licious xD
As for fansite names I love, I'd have to go with
Smoke & Mirrors,
Rainshine,
After Storm,
Skydancer, and
Libertine for starters, though there's like a thousand more. I also greatly adore
Captain of Division Awesome xD