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[aprilstarchild]

My friends are into naming their houses. Usually with shared houses. Ends up being convenient to refer to a house by name when three or four of your friends live there.

The Kitten Shack: the first one I knew of, so-called because the local outdoor cats loved their yard, IIRC.

Madison Mansion: it was on SE Madison.

Chris's Wayward Home for Boys and Girls: Chris owns the house and rents out the bedrooms to an ever-changing bunch of friends.

Little Pink: There's a building downtown that's a bank headquarters, and it's frequently called Big Pink because it's, well, big...and pink. Little Pink is also pink but just a house.

The Crow's Nest: The guy who owns the house just really likes crows. Poor guy made the mistake of ordering a custom messenger bag with a crow on it...just as that Portlandia sketch about "put a bird on it" came out. Oops.

So when I knew that pearlzenith and Kate were moving in, I wanted to name the place. I tossed around a bunch of variations that included the word "fangirl" in it somewhere, but on a silly whim a few nights after they moved in, we decided on Casa de Fancy Pants instead. We even started a tumblr.

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[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I knew I'd forget at least one!

(I've delivered mail to it a few times now, BTW.)

Ahahahaha I had to think about what room you meant. Didn't Nicole name it that?

[jenhowell.livejournal.com]

Me or Nicole - I'm not sure which one of us. I definitely was the one who inspired the name either way, because I was always nervous about the unlockable ground floor windows...

[smartasskicker.livejournal.com]

I wanna know!

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

iirc we called it the rape room. Because it was on the ground floor, so if your windows were open in the night....

[smartasskicker.livejournal.com]

HA! I totally guessed that in my head.