Naming Fluttershy's Parents, Trixie's Mom, and the Sphinx

@Wispy Tuft  
@koonzyP  
I don’t see anything inherently wrong with that. :/

Despite leaving the Sphinx unnamed winning the polls I’m actually really shocked my name Bastet is the highest voted name.

@EddictedBrony  
Bastet is a really nice name. It’s both Egyptian and cat/lion themed which fits her.

@mjangelvortex  
I guess so, I really just looked up Egyptian symbols and saw how Bastet was a cat goddess with some rage bottled up and just went with it.

@EddictedBrony  
And she’s also often depicted as a lioness as well.

@cheezedoodle  
Because then they pick the name they can live with best if they don’t like any of the options. If we do the top two thing, at least hold a second round with, say, the top half scoring names, so people can still vote more than once but also choose from a shorter list. That’s kinda the point, really.

@GenericArchangel  
That is true, there’s nothing like wasting a vote on a name that ended up at the bottom of the results.

How about:
 
Cozy breeze (Mrs. Shy) and Ruffle Swirl (Mr. Shy)

@Cyborg_pony  
Suggestions have been closed for 8 days, my dude.  
You even missed the elimination round of voting.

@Exhumed Legume  
of course…

@mjangelvortex  
Wasn’t the multi-tailed cat from ancient Anugypt in the comics named Bastet, though?

@zerowinger66  
I think she might have now that you mention it.

@zerowinger66  
I tried looking up the name here to see but nothing official popped up.

@EddictedBrony  
It was my mistake - the cat was actually named Baast.  

 
Still, very close and similar to Bastet, though.

@zerowinger66  
Baast is another name for Bastet.

That feeling when ‘Isis’ is beating your name suggestion
 

@Wispy Tuft  
For goodness sake, Isis is a name of a rather benevolent Egyptian goddess or Black Adam’s love. And some group tarnished her name, so now anything that has or is abbreviated to her name is either changed or is subjected to Illuminati confirmed memes.

@Phoenixflambe  
Isis is also the name of a terrorist group.

@Undead dragon soldier  
I know that, why do you think I mentioned ‘some group’?

@Phoenixflambe  
I wasn’t for sure what you meant but now I do.

People are dumb for letting terrorist shitbags define the conversation anyway. They’re not “Islamic”– they represent Islam about as well as the Klan represent Christianity and the Holy Roman Empire was, was, and was– and they’re not a “state”, they’re just fucking terrorists; call them DAESH, it actively pisses them off.

@Phoenixflambe  
Yeah, i can’t wait for people to google Isis and have my favorite waifu pop up.

@Phoenixflambe  
They’re not the first to do it either. The Swastika was considered a symbol of prosperity and good luck until the Nazis used it and now the Western world still sees it as a symbol of hatred.

@dshadow14  
Yup which is why Swastika isn’t a name suggestion on the sphinx pole.  
We’re all quite aware of the unfortunate reality that the name Isis has been ruined forever. And since its been ruined it’s a terrible name suggestion with a bazaar amount of votes.

Some among you have expressed concern for certain names that have good origins but have since then been tarnished throughout more recent history.
 
I propose a new solution, …
 
 
We all stop having names.  
Otherwise, the terrorists win.
 
 
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In all seriousness though there were some actually great choices for the Sphinx but it’s sad that some of them aren’t getting as much traction because people seem to be having a knee-jerk reaction to anything Egyptian related. I mean I do get it - a lot of these suggestions /probably did/ get to the poll because someone literally googled “ancient egypt” for like a minute, but still some of the names seemed more creative than people give credit for. I’ll actually be disappointed to see this character go ironically unnamed.