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Alrighty, a question! Don't exactly even need to know, but I'm curious. Which japanese names are used gender neutral?
I have heard of a few, like Tsubaki, Akira, Minato and so on, but a list would be nice.
On another note, Erika is a japanese name as well as german, right? Like Yuka is both an Inuit and japanese name x3 I do find it funny that complete different ends of the world could have such small things in common.
gender expressions & impressions of jp given names depend on: (1) the precise characters it comprises of, (2) the reading it uses, (3) societal trends and sentiments, and (4) each individual’s personal perception (and experience) of gender and the name. therefore, sooooo many names out there can be considered unisex and/or gender-neutral! there are hundreds of thousands of possible character combinations you can use to create given names, and what’s more to love is that unisex and gender-neutral names are pretty sought-after, especially in the modern day and the foreseeable future. we love our unisex names and we’re very proud of them!
if there’s any specific theme of names you’d like to see, you can send in an ask with your criterias and i’ll compile you a list. besides my gdoc of rare and unusual jp given names i shared in my previous post, i also have this gdoc of generic/basic/average jp given names you can sort through if you’d like.
indeed, erika and yuka are names that can exist in the jp language. maybe this tip will help with remembering and identification? you can make given names out of almost any set of syllables from the japanese syllabary, as long as it’s within reason (e.g. sounds good as a name, seems logical or plausible, 1–5 syllables in one name, etc.).
(apologies for the deep-fried quality haha—this is the only kana-to-romaji chart i have ever saved, because i prefer linguistic charts to be as plain-colored, plain-fonted, and plain-formatted as possible.)
for clan/family names however, the rules aren’t as lax because most of them follow kanji and the most standard readings for said kanji. a small % of family names have a mix of kanji + kana in them, which still follow the standard readings of the kanji + of course the unchangeable readings of the kana. only very few (native, non-transcribed) family names out there are entirely written in kana (a real-life example of this is つわぶき峻 Tsuwabuki Toshi, the stage actor who played sakusa in the haikyuu stageplay). oh, and, because we can never have too many exceptions, jp culture also has this very unique occurrence where sometimes, some certain family names get to be as lax as given names in terms of the grapheme-to-phoneme relation, and some people have decided use this opportunity to be very punny wordplayers. these are very few in number, however, and they have history behind them! so i wouldn’t recommend the average writer/artist/fictionist to come up with some on their own. examples of this last one:
一 Ninomae | 一 means “one” | “ninomae” sounds like you’re saying 二の前, “before two”
小鳥遊 Takanashi | 小鳥遊 means “small birds play” | “takanashi” sounds like you’re saying 鷹無し, “there are no hawks/eagles” | ergo, small birds play outside because there’s no hawk preying around.
四月朔日/四月一日/四月朔/四月朔月 Watanuki | 四月朔日/四月一日 means “first of april” | “watanuki” refers to this word 綿抜き, “cotton-stripping; to take out the cotton [padding]” | there’s an old tradition of changing winter-wear cotton-lined warming robes and kimono into lighter summer-wear garments in the 1st day of the 4th lunar month, which is said to prevent children from suffering diseases and potentially dying. i’m a bit confused at what the big deal is with this tradition, because it just seems like common sense to me? seasons change and so do your clothes. that’s normal.
月見里 Yamanashi | 月見里 means “moon-viewing village” | “yamanashi” sounds like you’re saying 山無し, “there are no mountains” | ergo, you can see the moon and do some stargazing if your view isn’t obstructed by mountains. although, i have to point out the fallacy in this logic, as someone who lives surrounded by 3 whole mountain ranges, i know fully well that mountains only obscure a very small % to none at all of your ground view of the night sky. “starless” nights are all the clouds and pollution’s fault! so really, this name should’ve been called Kumonashi (from 雲無し, “cloudless”) instead.
i could’ve sworn i knew more than 4 of these punny family names...
(edit: i found more!)
飛鳥 Asuka | 飛鳥 means “flying bird” | “asuka” refers to the place name 明日香 (“tomorrow fragrance”) | basically, what happened here is that the word 飛鳥 (hichou), coming from the phrase 飛ぶ鳥の (tobu tori no, “flying bird of...”), became a pillow word for the place known as Asuka. both spellings were historically interchangeable.
春日 Haruma, Kasuga, Kasuka | 春日 means “spring sun; spring day” | the word 春日 (shunjitsu/haruhi) was used as a pillow word to introduce the place name Kasuga (which presumably had no kanji writing prior to this?). existing logical readings for 春日 include Haruhi and Haruka.
漢 Hata | 漢 means “han chinese”, the worldwide major ethnic group originating in china | “hata” sounds like you’re saying はた/端, “nearby; besides”
日向 Higa, Higano, Hina, Hinada, Hinata, Hiuga (Fiuga), Hyuga, Hyuuga | 日向 means “in the sun; [facing] towards the sun” | (1) for the Hinata reading; this name is composed of 日 (hi, “sun”) + な (na, old japanese possessive particle, equivalent to modern の) + た (ta, “direction; side”, archaic equivalent of 方). (2) for the Fiuga, Hiuga, and Hyuuga readings; dialectal differences shifted old japanese reading “Pimuka” into “Fimuka” → “Fiuga” → “Hiuga”. southern dialects and languages tend to have this fi- sound that’s nonexistent up in the north. (3) Hiruga may be explained as 「昼日」 (hiru + ka, “daytime sun”) with a rendaku 日 (turning the “-ka” into “-ga”, which is unnecessary, because rendaku doesn’t commonly happen to 日, but everything is full of exceptions today, so... 🤷). existing logical readings of 日向 include Hikou, Himuka, Himukai, Himuki, and Nikkou.
陽向 Hizashi | 陽向 means “in the sun; [facing] towards the sun” | “hizashi” sounds like you’re saying 日差し (may also be written 陽差し、日射し、陽射し、日ざし、陽ざし、日差、or 陽射), “sunlight; sunshine; sun rays”
五十嵐 Igarashi | 五十嵐 means “fifty storms/tempests” | “igarashi” sounds like you’re saying 伊賀嵐, “iga [city] storm” | i believe this may be a reference to the huge storm in 1612 which destroyed the famous iga-ueno castle.
五月雨 Samidare | 五月雨 means “fifth [lunar] month rain”, referring to the heavy rains that occur around early summer | “samidare” sounds like you’re saying 早水垂れ, “early rain fall” | this is a word (for the seasonal occurrence), a place name, and a destroyer name; not family name. i just thought it was cool enough to mention here!
時雨 Shigure | 時雨 means “timely rain; winter rainfall” (originally referred to rainshowers in late autumn to early winter, occasionally late summer and all of autumn too, but today, shigure only refers to a winter rainshower) | “shigure” sounds like you’re saying the classical/literary verb 時雨れる, “to rain a shower” | the history is a bit blurry on this one. 時雨, as a word, was an orthographic borrowing from chinese. it happened a hefty long time ago, and was incorporated into old japanese as the classical verb 時雨る (shiguru), which was later given the modern rendering 時雨れる (shigureru), which then presumably became the clan name Shigure.
日本 Yamatono | 日本 means “base/foundation/origin of the sun” and is the modern name for japan | “yamatono” sounds like you’re saying 大和の, “of the yamato people’s” | 大和 (yamato) was the ancient name for japan before it was changed to 日本 (nihon/nippon), and also the name of an ancient province, the name of the current dynasty (and consequently, the imperial family as well), the name of an old battleship, and is sometimes still used to refer to japanese people in a historic way. it’s worth noting that the reading of “yamato” itself isn’t grammatically logical for the kanji 大和. my best theories as to how 大和 became yamato are: (1) homophone of 山都 (“mountain metropolis”), (2) homophone of 山門 (“mountain gateway”), and (3) homophone of 山人 (“mountain people”); but i haven’t seen any proper, in-depth linguistic study done on this, so i can’t guarantee anything. the kanji 倭 [yamato, shitaga.u | wa, i] was likely based on 大和 after it got its “yamato” reading, so 倭 isn’t an important factor in this discussion (as of right now, at least).
hope this answers your curiosity!
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working on the prologue again tonight which is protagonized by North Ridge and it is amazing and also a mistake because idk how I can make rarity and twilight seem interesting as a follow up act to him he's too GOOD
#also offer is still up for anyone who wants the gdoc links and read along#anyway yeah north ridge… my son
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i've been zeroing in on my ideal scrivener draft labelling system and i have to say i really like this iteration...love the feeling of re-labelling a tricky scene when i finally have a better handle on it, there's nothing more satisfying tbh.
shoutout to @bettsfic and her wonderful lowkey writing-related newsletter for helping me figure out what works best for me! highly recommend subscribing to beth's substack.
#doooo itttttt#it's the best#[redacted novel project]#scrivener#you can also do this in gdocs if scrivener is not your cup of tea#i think beth details how in the entry i linked or possibly another newsletter installment#ANYWAY i thought i would share in case this is useful to anyone
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i'm so excited for penacony but i also don't want to close the xianzhou chapter yet. i need answers! i need updates! i want complete high-cloud quintet lore! complete, accurate timeline of events! bailu companion mission part 2! imbibitor lunae companion mission part 2! i want knowledge of continued investigation of tingyun's disappearance! do xueyi or hanya even know who jingliu is considering that they're judges from the ten-lords commission (they should know right? or has jingliu turned into a She Who Must Not Be Named just as yukong said, hence no voiceline about her from the judges themselves?) WHERE IS JINGLIU. WHO IS LUOCHA AND WHAT'S IN HIS COFFIN. WHAT DID THEY DISCOVER BEYOND THE STARS TO TEAM UP IN THE FIRST PLACE.
#anyways i don't have the time rn to do a deep dive into xianzhou lore in the game itself#but i am looking for helpful reliable compilations of lore bc i just. appreciate things. organized that way. compiled and outlined. hhh#i found a high-cloud quintet masterdoc tho! but i'm not sure if info is complete here (it's open access! dm me for the gdocs link!)#HSR LORE EXPERTS MUTUALS I SUMMON THEE FOR YOUR WISDOM 🙏
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sorry to be like that but i miss 🍆 lilith a lot and i can’t find the previous parts anywhere. do you have a link?
no problem anon 💖 i adore this au too & i have the links for (hopefully, unless past me was lazy) every part of it. so enjoy ^_^
part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
#anon#if you ever lose this or if tumblr misplaces it just msg me i have a gdoc with all the links#i will write more of this eventually because it's dear to me#and as i always say lilith dick is a powerful thing
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i just spent several hours writing some character introspection and interaction in my notes app that still isn’t quite done and i know i’ve said before that i get super self conscious about my own writing but i’ve spent so much time on this one that it feels stupid NOT to share. who wants to read it. it’s got to do with that one interaction between sigma and zenyatta where they talk about the iris but it’s sig and ramattra talking about the Implications TM
#i’m just gonna post a gdocs link i’m not making an ao3 account jsut for this. you’d have to kill me
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@mochalate has quite literally altered the trajectory of my life with her fic, precipice. i've reached the ao3 comment character limit (10k) TWICE in trying to appropriately convey my thoughts and comments on the fic. out of fear of taking up the time you could have spent reading the first part of the fic, all i have to say is that this is an incredibly well-written piece of work. the pacing, the storytelling, the plot, the characters — everything is well thought out. i have never fell so in love with a fanfic before this one, and that's saying something because porco isn't even one of the top five aot boys i would ever willingly search up fics for. PLEASE read this fic, even if he isn't your fave. it is truly proof that fan fiction deserves more credit.
#fic rec#author rec#im still mad u never told me u were an AMAZING writer#u fr told me 'oh yea just making an outline for a fic'#and then dropped me a gdocs link#and then acted like u DIDN'T fix everything that was wrong w my brain in just a few thousand words#NOT TO MENTION HOW QUICKLY U WROTE THIS FIC????
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I just realised half the fics I wrote are for CN fandoms, about to be more than half soon because I have to cook my own food in these fandoms (╥﹏╥)
not that I'm complaining, though. I've met really nice people in these fandoms, and smaller fandoms mean lesser shipwars and toxic people in my experience ( ◜‿◝ )♡
#more than half my gdocs are drafts for#link click#my journey to you#and most recently a fangbai tgcf au#even though the qi hun fandom looks pretty dead to me#but its okay
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a lil cheeky bit of self-promo while ao3 is down 💖
a while back I wrote a series of kiss prompt ficlets (for all of my fandoms) which you can find on tumblr here
you can also find those ficlets and other snippets I’ve written for prompts, drabbles and just because I felt like it on tumblr here:
Lonestar
Schitt’s Creek
RWRB
#rmd writes#tarlos fic#RWRB fic#sc fic#hopefully ao3 is back soon#so thankful to the people who send me their gdocs links so I still have bedtime stories
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Noticed in the 'if I get 69 notes I'll show some lines I like from my WIP' post that you use a green background when you write? If I'm allowed to ask, what's your writing setup like? Do you use Google Docs with a colored background, or something else? Are there any particular fonts you find that make writing easier? And do you listen to anything when you write?
hi hi! Yeah I don't mind asks about these :3 i mainly use gdocs, the green bg is an adjustment in the gdocs page setup, it's easier on the eyes for me. I also go for dark mode sometimes by adjusting the page color and font color manually! Alternatively I also use obsidian, which is a free note taking program with offline use (tho syncing is a paid feature...i mostly use it for story notes for ocs/worldbuilding more than writing actual fic)
I mainly default to Atkinson Hyperlegible for my fonts (available to download in gfonts or their website i think! Dont have the link on me but it is free) it's just easy and comfortable for me to type and read in :3 sometimes I switch around serif fonts as well but I don't have a particular choice on that :0c
I listen to music while i write! I haven't tried using videos I like (let's plays, video essays) bc i never really get to properly listen to them while writing. It's more background music than anything else. Sometimes i sit in total silence but i always end up playing music again lmao
#gene rambles#anonymous#hope this answers your q!#obsidian is pretty good for wiki-like stuff. My favorite feature of it is#that you can link in between files and it doesnt take#a shitton of time to load unlike gdocs#which i feel like. Comes with many other notes programs like onenote#but yeah it's lightweight simple and awesum. I recommends
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HEY BUY MY STORY PLEASE! IT’S PHYSICAL RELEASE DAY OF GOD’S CRUEL JOKE LIT MAG! PART ONE IS PUBLISHED AND PART TWO WILL BE IN THE NEXT ISSUE!
very much a buddy roadtrip (one might say kidnapping ft. non consent and even odder consent) after a kismet moment between a man and a dropped driver’s license perpetuating a cycle of mothers, fathers, and one spiteful daughter
#mads levshakoff#works#dog days of a blind cottonmouth#writing community#writing#if you can’t ship to your country/can not pay/do not want to support am*zon#send me a dm for the gdoc link!#this one is dedicated to my JT girlies
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some snippets of the vibe corner lancer campaign story
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in my desperate bid to make this blog more accessible so i can finally write properly on it with more than two people I'M RLY PUSHING TO GET MY CARRD REDESIGNED / DONE in a way that's easier to read and i'm so happy to tell u that THE MASTERS PAGE IS DONE 😭
#obvsly i need to link all their gdocs BUT AAAAAAAAA#PLS FINALY AFTER A BILLION YEARS I'M FINALLY MAKING PROGRESS#one page down many more to go but AAAAAA#the masters are my bias they get rights first <4#LOOK AT THEM#MY SKRUNKLIES#long post /#` ✞ ooc. ⁞ cults are london’s most successful pyramid scheme.#i rly like how my carrd redesign is coming out kejrnhkjnm
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❝ i know it's impossible to explain this to you. i carry this terrible aching hell in my chest. ❞
౨ৎ ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 kane, a.k.a. antigone.
⌗ 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 ? yes / no . . .
#daskalosintro#click her name or yes 2 access her new gdocs page . click source link for some tunez#google docs when i catch u .. *shakes fist*#when ur mom says i dont hav a favorite child and pulls shit like this#also pls view the google doc on a desktop!!!! otherwise i WILL go bananas.
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♡ ֺ ↷ helloooo it's yans, introducing my sweet summer ( spring ) child ! meet BILLIE aka echo ! she's a quiet little lab experiment, very mousy and weak. very easily manipulated and pushed around . . . but she's the kindest person you'll ever meet and loves ardently, wholeheartedly. also tends to fall in love with everyone she meets, even though it's never good for her, which has obviously had a massive effect on her life . . . anyhowdy ! below the cut are a few connections that i want for her but obvs i'm open to anything. just hmu and we can chat okay mwah.
her current religion. the person she's currently following around like a lost puppy. ( when i imagined this connection, i did have tantalus in mind, but any strong-willed and intimidating muse could work ! ) she has an unwavering loyalty to this muse, regardless of how they may feel about her. she doesn't move until they tell her to, doesn't think for herself. if they speak, she shuts up ! it's hard to say if she loves this character or fears them . . . knowing her, the answer is both ! people might even try to warn her against being around this muse, because maybe they're taking advantage of her in some way ! or, possibly, maybe this muse really does care for billie. anything is possible, really !
the closest thing she has to a friend. that's not to say that these two aren't actually friends, just . . . she has a very hard time believing anyone would treat her kindly. ( what's that lana quote ? if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first one who ever did ? ) she really admires this person and she loves spending time with them ! she thinks they're wasting their time being friends with someone as spineless as her, but she never shirks their company ! and, hey, maybe this person gives her the smack on the head to be more confident ! stand up for yourself ! maybe they're building her up when she keeps tearing herself down ! or maybe they're using her, too . . . 👀
someone she knew sophomore year. so, in billie's sophomore year, she had her first boyfriend ! except, he was not a good guy. when he dumped her, he did it very publicly and kind of cruelly. maybe this person was there ! maybe they knew that ex, maybe they were his friend ! or this person could've been billie's roommate at the time . . . just someone who knew billie back then and witnessed what happened, so they have a bit of understanding of why she is the way that she is. i also imagine this person as someone that billie wants to impress ? she wants to show them that she's better than the girl who got dumped in public. so she tries to be a little bit stronger when they're around . . . results vary !
someone who loves her. there aren't very many people in billie's life who actually want what's best for her. a lot of people just see her as an easy target to walk all over. but this person really does care, they truly love her. this love could be familial, platonic, romantic, you name it ! just someone who truly wants her to be happy and live her best life, whether she sees that or not. i also think it'd be interesting if this person had a hard time saying it. i like the idea of these two having something of a complicated relationship ? ( i imagined this as cassandra, due to their familial relationship, but again . . . literally any muse could work ! ) like there is obviously love there, but maybe there's resentment, too ! maybe they just don't know how to exist around each other !
her competition. so . . . this is probably completely one-sided. but billie's mentorship with avila is really personal to her, so ! in my mind, this muse is someone who also has a close connection with him and billie views them as someone who threatens her place in avila's life ! of course, it means absolutely nothing, because she's not going to do anything to the muse . . . she probably won't even get mad at them for real. but there's definitely a lot of jealousy on billie's end. hey, it could even be a mutual thing, the muse could equally be peeved at billie's idol worship of avila and how he unknowingly feeds it.
her twin brother. ( this would have to be a new character ! ) this is ! her best friend ! there is no one in billie's life that she loves or values more. he also got into daskalos, so they're here together, and they are very close ! she gives her heart to everyone who makes her feel safe ( whether that safety is real or not ) but i think this is the only person who really has earned that in her life. or . . . maybe he has some secret agenda ! maybe he resents her a bit ! idk we can absolutely make this dramatic and wild, i would lose my mind and sell my firstborn for that, but my initial imagining was that it's the purest relationship she has.
study buddy. i imagine this person is not part of the dionysia. they're just another student, someone that she likes spending time with. maybe they don't talk much when they're together, maybe this muse is the only person she bickers with, maybe they joke and have fun . . . just someone who is separate from avila and all of that, someone that she just spends time with ! they study their little books and they don't worry about the rest of the world ! i imagine she also feels very happy and safe with this person, regardless of how they spend their time together. they just give her good feelings.
okay, i'll cap it there for now . . . ofc i can think of more and if none of these suit your fancy, we can brainstorm others based on our characters ! i just wanted to put a few connections down on paper. if any of these interest you or inspire you to form a new connection with my little doormat, hmu 😤☝🏾
#linking my gdocs so you can see the connections i already have! (literally just one sjhfkjds)#daskalosintro
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INTRODUCING ... CLOVER !
( quintessa swindell, they/he, nonbinary, muse 54 ) look ! that’s clover wainwright walking down main street ! they’re the twenty-seven year old orchestra musician and they can always be seen hanging around old fellows book store. clover is pretty diligent, flighty and inquisitive, which is probably why they give off always leaving something unfinished, faint laughter lines adorning tired eyes, and making shapes with sparklers in the dark vibes. hey, now that we’re on the topic of them, is it true that they took the fall for a crime they didn't commit ? eh, it’s probably just a rumor.
statistics. connections. musings. pinterest.
i'll angel in the snow until i'm worthy.
tl;dr: my sunshine prodigy child too gentle for the cruel world they had no choice but to be a part of. just wants to do their best at the day even if it kills them. you can click on the lyric above or the source link to access clover's doc where you can see their stats, a brief history, headcanons (to be added), and some wanted connections! i'd love to plot w all of u so feel free to mssg me in tumblr dms or on discord @ suspential if something piques ur attention n we can get smth going 💖
#intro: clover#fallkirkintro#nevermind how absymally late this w almost half an hour to spare </3 fuck it we ball </3#my first time using a gdoc for an intro so fingers crossed the link works fdhskf
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