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so for some reason i decided i wanted to compile a list of nautical male names that i think would be options for the odesta baby. i think whats fun about the hunger games is that the names in universe are so on the nose that you could name anyone anything but with annie's name being... annie i don't think she flat out name her son something like ocean. it ended up being about 30 names long so i decided to list my favorites here and the rest under read more.

Calder - rough water, Chardon - sandbar, Delmar - of the sea, Liriel - bright sea, Murifinn - dwells near the beautiful sea, Rayan - land that is lush in water

Bien - ocean, sea; Bradan - salmon; Brendan - Irish patron saint of sailors; Carrick - rock; Caspian - Caspian Sea;  Cordell - cord maker;  Dour - from the water  Dylan - toward the tide  Enki - Sumerian god of water;  Firth - arm of the sea;  Havelock - sea competition;  Hurly - sea tide;  Jonah - dove;  Kano - god of the water; Keelson - a girder that forms the “backbone” of a wooden ship; Kelvin - narrow water;  Ler - the sea;  Maricielo - sea and sky;  Marines - of the sea;  Merwyn - sea friend;  Muirchertach - mariner; Neifion - neptune; Nereus - greek god of the sea; Rafferty - flood tide; Ronan - little seal; Seward - sea defender

Haigh Éabann Dorch’adas Gealtachas Bran Slí is ainm dom agus tá gruaig fhada dhubh éabann orm (sin é an chaoi a bhfuair mé m’ainm) le stríoca corcra is foircinn dearga a théann chomh fada le lár mo dhroma agus súile gorm siochta cosúil le gol gléghlan agus insíonn a lán daoine dom go bhfuil cuma Katie McGrath orm (NÚ: mura bhfuil a fhios agat cé hí féin anyways amach as m’amharc leat!)

Níl gaol agam le Gerard Way ach ba bhreá liom go mbeadh mar is focain staic amach is amach é. Is vaimpír mé ach tá m'fhiacla díreach agus bán. Tá craiceann an-bhán agam. Is cailleach mé freisin, agus téim go scoil draíochta darbh ainm Hogwarts i Sasana ina bhfuil mé sa seachtú blian (Tá mé seacht déag).

since you folks seem to have lost your sense of fecking whimsy, have a folklore rant from the mouth (or hands, rather) of a disabled Irish woman who grew up hearing the history along with the tales and had changling stories in my own family. and no, my post will NOT be riddled with source links because my source is the oral history from the people who told the stories

for heaven's sake the changling myth is not ablist or anti-autism it was mostly about fricking crib death

and most irish people are/were cool with the fae. if you're desperate to bring autism in the mix, mostly you'll get "aye, they got a wee bit o' fae blood in them. just work around their quirks, and you'll get along swell". but mostly the changling myth was either a) crib death - "the Fae Folk trusted you with their child's last moments, and yours isn't dead, it's running around happy as can be with the faeries", which helped mothers with ptsd and depression after the sudden and inexplicable passing of their child because they didn't have the medical technology to know what crib death was and most old irish mothers blamed themselves (I used to know what crib death was caused by, but I forgot - I'm pretty sure it was an inevitable genetic thing)

or b) chronic illness (such as connective tissue disorders, g.i. disorders, and yes neurodivergence) that would be hard to recognize in a baby - "the Fair Folk trusted you with this fragile, sickly child and in return for your loving care will provide your own child with wonders none of us humans can imagine".

most families with changling children loved and treated the "faerie" like their own blood (which they were, but still), and we're a very hospitality-driven culture. you treat everyone like your own family, it's a close-knit community - even more so back then. were there people who tried to "return" the faerie child, leaving a baby alone in the woods? yeah, a few, but not the majority. and pregnancy has been known to do some pretty nasty things to some minds, this would be more a mental health problem of the mother than an ablist "that's not my kid" thing. also ablists do exist in every culture, there is that point as well.

my main point is - legends draw from life, and life is full of biases. are goblins/gnomes (forgot which one) anti-jew? maybe. are changling children ablist? only sometimes, and those are the outliers (my own mother was considered a changling by her grandparents - that didn't make them love her any less). are vikings depicted as wearing helmets with horns because of Irish people? yes because THEY WERE INVADING AND R*PING AND PILLAGING OUR TINY LITTLE ISLAND WITH NO PROVOCATION. what better way to get children and unknowing adults to run and hide and save themselves than creating a monster instead of Some Guy?

if you try to make a story with zero biases that won't offend anybody, it will be as bland and beige as your fricking houses. if something in your life is scary or bothersome or different than you, that will translate into your oral narrative. that's just how oral histories work. also, any blatant or malicious biases in the original story/cryptid will have trickled down through a millennia-old game of telephone and would be practically unrecognizable unless you were looking for it. stop looking for things that are "problematic" or "anti-___" and you'll realise that people need whimsy in their life

and finally - you don't have to believe in everything, but don't mess with it just in case.

This is just a map of New England (minus Connecticut the fake New England state)

ive mentioned this a few times, but my main fl character, morgan, is both a proud communist and a catholic, and i wanted to find some of the arguments in favor of christian comminism (look im not as well read on theory as my oc is. youve seen my posts. you KNOW i never learned how to read) but i had the damndest time finding any!!! found a lot of pearl-clutching christians saying that communists hate religion and theyre soooo scary so no you cant be a communist and also like jesus. jesus would hate socialism. no, ive never heard of the sermon on the mount, what the fuck do you mean "the meek will inherit the earth"

but i expected that much. i was more disappointed to see a bunch of smug communists saying that religion is a creation of capitalism used to oppress and distract people, and you cant believe in fairy tales if you want to be a real leftist. at best religion is the last refuge for the desperate and oppressed, a way to make the proles feel like they're doing something while actually continuing to serve capital. yes this is also how Adorno talked about Jazz but we will still keep jazz after the revolution because it's good and people find meaning in it, but we wont have religion because i hate my dad i mean christians i mean organized religion at large

but i KNEW there were christian leftist out there because i have MET THEM and also that was tolstoys WHOLE THING so i know its out there!!! you can't trick me!!!!

thankfully i eventually found some stuff, including a new podcast hosted by two guys with phds talking about christianity and leftist politics (one of them is a journalist and the other is a theologian, and they have a lot of criticism of The Church as an institution while also saying that religion and religious people can have some value in the fight against capital)

anyway. that's probably been the most frustrating research rabbit hole ive gone down for this fic!! so far anyway

i just think its really cool to headcanon ennis as having mexican ancestry. i just think its really neat.

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Wait but Irish rebel songs actually slap!

Like I feel like they slap hard enough that at least some British soldiers were like, “yeah we suck and this beat kicks ass” and started supporting the IRA.

Is that why they’re so catchy? So John Crumpet would sing them during drills and get in trouble with his commander for singing enemy anthems??

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"itheann an gnáth-duine 3 damhan alla gach bliain" is díreach earóid staitistiúil atá sa bhfíric seo. ní itheann an gnáthduine damhan alla ar bith. Is asluiteach é Spiders Georg, a chonaíonn i bpluais agus a itheann níos mó ná 10,000 damhan alla chuile lá, agsu níor cheart é a chur san áireamh

had a british (or something idk/idc) friend in 6th-7th grade so absolutely vile that i can never look at the "(:" smiley face again without reliving having to interact with them... deadass the worst person I have ever met and several of my family members are actual convicted felons

I was to talk briefly about Chronic Bad Take Havers and this sort of logic. Deliberately anonymous screenshots, found in the trans guy tags, posted by known jerks.

Not only am I very tired of the logic that gender is somehow synonymous with race (and frequently said by white people ofc) but also like.

"White history month" doesn't exist because the ethnicities regarded as white have their own individual history months already that are specific and unique to them. "Anti-white racism" doesn't exist because the ethnicities regarded as white that do experience specific and unique oppression have words to describe their own experiences. Trans mascs don't currently have an agreed-upon term for discussing their issues that is specific and unique to them.

"White history month" isn't a thing. That is correct. But Irish heritage month is March, as is Greek. Italian heritage month is October, as is Polish. There *are* months specifically dedicated to those specific experiences.

"Anti-white racism" isn't a thing. However anti-Irish and anti-Italian (also called italophobia) are. Anti-Greek sentiments are so strong that just over a hundred years ago we were still having race riots targeting Greeks IN CANADA. Slavophobia is also a known and discussed term for the continued hatred of slavs to this day.

There *are* words to describe the specific and unique oppression faced by these peoples even if they may have some privilege in other ways.

Trans mascs also experience oppression in specific and unique ways. The comparison falls apart when you know that these groups do indeed have words to describe their experiences.

So why is it that us having ours is so uniquely terrible? Why can we not have space to talk about ourselves?

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