#or else this post would get way too long

[cepheusgalaxy]

Okay so I have a newfound love for names (it's a worldbuilding interest) and so this is a reblog chain post, for anyone to say little things about their culture's name conventions or explain how names work in their culture! I start:

In Brazil, most people have at least three names: A given name, and two family names.

Your surname/family name is usually a mix of one of your father's surnames and one of your mother's surnames. So let's say your dad's surnames are Souza and Silva, and your mom's surnames are Cerqueira and Carvalho, so your surname (and your siblings') would be something like: Souza Carvalho.

There is a little convention about family names, though, and the sequence they are in: The father's surname comes last, and the mother's surname comes first, right after your given name. Now what happens is that when you pass down one of your family names to your children, you will usually chose the last one, so, your father's last name. Your child will still have their mother last name but it won't be passed down, likely.

That is a general convention, ofc, but nor a rule. In my case, for example, my father passed down his mother's name to me and my siblings, and my own mother's name comes last on my surname.

Given names are usually composed by one or two words. Those last ones are known as compound names and are pretty common. Let's say someone's name is Maria [surname] [surname]. That is a singular name, right? But Maria could also be combined with another single name to form a compound name, like Ana Maria [surname] [surname] or Maria Júlia [surname] [surname]. There are also a few conventions about forming compound names for your child:

Gendered names are a thing, so when you mesh them together they are usually going to be names of the same gender, like "ana" [fem], with "eduarda" [fem] and not "lucas" [masc]. There are some neutral names, like "yuri" or "luca", too. There are also some combinations that are more popular than others, mainly names with Ana, Júlia, Maria, and João.

There is also a little rule for gendered names, specially biblical-inspired ones, that allows you to turn a masc name into a fem name. That comes from the characteristics in the Portuguese language (the one we speak in Brazil) that include a gendered vowel at the end of some words to define if they are masculine or feminine. For example, the words boy [menino] and girl [menina], as well as its newly introduced neutral counterpart [menine] are the same word, just with a different gendered vowel. So, most names that shift from one gender to other usually are masc in their origin and get an -a gendered vowel at the end. So a name like "Rafael" becomes "Rafaela", a name like "Eduardo" becomes "Eduarda" and so on. Sometimes masc names like Raphael/Rafael don't really have gendered vowels but since they lack one, we just assume they are masculine.

Using that structure, Brazilian people have either three or four names commonly, but I've also seen some people with three or more family names, and compound names composed by like five names or more, but that's more uncommon.

And lastly, I want to make a little note on variations of the names. A single name like "Evelyn" usually has a bunch of different variations, like: Evelin, Evellyn, Evellinn, Evellynn, Evelynn, and so on. These variations usually happen by: replacing /i/ with /y/, adding or cutting /h/, replacing /c/ with /k/, replacing /ã/ (which is a more closed /a/) with /an/, adding or cutting accents or doubling consonants. So names with /i/ like Iara can become Yara, names with /h/ like Helen can become Elen, or vice versa, similarly, names like Cauan can become Kauan and vice versa, Lúcia can become Lucia and Julia can become Jullia.

And that's it! Brazilian names work pretty differently than Usamerican names, and the formality in calling names is also a bit different (we almost never call people by their last names, even if they are teachers or figures of authority). Look foward to seeing you guys' addition to this post! 👍

(edit: most people i've known that have compund given names also have a preferred one between the two they have. i have one friend that absolutely despises one of them, and other who never tells other people hers bc she never uses it.)

(also quick note spelling differences make absolutely no differnece in how a name is pronounced. but we do tend to get annoyed when people mispell our names.)

[fisherrprince]

Instead of writing a fanfic like a normal person this oneshot turned into two separate, contextless things,

[prudentseer]

The Statue Saga. Edited all on my phone so excuse the choppy footage.

Joel: I'm going to make these so ugly that no one is going to like them, then blame it all on Etho. That'll get him!

Bdubs, Skizz & Mumbo: This is spectacular, amazing, breathtaking. I love it. I'm never taking this statue down.

I cut most of the actual building of the statues out since I wanted to move so focus on the reactions but if you want to see the actual building process I've written the timestamp below. Also there are more scenes that I probably missed or chose not to include so here are some more timestamps. I highly recommend you to check the videos/streams out for yourself.

Smallishbeans - Hermitcraft 10: Episode 14 [13:12]

Bdouble0100 - Hermitcraft 10: Bdubs Forest [5:47], [11:17]

MumboJumbo - Hermitcraft 10: Episode 12 [6:42]

Skizzleman - Hermitcraft 10: Episode 9 [3:35], [48:30] & episode 9 prep stream [1:43:44]

Grian - Hermitcraft 10: Episode 14 [2:44], [7:36], [20:11]

[chibishortdeath]

Ya know, Castlevania tackled the concept that life after defeating Dracula could be difficult for a Belmont with Richter feeling like he’d lost all purpose and reason to go on living if not for saving others and fighting against something—

But, do you think any of them before him felt that way too?

I mean it sounds kind of miserable, being raised your whole life to be solely relied on for one moment… and then what? How do you handle the sudden shift to ‘not being needed anymore’? Evidently, most of them didn’t have very much happen to them after the events of their games since we don’t get to know—

But, do you think any of them ever got better? Do you think anyone before Richter ever learned how to live for themselves? Did Richter?

Anyway it’s 8 PM and I’m sitting around wondering if any of the Belmonts were still happy after their happy endings (debatable if certain ones got happy endings tbh but anyway), Konami can u check on them, I’m worried—

[coolnonsenseworld]

A little promo with my little obsession on the side...........

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[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[vaguely-concerned]

sophia seeing cailan's body hanging there when they go back to ostagar, and suddenly all she can see even through the rot and the ruin is just how much he looked like alistair...... :'(

a mental image that totally will not haunt her through alistair's many years on the throne as rebellions and assassination attemps come and go. doesn't send her unhinged and unwise even a little

[istherewifiinhell]

horribly embarrassing realization. ifs therapy: thats stupid. just turn urself into a robot.

(hasnt looked into it much)(understanding: investigate the contradictions in yourself and explore their origins) cognitive speed-bump: i dont view myself as a family. that stupid. i hate those things <- literally not even true. solve: beep boop idiot

[candidateofloyalty]

Franziska’s insistence on perfection is an attempt to live up to her father’s legacy despite that legacy being built on lies and ruining countless lives including that of the person Franziska loves most. Accepting that she is not and cannot be perfect is a major step in her development into not only a better person but a happier one. And despite all of this, every time she declares her own perfection my immediate impulse is to agree with her

[tea-cat-arts]

"Wwx wouldn't wear high heels or mini skirts-" some of you are wildly underestimating what wwx would do for the bit

[tittyinfinity]

contemplating deleting my blog soon I might make a new blog but idk

[godsfavoritescientist]

Biting the bars of my enclosure about autistic ford tonight. There's something about him using vocabulary and turns of phrase that seem "outdated" or "pretentious" that feels so painfully genuine to me. When people say he talks like that just to "try to sound smart" I wish I could explain what it's like to be so ostracized from your peers growing up that you spend all your time reading instead, to the point where you pick up your way of speaking from books instead of from people. And then what it's like for people to call you out for "talking weird" over and over again, not able to wrap their heads around why the fuck you would choose more archaic or technical or formal words than the simpler ones that surely come to everyone's minds first. What it's like to have to dedicate a sizable chunk of attention to filtering through every single word you say out loud in real time before you say it, to make absolutely sure that it isn't a word people will judge you for using or make fun of you for using, just so you'll have a chance of being taken seriously. Learning through trial and error how to filter out the words that other people don't think are normal or casual enough for the conversation, even though for you, the word choice that's "natural-sounding" enough for them is the third or fourth word you came up with when searching for the right way to phrase something in your head. I wish I could explain just how long it takes to say fucking anything after spending a lifetime doing that during every single conversation, and how repetitive and long-winded you end up being when you spend so long coming up with alternative ways of saying every little thing you ever think. And I wish people realized that, at the very least for autistic people and autistic-coded characters, speech that's seen as pretentious is really just the way they talk when they're not putting in the extra effort to filter through every word they say just so others will take the time to listen.

[girls-and-honey]

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[ourceliumnetwork]

Well, once again running into trauma my parents gave me (unfortunately it's most of it) because the Cat That Uncontrollably Eats Plants got in my room to eat the single plant that is in there and got a good chunk of leaf. now he's in Observation and I'm dealing with the actual adrenaline issues instead of the adrenaline dumps i was getting (apparently. learned about what those are today and that explains A LOT ACTUALLY.)

Turns out getting run over by the dog who is at minimum half your size when you're like 6 or 7 and then getting told it's your fault she got out and ran off when there was nothing you could have done to stop her even if you'd known she was going to do that, and being yelled at and told to chase her down on your own is a lot for a small child. The fact that I was on dog catcher duty even when it wasn't "my fault" they got out over the years ever since probably also didn't help.

(quotes on "my fault" to emphasize i'm trying to reframe this at least somewhat in my head as of Right The Fuck Now because this is unhealthy. this is an unhealthy way to live and it will not help any cats in times of crises if my first reaction is to immediately punish myself instead of getting help and also i'm allowed to get help even if I do mess up and it is my fault but this time it super isn't and neither were any of the other times because i wasn't negligent or unobservant i was a child and also the dogs were untrained and also Solaire the cat is a menace who will find plants you didn't even know you had to eat)

[wonder-worker]

"Administratively, too, [...] queens were considered the legal lords of their landholdings. [...] Grants noted that the queen's officials had administrative autonomy without being subject to the king or anyone else, and evidence of the same assumption can be gleaned from court rolls that were recorded with headings indicating the lord of the manor whose court proceedings were being enrolled. As an example, some court rolls for the manor of Haveringatte-Bower specified that it was the court of [Margaret of Anjou] that was in session, while later rolls recorded Elizabeth Woodville as the lord of the manor court."

— Michele Seah, "My Lady Queen, the Lord of the Manor': The Economic Roles of Late Medieval Queens", Parergon, Volume 37, Number 2, 2020.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh...