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astrumtrain · 1 year ago
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HT-4M AKA Michelangelo. 6 years old
Genome: Western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii), head of archeology department ██████ █████
Assigned color: orange
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alectology-archive · 2 years ago
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wait I do want to elaborate a bit more on what the sweetest spot for reading new spring is:
if you want siuraine -> after TGH or after TSR but before TFOH if you want to make the most of the angst
if you want aes sedai politics and are too impatient to wait until LOC -> anytime after EOTW but preferably after TGH
if you want to learn about the hunt for the dragon reborn and exactly the pains that moiriane and siuan went through to find him after reading their interaction in TGH -> after TGH or TDR or TSR
if you want the wondergirls shenanigans parallels with siuan and moiraine about their time in the tower -> after TGH
if you want the rand and moiraine parallels to really hit -> before TSR or TFOH which are THE moiraine/rand parallels books
if you want to read more backstory about moiraine’s family, history etc before she accompanies rand to Cairhien in TFOH -> after TSR
if you want to feel sadder about moiraine’s relationship with lan and siuan -> after TFOH
if you want context and history for certain aes sedai that start to feature prominently after the first half of the series (and specifically, who play a more significant role from ACOS onwards) -> after LOC
but reading it whenever you feel like doing so also works - when you should Ideally read it is not really a big deal like the fandom makes it out to be. having read the series though, I think I’m personally biased towards reading it before or after TFOH because it fits under most of the above criteria while also having the added benefit of getting to read it along with the best books in the series (TSR & TFOH) meaning you get to extend your streak of reading the best part of the series.
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sintenda · 10 months ago
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It's more, this bitch's anime popped off and it's mid (but semi decent for a teenager watching this for the first time, speaking from experience) narrative in another world was pretty cool, bc MMOs are pretty cool. Story was still mid tho, it has potential, but I'm not sure if it was ever capitalized on past it's 3rd season of GunGaleOnline. It's just basic power trip fiction without a lot of payoff
But then like, everyone did ctrl+c, ctrl+v and barely did anything to the formula that popped off in a similar way. So we just kept getting basic harem animes using the isekai genre to skim past worldbuilding efficiently.
And it's gotten to the point that isekai animes *have* to be shitty Harem animes to the point the guy isekai'd isn't even relevant and we just need hot chicks. It's more interesting shit only when the lead isn't a boy, bc if it's a girl there's a fun narrative. Point proven in SAO alternative about just a girl enjoying a game for some body euphoria. Could there be female lead isekais as blands as the ones we have with boy leads? Probably? I haven't seen one yet.
Like isekai animes can be more, look at Digimon! Did you remember Digimon was an isekai for most of its iterations!?
Its not even solely Kirito's fault here about anime getting so bland, but he definitely had a hand in lowering the bar of quality for popular anime to be popular. It was kinda coming already what with the moe boom, and just studios picking up animes that basically go "OH Yeah! We're just like this super popular thing that came out recently if you squint your eyes." Like, it's become a sludge to find good death game animes bc they're so surface level basic. Also how many "high school apocolypse" animes were around in the early 2010s?
all your issues with modern anime are this cunt's fault btw
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comicaurora · 11 days ago
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You mentioned in a previous ask about Arcane that wanting to do something better can be a great motivator, but recently I've seen a lot of discussion about fanworks created out of "spite" like Spiderman Lotus or that Transformers fan film. Do you think these come from different feelings, leading to their end result, or that the motivation just needs to be handled carefully?
Ah, I see the confusion. When you have ideas for what a story could do, and then the story goes in a different direction and bypasses what you thought it would do, that can be an incredibly useful motivator for using that unused inspiration for telling your own story. Taking someone else's completed artwork and saying "move over, idiot, I'll show you how it's done" is a recipe for hubristic self-immolation.
Setting out to "fix" someone's work has to be approached very carefully. Artistic criticism is a complicated skill, but it isn't treated that way. Especially in the age of the internet, several wildly different things have been conflated under "criticism", and I think that's why spite-motivated "fixes" almost always end up tripping on their shoelaces and falling flat.
Art critique - "fixing" someone's work - is about figuring out how to make the art the most effective version of itself. Determine what it's going for, and make suggestions for how the artist could improve the execution of that goal. Clarify a confusing moment, change the score a little to be more emotionally impactful, break up the pacing with moments to breathe, tighten up the pacing to maintain the frantic vibes.
However, the broad perception of what art critique is has been bundled together with several other forms of criticism, including snarky reviews (a judgment of quality rendered after a work is completed and aimed at prospective audiences so they don't end up wasting their money), general knee-jerk mockery (it is easy and fun to score points off of other people's sincerity via a little casual bullying), critical analysis (taking apart how a story works to learn from it, a useful approach for other artists trying to improve their own skills) and, of course, fanfiction.
Ahh, fanfiction! If you don't like a story, you can just take the characters, setting, premise, worlbuilding, and the general shape of the plot - ignoring the fact that at this point you've borrowed about 80% of the work that went into building the original story already - and then you can just make the characters do what you wanted instead. If you think Spider-Man would be better if everyone was miserable and grieving a dead buddy the whole time, you can do that! Two hours of misery for everyone!
This approach is ostensibly trying to accomplish what art critique does - to make a better version of the story. But in practice, it's almost never interested in interrogating what the story was actually going for. In fact, it's actively scornful of what the story was going for. It doesn't take it apart to see what did work, it just says "I didn't like that and I could do better" and produces something trying not to be like the original it disliked.
I kind of think of it like this. If you ate a meal and you were like "there's not enough salt in this," you would not produce a better meal by focusing exclusively on loading it down with all the salt you could find, even if you were starting with all the same ingredients. Do you understand how they were put together to begin with? How the meat was brined, how the vegetables were cooked, what seasonings went where? Do you think all it needed to make it work was salt?
So you get fanworks that do indeed focus on the part that the fanartist thought was missing. You get Spider-Man Is A Sad Jerk For Two Hours. It accomplished what the fanartist wanted, but it fails in its true goal of being Like The Original But Better, because it never actually made the effort to understand what made the original tick. Why do people like Spider-Man in his other movies? Well, there's lots of reasons that work for different audiences - he's funny, he's good-hearted, he's graceful and well-choreographed, his fight scenes are fluid and exciting, his dynamic with the people of New York is lively and comedic, he's hapless and hurting but he always tries his best, he gets knocked down but he always gets back up-- there are many reasons to like these stories. But if all you can focus on is what you wanted them to add, you'll have a lot of trouble parsing out what functional elements you'll need to carry over into your fanfiction to not lose the core of what made it actually mostly work.
If all you focus on is accentuating the bits you wanted them to do without recognizing the parts that were working fine, you end up with a heaping plate of salt.
✨ as the ask states, this post is very specifically about spite-motivated "I can do it better than the writers" fanworks and not fanfiction in general ✨
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hoofpeet · 9 months ago
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is there any reason why you choose to build hoofology’s world the way you do? with the sort of sporadic posts I mean. that each incrementally focus on specific characters or the world itself, or just some random spattering of biology or design choices. I actually really like the way you do it even though I’m pretty sure it’s unintentional, it feels like looking through old newspapers or picking up a picture book from when you were a kid, if that makes sense? It’s more of “you can get a general idea for it very fast, but the deeper intricacies are yours to find”. I think back to your valentine flavored energy drink post a lot as a way for couples who aren’t the same breed(?) to go on dates if one’s nocturnal and vice versa. I love your work lots and lots and lots and think the way you go about everything is gorgeous. Hoofology as a whole has a very “uncomfortably comfortable” feeling to it. Like I’m visiting a grandparents house that I was at all the time when I was a kid but haven’t been to in over a decade.
Because I enjoy stories where the worldbuilding is something you can sort of choose how much you engage with; it's more of a suggestion that you can choose to ignore, but does add some fun to the story if you work to piece everything together. That probably came from watching Adventure time as a kid and being really obsessed with vague hints as to it being set in a post-apocalypse world, with background elements that suggest worldbuilding but never fully hand an explanation to the audience.
The other big inspiration for worldbuilding probably comes from Ghibli films; I feel like ghibli characters always feel very believably at home in their surroundings. Someone is generally already familiar with their surroundings, so they don't act like their own world is particularly extraordinary/unusual. I think the two big examples for what I mean would be princess mononoke and Nausicaa- where the characters are more concerned with looking forward and living their lives while somewhat ignoring the worlbuilding around them- because it's already familiar knowledge to them.. It's like watching landscapes pass by from the car window but still being focused on driving
--I also like stories where the characters themselves also don't fully know what's going on with the world around them. Most of the events/forces at work that shape the world Hoofology is set in are completely unknowable to both the characters and readers. Don't have many good examples of this but like- settings with a lot of ruins and such
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melpomenelamusa · 5 months ago
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Chimeras - Masterlist
Hi! I decided to make a little masterlist of the original story I'm writing, to make it easier for those interested in reading it.
SUMMARY: Chimera children are humans who, for reasons still unknown, develop animal characteristics during adolescence. Considered by most to be an anomaly, they are often hunted, killed, kidnapped or simply discriminated against by society. These are the stories of some of these chimera children and how they try to survive in a world that seems not to want to see them as people... Genre: slice of life, drama, fantasy Major prompts: Whump, found family, kidnnaping, pet whump, blood and injuries, mention of death, hurt/comfort
CHARECTER´S PICREWS
CHAPTERS:
First meeting Pt. 1 🦌
First meeting Pt. 2 🦌
The Stay🦌
Bad Memories 🦌
Poison 🦌
The Hunter Pt. 1 🦌
The Hunter Pt. 2 🦌
The Hunter Pt. 3 🦌
Speak, I'll listen to you 🦌
Something magical 🦌
Always pretty 🐍
Dollplay 🐍
The show must go on 🐍
Something fishy 🐯
A matter of pride Pt. 1 🐍
A matter of pride Pt. 2 🐍
Pity Party Pt. 1 🐍
Pity Party Pt. 2 🐯
A promise 🐍
A gift 🦌
Bad Habits Pt. 1 🦌
Bad Habits Pt. 2 🦌
Coming soon...
SPECIAL CHAPTERS:
Deer Hunt: 2nd POV whumper 🦌
Holiday surprise: Christmas special 🐍🐇
Warrick´s Birthday 2025
EXTRAS:
Chimera Children's historical context.
More Chimera Children worlbuilding
Elafi OC Questionnaire
Tag game OC Songs
Warrick OC in 15
Elafi Character Profile
Seasons-beating Gift 2024 (a Chimeras fanfic)
DRAWINGS:
Warrick fanart
Halloween ft. Warrick & Elafi
Christmas Eve ft. Elafi & Fidi
Thanks for reading! ⭐
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gatsby-system-folks · 1 year ago
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Hi besties
I didn't feel like deleting this commission post. Thankfully, the friend who I opened commissions to help has stable housing now. I'm not saying commissions closed, I'm just busy lol.
Illustration:
Some examples of my work
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I'll also do relatively short comics. This is a snippet from my webcomic. A sketch is $10, colored sketch is $15, lineart is $10, colored lineart is $15. Shading or lighting on anything will add $10. I'm not separating character art and landscape art, both have the same rate, but something with more than 5 characters or something set in a city (or otherwise densely populated/elaborate area) will be a little more ($5 for every character above 5, and an extra $10 for an elaborate scene). Comics are the same, each page (not each panel) will be treated as a piece.
Writing:
I'll write for ocs, and from:
Homestar Runner
Rise of the tmnt
The Usagi Chronicles
Gorillaz
Good Omens
Undertale/Deltarune
Homestuck (and its affiliates, such as pesterquest or friendsim)
Venom
Moon Knight
Treasure Planet
Hellboy
Doctor Who
Our Flag Means Death
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit
The original 6 Star Wars movies
The Spiderverse series, itsv and atsv
The Davina skit from Rab C Nesbitt. (I see yall shipping Davina with Mrs. Robinson and I love yall)
If something's not on this list, you can still ask, and if I've seen whatever the media is I'll probably write it. On the other hand, if i haven't seen all of the content for the medias listed above, I'll have to do some research so it might not be the best work (ie the only reason I'm limiting this to the first 6 star wars movies is because I haven't seen any more than that)
I'll do ships between canon characters or between ocs, I'm not comfortable doing x reader content at this point. Also.. they don't have to be ships lol I also do just. Fics.
Some examples of my work:
I'm gonna keep it simple and do $20 per thousand words, but there's not a minimum word count. That's $0.02 per word lol. When you describe the fic ill give you an estimate of how many words I can do it in, and we can adjust. If the fic goes more than 150 words over the final estimate then it's flat-rate (as in the price doesn't continue to climb)
Poetry
Any subject really. I'll add examples of my work when the website I post on is fixed. Poetry is twice the price of fic
Editing:
Keep it under 5,000 words for now. $8 per hour. I'll edit fic, essays, etc.
Worldbuilding:
If you need help figuring out a magic system, how pipes connect your city, weird biological facts about your aliens, or even just where to put the castle parking lot, I can help. Same rules of fic writing and editing: if we chat worldbuilding for an hour, it'll be $8. If you want a 500 word summary of your new worlbuilding, that'll be $10. The text of the chat of course is free, you can pause your time of course, and whatever time I spend writing the summary isn't double charged. So an hour of chatting+ a 500 word summary would be $18
What I won't work with, in any format
Heavy nsfw- light is ok
Incest, pedophilia, noncon etc
Hate, bigotry, overly political work, bullying
Torture
Glorification of not good things. Depiction does not equal glorification
Case by case: real, living people. Context below.
What I won't draw, specifically:
Gore
abuse (such as beating, verbal, emotional)
Self harm
Everything is case-by-case, if something makes me uncomfortable I'm not going to do it. You may not put my work into an ai scraper of any kind. Also I'll say it again, depiction does not equal glorification.
Context on real people: I mean if you want me to just draw a picture of Margot Robbie that's most likely fine, or write about the wacky secret society that Laura Ingals and St. Patrick were running that's probably fine, or if a real living person appears in the background that's probably fine (I see you good omens fans having Crowley and Hozier hang out at a bar), but I won't write shipping for real, currently living people, nor will i make them the mc of a story. I'd prefer not for dead people either, but that's not a hard rule. Once again, case by case.
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voidfeather · 1 year ago
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hmm while i can withstand a certain amount of "bloat" in stories it can get overwhelming after a certain point meanwhile i fare much better with narratives that have lots of content but each one is important to the story since it appeals to my natural mindset of "everything is connected"
but in accordance with that mindset i do like seeing how one influenced the other so i think i'll read it on occasion when i've got literally nothing else to do
i should probably read homestuck huh
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ihopethisendswell · 6 months ago
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.....okay, a little worlbuilding, but in the form of me trying to figure something out.
The Great Divide caused the magic of the world to be taken into a separarte plane/ dimension, but remnants of that magic still exists. Magic users are part of that remnants. The reason magic users in modern times are so looked down upon is bc they are living proof that the great divide did happen, something that many thought to be just a fairytale (heh). But now i;m wondering how magic users where treated immediately after the great divide.
Where they treated as gods for holding the magic that once was natural to the world? Where they immediately shunned, maybe even blamed for the gods turning against them all? Both?
I think the answer lies a bit in why the Great Divide even happened, cause I actually haven't fully fleshed that out yet.
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mitsuki91 · 11 months ago
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For the Snapedom AU Ask Game, I'd love to hear your answers to 2, 6, 10, 13 (particularly since you mentioned time travel!), and 27!
Thank you for your question! And for creating the game 🥰 First of all the story is "Until the end of the world", a Severus Snape/Lily Luna Potter one with time travel.
So! Let's answer:
2- Lily Luna was born with the ability to time travel because of reasons (explained in the story later). When she was 20 something, magic goes mad and the world starts to die. She time travel to try to find a way to stop it.
6- I create (or better: reuse an old idea mixed with some external inspiration) the core of the worlbuilding like "what are the true limits of magic? And why are they in place?"
10- No. My Severus will be happy in the end... But he knows at some point what happened in the alternative universe that is canon.
13- It all starts in the last years of his time in school, so 1977. It goes on from here.
27- Since this is an italian story now at 81chapter (and counting), I will post the english translation of the summary:
"I am the man of love, Lily," he told her, "And if there is a way for that love to travel with you, I will find it, and I will follow you wherever you go. To the beginning of the world, if need be, since you have already found me at the end."
Lily sobbed even harder, and her legs gave out, causing her to slide onto him. Severus finally let go of her face, and gently accompanied her as she collapsed, continuing to smile tenderly at her, while all around them magic went mad and drew cracks in the fabric of reality.
The man had stopped fighting, and turned towards the light, finally at peace with himself.
"Go," he told her, as she continued to fall, "Go, save the world, and come back for me. Be patient with me, but do not give up. I love you, Lily! Don't give up."
Thank you again for everything! 🥰
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healbellls · 1 year ago
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// Don't reblog this post, I don't want it being spread around!
Headcanuary 2024
Day 8 - Birthday
I know in the past I used to give my muses birthdates (in fact, I believe that info can still be found in some of my muses google docs). But let it be known that for actual worlbuilding purposes, the dates are completely irrelevant and make no sense at all. So, I completely disregard them. It is way more likely that the pokemon world, has its own set of months, and in some regions cases they may follow an entirely different calendar altogether.
Don't mistake my words, I'm not saying they don't celebrate their birthdays in most cases. I just don't see any purpose in doing anything with them (outside of some dash shenanigans that I really don't partake in, there isn't a reason to actually do any of that).
With that out of the way:
Brendan and Barry enjoy spending their birthdays in the company of their family and close friends. Even though, this was impossible to do, while they travelled abroad. Especially Barry, who spens many more years travelling, across the globe. He has had several birthdays he practically spent on video calls with his family and friends, that stayed back in Sinnoh;
The likes of Matsuba and Drake don't actually know when their birthdays precisely are. They never celebrate such date. Although, Drake can actually learn such fact about himself, through looking for official papers about himself. So, at least in his case it isn't a complete loss. But Matsuba is a lost cause;
Juan goes far an beyond in making his birthdays an entire spectacle, on its own. His fanbase is well known for making enormous tributes to their idol, in this very special date. Juan also enjoys hosting huge luxurious parties to celebrate it;
Morty and Rowan prefer smaller things, with only a select few people around them to celebrate it. Rowan may spend this day with his significant other's company. Whereas Morty likes to seek out either Eusine or Zuki's company, if either options are unavailable, he seeks out establishments that gives out free food for his birthday.
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yew--berries · 1 year ago
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Huge shoutout rn i think 2 dune and also running another session after a long break in my currend dnd campaign on account of the latter's the first book ive started in a long while now thats actually good in general & good at keeping my attention (been reading alien cargo but its kinda a slog & also house of leaves which is fun but the academic paper style of the book makes it difficult for me to read for long periods of time, also i guess the LANCER lorebook which is very fun but lacks cohesive story for obvious reasons) as well as art school giving a kick to my creative output for getting me generally just really fucking hyped for doing more worlbuilding shit cause its really fun and there was such a lull there where i didn't really touch it that coming back its like oh shit yeah i love this guy worldbuilding my best friends
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ibijau · 1 year ago
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I think I have mostly sorted out the plot for medka and actalus and the magpie king's story
With this done, I need to find a new reason to not start writing it. Worldbuilding? I should do more worlbuilding, right??
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bookcub · 2 years ago
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2 and 11 please!
What’s something you read recently and disliked?
Grimrose Girls, and yet I still read the second???? Which I also disliked??? I think the reason why is because I kept thinking the parts that were okay would get better and I was curious but like,,,, such an unrewarding duology.
like how does one mess up a murder mystery with characters from fairy tales??? my biggest gripe with this book is that this really intriguing secondary fictional text is introduced and yet we never get to read excepts from it OR even have it properly summarized, which would have made more sense for the story and also made it more engaging. the entire time, I was missing crucial information about these stories as a reader and it makes the story feel flat and dumbed down.
but also I wasn't attached to any character or any relationship and the writing was mediocre at best and the villain reveals were very easy to predict who but the why (esp of the second one) was incredibly murky and hard to by as a motive.
anyways I hated it despite desperately wanting to like it
What is your favorite genre book to recommend to someone who doesn’t usually like that genre?
I have been saying Graceling by Kristin Cashore is a really great introduction to fantasy as a genre because the worlbuilding is easy to follow, the plot is fast paced and the characters are so much fun. There is very little magic, which are almost superpowers and a world that is really easy to understand, with not too many characters or places thrown at you all at once.
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kfxie · 1 year ago
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Trigun remake makes me genuinely SO angry and sad bc of how bad it , like the storywriting CHOICES as well as the designs...its like they went out of their way to miscaracterize and completely ignore the source material in favor of making a completely flavorless generic action anime . It spoonfeeds the viewer and hates the concept of subtext for some reason even tho id argue its one of the best parts of the manga.
The characters are stripped off of any complex personality , just boiled down to the same overplayed boring stereotypical uwu protagonist , asshole friend , tsundere girl who likes him . THEY ALSO LITERALLY JUST. REPLACED A MAIN CHARACTER WITH JUST A RANDOM GUY, changing the dynamic of the 4 original protagonists for no reason......
I can literally write an ESSAY on why stampede is such a failed remake , like its closer to a reimagining but a bad one bc it lacks all of the unique thought and interesting worlbuilding and narrative of the original manga. SAD 😨👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
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torchflame · 2 years ago
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Naming Conventions / [Torchflame rants about their characters #1]
so I'm going to try something new out and talk abt the worlbuilding of my warriors ocs since I've deviated a lot from Canon lol :•]
if ppl are interested maybe I'll make this a series? idk I just like talking about my characters
Main deviation(s) from Canon
Names are given fully at birth
--Rather than leave the suffix up to the leader, the birth parent determines the kit's full name. If, for some reason, the birth parent is unable to name the kit, the duty will pass to the kit's other parent(s), to a close friend, and finally, to the leader.
--It isn't uncommon for specific families to have a running theme with names, such as animals or actions. For example, Littleheart's family was known to have bird names until he broke it
--many of the clowders have superstitions regarding certain names. In Ridge Clowder, the suffix 'rumble' is considered to be bad luck, as it's thought anger the stars and cause earthquakes, the main cause of deaths in their rocky territory. Though there is insubstantial evidence supporting this, many cats assume a "better safe then sorry" mindset.
Alternatively in Moor Clowder, a suffix or prefix related to birds in some way is thought to be a blessing and bring good luck. This is believed so strongly, it is a social taboo to name a kit something unrelated to birds (an example being Littleheart; adding yet another difficulty to his already rocky leadership). This belief goes hand in hand with their belief that the spirit of their dead are reincarnated as birds
• There are no suffixes exclusive to rank
--leaders do not get the 'star suffix and keep their old names, however they are referred to with the star title. Ex. Star Creammask and Star Pineheart. If we're getting real fancy, leaders can be referred with full fancy titles such as "the Careful Star Littleheart", entirely dependent on the legacy they leave behind
--Apprentices do not get the 'paw suffix, though they are often referred to affectionately with their prefix only as a cute nickname. They normally begin to enforce using their full names around the end of their apprenticeships (excluding friends and families). It is a sign of great disrespect to refer to elders or the leader with prefix only
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