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textilesimp · 2 years ago

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personally i think changing your name should be as complicated as changing the name on your sign in sheet in chinese class in 6th grade. my babysitter told me my name was a basic bitch name so we picked a new one and on the first day of school i walked in and said “that one’s wrong. my name is 吉洁明 now” and the teacher just went “uh ok” and crossed out my name. trans bitches out there. i hereby knight myself your honorary babysitter. Your name is basic. now u have a cis people excuse (ur babysitter bullied you) to change it

#chinese class #deadname #story time #guys i’m kidding i loved my babysitter she was really nice #no i’m not telling you my chinese deadname sucks to suck loser #ok i’ll tell u just because i think it’s funny #it was 吉秀芳 #which (without the surname) roughly translates to “sweet smelling flower”#it’s more ‘accurately’ translated as “beautiful fragrance flower’#my favorite translation of it as a kid was “smelly good flower”#anyway apparently it’s the chinese equivalent of karen or smthn #pls don’t murder me if my translations are wrong this is my memory from 6th grade and my chinese has severely deteriorated since then #it’s been years since i last used chinese don’t quote me on these translations lmao

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