#why are their names just a letter off???

[acidiccatbones]

[a-lonely-dunedain]

EXCUSE ME, WHO???

Tossdir is being personally attacked by this ring

[hertwood]

Gave unhinged teenage* coworker my phone to put her number in and she smiled so big and filled the whole thing out for no reason. Phone number email birthday. "What should i put for company? Bad bitch city" I'm gonna miss her so much

[maddy-ferguson]

fun fact about me: i'm insecure about so many random things that i've never flipped anyone off in my 22 years of life because i think my middle finger looks awkward and ugly by itself

[tiffanybluesclues]

Every week someone makes a post about how annoying it is that Dick Grayson fans don't acknowledge his flaws, and every week someone replies with an explanation that the flaws OP listed are entirely fanon and inconsistent with canon as it actually happened and at this point I have to assume that none of those explanations are ever going to stick because clearly some people just want the fanon to be true.

Anyway, I'm just putting this here for me to edit and add relevant-to-the-topic links later so I'll have them nicely at hand to read and sooth my frustrations when it gets real bad out there. (Echo chambers are good when we use them to drown out character mischaracterizing fanon.)

[nereidaa]

so the whole storyline about ✨him✨ is here

(I ACCIDENTALY CLOSED THE SITE AND A WHOLE FUCKING LIST JUST DELETED. I'M MAD BC I HAVE TO REWRITE IT AGAIN. BUT ANYWAY.)

so we met this year when i went to this school

he's a grade older than me but i assume we're the same year (cause he's 15 now and i'll turn 15 this year) (i don't know if i say it the right way but i just don't know how to explain it)

i was friends with a girl in autumn, and he was friends with her too (now we both don't talk to her, idk why he doesn't tho) and we interacted in some way bc of it

in our school we choose the classes we want to attend and it doesn't depend on the grade you're in, so we had some mutual classes during this year. also we have not only the regular school subjects, but some interesting courses on very different topics (i'm not showing off, just saying that i'm glad to be from an upper middle-class family and go to a private school)

we had a class that is about the society or smth, and there was a lesson about marraige. he just leaved like after 5-10 minutes (idk if people still make those awful sigma jokes but yeah) (and yeah we're allowed to do so, you can leave anytime you want). no point here, i just remembered that and thought it could be important to understand his character or something

he's from a friend group i don't really like (they're loud chess nerds who speak in russian and that pisses off the whole school. there're a few nice guys there tho) but he's also friends with a lot of other people (he's a goddamn extravert and literally knows everyone)

back to the classes. we had physics together in winter, and we imitated electron movement (i'm from ukraine and i don't give a shit how you call all these things in english, i hope you get it), and we needed balloons for it. i helped him to tie his balloon (also he sat next to me? but idk if that means something or he just sat down somewhere bc all other seats were occupied, i don't remember)

then i remember how we just accidentaly got distracted and he showed me some tricks he can do with his hand but then the teached noticed it (like boy? why me? no complaining tho)

i don't remember anything til now tbh and so we're here in april 2024

we have like 4 mutual classes now

it's a format where we have different lessons everytime, history of music, history of ukraine and history of antiquity (it's not bc he's a history nerd, it's bc i am a history nerd lol. i have like 5 different history classes rn)

this tuesday we had the format and it was a game called 'two states' where we were in the same team. the point of the game was to increase the state budget and also to not have any dead citizens (if you don't have any money left by the end of the round you die). i convinced my friend alice, with whom we played as a family, to help him so that he did not die (we basically gave the guy money lol, but she didn't even want to help)

also there is a thing among us, when we do those little charades to communicate when we're too far from each other to talk (I SWEAR I DUNNO WHAT THAT WAS PLSS. MY BSF SCREAMED INTO THE PHONE WHEN I TOLD HER.)

and there it was then too

and also we often just look at each other and shake our heads at the same time when our mutual friends do something stupid and laugh

and after that alice and i went to the subway together and before that we chatted with him in the cloakroom, where he told us about our other friend (myrosia) annoying him on purpose after he told her to stop. i just don't get it??? like what's the point of doing that??? it used to be a local joke before but if it annoys the other person why do you continue???

anyway so. on friday we had history of antiquity, he was late for school and sat down on the floor next to me (i don't remember if i ever mentioned it on my blog before but probably not. we don't use desks and all this stuff, we just sit in the auditorium/classroom on the chairs or the floor) and greeted with us (i assume us?? like our friend group??), i told myrosia to shut up before she tried to do the joke again, she did anyway and he just leaved and sat in the other side of the room

we had a group task and he joined our group for it, we did some small talk where he mentioned he didn't sleep well or something like that, then i got up from my chair and sat on the floor to help with the poster and he just sat on my chair (i mean, boy why me??? there were other empty chairs. i didn't protest tho (if it was someone else i probably would) and let the poor boy to sit on a chair)

after a lot of jokes from myrosia and alice he leaved before the break was announced again (i just don't get why they keep doing this if they know it annoys another person)

after the break he sat in the other side of the room again and when girls from our group were about to present our work we just did the whole shaking heads and then laughing thing again

then we had the school meeting and there was this thing again

by the way i feel like i forgot to say this. we never actually greet if we walk past each other in the hallway

BUT THE WORST PART IS

i'm going on a school trip in may. and so does he. and we'll be around each other for 5 (five!!!) days. WTF

so that's it. thx for reading this shit if you actually did

fuck it probably doesn't really mean something😭😭😭😭 but anyways love you xoxo

[notquiteaghost]

customer making small talk at work: [legal name] is a good name, i've always liked unique names

me: yeah, so did my parents!

customer, who also clocked my pronouns & definitely just assumed i meant 'Actually, that's my birth name': oh, really?

me, who has a similarly unique birth name but also i inadvertently stole my brother's name with one syllable changed and i dont want to get into all that while ringing up her shopping: haha yeah. i like it though!

[naomiknight-17]

Me: Ha ha why do so many trans people choose names that are just gender-flipped versions of their deadname or have mostly the same letters? How about some creativity lol

Also me: My chosen gender-neutral name is literally just the first three letters of my legal very feminine name because I am smart and creative

[theghostofashton]

not to overreact on main but.......why do white people go to actual effort to engage in microaggression like i am genuinely so.

[atlasdoe]

Remus Black > Sirius Lupin

[boygirlctommy]

i madeeee sillay new characters and i love them

[pyrriax]

ANYWHO goodnight tumblr i'll be back on the art grind tomorrow i think 🙏

[nordicbananas]

alright goodnight everyone!! this post will be t he person of the day too

person of the day is everyone I talked to today. if u spoke with me I love you dearly. thank you for talkign to me :) and also vi especially for being sweet (as usual <3)

yayayay I'm very glad I got my new pinned. I like it a lot!! and I hope to actually utilize my tagging system.

oli please consider going to bed soon. it's late. early. both at the same time. go to bed <3333

ummmm yea. OH I get to do nothing tomorrow ehrehrhrh....

[byanyan]

something about the idea of someone knowing byan for a while, but only knowing them as byan... only to then learn that their last name is byun... and byan's just like "and??? what's so weird about the name byan byun????" as if that's their actual full legal name

[eclipsionart]

Why am I just now realizing I may have accidentally kinda plagiarized an oc name and it's probably not that big of a deal but I wanna change that ocs name now fucgk

[icannotreadcursive]

There’s something that strikes me as….counterproductive? about getting pissy and accusing people of racism or xenophobia or upholding colonialism etc for not knowing how to pronounce a name, when the name is written using the orthography of a language the people not pronouncing it right don’t speak.

Cuz most of the time when this is happening, at least as far as I’ve seen, it’s in contexts when people have seen the name in writing far more than they’ve heard it spoken aloud, if they’ve heard it at all.

A lot of languages use the Latin alphabet, but they use the letters differently!

For someone to look at a name and either mispronounce it horribly because they’ve attempted to use one language’s pronunciation rules on a different language’s spelling, or to just go “I don’t know how to say that” because maybe they recognize it’s from a different language and needs to be pronounced using a ruleset they don’t know, or maybe because in their language the spelling of the name puts sounds together their language doesn’t allow next to each other—these are not moral failings.

No more so than not being able to read something aloud that’s written in a writing system you don’t know—like Cyrillic or hiragana.

Just….tell people what the correct pronunciation is. Without being accusatory about it.

If they refuse to correct, refuse to try, kick up a stink about “they should spell it a normal way!”—then they’re an asshole.

But they’re not an ass for just not knowing in the first place. And treating them like they are is not gonna help them broaden their language horizons or make them any more comfortable approaching names (or people!) that strike them as foreign.

Just…..don’t assume malice when simple lack of familiarity is sufficient explanation.