#names are important

[cerealboxlore]

Different/Alternative Names For Captain Marvel (Shazam)

We all know Captain Marvel can't really use his original superhero name anymore because of legal reasons, even though I will always call him that, what other names do you think would fit him well?

I know that some people aren't fond of the name, Shazam or Captain Thunder, for him, so I'm trying to think of what could fit him 🤔

Let me know what y'all think should be his superhero name, have a name of your own you think could work, or if you think Captain Marvel should remain as Captain Marvel!

#Billy batson #dc captain marvel #Shazam #names are important #But man they are hard #Poll #Dc comics #I'm not good at names

[thewollfgang]

Did you ever call your teachers by their first name? If you work in education, do you let the students call you by your first name?

The nibblings were discussing what students would call me if I was a teacher yesterday and it reminded me. When I used to be a substitute I never bothered to introduce myself or write my name on the board, literally just never thought of it. One class I had a girl raise her hand and ask what my name was so I automatically gave her my first name and after a few seconds added my last. There was dead silence in the 8th grade classroom for a good 30 seconds to a minute before she burst out with "we can call you by your first name!?" I was like yeah sure. You would probably not believe how absolutely excited this made the students, I heard my name more times over that class period than I hear it in a year lol. The next school year I was at the high school and hear my name and turn around and it's the girl from that class and she yells Hi then turns to her friends see I told you I wasn't lying!

*Asks are for fun, no pressure to answer quickly or at all.*

No, I never did use my teachers firsts names. Even if they offered them I probably never would!

I work in the medical field so my first name is, unfortunately, embroidered on my scrubs so that's what gets used.

#It would be a respect thing for me #The teacher has authority so they get addressed as miss/mister #If they gave me their first name and we were not in a school setting I might use it but other than that #Names are important

[cinnamon-roll-whump]

thanks to @melkors-defense-attorney for helping with this one! both in the middle when I got stuck, and with the ending :D

finally I write some physical pain :3 not a lot, not super well, but it's a start lol

also Tulkas might be a bit OOC here, not sure

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"MORGOTH!"

Melkor flinches at the familiar bellow. Anna leaps from his lap and hides underneath the chair.

He stands, but hasn't even taken one step when Tulkas slams the door open.

Melkor winces. "Please don't break my house."

"What did you do?" Tulkas snarls.

"Today? I fed my cat. Ate breakfast." Melkor looks down at his clothes; he's still in the same robe from yesterday. From Mairon's visit. "...I was planning to take a shower."

"Don't play innocent." Tulkas slams the door behind him, and the room's size is suddenly halved. "Why was Sauron seen leaving your home yesterday?"

"Don't call him that." Melkor bristles, almost wishing he had a tail to flick angrily.

"Remember, Morgoth, your freedom is conditional."

"I know." He tries not to, but he shrinks as Tulkas steps closer, his chest squeezing tight. It's a struggle to breathe. "I remember the conditions of my release. I haven't broken any."

"So Sauron didn't visit you?"

Fuck. There's no good way to answer that.

If he says yes, then he'll be punished, have Anna taken away or be throw back into the Void. Or, worse, Mairon will suffer that same fate.

If he says no... Eru, Tulkas is already suspicious enough of everything he does! He'll suffer the same punishment if– when– Tulkas realizes he lied.

"So he did visit you." Tulkas's hand drops to Melkor's throat.

"No- I mean, yes, but–" Melkor stammers. He can't bring himself to reject guilt at the price of laying it upon his Mairon. "It's not like that, we weren't-- he didn't--" Chill creeps up his legs, brushing at the back of his neck, and he can practically see the darkness of the Void obliterating his senses again.

His robe moves, and fur presses into his ankle. Instinctively, without thinking, he pushes Tulkas's hand away and kneels.

Tulkas steps closer. Melkor sees a heavy boot far too close to his sweet Anna, and does the only thing he can think to do. He pulls her away just as Tulkas's boot connects with his hand, and he stifles a cry. Anna wriggles in his other arm and noses his chest.

Swallowing tears of sharp pain, Melkor looks up into Tulkas's face, stern and hard and unforgiving as stone. He pulls his injured hand close to his chest, trying not to look at the discoloration, trying not to feel the wrongness inside as he rests it on Anna's head.

"What," Tulkas says finally, "is this?"

"My cat." His arm tightens around her.

"Your cat."

"Please." Melkor remains on his knees, gently petting Anna. "Whatever you do to me, leave Anna and Mair–"

Tulkas's gaze darkens and he steps forward again. Without warning, his fist slams into Melkor's jaw. "Do you take me for a fool?"

Melkor can't speak, can barely think of a reply. "Yes." Fuck, that's the wrong one. His arms open, dropping Anna to the ground. She squeaks in protest and darts around to hide behind him.

Just in time, too: Tulkas aims for Melkor's stomach next. He doubles over with a cough. "T-Tulkas, please."

"You've always thought me a fool." Tulkas towers over Melkor now, kicks him. "Thought you were so much better than the rest of us, so much cleverer. And now look at you."

Through his pain, Melkor registers a little head rubbing against his arm.

"Go away, Anna," he whispers. He elbows her gently. "Get away."

She doesn't listen. He's her safe place, as much a father as she's ever known.

Melkor senses rather than sees Tulkas walking around him. He bares his teeth and hisses at Anna, smacking her bottom lightly. "Please, baby, go!"

Anna mewls and shies away. Good. She'll be safe if she's gone, and if she can't be found he can fight back.

"I'm going to have to tell Manwë about this." Tulkas's hand grabs Melkor's hair, and he lets out a cry as he's pulled up. "I wonder what he'll order? Maybe he'll have you brought to Valinor so we can keep an eye on you, or send guards to stay here."

Melkor bares his teeth. "I agreed to terms wherein I was given a measure of freedom. My own home, away from Valinor–"

"You also agreed to no contact with Sauron." Tulkas grabs his injured hand and Melkor screams.

When the searing pain fades enough that he can speak, he spits, "I never spoke to Sauron, I swore that and I've kept to it! Leave my home now!"

"You're lying."

Melkor keeps his hand close to his chest and pulls back as much as he can with Tulkas's hand still in his hair, and he looks him in the eye. "I swear, Tulkas, on my Song and on my cat, the last time I spoke to Sauron was before my imprisonment."

Tulkas is a fool, so easily tricked. He knows Melkor well enough that he suspects something, his eyes narrowed in distrust, but he knows Melkor well enough to know this isn't a lie.

"Manwë needs to judge this," he growls finally. "You're coming back to Valinor with me."

Melkor's heart constricts. No, no, oh no. He can't return, he can't go back there.

One look at Tulkas's face says he doesn't have a choice.

"Let me bring my cat, and I will come quietly," he says softly.

#cinnamon writes #melkor #morgoth #emotional support kitty au #tulkas #silmarillion #silm fic #the silmarillion #names are important

[the-goofball]

#seven of nine #respect #names are important #star trek picard #star trek gifs #star trek picard spoilers #3x04 no win scenario

[dawningfairytale]

suzanne collins: yeah pretty much everyone from every district has a name related to their industry except district 12. why? uhhhhhh fucking make it up yourself i'm not your mother

#thg #the hunger games #and let me be clear: I LOVE HER FOR THAT #suzanne collins is a queen because she's not constantly on twitter #among other reasons #my interpretation is that it's an extension of the capitol's power #katniss only knows about things within d12. she is prohibited from fully seeing them as people. #insert the 'ppl in d1 name their kids such dumb shit' quote #it's a way in which the districts are further alienated from each other #and snow doesn't give a flying fuck about anyone other than himself. except for that brief window he was infatuated with lucy #he had to know 12. he had to see that they existed and to interact with them #he didn't have to for any other district so he didn't see them beyond their industries #and i'm not saying 'their names weren't really their names and the narrators made them up' no i think that's a major stretch #i'm saying that the narrators only being able to associate with (katniss) and choosing to associate with (snow) 12 #led them to initially perceive them as their industries #but ofc this continues for snow throughout his life. katniss stops when she goes into the games #(consider names like annie and woof. like yeah 'crest'a like a wave but that's not how she's referred to) #names are important #i think names are a reflection of the narrator's relationship with the other districts at any one point #uhhhhhh yeah :P

[the-foolish-ghoulish]

Let me tell you a little something

Ok, I do this edgy af thing where I hate my name but I don't know what I want to be called so sometimes I'll just call myself [_____]. Let this be a reminder to you that you can call yourself whatever you want. No matter what, don't let anybody call you "cringe" just because of your name.

I think people don't talk about names enough. I mean, if I could I'd be nameless. A name is a part of your identity just as much as your gender or anything else about you. If people can't respect you for who you are, then, they weren't worth being around in the first place.

I just wanted to give some people out there some body positivity.

#have a good day #body positive #names are important #lgbt pride

[niniane17]

Some thoughts about feminism and modern transphobia.

One of the most dangerous damages that the TERF movement has caused over the years is how it has undermined a lot of common feminist arguments for the sake of hating trans people.

Take the pronouns debate, for example. I once read a TERF making fun of trans people insistence on being called by their preferred pronouns by saying that "you don't stop existing if somebody doesn't acknowledge you" and...well. As I said, I have thoughts.

Namely, that yes, you kinda *do* stop existing if enough people refuse to acknowledge you. This is the whole point of ancient practices such as the damnatio memoriae all the way down to the concept of "social death".

The feminist movement is no stranger to this concept. Indeed, quite a lot of the feminist movement ever since its beginning could be summarized as "acknowledging women's existence as more than men's appendices". Until not long ago, women were not legally permitted to have anything without their husband's permission, and feminists rightly denounced the fact that women were supposed to disappear into their husband's life. The famous "maiden name debate" exists sorely because of the idea that women are their husband's property with no identity outside of that.

(The "smart" answer people give is usually: "well, but isn't the maiden name her father's name? Isn't this patriarchal as well?" Yes, it is. Welcome to patriarchy, I guess)

There are many cultures that currently have few to no resources to widows or unmarried women purely because of the idea that women exist to serve men. Those women might as well have stopped existing too.

Not to be clichéd, but we do live in a society. If an entire society plainly refuse to acknowledge you as a human being on your own right, then you might as well not be one. You're a living dead (a useful concept in many ways).

The connection here should be obvious, as well as the fact that using patriarchy's very same dehumanizing techniques is bad and can lead to very bad things. And yet, here we are. Trans people and trans allies are always accused of not wanting to accept "material reality" (my favorite one is "you're drunk on postmodernism". God I wish I could be) without realizing -or not wanting to realize- that this very argument was used and is still used against cis women all over the world.

This is why I never really cared about the infamous "what is sex/is sex binary/is sex real" debate; at end of the day, it doesn't really matter. We don't structure our society around "material reality", we structure it around what is more convenient. Up until very, very recently, the only convenience we took into account was cishet men's one. Said men have then proceeded to find any kind of reason to keep the structure that way, often using real facts (only people with uteri give birth) to support arbitrary decisions (therefore, they should stay home to take care of them forever).

It profoundly saddens me how rapidly some feminists are ready to accept this oppressive paradigm. I guess this is what hate does to people.

#feminism #trans rights #cw: transphobia #names are important #and so are pronouns

[1plankbridge]

I have this theory that Jiang Cheng calls his older brother Wei Wuxian in general because it’s the name that he got given by the Jiang. (Hence a-Xian from both Jiang Fengmian & Jiang Yanli and on one occasion even Jiang Cheng!) but also maybe this is the only way they can have a version of their actual older/younger relationship even though Wei Wuxian never goes as far as a-Cheng. I think he might call him Jiang Wanyin when he’s scolding him after he insults Lan Wangji at Lotus Pier but that always registered to me as a YOU ARE IN TROUBLE YOUNG MAN - I suppose it could also be read as establishing formality.

BUT this also made me think how Madam Yu is the only member of his family who calls him Wei Ying. (Does Jiang Fengmian call him a-Ying when he’s saying goodbye to them on the boat, no longer even pretending to himself that Wei Wuxian counts as his son?). And people outside his family use it to belittle him.

How nice it must be to have this name his parents gave him used by Lan Wangji with the most love.

I also sometimes wonder if Madam Yu chose “Wuxian” for him and then never used it as a sign she didn’t think he’d earned it. No envies: a warning that was never needed. How ironic would that be? But Jiang Fengmian works too: a promise that Wei Wuxian decided to spend his whole life living up to. Because of course he did.

Ugh I love them so much. (Not Jiang Fengmian, he sucks. But everyone else. Even Madam Yu. Fight me.)

#names are important #back on my bullshit #wei wuxian #jiang family #wangxian #headcanon #greatest love story ever told #cql #meta

[twocandles]

I’ve been wondering about my real life name. It’s like, I don’t particularly like it but I don’t loathe it. I just don’t connect to it, it leaves a blank and it’s completely bland. 

But I’ve never been able to find a name that resonates with me, the real me. There are names that I love and that are beautiful but I probably wouldn’t be the right fit.

I guess I have to continue playing around with it. I’ve never used my real name online so I could just as well try to go by a different name here or elsewhere. Though I like being 2c or candles here, it fits the place, it sorta fits my personality here. 

#weirdo talking #candles rambles #names #names are important

[rosewind2007]

Apropos of a conversation elsewhere:

I wrote a meta about the name, Murderbot

Just how angry is Murderbot about Gurathin’s “outing” of its name?

Despite the strongly (and clearly sincerely) held beliefs of some fans of the books, I don’t think there’s much textual evidence that Murderbot holds the “outing of its private name” against Gurathin much, if at all

Of course we can all have our own interpretations of the text, this is just a small part of mine

Here: 4.5K words

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #gurathin #secunit #martha wells #etymon #names are important #the power of names #rumplestiltskin

[magentasnail]

hey guys new diagnosis just dropped: EVIL AUTISM

#it's autism but evil #important difference #autism creature #april fools #tbh creature #tbf creature #<- that's it's new name #autism #actually autistic #neurodiversity #doodle #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #my art #artist #drawing #custome emote #discord emote #reaction image #boop btw

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

[beif0ngs]

alright look, i just wanna know who is the writer that came up with the dumbass idea of replacing the line “Ever since I lost my son, I think of you as my own” with “Lu Ten would have been proud to have you as his father” in this scene for the Netflix live action series???

#atla #Avatar the Last Airbender #atlaedit #animationedit #Zuko #Uncle Iroh #*mine #GIVE ME THE NAME!!!!! #and it's funny how they chose to keep most of the lines almost verbatim in this scene but then replaced the MOST important line... #seriously who in their right f*cking mind thought that was the better line to say in this context HUH??? #the way it was originally written was such an important highlight of this scene too!! #IT LITERALLY SUMS UP IROH AND ZUKO'S ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP IN ONE SENTENCE #like i know certain dialogues can't be translated well into live action and some changes are necessary #but there was absolutely NO reason to change this particular line whatsoever in this specific scene

[nightjarring]

When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg

#hyrax #pika #viscacha #gundi #in that order #if you were curious #blurb #rock cavy #degu #i will add more as people name more but only in pairs. its important they gaze upon eachother in pairs

[otaku-bell-livemotto]

Hey

If someone has a phonetic spelling of their name in their bio, it is on YOU to use that resource and interact with that person respectfully. You've been given the tools, fucking USE THEM.

#IT AIN'T THAT HARD #names are important #deliberately fucking them up when someone has gone out of their way to make sure you don't is a level of dickheadedness that i can't imagine

[figueroths]

not to be a high elf apologist but ​i have to say it’s actually kinda sweet that old man both expected to see gorgug again and made intentional (albeit goofy) effort to get his name right even if the best that’ll come out of his own mouth is grape nip

#maybe it’s just irl connections too #but this old man who’s so out of touch because gorgug’s whole life will be the blink of an eye for him did actually think about him #and knew gorgug was bothered and truly chose the most dipshitted way to approach it with a yak bak but nonetheless did choose! #also it’s on theme with how many times brennan brought up that names are important #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers