#southern names

[wronggalaxy]

Names I'm so mad my parents didn't name me(from the perspective of a southerner)

1) Rosemary: 1st of all it was my grandmama's name, 2nd of all its a spice; what's to lose?! (Also it's my mama's favorite color)

2) Clementine: The song My Darling, Clementine is important here, everybody knows it, not defending the meaning or anything, but if you're not from here you can't possibly understand the significance

3) Loretta/Lynn: Really popular country singer who came from Kentucky. I'm not proud of her beliefs and there are way better country singers to be named after, but I can only expect so much from my parents

4) Luna: It's just pretty and what my mama was gonna name her first kid if he'd been a girl

5) Maddie: It's a complicated and personal story I don't have the energy to tell right now, but it's important to my life

6) (Ela)Nora: It just gives off classy southern vibes that I love

#name #names #name suggestions #baby names #southern #Southern names #eastern kentucky #kentucky

[inthedarktrees]

Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire

#vivien leigh #a streetcar named desire #filmedit #classic movies #old hollywood #blanche dubois #southern gothic #1950s #50s #magic #tennessee williams #classic hollywood #classic films #elia kazan #filmgifs #moviegifs #gif #movieedit #black and white #film

[etherslut]

a gift, and i love him

#mine <3 #iconography #photographers on tumblr #rural gothic #photography #appalachain gothic #southern gothic #religious imagery #rural #ruralcore #appalachia #countrycore #country core #homestead #father why have you forsaken me #in jesus name #abandoned by god #americana #ethel cain #lizzy grant

[oshacompliantmagicalgirl]

Ok, are we ever gonna acknowledge how fucking cool the name "Aziraphale" is? Like every time I hear it I lose my shit because its such a baller name. And then the angel himself is just a little fruit, and I love him

#aziraphale #good omens #i love this man #but why is his name so fucking cool #id name my firstborn that because it fucks so hard #but its also the southern pansies name so we would have to live with that #maybe i just like names with z in them #again i love him #but his name is almost too cool for him

[sealsdaily]

Wikipedia image for pinnipeds

Today's Seals Are: Purveyors of Knowledge

#seals #pinniped #daily #asks #mod ribbon #kekeno #← maori name for the nz/aotearoa sea lion. think this will be the tag #walrus #grey seal #southern elephant seal #steller sea lion #otariidae #phocidae

[leafspiritz]

sometimes a family is you, your scary girlfriend, her rat-bird-son, and her terrible mangled hell-hound that comes from the depths of her soul 💜

#also this is my official petition that marisha continues the food names for laudna’s creatures and calls the hound Spare Ribs #marisha if you’re reading this #it matters to me only #imogen temult #laudna #hound of ill omen #(see that tag looks goofy he needs a name !!!) #pâté de rolo #imodna #southern gothic #critical role #critical role fanart #campaign 3 #bells hells #cr #c3 #laura bailey #marisha ray #dungeons and dragons #d&d #fanart #digital art #procreate

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

#for the record if you ever find something kind of rancid in my fics #do please let me know #EX: I've rewritten scenes to be better Actual Blind Rep for Toph based on blind reader feedback #and I'm debating how hard it would be to ignore/re-write the canon issues of Water Tribe sexism (for the Southern Tribe at the least) #because that is a common complaint I see from the people who's RL cultures the Water Tribes was based on #probably I can do more interesting things with that going forward #in other words justice for Hama and Hahn #at least the show itself made Hama excellently complex #anyways back to doing actual writing #please no follow up questions #though I will say anyone who wants to update their own fics to use Wanyi (or any other name): go for it! #all you need to do is plop your chapters in a word editor and find/replace the ship name! it took about 40 minutes to do literally #all of my fics and I had some other editing to do besides! it'll be even quicker for you! #let's sink the Wani #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko

[irhabiya]

you said in your post about egypt that you wished people would pay more attention to other spots- would you mind telling us about those spots? like, in your opinion, what are the most beautiful things in egypt?

!!! IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED

usually people like to visit the pyramids, the library of alexandria and alexandrian beaches and some temples in upper egypt which yk understandable they're incredible, but there's so much more to see!!

in the heart of cairo there's so many beautiful historic religious places to visit. coptic cairo is stunning, i recommend anyone visiting egypt to go visit a coptic church if they can the architecture will blow you awayyy my parents took me to visit one when i was really young and to this day it's one of my favorite memories of egypt. and the mosques too! we have some of the oldest mosques in africa they're definitely worth a visit.

the siwa oasis!! i haven't been there myself and i'm literally never not salty about it😭 every time we try to plan a trip there something comes up </3

on the north coast, alex is by far the most visited city (for good reason) but in terms of beaches and resorts i prefer marsa matrouh it's less crowded, and the water is so clear it's insane

on the red sea sharm el sheikh is a mustttt visit destination, i went snorkeling there for the first time and got see the pretty coral reefs it's one of my favorite places everrrr in egypt <33

taba is also another place in sinai that looks freaking unreal but i haven't been there yet

i haven't been to upper egypt unfortunately but aside from visiting the famous temples in luxor and aswan i really want to see nubian architecture in person, it's so colorful and full of life

#*upper egypt is actually southern egypt btw the naming is ancient egyptian #inbox #there's so many places i didn't even mention like wadi el hitan and port said and al arish ugh

[spitinsideme]

can we get ragatha obsessing over horses please 🙏🙏 (it was confirmed by gooseworx that she’s a horse girl 🤯)

OBVIOUSLY SHES A HORSE GIRL !!!! shes so southern to me and this reinforces that fact, she used to have a horse inher little southern ranch and they were her favourite, the horse was an american belgian draft becaudse i think they loook the coolest for her and she knlws so much aboit them because she loves them sososomuch ... pomni is listening very hard she is very interested and ragatha loves talking about them

#tadc fanart #pomni fanart #tadc pomni #the amazing digital circus #the amazing digital circus pomni #pomni #ragatha fanart #tadc #tadc ragatha #ragatha tadc #the amazing digital circus ragatha #ragatha x pomni #ragatha #pomni x ragatha #buttonblossom #jesterdoll #ragapom #shes southern !!!! listen to me !!! #she knows how to ride horses by the way its true i know it #can you all trust me when i say she named her horses horse puns after singers she liked #the horse was called dolly parton

[th3wizardoz]

I am a avian natural historian, but I am helping with the overhaul of the fish collection at my university and the common names make me laugh.

My favorite so far is “Southern Slippery Dick” but “Alabama Hogsucker” is a VERY close second.

#like bird common names can be funny #but you fish folks have a great sense of humor #natural history #fish #fishblr #science #biology #alabama hogsucker #Southern Slippery Dick

[navajja]

Something something about jokes and new ideas.

#i only know sketches #they are fun to draw #also ran is there #myart #nvjjarttag #zukka #atla #avatar the last airbender #sokka of the southern water tribe #sokka #zuko #zuko atla #sokka atla #i genuinely dont know how to tag atla stuff i want last names and stuff

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

Remember My Name - Mitski

#mine #remember my name #mitski #be the cowboy #photo #photography #texas #southern gothic #rural #typography #rural gothic #americana #edit #art #writing #american gothic #collage #digital #web weaving #nature #landscape #country #gothic #small town #text #south west #photographers on tumblr #typo #♡

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

fuck it. Take This And Run

#would eddie be good at singing? inquiring minds want to know... #i was looking at Southern Belle images for. Reasons & i saw a couple of dresses #that made me go 'ohhhh that would make a killer fusion' #and mr dear was on the braintisserie. so.... #Eddie In Drag My Absolute Motherfucking Beloved #its everything to me its everything to meeeeeee #god i need to see if the nearby (read: over an hour away) gay bar has drag nights #ive never been to a drag event of any kind #and i desperately want to.... #PERHAPS! perhaps! #i do have a car and ample time to waste! #scribble salad #eddie dear #lmao i forgot his name a second there. i started typing and drew a blank <3 #how Fitting! #anyway i need to practice drawing dresses....

[ellie-makes-mbs]

name moodboard for “lazarus” for anonymous

#a true work of art//moodboard #sparks of creativity//my work #moodboard #aesthetic #mb #southern gothic #midwestern gothic #religious trauma #rural gothic #appalachian gothic #american gothic #liminal spaces #do you not know that a man is not dead when his name is still spoken//name mb #speaking through another//request

[weaselishmcdiesel]

this was suPPOSED to stay under wraps for a bit longer, but from the desperation created by the poll im. going to . post a bit from a new shared au between @tallaroo and myself that we were brainstorming. featuring, of course, many many gay cowboy minecrafters. please take this. look forward to some more since roo's also craftin up some goodies ^^<3

AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE MUMBO

#uhhh roo i dont think we have a name for this au? #just . cowboy au #but it's more sorta like. southern/western au #since mumbos not a cowboy....... to start #we can figure out a name i think later.. XD? woopsiiiies #art #my art #my aus #(THATS JUST MY AU TAG FOR MY SPAM IT'S NOT MY AU IT'S OUR SHARED AU THANK YOU) #hc #mumbo #grumbo #scarian #mumscar #the designs arent fully final yet. but theyre sorta approaching the idea we have ^^<3 #yes there will be horsies #ROO IM POSTING IT BEFORE YOU TOLD ME WHICH BLOG YOU WANT TAGGED JUST LMK MMMWAH #HERMITSHIPPING

[bigwizardhat]

i love the southern/american gothic aesthetic but you guys gotta stop tagging every single post as #ethel cain. she’s not gonna fuck you

#also i just feel bad for her bc she shouldn’t be pigeonholed into one gimmick/aesthetic. like she has other songs y’know #also also when i go into the ethel cain tag i want to actually see songs or photos or posts about her! not the same shitty baptist church #i know it’s just another one of those spam tags à la ‘coquette’ ‘cottagecore’ ‘mouchette’ etc etc #but it’s weird that a human being’s actual stage name AND real name have been degraded to just. tag fodder #ethel cain #american gothic #southern gothic #bc i need them to see this.