From 56dd36cad752b3aefe9c2cf87054f0ca3fb05788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 21:05:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/florilegium/naming/index.html | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/writing/florilegium/naming/index.html b/writing/florilegium/naming/index.html index d4ab0264f..58c423d76 100644 --- a/writing/florilegium/naming/index.html +++ b/writing/florilegium/naming/index.html @@ -40,9 +40,11 @@
  • Could do some Jeff VanderMeer texts? Like, there’s Ghost Bird in Southern Reach, and there’s the strange bird, and there’s Borne who was named almost deliberately…
  • Texts with weird names (esp in ‘normal’ contexts) that just treat them as normal.
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    Names bear power, I promise myself, my characters promise each other. Names bear power and yet we are in so many ways beholden to them. They bear power over us, even if we don’t want them to. They bear power over us sometimes because we don’t want them to. We don’t choose them, do we? At least most of us don’t. The vast majority don’t, even, to the point where the joke goes in trans circles, “Nice name, did your mom pick that out for you?”