american fantasy name: aethiraimia “mia” windfeeler
chinese fantasy name: zhang youming (minimum two pages of in-text etymology about why they’re called this)
all three are orphans, but zhang youming was taken in by a mysterious sect, mia windfeeler grew up fending for herself on the streets, and wicklebort smee lives with his rather nice aunt over in derbyshire
More male characters who are interested in their mother’s legacy. As a trope there’s a lot of sons and daughters who follow in the father’s footsteps and there’s yes, girls who honor their mother, ect. But let’s have more dudes who are like. Stumbling on their mom’s secret fairy cottage or some shit. And they’re like aight gotta make the tea
i do desperately need everyone on this website especially people who arent american but want to rag on america to familiarize themselves with the basic romanized spelling conventions of native american languages because every day i come on here and i see people making fun of massachusetts or connecticut or mississippi or passamaquoddy or mashpee or nipissing and its like PLEASE. PLEASE THEY ARENT ENGLISH WORDS. PLEAAAAASEEEEEUUUHHH. USE YOUR MINDS TO IDENTIFY WHEN A WORD LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NOT BE ENGLISH. I DONT CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF AMERICA JUST PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHILE YOU DO IT
Map I found showing which states got their names from where. Over half of the states come from Indigenous languages.
me when people think they’re being funny about shaganappi…
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