many trans people have terrific bird names (jay, wren, raven, robin, piper) but it feels like shorebirds are underexplored territory.
avocet: 7/10 great sound, very elegant. fails the starbucks test
killdeer: 9/10 imagine meeting a killdeer at a party. banger
woodcock: 3/10 probably not worth it but extremely funny bit potential for a trans dude
plover: 10/10 this one's real actually. where are all the plovers
heron: 8/10 you'd get a lot of "hera" but that's good too
dowitcher, godwit: 4/10 but very dark souls
sora: this one's taken actually. sorry.
brant. willet. whimbrel. grebe. we're missing out folks
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fantasy is so fun until you have to name your countries and make a map someone please end my misery
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if we want to stop the patriarchal concept of surnames being passed down the male line, we have a few options options that i’d be 100% fine with:
children get whichever surname is cooler, to eliminate uncool surnames over the generations
children get whichever surname is rarer, to achieve a utopian future in a few centuries where all surnames are more or less equally common
children’s surnames are randomly generated: say, heads for parent #1’s surname, tails for parent #2’s surname
parents pick the first names first, and then a court decides which surname fits it better. so if a couple named mr. madison and mr. liu want to name their daughter alison, she’ll get the surname liu, because alison madison sounds ridiculous
everyone stops having children right now
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Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls
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TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS
I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, I’ve got your solution.
Native-Languages is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!
Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
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Can I give Jacks and Fletcher for masculine names? Thanks
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