#it sounds too samey

[bumblingbabooshka]

St Voyager - Ex Post Facto “Maybe I kill myself slowly because I don’t have the courage to do it all at once.”

#I love when Tuvok & Janeway stare silently at each other as a response to something #I also love how the dog in this episode is just a regular earth dog that they call a dog #the only thing remotely 'alien' about it is that its hair is a little wild HEHEH they didnt even try #at least give it a silly name~!!! #'This is a yarnool.' (it looks really similar to a dog) 'I know not what a d o g is! how curious!' #very fun episode I love the noir vibes and the design of the apartment #tuvok saying 'it's rare to find someone as dispassionate as we(vulcans) are' absolutely a dig....and her 'I bet she's a FINE dispassionate #woman :)' ....I liked their interaction #it reminded me of that tiktok audio #'we go by tall grande and venti here.../most/ people know that.' (do I look like most people?) 'absolutely not <3' #the quote is actually 'maybe I kill myself slowly because I dont have the courage to do it quickly' but I don't like slowly-quickly #it sounds too samey #Harry isn't in this episode as much as these screenshots might suggest but I like him so he is here #He has a weirdly stoic energy in this one but I assume it comes from uhhhm.....worry or anger or something idk #it's stressful #st voyager #ex post facto #star trek #episode scrapbook #the way harry & tom stare at her with SUCH confusion after she feeds her dog meat is so funny to me #WHAT is the emotion of that scene??? <- guy who's bad with things like that #it's david lynch levels of incomprehensible to me but I like that <3

[robo-milky]

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I made it??? Actually to 1000+?? I don’t know what to say but thank you all for sticking with me! I’m super grateful to have you all and to make it this far! You all keep encouraging me on this platform and I really appreciate everyone for teaching me how to be more confident in my creations!

I really am just a silly cat maid who makes self insert/OC stuff, Rook art, horror stuff, yandere stuff, more Rook art— and I’m glad you’re here no matter what you’re here for.

Now that it’s Spring Break, I hope that I can finally host another long waited event! (But after OC x Canon week of course-) I have some ideas, but I’ll get there once I get there-

#I’m not exactly the most sentimental and I’m scared of sounding too samey— but thank you #meowing 🌸

[lesbiankoby]

beating my head against a wall to consolidate canon rouge with a coherent internal monologue lol

#i have trouble making people not sound samey sometimes. this too shall pass.

[vitaecryptid]

I need a break from writing porn so I think I'm gonna work on my multichapter pieces and a few softer things.

#vit wips #If I write it too much it starts feeling samey to me and I get bored #as weird as that sounds

[brinefrolick]

... splashes water on you.

#. goblins be thine || { open. } #. frolic in brine || { ic. } #{ me trying to post something casual without it sounding like crack challenge (impossible) } #{ after all why shouldn't i treat myself to some interaction that isn't attempted murder } #{ dont want people to feel like my stuff is too samey AJKFHSJKDH }

[depoteka]

because of the barbie movie i forgot blur released their new album yesterday and my review is that. if you like blur/damon you will enjoy it. if you don't like either you will think it's boring af

#bro this album has no bangers <333 #i still liked the general vibe just because i like blur. but i still think it's a weak album #does that make sense #also this album feels a Bit too damon #if you told me it's a gorillaz featureless lowkey album i'd believe you #he needs some break from music bc idk. it's starting to sound samey

[tariah23]

Gwen Stefani ain’t shit but I’m sorry, I still love no doubt

#I loved their music man I still do #do you know how hard it is to find refreshing sounding ska music that doesn’t sound samey as hell like #I think that was what drew me to their music back then #and my mom would always play pop and everything on the radio so our neighbors would be like ‘y’all listening to that white shit’ skksksksl #like no we grew up listening to all sorts of genres of music so I liked everything back then regardless of the genre and decades #I remember being in like 8th grade and going through my 60’s music phase lmfao #rambling #I still love old blink 182 sorry if they suck to you I get it #m+m’s is one of my favorite songs by them I just love the fast drums and guitar I really loved their style a whole lot #their old stuff at least idc about them individually I don’t know a lot about them I just never payed too much attention I just fucked with #the music

[macbethz]

Waiting 2 years for more w/atsky music only for him to drop that terrible single today

#like the intentionally childish rap thing was very successful for him in the early 2010s but he moved past it so now he literally feels like #a parody of himself when he does it again #honestly rlly fell off after x infinity IN MY OPINION. it was supposed to b his last album too #like complaint and placement are fine but they sound kinda samey to me other than boxes I would never say that abt you girl #sorry. the demons #warlock wartalks #MAKE MUSIC THAT SOUNDS DIFFERENT PLEASE #STOP MAKING THE SAME SONG W LESS SOUL

[olderthannetfic]

A short while ago you mentioned fic on AO3 that was written in the “AO3 style”, or something to that effect. I was wondering if you could elaborate on what that means/is?

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Oh god. This topic comes around every 6 months or so. Others should feel free to help me out here, but basically...

A lot of fanfic sounds like the other fanfic and other stuff that the same communities consume. In a given era and sector of fandom, that leads to a samey style. It often has a lot of overlap with a specific sector and era of genre fiction with a heavy dose of watches-tv-does-not-read-books elements on top.

AO3 House Style is relatively similar to the height of LJ Western slash fandom. Other fanfic styles are often similar but start showing other influences the more distant you get.

There are some major strains, not always in the same works:

Transparent genre fiction prose that doesn't call too much attention to itself. It's there to convey plot, not make you notice the language qua language. You'll see something similar in, say, a Mercedes Lackey novel (along with the terrible editing and protagonist centered morality that are also common in fic, haha).

YA boom era YA vibes.

Kind of forced "snark" and samevoice from many characters in a way that tells you the author spent a little too much time watching Buffy.

World building and complex thriller/mystery/etc. plots that actually work typically take a back seat to pining, angst with a happy ending, and other more ship-focused, character interaction-focused, and emotions-focused things. The general idea of a mystery, vampire AU, etc. is often present, but it's more of a backdrop. (Depends on the part of fandom though!)

Huge focus on the internal psychological and emotional state of characters.

Lots of hurt/comfort, both physical and emotional.

Lots of serialized work that shows the traces of being written that way (dangling plot threads, inflated word count, returning to similar plot points in a way that wouldn't happen if the thing were completely written, revised, and then only posted serially).

Certain cliched phrases like "He smelled of __ and __ and something uniquely him", carding fingers through hair (thanks, commenters for researching this one a year or two ago and proving it's way more common in fic!), "Oh. Oh.", etc.

If the fic is more self-consciously literary, it's full of sentences that trail off to the point where you're almost not sure what actually happened.

Often lots of very short paragraphs and lots of scenes that are almost all dialogue

Frequently third person limited present tense. Some third person limited past tense. Less of other stuff unless you're looking at a fandom where canon is first person or you're looking at readerfic (which is on AO3 but is not really "AO3 House Style").

Honestly, some people would just say "sounds like fanfic", but if you go read primarily on SpaceBattles or something, you're going to find a lot of stories that don't sound quite the same as your prototypical AO3 fic.

[thathomestar]

the most unnerving part of myhouse.pk3 for me was when a random closet suddenly opened into an expansive non-euclidean maze. the music cuts out and there is no sound whatsoever, just complete silence. all the walls and floors are a cold Brutalist grey, and there's barely enough light to tell where you're going.

you wander and wander through samey corridors, but as you go even deeper, the doorways and halls start to stretch and shrink. random ramps and stairs lead to nowhere in particular, random pillars supporting nothing, thresholds too small to enter and archways much too large to have any reasonable purpose.

eventually you stumble into an absolutely giant room, a room so expansive that you cannot see the other side through the darkness. after a considerable length of time running, you finally reach the opposite wall, where absolutely nothing greets you. as you blindly wander around this void of a room, you suddenly are greeted by this:

a massive hole in the floor. you can see what appears to be a staircase leading down into it. as you peer down the pit, the staircase forms a spiral downward, and all you can see...

...is nothing.

at this point, you might consider trying to return to the house like i did, because nothing good could possibly await you at the bottom. but we both know that's not an option. as you descend into the abyss, the house almost seems like a distant memory at this point. climbing down and down, being careful not to slip... but this is doom you're playing, and doomguy is a little slippery to control.

so down you fall.

#doom #myhouse.wad #myhouse.pk3 #myhouse #ngl finding this activated my fight or flight response multiple times #this whole wad has creepypasta written all over it but this part in particular feels so unreal #also i boosted the in-game gamma to 2x for those screenshots and i don't think it was enough

[dreamdaddydutch]

could you pls do a javier/arthur/charles/whoever you want x reader flinching away from them thinking they’re gonna hurt them when they’re in an argument? sorry this is a super touchy subject i completely understand if you don’t wanna do it 🙏🙏❤️

Hey, so this took me a sweet age to write! I started about two months ago but with my job, planning my trip to NZ, and comedy/the shows I promote and sorting out festival stuff - I've just been completely exhausted and had no time or energy to write :(

But I have finished this now, and am still around - hoping to get a few more things written in the coming month or two.

I decided only to do Javier, Arthur & Charles as it is quite a sensitive topic and I worried any more and it would start to sound samey. I hope this is okay! ❤️ I struggled a bit for using content warnings on this as there is no physical violence happening or mental abuse - it's just heated arguments. But if you know this is going to affect you please do not read.

Javier

Arguments with Javier were rare, but with the increased pressure among the gang they had become more frequent and heated. You knew the immense pressure Javier felt and how he was trying to hold everyone together, how he wanted to believe things would work out. Sometimes you just got in one another’s way.

It was an incredibly hot afternoon at Shady Belle, everyone was irritated, sweating, bitten by mosquitos and fed up. You’re not really sure how the argument started but within minutes the two of you were at one another’s throats shouting insults neither of you meant.

Micah was nearby laughing at you, only making the situation worse.

When you reached the peak of the argument Javier suddenly lurched forward, his fists clenched. You stop and freeze completely still, mouth open just a little to let the fearful yelp escape and you feel your body tense, please…you think…please not him too.

You screw your eyes shut and wait for the blow that never comes. Instead, you hear Javier sigh loudly before the rage took over and he let out a scream – his anguish clear.

As you open your eyes you find him facing away from you, hands in his hair desperately clutching at his head, completely exasperated.

“Javier?” You ask softly as you reach out to him, too afraid to touch him in case he reacts violently.

When he turns, he has tears in his eyes, not something you’ve seen before. Javier has never cried in front of you, but now he’s here, vulnerable, and open, “I could never, I would never,” he says.

You nod, you know he’s telling the truth. He would never hurt you. You hate what this place, what everything is doing to the two of you right now.

You take another step and wrap your arms around him, no words are needed. Life is tough, being in the gang right now is tough. Everyone is on edge, everyone wants to beat the shit out of someone, to scream, destroy, fuck, drink their way through this. Javier is no exception and neither are you.

As you hold one another he continues to apologise, his words barely audible but it’s clear how much this is hurting. True he had frightened you, knowing what Javier is capable of for a moment you really believed he could do it.

When you pull away Javier kisses you, there’s need dripping from him. He knows anger isn’t the solution but he needs to be with you alone, even if for one night. As if reading his mind you say, “There’s other ways we can let out our pent up frustration you know…”

Arthur

“How, how did you manage to fuck this up again!” Arthur shouts at you.

You don’t know how to answer him, he’s right of course. You have fucked up again and what you’d been asked to do couldn’t have been simpler and yet here you were, a complete failure and you’d let the one person you love, one person you trust down.

“I’m sorry Arthur, I didn’t…I know I fucked up.” You reply through sobs.

Arthur is exhausted, everyone at Beaver Hollow is exhausted. Being alive right now is exhausting, but at least you’re alive. Emotions though they still run high.

When Arthur doesn’t respond and just continues to pace up and down you cannot bare the silence, the anger in his voice, in his movements and body language is unbearable to be around. You’d rather he shouted and told you to leave, rather he did something, anything than continue to stew in the silence.

He turned to you then, red in the face and suddenly he seemed so much bigger, so much taller, broad…He seemed like a giant in comparison to you, Arthur had always been big but it was only now you noticed it and realised how easily he could break you in half. How his presence, his shadow dominated you. As he loomed over you, practically frothing at the mouth with rage, eyes bloodshot and crazed, his breaths hard and shallow you were sure he was going to go in for the kill.

You inhaled sharply and held your breath waiting for him to lash out, to hit or slap you, to kick you…something to get his frustration out. His fists were clenched, his body taunt and ready to release all that tension.

You screamed as Arthur moved and braced yourself for the impact.

Which didn’t come.

Arthur punched to the side of your head…quite far from your head in fact, so far he couldn’t have possibly ever meant to have hit you. His fist went through the flimsy wall of the hut behind you. And then he stayed like that without removing his fist.

For a moment you thought he may cry, he didn’t.

“Ahh hell.”

Arthur seems ashamed of himself in that moment; his head hangs heavy.

“I’m sorry, okay, I..I just need some time. You know,” he pauses choosing his words carefully, “the fist was never meant for you.”

You nod, “S’ok Arthur, come find me when you need me.”

He looked up, slowly removing his fist from the hut. The smile he offered was both small and sad, “I won’t be long.”

Charles

Charles stormed into the hotel room, immediately you felt irritated. This was supposed to be a nice night away for the two of you, away from the others and all the noise at camp.

But Charles had found something to be annoyed at, something to be irritated with and now that peace was shattered.

“Charles, please.” You’d pleaded. It wasn’t like Charles to be like this, he was usually so stoic and easy to get along with, rarely showing any extreme emotions so this was different, even by his standards.

He squared up to you, his chest practically puffed out and shoulders tensed. He looked bigger than ever. Usually this was something you loved about him and it made you feel safe. You thought of all the times he picked you up with ease, could carry you, make love to you…all while holding you and you with your legs wrapped round his waist.

But now he is imposing, his presence is a shadow…you shut your eyes waiting for something and flinch as you hear the floorboards creak when you

“Did you think?” He looks wounded as he speaks, shame flushed across his cheeks as he shakes his head. Charles appears disappointed in himself; he’s aware of how he was behaving and what impact this had on you.

“I’m so sorry y/n you know I’d never do a thing to hurt you don’t you?”

You nod, not just because he’s speaking in earnest and you detect no lies in his words, but because you know him sometimes better than he knows himself.

He pulls you to the bed and sits down next to you, his presence a comfortable weight that sinks in the mattress. He sighs heavy and places a hand on your thigh, “I am, I mean it.” He pauses, “I can’t believe I allowed myself to get that worked up, something is so wrong.” When he sighed you could see the weight on his shoulders.

A lot was wrong with the gang and everything you’d all been through together.

“But it’s not an excuse, I should never speak to you like that or behave like that.”

“It’s okay Charles,” you were still blinking back tears, but when Charles put his hand on your knee and gently squeezed and rested his head on your shoulder the healing begun.

#Javier Escuella #Arthur Morgan #Charles Smith #Javier Escuella x reader #arthur morgan x reader #charles smith x reader #cw: violence mention #requests #rdr2 fanfic #rdr2 headcanons #my writing

[prince-toffee]

So, I rewatched the trailer over and over again, I stepped back, organised my thoughts, and I think I get it.

So first the Bad, then the GOOD, because there's actually a lot to like here.

The Bad:

So, the trend of companies kicking actual voice actors onto the curb and replacing them with celebrities continues. I remember being really angry when they first announced the voice cast, and I still am. It's quite literally the most boring, generic casting possible. You can not get much more white bread, milk toast than a Chris and Scar - I want to play an Asian woman and trans man - jo. Also, why is Chris Hemsworth here? Do he really need the money? Did Thor 4 damage his pockets that bad? There are so many talented voice actors that could've been Orion, David Kaye is a prime example Animated Optimus and Beats Wars/Unicron Trilogy Megatron, beloved by fans, if he was announced people would've been over joyed. I love Brian Tyree Henry, and he actually has some experience with va work as he voiced Jeff Morales in Spider-Verse, my original criticism still stands.... And Kegan, oh Kegan, I love you so much, Key and Peele was my childhood, and the Toad performance was perfectly fine, endearing even. But as Bee? I'm sorry, but no, that's not BumbleBee that's just actor/comedian Kegan Michael Key, I can't hear anything else. And it doesn't help that he's handed the worst lines.

Which brings us to the comedy. First impressions are EVERYTHING. And if you fumble that that hurts your film, and the perception of your film. I think that's really the problem here, it's a bad trailer not necessarily bad content. Packing the trailer with jokes for the sake of jokes and having that samey Hollywood liscensed music cringey feel to it. Like the guitar riff that played when the 'This Fall' card came up just made me turn off the video immediately. That's why I recommend watching the trailer without sound. Bee's jokes don't really land for me, I'm sure kids with love it tho, and that's good. But I'm sure all the jokes won't be bad, the final door gag is actually really funny. So I think it was just a bad joke that soured out feel of the tone at the beginning, which is unfortunate because like I said first impressions are everything. Because this is Josh Cooly, of Up, Inside Out, Toy Story 4 fame, I'm sure the film will have an emotional core to it.

A minor thing I don't much care for is having Bee be in the same age range as Orion, in my mind he's always constructed during the war at like the half way mark or near the end, he's the little brother of the group, and now he's old enough to remember Op and Megs before the war. Also he sounds way too old.

Oh, also I don't like Orion's personality.

Good:

Now for the good; I think the animations style is gorgeous. Would have I liked something Spider-Verse/Mutant Mayhem-esk, of course, but what are you gonna do? The stand out here is the environments, a visual feast. This might already be my favourite Cybertron, it's so different yet reminisant of the Cybertron we know. The fact that the surface transformers and shifts and changes is genius, very IDW Phase 2 inspired. And the fact that Cybertron is a techno-organic hybrid world ala Beast Machines is crazy! I love that, and wildlife! I bet that's how we get the cassettes. The character models are great too, you can actually tell what emotion is happening on a person's face. Gone are the days of faces being made up of razor blades and mandibles BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT INSECTS FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY. THEY'RE PEOPLE! There's the nose, the lips, the eyes, and I can tell where one begins and ends. The eyes are gorgeous and detailed, and the face surface detail has smuges, wear, specs of dirt, metallic texture. Like, you nailed it! It's a person but a robot, you got it!

We see what we assume are the 13 Primes, Alpha Trion being the only survivor, maybe they were killed by the Quintessons and they took over. D-16, a ref to IDW and his toys designation in the toy catalogue, he'll obviously name himself after Megatronus ala TF Prime. He seems to have the Decepticon insignia before meeting The Fallen so maybe Megatronus' face is some sort of religious iconography, the Primes are a religion on Cybertron after all. It's all so fascinating, I can't remember the last time I was so excited to learn more about a new TF continuity.

Orion and D-16 are both miners and or workers, that's a refreshing take, no coptimus here. They've suffered the same way together, I bet story will be about dealing with that pain, what justice means, how far one is willing to take it and where justice stops and injustice begins. I know people are mad that the origins are a little different, but I ask you, different from what? Which continuity are you talking about? TF has never had a consistent singular timeline, and that's what I love about this franchise! It builds on itself with each new continuity! Take a bit of the old, mix it with new ideas and create something fresh, then that old guard leaves and a new team takes over and does the same and the franchise continues to evolve or should I say transform. Like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get, and new incarnations always give second chances to improve apon what came before. No Reboots, no risks means no Skybite, or Nemesis Prime, no Stasis Pods, Sparks, Protoforms, Energon ore, no Star Saber, Hot Shot, Knock Out, Airachnid, no All Spark, no Sari, no Bulkhead, no old grumpy Ratchet, none of that. Reboots are a part of this franchise's DNA. I sense the people that are complaining are the people who only value one continuity and discard all others.

It's really neat this universe's version of The Cast System is lower class worker protoforms being denied a Transformation Cog, it seems like it's reserved for the higher classes, the very thing that makes their species special and unique is denied to them. Also I didn't notice it the first time, but Alpha actually pulls the t-cogs out of the dead Primes which kind of signifies a passing of the guard, the old Primes failed, now it's your turn, and of course history repeats itself with the downfall of Megatron.

I like how Trion is covered and intertwined with moss and vines and has a beast mode, showcasing that he's of an older era now gone and forgotten.

Some other smaller stuff:

The sun looks like a holographic simulation, which makes me wonder, Cybertron doesn't usually have a sun, but there's plant life now, so what's up?

The cave that the dead Primes and Trion are in kinda looks like a Dweller.

Megatron's black helmet is a ref to Marvel G1.

That spin kick where Elita twirls her entire waist around is sooo satisfying. I love it.

AIRACHNID!!?!!!! MY QUEEN HAS RETURNED!!!!!!!

I think that's a good point to end on. So, yeah, v excited.

#transformers one #maccadam #maccadams #tf one

[pralinesims]

Here's my silly little personal evaluation of my CAS alpha vs maxis match preferences:

Hair: preferring MM to like 80%, I feel like the foreheads sit better compared to most alpha hairs, which often feel like wigs to me if that makes sense? MM hairs sit more naturally on my sims in general (except Ginko, you're the best alpha hair creator, if you see this, I'm obsessed with your creations & I love you).

Clothing: preferring MM to like 65%? Idc really, both can be awesome, but I really like the clean look of most MM clothing. Always when a new EP/GP/etc. gets released, it's the thing I'm mostly looking forward to.

Makeup & skin deets: Biased lmao, but here I definitely prefer alpha. Alpha in softer options on MM sims is literally the best thing since sliced bread IMO. Best of both worlds.

Accessories: Here like with makeup, I usually don't like too maxis matchy accessories cause often they're clunky, mostly I like pieces which steer into realism direction, but not TOO much. Something inbetween, but still more alpha.

In conclusion, this sounds like I am shitting all over alpha CC lol, but I truly am not. I love alpha CC in general, I just feel like the success rate of it looking good on my sims is a bit... smaller? Cause MM CC often is so samey looking (stating this neutrally), when one piece is looking good on one sim, a similar one is also gonna look good aswell. A bit easier to use, if that makes sense.

Anyways, maxis mix for the win. If I HAD to choose one style, I'd probably stick with that.

#random

[indignantlemur]

Hi!

Before I start I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love your works, 'Emigre' as well as 'The Stars keep watch' and I am really grateful for you giving us all such amazing and detailed views of the andorian culture.

I've read almost all of them, so I'm pretty sure that you didn't answer this question before, but in case you did, just ignore this ask :)

How excactly do andorian names work in your opinion. I get the whole clan thing etc. but is there an aspect that is present in all names e.g. that it starts with certain letters? Or is there a certain way a name is supposed to sound like to be andorian?

After all there is a vast difference between the names "Kevin" and "Vilashral 'Shral' of Clan Hrisvalar".

If there's not an answer to the question, it's fine too. I'm just curious if there's like a rule when you create your names? If you understand what I mean?

Hi there! And my goodness, thank you! I'm always so happy to meet new readers!

So my Andorian name process usually starts by checking over canon names. When naming a new character, I want to follow the hallmarks of canon Andorian names without copying them exactly.

For example, these are a mix of female and male canon names:

Ghee P'trell

Jennifer Sh'reyan

Keval

Krotus

Talah

Talas

Talla

Telev

Thy'lek Shran

Tholos

Thon

Thoris

Tysess

Ryn

Shras Endilev

Shukar

Va'Al Trask

Va'Kel Shon

Val Shon

Umarin

There are more, of course, but even with a small sample we can see a few things. Names beginning with the letter T are very popular, but the given names also tend to be two-to-three syllable long names. Beyond that, there's a mix of different types of vowels (short and long) and most of the consonants tend to be softer ones, though not exclusively.

For my headcanons and naming purposes, I have a couple of considerations to look at from this point. The first headcanon is that Andorians do not generally give non-Andorians their full names, because Andorii is a very sibilant language with a lot of soft sounds and drawn out vowels in rapid succession. Outsiders generally don't get their names right, so it's easier to go by shortened by-name than have to cringe every time your commanding officer calls you a salad by mistake.

The second headcanon builds on the first, in that full given names are broken into fragments. There are the face-name fragments that you give to strangers and off-worlders, and then there's the full name. Some individuals make use of a third fragment, which is a name used by close friends and loved ones, but it's less common. Not everyone abides by these rules, as there are always exceptions to every rule, but it's generally a good rule of thumb - especially with a culture where it's entirely too easy to find yourself in a duel to the death.

Taking all of that into account, I actually find name generators (I like this one, personally) for Andorian names to be a great starting point for creating a new name. A lot of the generated suggestions are meh, but if I can get a starting point, then I can fiddle with it until I have a name that feels right.

So, for example, I just generated ten female names:

Sevo Zh'viahliq Villen Sh'tiveq Ethrivia Zh'shrihres Esilaa Sh'vhiathrarh Aseraa Sh'kitrit Jhalli Sh'okialrarh Ipythosh Zh'rhethit Shryssa Zh'rolrirh Threra Zh'rhikress Vamaa Zh'ataakross

These are all kind of same-samey and a bit... jumbled, to look at. I want a name that a reader can look at without their eyes glazing over. So, what happens now is I take the likeliest lads (ladies in this case) of the lot and workshop them.

Let's say I want to do something with Shryssa Zh'rolrirh, Aseraa Sh'kitrit, and Vamaa Zh'ktaakross.

Shryssa Zh'rolrirh - a good starting foundation, but I already have a character called Shryss and they've reversed the capitalization of the rank and Clan name. In this case, I'll cannibalize one of the other names. The Clan name doesn't quite feel right to me, so I'll grab one of the other pre-generated ones and modify it.

Aseraa Sh'kitrit - I'm generally happy with this name, though I think the Clan name is a little meh, but it feels like I took "Sarah", dropped the H, added a vowel, and called it done. So, let's see if we can't make it sound more properly alien and maybe swap the Clan name for something else.

Vamaa Zh'ktaakross - this is the one I want to change the least, actually, but Vamaa still seems more like a face-name than a full name, so we'll adapt it a little.

Therefore, we get:

Shryssa Zh'rolrirh -> Jhalleshryssa "Shryssa" zh'Tiivekh -> Shryssa

Aseraa Sh'kitrit -> Ipseseraa "Seraa" sh'Shras -> Seraa

Vamaa Zh'ktaakross -> Ulavamaal "Vamaa" zh'Kraakross -> Vamaa

It's not a perfect system, and sometimes names just come to me on the spot rather than requiring help from a generator or other sources.

So let's look at Ambassador Thoris. Thoris is his face-name, but his full name is Anlenthoris th'Kor. In official documents, he is referred to by his full name, Clan, and rank, but in his day-to-day working life he is Thoris. In his personal life, his spouses call him Anlen. Under no circumstances would it ever be appropriate for someone like Dagmar or Shral to call him Anlen - the inference of having an intimate relationship with a married man of his rank and position would be considered a duelling offense.

Thanks for the ask! Hopefully I've managed to answer your questions, but I always welcome more if I haven't!

#star trek #andorian #andorians #headcanon #Andorian names #Andorian naming conventions #emigre by indignantlemur

[twisting-echo]

I made a manip of my OTP, Amy and Taylor (Tayamy), and I'm very happy with how it turned out! And poor Kelly is here too.

Taylor: Ugh, Mom, no, this is my girlfriend, Amy! Not her ugly sister, Samey!

Kelly: I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to mistake you for your sister, but aren’t you identical twins?

Amy: Yes! But Samey is the lesser twin! She’s just a Spare-Amy!

Taylor: Oh my gosh, babe, she is such a Spare-Amy!

Amy: Thank you! I know! I’m just so tired of being mistaken for her! Like, she doesn’t even sound like me!

Taylor: You would if you sounded and looked like a dog! (Cackles)

Amy: Oh, my God babe! You totally get me!

Taylor: And you get me!

Kelly was standing there slowly dying on the inside hearing a small voice inside her whisper, “Kill me~”

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[vixensdungeon]

One pet peeve I have is when people call Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms too samey. They're so different!

"But Vivian, you enchanting beguiler of maidens," you might say, "they're both just medieval fantasy settings!"

Yeah, imagine that. Medieval fantasy settings in the medieval fantasy game. Shocked Pikachu face dot tiff.

They're so different! And the way you start to understand the difference is by understanding the differences between their progenitors.

Gary Gygax was a wargamer. His setting grew partly out of his wargaming club's wargaming campaign (that's what the Great Kingdom is). And that shows. A big deal is made of political borders and army compositions. Because Greyhawk is the wargame setting!

Ed Greenwood is a storyteller. The Forgotten Realms got their start from stories he'd make up as a child. It's full of weird places and weird people with weird customs, bits of local news and funny made up words. Elminster isn't a political power like Mordenkainen, he's a sage. Because Forgotten Realms is the whimsical story setting!

So if you can't see beyond the fact that there's, like, elves and knights in both? Sounds like a skill issue.

#dnd #greyhawk #forgotten realms