#name struggles

[rotinhellandyou]

my name, my current name, is a gender neutral shortening of my birthname. i like it right now. i’m pretty happy with it. so long as people actually use it and treat it like my name, and not just as an optional nickname.

today i heard someone else going by my name

using my name

and i’m usually not one to get hung up on names but this one kinda pissed me off

because it wasn’t just my birthname no

it was my name

just my name

multiple times and only my name

never the long version, only the short one

and it’s not like i feel the name belongs to me

it’s not just mine and i know that

but the fact that someone else was so easily called it

is so easily called it

it and only it with no variation

makes me feel like shit

someone else. a girl. is respected enough for that.

they respect it enough to use a nickname and a nickname only, when it isn’t even that important

they’ll respect a nickname preference that staunchly when it is truly a nickname

but people won’t call me my name

because it is my name

my actual name

not my nickname, my name

it’s my name. and people won’t use it. but they will as a nickname for another girl.

i am not a girl. i am not the girl my birthname suggests.

i am a boy. i am a boy who uses my name.

i don’t say “oh but my friends call me name” during roll call to imply a nickname.

i say “i go by name.” clearly. that’s it. i don’t leave room for interpretation or suggestion. i say what the name i use is.

this random girl gets respected enough for a name preference to be listened to.

but i, someone who am pretty clear that no my name is not a preference, it is in fact my name, am not listened to.

it just feels like they don’t deserve to have my name almost, even though i know that’s bullshit.

i would be so happy if i was called my name that much. i would be so thankful. i would cherish that. and it feels like others are just brushing that off and giving it up.

it feels like others are taking something i would kill and die for as nothing to ever be serious about. and even though i know it’s not directed at or even remotely about me at all, it still hurts a bit. hurts a bit to see someone taking something so important to me for granted.

#name struggles #what’s in a name #transgender #trans names #trans name #transgender name #queer #pride #lgbtq+ struggles #queer struggles #trans struggles #dysphoria #misgendering kinda #misnaming #transmasculine #transmasc #trans guy #trans guy blues #name

[opia-jpg]

not exactly inktober but! i will try to draw a quick cat doodle every day of october..... i just think they're neat

#my art! #cat october #cats #art #artist on tumblr #sketches #description in alt text #busy with first week of college..... aouggh almost no time to myself #but im being very brave about it #and also im socialising and it's draining. its a struggle to remember so many new names and faces

[pcktknife]

that damn chicken

#myart #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi spoilers #falin touden #everytime i draw chimera fal i think about the kid i knew in like 3rd grade who was obsessed with drawing dragons and how if maybe if i too #some notes i wouldnt struggle so bad with drawing the body so connor colin whatever ur name was shoutout to u dude #dungeon meshi spoilers

[cadd9nce]

i hate having a noun/ descriptive term as a name because sometimes i’ll he happily reading fanfic, and suddenly i’m in the fanfic! but not as a character god no (though i have read one where my name was the name of the authors OC) but as a fucking descriptor or technical term!!!! argh.

#name struggles #fanfic #my name is consistently used as a word at least once a week #it’s not even a common word!!

[swanpit]

bonus : get pringlesed lol

(the 2 images are not connected but if it’s funnier that way it could be)

#puss in boots 2 #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots death #puss in boots wolf #the struggle to tag a character with a super common word as a name

[bugtails]

@megatraven AYE AYE CAPTAIN

#sorry its not a kiss i was struggling with that >.< #ml #my art #alya cesaire #ladybug #toxinelle #ml paris special #alyanette #id in alt text #tyty my peeps in zo's discord <3 #HER NAMES NOT HESPERIA OOPS #ubiquity

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Yungmeng Jiang Training Arc AU #MDZS AU #The AU name for this idea is something I am 100% willing to change if someone has a better one. #There will be at least 2-3 more comics so *please*. Ideas and feedback welcome. #The core idea behind this AU is that LWJ goes to study with the Yunmeng Jiang sect instead of JC and WWX going to Cloud Recess #But why? Well I imagine Lan Xichen set it up to give LWJ a challenge (more social than skill based) and LWJ rose to it (begrudgingly) #Sort of a 'You've mastered so many Lan techniques but Other Sects have styles that are worth learning.' set up. #Lan Qiren agrees mostly on the basis that...well it's LWJ. Yunmeng Jiang is unruly but LWJ is beyond that riff-raff. He'll rise above it. #This is the story of a boy who thrives on routine and rules spending time in a place that is his apparent antithesis. #Also it is so warm there. He is used to it being cold and what do you MEAN just take off some of my layers? #I just want to see him struggle and flail in many situations. And get him in Jiang Purple. Is that so wrong of me? #(Soaking wet JC is part of my 'JC was born to swim; forced to hold a sword' agenda. Do not remove him from the water) #((Politeness notes: JFM would *not* call LWJ 'lan wangji' nor would LWJ be vocally impolite to a sect leader.))

[livsmessydoodles]

the tinie

#stranger things #stranger things art #stranger things fanart #el hopper #eleven #eleven hopper #jane hopper #jane ives #el byers #el has so many names its such a struggle to tag JHDHFHBVKVKHD #livsmessydoodlez #livsmessydoodles

[umblrspectrum]

i think the idea of v finding uzis last name hilarious is a really funny one

#uzi can't even make fun of her back cause she doesn't have a last name #unless you count elliot #which i. do #so uhh ignore everything i just said #n doesn't make fun of her #and j doesn't care #but anyways yeah i had this drawn for like 3 days i just needed the motivation to digitalize it #im trying to find a way to stylize the headband so it isn't just pure yellow but im struggling #also creating the effect of her slamming her arm. #i dont know how to do that so i just did my best #sorry if it looks like dogshit #art #murder drones #murder drones uzi #murder drones v #serial designation v #im sure ill find an error somewhere within 5 minutes after posting and hate myself for it

[crismakesstuff]

ponyfies your superhero show 🐎🌟

#invincible #invincible show #my little pony #my little pony crossover #mlp au #my little pony friendship is invincible #invincible au #invincible fanart #mark grayson #omniman #omni man #nolan grayson #debbie grayson #atom eve #samatha eve wilkins #crismakesstuff #i think soooo much about them #pls notice the red streak I gave nolan in his mane/tail #yes I pulled inspo from king sombra for nolan hehe #his eyes get a similar mist whe he uses dark magic #i like to think filly mark cuddled up a lot against his dad and that nolan just would cover him with his wing #mark the fluffy boy just like his dad c: #eve is on like twilight sparkle and starlight glimmer shit #had to give eve the traditional unicorn features they fit her so so much #mark became an alicorn is like his l getting his powers he was just a pegasus before #he’s struggling sm w his magic #idk what pony names I’d give them tho i suck at that

[finsterwalds]

Thinking about better call saul if the action took place in france just because I wanted to see them in cunty robes lmao. More thoughts under the cut!

Obviously the action and the whole premise of bcs/brba wouldn't work in france (legal system aside, the whole cartel and walter white storyline would have to suffer major changes due to social security and the mexican cartel well. not existing here stricto sensu). But let's talk about the real Important Stuff : their names

I think Howard Hamlin would work well as Edouard Hamelin. He looses the cool HH initials yes, but it works really well as a genuine french name imo, and Howard/Edouard are pretty close phonetically

Chuck could still be called Charles without any realism issue, but he'd be nicknamed Charlie rather than Chuck because that's what a french person would go for... nicknames don't work the same, yeah

Kimberly Wexler and James McGill, I have no idea lmao. James when translated becomes Jacques, but it's such a boomerish uncool name that I cannot resolve myself to call my boy like that. It's also one generation too old. Jimmy being born in '60 could technically be called Jacques, but it'd be old-fashioned, as it's a name mostly given to the kids of the decade that came before him. McGill is an irish name, so something funny could be making Jimmy a breton with a funky last name like Gall/LeGall ? That's hilarious to me. But who knows.

Saul Goodman is a pun, so this is even harder for me to conceptualize. Saul's marketing would definitely not work in france at all, as no one would realistically hire a lawyer with a puny name and such chaotic displays (+ I think ads for legal démarchage are illegal mind you). However, let's have a crack at it. It would have to be a pun based off an expression similar to "it's all good man", or implying something positive and familiar... I need to think on that one.

#saul goodman #jimmy mcgill #howard hamlin #kim wexler #better call saul #bcs #breaking bad #brba #french au #my art #fanart #please help if you wanna participate to their naming...... im struggling as you can see #what i love about bcs is how deeply american it is but im just imagining this for fun lol. and also for the outfits #cause come on. any profession immediately becomes better with a Special Outfit involved #i should write about the robes too.... i have headcanons about the cast.... #so much to say!!!!

[u3pxx]

harriet is still the same height but instead she wears those disco platform shoes so she just towers over everything i think

#i struggled so hard drawing harry today i wish i could draw her face better right neow but ach orz #harriet du bois #fem kim kitsuragi #sunnysidedisco #i am so severely art blocked that this took me so many redraws and it took so long too and its not even *that* clean and polished 😔 #this doesnt need to be in the main tag LOL i think i need a dedicated tag for the fem versions but idk what to name it yet hmmmm #genderbend #<- blacklisting purposes #sunnysidedraws #described #id in alt text #disco femlysium

[yoursweetwife]

Veritas Ratio respects you as a friend and as a colleague of a scientist with whom he has known for a long time, but sometimes Ratio cannot understand why at some point you behave like a smart and educated person, and then you approach to him during lunch and show him a toy that you say looks like him! This purple angry cat. If Ratio didn't know you (and if he weren't a fool in love), he would scold you in his usual manner, but the only thing he can do at that moment is to gently call you an idiot and change the subject( You're both adults, but he'll be damned if he sees you sad because of him, and he definitely won't let others laugh at you), although his gaze still keeps returning to the toy in your hands.

And you might think that it would all end there, but after a while you see on his table a toy in the shape of a cat, suspiciously similar to you. The strangest thing is that he doesn't even get angry when you tease him about it, which makes you doubt whether this is really Veritas Ratio. But the moment his book almost touches your head, you realize that he is still the same.

“Veritas, look - you brought the purple cat to the toy in his hands. - now we will always be close to each other!”

A small smile formed on his frowning face at the sight of your beaming smile. It turns out that sometimes it's nice to be an idiot.

#damn #I struggled a lot with this text #Students began to build many theories after they saw the toy on Ratio's table #[name] and Ratio will be the most popular ship among the students because she is the only one who made him soft #and it's very cute #He almost got into a fight with a guy who called his toy ugly #hsr x reader #dr ratio x reader #honkai star rail x reader #female reader #dr ratio #honkai star rail #dr ratio fluff #hsr

[northstarscowboyhat]

Cool down doodle from last night. I think the greatest tragedy with older!Clover is they probably grow to about 6'1. But because their family is mostly giant monsters, they assume they're short.

#undertale yellow #uty #clover #north star #uty starlo #dalv #uty dalv #uty clover #Lucky Clover AU #I should probably make that its own tag but I kind of want a more creative name for it. Hm. #Yes I HC that Clover ends up taller than Dalv. He's a 5'2 short king struggling with his tall friends. #the cowboy hat draws #Also I'm so flattered about the love this design + AU received thank you guys! #I'll get to drawing for those asks as soon as I can

[baredwolf]

Ok, I’m curious because this is something I’ve been wrestling with lately. So tell me,

Pls reblog for sample size!

#I dislike mine and always have but it’s been feeling worse lately #but I don’t plan to change it because it is a family name #and I’m struggling with what to do with that #polls #name ideas #names

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Get Their Ass.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin ling #jin chan #Yeah that's right. This guy is a named character. All those nameless disciples in the yi city arc and *this* guy gets a name. #Jin ling finally gets his much needed outfit upgrade! Rest in peace double straps. #I adore how we get to keep learning about Jin Ling and peeling back the layers on him...It's also so sad to see him so alone and friendless #especially knowing he really was starting to build peer friendships in the yi city arc... #Jin ling really is one of my top 5 characters in MDZS and its absolutely in part because of how you can *see* how he ended up this way #and we watch him learn and grow! He's doing what most adults refuse to do: Consider that his opinions are skewed and need to change. #You are NOT immune to propaganda and I adore characters who reflect and struggle with that! #Just because someone with assumed authority says something that fits into what you want to be true does not make it true B*/ #In this series about rumours and warped perspectives - Jin Ling is a great example of how hard you have to work for the truth #+1 points of friendship with jin ling: He will self correct himself if he says a slur now