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Name Reources

So, you’re writing a thing, and you need to name a character. And, as we all know, naming a character is a giant pain in the ass. I offer this list of shit I use pretty regularly, for this purpose.

Behind the Name (The etymologies are weird as fuck, in a few places, but it’s great if you’ve got a name and need to find other names that are from or derived from the same culture/language)

Behind the Surname (BTN for family names)

Academy of Saint Gabriel Medieval Names Archive (This is the go-to for medieval names in Europe and the Near East. Hardcore scholarship and a distinct lack of fucking around.)

Kate Monk’s Onomastikon (The original internet name resource.)

The Soldier in Later Medieval England (Actual names from English military rolls around the Battle of Agincourt)

England’s Immigrants (Non-native residents of England, 1330-1550)

Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain

Mapping the Medieval Countryside - People (People appearing in English inquisitions post mortem, 1418-1447)

Wiktionary’s Index of Biblical Names

Ancient Names Galleria (The weird shit is here. If you need Akkadian or Phoenecian names, those are totally covered.)

Trismegistos People (Names extracted from the Trismegistos Texts – mostly names from Graeco-Roman Egypt.)

Personally, I use the shit out of Trismegistos People, England’s Immigrants, and the Ancient Names Galleria. If you’ve got good sources I didn’t hit, feel free to add them in a reblog. I’m always looking for more good name resources. (And almost all of what I have is Europe and the Near East, with a little North Africa.)

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WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:

1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t

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If you are currently sitting or laying down this moment ask yourself if you are resting or rotting. Change your behavior accordingly

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girl help! the popular fanon interpretation of my favorite character is stupid as fuck

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a selection of artist memes hand-picked and curated by me based on my own experiences

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It's so weird talking to people who's view of "here's the way life is for everyone" is shattered as soon as they talk to someone with disabilities (physical, mental illness, any). Like you'll say you'll have a problem and instead of helping you they'll argue with you about how you're not actually facing that problem. Like,

Me: Hey, I'm really struggling to find a job and a part of it is my resume. I was depressed & psychotic during highschool so I didn't do anything to gain skills or achievements to put on my resume. I also don't have anyone to put as a reference. What can I do?

Them: You can add your skills, hobbies, clubs you're in, and different volunteer work you've done! You can also get your teacher as a reference.

Me: I already know what to put on a resume, my issue is that I don't have things that I can use. Also, I'm in my mid 20s so I don't know if I can put my highschool teacher as a reference.

Them: Well if you're a part of a church or an activity group, you could add that. Also, think of any projects you've worked on in the past.

Me: I already know you can put these things on a resume. I'm not looking for suggests of things I've already done, I'm looking for what I can do now if I haven't done anything.

Them: There's no way you didn't do anything during highschool?? What about some odd jobs you definitely did for extra money, like babysitting or mowing the lawn?

Me: I spent all of highschool either in modified classes or in bed doing nothing - not even hobbies, what about that do you not understand?

And then you talk to someone who's also disabled and they're like "Here's a bunch of jobs you can do from home that don't pay much but look good on a resume, here's some free online courses that also look good on a resume, here's how you can be making small amounts of money in the meantime, here's some things you can put besides a professional reference, and here are your rights if your future employer tries to take advantage of your disability - which you probably shouldn't tell them about unless you need accommodations."

And suddenly my will to continue trying returns!

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Thinking about it, we always say Kim Dokja was similar to Kim Namwoon and go mad around that thought, but we dont always remember that the fact that if he recognised himself in him, it means Kim Namwoon was also similar to Kim Dokja. I wonder what was Kim Namwoon's home life. Did he get bullied? Did he have any friends? Did he also used to eat instant ramen frequently because he didn't have the money for anything else? Considering how quickly he adapted to the apocalypse, was he dreading or looking forward towards his time in the military? If he had gotten to grow up, would he also have learned to disassociate like Kim Dokja did? Would he have learnt to sacrifice himself for his companions? Did he ever try to kill himself?

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This!!! Namwoon my boy!!

Oh to be only seen only as a parallel to a beloved character and discarded as nothing but an object to use and abuse just to further make beloved the character

to be hated, despite being oh so similar to the most beloved character to the point even said beloved character notices

to be hated by that beloved character so much to the point he kills you and it's seen as a good deed by everyone, even yourself

to believe the best timeline is one where you are dead, one where everyone is happy

oh to be kim namwoon

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the ability to say "i dont have a tiktok" in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is "shock, confusion, then this weird 'thats probably a good thing' response" its so fun

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This ^^

MENTAL DISORDER!!!!!!!!!!

It always grinds my nerves when I see people not understand the story that speaks to me on all levels, including spiritual, and reduce it to "this guy bad, this guy good". IT is so well written it's even embarrassing to talk about it so simplistic. You have to really understand his perspective

Ryuki so fucking obviously has a bipolar disorder it can't be spelled out more clearly

and major self-esteem issues starting in childhood

He is suffering from a lot of mental problems, and they are severe enough to make him unable to leave his bed so reducing him to just a guy who can't understand that music is not a viable career option for him is IDIOTIC. He is not some stupid idiot who can't comprehend reality. That IS his reality. His self-esteem is that low, he doesn't believe he can do anything else to the point that his entire identity is built around his band. He can't abandon himself. Like, when you look at the story, music is like... THE LAST THING HE HAS. He dropped out of high school, and he quit his job. And just because he is smiling in those panels, it doesn't mean that the constant failures are not affecting him

It is rather obvious that music isn't just a career option to him, it is the only damn thing left. Nothing else has ever worked but he stuck to music. Without music he is nothing. So when his bandmates quit, he takes it extremely personally. You can feel jealousy in his voice. He can't just drop it and live the life they are living. He doesn't have any other options (or at least he feels like he doesn't). And it sort of is destructive (maybe even toxic) because it will hurt him to see them succeed. But isn't this what he was doing his entire life? Seeing people graduate from school, graduate from college, get jobs. Live a happy, normal life. He can't have normal. He can't be calm looking at people leaving him to go and do something he can't

What is also curious, he wasn't even the one who formed the band. Which might check out since he is the guy without dreams or goals. But it seems that maybe being in a band, he started actually dreaming about something

so when it all comes crashing down, it hurts a million times more than it would if he had never started to dream in the first place

And it seems like he had support but frankly the support he had sucked. Even if everyone had the best intentions it sucked

When he is having episodes, people brush it off and tell others to just ignore it. Yes, they are concerned but never concerned enough to actually reach out to him and try to help

Ryuki loses the last thing he believed he had, his band falls apart, he is in the slums. And in some sort of sick joke people are saying he needs "a rest". And they talk about it like they are being so so kind

Like, I am sorry. He doesn't need "a rest", he needs years-long therapy, change of medication, good support system and people who fucking believe in him. It's so humiliating to suffer from something so debilitating and then see people too scared to even acknowledge you need treatment. They just say shit like "rest". He is not fucking tired! This is not exhaustion! And this speaks to me so much honestly because it is what it's like to have a mental illness! I be going through the worst times in my life and my parents would be saying stuff like "so like what's next after you rest up are you getting a job". GIRL. THERE IS NO NEXT

And some shit they are saying is straight-up triggering. Like, how out of touch with reality you have to be to tell a severely mentally ill person that they are "in their prime". Girl. He is at his fucking lowest

(will continue in a reblog because too many pictures tumblr won't let me post)

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Free my girl Rin she was born to be the royal advisor to an inept yet powerful emperor but God forced her to be a high school girl.

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This will be a romantic story like none that has come before

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To the person anonymously writing slowburn office lady yuri in my DMs

I don't know why you've chosen me for this harassment campaign you've embarked on. I don't know why you feel that my DMs are a better medium for this story than, I don't know, posting them on a writing website?? Or on your own blog??? And most importantly, I don't know why you are laboring under the delusion that I can't report you just because you are sending the chapters anonymously -- I can in fact, and you would be IP banned.

I'm issuing you this ultimatum right now:

Stop sending me your slowburn office lady yuri

OR

I will report you

OR

Send me the next chapter within 24 hours, because are a fucker for where you left it off, and you have not sent a new chapter in several days. I need to know whether, when they were the only two in the office late at night after a brutal crunch week, and the stars could be seen in the sky due to a power outage on their block, and they talked about life, they actually do kiss or if that's another fakeout, of which you have done MANY.

My patience with you has worn thin. Stop sending me this story, or send me more, or I will report you.

Good night.