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Find Out Your Ceresian Senator Name!
(made with love, the d20 gang put a lot of work into diversifying character names, & as I was doing my etymology post I noticed similarities but no clear formula so I thought I’d write one for funsies)
First Name: The first letter of the street you grew up on (if you didn’t grow up on a street feel free to use a town/city name, or a landmark!).
I included alternates for gender reasons - a/o means the name can end with either a or o depending on your preference, e.g. Emilio vs Emilia. You can probably also throw an -e at the end of some of them if (like me) you wanna be a bit nonbinary about it.
A - Aurelius (Adria, Andrea) B - Bianca (Bacchus, Basilla) C - Cara (Cassius, Camila/o) D - Dominic (Donatella/o, Daniela) E - Emanuel (Emanuela, Emilia/o, Eduardo) F - Francisco (Fabrizia/o, Fiero) G - Giuseppe (Graciela, Gio) H - Hercules (Hero, Hermes) I - Ignazia/o (Imelda, Isabella) J - Jupiter (Jiovanni, Juno) K - Katarina (Kronos, Celeste) L - Lorenzo (Luca, Loretta) M - Marco (Messina, Manuela) N - Nunzio (Natalia, Nico) O - Oliverio (Ouranos, Roberta/o) P - Patrizia/o (Paula/o, Pallas) Q - Quirinus (Pietro, Ricarda/o) R - Rizzo (Rafaela/Rafael, Renata) S - Silvio (Sabina/e, Serafina/o) T - Titian (Tullia/o, Terra) U - Ulysses (Urania/Uranus, Rosetta) V - Valentina/o (Venus, Vesta, Vesuvio) W - Luigi (Mario, Rosalina) X - Xanto (Romeo, Diana, Apollo) Y - Ylenia (Saturn/Saturnus, Minerva) Z - Zappa (Mars, Melete, Diana)
Last name: The last letter of your favorite food
A - Bucatini B - Capellini C - Bavette D - Matriciani E - Pappardelle F - Scialatelli G - Spaghettini H - Tagliatelle I - Trenetti J - Vermicelli K - Anelli L - Cascatelli M - Castellane N - Cavatappi O - Farfalle P - Garganelli Q - Passatelli R - Paccheri S - Rigatoni T - Strozzapretti U - Testaroli V - Cannelloni W - Agnolini X - Cappaletti Y - Fagottini Z - Sacchettoni
Voila! Now just put “Senator” (or another Roman govt position if you want) in front of it. I’m Senator Andrea Trenetti!
I also did some optional funsies for those of us with dice we never get to use:
Roll 1d20
If it lands on a 1, you are straight up a loaf of bread. use the Bread Table under the cut
If it lands on a 2-10, you are a pasta dish. Use the last name chart for your first name, and use the Pasta Dish Table under the cut for your last
If you roll a nat 20, you are may choose b/w
a popular snack food. Use the Snack Table under the cut
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you can also use the first name chart and use the snack table for your last name if you want
a Ceresian folk deity. not a senator anymore, but arguably funnier. Use the Deity Table under the cut
otherwise, use tables above as normal.
In The Ravening War, all of the senators also got “tribune” titles like “Tribune of Triscutia” - if you want one of those, you can either:
Use the last name table but use first letter of your favorite food
Use either the Bread, Pasta Dish, or Snack table under the cut
Bread Table
Roll 1d12 or use your birth month
1. Panettone (you have a little Candian on your mother’s side of the family) 2. Muffuletta 3. Pane rustico 4. Panino 5. Pita 6. Tortano 7. Baguette 8. Ciambella 9. Fugassa 10. Friselle 11. Crescentina 12. Boule
Pasta Dish Table
Roll 1d20 or how many mozzarella sticks do you think you could eat in one sitting? (if you can’t eat mozzarella sticks imagine carrot sticks instead)
1. Arrabiatta 2. Amatriciana 3. Bolognese 4. Capresi 5. Bottarga 6. Indiavolati 7. Siracusani 8. Scarpariello 9. Boscaiola 10. Fagioli 11. Lucchesi 12. di Mare 13. Napoletana 14. Puttanesca 15. Ragu 16. Sorrentina 17. Tartufo 18. Valtellina 19. Zucca 20. Cacio-pepe
Snack Table
Roll 1d6, or rate the last movie you saw from 0-5 stars (or 1-6 if you don’t want to do math)
Tostito(s)
if you like you can also use Fritos or Dorito(s)
Chex (you can add a last name that describes the kind of Chex if you want)
Pepperidge (like Pepperidge farms)
Ritz
Kellogg (you can add a last name that describes the kind of Kellogg’s food item if you want)
General Mills
you can forgo the “Senator” title if you so chose and just be “General Mills”
the ancient Roman govt Ceresia is based on had a lot of interplay between the military and the government so like. Generals still have govt. sway.
you could also just be “Senator Mills”
Deity Table
Roll 1d6 or tbh just pick which one you like they’re all fun
you are now known as Ben the Original, but you have never forgotten your past life as Uncle Ben.
you are Little Miss Sunbeam, a maiden goddess of light and happiness
you are the Triple God, the Holy Trinity, and your aspects are Snap, Crackle, and Pop
you are a Keebler elf, one of a large family of forest spirits hidden deep in the mountains on the border of Candia and Ceresia
you are Umaemon, an otherworldly cat-like being with unknowable powers and dual aspects of both cat and human.
you are the Pillsbury Doughboy.
#dnd#d20#dimension 20#acoc#trw#the ravening war#original post#i don't know what's wrong with me either#i don't think this is spoilers for anything?#i need to go to bed#ps i couldnt find any italian names that start with W#and all i could think of was waluigi#which is not an italian name#but luigi is!#thats why the W names are mario themed lol
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I have this one "OC" that does not yet have a name that I've drawn several times for a couple years. I was thinking that if I tried making them in FFXIV that I'd use elezen as a base... but then I remembered what other race have their near exact hairstyle... and now I'm like damn... I played myself...
#idk if ill do anything with them but im saving the design. just in case.#perhaps the ffxiv setting is whats needed to gain an idea of who they are#as of now i havent even figured out their gender like are they male? female? both? its one of those but which? who knows. not me!#i think besides that i knew they were really tall. a magic user. and i was pondering on some italian name#... could work with the 13th i suppose hmmm.#anyway i have more character design ideas than i could ever hope to put to use! send help!!!#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#ff14#final fantasy 14#roegadyn#hellsguard#gpose#ffxiv screenshot#ffxiv gpose#ffxiv screenshots#i almost tagged edit but these are completely untouched#i tried but then id have to do all to be happy and make them match LMAO#nabaath-areng#my screenshot#i took soooo many screens but i feel like the post is already bloated yells#so these shall suffice. but please DO know that theyre painfully photogenic#and that practically every screenshot turned out super sexy
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Writing real world AUs for SW is the biggest exercise in suspending ur disbelief because of those NAMES.
Obi-Wan? Yeah that's just Ben now regardless of what stage of life he's in. Dooku? Sorry you must mean signore Serenno. Legend has it he's some sort of Italian. Qui-Gon Jinn? Um. Uhhh. He was born to hippie parents in the 70s that's why. Yeah I know that's kinda fucked up. Don't ask about Ben's last name btw
#this is worse if you're writing something historical btw#currently chewing on my old west codywan horror cattle drive fic and. yeah#obi-wan is just ben#cody and rex are just names americans can plausibly have thank god#dooku is a british descendant of italian nobility which is funny bc it's kinda close to christipher lee's actual situation lmao#the way sw characters just be obtaining ethnic backgrounds based on their names as soon as you put them in a regular earth setting .... help
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"Since you've named yourself after Julius fucking Caesar, perhaps I'll follow in your lead and choose one of the conspirators." "Interesting," says Giuliano. "Should I worry about finding you at the center of some kind of conspiracy that ends with my death?" "Not from me," replies Ascanio. He sounds tired. "Not anymore."
informally, some kind of. conversational follow up to the last comic. I'm trying to get the atmospheric conversational whimsy out of my system because I have a vision of the vatican as a body in active decay, a point of infection spreading out and poisoning the well, a jaw unhinged that people walk into over and over, and I am so close to figure out how to convey this visually. maybe.
#not that there's anything wrong with atmospheric whimsy but i kind of want to get into the gross body horror of it all#literally. allegorically. for the vibes. its just hard to pin down the abstract thought of 'oh we should High Rise the Vatican' you know#(High Rise by JG Ballard is what i'm referring to here) like how do I achieve this. well. first. is i must lay out the vatican and become#intimate with the visual set pieces. then i can talk about how this building could literally be hazardous to your health#however. drawing the vatican. is very. uhhhh. man I do not know enough about medieval-renaissance architecture to be inventing#anything and that one book that collected interiors of rooms and houses in renaissance art is NEVER ANYWHERE EVER#and if it is then it's always around when i cannot afford it. i feel like i am in a specific kind of torment torture box#i will not be defeated tho. i can design a vatican through other means.#ANYWAY. i think antidepressants would've made ascanio an unstoppable menace in the vatican#there's a bunch of stuff being referenced here but my pdf reader does not want to cooperate with me so basically we're playing around with#ascanio's household staff (alessandro) that whole thing wrt to ascanio & acts of piety/charity (such as covering dowries etc)#uh. that's it! this time i didn't accidentally call giuliano by his brother's name. which is . sherhhg. so there's a fic i was writing.#italian renaissance tag#komiks tag
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Random guess that you of course don’t have to answer, is his name Valentino?
Good guess, but no.
#I don't think it's guessable without further hints#it's a real and fairly average name but it's not in the current top 100 most popular Italian masculine names#answered#champion-masquerade#Valentino would've been a comedy gold choice for the crinkled tissue man since it derives from the Latin word 'valens'#which means strong and healthy#maybe he could've been named that in hopes that it would improve his chances in life#'nomen est omen' style
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Dave x latula orrr dirk x porrm…pretty please
Dirk is questioning his sexuality AGAIN
#comship#homestuck#request#porrim maryam#dirk strider#dirkrrim#fun fact every time i try to mix porrim's name with anyone i laugh and cringe too much#because in italian we often starts blasphemies with 'porco' so 'por' is a bad start for a ship name#yes i laugh when i read porkri#it sounds like 'porci' kind of which is like the bad version of 'pigs'
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grey hair, fluff, and murrine 🔮
#dragon age#cullen rutherford#ndo sta l'art tag#in my head he's one that gets old like cheese for a couple of decades at least then he becomes the paper that holds the cheese#which is great honestly we stan#na sindone#=the holy shroud#(keeping the italian comment so to laugh with/at myself in the future)#u know those old guys that wake up at 5am walk 70 miles and then go back home for breakfast for then spending the majority of the morning-#-reading the newspaper and commenting it like a teapot in front of bread and a single glass of tepid water?#him. an old teapot that complains because 'back in his youth!!'#*blows on trumpet* useless history time!#la murrina is glass processed in small tiles to create a pattern#the technique is typical of venice (murano island specifically) but that kind of processing is 2000+ years old#the original recipe that the romans (very much stole *coughs*) utilised got lost in the middle ages#so in the xvi century artisans in murano made their own formula for processing glass in a similar way#the name comes from myrra (myrrh) because originally murrine were used for cosmetic holders#they're very tacky yes#but you know what else is tacky?#a man that dresses up as a lion unironically#(I love him)
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Ultimate Ship Tournament: Round 1A
Propaganda below cut
Lyney x Traveler:
Reason 1: Flirty magician develops genuine feelings for a potential enemy of the organization he secretly works for due to his tragic past as an orphan, all during a trial of a murder that happened during his show. Plus he has a major panic attack at jail, and traveler was the one to comfort him. Plus he says that he is "rarely so open like that with anyone" He trust traveler enough to let his guard and facade down, and consider them to be a part of the family, a family he cares more than anything. Also. Helloooo? The angst potential of a FATUI dating TRAVELER? he is the next head of the house of the hearth after all. Even if he is being performative, he has the best rizz. So many flirty voice lines, and the rainbow rose! Don't forget rainbow roses have a romantic meaning! Reason 2: He is like that for both Lumine and Aether. Bisexual win
Arlebina:
I don't care if one of them isn't even out yet and we know almost nothing about her, I think they could be real fucked up together 👍
#ugt poll#ugt round 1#ugt round 1a#ultimate ship tournament#ultimate genshin tournament#genshin impact#genshin#tournament#character tournament#tumblr tournament#bracket tournament#tournament poll#genshin polls#lyney x traveler#arlebina#reblog for sample size etc etc#has propaganda#note from mod bc i was surprised the propaganda didnt mention it:#the harbingers are named after character archetypes from commedia dellarte a popular form of italian theatre in the 16th - 18th centuries#from which the harlequinade was derived#the plot of which revolves around harlequin (arlecchino in italian) and columbine being in love
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My dog has a habit of, when he's stressed, trying to eat his own foot. I don't mean lick it, I mean bite down and physically hurt himself level of 'I must eat the foot'. (No, we don't know why he does this. He just... does.)
My dad can get him to stop with one simple phrase: "No! What would the rabbi think?"
In conclusion, this dog is Jewish. Shabbat shalom.
#jumblr#jewblr#jewish#his name is bear#and to answer the inevitable question:#he's 15/16ths pomeranian#1/16th keeshond hunting hound#or in other words#he's italian with a bit of german#yet also a redhead#which is very jewish of him
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uh-oh! i finished the name of the rose. unfortunately it was very good. i would like to tell my friends and neighbors about it but i cannot on account of i'm not smart enough. i want everyone to read it but not because i recommended it to them, so i can't recommend it to anyone. i think it's very possible my sister would be obsessed with this book but equally possible she would tear it into little pieces and eat them fifty pages in and never trust my taste in literature ever again. i read the first page of the afterword and loved it so much i had to go lie down. i'll forget everything about this book except that it was a masterpiece. i will never read it again.
#saving the rest of the afterword for tomorrow as a little present for myself#what's wild to me is that this is apparently one of the bestselling books OF ALL TIME?????#it's 500 pages long and a HIGH percentage of those pages are about catholic politics in the 14th century...#that or the book of revelations. also there's a *lot* of untranslated latin just left in the middle of sentences#this book is fucking nuts. i adore it. nobody read it because of me though#books#my posts#the name of the rose#me every time i read a book: would my sister like this? should i give this to my sister?#which is some kind of love language#also i just looked up umberto eco and learned he translated exercices de style into italian...#i've never wanted to read italian more than at this moment
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Angelberga was a peculiarly prominent personality in manifold aspects of European politics [in the late 9th century. Born to the Supponid family of Italy, she married Emperor Louis II and had several opportunities to establish her position as an active and controversial player in the vicissitudes of her husband's reign]. She acted as Louis's regent, accompanied him on expansionary military campaigns in the south of the peninsula and represented him at [congresses, tribunals, and diplomatic negotiations]. Strikingly, she was also the beneficiary of a spectacular collection of charters. Almost one in seven of Louis II’s extant charters were issued in her favour. Angelberga’s conspicuous exploits in the field of charter acquisition did not diminish after the emperor’s death, and this helped her to maintain a position as a key power-broker in Italian politics, control of land [particularly monastic foundations] being a fundamental building-block of power in this period. In the interregnum following 875, during which Charles the Bald of West Francia and Karlmann of Bavaria fought to claim the succession to the heirless Louis, Angelberga herself conducted the negotiations and decided the loyalty of a major sector of the Lombard political community. She maintained this high profile until her death [having supported her son-in-law Boso's quest for power, endured a temporary exile, maintained the support of Pope John VIII, and founded the monastery of San Sisto in the city of Piacenza, where she probably ended her days sometime before 891].
-Simon MacLean, "Queenship, nunneries and royal widowhood in Carolingian Europe"
#historicwomendaily#angelberga#Louis II of Italy#Italian history#Carolingian period#9th century#my post#Angelberga is wildly fascinating to me#She's been described by numerous historians as 'the most openly powerful of the Carolingian royal wives' (Fiona M. MacFarlane)#'The first Carolingian royal woman to take a fully public role in government' (Phyllis G. Jestice) etc#In many ways this is dependent on the Carolingian paradigm of royalty which differed from its Merovingian predecessors#and which saw queens conducting their activities on a primarily domestic/spatial level#with significantly reduced indicators of autonomy and oddly obscured importance/influence in contemporary sources#(That didn't necessarily mean a reduction in importance - just a shift in what that importance actually meant and should contribute to)#In that framework Angelberga's wide-ranging public activities do seem to have been the 'exception'#It's all the more notable considering the fact that she never had a son#Which is yet another thing I find very interesting with her - how her lack of a son affected various spheres and events of her life#Predictably contemporaries and chronicles viewed her as a controversial figure who was arrogant and insolent and sexually transgressive#(shocker)#also her name has many spelling variants in sources and history books - I'm using Angelberga to make it consistent#and because it was how La Rocca (the first historian whose work of her I read) referred to her
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#ray's tag#mario#undescribed#screenshot courtesy of my dad who showed me this at dinner last night#to which as soon as i got the joke i promptly went 'that's hilarious. (tumblr would love that.) please send it to me'#dua lipa#also for those who don't understand the joke#read dua lipa's name with an italian accent: do-a leap-a
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Woah Ser Valerie… There’s rose petals in the air when she fights!
#Altheya#altheyatde#my ocs#Ser Valerie#I’ve been trying to find a last name for her for the past week#And for me that’s usually just hearing or reading a word somewhere and going ‘could that be a last name?’#So this week I encountered the word ‘Florett’ which is the German word for a light rapier sword that’s called a ‘foil’ in english#English has the worst name for them#Because every other language used a variation of the French word fleuret#So it’s florett floreto fioretto etc in most languages#We don’t know yet what language or region Mark is going to base the Suncrest isles on but southern french spanish italian etc should be fin#I like that word but it sounds a bit clunky as a last name paired with her first name (Ser Valerie Fioretto? Too long)#So I’m still workshopping that#Her first name came very easily so of course her last name is more difficult to find :(#I chose Valerie because it’s valiant+flattery with a hint of Valkyrie and it has a latin/roman/italian origin#So a very good name for her!#Anyway wow cool drawing I like it a lot
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unfortunately my weakness IS blond men 😓so glad they're not real
#ts4#the sims 4#the sims#i named him elias grayfang but elias darling also sounds cute#i gotb ored and mixed two random ocs and i got#seth and vera#which makes a weird ammount of sense???#besides the fact that she live shundreds of year sin the future andin the american prairies and he was born in like the late 70s and is ver#italian. theyd totally fall in love#sims 4#sims#cas#ocs#oc#cas screenshots#cas challenge#ts4 cas
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I've created too many overly detailed headcanons about Barry's life outside of Rafe
Like full family history-- he has a huge family but it's mostly dudes, his dad and brothers and uncles are all cunts and super bigoted, when he came out as bi they called him a sissy and shipped him to the military to "man the fuck up", the enviroment was so fucking toxically masculine- his mom was just trying her best, teaching him and his older sister (who he loves) to take care of themselves, teaching them spanish so she could speak to them in private, etc. Literally the only people in his family he still actively chooses to speak to out of care rather than obligation is his mom, his older sister, and a pair of aunts.
He doesnt have many close friends, but his best friend is a queer sex worker who he met on the job, likes to take care of her, gives her a place to stay when she needs it, gives her money when she asks for it, gives her her drugs for free when she needs to wind down. They talk shit, she's the only person he gets to sufficiantly ramble to about Rafe, she gives him advice- its very sweet. (Rafe is so violently jealous of this woman, he needs to be kept at a 15 foot distance and Barry has to explain 20 times over that theyve never slept together and that they're just friends and that shes ABSOLUTELY not a threat cause hes not even close to her type lol. Also the three of them trip together once and Rafe takes his first hallucinagen with this random lady and his boyfriend lol, but after it he finally accepts that shes not a threat)
He has like... a deep need to take care of people? Which mostly funnels into taking care of Rafe, but he'll take any oppurtunity to take care of people he thinks deserves it (mostly... women- this man has such a soft spot for women, especially older women, he'll do anything to help em out, take care of em, whatever they need- can you tell he was a mamas boy?)
When he was younger (like early 20s) he dated a woman in her 40s and tbh- mightve been one of his best relationships before Rafe. A little boring for him, but he keeps in contact with her to check in at times (don't tell Rafe.)
He keeps in contact with a couple of the guys he was stationed with in the military, but he's only really close with one, unsurprisingly a gay guy who *ahem* was a regular for him when they were stationed together, and he gives him free weed and shrooms for the shit being in the army left him with.
This man's tiny friend group is just radicalised queers and his sister lol
#I should give them names cause tbh- I might wanna write about him introducing Rafe to this part of his life at some point#btw yes i hc him as mixed latino and italian lol- his mom was probably first gen latina#(Fuck it; Sister's called Jessie - SW friend's called Lily - ex's called Patricia/Patty/Tricia - Army friend's called James)#btw Lily's type is like is Rafe was more of a twink- Barry tells him this. That if anything she's closer to stealing Rafe away than him lol#I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS MAN.#btw Rafe thinks shrooms and shit like LSD are for girls- which is why hes never done it.#which is.... bullshit????? like what???? but its cause he associates it with bright colors which is obviously... too feminine??? for him???#acting like im not the one headcanoning him this way BUT TELL ME ITS NOT SOME SHIT HE'D DO.#rafe is sexist as shit meanwhile barry drinks respect women juice religiously lol#perfect ship dynamic /j#🪲#cw suggestive#barry obx#obx#obx content#obx fandom#rafe obx#outer banks#barry outer banks#obx headcanon#outer banks hcs#outerbanks headcanons#barrafe#rafebarry#rafe x barry#barry x rafe#obx ocs#???? i guess???#outer banks oc#trailerclub
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We're taking down this tower together Pino
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#pizza tower#pizza tower fanart#peppino spaghetti#pizza tower noise#the noise#Funny HC Noise calls Peppino by any name except his actual name#like Italian man pizza man Pep Peps peppy pino#which is rare by the way#but hell would be freezing over if he called him Peppino#just a funny thought
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