The Jester of the 80s!

tis i, rose, hoarder of last line tags @writing-is-a-martial-art has once again blessed me <3

“Feel better?” Len asks as they start back to the Inner City.

She doesn’t know how to answer, so she doesn’t.

The long stretches of silence don’t get to them at all; they’ve been doing this for almost a decade, and it works. They’re okay.

if you go to jisho, it has an entire option to search names based on census data. this means that all the names and readings are actual real names that real people have, which is something that it’s easy to… not accomplish if you’re trying to name a character and aren’t familiar with the language’s naming conventions. with the fact that most names can be written more than one way (even within kanji usage that uses the actual readings of the kanji, and this increases exponentially when you consider the trend of “kira-kira names”, AKA names whose readings and kanji aren’t related) this also means that if you know a name you like the sound of, or you have a meaning you really want to work into your character’s name, you can find it by that as well. plus, a lot of the options are surnames, and some full names come up too, so you can make sure all around that your character has a legit name (and you’ll sound less like a weeaboo. no one wants to sound like a weeaboo.)

all you have to do to search names is put your search term (whether it’s a romaji reading or a kanji character) in the search bar and add #names after it. (you can also use this site to look up anything, since it’s also a general dictionary. this is really helpful if you do want your character to have a name that means something specific and you don’t know the word or kanji in japanese. add #kanji after the english word you’re searching for if you want to look for kanji specifically.)

for example, let’s say i really want my oc’s given name to be “yuno.” all i’d have to do is search “yuno #names”, and look? you get a ton of results with lots of different ways to write it.

or maybe i know that i want my character’s name to have “star” (星) in it. just search “星 #names” and there are pages and pages of results of names that have that kanji in it.

plus, you can use this site in combination with lists of most common given names or surnames in order to find how you’d write those names in kanji (as many english sites listing surnames, in particular, don’t give the kanji at all. however, here’s a site that lists some common surnames with their kanji, and explains a bit about japanese surnames as a whole.) after all, they are the most common, so depending on the setting, a lot of the time it can be much more realistic to have a tanaka (田中) or a yamamoto (山本), for example, than a really unusual name.

Disabled characters falling in love

Families not seeing their disabled child as something to apologize for and getting defensive when other people apologize on their behalf

Mobility aids!! (Including service animals)

The character’s disability being more than a personality trait but less than a burden

Character arcs that involve accepting their disabilities rather than finding ways to fix them

Accessible environments and tools to accommodate characters in their everyday life!!!

Disabled characters being able to hold their own

All the characters standing up to the ableists and giving them what they deserve (they can get their foot rolled over by a wheelchair. As a treat)

Cool ways disabilities are incorporated into fantasy/sci-fi genres!!

The other characters asking disabled friend if they want help instead of assuming they need it

Let! Them! Have! Hyperfixations!

Disabled characters facing and overcoming challenges without their disability being undervalued

disabled characters visibly receiving therapy, treatments, care, and medication

disabled characters taking their care into their own hands after being failed by the modern medical system

disabled characters doing incredible things not in spite of, but because of their disability

disability giving characters a conpletely unique viewpoint and method of navigating the world

sci fi and fantasy adaptive devices

physically disabled characters having multiple overlapping conditions, not just one

characters who don’t have a diagnosis, whose symptoms don’t fit into what a doctor expects to see

characters with NG tubes and G tubes

characters in wheelchairs who sometimes choose to walk with a cane

blind characters with canes

families who all have the same disability, but different symptoms or comorbidities

Characters not feeling disabled enough//Internalised ableism and having to learn to accept it

Ambulatory wheelchair users

Sensory needs

cluster B's written as actual people and not monsters

same for dissociative disorders

Amputees who don't use prosthetics

Disabled characters who don't do incredible things

albinism

I just found a dnd character sheet for the goose from untitled goose game. 😂

In the end it became the hallmark of my character that while I was good at everything else Druids should be good at, for some reason wildlife universally Hated me So So Much. I couldn’t so much as look at a raccoon without starting a fight. But I was also in denial, so my party would see me approaching an animal and get into position to rescue me immediately when it went south, which it always did.

but the ones with words on them are really great

now that i’m (attempting) to be consistently active on here, especially for camp nano, i’m trying to curate my blog feed a little more. i'm looking to follow people who write:

- epic fantasy (epic in terms of word count and/or having the characteristics of an epic adventure)

- literary fiction-inspired speculative fiction, or litfic that borders on specfic (anything that blurs the lines between these two i will 1000% fall in love with)

- literary fiction that does anything funky with pov or form

- high fantasy with multiple pov characters

- tragedies!! my beloveds <3

If you’ve got more worlds to explore, more characters to meet and lessons to teach, then there’s nothing stopping you. Go ahead. Write that story. 

It doesn’t mean that you’re neglecting any previous WIP. Just means that you want to write something else. And that’s okay. You don’t have to feel bad about being creative? 

Please reply or reblog with the number(s) correlating to the taglist(s) you wish to be part of.

Let me know if you have any thoughts on any taglists that ought to be added. No, you don't have to follow me to join one or suggest one.

I will be adding to this post as people comment, but I will be doing it on a read more as to give myself an easy place to keep track of the taglists! Thank you, everybody, and I hope you've had a wonderful week.

novelist positivity - ("being a novelist take so much love and dedication, and that is so commendable...")

poet positivity - ("the amount of emotion that gets poured into so many different poems that I see all over the internet...")

screenwrite positivity - ("the format for a screenwrite is so unique and so fascinating and the fact that you can write it, no problem, and totally get what you're doing is so cool...")

general creator positivity - ("being a creator is what brings most of the beauty into this world...")

general writer positivity - ("there are so many different forms of writing and every one of you that writes is so talented and inspiring...")

chat story positivity - ("chat stories are a new concept to me but they are so fascinating. You chat writers are so skilled to be able to turn a chat conversation into a whole story...")

songwriter positivity - you might also be tagged to some poet positivity simply because technically song lyrics ARE poems ("songwriters are so talented to be able to turn an idea into something not only to be read but also heard via music...")

fanfiction positivity - ("fanfic writers are so impressive because you're not just writing your own characters, but you are so shamelessly writing other people's characters and that is beyond amazing to me...")

plotters vs pantsers - ("being a plotter is so fascinating but you put in so much time planning what'll happen but you'll openly admit that characters have a mind of their own..." or "being a pantser is so frustrating because you have to think on your feet but it shows so much talent in a whole other way than plotters...")

editing positivity - ("if you are editing, think of it this way: you've already completed a WHOLE DRAFT of your writing! That's incredible!")

short story writer positivity - ("being a short story writer has its own set of struggles that you are impressively able to just power through...")

If you have any other ideas you'd like to hear - like maybe another list for game scripts? - then please let me know!

Welcome all newbie followers! Take your name badges and I'll meet you at the registration table for orientation. Haha just kidding, but in all seriousness, I am enclosing a link to the taglist post where you can join up to 11 tags, and I'll probably also be adding my challenges to the taglist so if you'd like to be added to that as well, let me know and if enough people want on it, I'll add it as number 12 (so just say 12 if you wanna be added to it):

Heads up, writerly friends!

Twitter user juliewagnerrr posted a very good thread on a bunch of the secret features of Scrivener. For instance, did you know that program has a built-in name generator?