eg: "mir/miel" means lake in my conlang, "da" means hill, and "guu" means bear. now that i know that i can name something daguu/guuda (bear hill) or guumir (bear lake). and i can go "hwa" (which means white but in this case pretend i came up with it at random) sounds good with "guu" so what if i name something hwaguu or hwaguumir? and then just repeat the process

some of the things i recommend having words for when it comes to naming locations:

- hill (you can have so many variants that mean hill)

- lake

- river/creek

- valley

- directional words (north, east, south, west)

- road/path

- forest/wood

- clearing/plain

- rock/cliff

a fun little read, sometimes only covers their exonyms in english though, let me see if i can find one that goes into country's names in their native languages

still not quite what i was looking for, but covers groups of people!

from one 33 year old woman to another:

Yet you acted as if everything was known and questioning it was tantamount to heresy.

(and of course, that what Lovecraft really meant by fearing the unknown was being scared of minorities because he was so racist, but yawn)

No one is flawless, by any standards. Everyone, even the least "problematic" people, have done bad things. MLK had multiple affairs and may have watched his friend rape a woman. Ghandi was a sex addict who abandoned his dying father to have sex. Einstein had an affair with his cousin and treated his wife so badly she had a mental breakdown. Does that mean we need to stop celebrating MLK day? Is the entire civil rights movement so tainted that we should just undo everything it accomplished? Should we stop teaching general relativity in schools? Should we start a movement to give India back to the British?

Modern standards for purity change constantly. 10 years ago everything JK Rowling has ever said about trans people would have been mainstream feminist thought. Anyone disagreeing would have been a misogynist. 10 years ago calling a black person "black" instead of "African-American" was offensive. 7 years ago questioning the outcome of an election was a patriotic duty. What is and isn't acceptable, or politically correct, changes all the time. It's impossible to hold anyone alive today to those ever-changing standards, let alone people who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and were held to very different standards.

The people who are held to these impossibly standards, both now and throughout history, are only held to those standards because modern leftists want to destroy their accomplishments. Just look at Joe Biden. If the standards of #MeToo were applied evenly, he should have been thrown off the Democrat ticket. The internet should have been flooded with articles and posts demanding he back out. Instead, those articles and posts demonized his accuser literally weeks after pushing "believe all women". If the standards for racism were applied evenly, there are a bunch of black comedian and celebrities who would have lost their jobs and been blacklisted from Hollywood for the things they said about white people. Brie Larson would have been fired from being Captain Marvel for saying her movie wasn't for straight white men. If the people inventing these standards aren't going to apply them evenly, then why should we ever adapt those standards for anyone? Ourselves or historical figures?

The trick is recognizing SOCIETIES progress. Yes many ppl were brilliant but every brilliant discovery was fostered by millions of humans before them. Each innovation could have been discovered by someone else (and the level of technology of many natives across the world before white imperialism prove this).

Is it great that this intelligent racist asshole invented X? Yes its great. Are they significant to history? Yes. Should we honor them? No. Recognizing history is something that never requires worship. We build statues to people we review and write warnings in books and plaques for those we dont. Everyone knows about many bad ppl in history. There isnt a single non idiot who thinks taking down confed statues is erasing history cus we all learned that history.

The cycle of Numenor as written by the author;

Man is blessed and rises to great heights with gifts bestowed by the maker(s)-

Mankind being insatiable begins fighting its own mortal nature in the noontide of its power-

Man loses sight of the source of its blessings, and in its might and avarice is infused with the resentment and hubris required to face down its Creator-

Thereby man brings ruin upon itself-

It’s an antithetical parable to the prevailing ideology today. Anti-creatives and apparatchiks take the greatest work of high concept fantasy and convert it to a vehicle for political tropes and ideologically conforming allegories for the current year.