I dare say I noticed a theme in VLD that Keith can’t utter “I love you” UNLESS HE’S JUST GOTTEN THE SHIT KICKED OUT OF HIM, and so this comic was born.
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China’s netizens are all in a twitter over the account of a carpenter who was commissioned to make a cinnabar red high-backed chair with the finials at the top to be “in the shape of dragons’ heads” (chéng lóngtóu 成龍頭). Unfortunately, he misinterpreted the directions to mean “[in the shape of] Jackie Chan’s head” (“Chénglóng tóu 成龍頭”).
(via Language Log » Reanalysis, Jackie Chan edition)
LMAO ok so to elaborate on this absolute gem, notice how the characters provided for “in the shape of dragons’ heads” and “[in the shape of] Jackie Chan’s head” are identical? That wasn’t a typo.
The thing you need to understand about Chinese names is that they all have meaning. And I don’t mean that in the sense of “if you trace the etymology back through two languages it has its roots in a Hebrew phrase that means “God is my ____” that many Western names have. I mean that in the sense of “almost all of these words are still in regular use today and my parents very literally named me “pretty [and] wise” in Chinese.
(Sidenote: This is why we get annoyed at made-up ‘Chinese’ names that just pull two random vaguely Chinese-sounding syllables together. It is blindingly obvious when it’s not a real name).
成 (chéng) means “to become”, “to turn into”. 龍 (lóng) is “dragon”. Thus, Jackie Chan’s Chinese stage name, 成龍 (Chénglóng), literally means “become dragon”. (頭 (tóu), of course, means “head”)
(Further sidenote: This is actually a bit of a pun/reference. Specifically, it is a reference to Bruce Lee, whose stage name was 小龍 (Xiǎolóng), or, “Little dragon”. So Jackie’s chosen stage name means both “become dragon”, and “become [like] Bruce Lee”)
The other thing you need to know about Chinese is that we don’t put spaces between terms in written text.
What all this means is that the way you’d write “[carve] into dragon heads” can be identical to the way you’d write “[carve] Jackie Chan’s head”, and literally the only difference would be where you pause when you vocalise it: before lóngtóu, or after chénglóng. XD
So my mom lived in China for a few years before I was born, along with her brothers. To make the Chinese versions of their names, they just went with whatever had the most similar sound. My mom’s name ended up meaning “beautiful plum blossom” (sorry I don’t know the characters), but her younger brother became"peaceful pig", which got him some interesting reactions when he introduced himself to people. As a pig farmer though, he found it absolutely hilarious.
2) I keep thinking about the damn chair, and the part that really gets me is, assuming this is real, the carpenter just… didn’t bother to even ask. Even though dragon heads on Chinese stuff is way, way more common a motif than Jackie Chan’s head. He was just like, oh, ok. You want this guy’s head on your furniture? Sure! No problem! Which makes me want to know: how often does he get requests involving celebrity heads? XD
You may be underestimating how popular Jackie Chan is in China. Having liver there my first reaction to this story was, yeah that’s a fair mistake, someone might want that
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Warning: Major Character changes ahead, major spoilers at the end!
Jason Todd
Pre-reboot, Jason was apparently ambiguously white enough to think that Lady Shiva might have been his mother. We’d like to give him a Latino or Hispanic background, but as akar3n has pointed out, there are very few Uruguayan-, Peruvian-, or Chilean-American characters in comics. Overall, this really shouldn’t change a lot about his character beyond the artists being careful to not make him incredibly pale.
Roy Harper
This is the really big one we’d like to get feedback on. We couldn’t figure out a way to bring in Roy’s childhood without being insulting to the Navajo community. If we made him Navajo, we risked making him a caricature (vigilante with bow and arrow, struggles with addiction.. probably not the best way to start it off). We do want to keep his backstory with Brave Bow, but we wonder if it might not be to our advantage to place him on a reservation closer to home, possibly one our readers have personal experience with. (Star City is close to San Francisco, CA — the Navajo Nation is in Arizona.) If we could get a specifically Navajo contributor, we’d love to hear your input.
We would also like to introduce an actual Native American character. This character will not have powers or vigilante training, and they’ll be living next door to the Outlaws with Isabel. Beyond that, we have not fleshed out this character at all, and we’d love some feedback on this person too. (Suggestions for tribe affiliation, gender, orientation, name, and personality all welcome!)
Koriand’r
Not changing her backstory as much, but we are redesigning her. In trying to strike a balance between comfortable and.. well, Kory, we came up with this. Suggestions welcome, especially because seraphatonin is having a hard time with the lower part of the top.
Diana Prince
We can’t really see her as resembling anyone but Laverne Cox now. Unless anyone has any objections, we’ll probably use the same fancast design that seraphatonin made a few months ago (with a gladiator skirt rather than the cloth one in the picture).
Isabel
If you read RHATO, you’ll be familiar with this flight attendant who had a brief romance with Jason before she was fridged in a confusing Joker-Staged-An-Overdose plot twist. Because she was originally just a side character to reinforce Jason’s heterosexuality, we’ve taken her name and recreated her character almost completely. She loves kids and lives next door to the Outlaws with her roommate.
****MAJOR SPOILERS START HERE*******
Jade Nguyen
We’re really not changing anything about Jade’s backstory, but some help with her design would be pretty cool. Her original outfit is hideous, her new 52 outfit is hideous, and her design in Young Justice, while simple & interesting, was reminiscent of a shinobi shozoku/yukata despite the fact that Jade is part Vietnamese (not Japanese - and even if she were, it’s like wearing the sexy-halloween-costume version of it).
Lian Harper
We’re thinking that she’ll be four or five years old with ~3B hair and relatively lighter skin. We definitely want her to look like both of her parents.
Additionally: if you have any villains you can suggest that would be relatively minor and could work in the Miami area, please send us an ask and we’ll start researching!
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