names to give your japanese female/girl-shaped/girl-adjacent characters that DON'T END IN '-ko'
this actual suffix for girls' names (子, which can mean child, teenager or young woman, among other possible definitions) is kinda dated in japan and has been for decades now? you have so many options other than just tacking -ko onto a boy's name after dropping its last syllable and calling it a day. here are some other name endings you can try:
-ki. depending on the character used, meanings include tree (木); mood/feelings, air, atmosphere (気); season (季), instrument, vessel (器); odd/strange (奇)...
-na. 'vegetable' (菜) and 'name' (名) are two common meanings for this ending, but some kanji used in names have multisyllable readings that end in -na.
-mi. almost as old as -ko, but still somewhat popular. most common meaning is 'beauty' or 'beautiful', with the character 美.
-ri. jasmine (莉), logic or principle (理)...
seasons. these also work as names in their own right! -natsu (夏, summer), -haru (春, spring), -aki (秋, autumn), -fuyu (冬, winter). 秋 and 冬 might be more common as standalone names or name beginnings than endings, at least for girls. the on'yomi (chinese-derived kanji readings) give you even more possibilities.
while names that correspond to actions or states of being, like satoru, hiromu, shigeru, minoru, ayumu, hikaru, ka(w)oru, etc. can sometimes be used as is for girl's names, it's more common to use the noun-equivalent forms of these words instead. names like inori and konomi—if written with single characters—are of this type. some verby names, like michiru (満, to be full, to grow larger), are slightly likelier to be bestowed upon girls, though.
you can just give them new names entirely, too!
naming girls after flowers or flower anatomy, fruits, birds, trees, and even weather patterns is and likely always will be fashionable. examples include:
蕾 tsubomi, flower bud.
雪 yuki, snow. unisex.
菊 kiku, chrysanthemum. standalone or with -ko.
杠 yuzuriha, false daphne (flower).
若葉 wakaba, young leaf.
楓 kaede, maple tree.
茜 akane, madder (plant source of a crimson dye or the color itself).
桃 momo, peach or peach tree.
千鳥 chidori, plover. or a thousand birds.
東風 ayu, south-by-southeast (along the sea of japan) spring and summer wind.
even colors can work as girl's names. aoi (青, blue or green) and midori (緑, green) are a bit old-fashioned too now, but they're still options that wouldn't raise eyebrows.
and some girls have names that are just kana and don't correspond to any particular kanji reading! parents often do this with the intent of freeing their newborn babe from any specific destiny attached to the reading of their name.
please try these instead for your original characters or genderbends. you're welcome.
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English is not my first language and I know nothing about us military
I always thought that being in the marine meant you where mostly on ships and boats or something and working as a soldier there, yk.. Cause marine being derived from something sea related
That's why I thought it's only natural for Stanley's crew to know how to manage a ship and track down kos crew to wherever
And Stanley is just op enough to be great at anything soldier related, the ace of the military so to speak
The moment I got an inkling that maybe marine was not just sea related was, whenever I read fics with stanxeno in it, Stanley's job gets elaborated more and oftentimes he just gets deployed via plane or something
So not ship related necessarily
I feel stupid and ignorant for never properly thinking about all of that
Of course marine soldiers wouldn't spend all their time on a ship 🧍♀️
I was surprised to read how versatile marine soldiers have to be.. Now I have more context to what stanley and his crew must have went through to get where they are
Marines are elite soldiers, special operatives who get the job done. They... uh... they are also not known as the smartest, and they are known to be highly aggressive with no chill. Especially critical of the Marines are sailors in the navy, who have a long standing joke about Marines eating crayons.
This is, generally, used to weed out the decent ones from the ones too sensitive to invite along to get dinner when the ship is at port. "What's your favorite flavor of crayon?" Stanley would probably say purple and get invited to the place with bottomless margaritas.
In the United States, the Navy runs the boats. Navy engineers keep the engines turning and the potable water clean. Navy officers do the navigation. Navy seamen man the guns, fly planes, and do all the rest of what needs done on the ship. Sailors in the navy stay on the ship.
The marines are the cargo. They fly some of the planes, but mostly they get dropped off somewhere to go fight on the front lines, or sneak around behind enemy lines for a tactical strike at enemy infrastructure, or anything else that involves directly assaulting the enemy.
To quote my Navy vet partner: All they do is eat our food, clog up the chow lines, and cause trouble. Sometimes we send them to cause someone else trouble, because that's what they are supposed to do. We get to port, they go out on liberty, do their "hoo-rah" bullshit, and get us all restricted to the ship. Sending them off the ship toward someone we don't like isn't just their job, it's what every seamen wants them to do sooner.
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can you tell me more about langjun TT I really like him even though there is very little information about him, or his past. I hope someone writes fics about langjun please.
An opportunity to go off about Lang Junxia! Thank you, anon! =3=
When Feitian wrote our Langjun he left us a lot of blank spots — which means you're free to headcanon a lot of stuff. Here's what I am sure of (spoiler alert! and all that):
He was Prince Wuluohou Mu, of the Empire of Wuluohou, before it fell. (although Feitian seems to have made it more than a nomadic empire), which means he's probably one of the Shiwei people.
They fled into the Xianbei Mountains, and when he was 8 years old, a great battle (War of Chang Forest) between Yuan and Chen, and he was adopted by Li Xin of Tempered Sword Terrace (Li Xin was working for the general who led the attack in the Xianbei Mountains) as a disciple, and that's probably the man who named him "Lang Junxia".
BTW, according to the last book in the series, one half of the jade arc went to the Prince of Xianbei, to be kept for perpetuity and for there to always be peace between the two empires. So it may be possible that Langjun had that one half of the jade arc — which explains how Li Jianhong ended up with both of them. (It wouldn't make sense otherwise --- either Li Yanqiu or his dad should have been holding the other one) That's my headcanon anyway. It's unconfirmed.
He probably doesn't remember being a prince at all. He's a sentimental person, and his memories of being loved come from living in the Xianbei mountains.
He was engaged to someone before he was 8 years old, and she died during the Battle of Chang Forest; she was Mrs Feilian's daughter. Whenever he passes by the area, he would leave flowers on her grave, and they would be the rare kind of flowers that grow on a side of a cliff that is hard to get to without climbing.
Somewhere between the age of 8 and 18, Lang Junxia killed his adoptive father and his entire martial arts school and took the Qingfengjian to avenge his family.
His first meeting with Li Jianhong was likely an assassination attempt.
Somewhere around this time period, he saved Duan Xiaowan's life. They're very close, but it was only platonic. There's some fanon floating around that he was in love with her, but later extra hints that the one he was in love with was Li Jianhong.
The guy is TOUGH. Recall the Battle of Shangjing, for instance — after getting wounded during his fight with Xunchun, he chased down Helan Jie and chopped off his arm, and then searched all over the place killing Mongolian soldiers the whole way tracking down Duan Ling. During the battle of Tongguan, he was heavily wounded, poisoned, and then days later he's hopping all over the battlefield.
His love for Duan Ling has always been a combination of ruler/subject and father/son.
He's 19 years older than Duan Ling.
All four houses of White Tiger Hall was given a pill that can bring someone back from the verge of death. He gave his pill to Duan Ling the minute they met.
He lies often and expertly. This is a man who lived with an adoptive family for years and killed them overnight, probably in their sleep. He probably walked out of this not feeling like vengeance mean anything either, because for someone who's supposed to be a cold-blooded killer he gets attached real easily.
He can paint very well, and he has wonderful handwriting. He was educated like royalty.
He is very good with kids and can be very charming — notably, Yao Zheng would much rather go play with Lang Junxia than Wu Du.
He's also a very good flautist and this is def not just about being royal, bc Li Jianhong is AWFUL at it.
You can name more people Lang Junxia failed to kill than successfully killed in the book, see: Li Jianhong (3 attempts), Fei Hongde (1 attempt), Ding Zhi (almost slit her throat), Duan Ling ... (actually none at all but I'm sure you guessed that already)
So, traditionally, the two halves of the Li family jade arcs were kept by 1) the ruler 2) his guard. A tradition passed down from before the founding of the previous dynasty. In the case of Yingnu's Li Qingcheng and Zhang Mu, they were also lovers.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER alert: Lang Junxia will spend the last years of his life painting a fresco of Li Jianhong as the White Tiger constellation god with his hand outstretched, a jade arc in his palm. Make of that what you will.
Now that The GOT Place has gotten into the parallelogram aspect of the story, I thought it would be helpful to provide a primer of The Good Place. Spoilers are below the cut, but if you get a chance to watch the show, I really, really hope you do! It's a wonderful series that I'll recommend until my last breath.
But if you want spoilers, well, here are your spoilers:
The Good Place is a story about the afterlife and all its complications. In the original television series, we follow four humans (Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani & Jason), who have all died and made it to a neighborhood in the titular Good Place, as opposed to the Bad Place, where people get tortured for eternity.
To keep everything in order, the residents of the the Good Place are placed into neighborhoods that cap out at 300ish people. The separate neighborhoods are built by afterlife architects. The one that Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason end up in was made by a Good Place architect (Michael) and maintained by a walking Alexa/Siri/Hey Google not-a-robot (Janet).
The problems begin when Eleanor realizes that somewhere along the way, mistakes were made and she was mixed up with someone else. She doesn’t belong in the Good Place and the entire first season encompasses her attempts to covertly earn her place, as to avoid unending torture. Naturally. Chidi, who was an ethics professor, teaches her on how to be a good person when she confesses her real identity.
Ethics are a HUGE part of the show, with Kant and Plato and all these major philosophy icons getting mentioned, as well as discussions as to how people should do their best for themselves and for each other.
Here’s the thing - THE BIG SPOILER -
(last chance to back out)
Okay.
They’re all already in The Bad Place.
It’s a torture experiment, specifically made for the original four humans aka the eventual Soul Squad. On Earth, Eleanor was selfish and unkind, Chidi indecisive and wracked with self-doubt, Tahani elitist and concerned only with her status in the world and Jason had many issues, but being from Florida alone doomed him. Everyone else in the neighborhood is a demon in disguise, including Michael.
Janet is Janet, a kickass cinnamon roll who was stolen and meant to function in a real Good Place neighborhood and decides to stick around to help the four humans when she learns the truth. She’s wonderful.
So, as it turns out, every action a living person takes on Earth accumulates afterlife points. Those who meet a high threshold make it into The (real) Good Place. Very, very few make it in - which is a fishy thing they twig onto later.
Through shenanigans and banding together, the Soul Squad convinces Michael and Janet to join with them in an effort to earn spots in the actual Good Place. This takes some time, and it includes them meeting the Judge of the Universe, Hydrogen. Gen, for short. (Played perfectly by Maya Rudolph, btw.)
Michael, who always despised humans, and believed them incapable of change, learns the opposite is true and that all four people became better versions of themselves during their time in his torture neighborhood.
Because of this, he suggests to Gen that the Soul Squad get sent back to Earth, to get a chance to improve their point totals. They do, circumventing their original deaths and moving on with a new lease on life. None of them remember their time in the afterlife, but they each make great movements in becoming better people.
Of course, everything goes wrong.
It all comes down to the fact that no one has gotten into The Good Place in five hundred years. Turns out that the point accumulation system is broken and you can do one good thing (aka bring your mother flowers) but lose points for all the things that are associated but you can’t control (the effect of long distance transport on the climate, the pesticides used, the underpaid workers who cultivate the flowers, the crooked CEO who runs the company and is getting your money - you get the gist). Your good and kind choice ends up leaving you in the negative digits.
In the end, a decision is made to completely reboot the afterlife system itself.
The architects from The Good Place and The Bad Place join forces, paired up to run individual simulations on every person who has died. Everyone gets a chance to improve themselves in the afterlife, away from all the caveats and unknown factors on Earth that would otherwise doom them. Only then are they sent to either place for eternity.
The original four, Michael and Janet save the universe, basically.
I do hope, despite these spoilers, that you watch this show. It is heartwarming and so incredibly funny and the series finale is absolute perfection. Perfection. I sobbed so much when I first saw it and it still makes my chest feel all funny. The way this show makes you think about what humans are to one another, the beauty in the world and doing good for the sake of goodness - there's absolutely nothing like it.
Notable Characters That Show Up In The GOT Place:
Tahani Al Jamil - Former It Girl, Heiress, Model, Best Friends With Beyoncé, texts with the Dali Lama, etc. Her talent for name dropping is unparalleled. In the afterlife, Tahani learns to actually care about other people because it’s the right thing to do, as opposed to making her look good. In reflection of that, she chooses to leave The Good Place and become an architect for all the incoming souls, the ultimate way to selflessly help others.
Gen (The Judge) - A higher being unconcerned with the ins and outs of what is right or wrong, but will hear you out if you’re entertaining enough. Obsessed with Timothy Olyphant. I cannot emphasize how spectacular Maya Rudolph is in such a small role.
Shawn - Demon. Formerly Michael’s boss and current frenemy, but he will never, never, ever ever ever everevereverever admit to a soft spot for anyone.
Vicky - Demon. Takes over as Head Architect from Michael when it turns out she’s surprisingly well suited to the job. Drama queen. Terrible singer, but doesn’t let that discourage her.
Glenn - Demon. Hapless, goofy, the second demon after Michael who is willing to say that maybe humans aren’t entirely garbage. Kind of a sweetheart. Shawn’s favorite whipping boy. Bad Place Architect who helps train Tahani and (in the story) becomes her partner in afterlife tests.
Beadie - Angel and Good Place architect who trains Tahani. V nice. V bland, as The Good Place staff tends to be.
Todd - Demon/Bad Place architect/Lava Monster. Pretty chill dude, though.
Jeremy Bearimy - Often referred to as a Bearimy. Not a being, but a concept. Time in the after life does not run in a straight line with a strict beginning and end, but in a series or loops and twists that circles back upon itself. It looks like this:
The dot above the eye is not a typo. Don’t try to fully understand it, though. Chidi briefly broke his brain in his attempt to do so.
Thank you for reading and I hope you give the show a chance! ❤️
