#paris burning

all people who personify human collectivities (except mutuals i’ve already seen yours) tell me how your personifs work (or tell me where i can read about how they work) NOW. i’m trying to come up with More Terms to categorize these systems and i want to find commonalities in those systems and i need more reference data

its soooo hard to talk about this without doxxing myself but like. okay so. like many new england towns my hometown is named after a city in the british isles. the city its named after is a lot bigger and more well known then my city but my city is the biggest city of its name in the us. and the people of my city really like the city we're named after, take a lot of pride in the heritage it implies, etc. and the feeling, to some extent, goes both ways— a couple from my town's namesake came all the way here for my town's 250th anniversary!! and anyway. i just feel like. not in all cases necessarily, but certainly in cases like these, cities might think of the cities/towns named after them as their kids in a sense. and when that couple came to visit, it was like my town's mom sending a birthday card 🥺