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Indeed.
@akow: How fun!!!
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The Shadowmind
Might as well post my photo for coming out day as well.
This thing doesn't take good pictures and I need to smile more:
You look absolutely fabulous!!! And smiling is an issue for me too. I feel that I look a bit weird when smiling.
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Just came out to Dad and Step Mom! Yaaayyyy!!! It's coming out day, so yeah. Got the speech of Your still young' but otherwise good! They support me and are advising me a lot.
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Chess435
This is why you don't mess with Sophia. :smalltongue:
(Since I have a Shaymin avvie, and Karen has a Eevee, we picked a pokemon for each other harem member, and I made a competitive team. We're 6 wins, 4 losses, and a draw so far :smallbiggrin:.)
Oh, sounds fun! It reminds me of the time I used to play these online [pocket monster] battles.
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The Shadowmind
Might as well post my photo for coming out day as well.
This thing doesn't take good pictures and I need to smile more:
Ah, your bathroom! It looks big and expensive.
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Sabeki
Just came out to Dad and Step Mom! Yaaayyyy!!! It's coming out day, so yeah. Got the speech of Your still young' but otherwise good! They support me and are advising me a lot.
Hooray!
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Dad started tearing up a bit, but otherwise good!
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Sabeki
Dad started tearing up a bit, but otherwise good!
Tears of joy or tears or sorrow?
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Of love, of course. :smallsmile::
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Sabeki
Of love, of course. :smallsmile::
Of course! They probably cry constantly, all the time. :smallsmile:
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My supervisor at my clinical rotations site is married to another woman, and they have some lovely kids. I like seeing people in happy marriages: It also made a difference to two of my friends who couldn't get a green card until recently with regards to their marital status (one of them was from New Zealand). It feels really good to know that the progress of the past several years isn't just some abstract thing, and to put a human face on things (naturally my face, not being human, doesn't count).
Sorry, hope it's not too political...
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golentan
My supervisor at my clinical rotations site is married to another woman, and they have some lovely kids. I like seeing people in happy marriages: It also made a difference to two of my friends who couldn't get a green card until recently with regards to their marital status (one of them was from New Zealand). It feels really good to know that the progress of the past several years isn't just some abstract thing, and to put a human face on things (naturally my face, not being human, doesn't count).
Indeed! Progress is always a good thing.
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Agreed. Progress is good. Unless its progress towards the abominations threatening to kill us all in the depths of space.
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Can any of you wonderful individuals give good name suggestions? Awesome and/or hilarious names welcome; I was thinking Kilroy.
MtoF in case anyone forgot.
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Sabeki
Agreed. Progress is good. Unless its progress towards the abominations threatening to kill us all in the depths of space.
I'm not threatening. I don't threaten people, it's mean.
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Sabeki
Agreed. Progress is good. Unless its progress towards the abominations threatening to kill us all in the depths of space.
Ah, true!
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Can any of you wonderful individuals give good name suggestions? Awesome and/or hilarious names welcome; I was thinking Kilroy.
MtoF in case anyone forgot.
Comrade Feng, The Once-Shifted Tiger!
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golentan
I'm not threatening. I don't threaten people, it's mean.
That.. That was a Lovecraft reference... :smallconfused:
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Sabeki
That.. That was a Lovecraft reference... :smallconfused:
Yes. I know. :smallbiggrin:
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I think I've chosen a name :smallredface:
Caroline. (Ideally, pronounced as in French, with the "a" as in "bat" and in with the "i" as in "fin", not as in "base" or "rise".)
But Adélaïde is a close second. I might choose that, and like it as much, but it is much rarer. And somehow, it sticks less to me.
EDIT: This is under the consideration that I already have a cousin named Catherine...
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Enrico Dandolo
I think I've chosen a name :smallredface:
Caroline. (Ideally, pronounced as in French, with the "a" as in "bat" and in with the "i" as in "fin", not as in "base" or "rise".)
But Adélaïde is a close second. I might choose that, and like it as much, but it is much rarer. And somehow, it sticks less to me.
Ah, I like them - the first because it is fanciful, the second because it is unpronounceable. Why did you choose them?
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Enrico Dandolo
I think I've chosen a name :smallredface:
Caroline. (Ideally, pronounced as in French, with the "a" as in "bat" and in with the "i" as in "fin", not as in "base" or "rise".)
But Adélaïde is a close second. I might choose that, and like it as much, but it is much rarer. And somehow, it sticks less to me.
EDIT: This is under the consideration that I already have a cousin named Catherine...
Ooh, Caroline is a beautiful name! ^_^
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Adelaide is one of the more disappointing Australian cities...
As a person's name I don't actually mind it, but it will have certain connotations if you ever go to Australia.
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TaiLiu
Ah, I like them - the first because it is fanciful, the second because it is unpronounceable. Why did you choose them?
Where I live, the first is a very unoriginal name and the second is far from frequent, but very pronounceable :smalltongue:
Caroline is a stock French name, so it needs not explanation. I like how it sounds -- with two liquid consonants, a velar plosive + "a" in the beginning and a "i" + consonant ending. However, it is a feminized version of a masculine name (derivatives of Carolus > Charles, Karl) which has the sad meaning of "man, free man" (as in Nordic huskarl). It is often shortened to Caro, which loses the ringing ending. For some reason, it feels appropriate anyway.
Adélaïde has similar characteristics, except that it's very rare and original. Soundwise, again an "a" at the beginning and a "i" + consonant ending, in addition to one liquid consonant and a hiatus (bonus points for the diaeresis). Contrary to Caroline, it is a full, autonomous female name, with a very interesting etymology: adal, "noble" (it gave the German Adel, the Anglo-saxon name Æthelred) + -heid (cf. the suffixes -hood or -heit in German, my favorite suffix with the latin equivalent -tas > it. -tà, fr. -té, sp. -dad, eng. -ty, ger. -tät in loanwoards). Still, it is a bit long at 4 syllables, and I dislike all the shortened forms I can imagine (Adèle, Adé, Ada, Adi, Laïde... Meh.).
On the importance of pronunciation, other contenders were Catherine (velar plosive + a, 1 liquid consonant, i + consonant ending), Gabrielle (velar plosive + "a", 2 liquid consonants, hiatus in French, "el" ending), Anaïs (starts with "a", hiatus, i + consonant ending). All were eliminated for other reasons. In any case, neither Gabrielle nor Anaïs are as good as the others. I would really like Catherine, I always felt something special towards that name, but a cousin of mine is named Catherine.
Other candidates were eliminated because I don't want to choose a name out of my personal interests: e.g., Daria (see avatar), Elanor (Samwise Gamgy's daughter and a flower of Lothlorien), Miriel (mother of Feänor). Still, Adélaïde is sort of Tolkienesque -- it means "nobility", whereas Arwen's name is ar-, "noble", and wen, "maiden" (cf. Eärwen, "sea-maiden", or my first D&D character Melwen, "loved maiden").
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Serpentine
Adelaide is one of the more disappointing Australian cities...
As a person's name I don't actually mind it, but it will have certain connotations if you ever go to Australia.
I knew the city, not the disappointment. Gladly, going to Australia is not in my plans.
The difference of pronunciation between French and English is pretty noticeable, too.
And thank you Skeppio :smallsmile:
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^ That is adorable.
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Jormengand
All right.
After doing the research, I am convinced that Jormungandr is a norse sex joke. I mean, a giant snake whose name means "Mighty rod"? Really now?
Yep, that's pretty damning evidence.
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Iruka
While I can't remember hearing about any specific incidents, I'm afraid that this sounds realistic. Though I think it's less "Harassing the waitresses is part of the Volksfest experience, we need it to attract customers." and more like "Don't want to get harassed by drunk men? Feel free to quit, there are enough people who want that job." AFAIK, serving in a tent at the big fairs pays quite well.
Yeah, neither of those are good attitudes to have. I hate when people think they can take advantage of workers due to economic forces making their job popular. Like "unskilled labour" jobs in times of high unemployment, or modelling jobs for teenagers.
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Sabeki
Just came out to Dad and Step Mom! Yaaayyyy!!! It's coming out day, so yeah. Got the speech of Your still young' but otherwise good! They support me and are advising me a lot.
Yaaaay! :smallbiggrin: So glad to hear that!
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Enrico Dandolo
I think I've chosen a name :smallredface:
Caroline. (Ideally, pronounced as in French, with the "a" as in "bat" and in with the "i" as in "fin", not as in "base" or "rise".)
But Adélaïde is a close second. I might choose that, and like it as much, but it is much rarer. And somehow, it sticks less to me.
EDIT: This is under the consideration that I already have a cousin named Catherine...
Caroline is a lovely name!
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Heliomance
This has all of my yes.
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Heliomance
Awesome! :smallbiggrin:
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Sabeki
This has all of my yes.
This would have all of my yes, except that it brings to mind a moderately transphobic joke that my French teacher has a tendency to make regarding the transformers whenever anyone gets their (grammatical) genders wrong.
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Sabeki
Oh, that's too bad...
Though, it's actually more offensive to genderfluid people. I wonder who's one of those.
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Freaking education. Dee, this is why
i'm going to tear that k8nd of system down. Well, in America, at least.