My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is
Uzoamaka, which means “The road is good.” Quick lesson: My tribe is
Igbo, and you name your kid something that tells your history and
hopefully predicts your future. So anyway, in grade school, because my
last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody
ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I
could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian
accent she said, “Why?” I said, “Nobody can pronounce it.” Without
missing a beat, she said, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and
Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”
I’ve worked with many exchange programs on campuses, and they still “encourage” Chinese students to choose English names for their stay in the US. I’ve adopted a rule for myself, I won’t address them with their English name until they’ve told me to stop trying their real name on at least three different occasions. My family is largely immigrant, and while we’ve never had this problem, I don’t think anyone should have to change who they are when them find a new home, even a temporary one. So far, only two exchange student actually wanted to keep their English name, and one of them, Alice, had had Alice for a nickname since she was little.
Don’t know if it’s okay to add this here, but I used to work with a Chinese woman who had changed her name to Angelina for the sake of ease. When she first told me that was what she’d had to do, I asked her for her real name and if she minded me calling her that. She looked so frikkin happy, and it only took about two minutes for me to say it right. It’s not that people can’t pronounce these names, it’s that they won’t. It’s lazy and it’s rude.
It’s also RACIST.
Say ‘racist’.
They pronounce Tchaikovsky and Schwarzenegger just fine.
Peter Parker, a Gen Z kid, screws up: Fuck, guess I’ll kill myself.
Steve Rogers, an artist during the 30’s and a soldier during WWII who knows full well what Dadaism and fatalistic humor are: There’s bleach under the sink–
Bucky Barnes, the guy who listened to Steve’s art rants in the 30’s, watched his back in WWII and went through 70+ years of shit: –And a rope in the supply closet if you want options.
… Ewwwwwwwwwww no! FUCK NO! Do you think, your personality, rubbing off on my personality would be a good thing? Like, at all?!
Having a spine, fashion sense?
Possibly.
Hey I have a spine… I have half of a spine! And my fashion sense is great!
Half a spine.
And the fashion sense of a scene kid who just discovered glitter.
… I guess we can work on my assertiveness at some point.
I´M NOT SCENE!
The heckles would you even do with my complexion, personality and ginger hair other then being a huge dork?
Tak, I challenge you to come up with an outfit.
Decora meets Fairy Kei. It’s an upbeat style that’s loud, works with all hair colors, and is popular overseas.
Yes, it makes you look like a dork, but at least you aren’t wearing THREE DIFFERENT DECADES OF CLOTHING.
On one hand HOLY SHIT I??? LOVE??? THIS!!!! THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING IT TO ME! On the other… God I hate that you´re right. Fine, I guess you rubbing off on me wouldn´t be the worst thing to happen to me.
You’re welcome.
… How do you know my fashion sense better then I do?
@revenge-may-vary I see you’re quite the fashion connoisseur. I’m curious what you’d put on me.
You look quite good as it is, but I’ve got a suspicion you’d fit the grunge aesthetic quite well.
For this I went more functional, seeing as you’re still doing chases.
Black leather bag – good material, plenty of compartments. Black combat boots for multi-terrain treks. Black flannel overshirt and tee – tee for warm weather, and you can button the flannel at night. Dark jeans – not too tight but still tight enough.
I personally think you’d look good with small gauges and an eyebrow piercing, but that’s me.
This whole entire outfit is pretty accurate but I wanted to say the bag and boots are my favorite. As for gauges, I’ll have to keep that in mind honestly? I’ve never thought about piercings except maybe cartilage piercings, just so I could put some cyptid-themed piercings up there. But gauges…. huh. I’ll definitely keep that in mind. I might just try that.
Gauges can also have tentacle plugs and cryptid designs in them.
Anyway, wanted to create something functional and fashionable – I’m sure you tripped over your trench more than once.
Hey just because I tripped over it doesn’t mean it isn’t functional! I stored some of the baddest shit in that thing! Plus, it’s fashionable and cool.
And how many times did you nearly DIE because of those trippings?
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