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<blockquote data-quote="Paracelsus" data-source="post: 829032" data-attributes="member: 8098">RE: Hamgalaxy writes shitty revenge porn about lynchings of &quot;rapists&quot;, also ...^^^^^^This, +10000.&nbsp; The names of these characters wouldn't be out of place on a My Little Pony product line: &quot;Coming this summer to toy stores near you: Rainbow Dash, Sweetie Belle, Pinkie Pie, Bella Swan, Plum Kettle, and our newest character, Katniss Everdeen with a mockingjay tattooed on her ass.&quot;EDIT: If you want to psychoanalyse the choice (because most fiction writers, and especially most female fiction writers, are conducting amateur self-psychoanalysis when they write) it's as if the authors are so hung up on their (general) lack of femininity they overcompensate with the most soft, limp-wristed character name they can think of.&nbsp; &quot;Hey, if Tiffany is a girl name, and I'm creating a female character, I'll call her Tiffany Twinklefart and make her a female with a capital F!&quot;In particular, with all these shit female characters, note the crappy sound of each name.&nbsp; It's all sibilants, hushing sibilants, and nasal occlusives, all 's', 'l', 'm', 'n'.&nbsp; Very few to no hard stops, no hard occlusives, no 'p', 'k', 't', and so on.&nbsp; In particular -- no name finishes with a hard occlusive.&nbsp; This is significant.&nbsp; For some reason, characters with the latter sorts of the sounds ending their names sound more compelling.&nbsp; Gene Roddenberry, when making Star Trek, deliberately chose character names that were strong and used these hard occlusives: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Picard, Riker, Data.&nbsp; Fuck, I despise JD Salinger's stuff, but even he came up with a better name for his most famous protagonist: Holden Caulfield.And it doesn't have to be this way.&nbsp; Compare arguably the most powerful, most upstanding fictional female character of all time: Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone With The Wind and written by card-carrying Southern belle Margaret Mitchell.&nbsp; Doesn't end with a hard occlusive, but the first name ricochets off your teeth and makes you exhale like a dragon to pronounce her surname.&nbsp; Compare that with Katniss Everdeen, whose first name sounds like a deflating balloon and whose last name just disappears into the background like Charlie Brown's does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paracelsus, post: 829032, member: 8098"] [b]RE: Hamgalaxy writes shitty revenge porn about lynchings of "rapists", also ...[/b] ^^^^^^ This, +10000. The names of these characters wouldn't be out of place on a [i]My Little Pony[/i] product line: "Coming this summer to toy stores near you: Rainbow Dash, Sweetie Belle, Pinkie Pie, Bella Swan, Plum Kettle, and our newest character, Katniss Everdeen with a mockingjay tattooed on her ass." EDIT: If you want to psychoanalyse the choice (because most fiction writers, and especially most female fiction writers, are conducting amateur self-psychoanalysis when they write) it's as if the authors are so hung up on their (general) lack of femininity they overcompensate with the most soft, limp-wristed character name they can think of. "Hey, if Tiffany is a girl name, and I'm creating a female character, I'll call her Tiffany Twinklefart and make her a female with a capital F!" In particular, with all these shit female characters, note the crappy sound of each name. It's all sibilants, hushing sibilants, and nasal occlusives, all 's', 'l', 'm', 'n'. Very few to no hard stops, no hard occlusives, no 'p', 'k', 't', and so on. In particular -- no name finishes with a hard occlusive. This is significant. For some reason, characters with the latter sorts of the sounds ending their names sound more compelling. Gene Roddenberry, when making [i]Star Trek,[/i] deliberately chose character names that were strong and used these hard occlusives: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Picard, Riker, Data. Fuck, I despise JD Salinger's stuff, but even he came up with a better name for his most famous protagonist: Holden Caulfield. And it doesn't have to be this way. Compare arguably the most powerful, most upstanding fictional female character of all time: Scarlett O'Hara, in [i]Gone With The Wind[/i] and written by card-carrying Southern belle Margaret Mitchell. Doesn't end with a hard occlusive, but the first name ricochets off your teeth and makes you exhale like a dragon to pronounce her surname. Compare that with Katniss Everdeen, whose first name sounds like a deflating balloon and whose last name just disappears into the background like Charlie Brown's does. [/QUOTE]

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