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THERE IS NOTHING THAT CANNOT HAPPEN TODAY

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The word for ‘fox’ in European languages.

I cannot stress this enough that the French word for fox, renard, is the name of a fictional fox from medieval stories.

The fox in French was originally called goupil, derived from the Latin vulpiculus, (small vulpes).

But the medieval Roman de Renart (Reynard the Fox) and other writings gave the title character the name of Renart, equivalent to the German Reinhart or Reinhard. And it was so popular that the name became a byword for the fox (he’s cunning as Renart) and eventually supplanted goupil as the animal’s name.

This is wild. It’s as if “seagull” was dropped from English and replaced by jonathans. Or something.

Actually that did happen! (sort of) A lot of the names of British garden birds come from the craze of giving birds Christian names - Jenny wren, Robin redbreast and so on. In some cases this resulted in the bird’s original name being dropped and the name being kept to mean the bird, as in the case with the robin.

Can’t find any comprehensive sources on the phenomenon but this blog mentions it:

As does the wikipedia article for robin:

Source: twitter.com

my toxic trait is being fervently convinced that if i ever came across a dragon irl we would make eye contact and understand each other at a primal level of transcendental trust instead of charring me into a crispy onion

The urban fantasy show I actually want to see is a hospital drama with a dedicated wing for supernatural illnesses.

Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.

Someone somewhere out there is having their perception of the world irreparably shattered by the knowledge that magic is real, and at the other side is a team of doctors who have to roll their eyes and pull out Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales because some high school kid tried to go Carrie with a cheap spellbook and turn all the kids at prom into frogs, and the doctors have to wrangle a couple dozen teenagers into admitting if they have a true love who can break the spell.

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I want the hospital director to be some dark entity that feeds on human misery but figured out that if you successfully treat the source of the misery then instead of hunting you down as an abomination the humans start bringing more miserable people to your house en masse and things kinda got out of hand from there.

Grimm's Anatomy

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.