anghraine: elizabeth bennet from "austen's pride," singing her half of "the portrait song" (elizabeth (the portrait song))
2024-03-12 11:09 pm

Tumblr crosspost (11 December 2020)

I reblogged a meme about "almost names"—names your parents considered for you but didn't end up choosing. I added:

#'almost' would be putting it strongly but my dad wanted 'dorothea' for my aunt and grandmother #it is pretty! #i really like elizabeth though
anghraine: promo shot of leia with her blaster in anh framed by text: leia organa (leia [organa])
2023-08-26 07:51 am

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I hate the assumption that any and all female characters will take their husbands' names, but I hate it most for Leia. I know it was an EU thing for some absurd reason, so I assume it's clinging to that or whatever, but also. Ugh.

And "well, actually I headcanon that both take their spouses' names in some form and so that's why she..." is a band-aid for a much wider and more obnoxious trend that people cannot seem to stop assuming will be a thing in every conceivable case (including in space, in a different galaxy!).