litter naming - generations

Instructions

any questions beyond this on what's valid and not should go to oorp! thank you first and foremost i do not care that much we're not super strict on prefixes but there are some! rules to follow yes warning this entire project should be read in a silly and lighthearted tone Rule 1) DON'T NAME THE KITS SOMETHING A PARENT WOULDN'T NAME THEIR CHILD!! this rule basically feeds into every other rule Rule 2) Names should not be negative! Look at poor little Baneofmyexistencekit! They didn't deserve that name! They're just a baby! If it has a negative connotation, it's out! i.e. Monsterkit, Nightmarekit, Screamkit, Frailkit, Weakkit, Fragilekit, Brokenkit, etc. * for halloween or whatnot litters you can always do silly things like batkit, nightkit, etc. etc. instead !! HOWEVER. please note some animals, for example, can be used as insults. ratkit, wormkit, maggotkit, foxkit are all entirely valid! Don't... name them these because they work as insults though! Rule 3) Genuses.. Species.. Scientific names are politely a nope! I don't refer to dogs as canis lupus familiaris and neither will your wild forest cat!! If the plant (most animals have common names..) has no common name and is genuinely pretty much solely referred to by its scientific name, go ahead I guess.............. but it'd still have to be a singular word Rule 4) Spaces and Hyphens are not allowed! If it's two words, or hyphenated you cannot just pretend it's one word or remove the hyphen... that doesn't.. that's not how words work guys.... Rule 5) Names shouldn't be in reference to 13+ material Rule 6) Unknown words do not become 'known' if they are apart of known words. i.e. Dragonkit is not valid just because Dragonflykit is. That would also imply like... Orakit is valid because Orangekit is. Rule 7) Names should not relate to disabilities! I understand it happens in the books, but the books have had multiple accounts of ableist writing! So we don't really take the books as an ultimate guide to being a great person! Names represent your most defining qualities, your best qualities, what's special about /you/ .... so when you're named after your disability? Yikes implications!! i.e. Scarkit, Twitchkit, Spasmkit, Stutterkit, Rule 7.5) Some names are okay in SOME contexts, not in others! Some names are totally fine in some contexts, but if they have a disability that relates to said name, it ISN'T. i.e. Burntkit is fine in reference to a smoke-like pelt pattern, but is horrible in reference to burn scars or tragedy! other examples: Littlekit, Quietkit, Halfkit, Splitkit Rule 8) Words that have a very very common meaning that wouldn't be known, but have a like very lesser known meaning that would be known are not allowed! Sometimes people want to 'cheat' the litter rules by naming a kit a word that definitely would not be valid but they pull out this alternate meaning of the word that is never used at all in any context that would possibly be valid..... and that's not. You can't have Gaykit just because Gay also means "Happy". We all know that's not why that kit is named that. NOW. Some words have lesser known meanings that don't have a great synonym. For example, 'Nymph' as in a reference to young grasshoppers is moreso fine to me because young grasshoppers don't.. have another name. 'Delta' is apart of a river that doesn't have another name, etc. etc. These are all fine. (Also words with equally common meanings are allowed! i.e. Springkit and Fallkit! Yes they're seasons but they also have very obviously allowed alternate meanings!) Rule 9) Sexualities, gendered words, etc. are not allowed. Pronouns, Sexualities, Genders, etc. etc. are not allowed because these force those specific meanings onto the cat itself... besides you wouldn't name your child 'she' so let's not name kittens that either!! Rule 10) You CAN name Clan kits names not following the Clan naming system Clan naming system does unfortunately have a few problems and concerns in connection with that whole 'appropriation of indigenous cultures' that the books really really love doing! Generally the consensus (from what I see! let me know your thoughts!) from the wc community is that Clan names aren't banned but also shouldn't be forced upon anybody who's uncomfortable, so we won't be doing that either! (Same policy when loners/kps are joining Clans.) Rule 11) Humans words/objects- no! General rule is that if a caveman who spoke English somehow would not know this word because the physical object/concept the word represented fundamentally did not exist back then.... it's not allowed!! Note that humans have specific names for things that the cats really wouldn't say? We give our dogs specific breed names like Chihuahua but really the cats would just say dog... so Chihuahuakit would not be allowed. Summer/Winter are not valid.