In 1934-1936, trans brothers Mark and David Ferrow of Yarmouth, UK, both transitioned at age 13 with full parental support. Mark medically transitioned first in 1939 at 17 and his brother soon followed. “Though we have been girls, we have both felt men at heart,” Mark told a reporter. Their stories show that trans youth can grow up to be happy, celebrated adults.
David lived in their hometown of Great Yarmouth, UK for the rest of his life. He became a local icon. At 15, he started selling books. He later ran a wildly successful bookshop until death in 2006, age 81, 68 years after transitioning. He had a daughter, Jan, who supported his work. The whole town adored him. Why, yes, that is a mug of his face.
Mark, always passionate about art, joined the Kirby Muxlue Players troupe as a writer and traveled throughout the UK. His David Gower painting is currently in the UK’s National Portrait Gallery! His art still hangs in collections all over the country - although it’s almost never recognized as being by a trans artist. Mark married Edna Hall in 1942 and died in 1991, age 68, in Leicester.
It’s important to mention that it’s unclear if both men are intersex despite the reports. At the time, it was customary for non-intersex trans people to claim intersex conditions in order to access care (e.g. Roberta Cowell). Regardless if they were trans or intersex and trans, I would hate their underreported stories to be forgotten!
The basics are that piglins have a three part naming convention that includes a family modifier, personal identifier, and then a job or role.
These are usually two syllable names with the job at the end.
Tec-Hno-Blade
Tec: Family, sounder and where he came from
Hno: Personal identifier, added later in life and notes age and personality
Blade: Job, in this case fighter
This also scans for Cyberknife fun fact.
Cy: Family name
Ber: Personal identifier
Knife: Job, either cook, or possibly assassin
Adding the actual breakdown below the cut since its long and I get into MC game mechanics:
Anyways, so a little background first so this make sense, but I usually headcanon and write Techno as a full piglin so this interacts a decent amount with cannon Minecraft mechanics (not that there's much there in terms of language or concrete culture but I love them).
Obviously Technoblade is a kinda odd name, especially if you consider the existence of guys named things like Phil, or Sam or Tommy (as examples) who are usually depicted as human or human adjacent. So, assuming piglin Techno that means that one, piglins have their own naming conventions and two, that they almost certainly have their own language that differs from that of overworld languages.
Pulling from Minecraft mechanics for a moment: the fact that you can trade with piglins for enchanted books, means they clearly have some kind of written language or access to magic (potions, enchants) but it's different from overworld magic because there's no legitimate way to get an enchantment table in the nether. So, language, possibly written, because they also snort and grunt to each other and the player if you're wearing gold or trading with them. They also have a noise for 'I'm mad at you and going to stab you,' so it's clearly a complex language that we just don't understand.
Anyways back to names, so different language and culture means that we can now examine how a piglin might be named. So, if Technoblade is a canon piglin name that can act as the basis for the naming conventions. Breaking that down further we have the basic, Techno and Blade - he's been called both in different situations and chat love replacing both elements of his name for the purpose of memes (technoplane, technomean, etc.) I've also seen people break it down further into 'Tec' and sometimes going the opposite way with hyphenating the name (meannoblade) so we have three distinct parts of the name to work with: Tec, Hno and Blade.
So, piglins have hyphenated names consisting of two single syllable sounds and then a modifier. Assigning meaning to those is the fun part where we get to mix in some level of like... world and culture building.
We'll start with Blade since that's the most recognizable in the context of real actual words. Going back to MC mechanics, there's three types of weapons piglins use in game. Regular piglins use swords and crossbows, Brutes use axes. Blade could refer to either a sword or an axe but usually those are used for defense - so in the context of a culture that values hunting, wealth (gold) and group protection Blade becomes a modifier denoting a piglin's role in society. In the case of Technoblade - he's a defender, fighter and possibly a Brute (protector and respected position within bastions). This fits with the character, as a fighter and plays in nicely with playing around with things like the blood god, chat etc.
Using that, we then have the obvious modifiers: Blade and Bow. But this could apply to other jobs in piglin society - merchants could be referred to by their wares, potion brewers, scholars, etc. Some options I've come up with are Pick, Tusk, Hoof, Smith and so forth. These could also really easily be translated into other languages since they just refer to a job - so Technoblade can be a name denoting a job and position in society in the nether calling him just The Blade strips him of the other parts of the name but is easily recognizable by people outside of that culture - fun implications.
Next we look at Tec and Hno - I think you could just treat it as one name but that's no fun and the name Techno doesn't really compute well because one this isn't cyberpunk and two MC doesn't have computers. So, going back to piglins in game for a second, they usually travel in groups and it's rare to see piglins alone. We can also pull a little from real life boars which usually travel in family groups. So piglins are probably highly group oriented and have big families. I could write a different essay on piglins probably being very polyamorous because more kids is better and more partners means more food but we'll leave that for another day.
The obvious jump here is that we have a family and a personal name. I take it as Tec is a family name - it denotes which sounder (family or group of piglins) you are a part of and is the first name a piglin receives. Personal modifiers are added, usually connecting you to something culturally significant, in this case Hno, and that makes up the person's full name until they get a job and therefore a job modifier. Personal modifiers I have currently are, Hno (large or first), Ber (gold, wealth), Te (small or second), and Her (Fire).
This also scans with Nether as word (I could make this a language... but I won't). Net- Her - Net denoting location (below) and Her meaning Fire - so The Fire Below. Technoblade in this case would mean The first of the Tec sounder, defender if translated.
So Techno - using this as a basis I think we can also infer that it's rude to refer to a person just by the personal modifier since that strips them of both job and family connection - hence why it's normal for people to call him Tec or Techno but not just Hno and why calling him Technoblade or just The Blade shows different levels of formality. Tec is for people close to him or other family, Techno is a little more formal but still close, Technoblade is a sign of respect and The Blade wraps right around into you are someone I have hired to do a job for me relating to your role in society.
So! To make your own piglin name all you need is a family name (one syllable), a personal name (another syllable) and then a role! Using my blog as inspiration my name would probably be: Nethberpick or golden of Nether, builder.
I also have decided that piglins will shorten visitors names and then add 'za' on the end to denote that they are not of Nether and are a stranger - so Philza actually translates to that guy Phil who is not from here. Techno called him this for years after they first met and Phil just never asked him why, liked how it sounded so that's his name now.
Anyways, this was long, I hope people enjoyed this and I'd love if people shared their own piglin names because I've thought way too much about this.
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
i trust we’re all mature enough now so can i just the say philza ace race incident? genuinely one of the funniest fucking things to ever come out of mcc. it’s up there it’s the mcc7 battle box incident. so many grown adults decided to ignore the actual track signals because of their immutable trust in philza minecraft and i think that’s beautiful
also i know what i want. i know the risks. everything has risk. i am already living! why am i living half a life because of what YOU fear? stop talking down to transsexuals
There’s a thing that has been recently announced in the last couple of months which is almost exactly something I wrote an entire generation (that I haven’t released) about and it’s freaking me out. How do I keep predicting the future how does this keep happening.
