"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." --William Gibson

(empty string)[B,D,F,G,H,I,M(x2),O,X,Z are all movie titles]
(H)er,(S)aw,(P)i,(N)o,(3)00,(7)Mile,(S)even
The shorter the title, the easier it is to mangle.

Maybe it's supposed to be a Canadian city? 🤣

We have some fun town names in the US. Pennsylvania has Intercourse, Blue Balls, and Bird in Hand. Intercourse is even close to Blue Balls (~ 13km).

It gives a whole new meaning to a "meet cute" 😆

Word formation in kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole) often uses a "ti-" prefix for younger/smaller, e.g., tifi (fi is woman), and likewise for boy "tigason" (gason is man). But I'm guessing "fi" comes from fille, and gason from garçon.
Similar variations from Euro French might be occurring. 🤷

Using color for synecdoche is a common pattern, as is using a place for an organization, e.g., Foggy Bottom for the US State Department (reference to the DC neighborhood of its HQ).

Full fan name is Blackfeather Tanfur. Blackfeather is synecdoche for a raven (whose feathers are VERY black), and Tanfur, synecdoche for a coyote with unusually colored fur (at the time, I thought 'tan' mean a shade of brown, not a bronze-ish color).

I'm far on the plotter side, with longer stories (esp novel length), for short stories, nearly full pantser.

I've been to both the general GLAWS conference and Genre-LA when Genre-LA was focused on F&SF genres; other years had different focuses, such as one year was memoirs.

😄 Blackfeather Tanfur is already a gryphon, specifically a gryphon-taur (anthro raven upper body with wings, lower body quadrapedal coyote). So, he has 8 limbs. He's an alchemist by trade.

I definitely like LTUE (February in Provo). And there's the Surrey International Writers' Conference (October in Surrey, BC [Vancouver suburb]). GLAWS had some decent conferences, but their web presence seems to indicate they've gone quiet.