[ SECRET POST #3395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3395 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

Genderless characters. What to do about pronouns? What are some examples you've seen or used?

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

I like ancillary justice and their "Everyone is female" approach.

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't really work for me. Even if the characters are meant to be genderless, if they're referred to as "she" I'll think of them as female.

Re: Writing questions!

[sparrow_lately]

There's always the trusty "they"

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

That's a possibility. I've tried making up pronouns but I'm not sure about using them. I don't know how people would react to made up pronouns.

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

I would react pretty negatively. "They" is the non-gendered pronoun, or alternatively, "it". There is no reason to make up new pronouns, pronouns aren't nouns, it's weird when people make up new grammar words.

Re: Writing questions!

[killaurey]

I've been using 'it' but in this case the beings I'm writing about are monstrous and malleable beings that were created out of all the bottled up potential in the world being released wrong. I wouldn't use 'it' if I wasn't working with something so... non-human as characters.

I echo the suggestion for 'they'. I've also seen 'one' used to rather good effect. Like 'one self', 'this one', 'one will'...

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this.

Re: Writing questions!

[(Anonymous)]

I've used singular they in one instance, and Spivak pronouns in the other occasion I wrote gender-neutral pronouns. The first was relatively near-future and about an agender character, the latter was a society that was from a legal standpoint gender-neutral.