#but mannn i really wanna avoid r.... its a tapped r not english's fucked up r

[transmandrake]

Fun question. Since the Valks are proper aliens now and of course I made them have 3 fun sexes that don't really match any of ours except in biological terms, I come across an annoying problem where, since some characters have 'woman' pronouns that people apply humany 'woman' terms and notions to them that is super grating. This happens to basically any character but, I have the advantage of having to make up a pronoun for the '3rd' sex anyway, so...

Which is better, trans swag pronouns or all new pronouns?

1. I like this because its super fun to introduce a character who by human terms looks extremely masculine and calling them she because thats the female sex for them. Even funner to double this up with actually trans characters to explore gender expression and such with aliens. But again, people just default to humaning. Which gets sillier the more characters there are. Also layers with me giving them human names as translations of their conlang name for the english fill-in they speak, where theres basically no correlation between the gender of the name and the character.

2. Well I'm already making a new pronoun for the '3rd' gender, it seems a bit odd for them to be the odd one out. I want to avoid people seeing them as 'man and woman' because theyre not, except biologically, which is completely irrelevant to a species that can't reproduce that way. It definitely forces people more to evaluate them as their own thing than put human assumptions on them. But I guess 3 new pronouns is a lot to figure out on page one. At least, for the average person.