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professorfcknmoriarty · 4 months ago

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Really really enjoyed the pronouns you chose to use at particular times in the K/Weugan fic. Very good trans feelings about that:)

asdfghjkl you should know that for like a month I've been having a deeply internal self-assessment over why I've been predominantly writing my K with they/them pronouns; and the conclusion I've reached is that "it's easier to write that way" is absolutely not valid enough to justify doing it. and this ask confirmed that I need to do better. so, going forward, I intend to write all my K stuff with fluctuating they/she/he pronoun usage

#thank you for technically holding me accountable 🙏#ask #mice in my inbox?#ty anon ily #thinking about editing previous stuff to reflect but idk #k tanaka #edit to add clarity:#when I say “easier” I'm referring to the fact that balancing pronoun/name/descriptors is hard enough as it is #bc when you write you want to make sure the reader doesn't have to go back to try and figure out who is being referred to in a paragraph #so if you're talking about two men you have to use their names more than if you were talking about a man and a woman #purely bc there's only one she and one he in your paragraph so it's easy to track #but if you have two women or two men you need to make sure that context is continually clear #when you have a character with fluctuating pronouns that just adds a difficulty level #bc you have to always make sure the reader knows the character being referred to no matter which pronouns you use #while also balancing the flow of your word choice to make them feel as natural as possible #else you risk it being unnaturally disjointed and feels out of place #i cast zero judgement on any writers that stick with they/them for K but for me personally #I am more than capable of doing the work so my lack of it boils down utterly to laziness at the expensive of a character's gender identity #and the expense of anyone with multi/fluctuating pronouns who is denied the representation they should have in that character

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