“Glauc” from Greek glaukos meaning blueish-green-grey and “ombr” from Greek ombros meaning rain, storm, and shadow. The suffix “-ic” is common in coined xenogenders, and means “of or relating to”.
Glaucombric is a gender that feels like floating in the ocean, with fog and mist surrounding you, and a certain level of eeriness to go along with it. It is categorized by the feeling of liminality, solitude, and blurred edges.
Imagine you are in the ocean. You are not in a boat. Boats are a foreign concept at this point. There is no land anywhere in sight, nor any living creature other than yourself. You are just floating there, gently, calmly. The water is steady, barely moving, the surface completely still. It is not cold or hot, harsh or soft. Simply endless.
There is no wind. The air is still, but in the way that the atmosphere holds its breath before a bolt of lightning. There’s no telling what exactly the explosion will be of, but it hasn’t arrived yet, so for now, the world stays still.
If you were to yell, it would feel like the sound simply falls in front of you, caught by the fog. Everything is muted and grey. The fog, the mist, the clouds; they make discerning the edges of anything impossible. You cannot see where the sky and the ocean meet. There’s no telling what time of day it is–the sun seems completely absent from this place.
You cannot even see where your body ends and the world begins.
You can barely feel the difference.
If you were told, just now, that you were about to slip away into the ocean–the line between sea and sky and skin fading and fading until you just become a part of the bluish grey–you would believe it, and you would accept the peacefulness, leaning into the calm before the storm.
This is what the gender glaucombric feels like.
Common pronouns may include:
sea/sea/seas/seas/seaself
wave/wave/waves/waves/waveself
tide/tide/tides/tides/tideself
glau/glau/glaus/glaus/glauself
om/omb/ombs/ombs/ombraself
mist/mist/mists/mists/mistself
fog/fog/fogs/fogs/fogself
haze/haze/hazes/hazes/hazeself
vei/vei/veis/veis/veiself
nyl/nyl/nyls/nyls/nylself
lune/lun/luns/luns/lunself
ael/ael/aels/aels/aelself
eir/eir/eirs/eirs/eirself
nix/nix/nixs/nixs/nixself
seil/seil/seils/seils/seilself
vael/vael/vaels/vaels/vaelself
glae/glae/glaes/glaes/glaeself
The only colors relating to this gender are blue and grey. Not much explanation needed there.
Flag with 8 stripes, from blue-grey to dark blue.
Flag from blue-grey to dark blue with blurred edges.
From top to bottom, the flag colors are:
Before the Squall, by Arthur Symons
Whispers of the Veil; An Ode to Fog, by Lovely Poems
Discovery I, Vincent Alexander Booth
The Sea Fog, by Josephine Jacobsen
Sea Slant, by Carl Sandburg
The Imaginary Iceberg, Elizabeth Bishop
