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[copycatgirl36]

i can make art but only after ppl poke me with sticks first

[quarantined-fics]

"He could have sworn the gargantuan height of the First Halo reached deep into the clouds, its barbed rocks tearing into them like teeth into flesh. They were spread wide, to the point of disappearing into the horizon on either side. The absence of lilting lullabies told him they remained unnoticed, for now. Though the mist obscured the lowermost parts of the western passage, he noted that it was oddly… clear. Brick assumed the mother of all sirens did not want her daughters tearing their tails as they feasted."

[xwing-baby]

WHERE ARE MY BIKERIDER GIRLIES TO WE NEED TO TALK

[lilithschosen]

forever appreciative of you degenerates sending me ideas and letting me work on them over time 🥺🥺

[spotify-official]

Ha nice

[fungal-wasted]

More talks about translation, regarding gender

So, more "heavily" gendered languages have this duality in whcih every noun has a grammatical gender but at the same time, gramatical gender does not equal actual gender.

Like, "una persona" is grammatically fememine, but it is totally normal to say "Pedro es una persona simpática" (Pedro is a friendly person). Even if the adjectives are female sounding, it doesn't imply Pedro's gender.

Still, at times it is difficult to find a good equivalent, especially for words that have the same base morpheme, but use a genered suffix, like "sobrino/a/e" (nephew, niece, nibling)

Let's take the words "child" and "sibling" as an example. And other ways of getting away with not gendering someone.

Let's start with Child

Child is a pretty vague word in English because it can denote age, or someone's relation with someone else.

To denote age it is: "niño/niña" (niñe if you welcome neopronouns).

To denote a familiar relation, you have "hijo/a" (hije) for casual speech, and "descendiente" which sounds way more distant but also formal. Descendiente does NOT denote gender by itself but by the article used next to it (el/la)

"La Descendiente Femenina" works if you're looking for a formal title that applies to Hornet. Not my favorite but it's functional enough.

The only other usage I can think of is "the traitor's child" which turned into "la descendiente del traidor". It works because "la" denotes gender (no lesbian erasure here), and descendant denotes relation but not age.

The Hollow Knight translation (in Spanish at least) does avoid gendered words that have a female alternative for the vessels. But not always, and it tends to default to male. But I'd say it only really happens in cases where no alternative exists.

Examples

When Mato adopts the Knight he actually uses neither of those words and instead calls them "mi retoño". It translates literally to "my sprout" and it sounds really affectionate, and while it is grammatically male it does not imply gender as strongly as "hijo" would.

The Old Stag refers to it as "pequeñín" instead of "little one" and that works because pequeñín is more affectionate than just plain "pequeño/a/e" but it doesn't immediately denote a gender.

Other notable examples of not using gendered words:

"Enclenque insignificante" (lit: insignificant wimp), which replaces "Tiny Squib"

"Vasija Pura" = Pure Vessel. Again Vasija is an object that does not denote gender

"Receptáculo Roto" = Broken Vessel

"Familiar Perdido" = Lost Kin

The word "sibling"

See that word's an issue. It only translates to "hermano/a/e". Hermane is not conventional yet though and is a neonoun

So, that sadly means that "Sealed Siblings" is "Hermanos Sellados" since it defaults to male unless everyone is female.

It also means the "siblings" enemies are translated as "hermano".

The problem is that while you can talk about siblings in a vague way and it is not uncommon to default to grammatically male nouns when you don't know the person, it is a bit different when you DO and therefore it weights more as a gendered term.

No pronouns

This is the other way to be ambiguous, without relying on neopronouns (I actually prefer no pronouns for myself and it works).

The benefit of Spanish grammar is that as long as other context elements make it clear who is being alluded to, you can omit pronouns, "¿Es lo suficiente fuerte?" (is it strong enough?, Hornet's Dream Nail dialogue) The phrase itself doesn't have a subject but it is implied by the verb conjugation.

[eemolu]

taller than the trees

for the @mixed-up-writer-fest with @sunshinemarauder

Although Lily is, without fail, vehemently defensive of her chosen profession, there are certainly parts of it she doesn’t like. Oh, she loves the children and the thrill of teaching a lesson that resonates with them, the summers off and the way kids come into her classroom at break time to talk her ear off about everything and nothing at all. But this part? Standing by a bus with a clipboard in her hand, hiking boots pinching her feet, her damp hair against her neck reminding her she’d taken her last shower in several days so early that morning the sun wasn’t even a thought at the edge of the horizon?

read on ao3

[helaintoloki]

"Although fair warning that the next part will be very angsty" oh my god I can't wait to read ittttt I love some angsty angst

let’s just say Druig doesn’t hold back when it comes to confronting y/n about his new discovery…