At like 4 AM a few nights ago, sleepless, I frantically penned down an apparently brand new idea for a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto, despite not being a proficient Esperantist. It's like this:

• geu estas neduuma esperantisto (they are a nonbinary Esperantist)
• mi ŝatas geun. (I like them)
• ĉu vi vidis gees katon? (have you seen their cat?)

To quickly explain the idea: Esperanto has a prefix that (unofficially) forms gender-neutral words, and a suffix that (mostly unproductively) forms pronouns, so I figured that the most obvious way to create a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto would just be to smash these two affixes together: ge- + -u = geu. Simple as that.

To me this seemed like such an obvious idea in hindsight, that when I looked into it the next morning, I was genuinely surprised to find that apparently no-one else had ever come up with this idea before me: all the other neopronouns coined in Esperanto thus far apparently just smash the gendered pronouns together, or take the gendered pronouns and replace the first letter randomly. This approach comes with its own advantages and disadvantages, but in any case my proposal isn't really trying to "compete" with these other neopronouns, any more than they competes with xe, you know?

Edit: A neat little coincidence is that Korean has a gender-neutral pronoun commonly romanized as geu. Maybe that was a subconscious influence!

In completely unrelated news, did you all know that Margaret McDonald (any/all) is non-binary? I don't know when xe came out as non-binary, but xe's an English-language anime dub VA who I have heard in a lot of different things over the years. I was just watching the movie Tamako Love Story with my mom, in which McDonald plays the titular Tamako Kitashirakawa: I couldn't remember the VA's name, so I looked it up, and that's how I found out that thon was non-binary. Among many other credits, ae also plays Miho Nishizumi in Girls & Panzer — which was frankly the only name I could pull out of my butt, I literally said, "Tamako sounds like whoever it was who did Miho" — and McDonald also voiced Rikka Takanashi in the ever-goated Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, and he also played Sachi Momoi in Maria Holic, which interestingly enough is an anime dub that just straight up drops the T slur at one point.

So yeah, nonbinary pog.

Also, e's pan.

Statscan has been calling me lately, the first two times I thought it was a scam. I finally picked up. They were asking about my ex lol, it's almost been 2 years and every once in a while our very enmeshed lives still comes back

Well, the trans support group I was hoping to start attending isn't having a virtual meeting tonight since the subject is first aid (which makes sense for in person demonstrations), but because I still have the sniffles (and it's an hour drive), so I will have to wait until next week.

Dreamt I was having the intake for bottom surgery ;-;

ran out of prog for almost 2 weeks and got back on, how long are these intensified mood swings gonna last it's exhausting i went through the same thing when i hopped on initially and it lasted for a good few weeks but ultimately settled down and i decided the drug was worth it. but if I'm in for another month of this cause i took 10 days off I'm gonna be pissed.

We still ended up fucking for 3 hours but I wanted it so bad Now that we have the strap I'm more motivated to watch my diet and drink a metric ton of water, though. :::

can't spell "sonic the hedgehog" without "he hedgehog"

people who headcanon him as transfem owned

We will always have Friday Rice

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she full on my metal until i alchemist: brotherhood

With Vampire attacks ramping up, my characters wife and two daughters living on the edge of whiterun in a homestead with only the guard dog vigilance seemed too precarious.

So I moved them to my newly renovated Golden Hills farm. With a powerful mage Runik as my steward, an armoured guard troll and vigilance, they're much safer.

Also Brenuin my farm hand looked after my daughter Lucia when they were both homeless and Embry lived in Riverwood with my wife Camillia. So there's familiar faces even if they're two drunks.

Trying something new

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does faceapp still have the best gender filter or are there better alternatives out there now?

In the most recent Larian community news post about Baldur's Gate 3:

our Community Team took the next most natural step and joined Tumblr - because if the gang are going to star in a thousand slow-burn romance fics, we might as well be there to see it.

it's like they follow me~