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buggery-- make us into these Last Men!
As Jenn![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seperis herself makes clear, the movement to get Last Men written is some sort of fandom zeitgeist, possessed of a motive force beyond anything I could muster on my own. I'm as much caught up in it as anyone else. Or, as I told Val grrleloquence, it is Sucking My Head.
What is Last Men, you ask?last_men
Incidentally, I never tempted Koi![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
koimistress in a desert. Ever. And let me just point out that she's the one who brought [what became] Last Men back up, not me.
And you know, no, English doesn't have a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun set (aside from it-its-it, which just doesn't fit animate beings well). But it's not unbearably awkward to just strip off the letter or two that indicate gender from he-his-him and she-hers-her:
I've written drafts that way for years, if I hadn't yet decided whether a given character would be male, female or otherwise. It fits nicely into syntax already in use.
Granted, I have an easier time adjusting to the way third-singular pronouns are used in Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand than I do adjusting back to the real world after I put the book down, so your mileage may vary...
As Jenn
seperis herself makes clear, the movement to get Last Men written is some sort of fandom zeitgeist, possessed of a motive force beyond anything I could muster on my own. I'm as much caught up in it as anyone else. Or, as I told Val grrleloquence, it is Sucking My Head. What is Last Men, you ask?
last_menIncidentally, I never tempted Koi
koimistress in a desert. Ever. And let me just point out that she's the one who brought [what became] Last Men back up, not me.And you know, no, English doesn't have a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun set (aside from it-its-it, which just doesn't fit animate beings well). But it's not unbearably awkward to just strip off the letter or two that indicate gender from he-his-him and she-hers-her:
Look, I told h, I don't even have time to learn how to set one up.
Want your username to be Koi, or koimistress? e asked, and soon thereafter login instructions arrived.
I've written drafts that way for years, if I hadn't yet decided whether a given character would be male, female or otherwise. It fits nicely into syntax already in use.
Granted, I have an easier time adjusting to the way third-singular pronouns are used in Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand than I do adjusting back to the real world after I put the book down, so your mileage may vary...
Alien sex!
Date: 2002-11-27 11:43 am (UTC)You know I'm prepared to enable alien sex in any way, shape, or form I can, don't you? And yes, that means I shamelessly encourage PonFarr!Clark, Marsupial!Clark, and other things that make you go eewwww. My rule of tentacle, er, thumb: "If no-one squicks, the sex isn't alien enough."
Mary Ellen
Doctor Science
Re: Alien sex!
Date: 2002-11-27 06:07 pm (UTC)Shall I Koi you up?
Re: Alien sex!
Date: 2002-12-04 10:06 am (UTC)Actually, four people have given me LJ codes so far, but what shreds of time management policy remain to me require that I reject them. And IM doesn't work with my brain -- I'm actually a really slow writer who has to go to bed early, Eastern time. If one of the email-enabled members of your cabal wants to bounce your take on Krypto-sex by me, feel more than free. But otherwise, I must remain an eager observer.
Mary Ellen
mecurtin@alumni.princeton.edu
I. Have been. Assimilated.
Date: 2002-12-13 07:33 am (UTC)