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Foz Meadows
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Foz Meadows

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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

Irvine, CA
fozmeadows.wordpress.com
Joined February 2009

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
      Replying to @fozmeadows

      I did this because, even in my teens - over a decade before I knew I was genderqueer - I felt frustrated by the lack of an enby pronoun.

      1 reply 0 retweets 16 likes
    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
      Replying to @fozmeadows

      I had no objection to the singular they, but the potential for confusion on-page always irked me. And so, teen!me came up with a fix.

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
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      English has lots of words that are pronounced identically but spelled subtly differently in each usage - there/their/they're is one already.

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
      Replying to @fozmeadows

      So, I reasoned, why not just follow the logical trend and make another spelling to indicate the singular they on page, nixing confusion?

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
      Replying to @fozmeadows

      For teen!me, this was a purely intellectual exercise; I never felt I'd be allowed to use it. It just made sense. But as an adult author...

      1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
      Replying to @fozmeadows

      In writing A Tyranny of Queens, I was super excited to use this pronoun; it's one I plan on making my enby default in all future works.

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
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      Even so, I knew it'd look incongruous without explanation, so I made sure to flag in the text what it was via the POV character's thoughts.

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
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      The POV character is using a language not their own, is aware the enby character uses a pronoun with no direct equivalent in their own -

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
    9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
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      - and so tries to find a mental compromise to be as accurate as possible. A textual explanation for an internal & literary choice.

      1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
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      When my CE came back, the editor had swapped out the pronoun for xir and xe in the first appearance, and left me a comment:

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017

      It said: "I’ve popped in these genderfluid pronouns instead, because the others looked a tiny bit like errors. I think it is something that-

      4:47 AM - 24 Apr 2017
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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
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          - you need to decide, but make sure it’s really clear to the readers how you’re referring to them." And I was just, like. Okay.

          1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @fozmeadows

          Because on the one hand, I appreciate the editor is trying to make the text clear! But on the other, xe/xir aren't exactly familiar, either!

          1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
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        1. Mali Oz‏ @Lobzila 25 Apr 2017
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          aaaargh this is terrible i'm sorry you had to deal with that

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