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Dialectical magicalist girl

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20% complete! Iris has read 5 of 25 books.

quoted Translation State by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch)

Ann Leckie: Translation State (2023)

Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always …

"And sometimes I feel like he and sometimes I feel like e and sometimes I feel kind of like both, and sometimes I'm neither one. I guess they works fine."

Translation State by  (Imperial Radch) (Page 416)

Local plurals confuse plurality for genderfluidity. Many such cases.

quoted Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas: Scum Manifesto (1996, AK Press)

low-down SCUM gets around ... and around and around ... they've seen the whole show - every bit of it - the fucking scene, the sucking scene, the dyke scene - they've covered the whole waterfront, been under every dock and pier - the peter pier, the pussy pier ... you've got to go through a lot of sex to get to antisex, and SCUM's been through it all

Scum Manifesto by  (Page 29 - 30)

Disregarding her mostly useless analysis, the posting energy in this manifesto remains unparalleled.