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and every single time you look into it, it's always just an author that committed tax fraud, or the content had child p*rn, or it was simply that a bunch of online haters mass reported the work to the government like preschool tattletalers

meanwhile the same ppl who spread this bullshit also see the thousands of photos from travelers IN CHINA AT THIS VERY MOMENT of shelves filled with danmei merch, and don't think about the dissonance at all

One like = one smooch on his little head

It started off as casual discussions about Pokemon with a friend until it spiralled into assigning Pokemons to Ace Attorney characters 🥀🥀🥀 Anyways here are my headcanons!

• Phoenix Wright - Swellow, Chingling (Reunion and Turnabout), Purrugly (Glameow during 7 years of disbarment)

• Miles Edgeworth - Staraptor, Furrfrou (aka Pess during Turnabout Promise), Doublade (Honedge during Turnabout Airlines)

• Larry Butz - Talonflame, more to come...

• Mia Fey - Wobbuffet (previously owned together with Maya), Unfezant (female)

• Maya Fey - Wobbuffet (previously owned together with Mia)

Full backgrounds - Birthday lounge (night) and washroom

in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

In most cases, it’s pretty clear, though. In the above, without any other framing to confuse the situation, the donuts are his own and the bag is her own. The pronoun must refer back to an antecedent, and “he” and “she” in each example are the only available antecedents.

(That’s not to say that sin/sana might not allow more flexible sentence structure. It’s just that unclear antecedents should not be a thing in properly constructed English.) 

In fact, constructions like this are used in some areas of linguistics to demonstrate several interesting things about pronouns. For example: 

Every girl loves her mother. –> “her” can refer to every girl’s own mother, or to some specific other female person’s mother, it’s ambiguous.

Her mother loves every girl –> “her” can only refer to some specific other female person’s mother, not every girl’s own mother. 

Every girl is loved by her mother –> “her” can refer to every girl’s own mother, or to some specific other female person’s mother, it’s ambiguous.

Her mother is loved by every girl –> Her mother loves every girl –> “her” can only refer to some specific other female person’s mother, not every girl’s own mother. 

I’m not going to recap all of Binding Theory here, but here’s a link to it on Wikipedia and if nothing else, you’ll notice that there are tons of examples of ambiguous pronouns! 

Even more interestingly though, this puts us onto looking at how other languages solve the gay fanfiction problem.  

For example, in French,* third singular possessive pronouns don’t make any distinctions for the gender of the person they refer to (i.e. “her book” and “his book” is both “son livre”).  

You’d think this would make French fanfiction confusing regardless of the gender pairing, but in fact body parts are customarily referred to with the reflexive/indirect object pronoun + definite article, so rather than “elle prend la main” (she takes her/his hand) you get “elle se prend la main” (literally, she takes the hand to herself; idiomatically, she takes her own hand) versus “elle lui prend la main” (literally, she takes the hand to him/her; idiomatically, she takes [other person’s] hand). 

I don’t think you can do this with things that aren’t body parts though, so something like “elle se prend le livre” is not a good French sentence - you’d have to say the ambiguous “elle prend son livre” (she takes his/her book). So French is doing okay at M-rated gay fic but Swedish is still winning at Gen fic. 

*I think most of this (maybe all?) is true for other Romance languages as well, but French is the one I speak best. 

HOWEVER, languages that have logophors give Swedish a run for its money. Here’s Ewe for example, shamelessly cribbed from Wikipedia since I don’t speak any languages with logophors: 

Kofi be  yè-dzo say LOG-leave ‘Kofii said that hei left.’    

Kofi be  e-dzo say pro-leave 'Kofii said that he/shej left.’

As we can see, “Kofi said that ye left” means that Kofi himself (i.e. whoever the speaker is) left, whereas “Kofi said that e left” means that someone who is not Kofi/the speaker left. Logophors refer to a type of pronoun that is only used to refer to someone who is the same as the speaker. 

in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

In most cases, it’s pretty clear, though. In the above, without any other framing to confuse the situation, the donuts are his own and the bag is her own. The pronoun must refer back to an antecedent, and “he” and “she” in each example are the only available antecedents.

(That’s not to say that sin/sana might not allow more flexible sentence structure. It’s just that unclear antecedents should not be a thing in properly constructed English.) 

In fact, constructions like this are used in some areas of linguistics to demonstrate several interesting things about pronouns. For example: 

Every girl loves her mother. –> “her” can refer to every girl’s own mother, or to some specific other female person’s mother, it’s ambiguous.

Her mother loves every girl –> “her” can only refer to some specific other female person’s mother, not every girl’s own mother. 

Every girl is loved by her mother –> “her” can refer to every girl’s own mother, or to some specific other female person’s mother, it’s ambiguous.

Her mother is loved by every girl –> Her mother loves every girl –> “her” can only refer to some specific other female person’s mother, not every girl’s own mother. 

I’m not going to recap all of Binding Theory here, but here’s a link to it on Wikipedia and if nothing else, you’ll notice that there are tons of examples of ambiguous pronouns! 

Even more interestingly though, this puts us onto looking at how other languages solve the gay fanfiction problem.  

For example, in French,* third singular possessive pronouns don’t make any distinctions for the gender of the person they refer to (i.e. “her book” and “his book” is both “son livre”).  

You’d think this would make French fanfiction confusing regardless of the gender pairing, but in fact body parts are customarily referred to with the reflexive/indirect object pronoun + definite article, so rather than “elle prend la main” (she takes her/his hand) you get “elle se prend la main” (literally, she takes the hand to herself; idiomatically, she takes her own hand) versus “elle lui prend la main” (literally, she takes the hand to him/her; idiomatically, she takes [other person’s] hand). 

I don’t think you can do this with things that aren’t body parts though, so something like “elle se prend le livre” is not a good French sentence - you’d have to say the ambiguous “elle prend son livre” (she takes his/her book). So French is doing okay at M-rated gay fic but Swedish is still winning at Gen fic. 

*I think most of this (maybe all?) is true for other Romance languages as well, but French is the one I speak best. 

HOWEVER, languages that have logophors give Swedish a run for its money. Here’s Ewe for example, shamelessly cribbed from Wikipedia since I don’t speak any languages with logophors: 

Kofi be  yè-dzo say LOG-leave ‘Kofii said that hei left.’    

Kofi be  e-dzo say pro-leave 'Kofii said that he/shej left.’

As we can see, “Kofi said that ye left” means that Kofi himself (i.e. whoever the speaker is) left, whereas “Kofi said that e left” means that someone who is not Kofi/the speaker left. Logophors refer to a type of pronoun that is only used to refer to someone who is the same as the speaker.