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I like that the poster makes it look like Aaron Pierre is mad he's not an Emmy Winner too.
So a wizard and an ancient construct walk into a tavern.
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Typhlosion (2026) - Ruler of the Skies Illustrator: Ryota Murayama
Nothing like telling yourself youâre going to go to bed then inspiration strikes
Gonna be in an angel/devil stamp rally and this is going to be my prize sticker
Sheâs become a watermelon :)
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I donât think adding nonbinary to Victorianâs gender system wouldâve fixed their weird sexism. If anything I think it wouldâve made them weirder and sexismier
Someone needs to write a satirical etiquette book in the style of a Victorian with rules for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Honorables in Polite Society.
Oh please someone do this
It would go something like
Of course, fashionable Honorables may be consternated by the proper open collar blouses as there is no way to tie a bow or cravat around it. In such cases a bow may be worn upon the top hat. Or a slim ribbon may be tied around the bare neck, however, given the salacious reputation some hold for such an accessory, that is best left to married Honorables.
YES. the way this hasnât left my mindâŚ.Like okay theyâre still Victorians. Theyâre still sexist and homophobic. My thought for this alternate history is third gender people are expected to only marry into already married couples. And theyâd probably throw in a lot of Christian Holy Trinity and Mary Joseph God imagery to religiously validate triads.
Or three people (of all different genders of course bc again. Theyâre Victorian) could marry all at once but the courting situation would be a nightmare.
My question is,,, would Honorables have a dowry?
First thought: coverture. Coverture is the legal idea that a married couple is one entity, with the wife not having an actual legal identity of her own. This is why there's the old-fashioned convention of women taking on their husband's entire name (e.g. "Mrs. Robert Smith"), why men could control any inheritance or money their wives had, and also the origin of some now-obsolete laws (like making it impossible for a wife to sue her husband for damages, because it's as if she was suing herself).
This is why it was so important for women to marry well: even if you worked as a married woman (and many women did), your money wasn't actually yours. It's one thing to have to live with a drunk asshole; it's worse to have that drunk asshole be the sole person who decides if that paycheck goes towards rent or more booze.
So, having a trinity/three parts of one whole entity would totally fit Victorian ideas of coverture. I think you'd still have it be men > everyone else, because they'd expect some kind of hierarchy, and even within the Trinity, God is still the leader.
Second thought: separate spheres. The Victorian era was very heavily focused on men being involved in the "dirty" business of work/politics/etc., and women being more morally pure and better suited to the domestic sphere (the whole "angel of the house" thing). Obviously this wasn't actually or practically true a lot of the time, but it was the aspired-to standard, the thing you'd measure people against to say if they were acting appropriately as members of their gender or not.
So you'd need a third sphere for Honorables to inhabit that is completely separate from the work/domestic dichotomy, or create an entirely different three-way dichotomy. Basically, you'd need a thing to point to, like "X is very ladylike" or "Y is not manly," but for Honorables.
So, extrapolating:
You'd still have "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith," it'd just be, "Mr., Mrs., and Mx. Robert Smith" (differentiating by title, not by first name). I could actually see there being a different title for unmarried vs. married Honorables, like Master vs. Mister or Miss vs. Madam/Missus. Mix vs. Max, maybe?
I think Honorables would definitely need to have some kind of dowry. It actually might be even more necessary, because unless the guy is insanely wealthy on his own, you're going to need enough money to support three people, not just two.
I'm having trouble coming up with a third sphere, but whatever that third sphere was, you'd need to heavily police it. "You can't do X, that's for Honorables" has to be part of the culture. And you'd need to police it with as much weird pseudoscientific and/or religious justification as possible. Like, you need "women's brains physically can't handle the strain of learning math" but to explain why Honorables can't swim, or whatever.
Non-leadership admin, teaching, and academia as the third sphere.
The idea of who should be in charge of household accounting has always waffled between a manâs job and a womanâs job. Is teaching the realm of governesses and school mistresses or lecturers and professors. Academics are too weak and frail to be masculine but too logical and rigorous to be feminine.
Clerks and accountants and secretaries and teachers and scholars.
I can see it becoming a Mind (Honorable) Heart (Woman) Soul (Man) kind of separation, all three together making up the body. Women are suited for feelings, nurturing, caring. Honorables are suited for the pursue of pure knowledge, but lack the Will to put it to any practical use. Finally men are the one leading force that brings all the parts together and leads it into an action.
Thus, men, even if they're unqualified on whatever area of knowledge they're dealing with, and even if they have no understanding of their or other people's feelings whatsoever, still possess an inherent and intangible quality that makes them the only part truly suited for decision making.
Woman: Caretaker
Honorable: Assistant/Advisor
Men: Leader
Okay but what about the awkwardness of actually transitioning? Like everything above seems to require everyone to have their gender sorted out prior to courting. Is it embarrassing to transition after marriage? Does the marriage just dissolve? Or is the marriage just fixed.
fixed option: Does it just create another layer of shrimp colors where your Role in a marriage is tied to your gender at time of marriage? After all, it's a contract you entered into. Who really cares if the role you agreed to is based on an outdated presumption of suitability, a promise is a promise. (oo and then gay relationships could be formed so long as they fit the Strict Gender Roles with a little polite social fiction about a quick transition and detransition. Oh They're Not Gay, That One Is A Wife, Obviously). This option is sounding very Queer Utopia but i do think that inheritance would likely then be agab based? it's a contract you entered by being born. or there would be Hoops to jump through to prove your new gender??
dissolve option: Do you have to keep it a secret to keep your marriage, and just Hold It In and hope to remarry Correctly if you get another try later in life? (I'm picturing that sort of like adultery - more or less requirement of actual secrecy depending on your status, but absolute secrecy on the level of social fiction and propriety). Oh shit then I bet you could have fake or forced transitions to enfranchise or disenfranchise people as heirs. (Dear God The Rumors) There could be stories with cis-woman-in-military vibes, there could be fucked up conservatorships (why bother declaring your son insane when you could just force him to transition out of maleness). None of which is even speculating on what happens if the gender makeup of a sibling cohort changes after inheritance happens.
Oh wait i'm totally missing the point of "shrimp colors", it would be both of these options, at different times and under different circumstances and governed by totally inscrutable rules depending on wealth and class and...and...faints

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Just so everyone knows: the discounts are still in place! (Because, frankly, the author could really use some cash right now, due to having to shell out much cash to deal with ongoing health challenges that are leaving her rather strapped. Details down here.*)
So anyway! If you're not located in the UK (where, unfortunately, we still can't sell direct due to Brexit [though I'm working on that!, may have found a solution at last, we'll soon see...]), please consider heading over here and seeing what we've got to offer!
There's a lot of ridiculously discounted stuff. The ebook bundles are all being held at their lowest price points for the duration (meaning specifically the âAll The Wizardryâ bundle, the Middle Kingdoms series bundle, the LGBTQ Pride collection, and the Feline Wizardry bundleâEven our âGive Me Everything Youâve Gotâ collection, which is the whole ebook store in one package, has had a bit knocked off. And naturally it all comes with our lifetime replacement guarantee. Lost your ebooks somehow? Changed readers? We'll send you new download links or swap your order's file formats at no charge. It just seems like a rational way to behave when you're not using your ebook-selling platform to fund a space program.
So can I possibly get folks to reblog this post so that those who might not have caught one of these sales before can do so now if they want to? Please & thank you!
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My landlord is still being easygoing about the situation, understanding what Iâm going through. But I really want to get caught up on this before it gets any worse. So... you get the picture. ...Thanks for being interested.
Just bumping this, as (as soon as I get home from this business trip) a number of medical bills are going to come up to be handled.
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