#persie

Little post from bluesky I decided to share here as well (mostly so I can link the video there and elaborate more on here) - there's this account there where they ask stuff about your OCs, to help you elaborate them and their worldbuilding, it's really neat!

Jupiter's gang first - Jupiter (they/she), Cassie (he/him), Jillian (he/him) and Persie (She/her).

I don't really have VA's in mind, I mostly think of my OC's voices in relation to certain songs in their respective playlists - not all songs in their playlists are "sung by them" but there are a few which I imagine them singing (Cassie and Jillian sing canonically), or just having a similar voice to the person singing.

...everyone, except for Jupiter, she's just Olivia Benson Turned OC through and through, lol. I haven't found any songs yet I imagine her singing or which I find the voice similar to theirs, probably because I already have Mariska as her voiceclaim. and Jupiter don't seem to be the singer type either, dkjfhkdf.

Cassie has two voices, because he transitioned literally in real time as I went on with his creation (he was a cis woman at first, then vaguely nb/genderqueer, then I finally decided to transition him). Because of that, he has a "pre-T and a post-T voice" going on!

(I made another post for drizzle/LAND, since we can't upload two videos in one post)

First, cons! The biggest downside to this is then people going "I am literally this person" as per is derived from person/ selfhood. We'd once more get into some pretty nasty doubles discourse, which I'd like to try and avoid. In addition, we could also get into identity hierarchies, though that's no different than it is now. Lastly, saying I am x person does start to infringe upon systems. In the same vein of saying you are "kin" blurs the boundary between KFFs and otherkin, claiming someone as your per/ sel could potentially blur the lines between kff/ persers and introjects.

As for pros! Obviously, if this does take off, we won't have people wrongly using the term kin. We could then work on separating the two communities and move on. Also, we would avoid conflation. Someone saying they're per would carry a different weight than saying they're kin in the KFF way. I mean the whole problem this is trying to fix really is the upside.

But why per? Because it plays off what kffs already know and it has the versatility that "kin" has. It's short/ can be shortened since I'm thinking personhood could be the full term. There's nothing big or fancy about it nor does it require a specific grammar structure to sound right which is where most proposed terms fall flat on. The "kinning" phenomenon is fun to these people, and to treat it as a business exchange is why no fix can be enacted.

So say this does pick up traction. How would we even use it? I'm thinking: - This is my per/ I have a coupla pers

- I'm a perser/ I per x