I did end up gendering a couple of characters, and then thinking about why I was doing that, and then changing a couple of them just to see if I could. /g Turns out, yes, and it changed nothing. Most of them read as very androgynous to me, too.
Seivarden, in particular, kept reverting to male.
I tend to picture characters and situations pretty closely. Part of really enjoying a book, for me, is being able to watch a sort of mental video as I read. It was somewhat difficult to do that here, but mostly because I had no really good model of what their clothing looked like.
I don't have much trouble attaching "flighty" to a male character, but part of that may be my long experience in chunks of fandom that have attached thoroughly to the Keet, who is often depicted as more flighty than the average bear.
If I wrote Ancillary Fanfic, it would be one where Breq and Tisarwat and Ship end up in a temporary, consent-based pseudo-network, just so they can scratch all of each other's community itches.
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Seivarden, in particular, kept reverting to male.
I tend to picture characters and situations pretty closely. Part of really enjoying a book, for me, is being able to watch a sort of mental video as I read. It was somewhat difficult to do that here, but mostly because I had no really good model of what their clothing looked like.
I don't have much trouble attaching "flighty" to a male character, but part of that may be my long experience in chunks of fandom that have attached thoroughly to the Keet, who is often depicted as more flighty than the average bear.
If I wrote Ancillary Fanfic, it would be one where Breq and Tisarwat and Ship end up in a temporary, consent-based pseudo-network, just so they can scratch all of each other's community itches.