Just a quick little question.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. It seems, from what I've read going through some old posts, that a large percentage of the systems/groups/whatever in this community are in a physical body that's pretty young.

How old are you? And how old are you internally too? We're pretty much all my age, which is 28, except that our Guardian seems to have gotten stuck around 13, which is when it was formed, so that makes a kind of sense, though at the same time it's ancient and ageless, being an archetype of wisdom. (Think something like a "child oracle" I suppose, but looking more or less like the dragon in my icon there.)

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[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do much the same. In considering guardian 13, I've had... dang, I know "shi" is a word for both-male-and-female, but is there a good word for not-male-or-female? "It" seems so objectifying, and Guardian isn't an object. Anyhow, I've had it for 15 years now. (Crud, how can it be that long? I'm getting old!) 13 is the age that feels right, and that it behaves as in regards to many things, but of course actual age would be 15, and actual age of most of the other MUCH less. Heck, Angelcat isn't even a year yet! She's barely a couple of months now.

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

neither male or female in a human sense? "without gender" perhaps? Or maybe Guardian has a gender that is different than male/female, or is beyond a gender. Some in the spirit realm that we've communicated with will sometimes tell us they don't have a gender as we would understand it here, yet at times they appear to us in a gender that they feel would match them if they were physical. Gender here on earth is only for creating children and everyone has to be either one or the other, in most cases. Though the mind-gender doesn't always match the body-gender, whether a body was plural or not.

I understand what you mean. :)

Kasia & Amalah

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Guardian is a case of just having no sexuality at all. (Some of my others makes up for that by being oversexed, I think...) I used to think of it as male, because masculinity seemed natural to the guarding role, but male just doesn't seem to fit anymore.

But it's hard to talk about Guardian because I don't have a pronoun for that!

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

No, I don't mean a word for it. The word is "genderless." I mean a pronoun. (Grammar nazi here.)

I can say "She said this, and she did that" or "He said this and he did that," but if I'm talking about Guardian, I have to say "It said this and it did that," and I don't like to refer to Guardian as an "it" because the word "it" is objectifying. Tables are "it," books are "it." A personality should not be an "it."

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*nods* I get the feeling that somebody out there has an appropriate word. I already use "shi" and "hir" for "she/he" and "him/her" on my other that's a true hermaphrodite, but it seems to me that bi-gendered and not-gendered would need different terms?

Not that big of a deal, on the long run, but it does sometimes annoy me to not be able to speak clearly about this.

[makil-s.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've wondered this as well. Never found anything in English. Might be easiest to find a term like this in another language and co-opting it for English. Preferably something that's short and easy to remember.

I've considered doing this myself but I almost never need to use it. Our "Flute" hasn't been around much lately.