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Factorial Falls Down Further Rabbit Holes

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Side blog to @FactorialRabbits , for mcyt and mostly QSMP things, plus some other roleplay fandoms (AKA OP). Reblogs, liveblogging (when I'm watching), fanfic. Fic and some meta backed up to https://archiveofourown.org/users/FactorialCubes/profile . If you see something you'd like archived there, just ask. Especially meta stuff - anything with a '[fandom] fanfic' tag will get cross-posted when I next have spoons if it isn't already.

I, personally, find it really funny to think about the rest of the VSMP cast building their characters purely based on what would be the most interesting/fun story to tell meanwhile Abolish had to be like "how can I feasibly justify dominating any combat scenario while still giving myself an excuse to play pacifist until the endgame?"

I'm imagining a language developed entirely within the universe of Minecraft. Like treating minecraft and its game mechanics as a world yknow. So there'd be no gendered pronouns, right? Because there is no biological sex within species, any two of the same mob can breed, all chickens lay eggs, there is no identifiable males or females in any way. I like to think that there would still be grammatical "gender" in the language, it'd just be based on a different wide grouping of characteristics that conveys important information. For example:

Grammatical genders of passive, neutral, and hostile. Like how they sort the mobs in-game. Cows, fish, villagers, all referred to with the passive pronoun. Zombies and stuff with hostile. Mobs like endermen and golems, you refer to with neutral by default, or if you're encountering a being you're not sure about the aggression levels of. Obviously, pigmen would have an entirely different language, being isolated in the nether, which would just make it more difficult to land on a pronoun for them, given their aggression levels vary so much. Like, what, you only refer to them with neutral pronouns if you're wearing gold? The cultural clashing there would be a lot.

And then, like languages in the real world that apply grammatical gender to EVERY noun, this categorization could be applied to objects as well. Fire is hostile. Trees are passive. You stub your toe on a block of cobble so you yell at the inanimate object with hostile pronouns, it attacked you! Refer to your friends with passive pronouns as a show of affection. Refer to yourself with hostile pronouns to convey you're gonna beat someone up. Options are limitless.

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