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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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DerMißingno

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Yeah, so maybe I should re-post that novel question in the Writer's Workshop.

I'm just really worried about this. I know it's common for young writers to be besotted by our influences (as John Scalzi puts it), but I don't just want to be that, it want it to be good.

Just write like 10 novels and eventually you might have something original.

And beyond the sky we've got the universe, which is lots of things. :eek:

Is it boob week again and no one told me?
 

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Is it boob week again and no one told me?
How the hell did you get that from what I said? xD

For some reason when people refer to the sun and moon as "he" and "she", I feel kinda happy. I don't know why, but personifying things like that is pretty interesting to me.
 

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Is it boob week again and no one told me?
How the hell did you get that from what I said? xD
For some reason when people refer to the sun and moon as "he" and "she", I feel kinda happy. I don't know why, but personifying things like that is pretty interesting to me.
Well I know in German it is a referred to as a he and in Spanish it is considered a she.
 

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In French, sun is masculine (le soleil) and moon is feminine (la lune), in German it's the opposite (die Sonne, der Mond).

Just in case anyone was interested. I'm not sure where those previous comments fall in-context.

Just write like 10 novels and eventually you might have something original.

Haha. I suppose the real answer to this is the same as with music - just play around with it and see what happens.

For reals, though, if I have characters called homunculi and one of the eight of them is a shapeshifter (but it's not his primary power), do you think people will think I ripped off FMA? I mean, the idea of a homunculus has gone around for centuries and been used in plenty of other media. FMA's not even the only anime that uses them.
 

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It's funny how I have no idea what gender the sun and moon are in Dutch. I'm gonna go with female for the sun and shrug my shoulders at the moon.
 

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In a way, every week is boob week.
In that case, can every week be abs week too? You know, to make it fair. :p

Also, @Goodbye Blue Monday; that's really interesting how it's swapped around. I guess the two opposing cultures saw the sun and moon in different ways, one being feminine and the other being masculine. I've always seen the sun as feminine and the moon as male, though. I have no idea why.
 

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It's actually weird that any language has sun as feminine, moon as masculine, because I feel like in cultures all over the world, there's a strong masculine association with the Sun and an even stronger feminine one with the Moon.

In the latter case, the lunar cycle is the same number of days as a woman's menstrual cycle (28), so it's not a huge stretch.
 

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In a way, every week is boob week.
In that case, can every week be abs week too? You know, to make it fair. :p

But most girls have boobs, whereas most males don't have visible abs. And even regardless of that you're more likely to see boobs on any given day than abs (since any kind of shirt will hide those from sight), so yeah :p

It's actually weird that any language has sun as feminine, moon as masculine, because I feel like in cultures all over the world, there's a strong masculine association with the Sun and an even stronger feminine one with the Moon.

In the latter case, the lunar cycle is the same number of days as a woman's menstrual cycle (28), so it's not a huge stretch.

Sun is warm and provides life whereas the moon is cold and dark? Most earth/nature gods are female after all whereas most gods of the underworld/death are male.
 

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In a way, every week is boob week.
In that case, can every week be abs week too? You know, to make it fair. :p

But most girls have boobs, whereas most males don't have visible abs. And even regardless of that you're more likely to see boobs on any given day than abs (since any kind of shirt will hide those from sight), so yeah :p

It's actually weird that any language has sun as feminine, moon as masculine, because I feel like in cultures all over the world, there's a strong masculine association with the Sun and an even stronger feminine one with the Moon.

In the latter case, the lunar cycle is the same number of days as a woman's menstrual cycle (28), so it's not a huge stretch.

Sun is warm and provides life whereas the moon is cold and dark? Most earth/nature gods are female after all whereas most gods of the underworld/death are male.

In Greek mythology, Apollo (male) is associated with the sun and his twin sister Artemis was associated with the moon.
 

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Also Helios, who's sole purpose is being a (male) sungod. His name is even the Greek word for sun :p
 

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heya anyone there, so what's up

edit omg I wasn't a the last page :d
I do that all the time XD . I always comment on a conversation that happened pages ago and confuse everyone XD .

I'm home sick with a cold, but I ain't complaining. I'm also doing homework and listening ta Three Days Grace. What's up with you?

EDIT: What?! I just made that mistake again!
 

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heya anyone there, so what's up

edit omg I wasn't a the last page :d
I do that all the time XD . I always comment on a conversation that happened pages ago and confuse everyone XD .

I'm home sick with a cold, but I ain't complaining. I'm also doing homework and listening ta Three Days Grace. What's up with you?

EDIT: What?! I just made that mistake again!

Lol, my day was pretty without any surprises just went to work and such.

pretty uneventful.

Hope you get better soon.
 

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Gender in language is so confusing. >_> It's not even the hardest thing about French to me. It's just a pain all around.
 

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Gender in language is so confusing. >_> It's not even the hardest thing about French to me. It's just a pain all around.

Don't complain until you try German. There are three genders, and the article you use with each one changes depending on where it is in the sentence.

(Although cases aren't as hard as people make them out to be, but yeah, you don't have to deal with them in French.)
 
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