Feo Takahari
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More than half of my stories involve tension between gendered and genderless pronouns--in particular, characters using "it" to describe something that would normally be described with "he" or "she" (Humans calling demons "it", farmers calling raiders "it", a pimp calling a prostitute "it", etc. etc. etc.*) I've mixed this up a bit with the occasional story about transgender characters (who says "he" and who says "she"?), and I could probably write a story that reversed the tension between gendered and genderless (say, someone consistently referring to an inanimate object with gendered pronouns), but I'm thinking I need to get away from that whole dynamic, if only to seem less repetitive. What other tricks does the English language have in it that I can abuse to create tension between narration and dialogue?
* I am aware that this has a TV Tropes page, but it's something I've been doing since long before I discovered the page.
* I am aware that this has a TV Tropes page, but it's something I've been doing since long before I discovered the page.