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profiterole_reads) wrote2026-04-20 05:32 pm
profiterole_reads) wrote2026-04-20 05:32 pm
Alter Ego by Estelle Daurore
Alter Ego by Estelle Daurore was absolutely amazing! Nivalis aims to become weapon master of the kingdom, but the awakening of his magic threatens to give him a different destiny.
I bought this novel at a local book fair. It was originally crowdfunded, so I got a pretty illustration and free bookmarks with it. The author's genius idea is that the glossary is on one of the bookmarks.
All the characters are hermaphrodites (reminder not to call actual intersex people "hermaphrodites," which is only to be used when the whole species has male and female characteristics) and fall under three genders. Most of the enbies use the French neo-pronoun ul and a grammar invented by the author. A bigender character and a genderfluid character use il/elle.
My darling Nivalis is autistic and I ship him with an enby. <3 They're likely to become canon in the future, I think.
I bought this novel at a local book fair. It was originally crowdfunded, so I got a pretty illustration and free bookmarks with it. The author's genius idea is that the glossary is on one of the bookmarks.
All the characters are hermaphrodites (reminder not to call actual intersex people "hermaphrodites," which is only to be used when the whole species has male and female characteristics) and fall under three genders. Most of the enbies use the French neo-pronoun ul and a grammar invented by the author. A bigender character and a genderfluid character use il/elle.
My darling Nivalis is autistic and I ship him with an enby. <3 They're likely to become canon in the future, I think.