shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


Website (RSS + Newsletter)
shelraphen.com/

So in Rune Factory 4 it opens with you on an airship and it gives you two ways to react

  • I'm flying high baby!

Or

  • Wow! I'm so high up!

I chose the second one and the game says

This choice will make you a female character

I'm cackling. JRPG COGIATI


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in reply to @shel's post:

It's great. In Japanese it was a choice between sentences with different gendered first-person pronouns, which English doesn't have, and I can just feel the translator flailing

interesting to know that it was a lot... i dunno, less weird feeling in the original language. i remember starting that game and realizing immediately what the dialogue choices were supposed to represent and just going ugh internally