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Turing Decidable said:
I'm curious, if you've never even completely watched Evangelion, how is it you got here? That question is also directed to all the others in the same situation.
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... I'm not sure.

I think I was randomly reading crossovers on FFN and found a Eva story I liked and then read up on it and found some of the stories interesting and kept looking for new fanfiction. It seems about right given what I generally do.
 
Cae Lumis said:
Meanwhile I just had my cousin binge through all of Rebuild, the TV Series, and EoE in under a week... and his mental capabilities are not only unaffected... he loved all of it, calling it a Masterpiece lol. I pointed him in our directed a couple days ago, so I expect him to eventually show up.
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Aw man have some mercy on poor Strypgia.

Edit: Speaking of head injuries while young: Does plowing one's face into the pavement downhill count? Asking for myself.
 
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Turing Decidable said:
I'm curious, if you've never even completely watched Evangelion, how is it you got here? That question is also directed to all the others in the same situation.
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I've never seen any of Evangelion - pretty much everything I know about it, I picked up from Internet osmosis - so I guess I'm as qualified to answer as anyone.

I'd gotten the general sense that NGE could be described as "Downward Spiral of Mindfuckery: The Anime" and it wouldn't be terribly wrong, so when I saw the banner ad - which featured two characters that I was pretty sure were from Evangelion actually looking reasonably happy - I thought to myself, "Okay. That's a thing." Then I saw it mentioned on TVTropes a couple of times, and read the tropes page for A&T, and decided, "I don't know enough about this series to be able to evaluate how IC the characters are, but I'm not completely clueless, and I can tell if I think it's a decent story in its own right. I'll take a look at it and see how it goes." So I did. And then I kept reading it.
 
Interested Party said:
Further, for some reason the pronoun "he" is viewed as more gender-neutral, so people will default to it unless otherwise prompted. I don't know why "he" is viewed as more gender-neutral in the english language, particularly as that is not my personal field of study, merely that that view is what I have come across.
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The only real gender-neutral singular pronoun in English is "it," which is a really insulting way of referring to a person. "They," while technically plural, usually gets used for people instead, but a lot of Grammar Nazis hate that, and insist that the appropriate gender-neutral singular pronoun for people is "he," for no reason I know of.

(Singular "they" has a long and well-established history, at least as old as Modern English, so they're really trying to use the rules to proscribe English rather than describe it when they say that.)
 
diesel366 said:
... I'm not sure.

I think I was randomly reading crossovers on FFN and found a Eva story I liked and then read up on it and found some of the stories interesting and kept looking for new fanfiction. It seems about right given what I generally do.
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Same boat. I got started with the Exalted/Mass Effect crossovers and just never stopped. Kinda got into Worm the same way.
 
GhanjRho said:
On the Internet? I automatically default to male unless corrected. If corrected, I do my damnedest to follow them. Not to say that I don't think there are girls on the Internet, just that most of hobbies are male-leaning.
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This. :p

There are no females on the internet. The males are males, the females are males, and the teenage kids are FBI agents. :p


Or else it's just the fact that default gender references in English are male-based. Either or.

MutantRancor said:
The only real gender-neutral singular pronoun in English is "it," which is a really insulting way of referring to a person. "They," while technically plural, usually gets used for people instead, but a lot of Grammar Nazis hate that, and insist that the appropriate gender-neutral singular pronoun for people is "he," for no reason I know of.

(Singular "they" has a long and well-established history, at least as old as Modern English, so they're really trying to use the rules to proscribe English rather than describe it when they say that.)
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Technically speaking, the gender neutral pronoun is 'tho', but that's no longer in usage. If anyone was interested in how it worked...



Weird side-conversation, this.
 
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Turing Decidable said:
I'm certain that if you had gone in with no inkling whatsoever of what you were in for, your reaction would be different. The moment where Shinji saw what exactly the MP Evas had done to Asuka hit me especially hard. Dear god, that scream...
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Yeah, that's the moment when Shinji just says 'FUCK THIS! I'M DONE! BYE BYE, SANITY!'
The Englanderish said:
If SV does have such rules, I'm not aware of them. I'll have a check.
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Image reaction posts aren't strictly forbidden, but overuse and abuse are, so don't go nuts. You haven't gone too far yet, though.

Still chewing on how to proceed. May start work on the next scene anyhow, since I have worked that one out.
 
This is your friendly neighbourhood Aquatranssexual. I think we derailed the thread enough, don't you think?
Strypgia said:
Yeah, that's the moment when Shinji just says 'FUCK THIS! I'M DONE! BYE BYE, SANITY!'
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Yup. Totally the only scene that affected me.

Really.

There's a reason people call me a sociopath.
 
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As an med school student, the idea of a human being being eaten is just... *shudder*
It's just about the worst thing imaginable to me.
 
MutantRancor said:
The only real gender-neutral singular pronoun in English is "it," which is a really insulting way of referring to a person.
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Technically, "who" is a gender-neutral personal pronoun, though generally used as an interrogative.

GamingGeek said:
Technically speaking, the gender neutral pronoun is 'tho', but that's no longer in usage. If anyone was interested in how it worked...
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I'm not really sure what you were trying to do with the formatting here, but it didn't work. (Maybe a Spoiler tag?)
 
Interested Party said:
Further, for some reason the pronoun "he" is viewed as more gender-neutral, so people will default to it unless otherwise prompted. I don't know why "he" is viewed as more gender-neutral in the english language, particularly as that is not my personal field of study, merely that that view is what I have come across.
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As much as I hate neo-feminist buzzwords (or most liberal stuff out there, I'm pretty socially conservative), my money is on "patriarchy".
 
Ranma-sensei said:
To me, it's not different from eating any other animal.

I'm a vegetarian, before you guys ask. :p
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Can we please get the 'wtf' and 'picard' ratings in all threads?

Interested Party said:
Further, for some reason the pronoun "he" is viewed as more gender-neutral, so people will default to it unless otherwise prompted. I don't know why "he" is viewed as more gender-neutral in the english language, particularly as that is not my personal field of study, merely that that view is what I have come across.
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This might be an English vs American thing, but I've literally never come across 'he' as a gender-neutral.
 
Wint said:
That technically isn't a pronoun :)
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I hate to be pedantic, but this is a grammar discussion on the internet, so... :V

One (Pronoun)

It's a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, and while technically indefinite, can be used as a definite pronoun through context (usually a passive-aggressive implication of some sort).
 
One idea that was suggested to me when I was trying to write a story with a gender-neutral character was to use the character's title instead. Doctor, Professor, Teacher, etc....
 
What's wrong with singular "They"? :sad: It has been around since forever and thanks to context/verb form, one can tell that the "they" is singular.
 
That's quite enough grammar debate, please. Let's get back to plot speculation, or at least something Evangelion related please?
 
Strypgia said:
That's quite enough grammar debate, please. Let's get back to plot speculation, or at least something Evangelion related please?
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By your command!

Now then...as a question to you all, do you think SEELE want Third Impact to happen because "A", they want to rule the world forever and crap, or "B", they truly believe they are doing the right and necessary thing?
 
Lord Sovereign said:
Now then...as a question to you all, do you think SEELE want Third Impact to happen because "A", they want to rule the world forever and crap, or "B", they truly believe they are doing the right and necessary thing?
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I suspect it started out with them wanting to live forever, but coming to believe their own lies enough over time to think they're doing humanity a favor.
 
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