I'm sick of people using the word sir on me. There are alternatives to flagrant misgendering.
Fi, Curse Cartographer
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Something more than a memory, and a keeper of many curses. CAUTION: Account contains unmarked cognitive hazards. Pronouns are she and they. 🏳️⚧️
![A meme; on one side, 'normal pockets' with 'a phone' - on the other, witches pockets, which have such items as a pipe, seashells, axe, pomegranate, deer skull, bird nest, blood, book, more fruit [grapes] and rocks](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zsggxqnhfrzz5ypfxcsctt55/bafkreieuniuwalatsxhk4j7ilop2qn5opunm3mt7cpjxt7rcxbcdykzr3a)
![mid-14c., hogge, but probably in Old English (implied late 12c. in hogaster), "a swine," especially a castrated male, "swine reared for slaughter" (usually about a year old), also used by stockmen for "young sheep before the first shearing" (early 14c.) and for "horse older than one year," suggesting the original sense had to do with age, not type of animal. Possibility of British Celtic origin [Watkins, etc.] is regarded by OED as "improbable."
The word 'castrated' is highlighted for emphasis in the screenshot](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zsggxqnhfrzz5ypfxcsctt55/bafkreiaj647pz27bn5eaz5zvxvwl2mizg45nqqceuvsy7nbbumettsi7ne)
