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Sideblog for Animal Crossing! 26 | they/them or ae/aer | queer header and icon by @bunilli
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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

merch for animal crossing new leaf! 💀🖤

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peri

that new animal crossing character named sasha that uses he/him pronouns i say congrats on the gender

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blaiseit420

I love Sasha but can y’all remember that other countries exist and Sasha isn’t inherently a feminine name? 🙄

In this episode of “questions that have never been asked before”: Is this rabbit a genderqueer icon or just slavic?

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ukulelekatie

I just looked up Sasha’s names in the other game localizations, and there’s a whole lot of interesting things going on!

  • As we’ve already covered, Sasha is primarily a masculine name in Slavic languages, but it is typically feminine in English-speaking countries.
  • The funny thing is that in the Russian version, his name isn’t even Sasha! It’s Геррит (or Gerrit, which is also his German name)
  • Meanwhile, Gerrit is a name of Dutch origin, but in the Dutch version his name is Sasha. 
  • Ariel is another one of those names that can be masculine or feminine depending on where you are, though in Spanish-speaking countries it’s usually masculine. 
  • Alix is also a gender-neutral name, though it should be noted that in French, it is more commonly a feminine name. 
  • The Japanese name ミッチェル and Korean name 미첼 both translate to Mitchell, while the Chinese name 蜜雪兒 could be Mitchell or Michelle. 

It seems that for many of these, they intentionally picked gender-neutral or ambiguous names. So in conclusion, congrats! This rabbit is indeed a genderqueer icon.

(Please correct me if I’m wrong about any of these, especially Chinese and Korean as I do not speak or read either of them. I also couldn’t find anything on the gender connotations of the name Sasha in Italian or Dutch, so if anyone has any info on this I’d love to know!) 

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bramblepatch

So he’s consistently both androgynous and foreign.

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listening to people rank new horizons music and i just realized the reason im not as big a fan of the hourly music is not just because some of the synths stand out like a sore thumb but because a lot of them are honestly interchangeable for the feel of the hour? a lot of them sound too similar, even with 600+ hours into new horizons you can play a song for me and i probably wont be able to tell what time of day it plays unless it’s iconic ones that stand out like 5am, 5pm or 6pm. new leaf set the bar so high for the hourly music sounding like, well... the vibe of the time of day it’s meant to communicate.

like in new horizons 7am and 8am in new horizons sound like they could be early afternoon songs, 8pm sounds like it should be 8am, 9pm sounds like it could be early morning like 2am etc.

but the songwriting in new leaf’s hourlies sounded EXACTLY as they should for their respective hour. that atmosphere is very important to me and i was really let down by new horizons’s soundtrack

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