Get-Away, A story of Addergoole for Patreon

[aldersprig]

This story follows Ty, a character from Addergoole, the boarding school for fae teenagers, who happens to have a gender-swapping ability as part of their magical heritage.

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Ty would never be one to dun the old alma mater, no matter what criticisms other alumni raised. For one, as an early student and one of the few that had grown up surrounded by fae, Ty had always had an advantage over other Addergoolians. For another, even if the school had discouraged the use of Ty’s innate power in the field — field in this case being the halls and bedrooms of Addergoole’s dormitory floor — there’d been plenty of classroom practice in that and all of the magic Ty’s fae ancestry provided.

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Comments

[thnidu]

O_O! Ve-ry interesting.

• versions of themselves
> Not to argue, but to comment: This makes me think of Ty as a multiple, which they are not. My preferred non-gendered animate pronoun is singular "they", here "themself", but I recognize that not everyone is comfortable with that form.

• Ty would never be one to dun the old alma mater, no matter what criticisms other alumni raised.
?-> criticize (or similar word)
> 3 dun (Merriam-Webster)
verb
Definition of dun dunned dunning
transitive verb
1 : to make persistent demands upon for payment
2 : plague, pester

[inventrix]

....fascinating. I thought from experiential context that dunning meant, like, putting down or condemning, but I never looked it up.

[inventrix]

I was curious whether I'd just misinterpreted or if it shifted meaning and nope it was just me. ~The more you know~

[thnidu]

And that's part of how languages change.

Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

[aldersprig]

Which makes me wonder where I got the meaning I was using... I don't think I made it up..

[inventrix]

Right, you used it the way I thought, didn't you?? Maybe we got it from the same books.

[aldersprig]

I did! and... well, that could be.

[clare_dragonfly]

It seemed reasonable to me in context, but I guess I've seen it used more often in the "make persistent demands upon for payment" meaning--though that feels very old, like something I've only read in 19th-century novels.