I know none of us really post to this blog a whole lot anymore (sorry for that, life just got in the way), but I’ve got something to say and this has the biggest platform of all my MOGAI/LIOM related accounts, so here I am. I should also say that I don’t exactly know how to word this post. Normally, when any of us have gotten involved in these situations in the past, there’s already been some amount of criticism of said thing before hand, so it was easy to just say “hey, [x]/[x] is wrong/what have you” and leave it at that. This time, though, I’ve never seen anyone else talk about this, and if they have, it’s very clearly not a known thing at the moment. I haven’t even seen any posts from the coiner of this suffix about it. So it feels (to me, at least) that I should do a little more and I’m not sure what that ‘more’ is/should be. 

I should also say, I don’t intend this to be a callout of any particular user/users or to cause a witch hunt or anything like that. This is just an information post to maybe avoid another -coric situation, where it it’s become so consistently misused that it almost feels like there won’t ever be a point where it completely stops. Please don’t be mean to anyone who does the thing I’m about to talk about or anything like that. If anyone would like to kindly bring their attention to the issue, go for it, but don’t be anything less than 100% civil.

With all that out of the way, the post:

There’s veen a lot of misuse of the suffix -ica, recently, and I figured someone should clear that up. And since this account has more than 1000 followers and I’ve noticed it, I figured it should be me. 

-ica is a suffix coined on November 19, 2020, by now inactive user Genderstalgia. It, along with -ical and -musica, were coined as suffixes specifically for Musicagenders. That phrase was actually used verbatim in the coining post if anyone would like to fact check me on it. It’s not a general-use, uncoined suffix, like -ic or -ian to name a few, or something like -cenic that was coing to be used for pretty much anything. It, along with its counterparts, have a very explicit, relatively narrow, meaning.

Despite that, there’s been a surge of misuse of it over the past few months to a year (the archive on here and on the site are a good bit behind, so I’m not completely up to date). Thankfully, it hasn’t gotten as vad as -coric or even -comfic, but it’s definitely an issue. To the extent that we’ve created a list for them on Genderpedia and one that has more than double digit pages, here. That page isn’t linked so anyone can go harass the coiners with terms listed there or to drive traffic to the site, it’s just to demonstrate that there is a good amount of terms that are a part of this issue. In addition to that, there are multiple terms that we haven’t archived for whatever reason (mostly just time and fluctuating dis/interest).

I don’t know what specifically I can encourage anyone do outside of a few things. Anyone who has or thinks they might have terms that misuse -ica, or any other suffix for that matter, just go check! And, if you find them, just find a different suffix! There are coined things like -cenic and, in some specific cases, -aesic, -corian, -comfin, etc. (although those last ones do have specific definitions that might not fit, so check those too) and non-coined, general things, like -ic and -ian, or even a currently-unused look-alike like -eca, -yca, or something else like that!

Also, I’d generally recommend checking to see if any kind of suffix/term ending you’ve about to use has been coined and if it would apply. I know that’s crazy hard, because of how many there are and have been coined, and scattered information, but there are some sources that can help. We have an incomplete list of affixes, here, there’s the suffixes carrd, here, and there’s the account Coiningaffixes, here.

I know, looking at the coric/comfic/etc situations, there’s no way this one post will fix everything. It’s just unrealistic to thing that. But hopefully the reach this account has and, hopefully, general encouragement of checking for coinings and being willing to change term names will do something to start to make a dent. In all of these situations!

Thank you for reading, especially this long of a post from a practically inactive account, and have a good night! - Admin Grey

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a troinine-in-nature soporine xenogender related to the void, rats, and gothic aesthetics.

this may include the following:
-femininity/neutrality felt by way of sleep and/or rats/the void/goth
-sleeping rats
-dreams about rats, the void, and gothic themes
-bedding with the aesthetics to which this gender is related

this post has no DNI

Hello and welcome to Synth’s Coining Rockin’ Event (or the “cre coining event” for the sane), a coining event entirely centered around rock music! Everything from J-Rock, to grunge, to hair metal! Any and everyone is welcome to participate! The event is going to last from May 1st to June 15! 

There aren’t really any rules, just some stuff I’d like to say before we get to the prompts. Every day of the event has two prompts, in theory the first one is a more known song and the second less known and also similar/linked in some way, but I don’t know how good of a job I did at that. It’s totally cool to do both prompts or just one, going off actual relation, vibes, whatever works! I’d like to ask that no one does genders just related to the listed song or songs/albums, just so we can avoid recoinings, but everything else is up for grabs!

Everyone is free to do all days, just a couple, multiple prompts a day, whatever floats your boat!

If anyone is interested in some tags they could use to organize or find terms, I have some of those under the cut. With all that out of the way, here are the prompts!

May 1st: November Rain (Guns N’ Roses) // (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
May 2nd: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) // Slither (Velvet Revolver)
May 3rd: Dream On (Aerosmith) // Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (any version)
May 4th: Girls, Girls, Girls (Motley Crue) // Talk Dirty To Me (Poison)
May 5th: Welcome to the Jungle (Guns N’ Roses) // Nightrain (Guns N’ Roses)
May 6th: Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Poison) // Snuff (Slipknot)
May 7th: I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing (Aerosmith) // I’d Die For You (Bon Jovi)
May 8th: Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi) // Viva la Gloria! (Green Day)
May 9th: You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi) // Shot Through The Heart (Bon Jovi)
May 10th: Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi) // 7800° Degrees Fahrenheit (Bon Jovi)
May 11th: Dr. Feelgood (Motley Crue) // London Calling (The Clash)
May 12th: American Idiot (Green Day) // 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
May 13th: The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance) // Danger Days: The True Lives Of the Fabulous Killjoys (My Chemical Romance)
May 14th: Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) // Give Me Novacaine (Green Day)
May 15th: Numb (Linkin Park) // Shadow On the Sun (Audioslave)
May 16th: Are We the Waiting (Green Day) // The Thin Ice (Pink Floyd)
May 17th: Everlong (Foo Fighters) // She’s a Rebel (Green Day)
May 18th: I Don’t Love You You (My Chemical Romance) // Don’t Cry (Guns N’ Roses)
May 19th: Basketcase (Green Day) // Everyday is News (Shinsei Kamattechan)
May 20th: Holiday (Green Day) // God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)
May 21st: Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) // Homecoming (Green Day)
May 22nd: Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions) // Young Lust (Pink Floyd)
May 23rd: Somebody Told Me (The Killers) // Michael (Franz Ferdinand)
May 24th: The Sharpest Lives (My Chemical Romance) // Kickstart My Heart (Motley Crue)
May 25th: In The End (Linkin Park) // Last Resort (Papa Roach)
May 26th: Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard) // Cherry Pie (Warrant)
May 27th: Here I Go Again (Whitesnake) // Street Of Dreams (Guns N’ Roses)
May 28th: Should I Stay Or Should I Go (The Clash) // American Woman (Lenny Kravitz)
May 29th: Shout At the Devil (Motley Crue) // The Hardest Part Is The Night (Bon Jovi)
May 30th: Closer (Nine Inch Nails) // Wither (Tech N9ne, Corey Taylor)
May 31st: I Love Rock N’ Roll (Joan Jett) // Mental Health(Bang Your Head) (Quiet Riot)
June 1st: Master of Puppets (Metallica) // Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
June 2nd: Enter Sandman (Metallica) // Nightmare (Avenged Sevenfold)
June 3rd: Toxicity (System Of A Down) // Carnivore (Body Count)
June 4th: Nevermind (Nirvana) // Whatever (Adore Delano)
June 5th: Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses) // Born To Be My Baby (Bon Jovi)
June 6th: Psychosocial (Slipknot) // Welcome to Horrorwood (Ice Nine Kills)
June 7th: A Little Piece of Heaven (Avenged Sevenfold) // Enthrone (CHTHONIC)
June 8th: Walk This Way (Aerosmith or Aerosmith, Run D.M.C.) // Bring The Noise (Public Enemy, Anthrax)
June 9th: Rocket Man (Elton John) // Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
June 10th: Say It Ain’t So (Weezer) // Inside Out (Eve 6)
June 11th: Letterbomb (Green Day) // Better (Guns N’ Roses)
June 12th: I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Panic! At The Disco) // Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down (Fall Out Boy)
June 13th: Combat Rock (The Clash) // Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (The Sex Pistols)
June 14th: Runaway Train (Soul Asylum) // Patience (Guns N’ Roses)
June 15th: Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses) // Homebound Train (Bon Jovi)

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