Mahu is the hawaiian word for people who embody both male and female spirit
PSA: The Hawai’ian people actually prefer the term “māhūlani” which is a lot nicer and a term of endearment. “lani” is the Hawai’ian word for heaven so by saying māhūlani you are calling the person a gift from the heavens. Thank you so much! ^_^
AO3 updated their filters and I’m so shook???
I love this so fucking much, you have no idea. Thank you, AO3. This made my day way better, and my life so much easier.
Also two notes: This is not completely rolled out to all logged in users yet, but almost. If you are logged in and don’t see the new filters yet, you’ll probably see it in the next day or so. After that it will become active for logged out users, so if you don’t have an account and use the site logged out, you’ll probably see it a couple days later.
And, on a purely personal note, to anyone complaining that a) this doesn’t do exactly what they want, or b) that it took too long, I want you to know that this took literal YEARS for our coding, design, and testing volunteers, who were also keeping the site running, and also ARE VOLUNTEERS. People have worked amazingly hard in their spare time, for free, to make this happen, so don’t be ungrateful little goblins.
AO3 filtering options have been updated, and so far I love the new version! 😀
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