#It/Its

[sailor-crusader]

[darkmagenugget]

For make a terrible comic day.

Blep.

[lgbtqtext]

[genderqueerdykes]

when i tell people i only use it/its pronouns and that they feel euphoric and like i'm being referred to correctly, most people's immediate gut reaction is "i don't like that, i would be so uncomfortable being referred to as it/its."

i have great news for you! you won't be addressed by it/its pronouns! i will be! lucky for you, these are my pronouns, not yours, and at no point will you ever be referred to by it unless you explicitly ask me to!

whenever i explain that i feel great discomfort and dysphoria being referred to by they, he, or she, these same people suddenly fall silent and have nothing to say. imagine if every time someone told me they use they, he, or she pronouns, my immediate response was "i would be so uncomfortable being called they/he/she, i don't like that."

this reaction is one sided and is only used to target it/its users. no one else. when someone tells you their pronouns are it/its, keep your discomfort to yourself. that is your burden to bear. we have to accept that all pronoun sets, no matter how "normalized" they are, are going to make certain people feel like shit.

when a trans man asks you to use he/him pronouns because she/her pronouns makes him uncomfortable, your gut response isn't to say "he/him pronouns make me uncomfortable, i won't refer to you that way." when a trans woman asks you to use she/her pronouns because he/him pronouns makes her uncomfortable, your first reaction isn't to say "she/her pronouns make me uncomfortable, i'm not going to use them for you."

people can have bad experiences and even trauma with any set of pronouns, this is not exclusive to it/its. there are trans men across the world who feel like absolute shit when people use she/her pronouns for them, there are trans women across the globe who feel like absolute shit when people use he/him pronouns for them. nobody seems to consider this. any pronouns can cause discomfort.

don't single in on it/its users. don't make the first comment out of your mouth be about yourself. don't make someone else's pronouns about you. keep your personal discomfort with those pronouns to yourself. that is not the it/its cross to bear: that is yours. you don't get to decide what pronouns a stranger can and can't use, that's not your choice, you don't get to make it for them.

important addition from the tags:

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Two versions of space-themed it/its icons! 💙💚

[almost-correct-quotes]

"we need more weird queer people" most of you can't even handle nonhumans

[kityenok]

it/its but in the dehumanizing way. it/its but in the way that an animal is called an it, a creature born from nature. A creature that is beautiful and special in its own right, something not to be seen as lesser but equal in its own unique ways. " oh but it/its isn't dehumanizing !!" it CAN be to those who want it. Being seen as something nonhuman does not immediately equal lesser; there are beautiful things that are not human. You ever seen some sick tropical birds with its plumage, or the familial ties a bear may have to its cubs, or the dedication a lion may have to its prey. It/Its but in the way of appreciating the unhuman, but not subhuman.

[smoov-criminal]

did you know that if you use neopronouns, it/its, and/or nounself pronouns you're one of the coolest people on the planet

[schadenfreudich]

It/its pronouns are great. If you use it/its pronouns, you're cool

[cuppacoffii]

i just wanna say. the it/its pride flag is SO cool, and i mean this one specifically because there are a few but this one comes up first so i think its more widely accepted

like look at that. look at the colors. thats yummy.

[astrophellian]

Theorits

A theorpron term for when you would use it/its pronouns in theory, but not in practice.

[lethalprincess16]

Someone said this to me earlier and I can NOT stop laughing at it

[genderqueerdykes]

"why would you WANT to be called it/its" why does anyone want to do anything. stop thinking so hard just live

[heartmush]

The room is familiar, though not the same— the placement of the furniture is different, and the space itself is larger than it was in The Manor. Still, there is a striking similarity to the setting that Velvet finds picking at her nerves; it prickles at the back of her neck and peters into the salted air.

[lgbtqtext]