#any and all pronouns

[cheeseflavoredchips]

Meet the Musician!

something possessed me to plunge into a tf2 hyperfixation so here's a 10th class oc

Musician -- or, Muse -- is a Support class that can wield instruments as a weapon and as a tool to buff surrounding allies!

Musician is Southeast Asian (specifically from Indonesia) who was born in the US, but moved countries and states often

I haven't actually really thought out how the weapons and balancing will work, so have an art dump instead

[custom-pronoun-pins]

[ID: Thirty circular designs showing stars against a purple sky, with transparent backgrounds. Each pin has white text in the antar font on it, listing different variations of pronoun sets.

The pins read, in order:

ae/aem, any and all neopronouns, any and all pronouns, any neopronouns, any pronouns, asi/min, ask for my pronouns, aster/asters, bee/bees, bun/buns, ca/thar, ce/cer, ce/cey, ce/cim, cer/cers, charm/charms, chime/chimes, click/clack, click/clicks, coin/coins, dove/doves, fae/faer, fae/fir, feather/feathers, fox/foxs, frog/frogs, gal/lif, gear/gears, ivy/ivys, jay/jays

End ID.]

These designs are free to use for icons, headers, moodboards, whatever you want! If you're able to print them out at home, you can also make our own pins or shirts ect, as long as you aren't selling them for a profit! :)

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Designs are no longer available on Redbubble as of April 2023, as they’ve started actively stealing money from artists. Sorry for the inconvenience. You are, as always, encouraged to save these designs to use as icons or in other art, and you are encouraged to print them out and make your own shirts or buttons if you’re able to.

[raptorrobot]

i feel like i'm fighting for my fucking life here

[oh-wow-its-wordgirl]

Hello Burger Nation

Gonna drop my headcanon designs for older Belcher kids here!

[coquelicoq]

what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.

[interstellarsystem]

Hold on let me get into creature mode real quick. *Stands on my toes and moves my arms to the raptor-like position* okay let's go.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[unusedcactus]

fuck it pronouns in BIOS

[sqlatoon]

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO SHIVER SPLATOON GENDER DISCOURSE!!!

[mattodore]

ria, pack leader of three

[saym0-0]

i love when people use random pronouns for mechs

i just saw someone she/her brian and thats so iconic tbh

[chaotic-planet]

Gym teacher: Boys on this side, girls on this side!

Me: *melts into a puddle of terrifying liquified flesh, spreading across the entire gym floor, causing the students to scream a bloodcurdling scream and the teacher faints*

[vohtaro]

[paperjamz]

is this anything!!!!!! literally abt to leave home LOOOL

[paskariu]

Gender neutral pronouns in a language that doesn't have them (German edition)

So, the post about how anglicised queer discussions are possessed me to look up the most "common" gender neutral neopronoun that has been invented in German: Xier

Common is in quotation marks because outside of queer circles, you'll be hard pressed finding anyone who even knows about it.

German is a gendered language; being gender neutral is next to impossible. Either you move to the generic masculine version, or a more new-ish female version. Either way you're either assigning yourself a male or female grammatical gender which when talking about people is also a gender signifier.

So you, a queer person, would like to NOT be referred to as either male or female. So your options are:

a) suck it up

b) put xier in bio

Ok, queer person. You selected option b). Now you're faced with the newest issue: People don't know how to use your pronoun. "Ah, just put 'xier/xies'! Just like the English speakers." A quiet part of your mind screams.

You put "xier/xies" down. Personal and Possessive Pronouns. Easy.

Ah, wait we're still missing the relative pronoun. Something which is also gendered in German.

You add "dier". Easy. Relative pronoun acquired.

Xier/Dier/Xies

"Why are there three?" A confused anglophone might ask.

"Where is the rest?" Another German asks. Where is the rest of the grammar. You can't use only the first case in a sentence....

We're still missing the other 3 grammatical cases.

Xier/Dier/Xies Xieser/Dies/Xiese Xiem/Diem/Xiesem Xien/Dien/Xieses There we go. All cases and all pronoun types. But possessive pronouns are dependent on the gender of the thing being possessed. Great. 3 more grammar forms per case for possessive pronouns. And we need another one. What if we're talking about another gender neutral person? Neuter (usually) isn't used to refer to people...

In the end, if you want to include everything, you end up with this

Just tell them your pronouns.

[sainamoonshine]

My unpopular opinion is that in languages with grammatical gender like french, it does make sense for Murderbot to be referred to by whatever pronoun is usually used for robots or constructs. (In french, therefore, grammatical masculine.) Because there are no traditional « it » pronouns in these languages for objects, and while there are neo-pronouns, they are things one must choose for themselves. Do you honestly think MB actually spent time thinking about its pronouns?! No it didn’t. On forms it picks « non-applicable ». When people ask it what pronouns they should use, its honest opinion is « why do you even need to talk about me. Just don’t fucking do that. Don’t think about me either. Just fucking stop perceiving me altogether! »

Thinking about what pronouns to use probably makes it way more uncomfortable than letting people call it what they’ve already been calling it. Making a conscious choice about its identity? And telling other people about it??? No thanks bye, it’s just gonna walk into the ocean now, see you never.

Lbr it probably thinks the only bots that get fancy pronouns are comfort units, and the pronouns are probably shoved into them by humans same as everything else. MB would meet a bot using a neopronoun and it would wish it could barf. Because in a language like french, he/him and she/her, when applied to objects, ARE fulfilling the function of the english « it ». Nobody is saying the table is a woman or related to feminity in any way outside of stand-up comedy; when it comes to objects grammatical gender really has fuckall to do with human gender even if we use the same words. Even animal species names have grammatical gender and everyone gets that there are male and female turtles even if the word « turtle » is a female word, it’s not that confusing.

(I know this is strange when your language has different pronouns for people and for objects, but understand that english uses the same word to indicate if I’m addressing one or many people, and that is confusing to me.)

TL;DR; stop harassing international fans for not getting the correct MB pronoun in english right off the bat. Yes in english calling it « he » or « her » or « them » is upsetting because it’s projecting an identity unto it. But same goes for trying to get a foreign language translation to use a pronoun intended to express or showcase an identity (or even a lack of one!). Murderbot has not thought about it this hard, refuses to think about it this hard -> and that is its only canon accurate gender identity.