I Do What I Want-tober: Day 17 I Do What I Want

I do what I want-tober: Day 17 I do what I want

Dancing Rabbits

I wanted to make a post about this because it’s really frustrating me.

Xenopronouns are a type of pronoun that cannot be understood by human language. An example is a pronoun that is a pattern of flashing lights (like a firefly) or a pronoun in sign language, but you need four arms to sign it. They can also be things like the sensation of electricity, the sound of glass shattering, etc. that humans can’t produce. They are primarily used by nonhumans.

What about pronouns like star/stars, raccoon/raccoons, or green/greens? Those are nounself pronouns, not xenopronouns. I don’t know where the confusion comes from. Maybe from the fact that these pronouns are usually used by xenogender people and “xenogender pronouns” gets shortened to xenopronouns. The truth is that any gender can use any pronouns, so associating nounself pronouns with xenogenders is just wrong.

One of my new companions wants to use xenopronouns to accentuate xir nonhumanity, and I’m trying to find resources about those pronouns to better understand my companion and figure out how to refer to xem (xe said I could use xe/xem as an aux). But the xenopronouns tag is flooded with people tagging posts about nounself pronouns with xenopronouns. It makes it very hard to find posts about actual xenopronouns.

Please don’t push xenopronoun users out of their own tag. If that tag becomes basically unusable, where else are they supposed to go? It’s not that hard to tag a post about nounself pronouns with #nounself pronouns instead of #xenopronouns.

Fictionkin culture is having trouble explaining that yes, you identify as a character from media, no, you don't just relate to them. :(

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Sometimes I genuinely want to reblog some of these posts just swapping every instance of "human" for "gay" and "misanthropy" for "homophobia," because it really puts it into perspective.

"But of course I know there are good humans out there -" Saying something to the effect of "Gay people are horrible" and then following up with "but of course I know there are good gays out there <3" doesn't actually make you not homophobic.

"But humans have actually done bad things that destroy the planet -!" 90% of my mom's internalized homophobia stems from real gay people she knew who intentionally spread HIV to other people, and that being her only exposure to the queer community before, like, me. Do you think that makes it fair for someone to be homophobic? Because a small proportion of the gay community does terrible things? Like, no, right? So why do you think it's fair for you to act misanthropic because a small proportion of the human species does terrible things?

im soo curious

Sometimes I wonder how people who are "system safe" would react to problematic fictives who are also problematic factives, or, even worse, problematic factives who don't completely disconnect from their source

I think I have a pretty good idea about this one tbh. The fictive side is valid and okay, but the factive portion is "Disrespectful" and "shouldn't be talked about" They likely make these people feel even worse if they even mention the factive identity because they have a more approachable "Second self" to hide behind.

And the factives with no (or some, but not total) disconnect-- Well, they don't think highly of them, surely, but honestly, it'd be surprising in my experience to find someone who would actually treat connected separately from disconnected. I'm not very connected at all and I'm not even given a chance to prove that.