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What are neopronouns?

Neopronouns are pronouns aside from he, she, they, or it. They’re pronouns people use, usually when they don’t vibe with using “standard” pronouns. 

The root “neo” means new, so they are essentially new pronouns. However, despite that, they’ve been around for centuries! According to multiple sources, neopronouns have been around since at least the 1300s!

Here are a few examples of neopronouns! 

Sample sentence: They/them

 They are my friend. They left their jacket at my house today. I’m going to drive to their house later to give it back to them. 

Xe/xem

Xe is my friend. Xe left xer jacket at my house today. I’m going to drive to xer house later to give it back to xem.

Fae/faer

Fae is my friend. Fae left faer jacket at my house today. I’m going to drive to faer house to give it back to faer.

Thon/Thonself

Thon is my friend. Thon left thons jacket at my house today. I’m going to drive to thons house to give it back to thon.

Ae/aer

Ae is my friend. Ae left aer jacket at my house today. I’m going to drive to aer house to give it back to aer.

It’s super cool!

Pronoun kandi P1

Since around March I have been on and off making kandi bracelets with pronouns on them. In total I've made over 100 bracelets :D more pics plus reason for undertaking this project under cut :P

So I started this project mostly to distract myself from things that were stressing me out big time and, because I'd like to sell my art and crafts at a con or some kind of event in future :3 the goal was to make at least one set of pronoun kandi, a set being 8 bracelets in pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and multi-colour :-D I did this to avoid assigning a colour to a pronoun and increase options for when I do finally sell these.

of course this project was very time consuming (even when not accounting for the breaks I took to both rest and get more beads), especially since at first I wanted all the kandi sets to match, but ended up only having a three of the set's matching (as seen in the second pic).

Than of course I had to narrow down how many pronouns I'd make into kandi as I didn't want to spend a life time on this project :P. That wasn't super easy but I manged to narrow my options down to 9 sets of neo pronouns and, the other 3 sets of course being They, She and He (but made twice as many of those as I'd assume they'd sell more) so hopefully I made a decent range of bracelets.

I also briefly consider making multi-pronoun set (e.g. They/He) but considering the importance of pronoun order to many (e.g a She/They person may not want a They/She bracelet because of the pronoun order) as well as how many combos I could make even with the 11 pronouns I restricted myself to, I'm sure can understand why I dropped this idea real fast.

Part 2 I share more kandi as well as a mistake I made :P, you can find it here