#whimsicallioness

I have decided to create a compilation of all of the responses to the asks that have been about asking for pronouns. I will edit this post as/ if more people comment. 

Anonymous:  How would one sign "pronoun", if there is a sign as opposed to fingerspelling? I know ASL doesn't use pronouns bc of indexing, but I'd still like to know how to ask someone "what are your pronouns?" in order to use the proper ones in text outside of ASL.

Signinggifs:  I’m pretty sure you have to fingerspell pronouns because of indexing

kynehalliforn: I’ve known people to sign it #PRO NAME

thecaitortot: That makes sense because the sign for NAME is the same as the sign for NOUN and ASL profs use them interchangeably.The issue would then be how to communicate exactly what you’re asking without the person thinking you forgot their name. I would probably ask “#PRONOUN YOU PREFER WHAT?” Where the pound symbol shows the finger spelled word.

aslfan:  This can help and possessives here

imnotokaythanks:  My ASL professor (I live in AK, there are differences depending on where you are) said she would sign it YOU GIRL BOY WHICH because the “which” question leaves it open for them to say what they identify as

whimsicallioness: GLOSS: YOU IDENTIFY MAN WOMAN WHICH or YOU PREFER “CATEGORY” *fs*SHE *fs*HE WHICH

signinggifs:  I was wondering about this, but that excludes nonbinary people and assumes that he/him/his are “male pronouns” and she/her/hers are “female pronouns” which is not necessarily true.

pina-fiesta asked:  Bouncing off the pronoun question, but would it really matter in Sign? Everything I've learned up to this point has just been sort of pointing/signing at the subject, or using their name. And if you're continuously talking about one person, would you need to keep saying "him/her" anyway, or sign their name? It seems like something that would be a context clue type thing. I haven't learned a lot of sign, so I'm not entirely sure. Thanks!

signinggifs: I have received a few questions about this and that is true and I think you did a good job of explaining it. I am assuming the person asking was asking for if they were hearing and would later need to use pronouns, or (as they said) if they were to need to write pronouns. Here is a link to a post I made about indexing and pronouns, but to properly learn more I highly encourage googling it. 

farfr0mn0rmal asked:  As far as I've learned, pronouns are irrelevant while signing. The pronoun question shouldn't need to be asked unless from someone who will verbalize later. I think simply fsPRONOUNS with the question indicator should be enough.

gameboygirl: in the signing group I practice at (in MI, Ann Arbor area), we start each session asking for pronouns. We sign it “[Sex/Gender] + Word.” (So, for gender, we use the X hand, touch the side of the face on the cheekbone, then chin.)Usually the response would be, “I use female [sex/gender] words,” “I like [gray/whatever] [sex/gender] words”

-hugs- <3

*hugs back*  

You are a fantastic human

Well I don’t want to call any of my friends “things”, so… arbitrarily… 1) Playing Noby Noby Boy, 2) Rocks with a diameter between 2 and 4 cm, 3) Coming up with a good name for something, 4) Walking through a crowded airport alone, and 5) Running through my house in the dark.

That’s a lot of numbers for someone as verbose as I am…

38: This one’s gonna be embarrassing. I kind of hate admitting my idealistic romantic fantasies because they can be pretty unrealistic, you know? Yeesh… there are like, dozens of characters I’ve imagined as my “dream person”… I have no consistent “type”, and it of course all depends on how idealistic I’m letting myself be. A lot of the time, I fantasize about normal people, because I like normal people. But when I really go all out and super idealistic, my dream girl is probably a marine biologist or entomologist or something like that, who’s good at all the things I wish I were but am not—she’s good at math and strategic and spatial thinking, she can play french horn, she speaks a few languages, maybe she dances, she’s super knowledgable about biology—and then there’d be some things I’d be good at that she isn’t, like maybe drawing or world-building or melody-writing or something, and then we’d have some things we were both good at—usually in my fantasies it’s singing and Pokémon battling and writing. She has a good sense of pitch and rhythm. If I’m really dreaming, she’s good with money and has a lot of it, but she’s not a workaholic, and she also doesn’t let her wealth make her complacent; she uses it to enable her to do amazing things with her life and she’s a patron of tons of cool stuff. She respects me a ton but she also gets that I kind of want to be respectfully bossed around and dominated, so she treats me a little bossily, which makes everyone else worry about me, but we get it and don’t care what they think, because behind the scenes she’s very caring and sweet and playful about it, and checks in on me. I’m her favourite person, but she’s got lots of other friends who don’t know me, and she doesn’t depend on me for anything. She’s brutally honest and completely unashamed, and is very open, and her extraordinary command of the English language helps her communicate clearly and thoroughly; she’s in no way mysterious or stoic. She’s so eager to share information that she often interrupts people. She’s intelligent in ways I can relate to, and she’s objective, lucid, peaceful, open-minded, self-confident, self-loving, excited, empathic, and emotional. She isn’t manipulative, but is open about when she sees how she could be. She’s often fashionable, but she dresses pretty masculine, and in general is not very feminine, but she can appreciate girly fun stuff, too. She’s not afraid to be silly. We stay up late singing and dancing and having girly sleepovers and stuff all the time. We design trading card games together. She snorts when she laughs. She laughs a lot and makes me laugh. She was raised without a religion. She has freckles. OK OH MAN I COULD GO ON BUT I AM SHUTTING MYSELF UP NOW

64: Hm… well you could say my first kiss was the time Rio (peachgreen) kissed me the day after we first met, way back in 2005 or so… she noticed me wandering the halls at Norwescon and shouted at me because she was excited I was wearing a pink miniskirt. We only passed in the hall, but later that day we bumped into each other in the elevator and she told me her name was Raven (which was just her ‘con name’, I guess). We kept crossing paths but never really talked, but that night when I was at the rave, a girl came up to me wearing a masquerade mask and danced with me, and then she took off the mask and it was Rio. We hung out the next day with her friends, and when we were in the karaoke room, she found out I’d never been kissed and asked if she could be my first kiss. She kissed me on the lips when I left Norwescon, which is the first time I’d been kissed on the lips. I went straight home and kissed a page of my diary, to transfer Rio’s kiss, and wrote about the experience. My first really mutual kiss, though, was with butterbeanbun while we were watching Whisper of the Heart in my bedroom at my mother’s house, in 2008. I can’t remember all the details… but some of them were a bit scandalous so maybe I’d better not say them here anyways… XD   …Anyways, I miss you, Rio, let’s hang out again sometime, eh?

76: Right now, yellow. I also have dark blue, light blue, white, black, pale pink, dark pink, bright pink, pink striped, yellow and white striped, brown… I think that’s about it.

97: Oh man, that’s a tough one… I mean, when I was a teenager I used to say Ewan McGregor, but mostly ‘cause I was so hot for Ewan McGregor. Molly Ringwald is a classic favourite of mine. I’m always pretty impressed by Gary Oldman. I like a lot of Holly Hunter’s roles. I’m crazy about Groucho Marx, or Chico or Harpo, but do I like them for their comedy or their comedic acting? I guess you could say Groucho Marx is (was?) my favourite actor, maybe. Christoph Waltz should also get honourable mention.

135: Hmmmmm this is a super tough one. I very rarely lie in any way seriously enough to be stupid. Maybe it’s this, though: one of the most embarrassing moments of my life was when I was 16 or 17 or so and I performed a 5-song set at a Björk cover concert in Victoria, B.C. All my songs were ones I’d composed digitally, so they were all pre-recorded—I didn’t play any of it live. But I couldn’t think of any performance to do, so instead I just sat there in front of 100+ people at my laptop with a keyboard, and pretended to play music that I’d actually prerecorded. I felt like a total idiot and a liar and it was awful.

150: “Breach Time / Rune  No. 23 / Pick a point in time and leap across the continuum. / Though fraught with danger, this is the only method by which a wizard may take a leap through time to a moment of their choice.”  

good luck <3 sorry about all the misgendering yesterday