Refracted Pronouns & Opposorpronominal Flags (mourningmogaicrew)

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mourningmogaicrew:

Flag ID: A flag with 5 horizontal stripes. They are gray-black, dark gray, gray, dark gray, and gray-black. The middle gray stripe is twice as thick as the others. In the middle of the gray stripe is a small rainbow flag that gets bigger as it goes to the right. The rainbow passes through a light gray triangle to represent refraction. End ID.ALT

Refracted pronouns

Wanting someone to refer to you with the pronouns that you (or they) consider the opposite of their pronouns.

Examples:

-Someone uses it/they so you want it to use they/it for you

-Someone uses she/her so you want her to use he/him for you

-Someone uses ‘dark’ or scarier themed neopronouns so you want them to use ‘lighter’ or cuter themed neopronouns for you

-Someone who uses big/bigs pronouns so you want big to use small/smalls for you (this is an example of a pronoun set having an antonym, because it’s based on an adjective)

-Someone uses xe/xem so you want xem to use [whatever you consider the opposite of xe/xem to be. I personally think that ze/zir works] for you

What you (or the person who’s referring to you) consider the opposite of a certain pronoun set or combination is totally up to the individual, especially when it comes to neopronouns. If you want to go by refracted pronouns around someone the best thing to do is to ask them their pronouns, decide on an opposite and tell it to them so there’s no confusion.

This is the opposite of mirrored pronouns (coined by @kenochoric) and related to reflected pronouns.

Symbol:

Symbol ID: The flag described above, except that the gray, dark gray and gray-black stripes are triangular. The rainbow is also cut along diagonal lines and behind it is transparent. The symbol fits in a square frame, not a rectangle like the flag. End ID.ALT

Flag and symbol IDs in alt text.

The pronominal version of this is “opposorpronominal”, which currently only exists on the pronoun wiki due to the blog that made it getting deleted. (It was me. I did it. I have a very bad track record for keeping our blogs.)

Happy to see a more popular coining of the term! Here’s the opposorpronominal flag:

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