hi i’m a huge fan of your comics! i just wanted to ask what are your pronouns??
WELL THIS IS ACTUALLY A REALLY FUNNY TOPIC IN MY CASE AND NEEDS A LONGER EXPLANATION.
My native language is Finnish. Finnish is a gender neutral language. There's no way to tell the gender of ANYONE unless someone specifically underlines it by some other gendered word like boy, girl, man, woman, uncle, aunt etc.
Now, we have a one gender pronoun; hän. Hän covers all genders. The ones existing, the ones gone, the ones becoming. Except that hän isn't even originally Finnish pronoun. The original Finnish pronoun is Se. Se means it.
Finnish native faith and worldview is polytheistic and shamanistic. Everyone and everything is equal to each other. Animals and plants are our sister and brothers, so Finnish people didn't differ themselves from the nature. For example, when a young man left his childhood home to find himself a place to built his own house onto, he needed to ask a permission from a spruce before building the house. If the spruce approved him, he was free to settle next to the tree and use it as his guide and advisor. If not, he needed to find another tree.
Now, I think it was Christianity that arrived to Finland from West through Sweden. The Swedish priests were horrified to find out that barbaric Finns didn't elevate themselves above animals like Christian God had intended. The priest decided that the language needs to be changes; hän for men, hen for women.
Finns were "Well excuse me NO, NO WAY. We will reluctantly accept hän but for all genders, and we will not use it except in formal situations thank you very much."
Modern spoken Finnish still uses se (it) for everyone. I am it, you are it, my mom's it, your mom's it, the president is it, God is it. A normal Finnish conversation goes like: I spoke with Mari. It said its boyfriend was being an ass again. I told it it should leave it, as the guy is clearly an idiot, and how it means nothing but bad news, but Mari said it had feelings for it and how it would be a difficult thing for Mari to do, even if its being treated so badly by its boyfriend.
So, I personally have NO emotional connections to any gendered pronouns. NONE. If I could choose, I would be called it in English and in any gendered language, but it doesn't work as it doesn't have the same connotation in other languages.
That being said, she works for me in English and in gendered languages. But it doesn't mean anything to me in a way that I MUST BE called she or else I'm upset. I don't associate any gender for myself in/with language based pronouns because such thing doesn't exist in my language. In Finnish, I'm it that is a female :D
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