Wait, you can have your pronouns be lowercase all the time?

@pillowcat hell yeah happy to help idk what I did but I'm glad to have done so

@fluxom_alt I mean, Tess and I are directly stealing Qiru's pronouns.

We had no idea that was a thing till we read the latest side story.

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@pillowcat @fluxom_alt what pronouns are those? we are not familiar with the story you reference
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@Felthry @pillowcat it/it's, always lowercase.

at some point I'll train gdocs to stop capitalizing it at the start of sentences and that'll either be the start or end of writing problems

@fluxom_alt @pillowcat oh! it pronouns are good, i'm definitely not biased
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@Felthry @fluxom_alt Though, now that I think about it, there is a slight difference between Qiru's pronouns and ours; we're much more pedantic on the difference between its and it's. >u<

@pillowcat @Felthry im bimbo and dont know the difference so i just guess every time agskagsksgakdhdjdla

@fluxom_alt @pillowcat the way we remember it is that none of the other possessive pronouns (outside of probably some neopronouns) use an apostrophe (think like his, her, their, vis, eir, hir... its) while all the pronoun+is contractions do (think like he's, she's, they're, ve's, ey's, sie's... it's)
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@fluxom_alt @Felthry Oh, its is possessive, it's is for contractions (e.g. it is, it has).

@pillowcat @Felthry i think... i think i might have written that backwards agdkajhsd

@fluxom_alt @pillowcat i mean it's one of the most common and most understandable things people get mixed up, no one's going to blame you
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@fluxom_alt @Felthry It's totally fine, doing whatever feels right for you is valid as fuck, and so is messily discovering your own pronouns.

@Felthry @pillowcat I got myself to start doing it/it's pronouns in writing this bean, so, I agree

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