#edit: I’ve been informed that hisself is used in aave! so dont read my tags & assume I’m right about what’s ‘right’ for the English language

[clownsnake]

everyone’s always confused abt if you should use “themself” or “themselves” when talking about a person who uses they/them pronouns, but only Toby Fox was brave enough to consider

#grammatically it doesnt make any sense it’s like if you said ‘hisself’ lol #but it’s fine pronouns can have unique quirks. who cares #going post #undertale #this is pulled from dialogue abt napstablook btw #edit: I’ve been informed that hisself is used in aave! so dont read my tags & assume I’m right about what’s ‘right’ for the English language #im sorry about that. obviously different vernaculars of English having different grammatical rules is something I should be more conscious o #*of #I’ll try to keep in mind from now on that grammar (especially in the English language) isn’t something that can rlly be 100% uniform #or something to be controlled/‘’reasoned’’ into being uniform #thank you to that anon for letting me know :) #also I genuinely do love the use of theirself here. i worry tht that might have been unclear so jsyk #when I say ‘only Toby fox was brave enough to consider’ I mean it genuinely like I’m saluting him for this #idk I just think tht we are in the baby stages of figuring out gender nuetral pronouns for individuals & I just appreciate a cis dude making #an Effort to use them even tho it’s unclear even to nonbinary people how we should be saying certain things #like themself/themselves/theirself #so to see a cis person making an effort even though its hard or confusing. well i just think that’s neat