#anna tromedlov

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 7

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Anna Tromedlov-Hench

Qualifications:

She's bi! She has an injured femur and uses a cane and has cybernetics in her optic nerve implanted after having that injured as well!

Propaganda:

She's smart! She is kind of an awful person in the best way!

Anything Else?:

everyone should read this book unless they aren't into thinky, fun sci-fi or body horror

Elim Garak-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Qualifications:

He has PTSD due to child abuse, as well as a painkiller addiction due to a brain implant. He is also extremely gay. Like literally everybody who watches DS9 immediately understands this about him. He was explicitly played by his actor, Andy Robinson, as attracted to Julian Bashir, and his only heterosexual romance is truly painful to witness. Andrew Robinson has also said that he has had a one-night stand with Dukat, one of the main villains of DS9 and noted lizard nazi. Do with that what you will. His closest relationship onscreen by far is with Julian.

Propaganda:

This man. There is a reason so many people are obsessed with him. Former spy, current tailor, forever an incurable bitch. Guilty of many war crimes, including onscreen attempted genocide. Once intentionally blew up his own tailor shop (with him in it) because he didn't want to ask for help with something. In his very first scene on the show, he wears an shirt that strongly resembles a watermelon, propositions Julian Bashir, and leaves while canonically high on painkillers. He has PTSD due to child abuse at the hands of the head of the space lizard KGB, who is also his dad, and a painkiller addiction due to a brain implant he has to help him withstand torture. He tortures a main character in one episode, and then a few episodes later they start having regular breakfasts together. Once got high on Space Weed and started systematically murdering people while making ominous announcements about chess over the PA system. The Most Character Ever.

Anything Else?:

He once told Julian to eat his rod. It was about a futuristic USB stick (datarod) but he still very much said it.

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device

#polls #poll #disabled characters #lgbtq characters #disability #lgbtq #lgbtq dcs round 1 #lgbtq dcs wave 2 #anna tromedlov #hench #elim garak #ds9 garak #deep space nine #star trek ds9 #star trek

[chupacabraatemybrother]

I find the number of reviews and posts about Hench to be really interesting - so many people feel like there is something unresolved between Anna and Leviathan (and there totally is, but imo it's just not what people think is unresolved). There's definitely still some unresolved disagreement: there's some...not resentment, exactly, from Anna (resentment is a little too strong) but she's left annoyed about the whole thing, and Leviathan still needs to further address that *and* get out of his own head and trust her.

A lot of people are sad they didn't kiss at the end, or that their feelings for each other are somehow up in the air, but I think the ending fit. They do know where they stand with one another. They're just taking it (painfully) slow.

Usually a kiss is a stand in for characters A and B showing they love one another, and are on the same page. It's used as a clear neon signal of mutual interest and agreement over that interest. This usually happens when either the characters are confused over how the other feels (but the reader is appraised of how at least one feels), one character has been hiding the extent of their feelings from the other, or there's been a slow buildup of flirtatious banter and actions but nothing confirmed/out in the open.

Anna and Leviathan already know how the other feels about them. No one's been hiding it - Anna even says as such to Decohedrence. She doesn't need to speculate. She loves him, he feels the same for her, and she enjoys that. And while I can't claim to be in Leviathan's head, his attempts at an apology, his assurances he'd trust her plans from now on, and the gesture of rebuilding her office first, seem to prove he's trying to secure and maintain the relationship in the best way he knows how. I choose to believe that means he also enjoys knowing how she feels about him.

So - they do love one another, and are on the same page about it, so why no kiss? Lots of reasons, including: a track record of not really trusting people (Leviathan), heaps of physical and emotional trauma (both of them but make it a double for Leviathan), and the fact that I would bet actual real money that Leviathan is ace. They're literally just trying to figure out how to exist in the same space together with these feelings hanging out there. Things like casually touching each other, assuring the other when someone is worried (Leviathan seemed genuinely surprised when Anna said she was worried about him, and not all of that is ego), being informal with each other - this is the level they are currently trying to navigate. In the end scene Anna reaches for his hand and stops just before touching him, presumably to let him have control over that final barrier, to make the choice if he wants to be touched. If they are still navigating touching hands, they are not ready for kissing. (But I can't fucking wait until they are)

#hench #anna tromedlov #natalie zina walschots #leviathan #this is such a small fandom on this website #i will make content for it my damn self #where ARE you people #im sorry to my followers ive got a one track brain rn #hyperfixation activated

[gooberlad]

As promised, here is Anna Tromedlov! Honestly, it’s not fully rendered and probably never will be, but I just wanted to get it out there. This is after her Kidnapped, but hopefully I’ll be able to draw her happier soon. She…does not like it. Again, I didn’t really know how to visualize her, and this is what popped out. Honestly I wasn’t even sure what her eye color was, what’s weird is this took like 2 hours, but the Leviathan drawing took 4 and a half

#natalie zina walschots #hench #anna tromedlov #leviathan #art #digital art

[disabled-characters-showdown]

Disabled Characters in the Showdown Currently

Notes:

1.) This list is subject to change, so if you see it off a reblog, please check the link to this post here. At some point this will probably stop updating, as we tend to forget to. Before we kick off the showdown there will be another post. Characters are under the cut, the list is currently unorganized, but might get organized later.

2.) If you see a character on here and you want to submit propaganda for them please feel free to, there is no submission limit or character per fandom limit. Here is the link to the submission form. Characters from the prior round of this showdown are fair game except Toph, Toothless and Hiccup. Additionally, most characters from @gay-disabled-characters-showdown are also fair game.

3.) The amount of submissions will not affect how likely a character is to get into the showdown. If you submitted a character and they are not here, we probably just haven’t gotten to verifying your character yet. If it’s been more than 3-4 days since you submitted the character you can shoot us an ask as to why they are not on the list, it might be an error on our part.

4.) When will submissions close? We have no fucking clue. At the earliest sometime October, as we are still working on setting up over @gay-disabled-characters-showdown which is still accepting submissions here. Additionally, as we need to write image descriptions it takes us a ridiculous amount of time to get set up.

5.) If you think a character doesn’t qualify you can send us an ask or leave a comment, and we can show you the explanation we have for the character as to how they count.

7.) If there is a character or media on here you think is problematic you can send us an ask and we will evaluate. That being said it’s not about being the best most perfect representation.

Tougou Mimori- Yuuki Yunna is a Hero

Olivia- Fear and Hunger 2: Termina

Edward Elric- Fullmetal Alchemist

Takashi ‘Shiro’ Shirogane- Voltron: Legendary Defender

Narti- Voltron: Legendary Defender

Shirou Emiya- Fate Stay Night

Red Haired Shanks- One Piece

Neil Watts- To the Moon/ Finding Paradise/ Imposter Factory

Harrowhawk Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb

Wei Shi London Arelius- Cradle

Clint Barton- Marvel Comics

Barbara Gordon- DC Comics

Anna Tromedlov- Hench

Chirrut Îmwe- Star Wars: Rogue One

Imperator Furiosa- Mad Max: Fury Road

Long John Silver- Muppet Treasure Island

David- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Kaz Brekker- Six of Crows

Wu Zetian- Iron Widow

Cassandra Cain- DC Comics

Entrapta- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Bran Stark- A Song of Ice and Fire

Heart- Moonlight Chicken

Wen Kexing- Faraway Wanderers

Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper- DC Comics

Wen Kexing- Word of Honor

Zhou Zishu- Word of Honor

Baiken- Guilty Gear

Draal the Deadly- Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

Petra- 1992 Summer Paralympics/ Cobi Troupe cartoon series

Twyla Boogeyman- Monster High

Kaladin Stormblessed- The Stormlight Archive

Nath- 100% Orange Juice/Sora

John D. Cort- Baywatch

Ming-Hua- Avatar: The Legend of Korra

Takane Enomoto (Ene)- Kagerou Project

Sylvette Suede- Tegami Bachi

Sunny- Omori

Basil- Omori

Stone- ONE by Cheesyhfj on YouTube

Parker- Leverage

Eustass Kid- One Piece

Fujitora- One Piece

Nog- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Ashton Greymoore- Critical Role

Geordi La Forge- Star Trek: The Next Generation

Nicholas Benedict- The Mysterious Benedict Society

Hermann Gottlieb- Pacific Rim

Johnny Joestar- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Linh Cinder- The Lunar Chronicles

Percy Jackson- Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Genya Safin- Grishaverse

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Fire Emblem Three Houses

Wylan Van Eck- Six of Crows

Jesper Fahey- Six of Crows

Havelock Vetinari- Discworld

Stiles Stilinski- Teen Wolf

Charles Xavier- X-Men

Hitori Gotoh- Bocchi the Rock

Vash the Stampede- Trigun

Gintoki Sakata- Gintama

Big Boss- Metal Gear

Black Raisin Cookie- Cookie Run Kingdom

Daan- Fear and Hunger 2: Termina

General Amaya- The Dragon Prince

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader- Star Wars

Sir Alastair Hammerlock- Borderlands

Alinta- DC Comics

Norma Khan- Dead End: Paranormal Park

George Mullner- Stardew Valley

Rani- Disney Faries

Joey Wilson/Jericho- DC Comics

Pit- Kid Icarus

Chai- Hi-Fi Rush

Sarah Sharpe- The Sea Beast

Gregg Lee- Night in the Woods

Arthur Lester- Malevolent

Kim Kitsuragi- Disco Elysium

Zee- Total Drama Island Reboot

Ignis Scientia- Final Fantasy XV

Komugi- Hunter x Hunter

Cheza- Wolf’s Rain

Maedhros- The Silmarillion

Ballister Boldheart- Nimona

Doom- Mashle: Magic and Muscles

Ianthe Tridentarius- The Locked Tomb

Talbot- Curse Words: Spellcasting for Fun and Prophet

Aka Ashi no Zeff- One Piece

Charlotte Webber/Sun-Spider- Marvel Comics

Zolf Smith- Rusty Quill Gaming podcast

#polls #disability #poll #fandom polls #disabled characters #disabled characters showdown

[saltroseandtopaz]

To seek vengeance and power instead of cowering when the world punishes you. That’s what they think evil is, do they not?

— Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots 

#anna tromedlov #hench #natalie zina walschots #bookedits #I love this book so much #I need more #I hope there is a sequel #I would sell my soul

[apollonianism]

2022 Book List

This is everything I’ve read to date (April 2022) in order that I read them:

A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine - Book 2, fucking loved it. Both of Martine’s books are very dense, heaps of worldbuilding, everything I want in a sci-fi. Explores themes of cultural colonisation and identity. One of my all time favourite authors and books.

This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - A short epistolary novella between two opposing robots/AI in a time war and how they fall in love. A very easy read, enemies to lovers, excellent prose.

Empire of Light, Alex Harrow - Don’t get me started on how much I dislike this book. I forced myself to finish it which may have made me hate it even more. The characters, plot, and pacing are all plain bad.

Neophek Gloss, Essa Hansen - Reading this after Empire of Light may have made me enjoy it more, but a good solid sci-fi. According to notes after I finished it: In-depth worldbuilding, excellent characterisation, plotted well. Predictable, but very solid storyline. May or may not read book 2.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers - A beautiful cosy read in which nothing much happens (as per all Chambers books). A non-binary monastic searching for the meaning of life in a post-utopia world.

Activation Degradation, Marina J Lostetter - This book killed me, I fucking keysmashed in my notes while reading. Notes at time of reading: So this book is compared to Murderbots. This is not correct. Yes, the main character is a robot. They should not be compared. They are different stories. I love both of them. Ahem. I LOVED THIS BOOK. The characters were all really well-developed. FOUND FAMILY. There were so many good twists. This is everything I want in a scifi book. The only negative is that it is a standalone and I desire MORE.

Autonomous, Annalee Newitz - This story is so very good. As can be inferred from the title, it’s all about free will - sentient robots are indentured to pay off their manufacture (which never really ends, yay capitalism!) and so humans can now be indentured too (all capitalism leads to slavery!). And also IP law overload! The issue with the idea of drug patents. The world-building was phenomenal, the characters were all great, both the drug pirate and the two cops were morally grey. A brilliant standalone book, but I'd also love more just to see more of the world

The First Sister, Linden A Lewis - I didn’t really enjoy this book as I was reading, I had trouble connecting with the characters. The writing was on point, but I just didn't really care about them. Possibly because both POV characters lacked agency and were just trying to survive circumstances. It's only after the twists at the end that I decided the book was OK. Not going to continue the series.

Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells - All of these books are fucking A. Everybody loves murderbot. These are really easy to devour and enjoy reading while also exploring some pretty heavy trauma.

Hench, Natalie Zina Walschotts - Ok, so I love villains. I am on team villain, I am this book's target audience. Hench lady (Anna Tromedlov, who works with spreadsheets, has very  little involvement in villainy) is catastrophically injured by a hero and decides to get vengeance by tallying up all the injuries and damage heroes cause. The characters are this book's strong point, my only downside is that I didn’t feel that the character went through any growth or arc in this book. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a sequel.

The Girl with All the Gifts, MR Carey - I am not usually a horror fan, but this book blew me away. It explored some great themes and the perspectives were great. Highly recommended.

A closed and common orbit, Beck Chambers - I will read everything Chambers writes. Nothing much happens, just a slow character exploration. Robots/AI are my bread and butter. This was better than A long way to a small angry planet.

Ancillary Justice/Mercy/Sword, Ann Leckie - These are my favourite books, this is my favourite author. This was a re-read, so I don’t have any notes on my experiences as I read these books, but they are my all time favourites. I love the world-building, the POV character, the ethical questions and themes.

#books #book list

[seventhstar]

reading update 11/23/2021:

Current TBR:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Councillor by E. J. Beaton

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

The Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

Heaven Official’s Blessing Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert:

4/5. Overall I really enjoyed it! It's a very sweet romance, with interesting characters who have great chemistry and a fun dynamic. My only complaint, I think, is that the third act conflict feels pretty shoe-horned in--either there needed to be a better developed conflict that showed up earlier on or it needed to be cut entirely. But it shows up so late in the story and gets resolved so sweetly that I don't think it's at all a reason not to pick this up. Personally, I like this less than the Dani Brown book, so I'm curious to see how I'll feel about Eve's book (which I have on my nightstand right now!)

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

5/5. I tore through this entire book today, in one sitting, over the course of like three hours, to give you an idea of how engrossed I was. I kept thinking I'd come to a stopping point and then getting sucked in again.

It's a fascinating, fast-paced book with another terrifyingly ambitious protagonist. Anna Tromedlov is a temp, working for a supervillain doing data entry. Then a superhero breaks her femur and she devotes her life to destroying him and his kind for the all the damage they do to the world. It's a bleak premise and kind of a bleak book, but it's lifted by the fact that it's populated with nuanced characters who still have complex and rewarding relationships with each other. It reminded me of Vicious by V.E. Schwab.

I would devour a sequel.

+++

Next up will be The Bone Shard Emperor. I want everyone to know this book has been on bookstore shelves since 11/13, a full ten days before it was supposed to come out, and I had to resist the urge to buy a hardcover copy. But finally, 11/23 has come and my preordered ebook copy has arrived.

After that, I will probably read the third Brown Sisters book, since I have it with me and it's not too long. My TBR is getting shorter, but I won't make the mistake of adding to it just yet...

#i might take the last two weeks of the year as rereading time #so i can do my annual holiday rereads of good omens and hogfather #and maybe the wallflowers books as well #i also want to do a harrow the ninth reread but may hold off until we get closer to nona the ninth #jellyfish reads

[ythmir-writes]

HENCH by Natalie Zina Walschots

Quote:

“I’ll start packing.” I began to turn, but then passed. “I’m not expected to be nice to them, right?”

A smile reached his strange eyes. “I expect you to be vicious.”

I don’t think I’ve quite read a book like Hench and it is One of the Best Things to Happen to Me. The closest I can think of to compare it to, is VE Schwab’s Vicious, where ordinary people explore and then are pushed into circumstances involving Supers (and become super themselves) and, yes of course Despicable Me – and I know it’s a movie but where Vengeful and Despicable Me and Hench have all in common is that the story is told in the eyes of the Villain.

Nothing is quite as delicious as that.

if it isn't already obvious, I absolutely adore Villains – have been in love with them ever since I was young, before the world was put into boxes of This is The Social Thing To Do and This Is Not. Villains were the ones that Get to Do the Thing they wanted, when they wanted, and how they wanted – and nothing else is quite comparable to get my attention as a villain taking cake and eating it too.

And Hench does that and I am thrilled. Not outright of course, no. Our MC, Anna Tromedlov, starts literally as the book’s namesake, a Hench, a minion, someone in the cogs who does the busy work while the bad guys do the Glorious Evil Things. She's waiting for works from a temp agency that outsources jobs from the supervillains because hey, villains have ordinary citizen things they need to do too and could you really be picky in this economy? In the course of doing the little minion jobs to get by, Anna is thrown into quite a serious pickle and gets into a crippling accident that not only leaves her unemployed, it gives her a lifelong grudge against Heroes to get the story rolling.

And boy does it snowball into such a compelling read. I finished this in 2 sittings because I was mentally incapable of processing anything else.

Due to her Grudge from the “necessary” accident to save the day, Anna gets hired by the Biggest Bad – the monster that lurks, the villain that plots and schemes and works behind the scenes and shapes the real diabolical evils. She rises from the ranks, gets her own little department - explains things to her coworkers using powerpoints and spreadsheets (ha!), and is lucky (?) enough to get on the Biggest Hero’s radar as an Actual Potential Threat.

What is another good thing about this book, is that this "villain origin story" (because I saw a post somewhere this is going to have a book 2 sometime in the future but don’t let that stop you from reading this because this ends in a kind of ending) is, I personally think, really reflective of that concept. How can an ordinary person, someone just trying to do 8-5, even if its for the bad people, become one themselves? What pushes them to go to actively work for this Other Side? What is it about a glorified hero society that makes it so vulnerable to crumble? What justifications can one willingly convince themselves into believing that The End Shall Always Justify The Means. And as we follow the narrative through Anna’s eyes, morality is explored, and the book appears to give you A Clear-Cut Answer – but you have to think, does it really?

My only frustration is that the ending, while yes it is an actual ending, leaves Some Things open for a second (or third or fourth) book and while I will never say no to sequels on favorites, I just wanted Anna to find some kind of asdada and just sdldfakd (NO SPOILERS i know)

Like I said, I finished this novel in two bites. I have no regrets dislocating several joints just not to get out of the chair to continue reading – and I still have so many things bouncing in my head about it even after a month. This is definitely in the Top 5 for my 2021.

If you want something a little different (because the style is easy to read but the voice is fresh, at least for me it is), that continues the trend of narratives around the heroes-villains-coexisting-in-a-world-with-ordinary-people-POV, and a main character obnoxiously, tenaciously, driven by anger, spite, and a need for vengeance, then pick this up.

#Hench #i have so many many many feels for this book #so many thoughts #i reread several parts again and again because i just could not contain the feels i felt #book rambles #2021 reads

[rhetoricandlogic]

The Freelance Life, but With Superheroes

HENCH By Natalie Zina Walschots

By Erin Somers, Sept. 22, 2020

Anna Tromedlov is a freelancer employed through a temp agency. She does mostly data entry, lives on the margins, shows up for interviews in ill-fitting clothes. No benefits, of course. No insurance. She doesn’t have enough money for groceries and struggles to “ward off scurvy.” Millennials, man.

The catch is that Anna is a villain’s henchman, or a “hench,” one of the countless factotums, gofers, grunts, peons, warm bodies that villains use to do their evil bidding. In Natalie Zina Walschots’s witty and inventive first novel, these workers are treated as expendable, often melted or bisected in crossfire, ground under the boots of superheroes in the name of law and order.

The most powerful of these is Supercollider, a sentient battering ram of blond hair and wide shoulders. While henching for a middling villain called Electric Eel, Anna has a run-in with Supercollider and ends up with a shattered femur. Laid up on a friend’s couch for months, she starts researching the total amount of collateral damage Supercollider has caused others, publishing her findings online. “I realized there was a whole system devised to describe such forces, and what they cost,” Anna thinks. “The currency was years of human life.”

Walschots is penetrating on this currency: “Supercollider had decided that a kid’s little finger and the Eel’s ransom demand held more value than 152 years in hench lives.” Good or bad, those years have been taken from them by a tyrant dressed “in a cape playing judge and executioner.”

Anna’s research attracts the attention of the world’s worst supervillain, an insectoid named Leviathan, “the monster lurking beneath the surface of the world” who recruits her to come work at his sprawling compound. He has phosphorescent armor, a pet iguana with its own staff, and a mouth appendage that bends around a coffee mug “as delicately as the mandibles of a crab.”

Like working for a tech giant with the mandate to Be more evil, a job at Leviathan Corp. comes with perks. His employees live comfortably on campus. There are benefits and opportunities for advancement, free chai in the break room. It’s utopian, creating the expectation of Anna’s eventual disillusionment, of rot at the foundation. But none comes. It’s simply a fine place to work and Leviathan himself is fair and generous, if demanding.

The armor conceals deep hurt, it turns out. Leviathan is a sensitive guy with an old grudge toward Supercollider, and wants Anna and her data to help take him down. The novel works well as a piece of office satire but loses its way in the last third as it refocuses on the undoing of Supercollider. Dragged down by long action sequences, and without a glimpse of the outer world — no panorama of civilian desperation, no Gotham on the verge — it becomes less a subversive take on power and more a straightforward comic book story.

Still, the pleasure of the novel is the slow rollout of the rules. Creating a universe involves inventing lots of little problems, and the solutions here don’t disappoint. What happens to elderly superheroes, for instance, when they are no longer in control of their powers? They’re sequestered in retirement facilities with lead walls. How do superheroes emerge in the first place? Everyone is screened in adolescence as a matter of course.

The ending suggests that a potential solution, at least for Anna, might be a solid job, a nice bright workstation, a handful of likable colleagues and ambition fulfilled. Allegiance is required, Walschots seems to say, to either corporate tech lords or the police state. Bleakly, maybe realistically, the novel does not leave room for a third option: that the only worthy master is no master, and that our unlucky years can, in fact, be our own.

#Natalie Zina Walschots #Hench #mahreviews #long post

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2 Matchups

Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax) vs Heart (Moonlight Chicken)

Nathaniel Thorn (Sorcery of Thorns) vs Wei Wuxain (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi)

Fu Shen (Golden Terrace / Huang Jin Tai) vs Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)

Ben Scott (Yellowjackets) vs Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)

Riku (Kingdom Hearts) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)

James ‘Bucky’ Barnes (Marvel) vs Eichi Tenshouin (Ensemble Stars!!)

Anna Tromedlov (Hench) vs Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Shallan Davar (The Stormlight Archive) vs Hiccup Haddock (How To Train Your Dragon)

Scavenger (Arknights) vs Norma Kahn (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

Arthur Lester (Malevolent) vs Li Shimin (Iron Widow)

Amara (Otherbound) vs Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Korra (Avatar: The Legend of Korra) vs Will Kenrith (Magic: The Gathering)

Song Lan (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)

Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona) vs Lenore Vandernacht (Nevermore)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Wayne Terrisborn (Mistborn) vs Amaya (The Dragon Prince)

Check out the other waves here.

#lgbtq disabled characters showdown #lgbtq dcs round 1 #lgbtq dcs wave 2

[marziesreads]

Review: Hench

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots My rating: 5 of 5 stars Although not usually a genre I seek out, on the recommendation of author Seanan McGuire and my blogging buddy Alex of Alex Can Read, I requested the ARC of Hench and was delighted with it. Walschots has developed an interesting world in which the line between superhero and villain is blurred into many shades of gray. Where superheroes can leave a trail of collateral damage and villains can turn out to be heroes because of their loyalty and surprising kindness.Anna Tromedlov (read "Trauma'ed-love") aka Palindrome is working for a temp agency that is keeping her financially afloat. She gets what she thinks is a dream placement that might become permanent working for a villain named the Electric Eel. Things seem to be going along swimmingly until the Eel kidnaps the mayor's son for ransom and puts Anna right in the middle of the crime scene without her prior knowledge or consent. In the ensuing rescue, she's badly injured by the superhero Supercollider who pulls off the rescue. She isn't charged but will take months to heal and is promptly laid off by the temp agency with little more than a fruit basket for severance. It leaves Anna with a lot of questions. Are superheroes actually good for society? Like any good data jockey with time on her hands, Anna starts researching, and out of her research comes some startling revelations and a new job working for Leviathan, a villain with a fearsome reputation. Life is full of surprises, as are villains and superheroes.I loved the character development and shades of morality explored in this book. Although it sort of strays into a grimdark view of the world, it's also full of wry humor and genuine connection between some of the characters. All in all, it's a diverting read, and the audiobook, narrated by Alex McKenna was an enjoyable listen.I received a paper review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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#hench

[gooberlad]

I had a dream about Hench last night and that’s when I knew I had a problem (I lied, I’ve known for a while). It was just a section of another, longer dream, but it was like when 2 dreams mix together, we’re you can’t tell if they’re the same or separate. It was also just Greg and Anna (I ❤️ both of them) but it alluded to Leviathan, I think??? I was very confused.

Anyway, I’m not actually sure how old my brain thought they were bc Greg played basketball, and this was a key plot point in the dream, he got beat up at one point bc the Refs we bribed by the other team, and he got a free T-Shirt as an apology (Another bribe to not tell the Ref hierarchy, and he didn’t and got his free shirt, but in my opinion that’s a very Greg fashion)

And there was more ofc, but it was in early-dream stage so it’s hard to remember. But another basic plot point was this underground cult/cult aligned organization that made them solve riddles to get information for a murder they were investigating. That’s where I think leviathan was, I don’t remember what he looked like but I think he was the head of the maybe-cult and was the one writing the notes.

I kept waking up in the middle of the night, partially because of my cat, but I woke up completely at 3 am and I’m writing this at 5 in the morning 👍 10/10 dream, but I hope I get better sleep next time

#natalie zina walschots #hench #anna tromedlov #leviathan #dreams #weird dreams

[gooberlad]

Leviathan! He still has the Santa hat, but one day I will have the skill, or the courage to give him a head. Unfortunately the season will run out so I better get that on. The only big difference are his eyes and his mouth. The mandibles are covering his should mouth instead of underneath but I think I like it better this way. And he has irises instead on just voids for eyes.

#natalie zina walschots #hench #anna tromedlov #art #digital art #leviathan

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ Disabled Characters in the Showdown Currently

Notes:

1.) This list is subject to change; before we start the showdown there will be another post with all confirmed characters. Characters are under the cut.

2.) If you see a character on here and you want to submit propaganda for them the form will still be open.

3.) If you think of a character that is not on the list you can still submit them in our form found here. If you submitted a character and they are not on the list, it might be an error on our part, but first check here to see what characters we rejected and why. More about submissions here.

4.) Submissions after this post will be open at least until August 10, but this could be extended. The only way this could be shortened is if we get 192 or more characters, but that seems unlikely. There will be around 12 hours notice before submission close.

5.) The categories are just a way to sort out characters in a more efficient way, they have no factor on matchups for the showdown.

6.) If you think a character doesn’t qualify, you can ask us and we can show you the explanation we have for that character and why they count. That being said, some of the character’s qualifications are up to personal opinion.

7.) If there is a character you think is problematic on here you can shoot us an ask, but just know that it’s not a competition of who is the best representation.

Superheroes

Sun Spider/Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Webber from various Spider-Man media

Larry Trainor from Doom Patrol

Crazy Jane/Kay Challis from Doom Patrol

Bucky Barnes from Marvel

Jericho/Joseph Wilson from DC

Star Wars/Trek

Julian Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Luke Skywalker from Star Wars

Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Spock from Star Trek

Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager

T’Pol from Star Trek Enterprise

Keyla Detmer from Star Trek Discovery

Chirrut Îmwe from Rogue One

Darth Maul from Star Wars

Animes

Yang Xiao Long from RWBY

Kurogane from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Tougou/Togo/Tōgō Mimori from Yuuki Yunna is a Hero

Suletta Mercury from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Johnny Joestar from Steel Ball Run (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Hitori Gotoh from Bocchi the Rock!

Yuko ‘Isako’ Amasawa from Dennou Coil

Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace from Healin’ Good Precure

Crona from Soul Eater

Non-English Media

Rose Lavillant from Miraculous Ladybug

Heart from Moonlight Chicken

Leonardo from The Way He Looks

Xiao Xingchen from The Untamed

Wen Kexing from Faraway Wanderers

Zhou Zishu from Word of Honor

Qifrey from Witch Hat Atelier

Zhou Zishu from Faraway Wanderers

Even from SKAM

Wei Wuxian from The Untamed

Chu Sangwoo from Semantic Error

Wen Kexing from Word of Honor

Hua Cheng from Heaven Official’s Blessing

Eliott Demaury from SKAM France

Animated/TV Shows

General Amaya from The Dragon Prince

Ballister Boldheart from Nimona (just movie so far, no book submissions yet)

Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House

Luz Noceda from The Owl House

Quinni Gallagher-Jones from Heartbreak High

Korra from Avatar: The Legend of Korra

Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe

Norma Kahn from Dead End: Paranormal Park

Ian Gallagher from Shameless

Entrapta from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Viktor from Arcane

Runaan from The Dragon Prince

Hiccup Haddock from How To Train Your Dragon

Robin Buckley from Stranger Things

Shiro from Voltron: Legendary Defender

Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Alex Manes from Roswell, New Mexico

Hunter from The Owl House

Felix from Hearthstopper

Coach Ben Scott from Yellowjackets

Books

Wylan Van Eck from Six of Crows

Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows

Renarin Kholin from The Stormlight Archive

Asta Headstrom from The Reckless Kind

Alex Claremont-Diaz from Red, White & Royal Blue

Zofia Boguska from The Gilded Wolves

Tiberius ‘Ty’ Blackthorn from The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Anna Tromedlov from Hench by Natalie Zina

Havelock Vetinari from Discworld

Harrowhawk Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb Series

Ling Chan from The Diviners Series

Shallan Davar from The Stormlight Archive

Niclays Roos from Priory of the Orange Tree (Roots of Chaos)

Wayne Terrisborn from Mistborn

Wu Zetian from Iron Widow

Spira from Tess of the Road

Artemisia of Naimes from Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Nathaniel Thorn from Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Tunuva Melim from A Day of Fallen Night (Roots of Chaos)

Sabran IX Berethnet from Piory of the Orange Tree

Simon Snow from Carry On

Neil Josten from All for The Game

Baru Cormorant from The Masquerade Series

Percy Newton from The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Henry ‘Monty’ Montague from The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Adam Parrish from The Raven Cycle

Queen Shulamit from The Second Mango by Shiro Glassman

Amara from Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Ianthe Tridentarius from The Locked Tomb Series

Mille Roper from The Arcadia Project Series

Nico di Angelo from Percy Jackson

Jem Carstairs from The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings

Jesper Fahey from Six of Crows

Val Palafox from Venom and Vow

Joly from Les Misérables

Baz Pitch from Carry On

Hearthstone from Magnus Chase

Jack Zimmerman from Check Please!

Video Games

Floofty Fizzlebean from Bugsnax

Snorpy Fizzlebean from Bugsnax

Olivia from Fear and Hunger 2: Termina

Saki Tenma from Project Sekai

Daan from Fear and Hunger

Scavenger from Arknights

Snake from Zero Escape

Patchouli Knowledge from Touhou Project

Riku from Kingdom Hearts

Link from Legend of Zelda

Kuruto Ryuki from AI: The Somnium Files- Nirvana Initiative

Ignis Scientia from Final Fantasy XV

Billie Lurk from Dishonored

Shane from Stardew Valley

Chicory from Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Gaige from The Borderlands Series

Eichi Tenshouin from Ensemble Stars!!

Patricia Tannis from The Borderlands Series

Other

Lenore Vandernacht from Nevermore on Webtoon

Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role

Kale Romarin from Leif & Thorn

Melanie King from The Magnus Archives

Loam Arnault from Entropic Float

Kanatsune Ame from Entropic Float

Tedd Verres from El Goonish Shive

Valerie Day from Paranatural

Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20

Jace Beleren from Magic: The Gathering

Will Kenrith from Magic: The Gathering

Arthur Lester from Malevolent

#lgbtq disabled characters showdown #disabled characters #lgbtq characters #polls #fandom polls #poll #disability