#he had nonbinary characters

[samstarium]

nb crowley icon fest! all art is from hg-aneh (3/?)

transparents under the cut

#i had to throw in a bunch of his looks. just too good #good omens #edits #icons #pride icons #transparents #crowley #nonbinary #good omens icons #ik theres probably some mistakes im just excited to make n post these #additionally sorry hes scowlin in so many but like. its crowley #maybe a little grab bag of minor characters after? see how much energy i have #pls remember to credit hg-aneh if u use the transparents! n u can credit me too if u want but not required

[pisshandkerchief]

why do you mean you have trouble discovering new music. back in my day we got our obscure music recs from the welcome to night vale weather and we fucking liked it

#welcome to night vale was the first place I ever heard songs with swearing and references to sex. it was literally life changing #especially for a queer kid like me #incidentally welcome to night vale was some of the first media I ever consumed #(aside from educational children's books) #that had out queer characters #Welcome to night vale is fucking magical. #The main character is a gay Jewish dude with aids who is just. Peak queer joy. #He loves his husband so much it literally drives the story sometimes. also he's probably nonbinary #This generation is missing out #welcome to night vale

[reel-fear]

Bendy And The Power Of Representation

So those graphic novel pages huh? Seems I posted my cover post at just the right time because literally minutes after I was informed the preview pages came out and uh. This is Buddy and Norman!

Oh dear... I'll put the full graphic novel pages down below but I have so much to say on how awful this is it'll need several posts. However, right now I want to mostly talk about representation and briefly touch on why it's so damn important + inform others about the current shit Mike and Meatly are saying about the books n such.

Now note: All the things I'm saying below are based on my personal experience, maybe some people don't care about seeing the representation of their identities in the media they consume. Maybe some will think I'm merely being dramatic and I might be but I'm not lying when I say I personally believe being represented and seen in the media you consume can be one of the most wonderful feelings in the world.

Look I'm not here to argue with people who think that Norman in particular was never meant to be a person of color, I would argue he is very coded but the points I'm making here are not about how Norman particularly had to be black. The point I want to make is the lack of diversity in our cast in general and how Norman's design has heavily dwindled it considering most people [including myself] rightfully assumed he was at least one of three black characters in our cast. Not according to this though and looking at the the rest of the pages our chances of seeing any kind of decent diverse character designs dwindle more.

So firstly... Buddy a character who has been said to experience discrimination for being Jewish, lacks any kind of ethnic features at all. That's... Cool but yeah I think this shows a rather grim future for the character designs as a whole.

Also, Norman... As I mentioned he was largely assumed to be black due to his southern dialect, his voice, and other factors. But nope, he's a generic white guy. With... Gross looking hair tbh...

Sadly this is not the first time the topic of poor representation has come up concerning Bendy either.

[note how he disregarded the other mentioned minorities and specifically cites LGBTQ+ characters]

This sucks as a response but sadly considering Mike's recent behavior it seems to fall in line with the Bendy team's general lack of care towards representing anyone who isn't straight and white.

So how did Mike respond to all of this? Well...

TDLR - "Who cares if the Graphic Novel we're selling to our fans for full price sucks, we now no longer consider the books canon."

This is horrible, I know Mike and Meatly are only really in this for the money, the fact BATIM is in the state that it is proved that, but they really couldn't have been less obvious about it?

So basically when it benefited them, AKA when it meant people would have to buy the books to understand important lore like Boris' identity... [the character you spend all of chapter 4 trying to rescue] They were considered canon... At least the author sure thought so.

Hell even in the tweet Meatly made here he doesn't say the books aren't canon, he just says they're not needed to understand Bendy's world. Now Mike is using that as a shield instead of doing the right thing and saying "You're right, the poc in our fanbase deserve better we'll have it fixed right away!" Like most reasonable people would considering how his studio has literally been accused of bigotry, poor rep, and general lack of diversity before. Why risk making more people avoid this franchise?

Also just... Imagine how insulting it would be to be an author who helps flesh out so much of this world and gives its characters depth like NONE of the games have managed to do, filling in plot holes, creating a timeline for events, etc... Then because they couldn't bother to change the graphic novel for ur story to be better they instead throw out all ur writing and declare it non-canon.

If I were her to put it bluntly I'd feel insulted and horrible. Why make her do all the work of making sure her works align with the timeline and game's canon if they're not part of it?

I can't speak for her obviously but Meatly and Mike know of her account, so speaking out against this could very much risk her being fired or at least not allowed to work on Bendy anymore... So I would take all her tweets on this situation with a grain of salt. She very much is not in a position where she could be honest if she was against this.

So with all that history now, the question I'm sure many are wondering is... Why does this even matter? Who cares how diverse the characters are when it doesn't affect the story?

Well for one thing, if you think like that consider having more empathy for your fellow human beings but also it does affect the story. One of DCTL's themes is about the bigotry of the period it is set in.

Now the Bendy team has managed to make the discussion of this book centering around their bigotry which is ironic in a way I almost find funny... Though this entire thing is just a bit too hurtful and upsetting to find any humor in, at least for me...

But another thing is representation can bring people such joy when it's done with care. It really shouldn't be understated how far it can go to make people feel more comfortable in their own sense of self to have a franchise choose to represent them and their experiences. I know this from personal experience.

Now if you've been following me for a while, you know I'm a big fan of Transformers. I no longer engage with it much due to baggage from the fandom's awful treatment of me, but before I left I remember being able to witness the release of Transformers: Earthspark first few episodes.

These introduced the Maltos the family who meets the Transformers and serve as our protagonists and guess what?

It's a family of Filipinos!

Now look I'm not Filipino, but I am half Mexican and I have a lot of love for that part of me. So seeing the representation of any Spanish culture in this franchise I loved made me so happy! I remember just watching the first episode I was happily telling my partner how fun it was to see people like me and my family in a world I love!!

But it didn't end with the Maltos in fact... There was another character who spoke to me, their name was Nightshade. Their pronouns are They/Them and they spoke about it on the show! Not just mentioning it and moving on but actually sitting down to speak about their experiences...

This clip in particular really turned them into an absolute favorite among fans and well... I'll let you see it for yourself.

This scene... Fills me with a joy I cannot describe. It is the creators of a franchise I love telling me they see people like me and find the stories of people like me important enough to include in this series. There really is nothing like being able to say there are Non-Binary characters in a franchise I have so much love for. I was far from the only one too.

This is amazing, this is wonderful, this clip and character were moving to so so many people and...

This is a joy the Bendy creators have no interest in giving their audience. They don't care how you feel as a queer and/or black person, which... Hurts...

I... Discovered I was trans while in the Bendy community... It was where I learned the word Non-Binary and started using it for myself. To me Bendy will always have that connection... But the devs themselves seem to hate the idea of being forced to actually represent that in their games... And I still haven't really gotten over that pain or betrayal if I'm being honest.

So...

With Norman now being portrayed as white here, we are down to two black characters. Thomas [who Meatly has claimed is white in the past] based on a vague conversation with Sammy in DCTL they could easily ignore... And Jacob.... A book exclusive character which according to Mike means he is non-canon.

If we don't count Thomas' vague talk with Sammy about disrespect as confirmation he's black [which the devs don't seem to think so] then we have one black character in all of Bendy... And he recently got retconned into non-existence. Great.

Look... The Bendy fanbase has always been full of wonderfully diverse designs for the staff and even more diverse people creating them. Bendy's fandom was built with the work of queer people from all kinds of places.

If the Bendy team continues to show how little they care for anyone who isn't straight or white... I wonder who they are counting on to buy this book or in general financially support their franchise?

I know right now, I am furious, I am hurt and I most certainly don't feel like buying a book that's currently just a massive fuck you to the fans and I hope I've expressed why I feel this way in an easy-to-understand way here...

Either way, I will not be forgetting this anytime soon and I hope the fanbase does the same. Maybe just maybe, if there's enough backlash to this series of horrible decisions they'll learn better.

Right now, it's kinda of our only hope for a better future, and if you know any poc who are into Bendy right now... Maybe consider making sure they're feeling okay.

I know from experience how much this sort of thing hurts, to have the creators of a world you love straight up tell you they don't intend to fix the fact no one in their stories represents your identity or life...

What I'm trying to say is...

This is a really low point for Bendy and its fans... Even more for the poc who have to witness such ignorant and careless attitudes from Mike and Meatly towards their feelings.

Please don't forget them when you discuss these tweets or this situation. That's exactly what Mike and Meatly want right now.

For them to be unrepresented and therefore... Unheard.

#batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #seriously though we cannot let this slide #ramblez #please please keep talking about this and why its not okay #Ive already had people saying to not be too mean or disrespectful to mike over this and to put bluntly #if mike is gonna be this blatently disrespectful to his fans he deserves whatever he fucking gets #this is such a horrible situation Im just glad I got the chance to speak positively in this essay #I mean not about bendy but I got to gush about how cool it is that transformers has a nonbinary character in it so that was fun #this is what Bendy could have and refuses to... Oh well more motive to make Showtime ig #but seriously what is the point of supporting these indie devs if theyre gonna be just as horrible abt this shit #as their corporate competitors #at several points bendy just feels like every other horror game out there but worse #its so so so frustrating

[chevvy-yates]

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#cyberpunk 2077 #nonbinary v #oc: hizumi chigasaki #male v #masc v #oc: ryder von scharfenberg #male v monday #original characters #cyberpunk oc #cyberpunk ocs #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #virtual photography #cyberpunk photomode #Ryder is not so amused bc of the weight he's got to carry #I had fun watching Ry's expressions #guess hizu is a lil heavier than they look haha

[recovering-vamp]

#cryptidart #trans #nonbinary #fat positive #fat character #M sibling michael #one of the npcs in the blade game #he’s not had much screen time but I think some is coming up and I’m excited because he’s fun #any pronouns

[hanzajesthanza]

Geralt: From now on, we will be using code names. You can address me as Eagle One. Yennefer, code name: “Been There, Done That.” Fringilla is “Currently Doing That.” Regis is “It Happened Once in a Dream”; Dandelion, code name: “If I Had To Pick a Dude.” Milva is... Eagle Two.

Milva: Oh, thank the gods.

#edit i changed it from triss and yennefer to yennefer and fringilla for more book accuracy #it pained me to do so but i imagine him speaking to the breakfast table in beauclair here #yennefer isnt present so she cant hear him say this and also his heart broke when he said it #i just wanted to make this post so i could say that for regis and geralt it happens in dreams. anyways #incorrect witcher quotes #also this is unrealistic because geralt would not remember or hang out with triss #much less mention their thing in front of yennefer #this is a difficult post to make when like a third of the most important characters are children or young adults #i could have said shani or coral but shani was once and coral is dead #i like how regis is named before dandelion and yet dandelion is ‘if i had to pick a dude’ like regis does not count as a dude #nonbinary flag fades in behind me from thin air 🥲 #gerlion #geregis #not tagging as the others because multishipping is less common there #the witcher books

[sevendutchies]

People in this fandom will really look at The Fool, Patience, Lacey, Carson, Sedric, Hest, Davvie, Lecter, Kennit, Ash/Spark, and yes, even Fitz himself, and still have the gall to call it queer bait.

These characters are explicitly queer, their actions impact the narrative, they are well written, and their identities are treated with respect. That is the best possible queer representation you could ask for in any story.

I've seen people on tumblr basing the likelihood of if they read this series on whether or not it's "actually gay" and I'm here to tell you that it is. There are queer characters. There are queer protagonists. And no matter what you see people in the fandom say, Robin Hobb wrote some amazing queer representation in a genre that rarely sees it at all.

EDIT: and I think it's pertinent to note that, no, characters who are questioning or struggling with their feelings about sexuality instead of knowing 100% does not make something queer bait or "less gay"

TLDR;

Queer bait = disrespectful marketing ploy that exploits queer audiences

Queer bait ≠ "my two favorite characters never have sex"

#Fitzchivalry ''i wondered if I lied so that I need not be ashamed of myself'' farseer thank you everyone #quite frankly the disrespect to Robin Hobb in this fandom is in EXTREMELY poor taste #the interview from 2008 before half the series was written where she explains why Fitz would not suddenly be head over heels for a person h #perceives as a man because all of his life he has only had heterosexual experiences apparently means that no queer characters exist #whatsoever in the whole series and Robin Hobb is an irredeemable backwards old lady who can't get with the times. right. #Fitzchivalry ''what were we? Beloved'' farseer #this is actually not supposed to be a debate over whether Fitz is canonically queer or not. he is. ope. #also...I do read Kennit as queer. just cause he is traumatized and his queerness comes out in predatory ways doesn't mean he's not queer. #that's called writing a compelling villain baybee #Hest!?!? thank you Robin Hobb for the evil gays god bless <3 #modern reader: the author didn't describe these characters dicks touching in detail therefore she is homophobic #rote #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #I really had to get this out of my system guys. thanks <3 #as if Robin Hobb didn't give us the FOOL. nonbinary/gender fluid character OF ALL TIME.

[zukkaoru]

if you want a fic written right, you have to write it yourself i guess

#the nonbinary ch.uuya tag was a major letdown #do you all realize that he was not bella swan depressed after d.azai left?????? #i'm sure he was upset but he was also pissed off and i can guarantee he didn't spend the next six months in mourning #if he had he wouldn't be one of the five mafia executives #for such a popular character you'd think i would have been able to find one (1) good fic in the tag #alas. i suppose it's my duty to write the fics i want to see in the world #hello grace here

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

this just in: uplifting people just by virtue of their assigned gender at birth in the name of feminism found to be transphobic so now we're just gonna shit on those who CHOOSE to be male presenting bc it's a CHOICE right so we can tell them they're inherently inferior right guys??!!

bioessentialism found to be transphobic so we're jumping straight into gender essentialism which is totally cool as long as it's pretending to be feminism!!!!

#IM SORRY im sorry #i genuinely really enjoyed the trans rep in the first half 9/10 #then they just HAD to tue rose being trans into the plot and then do some weird steven moffat ass feminism thing #no he would not have got it if he was still a woman!! #he's the same fucking person she's standing right in front of youuu i want to scream #doctor who spoilers #rtd trued and i massively appreciate him trying and not shying away from rose's identity #but he overshot like massively #and ngl it was really bloody hurtful #mine #sorry this is probably too much im not mad they're uplifting women and very definitively including trans women in that #but they can do it without shitting on other people #negativity #vent tw #doctor who #also is rose meant to be a trans woman or nonbinary transfem? #i mean she can totally be both go girl but there seemed kinda mixed messaging #a lot of girl and woman and then at the end randomly throwing in nonbinary and neither #but again she can totally be both just seemed a bold choice for first trans character to not definitely be one or the other #but go off rose #hnngh im sorry but this just feels like the david not wesring jodies costume thing x1000 #one slap in the face after another

[affinitystoryblog]

Daren in early 2000s fashion

the hair is more modern rather than early 2000s, but hes definitely serving those baggy pants/crop top combo.

#original character #oc #y2k aesthetic #y2k fashion #2000s fashion #nonbinary #he/they #masc enby #black enby #magical boy #artists on tumblr #small artist #my art #daren michael luke #asks #requests #this looks so awkward cause i had the pose in mind but not the background so it looks #weird lol #but idc i guess

[transingthoseformers]

SG Earthspark: Maybe after Shockwave is met, after people have calmed down and introduced themselves, there's a small conversation about pronouns at some point? Because Shockwave is nonbinary (like Nightshade) but uses he/him, and i've noticed that even in writing forums' LGBTQA+ threads*, people seem to be really confused by the idea of off-the-binary people using the "gendered" pronouns he/him and she/her.

Maybe after Nightshade tells their pronouns, Shockwave says he's NB too, Nightshade asks about his use of he/him because they're a young child and they don't know everything, and Shockwave explains that pronouns aren't inherently gendered or something like that?

(I'm propably allowed to write this because i'm somewhere off the binary myself)

(*I've talked about my TFP humanformers/species swap fic on writing forums, without mentioning that it's actually a fanfic and about Tranfsformers because that'd just confuse things, and people questioned Shokufeh/Shockwave being an enby but using he/him)

No you're totally right that's a discussion that would be super fascinating (nightshade and Shockwave discussing their different experiences with being nonbinary) and yeah that's a serious thing (people having a specific image of what a nonbinary person is and being confused by nonbinary people who use he/him or she/her)

This feeds into my love of transformers and gender being not as binary with them as it seems, or even trinary as that's a rhythm i see people fall into of treating nonbinary as some solidified third gender rather than an umbrella term

#maccadam #transformers #gender #tfe nightshade #tfe shockwave #iicr we had a minor character who says their pronouns as she/they #and Sam (one of the GHOST workers) also goes by they/them #so nightshade isn't the only one off the binary here #and i admit he/him nonbinary Shockwave makes sense to me #basically yes #but also yes #i may have immediately looked for All The Terms Ever Ever when i first joined the community #gender is an amazing and diverse thing imo #sg earthspark

[mothbeasts]

unpopular ieytd headcanons? /nm

seeing as I've dedicated myself to being the world's biggest fabricator enjoyer (joke). i think it will be obvious who i'll take the opportunity to talk about :] with some other headcanons thrown in also.

I think a lot of my Fabricator headcanons count as "unpopular" if only because not many people talk about her in general. The first thing that came to mind for me is that I personally headcanon her as trans for no reason other than I'm trans and my favorite characters get hit with my beam attacks. I also think she's not really mean once you get to know her - She's much more relaxed around friends, it's just that she has. One friend total, maybe two if we're being generous with the definition of friend. And I just generally see her as a different kind of "mean" than other people seem to, if that makes sense? She has fun with it, yeah, but she has reasons and such. even if those reasons can be petty. I don't know if she enjoys drama for drama's sake, she's got a reputation to uphold and all. She uses more subtle verbal attacks, sarcasm and such.

Another unpopular headcanon, but for Agent Phoenix this time: My Phoenix is a lesbian. Got them with my beam attack also. I also tend to see them as less... Chaotic? They're cautious, taking their time to figure out the situation. They do still put things in their mouth though. That's important to me.

#ieytd #surprising lack of trans hcs to me.. where is the gender in here (<- trans) #i mean. beyond phoenix + zor being nonbinary fairly often that is. which i like.. yaay nonbinary people ^ ^ #on the topic of phoenix. sorry phoenix/juniper fans i know you're the main fandom ship but i have other favorites.. #i only see it with other agent phoenixes really. mine does NOT like men like that #is it fine if i say juniper feels a bit overrated to me.. nothing against him really i just see him Everywhere and he's not. like. #one of my favorite characters or anything. of the three main antagonists we've had other than zor. he's like. my least favorite #and that isn't me saying i hate him!!!! i think he can be interesting!! i just find solaris and prism More interesting y'know #i'm glad i'm not the only one making ieytd f/f content anymore also.. i feel like for a while it was Only phoenix/juniper #which i guess means fabricator/solaris is another unpopular headcanon? more popular than it used to be though #it's still me and like two other people making content for that one... but at least the two other people are there #hi savvy hi gene waving at you

[lobotomizedlady]

my angel my love my baby baby baby boy I will never let these tasteless necrotic tissue for brains "fans" ruin you for me & I will never let togashi kill you off 💔

#shipping him with chrollo . making him nonbinary. comparing him to s*suke. general lack of understanding of who he is. ENDLESS CRIMES #IVE HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS FOR TEN YEARS NO ONE SUFFERS MORE THAN ME #kurapika is the most disrespected character of all time by everyone including his creator #LX3 op

[leafiion]

geara I have feelings for you. most of them are incomprehensible though

#Been thinking about him while I write. Most nonbinary transgender cis gay homophobic emo twink man ever made #‘geara no you can’t reclaim that’ ‘YES I CAN’ type shit #I think he can cook. idk why but it came to me in a vision. it’s actually pretty good but he point blank refuses to do it for anyone else #but he WILL get pissy if you imply he can’t. he’ll get so mad. you think he can’t do this menial yet important task? fuck you -> #he’s going to make The best food ever n you get to have NONE of it you can just sit there and be sad and pathetic. #anyway I hate geara (has been thinking abt him 4 ever) #I hope you enjoy ponytail geara. bc I’m quite frankly obsessed. always in the mood to give characters I like longer hair and ponytails #I’d give him glasses too if I think he’d wear them but fuck no he would not. he’d suffer through being BLIND just to not look like a nerd #if he had to choose between dying on the spot and looking stupid he’d pull the trigger #I hate him. if m2 kills him I’ll be sooo sad

[recovering-vamp]

#fat character #fat positive #trans #nonbinary #fat fashion #cryptidart #khidr #he’s just chilling #in his mellow era #has had enough trying to meet other people’s expectations #respect to her actually

[woolydemon]

i am so apathetic to popular male transformers characters, but i have a simple trick to make me care abt them: i turn them into robot women then i suddenly start seeing their appeal

#grimlock would be so awesome as a butch woman. DO YOU HEAR ME DOES ANYBODY HEAR ME HELLOOOO #also crazy in depth conversation i had abt this made me think abt why i get rlly. apathetic abt popular tf characters #esp when i realize all the popular characters im Whatever abt are all men #but i always have interest in the female ones and also the niche little weird guys #you are looking at rare scrounge fan. rare wheelie fan. and Number 1 Fan of Blurr* #*when hes a dorky weird anxious guy. yknow the ones ppl dont care abt bc hes “annoying” and “ugly” #i dont give as much of a shit abt the handsome cocky racer blurrs #i realize. because tf fandom has a weird thing abt only caring abt how attractive a character is #and tends to gravitate to male characters for that aspect #like lets be real here. there is such a high priority in this fandom for what characters look best in porn. im right. #and ppl love the yaoi robots for that. #and i. am on the aroace spectrum. and do not find as much attraction in men (though i do sometimes. just less so) #so this doesnt appeal to me #so i find myself so incredibly apathetic or a hater to a lot of the tf fandom bc of this #in turn i do not care so much for the popular characters or straight up see them as red flags (admittedly im a bit irrational for this tho) #a lot of times i get a feeling like “ok whats so special abt this guy. its just another conventionally attractive man" it feels boring to m #so that might explain why i become more interested in these characters if they arent men #this is all being said from a nonbinary person that leans more transmasc btw. just noting that. #rando thoughtz