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Initial Basic Thoughts on Baldur's Gate 3

2023-08-12T22:21:07Z

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I only just started but thus far I am having a great time, the non binary inclusion is reasonably good for this sort of AAA roleplaying game and I'm enjoying the weird, darkly humourous dark-fantasy-horror and old school D&D inspired RPG vibe, it reminds me of playing Dragon: Age Origins, Planescape: Torment, and Neverwinter Nights mods back in the day, but as a modern game (albeit with all the graphics settings at lowest quality so my computer doesn't fall over). I continue to not be very good at this sort of combat, but that's what story mode is for! (It's presumably even more like other Larian games like Baldur's Gate 2 or Divinity Original Sin but I never really played those EDIT: ha, Baldur's Gate 2 was made by Bioware, guess that explains the Bioware Vibe!)

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Looking for stories whose main characters hit my 'genderfluid' button

2022-12-22T01:11:30Z

I have recently found myself bouncing off of stories about characters who have a single, set gender. Which is unfortunate, since that covers 99.99% of stories, even the few about non-binary characters.

So! Rec me stories with at least one mainish character whose gender is blurry or shifting, especially if they actively enjoy presenting in multiple ways and describing themselves as different genders. General queerness and deliberate trans inclusion is a plus, but the character themself doesn't have to be being written as non-binary on purpose. I specifically like stories where gender roles are in general treated as things people can take on and personify temporarily at will, regardless of their underlying gender, especially when the edges of those roles shift and blur.

It's fine if you're not 100% sure if your rec is quite what I want. I'm still figuring out what I want, so more recs are always good, even if only to help me figure out what I don't want.

Content note: I talk about certain real gender identities "not working for me" which might feel jarring if it's your actual real life identity. I just mean in the context of fictional characters who hit this one specific gender button for me. Even other genderfluid people may feel differently!
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Reviews January 2022

2022-01-22T13:05:49Z

Games:
Lost in Secular Love
One Shot

Manga:
Love Me For Who I Am

Live Action Movie:
Jungle Cruise

Animated TV:
Arcane
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Reviews September 2021

2021-09-10T01:00:46Z

Live action TV: We Are Ladyparts, Ted Lasso

TV Cartoons: Owl House season 2, Amphibia, Master of the Universe

Games: The World of Art, Spiritfarer

Books: The Raven Tower

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Some of my favourite works by trans and non binary people

2021-04-01T01:43:50Z

They asked over at transmediaclub and I thought I'd repost my comment here. It's still Trans Day of Visibility in some parts of the world!
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Non-Binary Gender Census 2021

2021-02-27T08:53:19Z

Gender Census 2021, open to all people who aren't 100% a man or woman until March 10ish.

Apparently they're especially interested in hearing from people over 30.

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Samurai Love Ballad Party: Kaede/Sogo, first half of Chapter 1

2020-11-17T12:28:16Z

Masterlist and guide

And now, AT LAST...it is time for the canonically bigender Kaede/Sogo!!! Who I have heard is rather patchily written but I just can't not. (Here's a spoilery summary waterscroll kindly made for me)

Teeny tiny post today just to celebrate ACTUALLY GETTING TO PLAY THIS ROUTE. I have tried three computers with three different operating systems, two different emulators, and two phones to even get the damn game running again, and then spent like a month replaying Saizo's path to be able to unlock this one. Which on the plus side meant I got to hear Saizo and Yukimura's voices a bunch which will help with my fic (my old emulator didn't do the voices).

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THOSE DUMBASS CIS BOYS. IT'S TIME FOR KAEDE/SOGO.
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Samurai Love Ballad: Party: Kaede/Sogo

2020-02-20T07:44:51Z

Masterlist and guide

I've now seen most of the existing content in English for the bigender-ish love interest Kaede/Sogo: Evanescent Moonlight, The Pale Moon's Embrace, and Kaede/Sogo's Birthday 2020

I have complicated feelings: Afaict, based on my shaky grasp of Japanese gender tropes, the writers are deliberately writing the character as non binary (or at least readable that way) and trying to be sensitive about it. But I'm a bit iffy on the specifics.

But even a flawed cute non-binary ninja LI is still fun. Also they're apparently getting a route in the Japanese version in June!!
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Stars Align/Hoshiai no Sora

2019-11-30T11:59:52Z

This season's queer anime that everyone's talking about!

Turns out it's:
50% Sports Anime (about soft tennis, which I didn't even know was a thing)
40% Cute Boys Being Friends
10% ANGST and serious social issues, including an explicitly non binary character

I have been quite enjoying it! But a big content note for parental abuse as a repeated theme, I think it's handled fairly well but it gets a lot darker than you might expect from the light tone of the rest of the show.

Also, it has the best "cast dance to pop music" closing credits I have ever seen. Everyone dances in character! Which in some cases means dancing for like 2 seconds then sitting down, or refusing to dance at all. The credits don't have any spoilers, and give a nice idea of how cute the show is.

It's streaming on Animelab in Australia, and is on Funimation's website in the US.
( no spoilers just me rambling )

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Thinking about how incredibly queer my favourite fiction was as a kid

2019-09-03T02:37:07Z

A cute A League Of Their Own vid on mmhm-vids reminded me how often I look back on stuff I was SUPER INTO as a kid and go "Ohhhh". I think I might have posted about this before but I'm DOING IT AGAIN.

These summaries are based on what I can remember, and thus are guaranteed to be skewed by child me's perception, watching the trailers is...odd.

Content note: consent issues.
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Art of Non Binary Characters!

2019-06-26T09:45:13Z

I finally finished all the non binary art prompts! This took longer than I expected, thanks to various life things, but was a lot of fun, and introduced me to the very cool ChaiKovsky and their cool non-binary (and disabled!) characters.

( Life is Strange, The Legend of Zelda, The Sims, Transistor, Callisto 6, Shield of Tomorrow )

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Crowdsourcing inspiration for games I have not played

2019-06-05T10:23:10Z

So after Various Life Hurdles(*) I have gotten back to drawing more non binary fanart prompts and was feeling a bit blocked on two involving games I haven't played. And I thought it would be fun to ask you all for suggestions. Including the original prompters, of course, whose opinion counts extra.

1) Life is Strange: Max and Chloe older and non binary.

What sort of clothes/hairstyle etc would suit an older (and non-binary) Max and Chloe from Life is Strange? "Older" can mean whatever age you like! I have some idea of what older non binary people wear in general, being one myself, but am having trouble extrapolating from what I know of the characters.

2) The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild: Link, post-canon relaxation.

I can draw Link relaxing easily enough, but what's something that would indicate it's post canon? Where would Link be? And is there an especially non-binary-ish outfit or something?

Also, while I'm posting: Hello to the new people following me! Feel free to leave your own non-binary prompts! And if anyone else wants to expand their dreamwidth circle in a queer direction, check out queerly_beloved and it's friending-meme-ish intro posts.

(*)Which is to say: I am no longer horribly depressed, and my cat is doing pretty well!

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And with the K-tape bind them

2019-04-30T06:42:01Z

I experimented with binding my chest with k-tape/kinesiology tape and skin prep spray. It went ok, even with my large chest and sensitive skin.

Content note: I'm not going to go into extreme detail but it's still about boobs. I'd normally lock this sort of stuff under a filter but this might be useful to others.
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Taking an axe to my gendered icons

2019-04-09T07:11:09Z

Finally got around to deleting/editing all my gendered icons. I kept telling myself I could just not use them, or not think of them as implying I'm a woman, but it bugged me.

This one used to say "expressing my femininity with an axe". And I still have femininity! That I might like to express with axes! But this version makes me happier. Especially since it's in a more readable font now.

That's me, by the way, many years before I realised I'm non binary, dressed as the bearded dwarf Cheery Littlebottom from Discworld, not that I'm very recognisable under all that hair :) This was at Swancon, and Elizabeth Moon admired and briefly wore the helmet, which I'd painted with pretty pink flowers.

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Non binary art prompts!

2019-04-08T08:13:40Z

Give me art prompts including at least one character you see as non-binary!

By non-binary I mean: their gender is not completely and exclusively male or female. All sorts of non-binary are welcome, including non-binary women and non-binary men.

By non-binary character I mean: original non-binary characters, characters who identify as non-binary in canon, and any character you think would go "yeah, that's me" if the concept of being non-binary was explained to them. It doesn't have to be your only head-canon for them, and you don't have to justify it, as long as it's something you feel sincerely.

I'd rather prompts from binary gendered folk not focus on gender or presentation, and avoid aliens/robots etc for whom human gender is irrelevant.

Image references are appreciated for original characters or those who are hard to look up. Please no: zombies, incest, or porn. Also, no non-binary headcanons for characters who are a binary trans man or woman in canon.

If you're having a mental blank here's a place to start.

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Gender Neutral Emma in Space

2018-10-02T14:07:43Z

There are so many other things I should be working on but the idea for this popped into my head, inspired by my worldbuilding idea where the society is ungendered by default and referring to someone's gender is like using a given name etc, something informal only done with people you know well.

I was thinking about what it would be like for a 19th century setting, which got me thinking about adapting a Jane Austen novel, and I decided Emma is the most gender neutral plot, since Emma's defining feature is her wealth not her gender. But regency England just makes no sense if you take out the sexism. So naturally IT'S IN SPACE. With artificial wombs etc, but still a super hierarchal space empire type society a la the Radch.

(You could also just straight up write Imperial Radch fanfic, but that is less appealing to me personally)

This also means I can steal bits of Chinese and Japanese name/language stuff and have POC around. And ROBOTS.
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Swancon 2018: Foz Meadows Reading and "Beyond the Binary"

2018-04-03T08:24:50Z

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Media Consumed: March 2018

2018-03-24T16:35:12Z

A whole lot of strongly recommended things this time including a scifi book, animated tv, and video games.
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Dating sims with f/f and non binary inclusive paths

2016-09-18T12:50:24Z

I thought I had a post like this but apparently not! I've put (nb) next to the games with non binary options and (mm) next to games that include m/m paths. I haven't labelled games with m/f paths because that's pretty much all of them!

If you want even more, English Otome Games has a list of dating sims with a female protagonist and male and female or only female love interests, and Hella Yuri curates a list of games with wlw characters on Steam.

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