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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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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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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.

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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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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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!

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.

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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A whole lot of strongly recommended things this time including a scifi book, animated tv, and video games.
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