p/nr0uls

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:46 PM

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[gender rep rambling]

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:46 PM

there are two main kinds of they/them characters, and i think the distinction between them is pretty important

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:46 PM

neither is good or bad but they very emphatically are not the same

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:47 PM

first you have 'genderless' characters, beings for whom the concept of gender has no real reason to apply

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:47 PM

robots, energy beings, gods in some settings, shapeshifter aliens

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:47 PM

these are cool because they challenge the idea that gender is inherent to being a people

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:48 PM

and in many contexts it wouldn't have any real reason to be there

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:48 PM

and then you have nonbinary characters

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:48 PM

who are just, people, who were assigned a gender and then later decided to abandon it

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:48 PM

these are cool because that's my actual IRL experience and i want to see it reflected

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:50 PM

I've made several of both kinds of characters by now

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:50 PM

and I like them both

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:50 PM

but I think the specific thing that gets me frustrated

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:50 PM

is when I'm expecting the latter and get the former

TWO OF THEM

@sanduophon

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:51 PM

yeah

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 7:51 PM

and I'm like... oh, that's not nonbinary rep, that's a floating cube

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 8:00 PM

nonbinary: renato, emery
genderless: tangram, logos

PolyaMixedNuts

@mattnificent

Wed, Mar 25, 2020 12:36 AM

for my current D&D worldbuilding I actually made specifically sure to have one of each in the pantheon of gods

PolyaMixedNuts

@mattnificent

Wed, Mar 25, 2020 12:36 AM

Pomvorthr the World Tree

PolyaMixedNuts

@mattnificent

Wed, Mar 25, 2020 12:36 AM

and Yggomi of the Tempest

Quinneapolis

@quinn2win

Wed, Mar 25, 2020 12:39 AM

then there's the rare reverse nb - someone who has no physiological sex but decides to have a gender anyway (Celia, Kizuna Ai)

ShaynaIsHere

@Autistic_Ace

Wed, Mar 25, 2020 12:44 AM

Webmind falls into that last category - he lacks a physical body, gets assigned male pronouns partway through canon, and adopts them for his own.