#Nonbinary Representation

[nonbinarynow]

Do you ever notice how the majority of nonbinary characters are just straight up not human beings? The majority of our non-binary rep is inhuman, which shows how binary society still views us as a literal societal impossibility despite us being here, real people, on earth with them.

I feel like this feeds into the whole thing of enben being seen as like "eldritch horrors" or "other worldly." Even though it might be claimed to be only in jest, it still displays how we are implicitly seen as a human impossibility because of the pervasiveness of the gender binary in society. It's taught to us as "natural" and how "humans have always functioned" despite our modern bourgeois, patriarchal, white-supremacist gender binary originating as a tool of colonialism. That was very recent in anthropological history. (Also note how capitalism is intertwined with binary supremacy here.)

When you delve into this it's wild. It starts surface level but it reveals the core exorsexism and classism of the capitalist society for one, but how it permeates into jokes ("I can identify as an attack helicopter!" "Nonbinary people are little frogs/eldritch beings!"), representation (most nonbinary representation is of inhuman characters) and our legal status (inexistent, which means no civil rights or legal protection of any kind.)

[cefisherart]

Your Honor, I love them! This new hawkeye redesign fuckin rocks dude gimme gimme gimme!

[sunnylovesgirlythings]

This doll is a lgbtqia+ victory by themselves. they’ve survived not only an active release sabotage attempt by retailers but also two long gruelling years in a limbo state.

If you don’t know? This is the welcome committee Frankie. They’re a doll release of monster highs nonbinary character Frankie stein. This being the first doll that explicitly references the fact they’re an lgbtqia character.

This doll was originally going to release twoish years ago along side the first wave of the “Fearbook” dolls. A line of the characters reimagined as the leader of a school club.

The standard releases of the Fearbook line featured Draculaura as the drama club leader, Toralei as the music club leader and Twyla as the leader of the game club.

With welcome committee frankie slated to be the more slightly more deluxe special release. Them being presented as the leader of the schools welcome committee. Not only being explicitly pride themed because they themselves are lgbtqia+ but also because it’s their job in the club they run to help people feel welcomed, included and safe!

So it’s safe to say… we were excited. Not only is welcome committee frankie just a really pretty doll but they were also a really clever way to incorporate a characters queerness in a loud, unambiguous and bold way that feels completely natural and not tokenised.

So we waited. And waited. And waited. But they seemingly never were released unlike the others.

The retailer had dropped them. Target who was set to have exclusive rights to releasing them and the Fearbook dolls in the US just straight up refused to release them and only them. in what would end up being one of the first instances of target dismantling its Dei and diversity programs.

After this we didn’t know what to expect. Are they releasing? are they not? Are they cancelled? It’s was ups and downs of getting hopeful and losing faith.

At literally any point they could’ve been dropped for good. Hell it probably would’ve been the cheaper option. They had to find someone else to carry the doll and set up for a completely different release than they originally planned, separate from the dolls they were meant to release along side with all the new marketing that would take.

All of which costs extra money. On a doll the designers probably had to fight to make in the first place.

It’d be tough to convince the average doll company to put in that extra time and effort. Especially not Mattel who are infamous for their penny pinching budget cuts. But for some reason they kept pushing to get welcome committee Frankie to release.

Now I’m absolutely not crediting that to Mattel. Nine times out of this kind of stuff only happens because of internal pressure. Usually from a staff member they cannot afford to lose. We don’t know who was pushing for this behind the scenes but they get the credit. Not big corporation.

The fact this doll has released is nothing short of a miracle. Especially in this current political climate. The corporate side of things had every reason under the sun to just quietly brush the doll under rug. And they probably wanted to.

But they’re here. Took them two years but they made it. Adding so much more meaning to their release.

The perfect embodiment of lgbtqia+ resilience <3

[aromantic-fae-witch]

I made this blog to yap about whatever and post about beautiful aesthetics. But now this is just an aromantic asexual blog lol. Because I'm so happy with realizing I'm aromantic!! It feels so good dude. It feels so right and so liberating

[rexanesolo]

Adventures in Clairune is out!

If you want to:

Bully a dragon lord

Flirt with an elf

Trust an assassin

And most importantly romance them!! With perks such as:

he/she/they option for players

6 endings (good and bad for each love interest)

A 1 hour playtime (roughly)

Pretty art style & good music

FREEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

So go play my first vn! (I was inspired by the arcana and y'all might like this too :3)

[whereserpentswalk]

I see so many transmasc and transfem headcannons in fandom spaces, but basically no transneutral ones. Please reblog this with any transneutral (or any trans headcannons that aren't transmasc or transfem) you have about any character from any peice of media.

I'll start with a few of my own.

The younger Pines twins (Gravity Falls): both grow up to be very different flavors of nonbinary. Seeing as they're 24 now, Mabel dresses even more flamboyantly, uses any pronouns, and is largely unlabeled. Dipper is somewhat medically transitioned but dresses like they always did, their legal name is now Dipper.

Taylor (Worm): don't have much to say about this one. Feels like the type of agender person who thinks nobody strongly identifies with womanhood or manhood and then suddenly comes to a realization. Probably would switch to they/them pronouns but not change their presentation much, but also would likely became much happier after figuring out their identity.

Hange (attack on titan): more of demicannon then headcannon since it's how the creator envisioned them. Shout-out to them though.

Please reblog with headcannons of your own, I'll be really sad if I find out I'm the only one who has enby headcannons for anyone.

[100frogsinatrenchcoat]

Also, shout out to DBI for making a nonbinary character that isn’t totally androgynous presenting, it’s very validating to see a canonically nonbinary character that’s allowed to have traditionally “gendered” features, like long hair and wearing dresses. It’s nice!

[hyenabeanz]

I'm not crying about hockey again, you are.

I think this is the first thing I've seen straight up saying CJ is nonbinary. ❤️

Boston Globe article is paywalled but here's a workaround link

I really hope we get to see them in net eventually.

[canonqueers]

Canon Queer of the Day:

Klaus Hargreeves

Klaus Hargreeves is a supporting character from The Umbrella Academy! They are canonically pansexual and non-binary. They use he/him pronouns in the show, but their actor refers to them using they/them.

Submitted by @Lieseil7klaus

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

i really love watching dropout content because they always respect everyone’s pronouns so it’s not only very funny but watching it makes me feel seen and acknowledged and accepted. genuinely wonderful to feel this way.

AND ITS NOT JUST YOUNG COMEDIANS THERE i mean, being fully accepted by like… old people? older people? my parents might not accept me but these people who are literally my parents’ age do accept me and that is something so important to me i could almost cry??

[paperjamdipper]

No. Just no. I mean my brain can’t process this - HOLY SHIT I LOVE VICO ORTIZ SO MUCH

[just-a-lil-otter]

Being both nonbinary and aroace sometimes feels like that one meme that's like "you guys are getting paid?"

[sunnylovesgirlythings]

If I had a nickel for every time a character from a show I love was supposed to be transgender but they were banned from explicitly bringing it up so it had to be reduced to mere subtextual implication I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s god damm shame it was allowed to happen even once.

Kai deserved to be explicitly a trans girl

Zipp deserved to be explicitly nonbinary

Artists deserve to be able to freely write queer characters.

[alexyquest]

i tried that ya book trend, how’d i do?

[b34tl3m4n14c]

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH☹️☹️

[whereserpentswalk]

Don't trust anyone who complains about seeing too many nonbinary people who "look like girls" or seeing too many trans men who "aren't masc enough". They do not have good intentions, are using truscum rhetoric, and have outed themselves as inherently seeing bodies they see as feminine as lesser.