#non-binary romance

[natureless-creatures]

Sapphic novel enjoyers!!

My friend is writing a queer sapphic fantasy romance written in the mysterious world of Wistervander, with witches and detectives (and detective witches!) with a hefty side of pining and slow burn.

She's been working very hard on this over the last few months and I have been beta reading for her, so please show her some love because she deserves recognition, and it's hard to get that as a new writer <33 (She's also drawn all the art for it! I personally adore the chapter paragraph icons) You can find her work here: https://tapas.io/series/Creatures-of-Wistervander/info

[flowersforthemachines]

one thing that's really important to me in regard to Taash is that, despite the gamer bro outrage, all the stupid YT videos, and so many people I've seen who should be denied access to internet until they get a 101 on media literacy, Taash was still the 3rd most romanced character in the game. which is huge, when you take into account the insane popularity of Lucanis and Neve.

that means that the real people, who actually played the game instead of just talking shit on the internet, *loved* Taash. and that's what actually matters the most, at least to me.

[saccharind]

from Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox

[forsapphics]

Tara Jones & Darcy Olsson in season 3 of Heartstopper (2022 —)

directed by Andy Newbery

[the-bi-library]

Before January ends, here are upcoming bi trans books! Lovely books 🩷💜💙

Unfortunately I couldn't find any books with female bi trans MC :/

Books listed:

Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos

All I Know So Far by Nicole Zelniker

What Happened on Roslyn Street? A Paranormal Dark Academia Mystery Romance by Elle Lavendelle

Lord of Ruin by K.M. Enright

Aurethia Rising by Atlas Laika

Monsters, Mayhem & Wild Magic: Book 1 of the Hexed and Hunted Series by Noah Bodie

How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans

King Luna by River Kai

The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner

And They Were Roommates by Page Powars

[blackparadinq]

just realized i Headcanon like every Gerard on stage character as non-binary in very different ways

illi is non binary (explained in my last post) and feels very isolated about it. they know that’s who they are because they’re alienated from the gender binary but a little bit of their soul kinda wishes they weren’t. a little bit of their soul wants to be normal like everyone else their age but if they did try and act that way it’d just cause more discomfort because that’s not who they are.

death is non-binary in a way where he’s just apathetic to it. no he didn’t really change the way he was referred to at all, but after sort of being undead for so long he realized gender is beyond pointless (also because I don’t really refer to concepts surrounding natural phenomena as gendered… like the sun and moon are also non binary to me as well outside of MCR but that’s because I think gender is fucking pointless and hate gendering everything). basically like that one tweet that said “i think I might be non binary but I have work to do so I don’t really care”. Like bro just kind of exists and is very unhappy to be here but is here nonetheless.

party poison is non-binary because they find it freeing, their past identity was too narrow and their true identity was bound and shackled, but in the zones with the people they trust they finally feel as if they can be themselves. they want to use that joy and freedom and make it visible to people who need to see it, to people who were in the same shackled situation as they were, who just need someone who is openly themselves to model what their future could be if they hold on and fight back.

so basically one needs to come to terms with who they are in a way where they don’t feel fearful and isolated, one has been isolated for so long they just don’t give a fuck anymore, and the other is completely free, to the point where they are fighting against the system for everyone else as well.

damn ok I need to go to bed fuck

[loustica]

DATV — Coffee With The Crows

[Non Binary Dialogue Option]

"Perhaps it's closer than I thought." Yeah, Lucanis, they're standing right next to you actually <3

[sleepyeyeball]

If I am an angel paint me with black wings.

- The Vampire Armand 🥀🩸

[cha-c-san]

I love the outfits in the game, but wanted to modify some outfits to better fit my Rook (non-binary/rogue/Shadow Dragon/elf)! So here's my take on pre-game/starter, early-game, mid-game, late-game, and several casual outfits! (More drawings under the cut!)

Pre-game/start: Didn't change much here, but I added the red sash, which is all the rage in Minrathous, apparently (but this one is old and worn, and barely got any color left). Casual: I like that the companions' casual wear is their adventuring gear minus a layer or two, so I wanted to do the same for Rook. Early game: Based on the Minrathous Citizen Outfit (Tevinter colors), but with the same casual wear base as the early game, and slightly modified to keep the silhouette simpler (because I like the idea of the silhouette to grow more dramatic as the story progresses).

Mid-game: This one is a bit of a mix between the previous outfit, the canon casual wear for Shadow Dragon Rook, and the late-game outfit, with a simple breastplate thrown into the mix. I like to think they didn't switch out whole outfits at a time but added new elements and modified old ones. The silhouette is getting more interesting with the longer skirt-thing and unique bracers. Casual: Closest to canon, but the canon shirt seemed bad as an under-layer with the weird buckles or whatever by the inside of the bicep.

Late-game: Very inspired by Rebel's Mantle, both the version you get in the game and the one on page 207 in the artbook. I did want to keep some of the elements from the previous outfits, and I wanted it to feel more Minrathous/Shadow Dragon-esque. Casual: I love the tunic from Rebel's Mantle. And Harding's mom sent Rook some of those cool wooden slippers! Rook's feet are full of blisters and splinters, but they still wear them every day at the Light House.

[zhoras-bitch]

Inspired by the recent reddit post, but referencing the discussion in general.

The male MC discourse in RC is stupid, and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. I am a girl who usually likes to play as a girl in my games and I hope I can keep playing as a girl in the future--here, I can say it without gatekeeping an entire genre and starting a freaking gender war.

First and foremost, why are we acting like visual novels are a limited resource that we need to fight men for, less they 'overtake' it with male MCs? If the target audience for the game grows to include more men, that just means more paying customers -> more different books. Or, more likely, they can make separate games that are targeted at men from the beginning, which you won't have to ever interact with if you don't want to.

When this conversation comes up, people always try to give some big ideological reason why RC has to be for girls. Usually they'll bring up how games (by which they always mean high-profile PC action FPS or RPG games) used to only have male protagonists, until finally Choices and RC (mobile romantic visual novels) came around, and I just have to laugh at that. These are obviously such different genres targeted at entirely separate audiences that barely intersect. RC did not solve the problem of female representation in gaming. That would be like saying that lack of female superheroes in 2010s Marvel is solved because female led romcoms exist. Come on now.

And the funniest thing is that the 'threat' of men overtaking RC is non-existent, really. RC will continue to make mostly female led stories, for the same reasons mainstream games in 2000s and 2010s continued to make male led ones--structural sexism and gender stereotypes. Games were 'for boys', so girls didn't play them and companies didn't market them to girls, reinforcing the cycle further. Now it's 'romance games are for girls', so that's who RC caters--and will continue to cater to--until men stop thinking that 'girly things are gay and cringe'. All you are doing by yelling at men to get out of 'women's spaces' is upholding this status quo. (Also I cannot with people calling a fandom or a hobby 'women's space', but that's a whole other story.)

The reality of how many people (not just men btw) are actually genuinely interested in reading a RC book with an MMC is clearly reflected in the fact that out of 47 books in RC, a total of 1 (one) has a male MC. And it didn't cause men to take over RC or the fandom to fall apart or whatever.

I've been in this fandom for a while, and I've only seen a handful of guys coming out to say that while they like the app already (otherwise they wouldn't be here, duh), they'd enjoy playing as dude once in a while. And no matter how nice they are about this, someone will always go 'Boo, this game isn't for you, go play Call of Duty!' and I just. What are we doing here. 

This is not the guy who mocked you for saying you'd like to play as a girl in the Witcher. Nor is it the guy who had a meltdown over there being 'too many women in video games'. Those types are not playing RC, never have and never will. They would not touch RC with a ten foot pole, because they are too afraid their dicks would fall off immediately from overexposure to the color pink.

When a person here comes out and says, 'I wish there were more contemporary books in RC because I like contemporary books', fantasy lovers in the comments respond with, 'Idk, I am kind of here for fantasy, I don't read contemporary books usually,' and that's the entire conversation. But replace 'contemporary books' with 'male MC books', and suddenly it's a Discourse (tm), and I'm so tired of it.

[rs-hawk]

Fluff only for this one. Woman Reader (sex irrelevant)

Your Godly lover had given you immortality after They nearly lost you. They couldn’t bear the idea of losing you. You hated Them for it even all these centuries later. You had to watch your family grow old and die. Your younger siblings. Their children. Their children’s children. Eventually you couldn’t even be around their descendants. It was too hard. All you could do was set up a trust fund each time you found out another had been born. You still had to take care of them somehow. They were all that was left in this world of your family.

You were a whispered legend in the county you lived in. Some thought you were a Spirit of the Forest that was from the pre-Colonization of the area. Some said you were a monster, lurking and read to eat unsuspecting youth who wandered into your trees. Others said you were stolen by a man who killed you. Very few whispered the truth, because those who had eventually were forced away from the area to allow it to be settled.

It wasn’t until some of your youngest sister’s descendants moved back to the area that you allowed yourself to peek at them. You’d find excuses to go to town, to find them. Your sister had been gorgeous. Maybe the most beautiful woman aside from your mother that you’d ever seen. She was tall, with eyes like clay, hair like midnight and skin so smooth you always wanted to be the one to paint it. Her descendant was none of those things aside from beautiful.

Her eyes shun like the midday sky, with hair that curled and twisted in ways you’d never imagined before the settlers came. Her face was round and childlike despite the life line that aged her face. Her skin burned easily in the sun that your sister loved, but there was ink on that skin. A permanent painting of a bird. You couldn’t help but smile. The more you saw her, the more you wanted to get to know her. You were attached. You did get to know her. You two chatted, and her voice sounding like a melody. You loved her. She was almost like her sister had come back to you.

Then she died.

You felt like your heart was torn out of your chest. You screamed, cried, begged your Godly former lover to let you die, but They didn’t. Then, a few days after, you stood at the edge of her funeral, watching her cold body be lowered into the ground. You saw her husband standing there with their child. A beautiful little girl who reminded you so much of her mother.

It wasn’t long until you saw that same beautiful little girl curled up in a ball in the middle of the woods, sobbing. Her father said he wanted to go camping, then left her. You couldn’t let the search party find her. They would give her back to that man who said she ran off, and she was too young to deny it.

As you sat with her head in your lap and she started to fall asleep, having washed the dirt out of her golden hair, your Godly former lover appeared before you.

“This will hurt. It always does.”

You look at Them, your lower lip trembling. “I know, but I had to save her. He would have just done something else if this didn’t work.”

They look down at the little girl, tilting Their head. “Her heart reminds me of hers. Pure. Soft. She will grow up to be kind, just like her.”

“I miss her,” you whisper, voice cracking as you look down at the sleeping child.

Your Godly former lover lays Their hand on your shoulder, squeezing it softly. “I’m sorry for what I did to you. I love you.”

“I know. I wish you didn’t.”

“I know… me too.”

[authormicahflowers]

Meet Masika and Aiden, the main characters of my debut novel Where The Stars Are! 🌈✨Swipe to see the full artwork by @katetorias

There’s one more character reveal left, stay tuned 👀

Preorder information for Where The Stars Are in is my bio! 🌙

[luvcozy]

Eggs, Bacon, & Mike

Request :- For the biggest Mike Simp I know and have met ;)

Warnings :- Established relationship, Header for him is his unmasked version!

Plot :- When morning rolls around and you decide to get up early to make you and your bf, but he's refusing to get out of bed and dragging you back down 🤍

A/n :- After this one is posted I'll be on another small semi-hiatus to set up a T.O.S for requests and what fandoms I'll write for. In the mean time any posts during said time off are requests from close friends ✌️

As the morning sun rose through the curtains, you couldn't help the yawn leaving you. Nestled comfortably against the bed and your pillows, you had another body pressed close against you. Mike held you close to his chest in an iron vice grip as he slept. Most mornings were like this, escaping and leaving his grip is another story.

Turning slowly this way and that, loosening his grip as you wiggled out of his embrace. Looking down at the sleeping blonde you smiled warmly. The soft glow of the sun through the window complementing his appearance, he was beautiful to you. Even when he would fake his sleep with you trying to leave, just as you thought to be in the clear he would grab your waist or arm, whatever was closest really, and drag you back down with him.

You have to coax him to get up with you in the early mornings. He's not someone that sleeps often, but when he does he's out unless something is happening. In this moment though, with your arms around his neck and peppering gentle kisses across his face is enough to rouse him awake enough. He's grumbling the whole time he's following you, attached to your hip almost literally.

Making breakfast always was smooth, him hugging you from behind with you made eggs and bacon. The warm smell makes his stomach growl from behind you, making you laugh. Swaying slowly as you cook, abading the time to pass till you would sit down to eat. A silent process aside from the occasional noises he would make and thanking you for the meal.

Though even after breakfast, just when you think you're in the clear of sleeps grip, Mike brings you back to it. Smothering you in his hold as he pulls you back to your room and into bed. The smell of breakfast clinging to the both of you, a smell that mixed tandalizingly sweet with Mike's, it was hard to say no to him and going back to sleep. But alas his own sweet words meet your ears, sentences that ended up having you melt into his side cause of his voice.

How everything you planned to get done that day went crumbling when you actually woke up. Upset and annoyed by it, you can't stay mad at Mike long enough. Laying next to him and him clinging to you felt surreal, like heaven and that's something you wouldn't give up. Even if it meant plans went out the window to cuddle your favorite slasher.

[forsapphics]

HEARTSTOPPER (2022 —)

S03, E07: Together — directed by Andy Newbery

[ripolsgrove]

Lance: And now I WANT people to be confused about what’s in my pants so when I ask I can take out the pants chicken and beat them with it!

Cora: You…what?

Ronan: What on gods green earth is a…pants chicken?

Lance: It’s a chicken I keep in my pants to beat people with when they ask stupid questions about what’s in my pants. Duh!

Sam: It’s a rubber chicken.

Cora: Why would they…

Sam: They’re tired of constantly being asked what’s in their pants so they came up with a creative solution.

Ronan: Oh is that what it is? A creative solution? A rubber chicken in the pants to beat people with!

Lance: Only when they ask dumb questions about what’s in my pants.

[nashcandream]

Oh NOW random screenshots want to upload to the Xbox network.

That smile though. 🥹😭❤️

I wish Lore had a different expression but that’s okay. I still love them. They are also very ready for their hair to be pulled back again.

I just finished a few things in Minrathous and it rained the entire time the little team was there. I know what the rain and humidity does to my curly hair lol I like the idea that no one really knew how much hair they had until today. Which happens to me a lot when I wear my hair down or have a puffy curl day.

—

The BG3 break was needed because I kept hitting a wall with gameplay. The pace of Veilguard has been a relief, though I will be immensely sad when it’s over. It already feels too short of a game. But I have complicated feelings over the series ending. Like a strange form of mourning and grieving.

I know I’ll have to take a break from Veilguard before finishing it. Who knows when that’ll happen. I get so emotional, I’ll probably just keep restarting playthroughs before I allow myself to see the end game.

I’ll just keep enjoying the journey and delving into fanfic in the meantime.