#gnc protagonist

[homosekularnost]

(murderbot from exit strategy voice) time to go meet my friends, pin-lee who is tough and cool and competent and also the other useless two

[dreamdripdistance]

transfem joker . if you even care.

[whitestopper]

Might have made this post before, but I was thinking about She Ra and in the prom episode... why were the two most gnc women also the episode's two main antagonists?

[trilliath]

I just want a full length adventure novel with a druid just like Halsin and a nonbinary fae-touched mysterious ruthless lonely equally-grown elf featuring polyamory and pansexuality and earned trust that I can lose myself in and cry over is that really so much to ask???

[cardentist]

Context: [Link 1, Link 2]

the conversation about how we talk about marginalized men aside, this really is just inherently flawed from a conceptual level.

if you take a character that embodies traditional femininity as dictated by gender norms and you make that character a man that is, quite literally, Inherently subversive of those gender norms.

if you took cinderella and you made her a man that would Easily open up the opportunity to explore and comment on gender, gender roles, And cinderella as a character.

the framework assumes masculinity as non-subversive when the reality is that the form of masculinity that is accepted is highly specific and easy (and Necessary) to challenge.

[mutedeclipse]

I fine it funny how in older Bomberman games BomberMAN sounded like a kid lmao. I actually never got why he sounded as such.

Have you ever heard of goku

[transmorolians]

every gnc protagonist has

scarf

hat

cloak

[qbdatabase]

October 20th was International Pronouns Day, so this Saturday we have a special Picture Book Parade that's all about pronouns! These colorful children's books talk about how to use pronouns, introduce kids to the many different pronouns they can use, and talk you through what to do if you don't know which ones are for you 🏷️✏️❓

[1800duckhotline]

really want to draw all of the different canon fits for the gangrel fledgeling on temerice. her base fit is directly based off of the first one anyways but i mean the other 3 and the war form too

[tyrannuspitch]

more seriously it is REALLY interesting to me that, on one hand, we have people claiming that the original thor movies were "toxically masculine" for asking you to "take everything so seriously", and ragnarok was actually doing a Feminist Act in fixing this (by... making men express less emotion), and on the other hand we've always had misogynists claiming that the original thor movies are an embarrassment, too silly/cheesy/camp/melodramatic/etc, clearly Gay And For Girls.

like. a LOT of people get uncomfortable when they see men expressing too much sincere, vulnerable emotion. but here one group that's mostly cis women says the problem is masculinity, and another group that's mostly cis men says the problem is femininity. like... you see something you that doesn't meet your gendered standards/expectations, and you get uncomfortable... and then you try to justify it through gender war. the whole zeitgeist in a nutshell.

(but also, somehow, the solution to "bad" masculinity is "good" masculinity, never femininity, and that "good" masculinity is closer to the ideal/norm, and yet this is apparently "camp"... gender non-conformity can be good in theory, but in practice... not like that! never like that!!!)

[hollistercrowley]

pink male aesthetic

Stickers

Plain

[kakusboyfriend]

On a *much* lighter note: I'm warming up to devastation bc her major flaw is such an easy fix.

And I'm very curious to see what will happen to the psimon/bruno dynamic after adding a brick shithouse butch to it 🫶

[the-acid-pear]

Fun fact: that's Che Guevara.

[sir-walton-goggins]

I'm a simple creature. My dream is to have a cool story-lead survival horror game with a gnc afab protagonist

[devotedlystrangewizard]

"persona 2 remakes would be pretty cool you know i love persona 2 personally but theyre not very accessible both from an accessibility for disabled people pov and from the pov of someone who doesnt want to emulate, not to mention the gameplay has aged immensely and some elements are really questionable a-" [remembering the presence of both queerness & a fat character and the very distinct absence of (& bigotry towards) these groups in persona 5] "you know what nevermind."

[djuvlipen]

Ladies, if you are looking for a TV show that

talks about period stigma

arranged marriages

purity culture and virginity

the hold Catholicism has on Polish culture today

misogyny and how GNC women are treated in Romani culture

racism against Romani people in Poland

then you should look up Infamy (or Infamia), it's only 8 episode long, it's on Netflix and it's about a Romani teenage girl in Poland in 2023. It's very good, the creative team worked with Romani consultants, and although the main characters aren't played by Romani actors, the secondary and background characters are. You can also hear actual Romani language in some scenes!

It got barely any promotion and after the show was released, Romani male antiracist activists attacked it and tried to boycott the show, calling it racist because it criticizes Romani cultural misogyny. That show is so important because you barely see Romani protagonists in media; it is the first time a big platform, like Netflix, does something like that, while also being careful to consult Romani people and work with them; it discusses incredibly important issues that are usually invisible; but instead of hyping it up, those Romani males attacked it.