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takaska · 1 year ago

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smthn about interactive fics that always, without fail, drives me up a fucking wall is when the romance options are gender selectable, but look totally different for each gender.

bc invariably, the cis lady version is smaller, longer hair, usually extremely femme- and the cis man is always taller, buffer, cut jaw, etc. and what adds to it is when there's an NB option that like, is perfectly mid-height, mid-hair length (or Quirky Shaved Style), androgynous at all times.

it's just. reinforcing the gender binary, but sometimes making it a trinary by treating all nb people as interchangeable

#Taka Talks #have i run into many IF that do this? not as many as you'd expect! did i read and enjoy some of them? yeah! still drives me fucking crazy #so yeah. assign your characters 1 canon height or none at all to be fucking honest.#just Once i would love to see an IF where. if gender is selectable. it makes them trans #like character A is always afab even if you choose nb/male option; character B is the opposite; etc #or god fucking forbid you have any intersex representation of any flavor

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