Comment on April 2026 Newsletter, Volume 210

  1. grommile Fri 15 May 2026 08:26AM UTC

    A rendition of the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels, in a style almost entirely derivative of Rich Burlew's. My own work.

    Most shippers focus on pairings, so that's why multi being rare shouldn't surprise you.

    Most fictional characters in mass media are humans who slot neatly into the gender binary, so that's why other being rare shouldn't surprise you.

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    1. deathofaraven Fri 15 May 2026 09:19AM UTC

      From the FAQ:

      Multi
      More than one kind of relationship or a relationship with multiple partners.
      Other
      Relationships not covered by the other categories.

      A lot of writers put more than one pairing in their fics, especially long fics. (And every fandom I've been in has had at least one rather popular OT3 that a good number of fans shipped.) Sometimes relationships don't fit neatly into an assigned binary even without nonbinary characters. And video game fandom, many of the more popular series within which have player characters that are often depicted as nonbinary, is extremely popular. Hence my surprise. :)

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