Be mindful with queer characters

a blog all about creating and analysing queer characters, with some discussions about the queer community | sundays are off days | Current mods: Peridot (she/her, pan/ace, cis woman) Klavier (transmasc, gay, arospec, he/they/xe)

[createqueercharacters]

Updated intro post!

Here in createqueercharacters we will do various things including

- Analyse how different pieces of media handle certain identities, respectfully or badly, and why it’s so

- Make essays about said media through a queer lense

- Make polls and questionares about queer topics

- Giving tips to various people in the askbox wondering about their own queer characters

- Providing various resources (essays, videos, books) on certain queer topics, especially queer theory

We also have "Queer question of the week" and "Queer media of the week" posts you can submit ideas for and interact with ^^

Current mods: Peridot (she/her) Klavier (he, they, xe)

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[createqueercharacters]

Happy pride month everyone!!!

The blog will be on hiatus for a week as mod Klavier is going through finals

Hope you all understand

[themaveriqueagenda]

it's weird that "i'm nonbinary, but i have a job" was turned into a "lol, being nonbinary is super unprofessional" meme rather than an actual conversation about nonbinary employment discrimination.

[dad-fucker666]

gifts the trans person in your life will appreciate

Large amounts of cash

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pipeline punch monster

[donniehaspronouns]

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

[sapphicides]

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

young adult:

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

[makingqueerhistory]

“As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.” ― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir (Affiliate link)

[createqueercharacters]

Queer Question of the Week

[Plain Text: Queer Question of the Week]

Who is your favorite queer author?

[createqueercharacters]

Queer Media of the Week

[Plain Text: Queer Media of the Week]

I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman

Have you read this book?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 27

[makingqueerhistory]

Historically, many major figures from queer history were criminalized for expressing their identities, and court records are in fact how we know about many queer people from history.

This fact should inform queer peoples relationships to polices and prisons. We should know better then most that being criminalized is not based on morality, and we should use that knowledge to work in solidarity with communities experiencing the same or similar criminalization.

[meadowdough]

⏾⋆.˚ Magical girl yuri?? On WEBCOMIC DAY?? ⏾⋆.˚ HONEY AND THE MOON is a magical girl webcomic about a depressed teenager's friendship with her bubbly classmate who has already accepted her own fate! It's queer, funny, and is only gonna get crazier from here!! SYNOPSIS: Magical-girl-in-denial Anusha doesn't feel like she can be anybody's hero anytime soon! But her classmate Ellie has fully accepted her own magical girl fate, and although Anusha is scared of the responsibility (and danger!), Ellie is excited to have a new friend with such a special thing in common with her! Friendship and love blooms, but so does uncertainty. As Ellie and Anusha uncover a mystery, they begin to wonder-- are they meant to be, or is this dream team doomed to be star-crossed forever?

READ HONEY AND THE MOON HERE!! ⏾⋆.˚

❤︎ Tapas

❤︎ Webtoon

❤︎ Official Site

❤︎ Ko-fi Early Access

[get-more-transmasc]

I'm so glad I get to share a world with indigenous trans men & mascs! The world is so much better because indigenous trans men & mascs are in it!

If you're an indigenous trans man, an indigenous transmasc, or just a queer indigenous person in general: I am so proud and happy to share a community with you.

You have always been a core and incredibly important part of the queer community. You matter so so so much, don't let anyone convince you otherwise!

[createqueercharacters]

Apologies for the sudden hiatus! Mod peridot was sick and I had something come up.

[rome-theeempire]

Black transmen & transmascs: I just wish I was a fluffy haired boy

My nigga....

YOU ARE!

YOU HAVE A CLOUD ON YOUR SCALP!!!

[cy-lindric]

Due to its surprising popularity on the many places it's been posted and reposted to, I decided to finally complete this little wlw sketch that I had kind of given up on. I'm hoping to have it riso printed soon !

[flowercrowncrip]

And it’s always “inclusive” queer spaces that claim to be accessible when they aren’t. It’s like they realise that not being accessible to disabled people is bad, but instead of doing the work to be accessible they just look for ways around having to admit that they aren’t. They’re just prioritising their ability to think of themselves as “radical” or “inclusive” over actually including wheelchair users.

It’s almost always queer spaces that take “ambulatory wheelchair users exist!” to mean that a venue with a step (or even multiple steps) is wheelchair accessible because the wheelchair user can just get up while someone lifts their (small, manual) wheelchair up the step.

Or, even worse (like the “inclusive” salon my friend wanted to go to) they call a space with absolutely no wheelchair access “accessible” because they have fidget toys.

And every time it’s a kick in the teeth

[several-mice]

print inspired by queer online friendships