#ling chan

[stilltheturtlemoves]

The women of the Diviners: Evie O’Neill, Theta Knight, Mabel Rose, and Ling Chan

[sergeantpixie]

Ling Chan is... The Girl With the Green Eyes!

She wished she could tell them the truth: The dead were easy to talk to; it was the living she didn't like.

track i. The Analyst by Delta Rae (prepare yourself to meet / the girl who cannot sleep / dividing every question / 'til the questions are complete) track ii. Bitch by Plastiscines (I'm a bitch all the time) track iii. Oh No! by Marina & The Diamonds (I know exactly what I want and who I want to be / I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine) track iv. Ladder Song by Lorde (I feel estranged every now and then / fall asleep reading science fiction) track v. Violence by Lilly Wolf (some violence is obvious / but mine is on my tongue) track vi. Bite the Hand by boygenius (I can't love you how you want me to) track vii. Angry Too by Lola Blanc (I don't know how to be just standing by blankly / not gettin' angry) track viii. Just A Girl by No Doubt (I've had it up to here) track ix. Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish (you think that you're the man / I think, therefore, I am)

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 5, Poll 6

Ling Chan vs. Henry ‘Monty’ Montague

Ling Chan (The Diviners)

Henry ‘Monty’ Montague (The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue)

Voting ended onApr 21, 2024

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Art of Ling Chan by @ace-artemis-fanartist

Ling Chan-The Diviners

Qualifications:

Canonically, she is an asexual lesbian who is partially paralyzed in her legs. She uses crutches for her mobility aids. For her queerness, discovering that part of herself is a major part of her journey, first realizing slowly that she loves women, and then realizing the challenges of being ace in a queer relationship at a time when asexuality isn't widely understood.

Ling contracted "infantile paralysis" (polio) as a child, being that she was born in 1920s New York City before a vaccine was available. As such, she uses crutches and leg braces in order to walk. She is explicitly an asexual lesbian who struggles to balance both of these when neither is well-understood in her time, on top of being Chinese during the period of exclusion.

Propaganda:

She's a very cool, physically disabled ace lesbian who loves science and magic and learns the joys of friendship. She's a dreamwalker who communicates with (and sometimes fights) ghosts, and when another person with a similar power reaches out to her on that basis, and he tries to befriend her moreso than most anyone had before, they become close companions and her world expands. Also, queer solidarity--he's gay and that helps her realize she is too, since she'd had limited exposure to the idea of queerness before that.

My absolute baby. A grumpy gal who can only walk when in dreams. She falls in love with a girl who she thinks is a dreamwalker like her but turns out to be a vengeful ghost. She struggles to be with her chorus girl girlfriend because she's sexual but Ling isn't. Canon dialogue > "Which actor would you like to be with?" "Mae West." "No, romantically." "Yes." An icon with good taste Mae West is hot

Henry ‘Monty’ Montague-The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Qualifications:

Canonically bisexual, and, from the end of the first book, deaf in one ear. (More precisely, he only has one ear, there's no other one to be deaf in since it got basically blown off by cannon fire, but regardless he only has functional hearing on one side.)

Propaganda:

Canonically bi, and deaf/hard-of-hearing since near the end of the first book; if I remember correctly, gets more disabled as the series goes on. If you don't know him and you think one of your faves is the ultimate bi disaster, think again. My god is he a loser. And a jerk, at the start. But despite all that, or perhaps through all that, he can be genuinely meaningful representation. Starts out as a miserable nobleman trying to survive his father's homophobic abuse, ends up unattached from his rich parents and living his best queer, disabled life with his boyfriend in freedom.

[samnotsammy12]

I need more Diviners content in my life

Currently rereading and…I love all the characters so much

Although the only thing I can’t stand is the love triangle

But THE JEWISH REP IS SO GOOD

[aroaceswagcompetition]

Ling Chan (The Diviners by Libya Bray) vs Zhu Chongba (She Who Became The Sun by Ling Chan)

Ling Chan

Zhu Chongba

Voting ended onMar 15, 2023

Art of Ling Chan done by @ace-artemis-fanartist

[autisticcharactershowdown]

BRACKET 3, ROUND 7

Jo (Lumberjanes) VS Ling Chan (Lair Of Dreams)

Jo

Ling

Voting ended onApr 23, 2023

[thestrangegirl091200]

An aesthetic for The Diviners series by Libba Bray.

Pictures not mine.

[georgiaswarr]

ling chan and henry dubois

[ID: a screenshot of a tumblr post that reads “i’m done with texting and calling from now on i’m only communicating through shared lucid dreams”. end ID]