I'm AFAB nonbinary and I use they pronouns. I don't recognize most of your examples, except for Desire and Janet. And I've read Imperial Radch but I don't remember how I reacted to individual characters.
I'm more attuned to "nonbinary means being somewhere in the middle" characters (no one is popping to mind right now) and agender characters (Emma Bull's Finder) and robots (MurderBot) than to characters that switch back and forth between very masculine and very feminine. (I bounced off Ranma 1/2.)
Curious how you would categorize the Gethenians from The Left Hand of Darkness. (Written before "nonbinary" was a popular concept, of course.)
I love Desire from Sandman. Probably because I'm really attracted to that kind of androgynous look in real life. (Which frustrates me because it's pretty much a polar opposite of my own body type, but I don't seem to be able to undo what my hormones imprint on, although I've been able to add to my collection of imprints over the years.)
Janet reads feminine to me. (I haven't seen the final season though.)
I'm really making this comment because I'm writing a smut fic with a character who is nonbinary, uses they pronouns, and has the innie bits on the bottom and the outie bits on the top that they were born with. (OK they're kind of a writer insert. Sue me.) This works for me but I'm worried/curious how it will come across to people different from me. I'm assuming based on your comment about afab nonbinary chars who use she/her that this character would feel like a woman to you? (No judgement one way or another.)
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I'm more attuned to "nonbinary means being somewhere in the middle" characters (no one is popping to mind right now) and agender characters (Emma Bull's Finder) and robots (MurderBot) than to characters that switch back and forth between very masculine and very feminine. (I bounced off Ranma 1/2.)
Curious how you would categorize the Gethenians from The Left Hand of Darkness. (Written before "nonbinary" was a popular concept, of course.)
I love Desire from Sandman. Probably because I'm really attracted to that kind of androgynous look in real life. (Which frustrates me because it's pretty much a polar opposite of my own body type, but I don't seem to be able to undo what my hormones imprint on, although I've been able to add to my collection of imprints over the years.)
Janet reads feminine to me. (I haven't seen the final season though.)
I'm really making this comment because I'm writing a smut fic with a character who is nonbinary, uses they pronouns, and has the innie bits on the bottom and the outie bits on the top that they were born with. (OK they're kind of a writer insert. Sue me.) This works for me but I'm worried/curious how it will come across to people different from me. I'm assuming based on your comment about afab nonbinary chars who use she/her that this character would feel like a woman to you? (No judgement one way or another.)