Stinkek
200% confused
This is oddly specific, so I won’t be surprised if this gets ignored for a long time. But I’ve been thinking about it for a while.
In the Worms series, the concept of gender is mostly to completely irrelevant. When you create a team of worms, you can name them anything you want, and mix and match voices and visual customisation items however you please. Depending on the game you may have access to soundbanks that sound gender-neutral/feminine/masculine, “feminine” items (particularly hair styled in ways typically associated with women) and “masculine” items (particularly facial hair). Depending on the selected voice worms may use gendered terms to refer to other worms. However there’s no option to select gender, and worms don’t really have sexual dimorphism. In Worms Rumble you play as a single nameless worm, but customisation is the same.
There are canon characters with established genders, but they’re typically not fleshed out and ignored by the fanbase anyway. IMO the only character to stand out is Professor Worminkle from Worms 4 Mayhem.
There are canon characters with established genders, but they’re typically not fleshed out and ignored by the fanbase anyway. IMO the only character to stand out is Professor Worminkle from Worms 4 Mayhem.
When I post my own Worms art here and on DA/FA/IB/Aethy, I typically label the worms as male, unless they look stereotypically feminine or have visible female body parts.
On E621 I only repost other’s art (with the exception of 1 drawing, for now..?) and I tag it as “ambiguous_gender” unless there’s sexual dimorphism present, which is due to the rules over there. When I recently joined Furbooru, I decided to carry over E621’s tagging criteria.
Sometimes I wonder if I should change my tagging approach here to what I do on E621/Furbooru.
On E621 I only repost other’s art (with the exception of 1 drawing, for now..?) and I tag it as “ambiguous_gender” unless there’s sexual dimorphism present, which is due to the rules over there. When I recently joined Furbooru, I decided to carry over E621’s tagging criteria.
Sometimes I wonder if I should change my tagging approach here to what I do on E621/Furbooru.
Also I have a Neocities site were I post worms I drew and generated (it’s my safe space where I don’t have to see stupid comments and bullshit scores), I considered linking to it as a source, but with the way it’s structured the best thing I could do would be using direct image links, which is frowned upon..?
Speaking of scores, downvotes are disabled on Manebooru, another Philomena-based Booru. I just thought it was interesting.
Speaking of scores, downvotes are disabled on Manebooru, another Philomena-based Booru. I just thought it was interesting.
This may sound cringe, but I proposed the idea of a Worms Booru to someone, and I actually felt excited talking about it, until they said I’d be the one paying for it. So that’s not happening.