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Whitepine is really fucking awesome and I really like how the queer characters are written and especially the backlash against it in-universe. In the secret episode, Ivory was disowned by her family and removed from her own home because she was a lesbian (or at least wlw). Her family even called her a slur as she ran. When Zombie Hemlocke discovered his son, Pyroscythe, was queer (mlm), he had been picked on and ridiculed and set up with female personal assistants (Zam has a male assistant, Muu and Izzy have female assistants), possibly in hopes of " converting him back into being straight " .

My little headcanon is that homosexuality / same sex marriage & relationships are illegal or at the very least heavily frowned upon / is regarded as sin in whitepine, taking this & the timeline that wp is set in into consideration.

And then there's Bitotter & the fact that he is genderqueer! She doesn't fit into any sort of gender norm, and she doesn't it to be discovered for fear of how it would be taken. I dont remember too much about the reveal, but its also relevant to this post because it just puts into perspective how these people are treated just because they are "other".