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A series of tweets from Jonny Sims, @jonnywaistcoat:

Just to clarify something I've seen a few places - the episode description was written by our community manager Anil, and the use of the "They" pronoun for the Archivist is not directly reflective of anything currently within the canonical text.

This is not Word of God that John is NOT nb, but he hasn't been deliberately written as such and I'd feel real shitty taking credit for representation I haven't actually put in. Plus I really don't want to be in a situation where I might accidentally misgender my own character.

All that said, I don't think the Archivist's gender is going to have any direct relevance to the plot, so I don't foresee the idea of nb Archivist being properly Jossed (am I using that term right?). If it's your chosen headcanon, fill your boots.

Similar to some of the autistic Archivist thoughts I've seen: I really love the idea, but it's not going to be canonically confirmed as it wasn't deliberate when I was writing earlier episodes, and I just haven't put the work in to be confident in it as a thoughtful portrayal.