Pickman

Ernestina Pickman, best known in both canon and fandom simply as Pickman, is a character from Sangfielle, the seventh full season of the actual-play podcast Friends at the Table. She is a very large humanoid goat woman who always wears heavy armour, and she specializes in wrangling malevolent trains the way a cowboy wrangles livestock. Among Friends at the Table fans she is the most popular player character from Sangfielle and one of the most popular characters from the entire show. 
==History==
Pickman has been an extremely popular character in Friends at the Table fandom since her introduction in Sangfielle, and she features in a great number of works of fanart. Fans cite her character design, her emotional unavailability, and her butch lesbian appeal as reasons that she is sexy.Examples from propaganda submitted by Pickman fans to the Sexiest Podcast Character poll bracket: "massive butch goat woman with a gun"; "HOT EMOTIONALLY DISTANT BUTCH GOAT TRAIN-KNIGHT"; "she’s a gruff muscular goat woman who hunts trains and wears train armor, she’s perfect butch husband/wife material" 
In Secret Samol, the fandom's annual gift exchange, she was the most-requested character in both 2021 (the year Sangfielle began) and 2022,@secretsamol (Dec 4, 2022): Pickman and Balence hold their titles as most requested character and most requested ship two years in a row! (Tweet). (archive link) but was unseated by Kalvin Brnine in 2023.@secret-samol (Nov 13, 2023): Drumroll Please…..🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁. Tumblr post. (archive link) She also swept the 2023 fattsexyperson poll bracket on Tumblr.@fattsexyperson (Feb 10, 2023): congrats to Pickman, officially the sexiest friends at the table PC! Tumblr post. (archive link) Later that same year, Friends at the Table fans fought hard for Pickman when she was matched up against a character from a much larger actual-play fandom in the Sexiest Podcast Character bracket.@sexiestpodcastcharacter (Oct 7, 2023): Who is sexier? Pickman vs. Glenn Close. Tumblr poll. All "propaganda" was sourced from fans who were campaigning for their favourites to win. (archive link)
== Pairings ==
Most fanworks featuring Pickman are gen, but there are a small handful of f/f Pickman ships with dedicated fans. These include: 
* Marn/Pickman
* Es/Pickman
* Pickman/Chantilly Scathe
== Example Fanworks ==
=== Fanart ===
File:Pickman going somewhere transformative FATT art by Arp.png|alt=Pickman climbs a rope ladder into an impressionist sky|Pickman goes somewhere transformative by Arp
File:Grumpy Pickman by ahcoffeebeans.jpg|alt=Pickman stands in front of the house from my house dot wad. She says "hm." A translation note translates this to "I am so overstimulated right now."|Grumpy Pickman sketch by ahcoffeebeans
File:Pickman by vforvalensa low res.png|alt=Line art of Pickman in her armour. Her shoulders and torso are extremely wide.|a terrifically wide Pickman by vforvalensa
File:Pickman portrait by Khavy Tran low res.png|alt=Head and shoulders portrait of Pickman drawn in an ornate frame|Pickman portrait by Khavy Tran
=== Fanfic ===
* hold you like a weapon by ThunderstormsandMemories, a Pickman/Chantilly Scathe canon-divergence AU
* Save a Horse, Ride a Shape Knight by crowdyke666, an Es/Pickman PWP where Pickman is a stone butch
* Vishteen Minutes by risoscean, a gen fic in the format of an in-universe podcast script
=== Fangames ===
* punished in the shape she sinned by Mousewife Games, a short FPS made in bitsy
== Links and Resources ==
* Works tagged Pickman (Friends at the Table) on Archive of Our Own
* Pickman article on FatTWiki
==See Also==
*List of Friends at the Table Player Characters
==References==
Category:Friends at the Table