regarding the Big GLBT YA callout:
Background: In a guest blog two writers talked about an unfortunate incident in which a prospective agent asked them to remove a gay characater from their YA novel: say yes To GayYA they were careful to name no names, because they wanted to talk- not about that particular incident, but about how common such incidents [...]
Tags: activism, blogging, Gay for YA, gender, GLBT, meta, recs, writing
Grammar Ouchies!
DEAR WELL-SEASONED SLASH WRITER: I could have loved your recent Spander; you are a helluva storyteller. But your grammar made it difficult to read comfortably. Please, get control of your punctuation. Half of your commas are placed where no comma belongs, and the other half are missing from the places they should be. Come on [...]
In answer to that damn chart over at overthinkingit.com
Namely, this one which truly wasn’t thought out nearly well enough. You’ll find me in the thick of the argument here and there. Aside from the problematic aspects of using human beings to illustrate fiction stereotypes, and also the thing where no female character is good enough, it’s upsetting to read someone anticipating being called [...]
Protected: Help with an MTF trans character A re-written post
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Two big bangs!
Boosting these signals; More InformationYES! A big bang for us what don’t write fanfic. And, on DW; kinked ; Kink, for the purposes of this challenge, means erotic/sexual enjoyment of something other than (or in addition to) inserting Tab A into Slot B. Kink is context, a focus on some element of a scene/situation that charges [...]
Why is nothing easy?
There’s a little story I tell, about a young MTF who wanted a ticket to a women’s only dungeon party, and i was kinda obnoxious to her and when she cried, I figured that she was definitely female enough to be there and she had a great time…. And yes, I apologised for being an [...]
