Friday Rants and Raves - April 25

[sarillia]

Happy Friday everyone! I haven't done this in a while but we're back. Hopefully you all have lots of good things to talk about , but I want to hear about the bad stuff too if you need someone to commiserate with. How has your writing life been lately?

Continuing with my ongoing presentation of the pictures in my "inspiration" collection, today we have James Skelton Smith's Courting the Moon.

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[splinteredstar]

Real life has been a pain, so I haven't had the energy to do any intensive writing. Short version: I do not work in a queer friendly office, or even a particularly queer friendly /state/.

I have however found myself writing several genderqueer characters in a new story, almost as if I have a deep reserve of spite inside of my brain. But that actually fits in with a developing theme in this story, so I'm going with it.

I'm sort of in that slightly fiddly stage of a fantasy novel where I have to figure out how my new species even works. Except since they're sort of spirits who interact with humans so I have to figure out the metaphysical framework of my universe and how souls even work. Even though I know at some point I'll just have to hand wave it and basically go "look these are my assumptions go with it," I don't particularly like doing it.

Also I found notes on a novel from when I was 15, which was surreal.

[sarillia]

I can relate to the queer troubles and the spite. I was knitting presents for everyone back in December and when I was working on the ones for my homophobic brother and his even more homophobic girlfriend I was having fun watching stuff with gay characters while I worked.

Then there was a fellow writer that I started talking to and she seemed really nice but then it turned out that she was one of those "hate the sin, love the sinner" types. I decided to test out the reaction I would get if I tried to talk about my gay couples so I started gushing about my then current lesbian couple with a "so you'd be okay with me going on about how cute my couples are, right?" Her answer was "it won't bother me but I can't promise to see or understand how cute they are". I decided it wouldn't work out if her attitude toward queer couples was that different from straight couples. But I went on and wrote my adorable lesbian couple and loved every minute of it.

I wish you luck with your projects. I'm sure you'll figure out how this species of yours works.