This. A reminder for #PrideMonth. You don't have to be out to count. You're queer. You matter. Your safety is more important. If you don't have a back-up plan or a safety net, do what keeps you safe.
Day five of #PrideMonth recommendations and I'm going fauxmance today, and explaining why I love fauxmance specifically when it comes to queer romance...
Let's chat Rebekah Weatherspoon's "Xeni" and Aurora Rey and Jaime Clevenger's "A Convenient Arrangement."
Since we so often talk about the limits of automated technology/scripts/robots/AI, I present to you, this, what happened on Facebook when I mentioned I might need to "kill a darling" in my manuscript.
I cannot tell you how many actual homophobic, violent, racist, awful things pass my timeline. But this? This they flag.
#WritersCoffeeClub Do you have advice for other authors that you haven't heard from different sources?
Every time you get edited, take a second to add things to a general list that have come up in the editing process. I call mine my "Foible List" to feel a bit better about it.
That way, post-draft, you can pull out that list and check all the things on it before you hand it to your editor. Saves time—and lets them find new mistakes you make instead of old ones! ;)
Today's Star Trek Adventures is with my USS Bellerophon group, and they're warping off into the Shackleton Expanse. This adventure is right out of the Modiphius Shackleton Expanse Campaign book. I spent a season creating some set-up using a mix of mission briefs and my own noggin, but this time it's entirely from a pre-printed adventure.
Walking the dog is one of the times that husband and I are visibly QUEER DUDES WALKING DOG.
And that's JUST TOO MUCH for some people. Truly. Glares, snarks, comments...
Super fun.
It's getting worse. Truly. This didn't happen anywhere near as much with our last pupper, but it's not the dog.
It's the dog whistles.
(That said, other dog walkers really enjoy trying to make us not-queer by saying "Oh! Are you brothers!" as though that would make it okay for two dudes to walk a dog together.)
Your indicators also tell pedestrians what you're going to do. Using your indicator when you intent to turn at an intersection isn't an optional if-you-feel-like it funsies you do just when other cars are around.
