National Coming Out Day
So October 11th is National Coming Out Day. I had a thought. If you need someone to come out to, anon or not, feel free to send me a message :) Coming out isn’t easy, and I definitely plan on sharing my story on Friday, but I thought I would put this out there now. I have a couple of different coming out stories, from my parents, to my partner’s parents, to friends, and just… yeah, I feel like everyone had a different reaction so it’s kind of a different story each time. Some good. Some not so good. But all important to me in some way.
Alsoooo, I know you're involved in the LGBT community and stuff and I was just curious on your opinion of like, main characters who are transgender (not sure if I'm using the right term??) or something of the like. The main character of my 2nd series (sequel to the ones I'm writing now) is gonna be a female who wants to be a male, but it's in a fantasy/medieval-ish setting, so I don't know how I'm gonna work that out...xP
I would love to see more transgender main characters. There’s a series that’s supposed to come out on the CW with a lead transgender character, which I am cautiously optimistic about (cautious because CW is hit or miss). We actually have a trans character coming up in our book series. We plan on doing a lot of research going in, because we don’t want to misrepresent anyone. We have a good friend who is actually in transition right now (male to female) and she’s been more than willing to talk to us when we reach our character. The last thing I want to do is misrepresent an underrepresented group.
This is a random anime example, but look into Grell from Black Butler. It’s Victorian era, but Grell is canonly a man who wants to be a woman. The creator did interviews with her characters and Grell actually said something along the lines of thinking God made a mistake in making “her” a man, and Grell always refers to herself as a lady. She also wants a family and children. Of course, the 1800s don’t really have the resources for such a thing (I think? I’m fairly certain they don’t, but that doesn’t mean that trans people didn’t exist, or maybe even extreme measures were taken? I think you can pull this off in your book, you just need to do research).
HOMG they’re voting on the Marriage Bill in Minnesota on Thursday guys what if i can actually get my big fat geek wedding after all like YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND I never thought this would be a thing!
