romantasychris.bsky.social
Just a dumb flamboyant disaster bi, writing queer love stories with magic and adventure in fantastical worlds. (trans & polyamory inclusive narratives!)
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I am not safe, but I know that when they come for us we won't be alone.
I know there are bodies with more privilege on the front line in front of me.
I cannot tell you how much easier that makes it to wake up and go to work in the morning, how much it helps me fall asleep at night.
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My boss's boss's boss has checked in on me 3 times in the last month. HR checked in today.
My partner's boss's boss checked in on them yesterday.
My brother is disabled and doesn't work - but his *bus driver* and his doctor have both voiced support.
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Who are your most loved authors? 💖 maybe someone could have some good recs in the comments!
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Oooh, yes, more bisexuals!!
My kingdom for bi, poly, romantasy books in 2025. 👀⭐️💖
I only have one e in my read pile, because I cannot find them. 😔😢
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Just posting to say these are beautiful book covers 👀⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️✨️✨️
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The queer romantasy space is thriving, too! ✨
I could only give recs for M/M, but there's lots of good stuff out there.
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I'm doing my book covers as more of a One Per Day Whenever I Remember and that's ok for me, at least
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This is a romance novel, if you cannot tell by the extremely attractive way I have described the romantic interest in a puffy coat.
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Tobi making first impressions like a dumbass:
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Let's not slide backwards, folks. 🤦♂️
It's just a new flavor of the "transtrender" discourse from the early 2010s.
Ain't no one owe you shit from their gender presentation, as actual people or in narrative structure.
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Is that... not correct?? 🤔
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(This isn't commentary or endorsement for anything else in the longer reskeeted thread - just my own thoughts about how known problem figures continue to be a quiet problem and how the issue is getting worse, not better)
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Fans are silently and gradually losing safe spaces while larger corperate for-profit shows take over, and it's something that I don't think anyone outside the volunteer community really sees or understands is happening.
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The point I'm trying to circle around to here is that it takes community minded individuals that care about building safe environments on both the attendee side and the volunteer side, and that's something we're losing.
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I mean this in as neutral a way as possible:
The current attendee crowd for fan events is deeply entitled and critical.
It is exhausting.
I won't volunteer for fan focused events anymore because of it (vs industry focussed). I know other lifetime volunteers who feel similarly.
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That $$$$ means that the events that won't book them tend to be nonprofits.
And post-COVID, nonprofit events of all sizes are dying out. From massive burnout-related volunteer losses, yes, but more than that something in the *culture* of cons was lost in the turnover to this generation of fans.
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The setting is post-industrial magic punk, with hints that the world beyond the arctic circle where magic doesn't flourish as freely hasn't quite caught up to their advances without access to magic runes to rely on.
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Researcher = Tobi, a short, stout man with little glasses who always seems to have a ruler, a compass, and a marker to draw on the ice. Logical to a fault.
Athlete = Jeseph, a tall and lean disaster twink with self-absorbed tendencies, recovering from the crash and burn of ambition gone awry
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Disgraced magical athlete w/gambling debt takes a job in a distant city as a rune-skating public servant in the climate control dept. to hide from his creditors, where he meets a half-immigrant university research faculty who is trying to live up to his father's legacy & help his mother's country
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If the later, then I think it's OK if banter is shuffle-able. What the reader is here for is more of the same pumped directly into their veins.
But that's the genre difference between, like, serialized murder mysteries and a romance novel. The purpose of the dialogue is different.
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I think it depends on the reason a character or relationship is interesting -
Are we joining the story to watch these characters grow and change and feel things about that journey?
Ir are we here to revel in and enjoy a character's entertaining presence like a dear old friend?
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🤔🤔🤔
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I've drafted a pile of novels before (mostly bad ones before QSS tbh) and I'm not one to abandon a story while I'm in the middle of writing it. But Crown Divided has never hit the point where it has its own momentum, where it feels like it's writing itself. I just keep hitting walls with this one 😵💫☠️
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I've heard it described as the world building and plot hooks of a fantasy book with the structure and character arc of a romance book, and I think that's about accurate tbh.
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I think Urban Fantasy with romance is usually genre sorted as Paranormal. 🤔
(Not that that's fair or accurate all the time! Just the general trend)
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Like a forum it takes some time and expertise to set up the structure and moderation tools the way you want them, but one it's up it's up.
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Discord severs are effectively the modern equivalent to hobby forums.
Small communities, self moderated by their own leadership. If you think of channels as subforumns delivered via instand message it's basically the same.
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This rabbit is clearly experiencing some sort of graphics processing problem and clapping thru the furniture 🤔
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Sometimes you need cocoa to write your best!!