Writer's Coffee Club, 3/30/25
Mar. 30th, 2025 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_gneechOver on Mastodon, some of my writery pals use the #WritersCoffeeClub prompt to dash off quick daily or semi-daily bits, and I'm going to try taking up the practice for a bit. Here's today's:
It's weird, I don't usually think of my work as being "about queerness," but the work tends to be packed with it in any case. I didn't realize until after I finished writing it that the Sky Pirate's Prisoner prominently featured a sapphic couple, a trans woman, -and- a polycule... it just ended up that way because that what was right for those characters. Of those, the only one I paid much attention to in terms of deliberate choices was the trans woman, because in the original draft she was just a broad stereotype, but after putting in some research I realized that was very much not the way I wanted the story to go.
That said, all the way back to including Drezzer in The Suburban Jungle, making sure queerness was out and proud in my stories has been important to me.
-The Gneech
Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?
It's weird, I don't usually think of my work as being "about queerness," but the work tends to be packed with it in any case. I didn't realize until after I finished writing it that the Sky Pirate's Prisoner prominently featured a sapphic couple, a trans woman, -and- a polycule... it just ended up that way because that what was right for those characters. Of those, the only one I paid much attention to in terms of deliberate choices was the trans woman, because in the original draft she was just a broad stereotype, but after putting in some research I realized that was very much not the way I wanted the story to go.
That said, all the way back to including Drezzer in The Suburban Jungle, making sure queerness was out and proud in my stories has been important to me.
-The Gneech
