Happy Pride!
5 months ago
I've just finished a draft for the latest YCH story, and it is GAY. I'm just sorry that I can't post it today, though I ardently hope that it will be polished and revised before the month is through.
If you're LGBTQ in the U.S., today marks 55 years since the Stonewall riots, a spontaneous uprising of a thousand gay, trans, and other marginalized people that continued for almost a week and, likely unknown to the people who participated in it, marked the start of the gay rights movement. Other people have said more profound things about Stonewall than I ever could, but before we lionize the people who spoke truth to power and elevate them to the status of legendary beings, remember that they were human beings, folks no different than us living in an intolerant and intolerable regime who decided they'd had enough and threw hands, consequences be damned. They were mortal, flesh and blood people, and yet they moved the needle and gave the rest of us some room to breathe. I am grateful to this brave and beautiful bunch, but also cognizant of how much we're like them and how we all have to push back a little against the envelopment of darkness and superstition, not just because we should, but also because we can.
As a purveyor of gay transformation smut, I do want to ask: What are everyone's favorite LGBTQ transformation stories, be they mainstream or adult? Do you have any favorite allegories or themes in transformation fiction that resonate with sexual identity?
One of my personal favorite themes is displacement. While I really love sexuality shifts as part of the transformation, it's more important to me that the person who's been transformed has to recalculate their role in society. Sometimes it's a nuisance, sometimes it's liberating, sometimes it's dangerous, but I like a bit of a blend, where part of the reckoning with the new self involves worrying about how others will perceive them, but also how it frees them from obligations and customs, peeling away the extraneous and ceremonial to realize what's most important to them.
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Track: Happiness National Remiks
Album: 19999
Composer: Gabriel Eduardo (Windows96)
Please stand for the Frutiger Aero National Anthem
If you're LGBTQ in the U.S., today marks 55 years since the Stonewall riots, a spontaneous uprising of a thousand gay, trans, and other marginalized people that continued for almost a week and, likely unknown to the people who participated in it, marked the start of the gay rights movement. Other people have said more profound things about Stonewall than I ever could, but before we lionize the people who spoke truth to power and elevate them to the status of legendary beings, remember that they were human beings, folks no different than us living in an intolerant and intolerable regime who decided they'd had enough and threw hands, consequences be damned. They were mortal, flesh and blood people, and yet they moved the needle and gave the rest of us some room to breathe. I am grateful to this brave and beautiful bunch, but also cognizant of how much we're like them and how we all have to push back a little against the envelopment of darkness and superstition, not just because we should, but also because we can.
As a purveyor of gay transformation smut, I do want to ask: What are everyone's favorite LGBTQ transformation stories, be they mainstream or adult? Do you have any favorite allegories or themes in transformation fiction that resonate with sexual identity?
One of my personal favorite themes is displacement. While I really love sexuality shifts as part of the transformation, it's more important to me that the person who's been transformed has to recalculate their role in society. Sometimes it's a nuisance, sometimes it's liberating, sometimes it's dangerous, but I like a bit of a blend, where part of the reckoning with the new self involves worrying about how others will perceive them, but also how it frees them from obligations and customs, peeling away the extraneous and ceremonial to realize what's most important to them.
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Track: Happiness National Remiks
Album: 19999
Composer: Gabriel Eduardo (Windows96)
Please stand for the Frutiger Aero National Anthem
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It speaks to how, sometimes, all it takes is that one little push or incident to get somebody to start rethinking their values; how circumstantial our beliefs can be.
I do have some WIPs that I'm working on. I'm looking forward to the point where I can get those posted
Theme-wise overall is acceptance and understanding. Knowing that you're... how you're supposed to be.
I guess that at least cements one's sexual identity.