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When are you changing your username?

A young man decided it was time to come out to his family. 

He was worried most about his grandmother, so he approached her in the kitchen.

"Grandma, I, uh, have to tell you something."

"Yes, sweety?"

"I, uh, I'm gay."

"Gay?" His heart stopped. "Does that mean you put men's things in your mouth?"

"Grandma!!!!"

"Well??"

Mortified, he muttered sheepishly, "I, uh, yeah?"

Whack! The wooden spoon found its mark. "Don't you EVER," she sternly replied, "complain about my cooking again."

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That Time a Published Author Told Me to Un-Queer My Novel

So, I don't think I ever shared this story on Tumblr before.

As you may know I've spent the past ten years turning my old Welcome to Night Vale fanfic into a stand alone novel called Echo of the Larkspur. Now, I haven't been working on it ten years straight. I'd pick it up, do a bunch of editing and rewriting, submit it to agents/publishers, get turned down, put the book away, wait 2-3 years, dust off the book, re-edit and rewrite, etc etc. A cycle that repeated itself far too many times that I would like.

Well, during one of these cycles when I was in the 'get rejected by every agent and publisher I submit to' stage I asked the writing group I was in what I was doing wrong. Because at this point I had reached a hundred total rejections and I was starting to suspect that the issue was with me.

One of the members of this writing group, a male author who was traditionally published, offered to read my first chapter and give his advice on how to fix it. This was, in retrospect, a mistake. But I was desperate. I sent him the first chapter and waited for his response.

Folks. The email he sent me changed my life.

First he said that agents wouldn't publish my novel because it was Sci-fi with hardcore gay erotica in it. This is curious because while the book certainly is queer, at no point in the conversation with this man did I say it was hardcore erotica. Nor did the first chapter feature any. It's almost as if he assumed that just because something was gay, it had to be hardcore erotica. Interesting.

He went on to say that a Human/Robot pairing was weird and that there was "No Way" my story could seriously address the issues of a relationship like that. Once again, he only read the first chapter. He just...assumed I wouldn't think of that? And that my book wouldn't cover it?

The author then said “I also felt that the LGBTQ inclusion really seems to cloud things.” Direct Quote.

And then this is when he said my favorite quote of them all:

The idea of a book being a sci-fi with romance AND a mystery is a Modern Art Marzipan Owl. It's just too confusing! No one can handle a story that is a mystery in a sci-fi enviroment AND has a romantic subplot! THEIR BRAINS WOULD LITERALLY EXPLODE!

Thankfully he had a solution to my book problem. His answer? Turn the book into an Action Spy Thriller and turn S.A.G.E., a robot that identies as a gay man, into a sexy lady robot who needs a MAN to teach her what it means to be human.

(I assume the male lead will teach the 'confused' female robot how to be human via his penis.)

Now my favorite part about this advice is that at no point did he outright say "Remove the gay part". No, instead he sneakily changed the robot love interest into a female robot as if I wouldn't notice. Just sort of swept away the gay bits as something totally unneeded and just mucking up the narrative. Also that's not the plot of my story, I have no idea where this virus thing came from.

(Also note that the female robot can't be robotic-like at all. Must preserve the average straight-man sex drive at all costs I guess)

He then finished his email basically saying that I should remove everything that 'traditional publishers' don't like (aka the queer parts) and make it easier for 'your average reader' to digest and my book will be good as published!

When I said this email changed my life I meant it. Because it made me realize I'd rather be self published and unknown than traditionally publish milquetoast trash like he suggested. Like holy fuck. If I removed all of the "Difficult" to digest stories out of Echo of the Larkspur then there wouldn't be a book left!

So here I am. Self publishing my Marzipan Modern Art Owl of a book. I know it'll never see the inside of a bookstore or top the charts on Goodreads but hey, I'd rather it speak to one person than have a thousand people get excited for the part where the male lead teaches the lady robot how to be human (via his penis).

If a Queer Sci-fi/Romance/Mystery novel sounds like your jam then consider preordering it!

Looking for something to read now? Can't afford the book? Willing to read in exchange for an honest review? You can join my ARC book readers here!

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I do not understand whats going on... but i do like it...

Man. im Still learning ok?!

I’m rushing a lot or just being lazy with my shit, so I’m honestly not going to worry if this doesn’t get any attention.

Part 4 first

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I... k, tshirts, standard gaud post, blood eggs, based post, will use, christianity infinite lactation argument.... idek hkw to react to something like that... like... checks out seems right for a mythos...

…THEY’RE CALLED T-SHIRTS BECAUSE THEY RESEMBLE THE LETTER T

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Add to shopping list: skirts

went out today and was reminded how people will trip over themselves to help out a clumsy girl in a skirt

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Was it the 'omg thats so me' post? The one I litterally tagged as being a joke... please, Anon, I'm so curious

kill yourself

Damn, got an annonymous ask for me to kill myself in my blog with like 10 followers... honestly kinda based.... like I genuibely cannot express how funny this is to me as someone who has genuinely considered scuicide in the past.... like... TF did I even do? Like 90% if my posts are weird writing things, art I reblogged, and like random things avout games I'm obsessing over...

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kill yourself

Damn, got an annonymous ask for me to kill myself in my blog with like 10 followers... honestly kinda based.... like I genuibely cannot express how funny this is to me as someone who has genuinely considered scuicide in the past.... like... TF did I even do? Like 90% if my posts are weird writing things, art I reblogged, and like random things avout games I'm obsessing over...

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Pebbix propaganda.

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This really just feels like pokemon in MHrise style to me... its great

Poorly drawn Sewaddle line

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OKG THATS SO MEEEEEE

u can literally be like “this behavior is extremely racist” and white ppl will be like “me meee MEEE!! i do that haha i do that ommmg relatable i do that yay i do that!!!”

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Looking in the mirror... despite everything... It's still me... ...

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Also, let's be honest, his "kid" did half the abandoning, he just passed out, and it left on its own. Like sure he should have looked for it, but he immediately fell sick, so like :/

yall need to be nicer to victor frankenstein, post partum depression is no joke

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(insert bad doodle of guardian awkwardly patting recluse's shoulder after she wails about the fact she totally whiffed her shot at getting into duchess' pants with this move)

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THE OLIGARCHS ARE FIGHTIIIIIIINGGGGGGG

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Perfection

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They should block chatgpt on uni WiFi the way they used to block coolmathgames

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there’s beautiful yuri in Elden Ring NightReign trust me bro 🦋🔮