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omg. galaxy brain. It would help if there were more active BL stories (or completed) being posted on SH though to entice readers over to read/or to give recs when readers on NU ask for them. We know each other??? :blob_aww: I also look-see at stats on the most recent chapter of things as a...

I write in Google Docs, basically all on one document, so I use Headings so that I can quickly navigate to the character name heading and their associated character info. Word has a similar heading feature.

You have to realise that AO3, people don't tag genre, but tag tropes instead. But I agree adding GenderBender + Trans Male Character is even rare on AO3 as well. Rather, it's GenderBender that is rare on AO3: the number of results of Trans Male Character (and Trans Female Character) is MUCH...

TV: The King's Avatar!!!! WN: Death Progress Bar Now I don't play games anymore, but I doo see a lot of pretty art and content from Hades and Genshin Impact, and I listen to their OSTs now haha

Have you considered searching up the Transgender tag on SH instead of the Genderbender genre? Tapas also has some novels and comics that have trans ftm characters, and AO3 has more too.

YEP. This is why I would classify my fic matcha & milk as extremely mainstream, because it is very mainstream BL. There were zero (0) trans characters in sight, and the only "flavour" I added was some experiences growing up asian and queer. I basically set out to write something that was...

Ah I might leave that for Moonpearl [edit: and others!] to answer. I've only read GL written by women and nonbinary people :blob_melt: but I suspect that male gaze vs female gaze, as well as author experiences leads to different focuses (and different story topics and settings, for example)...

all hail hard working Tony!!

This is really all I ask in M/M centered stories, actually, because as you say, in an M/M fic, the two men are the focus. When I want to read a F/F centered story, I'll go and read an F/F centered story, lol. (Like, in a fic with M/M, I like to know that there also exists background F/F...

My impression of GL is that it's a lot more nice and varied than BL, and doesn't have a lot of the...hetero-codedness....that BL has. Or should I say, passerby readers are typically more aware of the range of LGBT+ people in existence. Awww, I bet the GL community has cookies :blob_cookie: To...

OMG so many good and interesting points while I was gone!! It definitely won't be happening on a place like SH, that's for sure. Even though the terms are technically same (denotation is same), their connotation is different. Combined with the discussions beforehand, it would REALLY NICE if...

OH that suggests that my confusion was due to me being ace :blob_facepalm: Okay, that makes sense now

Ohh, where?? ? Oh, I think I've seen some of those "gritty manly" gay fiction covers lol. I think I remember initially thinking all the male-body descriptions of characters in BL to be over the top, except in gay [adult] romance it's just as detailed. But it's been a long time since I read...

Actually, I wanted to just talk about how great BL is :blob_pout: (And also how it seems to be a love/hate genre lol)

I think it would be better to open a can on worms on a forum topic that is receptive towards BL :blob_hide: Pretty sure that I agree with you, that as long as the textual evidence and word of god/author explicitly defines the two characters in love as men, then it's BL/Gay Romance. I agree that...

There are so many different types of stories featuring a guy loving another guy. On the more female (both straight and queer) dominated side, are the genre names "Boys Love" biasing towards Eastern tropes, and M/M romance biasing towards Western tropes. On the more male dominated side, we have...

Interesting! Demographics so far have confirmed my impressions lol

AO3 is https://archiveofourown.org/ which is the gayest of all big fanfic websites :blob_cookie: