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Mhhh I think on most western sites, LGBT fiction is genuinely classified differently from BL. I think it’s only in the bubble of Asian novels (specifically NU) that people would think it’s the same thing. Ordinarily, we would say that BL is actually the more niche term that is imported from...

:blob_teary: Oh nuuu, I like them! XD I guess read too much trans/nb stuff and really enjoy it when the author takes a serious look at it. It’s sort of like how a majority of the trans fics deal with “egg” protagonists who slowly figure out their identities over time. But then again, I don’t...

Another item of advice for writing is to not introduce too many things at one time. Please don’t introduce all 13 gods of your religious pantheon in the first chapter. :sweating_profusely: ...I’ve seen stories like that and it rarely comes off well. Pick one god and introduce them in one...

My advice would be to do is little as you can. I know it sounds really odd, but the biggest mistakes I see are when people worldbuild too much and try to info-dump it, which doesn’t do very much except bore readers. My suggestion would be to start with a bare bones premise (I.e. A giant hole...

I sort of agree that I don’t think there is that much use to add a bara tag. That said, I do kind of wish we had an LGBT genre, for fiction that addresses LGBT themes more seriously or is targeted to an LGBT audience. There is a big difference in stories that treat LGBT issues seriously (I.e...

I've always wondered if there was a true difference between the type of men preferred by women and gay men. I mean, there's the obvious bara vs. yaoi dichotomy, and it's usually presumed that women prefer the bishie aesthetic. I feel like I read somewhere that a lot of fudanshis are straight...

My suspicion would be that they're some shade of demiromantic (the romantic aspects are more important to them than sex). I have a lesbian transgender friend who is dating a pre-transition nonbinary femme-identifying AMAB lover. My friend is aro/ace, and sexual things don't really interest...

Oh, as an addendum to this (and totally off-topic from the thread), there are a lot of reasons why two people can be in a relationship. Relationships (and even marriages) aren't necessary sexual, and some people find the romantic qualities of their relationship more important than the sexual...

It does! If you go to the Lounge on the main website and scroll down, there's a link to the official discord!

If it were the real world, it would technically be lesbian transgender, although I would personally be surprised that they aren't at least somewhat bi/pan/demiromantic. In the fictional world, depending on the author/genre/readerbase, a lot of those things could be thrown completely out of the...

I skimmed through the other thread (the conversation was too long so I didn't read it before), and it's a really interesting discussion. I think I'm going to take a third (ish) diametric position. Rather than the character's own gender-identity or the author's intention, I think the reader's...

This is some interim results in case anyone wanted to see the hours spent reading/writing in more detail. It's a little hard to see on the auto-charts since this was a short response item and a number of people provided text responses. This interim data has up to 102 responses (81 non-blank)...

It's blank so I just ignore it xD but either way it's up to you!

It's should still be open! It's not closed yet! There should be an option that lets you see the results after you submit >.< You can submit a blank form to see if you missed it

For record-keeping purposes. Survey was posted at 6:11 PM (EST) on December 1st. It remained on SH's front page until 1:27 AM (EST) on December 2nd, during which 87 form submissions were recorded. 75 forms were non-blank. Survey was advertised on discord, and at least one author shared the...

Hmm, for me, gay/queer fiction differs from BL in that it is targeted to LGBTQ readers. I think it’s genuinely a different genre because I’ve heard LGBTQ readers say that they hate yaoi/danmei/shounenai since it portrays them inaccurately or poorly. I was searching around since I was curious...

Yup, it's certainly a self-assessment question and highly subjective. In fact, many of the questions on the survey are quite subjective and reflect the respondent's beliefs and personal outlook. Rather than thinking of the question as a true/objective measure of a person's financial status, it...

You can submit a blank form!

There doesn't need to be a reason for data! :blob_upset: I'm not doing it for any particular purpose, if that's your question. ^^ I'm actually known on NUF for making hundreds of polls for the sake of polling! :blob_paint: You can find the current results by clicking through and submitting the...