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Both present and past tense have its uses. I don't have the hangups about present tense that native(?) english speakers seem to express in this thread. I can and do use both depending on which would fit the story and its narrator character best.

I think the second question is pretty interesting! It's a "yes, but not always", like I wouldn't want it to become the new norm, just, like, an option you're not forced into. A chat box next to a character creator, on picrew, in the sims, etc...

Legally speaking, I know it's enough of a grey area that Ao3 and ffnet don't allow you to monetize uploads of your fics on their platforms. My personal take is Fanfic should totally be allowed to be monetized. It's what they do in Japan; the doujin scene is thriving. Fanart can be monetized...

Toxic positivity exists the same way toxic masculinity exists: it's not that all positivity is toxic, or that positivity is inherently toxic, but that there definitely are toxic ways to be positive.

such as?

I thought there were only two kinds of gender bender stories. The trans ones, and the bad ones. :blob_teehee:

I'm trans and a lesbian and I have Eyebrows To Raise at the way you've worded the one trans option and the assumption I'd be okay crossdressing back to male.

Ah, I've been tagged? I have no one to tag myself, sadly. If I were to tag anyone, it'd probably be the usual regulars of the forums that will probably find their way to this thread by themselves :p To introduce myself, I write queer mildly furry stories about gender. By mildly furry I mean...

as for when the transgender tag is applicable, it's if the character's personal gender identity doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth. And trans women can in fact be lesbians. So your yuri character, whether to tag transgender or not? Depends if they see themselves as a girl or not...

fwiw the transgender tag gb novels I've read don't have the complicated language you complain about, as far as I'm aware.

...Out of curiosity what makes you scared of looking at the transgender tag? (Also your questions are... hard to answer, because you seem to be drawing an arbitrary line between a lot of various things that would or would not fall under transgender based on interpretation and further context.)

There's a good amount of forum users you'll very quickly have to learn to put on Ignore, but otherwise the place is chill. There are many queer folks around here, especially a good bubble of lesbian trans women writing good gender bender shit.

So turns out the movie is fine and actually a critique of the hypersexualization of teenage girls, Netflix is just absolute dogshit at advertising and decided what better way to advertise that hypersexualization of teenagers is bad than by hypersexualizing teenagers. Fuck netflix. (Also how...

Ah yes, I forgot that 1984 was *checks note* a megacorporation breaking their contract with another megacorporation and receiving a slap on the wrist in exchange Some might say that it's a reference to an old ad from Apple but that was just as tone deaf even back then so Unionized socialism...

It's complicated. I'm not non-binary but I'm not not non-binary. I usually use the label of doublegirl to describe my situation - kinda demigirl vibes but with the opposite meaning, more girl than girl usually conveys. I've described my gender as if somebody got a girl volume dial on a guitar...

That's a biiiiig thing, too, yeah. Lots of eggs (slang for trans person in denial) just writing wish fulfillment where they get to be their preferred gender but having it forced upon them so they don't actually have to feel responsible for what they want. "Oh I'd love to turn back into a dude...

Gonna mostly echo what others have already said. There's definitely a big chunk of GB that's just written to get to have their cishet character in a horny lesbian harem ecchi fantasy. That and it's a trope. (As a sidenote EGS is great and I'll always thank it for Tedd kicking the door for my...

in this thread: moonpearl speaks the truth in the middle of a sea of misogynists showing their asses and poor spectators caught in between

baby's first female character: write a dude and change the pronouns at the end. It's very very imperfect, but if your idea of a girl is an incomprehensible thing that you need a nature documentary to grasp, it's gonna be better than whatever else you could be attempting.

Wow, thank you for the GB & Trans analysis! It's specifically the question I was wondering about. Really interesting to see there's about the same number of BL and GL stuff as well, usually sites always skew one or the other...