glymr

Hello folks! It's been awhile. I've been spending more time on Discord and in-person activities and less on Dreamwidth. It feels a little awkward to jump back in just to ask for advice, but this is important, so here goes!

Has there been any discussion of the current crop of OTW candidates that anyone can point me to? I've been reading over the candidates' interviews posted to the transformativeworks.org site and I find myself liking Natalia Gruber, particularly because of her response to this question:

Q: "Because we’re all volunteers, change can sometimes happen very slowly in the org. If you could pick one slow-moving OTW change or project that you think is most important to prioritize, what would you pick?"

A: "I believe that reviewing our policies to better protect our users from harassment is a very urgent goal, and if I could pick just one to prioritize, I would like for us to make progress on this.

Conversations about harassment on AO3 have been ongoing for a long time, and the OTW has started working on reviewing policies to help our most vulnerable users recently, but understandably, this change needs to be very carefully planned and discussed before it can be implemented. I would like to help the teams in charge of this project so that we can move forward and create a safer environment on AO3."


But before I cast my vote I wondered if anyone had any reasons they wanted to share about why they might be supporting one of the other candidates. I understand there are some rumors going around that one of the candidates is supportive of anti policies, and I want to make sure I'm not missing anything that I should be aware of. I apologize if there's been discussion on this that I've missed - please feel free to link me to any relevant journal entries. Thank you all. <3 I hope you are all safe and well!

Edited to add: regarding the 'anti' candidate, a friend sent me a link that was helpful in contextualizing the situation: https://twitter.com/muzhiyou/status/1557870197176152064

I keep thinking "I should post about that" and then I don't, and then the opportunity slips away. But I was reminded of something today and thought I would ask about it!

I've received several nice reviews of "The Eighth Key" (thanks in part to my husband, who went and submitted the story to every queer review site he could find). There's a part of one review that struck me as odd, so much so that it keeps sneaking up on me even months later. I came across it again today and thought I would post about it.

The full review is here, but the part that struck me in particular was this:

"Many authors use fiction to unpack their own trauma or, unfortunately, use queer and POC trauma as drama and plot instead of writing an actual book. Weyr does not. She takes the Schitt’s Creek approach: what if we lived in a world where people can be who they are, unapologetically, without losing their place in the world and their families? It’s a beautiful thing to read. Weyr does it so seamlessly that I almost forgot to mention it."

Of course that was immensely lovely and flattering. But at the same time, it set me back on my heels a bit, because... is it really so unusual to set a queer story in a non-homophobic world?

Coming from a tradition of fanfiction, where ignoring homophobia and queer issues is common enough to hardly require noting, it didn't even occur to me to make it a *thing* in my novel. I almost feel like a fraud (hello again, imposter syndrome!) to have this in particular highlighted when I have read so many wonderful fanfics that envision a world where 'people can be who they are, unapologetically'.

I've also read a decent amount of gay/queer romance, but I've tended to drift towards Regency-era stories or other types of period pieces (Cat Sebastian, KJ Charles, etc) where homophobia is very much part of the setting. But surely some people must be writing gay romance set in fantasy worlds, and surely homophobia must not exist in some of them? Then again, if that's the case, why would a reviewer on a queer romance review site feel it worth noting? They must have read many more queer romance novels than I have.

If you follow me and if you read queer romance novels, I'm curious: do you think it's unusual to set the story in a non-homophobic world, especially if it's in the fantasy genre?

Username: glymr
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Medium Likes: I love art, fic, vids, and more esoteric types of transformative works.

Medium DNWs: The only thing that I have difficulty with is long audio pieces (more than 20 minutes or so).

General Likes:

• Identity porn! (More on this below).


• Genderswap of any kind (I love femmeslash!)


• AUs that diverge from canon (ie change one thing and see what happens)


• Entirely different universe AUs - coffeeshop, wingfic, soulmate, gamer, reincarnation fixit...the sky's the limit!


• Insecure characters who are convinced they're not good enough receiving love and reassurance from their partner or partners


• Touch-starved characters


General DNWs: A/B/O, graphic or extended scenes of torture, scat, watersports, unhappy ending, mpreg, irredeemable Ye Zun. I don't mind bittersweet or complicated stories, but I'd like to be able to believe that characters will be able to find their way to a happily ever after eventually.

Fandom: Guardian
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I'm happy with just about any pairings in the background, but the ones that I'm currently most interested in seeing as the focus of a story/art piece/etc are:

Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei
Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei/Chu Shuzhi
Ye Zun/Zhu Jiu
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan/Ye Zun (in any combination)

Rating: I'll read anything from completely gen stories all the way to explicit smut.

Fandom: Guardian RPF and AU RPF (ie Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong Character Combinations)
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No matter what, if you decide to create something for me, it will make me happy. But I would much rather not receive anything than to cause you unwanted stress! So if you do decide to make something for me, I hope you can relax and have fun with it! ^_^

Here is the link to my wishlist on the comm (this is where gifts are supposed to be posted or linked so that they can be screened and revealed all at once. :)