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  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    4 months ago
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    yea do you think they have funny polycules with drama and stuff, I mean several of them live or lived together so u know......

    Oh yeah absolutely, the "EVERY TRANS NOVEL OWES ITSELF" is basically just cause Nevada is first. If you read a Little Blue Encyclopedia by Hazel Jane Plante, or Natalie Ironside's works, or Idk, Fluids by May Leitz? Lily Seabrooke novels? These are transfem fiction that don't really bear the title A Novel, and don't really relate to Nevada the way a Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt or a Little Fish by Casey Plett does. Which is nice, if everything was a Nevada life might be tough..

    Hey look a Neon Yang reference =) Does this rule apply for transfem fiction too? Cause I can count the amount of transmasc guys in the books I've read on one hand, lmao

    • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago
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      Probably some of them.

      I usually don't mind it when transmasc or fem fiction doesn't have any other sorts of trans character, just like I don't mind when feminist fiction focuses primarily on women. My issue with the tensorate books is that it isn't really marketed as a specifically transmasc series and so much of it is about how the setting's society interacts with gender and yet we never get an example of how that works in the other direction. There's plenty of exploration of transmasc and non-binary identities, even some detrans/repressor characters, but absolutely no transfem character. I didn't want it to be something major but there couldn't have at least been a single transfem minor character? Every single woman in the novellas is either all-but stated to be or heavily coded as cis.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        4 months ago
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        yea

        Ahhhhhh I see! That sounds really interesting and also really goddamn annoying =) very lame tbh. That does seem like a big weird hole to leave in your fictional world, huh...