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Firstly, to say that rhetoric is "on me" and not on you, that's an incorrect statement. If someone was to use statements like "I think global warming is made up" or "I think vaccines are a hoax", it's correct to call those anti-science rhetoric, because that is what they are. Listeners can and...

It seems like you had a really bad time and are assuming that everyone's experience and BL circles are like yours, which, thankfully, they are not. I'm glad you're happy with GL, though, you seem really fulfilled by it!

I'm sorry you had such a rough time, that sounds awful. It's not reflective of my experience finding BL in the late 90s (or indeed, any BL fans I've ever met at all since then) so I'm quite surprised and saddened to hear this.

You don't have to apologize, I agree 100%. There's always a lot more that women and people of marginalized genders have to do to be taken seriously, and nine times out of ten, someone's going to attempt to ruin you based on nothing more than the fact that they don't like when marginalized people...

I always find it really enlightening when the anti-fujoshi rhetoric starts, and everyone starts talking about the "evil straight women who fetishize the gays", when self-reported surveys reveal that cishets are a minority among fujin. We had long heard from academics working in Japan that BL...

We use 'queer' for our history, events, organizing, and studies. It is the preferred word to be inclusive without being specific, which is great because so much of our identities are in flux. I get people's discomfort with the word. I was there, I've heard it used as a slur as well. But "queer...

I have felt for a long time that my work would be better genre-tagged as BL (rather than 'queer' or 'LGBTQ'), but it's difficult to differentiate between BL and mlm queer romance except that "I know it when I see it". In general, I think that we can say that Queer or LGBTQ Romance is the...

You're free to do so and continue your rock-solid trend of being absolutely wrong all the time. (y)

I found it helpful to direct readers to a glossary, but xuanhuan is a Chinese fantasy genre that is specifically Chinese without being historical fantasy (e.g., wuxia, or various imperial court dramas). I'm curious how making xuanhuan with a "Western twist" is not just... Western fantasy. Be...

Mea culpa. When you reach this age and level of education, sometimes you get some names mixed up. (Also you're a frequent bad faith potstirrer on these forums, so no, I don't think you would have.)

People who say "queer is a slur" are ahistorical in addition to being usually pretty terfy, and are easy to ignore.

This armchair psychiatry is making A Lot of assumptions, the most glaring of which is assuming that Frostbird's needs for validation are not being met in any other way. If their needs for validation are being met in their life, writing can be purely a product of the self-actualization process...

cishet is a term for those who are cisgendered and heterosexual; people who are not LGBTQ

Each of them requires the use of different skills, so it will vary from person to person. I only know one language and can't translate, but a good translator is knowledgeable about both languages they are using (including idiom or turns of phrase; knowing the Four Classics and poetry is useful...

I see you played Amnesia: Memories too.

Most netizens in China commented that 10 years was harsh for the crime she allegedly committed, with the understanding being that this sentence was especially punitive because it was gay content. Women's media in China is not taken seriously (much like chick lit and romance novels in the...

I started with a chapter buffer of about 10 chapters (so about 30k words), and I release weekly. The buffer slowly slipped away, and now I have no buffer at all. I've thought about taking a hiatus to build up a buffer again, but a hiatus is also frowned upon, so guess I'm screwed no matter what...

I know I am in the minority here, but I don't think it's a good idea. A lot of xianxia concepts are fundamentally Chinese concepts. Flying on swords, cultivation and cultivation sects, martial arts with manuals, etc., are all very grounded in and (certainly in the case of cultivation)...

I'm just going to make a small point here. All of the people you mentioned in your first reply are white, cis, straight men, selected by the publishing industry, which is also predominantly white, cis, straight men. The publishing industry has recently had several moments attempting to tackle...