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vaarsuvius from the order of the stick is genderqueer (canon)

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he no no wanna >:(

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It’s been a year since the last time Duck Prints Press (the indie press founded by fancreators to help other fancreators publish their original work) called for applicants, and we are absolutely thrilled and super excited to announce that today is the day! We are recruiting author contributors for our next anthology!

Aether Beyond the Binary is an all-new aetherpunk anthology that will feature 20 short stories each up to 7,500 words long that re-imagine modern or near-future Earth as a place where aether is real and the technology runs on this mysterious, magical element. Specifically, stories will focus on the stories of characters who are outside the gender binary (agender, genderfluid, nonbinary, etc.) living in aetherpunk settings on contemporary-esque Earth—a world like ours, but different because of the advent of the availability magic to power technology.

Has mankind known about magic since the dawn of evolution? Was aether discovered literally yesterday? How does the availability of aether as a power source impact society, politics, economics, culture, technology, sexuality, gender? We want to hear your ideas! For this project, we’re seeking 10 fanfiction authors who have not published their work with the Press before and who are interested in making the transition to publishing their original work! (The other 10 spots are reserved for authors who have previously worked with us.) New applicants must have published fanfiction before—the full guidelines are in our rules, linked below.

This post is not a call for story submissions! Duck Prints Press runs anthology recruitment on a zine-like model: we ask that prospective authors submit a writing sample (750 to 1500 words) and an up-to-400-word story pitch aligned with Aether Beyond the Binary’s themes. You must write and post fanfiction to apply to these anthologies, but all stories in Aether Beyond the Binary must be 100% original! Selected authors who complete their stories will be paid a minimum of $75 US for their work; we will seek additional money through crowdfunding to supplement this, with a maximum earning potential of $600 US.

Interested in applying? We’d love to hear from you! Make sure you familiarize with all the rules first…

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Applications open today, January 5th, 2023, and recruitment will stay open until either we receive 150 applications or January 20th, 2023. So, review the rules, hit us up with questions (or you can e-mail us at [email protected]), prepare your shiniest writing sample, set your creativity on crafting an awesome tale of an outside-the-binary main character living on aetherpunk Earth, and then…

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Hello! I'm writing a genderqueer character and I'm unsure of how to go about it because they're a child, and most of what I've seen is teenagers or adults. They're about 10-13 and don't mind being percieved as any particular gender, so they go with any pronouns too. I'm unsure of to what extent they would know about their gender identity though, if it should be portrayed explicitly or if it's just something that feels more instinctual to them. Their story doesn't revolve around their gender identity at all so I don't know how much emphasis to put in it too.

Honestly this is something you can take a lot of creative freedom with. You can decide how much awareness they have on a personal level. I think stating in-text or even in a little blurb at the beginning of the story explaining the multiple pronoun usage would be a good way to make it clear to the reader. Lots of books also have character profiles in the beginning which allow people to more easily keep track of who is who, and who is in relation to another character in some way. This might be an easy way to introduce pronouns as well.

Personally I would probably pick up on it without that if I noticed a character first being introduced with "they" pronouns and then cycling through other ones, but I'm someone very immersed in the queer community, and English is my first language. I read a lot of things which already have trans rep, and I myself am trans, so I'm primed to notice and understand these kinds of things. If this is the first intro your reader has to someone who uses pronouns in this way (which is inevitably the case, people learn every day!), it might bear explaining.

mod nat

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

“Have you ever had a dream where you were somebody else?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, not someone else exactly but like you if you were like a girl.”

“Nah, I’ve never had a dream like that.”

“Oh.”

“Have you?”

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misgendering my genderqueer character is very uncomfortable and i do not like writing from the transphobe's point of view. thank god i am killing her off at the end of this book. my bones are itching every time i use a binary pronoun for faer.

#writing #shitpost #late night writing #genderqueer characters #queer writer #queer writers #to be clear i am only misgendering faer because i cannot think of any reason why this nasty pos villain would use faer neopronouns correctl

I feel like I should preface my BAKK headcanons with:

I hc Kenma as genderfluid, and they prefer they/them to be used if people don't know their current pronouns. They usually wear hoodies (usually stolen but they have their own collection of hoodies with particular textures that help when their senses are out of whack) and sweatpants around the house, but when they have to go to official stuff they have a whole closet full of fancy stuff. (Also, yes, I am aware this isn't related I just wanted theirs and Kuroo's Paragraphs to be similar lengths don't mind me)

I hc Kuroo as cis male, but he literally doesn't give a shit. Like, his pronouns are he/him, but if you call him she or they he doesn't give a shit. Likewise, he wears whatever he wants, regardless of what section it comes from. He does this partially to make his partners more comfortable and partially because he just likes dressing like that. It cracks him up when people see him with his partners and he's wearing makeup and they think he's the trans one, when in fact it is every single one of his partners but him.

I hc Akaashi as nonbinary. They use they/them pronouns and they struggle a lot with their gender. On a base level, it makes sense to them- they can't fathom being any other gender. But it's difficult because they didn't grow up in the most supportive environment- so they aren't really comfortable in their own skin or their expression. They default to sweaters and jeans or tighter sweatpants.

I hc Bokuto as genderqueer. He IDs as a guy- but not a man. Just a kinda-man. He uses he/xe. Xe are generally pretty loud about his support of the LGBTQ+ community, but the news mostly attributes it to him being in a poly relationship with 2 trans partners, even though xe aren't exactly quiet about xir gender.