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Happy MGM! Would any of your bi/pan characters like to weigh in on why they use the label they do, and maybe why the distinction is important to them?

Oh boy. As someone who used to identify as pan, and then realized I was ace, and then was confused as to what romantic identity I was (bisexual ace), the distinction was important to me so I made it important to my ocs. I know bi and pan labels overlap in a lot of ways, but in the end the decision usually tends to be a personal one. 

In this case, Savill is pan because he’s down to dance the midnight tango with everyone and anyone. Everyone and anyone has the same chance to get his, usually, unwanted attention and, also usually, unwanted advances. Because he’s a little horny bastard that doesn’t understand what ‘reading the room’ means unless it involves an adult joke book on the bed. 

On the other hand, Raya and Dakota have fluctuating preferences or just favor one more over the other but are capable of and willing to have a relationship with any gender identity. I really don’t know how Raya puts up with Savill sometimes but that’s her problem. 

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Hello and happy Monday! From Pride Questions to OC of your choosing: Tell us a little about your journey. Have you always IDed the way you do now? Are there parts of you you’re still figuring out?

Fahleon definitely went through the most changes, if only because there was no set orientation for him from the beginning. He started of as an oc for Dragon Age which does have some focus on a love interest and I’d just picked one for him and let the story go on, but it always felt silly for him to be in any kind of relationship. It wasn’t until everything got turned around into the modern au that then evolved into Red Velvet Cupcakes that I remembered that he didn’t have to be in  any kind of relationship! I’d known he was going to be ace, and the aro was added on later.

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Happy Meet and Greet Monday, and Happy Pride Month! Give your OCs the floor to talk about their gender and/or orientations.

I have way too many lgbt ocs so we’re just going to make a list

Savill: Pansexual Raya: Bisexual Leverette: Homoromantic Asexual Fahleon: Aromantic Asexual

Cameron: Straight Grey: NB gay Emma: Pansexual Wren: literally a god and has no gender or sexual orientation but likes to present as male in human form

Adam: Biromantic Asexual Dakota: Bisexual

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For Pride Week, here are all of the LGBTQ for the cast of Jackie Bell’s Guide To Being A Hero!!!

Jackie Bell is a disaster bisexual with just a pinch of disaste-- oh no, OH NO I TIPPED THE WHOLE THING OH NO WHAT DO I DO

Kara doesn’t know, doesn’t particularly care, and just wants to be left alone to trail after Jackie in peace

Spencer is demisexual and also has never seen a gender role in his entire life

Miguel is absolutely delighted with the fact that one can like all genders, something he didn’t know until Jackie told him and soothed all his confused feelings about this very pretty boy? 

Jade is very pan, very pretty, and very scary

Nadia isn’t entirely sure, mainly leaning towards boys (and towards boys does she lean), but she does like pretty people

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NATEOW: Snippet #2 (Pride Edition!!!)

Miguel was zoning out again.

Jackie looked up from her book to where Miguel sat across from her. His face was propped up on his hand, eyes trained on something across the room. Jackie glanced behind her. Or maybe someone. Jackie heard Spencer laugh at something Kara said, and a sappy smile spread across Miguel’s face.

Then she was quite upset at the fond smile that spread across her own face. She supposed it was mostly her fault for getting attached to these idiots but it was also a little bit their faults and that’s what matters.

“Oh, pardon me, I was ignoring you!” Miguel’s practiced smile was on, but his eyes darted back to Spencer.

“It’s fine. It’s cute, you know.” Jackie practically heard Miguel’s ‘Impress Jackie’ alarm go off. He leaned over to her.

“What is?” he asked. Jackie gestured in between him and where Spencer was.

“This. You two. It’s sweet.”

Miguel’s puppy-dog expression dropped in favor of guilt and confusion.

“Our friendship?” Jackie raised an eyebrow and put down her book. If she didn’t know better, she would say Miguel was playing dumb. Unfortunately, Miguel was one of the most genuine people she’d met. Miguel’s eyes widened at her expression. “Oh no, it’s nothing like that. I admire Spencer, but I’m not- No.” He gesticulated wildly, frantically. Huh. That’s new.

“There’s nothing wrong with it,” Jackie started.

“I know, no disrespect, truly. But I assure you, I like girls.” He spoke in the resolute tone of someone trying to convince themselves of something. “I mean, there’s the matter of you!” Jackie was not fond of being a matter, or a ‘you!’. An absent thought of cults that base people’s identities on outdated things like fairytales passed her mind. Is it that? She folded her hands in front of her, making the sacrifice of eye contact.

“Imagine the prophecy doesn’t exist. No, really,” she urged. Miguel closed his eyes. “You didn’t have to love me, or whatever. I don’t exist. What then?”

Jackie watched his face. He looked quite stupid, really, brow furrowed and lips pursed, but this was too important for her to mess with. When he opened his eyes, he just looked confused.

“I like... girls?”

“Why are you confused about that?” His eyes drifted a bit to Spencer, then back to her. Guilty was the name of that expression. Her gaze softened. “I’m not one to judge, Miguel. You can tell me.” He took a deep breath.

“I like girls, but...”

“But?”

“But Spencer.” Jackie looked at him for a few moments, then took her hat off. Her fingers traced over the patches and pins, until it found one in particular. A flag, pink, blue, and purple.

“Do you know what this is?“ Miguel looked at her blankly. “It’s the bi flag.” Another blank stare. “You can like boys and girls at the same time.”

Jackie had never seen so many dots connect at the same time. Miguel looked carefully at her.

“You can do that?”

“I do.” Jackie thinks she might’ve broken Miguel. It would have been funny if it wasn’t so sad. He sat back, looking across the room again. Spencer finally saw him, smiling and waving back.

“Both. Huh.” A flush crept its way up his neck. “Huh,” he choked out.

“Yep,” Jackie answered, going back to her books.

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tres trizelli — pride

if you’ve been following along on my main blog this week, I have been overwhelmed with excitement over Red, White, & Royal Blue, which, if you have not heard of it, please check it out. it is the gay trope book of your dreams.

it also features my ultimate favorite type of protagonist: disaster bisexual.

this is Tres!

our first introduction to Tres is that he is in love with Carson Trevor, the kid he’s been tutoring for a year, a homecoming hero type who’s the starting running back on the football team. Tres only attends a party because Carson asks if he’s going, and, miracle of miracles, Carson ends up kissing him there.

unfortunately, all of Tres’ magical trouble starts almost the moment after their makeout session ends, and he’s certain he’ll never see Carson again.

Carson, he finds out later, is in fact a magician, so that isn’t the case.

meanwhile, Tres also meets Sam Leonard, who is his magical guardian’s nonbinary brother, who is everything Carson isn’t—calm, casual, uncomplicated1, and whom he feels drawn to immediately2, and they’re the one person who makes him feel better, instead of... not worse, but rather useless.

so Tres, who is an intense romantic, is caught for most of the first book between this incredible second chance to be with this guy he’s been lusting after for a year, and the steady realization that he wants to be around this person all the time. (and of course things go further awry, but... spoilers!)

taglist: @fictionshewrote {if you’d like to be added to the taglist for the mystic ca series, drop me an ask here!}

1spoiler alert: they’re very complicated, but that’s not the point. 2spoiler alert: there’s a highly complicated reason for this, but that’s also not the point.