BL / GL / LGBTQ+ Promotion ! What got you into it?

@UrMom Copper
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:30:24 +0000

@UrMom wrote:

Soooo I got into queer stuff when my friends exposed me to BL/yaoi when I was in high school, never realized that type of fiction was a thing (For some reason... despite knowing of The Bird Cage and Queer as Folk. I was a super dumb teen.), didn't look back into cis/het fiction after that. It took me a long time to really pinpoint WHY I liked consuming and creating that type of fiction, outside of it "being different and new", but I think it was just nice to indulge in something that wasn't shoved down my throat since birth practically. Like since I was a small child I was told that I was going to date, get married and have kids, in the "correct manxwoman way". Even now, as an adult in their 30's who is clearly not cis/het, I still get told that I'll find A Man and change my mind about having kids.

Honestly, I hate it. Queer fiction is a reprieve from the bullshit I'm supposed to assimilate into.

That being said, uuuh, I guess I have my comic. The Guide to a Healthy Relationship.

Currently on an undetermined hiatus, and not a romance in spite of the title. It's a psychological drama/character study about a couple of oddball adults dealing with mental health struggles and trauma brought on by abuse, traumatic events and poor upbringings. It deals with really heavy topics (Abuse, suicidality, bigotry, a bit of body horror and gross-out, some self-harm, etc.), and is M-rated (full nudity, substance abuse, profanity, mature themes.), so if you're sensitive and under the age of 17 don't read it.

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