Recent content by Noma Galway

Hi Devor! My face is slightly older than it was when I left, so...

Man I still want to move to Ireland so maybe one day you'll be right :D

Just wanted to say hi again; it's been several years since I've been active here. My name is Emily, I'm 21, I write queer fantasy. I'm actually going back to my old WIP, and it's called Walled City and isn't about Noma anymore. Super happy to be back and excited for Camp NaNo!

Why must there be a choice made? Polyamory is a legitimate and not-always-thought-about solution.

I agree there. Completely. "villains who happen to be" anything are generally fine with me. It's only when the point is that a trans person is the villain that I would be upset by it, personally. I can't speak for anyone else, though.

I decided to change the pronouns to zie/hir, just to make the "they" less awkward. I'm thinking of doing an author's note if this one gets finished, just to clarify the MC's pronouns so the unfamiliar pronouns are explained immediately. Also, my thought is that as long as a character isn't a...

I have to actually make it work first haha. I still don't actually have a justification for this. Like did the magic exist and then the philosophers figured them out, or...? But I think that's a topic for a different thread.

I also dislike it when the focus is put on gender identity or sexuality in a work that isn't explicitly about it, but I also want my MC's identity to be clear. Because the general assumption is straight and cis, I just really want that to not be assumed about my character. Especially because I...

My work is urban fantasy and is mostly real-world, but the magic system is philosophy based, so my MC channels Nietzsche, their friend channels Hume, and another character channels Kierkegaard. It's weird but I like it.

What do you mean?

Thank you guys for all your responses! I will say I am not concerned about upsetting people...once I jumped in with a very LGBTQ+ story I figured I was probably already upsetting people and I didn't much care. But on the confusion...I definitely hear you, Devor. "They" is so clumsy in prose and...

I would hope people pick up on it. I'll probably post a bit of the beginning later, when I get it a bit more hashed out.

See, what I personally am attempting to do is write a story both about the marginalization my MC, as an agender person, faces and the actual story, in which they are attempting to find someone for their employer (I do intend on that someone to be my MC's love interest). I totally get what you're...

I can't write from first person at all, so third person. (So far I'm actually having difficulties with saying "her" instead of "their" but I'm catching it every time). Right now I'm almost worried like it sounds like my MC is being possessed or some such by a cult or something (considering I've...

Right now I'm trying to get back into the swing of writing in my own worlds with my own characters after being stuck in the fanfiction sandbox for quite some time developing a style. And I figured out that one of the reasons I stayed in fanfiction for so long was because of the LGBTQ+...