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Finchbearer
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Okay. I don’t know enough about your reference to Chekhov - I’m just not that clever.No...?
To be clear, I don't know Dark One's circumstances and have no intention of presuming, but if you're writing a story that heavily features LGBT themes then a character saying that the male body disgusts them and their own body disgusts them then that's basically a Chekhov's gun to have them be an egg. As a writer the coincidence amused me.
My take from that was; whatever our personal feelings, we can potentially remove ourselves enough to write characters outside our own life experience. And I didn’t want to comment on something that seemed personal. Who am I to judge? Self image is a complex thing.