>> More works that center queer people (pretty much anyone in the QUILTBAG) that don't center the queerness. That is, the story is not about the people being queer; instead, it's a story about something, and there are multiple queer people in it, and they mostly talk about anything other than being queer. If you aren't up to making one yourself, recs are fine and would be appreciated.<<
The technical term for that is background parity, and it's a late-stage point in identity literature, when it's far enough along that a (normal) writer can put a trait-having character into a story without 'stealing' it and making the whole story About Trait. Me, I do it all along, but I'm weird and also have ulterior resources.
>> Song prompts for me. Anything I can use as inspiration for a song will work. ight write original music, might write parody, but it will be something I wrote. No guarantee of if or when I'll get around to it, but I promise I'll take a look.<<
The song and chime of ice. In winter, when the temperature is fluctuating, ice hangs from the eaves in icicles and clings to the branches in sheets. It pings and sings when the air moves over it. And the sunlight bounces off it in bright sparks and gleams. (I have read that glaciers are even more musical, but I've never heard one of those.) It reminds me of a bell box, where dozens of little balls fall off a magnet on the ceiling of the box and hit the bells inside, random little tings.
Oh, and a few things from the January fishbowl are lyrical poetry, with rhyme and meter, if you want to use any of them.
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Date: 2021-01-16 06:44 pm (UTC)The technical term for that is background parity, and it's a late-stage point in identity literature, when it's far enough along that a (normal) writer can put a trait-having character into a story without 'stealing' it and making the whole story About Trait. Me, I do it all along, but I'm weird and also have ulterior resources.
>> Song prompts for me. Anything I can use as inspiration for a song will work. ight write original music, might write parody, but it will be something I wrote. No guarantee of if or when I'll get around to it, but I promise I'll take a look.<<
The song and chime of ice. In winter, when the temperature is fluctuating, ice hangs from the eaves in icicles and clings to the branches in sheets. It pings and sings when the air moves over it. And the sunlight bounces off it in bright sparks and gleams. (I have read that glaciers are even more musical, but I've never heard one of those.) It reminds me of a bell box, where dozens of little balls fall off a magnet on the ceiling of the box and hit the bells inside, random little tings.
Oh, and a few things from the January fishbowl are lyrical poetry, with rhyme and meter, if you want to use any of them.