Goodbye

You've never seen anybody queer or neurodiverse become too stressed out with personal issues to continue creating things. completely new concept, I assure you.

"Personal issues" is like the boogeyman of queer people making stuff online, so here's me gone too. If you read this weird little pet project, thanks for your enthusiasm. Fictional sapphics are still surprisingly under represented; it's not that there aren't plenty of these books, but they can be hard to find since big magazines and publishers mostly want to big up m/m romance or just het things. Bookriot's 17 September Romances list for instance, only even has The Holiday Trap(Roan Parrish) for queer rep. Most places don't do much better. If you want, say, a black lead, or a trans lead, or any sort of neurodiverse lead, you're decreasing your selection dramatically and it sucks.


So fuck em, still, but I'm bouncing. Just know that I have not lost my passion for fictional female homosexuals, and keep the spirit of this gay blog in your heart.

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