Snippet From My Queer Polyamorous Romance Novel, Community Witch - An Unapologetically Trope-y, Cozy,

Snippet from my queer polyamorous romance novel, Community Witch - an unapologetically trope-y, cozy, and relationship-driven romance story about the healing from trauma, found family, and joyful queer relationships. (Looking to publish next year.) --- Aspen snorted. “What am I even going to do about tonight? I don’t know that it’s a date, but if it is… what do I do about coffee with Rav next week?”

Becks’ answering sigh was a mix of fond and exasperated. “First, it’s coffee, not a betrothal. Second, porque no los dos?”

“What?”

“It means ‘why not both’.”

“I know perfectly well what it means. But--”

Becks cut Aspen off. “You can date more than one person.”

Aspen scoffed. “I’m still not convinced I’m not too much of a disaster for one relationship, let alone two.”

“Look. Stop being a weirdo and go get dinner with the hot jock, okay?” Aspen heard Rachel yell something in the background, which Becks then repeated for Aspen’s benefit. “And send photos.”“I will not,” Aspen said firmly, then hung up.

Gay

(I started T today)

I'm starting T in a couple days and have been experimenting with packing, and...

From a sensory perspective it's SO NICE and weirdly soothing

But packing outside the house while I'm still pre-T, holy fuck is my washroom anxiety through the fucking roof.

Like last night I was nearly in tears because I took my husband to the theater to celebrate our anniversary and a bunch of lazy straight people were lining up for the TWO all gender washrooms instead of walking downstairs, and they were all giving me funny looks as the only visibly trans person waiting to pee.

And then an usher came over and was reminding people that there are multi stall washrooms downstairs and most of the straight people decamped except for the lazy Boomer Karen in front of me who kept looking at me because now it was very obvious WHY I was waiting.

So now I'm crying in my kitchen because my husband wants us to go to the pool and I honestly wish I didn't ever have to think about gendered washrooms / change rooms again.

Me: I want to see a variety of character types and backgrounds. Is that what you have, or do you have another queer with anxiety?

My brain: I have a new original character.

Me: You're sure. You have a new idea and it's not just an anxious queer.

My brain: That is correct. I have a totally original character.

Me: Excellent! Please give me the original character.

My brain: [hands over an anxious queer]

Me, a writer trying to do social media:

🗣: Writers need to have social media presence!

Me:

I think Tumblr is okay for now, I like it over here🫶

I got my first dose of T today!!

T-Day Sale: Because Transitioning is Expensive

PLEASE reblog.

I'm starting T in a couple days, and there are a number of associated expenses for things that would be REALLY HELPFUL in managing my dysphoria and making public washrooms safer/more accessible, but are also pretty hard to justify while I'm unemployed.

So for the next month I'm running a sale on Itch:

Ash's T-Day Sale on Itch

- you can pick up any of my queer games for 20% off, or save a little more and get a bundle of 5 games for $37.50.

The Games:

Fellas, is it Gay...?

Fellas Is It Gay…? is a darkly humorous yet silly party game for 5-8 players that deals with exploring the ridiculous nature of fragile masculinity through humorous and specious arguments about what “counts” as gay, or what “makes” something gay. (It’s important to note that slurs are NEVER used while playing. This is a game about the inherent ridiculousness of fragile masculinity, not about denigrating queerness or queer people.)

There Is Only One Bed / Queer Sir

There Is Only One Bed and Queer Sir, are a pair of games that use the same character and situation generation engine, but are played in two different ways:

There Is Only One Bed is a card-based RPG (originally a hack of Alex Roberts' For The Queen) in which two players take turns drawing cards and answering questions to create a story of queer longing and romance as inspired by queer fanfic tropes in approximately 1.5 - 2 hours.

Queer Sir, is an epistolary game in which players tell the story of a romance between two queer characters by sending letters as your characters. Play will progresses over three acts (Realizing the Attraction, Tortured Pining, and the Declaration of Love) according to prompts that will reproduce tropes from queer slash fiction.

Both games end when one person declares their love and the romantic tension is resolved into a happy and successful queer relationship.

Our Traveling Home

Our Traveling Home is a GMless game for 4 to 5 players that uses simple-but-evocative questions and prompts to help players tell a story inspired by the works of Studio Ghibli’s many movies that feature both otherworldly magic and slice-of-life intimate emotional moments. Our Traveling Home is for people interested in telling stories about happy queer romance and oddballs and misfits finding family with each other. It's also for anyone who is hungry for stories about weirdos flourishing thriving in spite of a society that is trying to break them.

The Straights Are Not Okay

The Straights Are Not Okay is a comedy LARP about gender essentialism, heterosexism, and the rigidity of gender expectations in which you play a group of people at a gender reveal party in a national forest. The game ends when the gender reveal goes hilariously wrong and the party-goers burn dcown the forest.

(Content Warning: This game revolves around themes of gender-essentialism, gender binarism, and heterosexism, although it does so as a way of holding up a critical lens to these common stereotypes.)