Okay, Now I Want To Try Writing More. 😂

This is a wonderful idea. Thank you to the both of you for creating a great place to spread even more love in the fandom.

What is choicesspotlight?

Choicesspotlight is a blog, made by @aryn-choices and @faded-hero for all the new blogs in the choices fandom, that have a hard time to get noticed.

What are the guidelines?

The only thing we need is »

An ask with the following things:

▫️URL of the blog

▫️A small description of your creations (fanfic, fanart, theories, icons etc.)

▫️And your favorite books

If someone else wants to give you a shout out, we’ll only need the URL in an ask and will do the rest!

Beautiful work.

Mohtz on Society6

also, on this blessed day of trans visibility, here’s a reminder to cis people not to be gross when showing support. you talking about how hot and sexy you think trans people are isn’t you supporting and empowering us, it’s you fetishizing us and it harms us.

also when showing support if you could refrain from saying cisnormative stuff like “wow you look so good you can hardly tell you’re trans” or “you look like more of a girl/guy than i do!!” bc that just implies “looking trans” is a bad thing, or that trans people even look a certain way to begin with, or that trans people are inferior to cis people. just give us regular compliments like you would anyone else.

and of course, don’t ask for deadnames or pre-transition selfies. if a trans person wants you to know, they’ll tell you themselves. if they want you to see what they were like pre-transition/in the closet they’ll show you. bringing that shit up can be very triggering, or it might not bother them at all but either way it’s none of your business and it isn’t your right to ask.

if anyone has any other things cis people should be cautious of for tdov feel free to add on, make sure nobody gets hurt.

the real struggle of writing: having the entire movie mapped out in your head like ur steven spielberg but putting it down on paper is like spongebob trying to write his essay for boating school

I just wanted to note that if your character isn’t capable of being magically healed and they get injured

Show them being in pain

Hours after the fact

Days

Give them a wrist that clicks funny for months instead of a badass scar that only gets attention when the character needs to seem cooler

After slipping down a whopping three stairs yesterday morning, I feel like I got hit by a truck today and all I can think is, “my god, how do my characters get up and walk around like nothing happened after they get hurt” and then I answer myself with, “oh, unrealistic writing, that’s how.”

Everyone who gets like really into Greek mythology either ends up worshipping the gods, studying classics, gay, or somehow all three at once

i am so, so glad you guys are loving my trans lesbian daughter aisha bhatt as much as i do! it was really important to me to be able to write a love interest who was both trans and gay, and it was also really important to me to have a flashback moment where we meet her at the very beginning of her transition. so many trans people, including myself, have the experience of desperately wanting to transition but feeling like it’s pointless to even think about it because they’ll never “pass,” let alone be considered beautiful, as their true gender. like, so much of your self-worth is wrapped up in whether or not you look like a cis person! and it shouldn’t be like that!!

so, with the college flashback scene, where we meet aisha for the first time on her first night on the town presenting as a woman, i was very specific in my notes to pixelberry’s art team: like, this is essentially Day One for aisha, she still has pretty short hair, her makeup is gonna be modest because she doesn’t have a ton of experience applying it yet, and she’s not exactly “passing” perfectly, but that doesn’t matter! fuck that! what matters is that she’s finally getting to be who she is and she’s radiantly happy about it and her friends are behind her 110%! and she’s taken her first step on this road and she’s gonna continue on that road and we will meet her again in adulthood as an exquisite butch in a leather jacket and a cool pixie cut. 

anyway!! i can’t wait for you all to get to know aisha on this wild vegas journey. for those of you who aren’t in the choices fandom already, you can download the choices: stories you play app on the app store and click on “bachelorette party” to meet her!!

How the setting looks in my head:

How the description comes out on the page:

My 5yo likes to tell herself stories before she falls asleep and she just came out to me in tears because she accidentally killed off a character.

  “The story got sad all by itself Mum!”  I know baby.  I know.

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Honor those killed in anti-trans acts of violence; mourn the lights in our community that have gone out; say their names and tell their stories; and vow to fight for those still with us.