#yeah devin is a freaky magical eldritch being puking up sludge. gender fuckery tracks.

[crimeronan]

my awareness that i'm currently writing this for an audience of mainly normies in my irl critique group is making devin's gender exploration a lot more fun, actually. i'm not aiming to handhold or educate or anything bc i'd find that Exhausting. simultaneously queer audiences will clock what's up immediately like "yeah she's transfem and genderfluid, we got it."

but this audience of left-leaning middle-aged-to-senior mainstream fiction writers who are mostly married with kids...... oh my god. Exquisite. i've yet to critique an explicitly queer piece for this group (although i've only critted like eight pieces so far, so, grain of salt). there's narration at the moment that's just like devin could be a woman a man or anything in between as easily as any given situation called for it, which is a footnote part of a broader theme-based character intro, and i'm like. waiting with Unrestrained Delight to see what the group makes of this. or. if they even notice.