When you hear "queernormative world" do you think of a book where everyone knows queerness exists, or one where queer existence is not met with bigotry? Or something else?
September 29, 2026 at 6:31 PM
When you hear "queernormative world" do you think of a book where everyone knows queerness exists, or one where queer existence is not met with bigotry? Or something else?
Writing Queernormative Worlds: World Building Workshop
Did you miss my Queernormative World Building Workshop? Here's a post with the ideas I talked about, with loads of questions…
https://cmrosens.com/2026/07/17/writing-queernormative-worlds-world-building-workshop/
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🌈📚
Did you miss my Queernormative World Building Workshop? Here's a post with the ideas I talked about, with loads of questions…
https://cmrosens.com/2026/07/17/writing-queernormative-worlds-world-building-workshop/
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🌈📚
Writing Queernormative Worlds: World Building Workshop
Did you miss my Queernormative World Building Workshop? Here's a post with the ideas I talked about, with loads of questions for you to apply to your own world building.
cmrosens.com
July 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Writing Queernormative Worlds: World Building Workshop
Did you miss my Queernormative World Building Workshop? Here's a post with the ideas I talked about, with loads of questions…
https://cmrosens.com/2026/07/17/writing-queernormative-worlds-world-building-workshop/
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🌈📚
Did you miss my Queernormative World Building Workshop? Here's a post with the ideas I talked about, with loads of questions…
https://cmrosens.com/2026/07/17/writing-queernormative-worlds-world-building-workshop/
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🌈📚
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
September 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
in my mind, "queernormative" means people are queer and that's not unusual or unexpected in any way
September 29, 2026 at 6:51 PM
in my mind, "queernormative" means people are queer and that's not unusual or unexpected in any way
This book has delightful ace rep in a queernormative world. Check it out!
Hi, hello!
If you're landing here because you're looking for Canadian writers, then my two works I'd recommend are:
1) BAKER THIEF if you want novels, for the massive Quebec City inspiration behind the setting.
claudiearseneault.itch.io/baker-thief
(1/2)
If you're landing here because you're looking for Canadian writers, then my two works I'd recommend are:
1) BAKER THIEF if you want novels, for the massive Quebec City inspiration behind the setting.
claudiearseneault.itch.io/baker-thief
(1/2)
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
Baker by day, thief by night, Claire must save her twin before she gets captured by her cute investigator customer.
claudiearseneault.itch.io
March 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This book has delightful ace rep in a queernormative world. Check it out!
Let's see.. Queer romance, being queernormative, use of drugs and cannabis, the main characters being gay/pan/bi, and strong sexual content.
#QueerPrompts October 4: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
October 4, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Let's see.. Queer romance, being queernormative, use of drugs and cannabis, the main characters being gay/pan/bi, and strong sexual content.
#QueerPrompts
The story is queernormative, but I write urban fantasy set in pre-COVID Japan, so the world isn't queernormative. It is irrelevant in the Shadowland.
The story is queernormative, but I write urban fantasy set in pre-COVID Japan, so the world isn't queernormative. It is irrelevant in the Shadowland.
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
September 28, 2026 at 2:19 PM
#QueerPrompts
The story is queernormative, but I write urban fantasy set in pre-COVID Japan, so the world isn't queernormative. It is irrelevant in the Shadowland.
The story is queernormative, but I write urban fantasy set in pre-COVID Japan, so the world isn't queernormative. It is irrelevant in the Shadowland.
if a setting has patrilineal bloodline inheritance it is already not queernormative and the author is lying if they claim that it is
July 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM
if a setting has patrilineal bloodline inheritance it is already not queernormative and the author is lying if they claim that it is
I think queernormative for me suggests a world where queerness is almost completely unremarkable - marriages between folks of any gender are common, folks switching genders isn't worth commenting on, nobody expects marriages to be consummated/romantic relationships to have a sexual element, etc
September 29, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I think queernormative for me suggests a world where queerness is almost completely unremarkable - marriages between folks of any gender are common, folks switching genders isn't worth commenting on, nobody expects marriages to be consummated/romantic relationships to have a sexual element, etc
#QueerPrompts September 28
I tend to write stories where the world is similar to this one, which of course isn't queernormative, but for Paranormal Activity Club I wanted to try out a queernormative world.
Once I removed the pressure to be straight and cis, most of the characters became queer. 🤷🏼♂️
I tend to write stories where the world is similar to this one, which of course isn't queernormative, but for Paranormal Activity Club I wanted to try out a queernormative world.
Once I removed the pressure to be straight and cis, most of the characters became queer. 🤷🏼♂️
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
September 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
#QueerPrompts September 28
I tend to write stories where the world is similar to this one, which of course isn't queernormative, but for Paranormal Activity Club I wanted to try out a queernormative world.
Once I removed the pressure to be straight and cis, most of the characters became queer. 🤷🏼♂️
I tend to write stories where the world is similar to this one, which of course isn't queernormative, but for Paranormal Activity Club I wanted to try out a queernormative world.
Once I removed the pressure to be straight and cis, most of the characters became queer. 🤷🏼♂️
Fun Fact: If you create a Queernormative enviroment you never have to explain it Gay just exists.
I mean, how embarrassing for the person who thinks this is DIFFICULT or COMPLICATED.
“Some mommies love mommies instead of daddies and some daddies love daddies instead of mommies and some adults love all kinds of adults.”There. Yer done. Your pathetic social ignorance is fixed, ok?
“Some mommies love mommies instead of daddies and some daddies love daddies instead of mommies and some adults love all kinds of adults.”There. Yer done. Your pathetic social ignorance is fixed, ok?
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
June 21, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Fun Fact: If you create a Queernormative enviroment you never have to explain it Gay just exists.
I ask because The Dragon Has Some Complaints has been called queernormative a few times now. And while there are many queer characters who accept each other, they explicitly haven't always found acceptance. They're building something better for each other.
September 29, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I ask because The Dragon Has Some Complaints has been called queernormative a few times now. And while there are many queer characters who accept each other, they explicitly haven't always found acceptance. They're building something better for each other.
one of the village teenagers stopped by yesterday and we were chatting books so here is my semiannual plug for @melissacaruso.bsky.social, who writes not young adult but YA accessible historic fantasy with a queernormative world that doesn’t do gendered violence. in case you are needing that rn
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
one of the village teenagers stopped by yesterday and we were chatting books so here is my semiannual plug for @melissacaruso.bsky.social, who writes not young adult but YA accessible historic fantasy with a queernormative world that doesn’t do gendered violence. in case you are needing that rn
Love queernormative worlds!
September 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Love queernormative worlds!
to me, a queernormative world is a world where queer relationships are of equal respect in the eyes of the populace as straight relationships and are absolutely unremarkable for their existence.
September 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
to me, a queernormative world is a world where queer relationships are of equal respect in the eyes of the populace as straight relationships and are absolutely unremarkable for their existence.
Day 28. How queernormative is your world?
Very. Queerness is accepted.
#QueerPrompts.
#WritingCommunity.
@cjaralore.bsky.social.
Very. Queerness is accepted.
#QueerPrompts.
#WritingCommunity.
@cjaralore.bsky.social.
September 28, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Day 28. How queernormative is your world?
Very. Queerness is accepted.
#QueerPrompts.
#WritingCommunity.
@cjaralore.bsky.social.
Very. Queerness is accepted.
#QueerPrompts.
#WritingCommunity.
@cjaralore.bsky.social.
#QueerPrompts #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #Writesky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #WritingCommunity #Writing #Fantasy
Otherworld is very queernormative. Much like the Land of Oz.
Otherworld is very queernormative. Much like the Land of Oz.
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
September 28, 2026 at 6:46 PM
#QueerPrompts #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #Writesky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #WritingCommunity #Writing #Fantasy
Otherworld is very queernormative. Much like the Land of Oz.
Otherworld is very queernormative. Much like the Land of Oz.
Other common features of my writing...
• wlw/sapphic love
• messy grimy violence
• banter
• queernormative societies
• cishet male villains
• vampire
• mythology references
• public domain assets
• wlw/sapphic love
• messy grimy violence
• banter
• queernormative societies
• cishet male villains
• vampire
• mythology references
• public domain assets
Okay #WritingCommunity, what is a gift you give to yourself in your writing? What tropes or details or motifs do you use simply because you love them?
I love the tiny badass woman trope. I include the trope all the time.
I also love roses, and include them frequently as symbols and motifs.
I love the tiny badass woman trope. I include the trope all the time.
I also love roses, and include them frequently as symbols and motifs.
December 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Other common features of my writing...
• wlw/sapphic love
• messy grimy violence
• banter
• queernormative societies
• cishet male villains
• vampire
• mythology references
• public domain assets
• wlw/sapphic love
• messy grimy violence
• banter
• queernormative societies
• cishet male villains
• vampire
• mythology references
• public domain assets
Second question: are your worlds queernormative or heteronormative? Are there expectations for what a 'normal' or 'typical' relationship looks like?
#LateNightWrite
#LateNightWrite
June 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Second question: are your worlds queernormative or heteronormative? Are there expectations for what a 'normal' or 'typical' relationship looks like?
#LateNightWrite
#LateNightWrite
With the insanity running around these days?
All of my books are getting yanked from the shelves: Queernormative, anti-authority, queer marriage/couples, rebellion against corruption, powerful females, compassionate males...you get the idea.
#QueerPrompts
All of my books are getting yanked from the shelves: Queernormative, anti-authority, queer marriage/couples, rebellion against corruption, powerful females, compassionate males...you get the idea.
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts October 4: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
October 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
With the insanity running around these days?
All of my books are getting yanked from the shelves: Queernormative, anti-authority, queer marriage/couples, rebellion against corruption, powerful females, compassionate males...you get the idea.
#QueerPrompts
All of my books are getting yanked from the shelves: Queernormative, anti-authority, queer marriage/couples, rebellion against corruption, powerful females, compassionate males...you get the idea.
#QueerPrompts
begging you all to stop with this narrative. please stop, please let go of the prelapsarian golden age of gender-sexual utopia. it's fine if you want to subvert and revise ancient stories to make them gay but claiming it was, in actual history, a queernormative society is whitewashing rape culture
July 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
begging you all to stop with this narrative. please stop, please let go of the prelapsarian golden age of gender-sexual utopia. it's fine if you want to subvert and revise ancient stories to make them gay but claiming it was, in actual history, a queernormative society is whitewashing rape culture
As queernormative as the real world gets. It’s a brutal place full of prejudice and pain. No way sugarcoating that.
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
September 28, 2026 at 3:46 AM
As queernormative as the real world gets. It’s a brutal place full of prejudice and pain. No way sugarcoating that.
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts
if a setting assigns a binary sex at birth and raises children differently based on the sexing of their body it is not queernormative and the author is lying if they claim that it is
July 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
if a setting assigns a binary sex at birth and raises children differently based on the sexing of their body it is not queernormative and the author is lying if they claim that it is
I designed Ossedei to be queernormative and sex positive by default. And I love writing romance in a world where love is love.
Sometimes it's a character unto itself in a romance!
We have subgenre prompts coming up where we can chat more broadly about types of settings, so for now I would love to hear about your *specific* setting and why it's fun/interesting to write a romance in 🧡
#SumLuv
We have subgenre prompts coming up where we can chat more broadly about types of settings, so for now I would love to hear about your *specific* setting and why it's fun/interesting to write a romance in 🧡
#SumLuv
August 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
I designed Ossedei to be queernormative and sex positive by default. And I love writing romance in a world where love is love.