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
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.
Some worlds in the setting are completely accepting. Others are not. Part of it is modern day Oregon - Paxton is a more diverse, left-leaning mirror of my own disgustingly red hometown. The narrative itself is very queernormative.
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
October 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Some worlds in the setting are completely accepting. Others are not. Part of it is modern day Oregon - Paxton is a more diverse, left-leaning mirror of my own disgustingly red hometown. The narrative itself is very queernormative.
🦴 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Cozy Dark Fantasy
REP: mlm, demisexual gay mc, gay mc, gay scs, BIPOC scs, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 328 pgs
GENRE: Cozy Dark Fantasy
REP: mlm, demisexual gay mc, gay mc, gay scs, BIPOC scs, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 328 pgs
October 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🦴 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Cozy Dark Fantasy
REP: mlm, demisexual gay mc, gay mc, gay scs, BIPOC scs, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 328 pgs
GENRE: Cozy Dark Fantasy
REP: mlm, demisexual gay mc, gay mc, gay scs, BIPOC scs, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 328 pgs
The town won’t give up its secret easily, especially deals cloaked in darkness.
🔪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Horror
REP: wlw, lesbian mcs, gay sc, gay POC sc, disabled sc, older female sc, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 359 pgs
🔪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Horror
REP: wlw, lesbian mcs, gay sc, gay POC sc, disabled sc, older female sc, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 359 pgs
October 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The town won’t give up its secret easily, especially deals cloaked in darkness.
🔪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Horror
REP: wlw, lesbian mcs, gay sc, gay POC sc, disabled sc, older female sc, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 359 pgs
🔪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Horror
REP: wlw, lesbian mcs, gay sc, gay POC sc, disabled sc, older female sc, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 359 pgs
An ADHDer must overcome self-doubt to unlock her extraordinary magic & save her queernormative hidden world, all while holding onto the relationship she’s always yearned for.
☀️Grumpy/Sunshine
🍭Trope Spinning
🦹♀️Female Baddie
🚫Forbidden Romance
🗡️Reluctant Chosen One
#DVPit #YA #F #CI #LGBT #ND #Own
☀️Grumpy/Sunshine
🍭Trope Spinning
🦹♀️Female Baddie
🚫Forbidden Romance
🗡️Reluctant Chosen One
#DVPit #YA #F #CI #LGBT #ND #Own
September 30, 2026 at 10:50 PM
To find the untraceable, all you need is a dogsitter.
🌈building a QPR (aroace + biace)
🌳solarpunk lifestyle
🏛️Panem x 1984 government
🗣️a sarcastic unreliable narrator
🔥queernormative
😤“I’m not helping you. Here’s the answer. But I’m *not* helping you.”
#DVpit #LGBT #DIS #NA #A #SF with bit of #F
🌈building a QPR (aroace + biace)
🌳solarpunk lifestyle
🏛️Panem x 1984 government
🗣️a sarcastic unreliable narrator
🔥queernormative
😤“I’m not helping you. Here’s the answer. But I’m *not* helping you.”
#DVpit #LGBT #DIS #NA #A #SF with bit of #F
September 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Love queernormative worlds!
September 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Love queernormative worlds!
When an elf-supremacist wages war, anxious elf Letyf volunteers to help stop him.
🧠 Gentle MC w/ trauma
🗡️ Feral Cat FMC
⛰️ Deadly quests—feat elves, dwarves, & humans (hobbits not included)
🚸 A child savior—from the POV of adult protectors
🤝 Enemies to Allies
🏳️🌈 Queernormative world
#DVpit #F #A #SFF
🧠 Gentle MC w/ trauma
🗡️ Feral Cat FMC
⛰️ Deadly quests—feat elves, dwarves, & humans (hobbits not included)
🚸 A child savior—from the POV of adult protectors
🤝 Enemies to Allies
🏳️🌈 Queernormative world
#DVpit #F #A #SFF
September 30, 2026 at 6:39 PM
OUTLANDER x WINGS OF EBONY
What if there was a hidden world that you only remembered in your dreams? Then one day you stumbled across it and had to fight for your life to save it?
🏳️🌈Queernormative world
✨Magic
🦓Disability rep
🔥Slow burn
😂Humor
#DVPit #YA #F #CI #LGBT #ND #Own
What if there was a hidden world that you only remembered in your dreams? Then one day you stumbled across it and had to fight for your life to save it?
🏳️🌈Queernormative world
✨Magic
🦓Disability rep
🔥Slow burn
😂Humor
#DVPit #YA #F #CI #LGBT #ND #Own
September 30, 2026 at 6:13 PM
One of many reasons I prefer writing in the fantasy/paranormal genres is that my worlds are entirely queernormative. The real world is on fire, so may as well enjoy the escape into somewhere better, right? 🫠
#QueerPrompts September 28: How queernormative is your story's world?
September 29, 2026 at 10:35 PM
One of many reasons I prefer writing in the fantasy/paranormal genres is that my worlds are entirely queernormative. The real world is on fire, so may as well enjoy the escape into somewhere better, right? 🫠
for me, the latter: a queernormative world is a world where queerphobia (whatever form that may take here) is not an element, but queerness is.
that said I can see books with queer characters (even if they are not accepted) being described as queernorm, I think this is reader perspective
that said I can see books with queer characters (even if they are not accepted) being described as queernorm, I think this is reader perspective
September 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
for me, the latter: a queernormative world is a world where queerphobia (whatever form that may take here) is not an element, but queerness is.
that said I can see books with queer characters (even if they are not accepted) being described as queernorm, I think this is reader perspective
that said I can see books with queer characters (even if they are not accepted) being described as queernorm, I think this is reader perspective
But I also don't think being free from bigotry is necessarily a requirement. A world can still be queernormative (IMO) if it accepts some forms of queerness completely but struggles with others, or if it's pitted against other groups/societies where queerness is less normal.
September 29, 2026 at 9:04 PM
But I also don't think being free from bigotry is necessarily a requirement. A world can still be queernormative (IMO) if it accepts some forms of queerness completely but struggles with others, or if it's pitted against other groups/societies where queerness is less normal.
Closer to the latter. To me, queernormative worlds are ones where a whole bunch of people are (what we would think of as) queer but also nobody comments on it or views it as being different in any way from "normal."
The Preservation society from the Murderbot books is a good example.
The Preservation society from the Murderbot books is a good example.
September 29, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Closer to the latter. To me, queernormative worlds are ones where a whole bunch of people are (what we would think of as) queer but also nobody comments on it or views it as being different in any way from "normal."
The Preservation society from the Murderbot books is a good example.
The Preservation society from the Murderbot books is a good example.
For me, queernormative is queer identity being treated as a neutral way of being in the world, no better or less than cishet identities.
September 29, 2026 at 9:00 PM
For me, queernormative is queer identity being treated as a neutral way of being in the world, no better or less than cishet identities.
Queernormative for me means "queerness is as unremarkable in this society as heterosexuality".
September 29, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Queernormative for me means "queerness is as unremarkable in this society as heterosexuality".
I think of 'queernormative world' as a world where queerness is presumed, though the details abt one's queerness are not. I think I read 'The Dragon Has Some Complaints' as QNW b/c it has several kinds of QN cultures, vs just one overarching idea of queernormativity.
September 29, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I think of 'queernormative world' as a world where queerness is presumed, though the details abt one's queerness are not. I think I read 'The Dragon Has Some Complaints' as QNW b/c it has several kinds of QN cultures, vs just one overarching idea of queernormativity.
Queernormative I think pretty uncomplicatedly means "queerness is not an axis of bigotry".
A world where queerness exists just means "plausible worldbuilding". (& I think we do better for a literary scene which has books that centre queer characters in both contexts)
A world where queerness exists just means "plausible worldbuilding". (& I think we do better for a literary scene which has books that centre queer characters in both contexts)
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 8:00 PM
Queernormative I think pretty uncomplicatedly means "queerness is not an axis of bigotry".
A world where queerness exists just means "plausible worldbuilding". (& I think we do better for a literary scene which has books that centre queer characters in both contexts)
A world where queerness exists just means "plausible worldbuilding". (& I think we do better for a literary scene which has books that centre queer characters in both contexts)
idk if I think 'queernormative' is a useful descriptor of a setting, necessarily? I think it's better applied to stories, because a story set in the real world with a 100% LGBT cast can read as queernormative even if the world around them is...well, like this
September 29, 2026 at 7:41 PM
idk if I think 'queernormative' is a useful descriptor of a setting, necessarily? I think it's better applied to stories, because a story set in the real world with a 100% LGBT cast can read as queernormative even if the world around them is...well, like this
And that's also why I *don't* described my stuff as queernormative, because I don't want people to get blindsided when my characters do face prejudice (even if it's less prejudice than a lot of times and places in our world, it's still there and thus it's not a queernormative world)
September 29, 2026 at 7:01 PM
And that's also why I *don't* described my stuff as queernormative, because I don't want people to get blindsided when my characters do face prejudice (even if it's less prejudice than a lot of times and places in our world, it's still there and thus it's not a queernormative world)
This might not necessarily be a positive thing. By the above definition Classical Athens might well have been queernormative and that society had sexism ingrained in it in a way that makes the Taliban jealous.
September 29, 2026 at 6:55 PM
This might not necessarily be a positive thing. By the above definition Classical Athens might well have been queernormative and that society had sexism ingrained in it in a way that makes the Taliban jealous.
For me a queernormative world is a world where being queer is the norm. As in, it's assumed that most people are, one way or another, whether it's through gender identity or sexual orientation or combination there-off or anything else, queer.
September 29, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For me a queernormative world is a world where being queer is the norm. As in, it's assumed that most people are, one way or another, whether it's through gender identity or sexual orientation or combination there-off or anything else, queer.
(I've now sent myself down a personal rabbithole because I initially typed 'unremarked on' but I think a queernormative setting still allows for e.g. coming out, ceremonies, choosing how you identify and changing that, celebrating that, but without angst or pushback?)
September 29, 2026 at 6:52 PM
(I've now sent myself down a personal rabbithole because I initially typed 'unremarked on' but I think a queernormative setting still allows for e.g. coming out, ceremonies, choosing how you identify and changing that, celebrating that, but without angst or pushback?)
E.g. Murderbot and Wayfarers series are queernormative but if there was a planet/city somewhere in the whole setting that had different norms, given size of setting that wouldn't necessarily take me out of it. But POV characters and associates live in a world where queerness is norm.
September 29, 2026 at 6:52 PM
E.g. Murderbot and Wayfarers series are queernormative but if there was a planet/city somewhere in the whole setting that had different norms, given size of setting that wouldn't necessarily take me out of it. But POV characters and associates live in a world where queerness is norm.
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