Hi! I just watched Love in the big city the kdrama, and I can’t let it go. I’m not sure if I want to actually read the novel, but I for sure want something similar. I’m looking for a book with a gay/queer Mc, that goes through similar struggles to the show. Like, loneliness, needing personal growth to be in a relationship, and especially feeling left behind by the people around them. Doesn’t have to end with a relationship or anything, I just want that heart wrenching feeling I got from watching the main character in LINTBC. PLS HELP I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS SHOW. I need to fill the void.

Greetings! I’m Vaishnavi, a postgraduate student of English from India, and I need to work on a research project between September and November as part of my curriculum. My project focuses on how fanfiction helps normalise queer identities, for which I want to interview a small group of anonymous fanfic readers and writers. The interview would have a set of yes/no/unsure questions and some requiring short answers via a Google Form. If you’re a fanfic reader or writer who is interested in participating, please do fill out the interview (Google Form): https://forms.gle/LQLfXgbA2WKwj7ms8

The data would be used only for this project, for which each participant would be referred to by numbers (author/reader 1…) and no personal information would be collected beyond the email ID, age, gender, sexual orientation, and country of origin. Fandom no bar. While this would be unpaid participation, I’d really appreciate any interested respondents as, being a fanfic reader myself, I’m very interested in how fanfics actually help readers beyond being entertaining as an extension of fandom lore. Looking forward to your responses. Thank you in advance!!

ETA: the form has a great amount of responses, is now closed for review. To address the concerns about the name and email ID - They were to help easily contact respondents for further details on their short answers if needed. However, I understand the skepticism - sorry for the alarm! Thank you to everyone that participated! And a big thank you to those who gave feedback and helped clarify some terms. I shall definitely keep that in mind for any studies further on and while drafting this project report. Thank you once again!

Greetings! I’m Vaishnavi, a postgraduate student of English from India, and I need to work on a research project between September and November as part of my curriculum. My project focuses on how fanfiction helps normalise queer identities, for which I want to interview a small group of anonymous fanfic readers and writers. The interview would have a set of yes/no/unsure questions and some requiring short answers via a Google Form. If you’re a fanfic reader or writer who is interested in participating, please do fill out the interview (Google Form): https://forms.gle/LQLfXgbA2WKwj7ms8

The data would be used only for this project, for which each participant would be referred to by numbers (author/reader 1…) and no personal information would be collected beyond the email ID, age, gender, sexual orientation, and country of origin. Fandom no bar. While this would be unpaid participation, I’d really appreciate any interested respondents as, being a fanfic reader myself, I’m very interested in how fanfics actually help readers beyond being entertaining as an extension of fandom lore. Looking forward to your responses. Thank you in advance!!

Hi everyone! I’m a transman looking to buy my first binder, and I’m looking for recommendations. I’m looking for one that is cost-friendly, comfortable, and long-lasting. I’m 5’5” and weigh about 200 pounds, with a larger chest and stomach

Hi everyone! I am an Australian student completing my final year of high school and for one of my courses I am undertaking a research project about LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream media, specifically I am focusing on the marketing technique ‘queerbaiting’. For my project the perspectives of other people would be highly valuable to my research, completing my survey will not take long and all responses will remain anonymous.

Queerbaiting is a marketing technique utilised to imply queerness but never actually deliver queerness. This is done in order to engage and exploit queer audiences who hope to see themselves represented, while never explicitly depicting queerness, as to not scare away a more conservative audience. This is most notably used in TV shows that aired in the early - to mid 2010s, in tv shows such as BBC’s ‘Sherlock’ and CW’s ‘Supernatural’.

Draft 1

Hello there, on the site of yet another indie TTRPG micro-publisher.

So, you’re curious enough to crawl through intricated texts instead of just hitting the “Go to the store!” on the main page. Much appreciated, we do like it. We also expect, you already know how to roll the dice and tell the stories, so let’s cut the usual «tabletop RPG is…» speech. 

Here are the key points

• We’re writing games and books for fun rather than profit.
• We’re deep into the social problems and hard-to-speak themes.
• We’re not only writing about them, we’re living them, at the moment.
• Our teams are widely dispersed through many countries, nations, genders, ethnicities, neural specifics, generations, oppressed groups, and cultures.
• We’ve made a few small things and are going to hit the market with something bigger.
• We’re based in the Balkans, but probably not for long.

Why you can be interested

• You’re leftist, gender- or neuro-queer, vagabond, immigrant, feminist, dissident, rebel, darkling, passionate seeker for quaint fantasies, and so we have these things in common.
• You appreciate the political motifs in our hobby because the personal is always political.
• You aren’t afraid to read and play about serious, harsh, and not-so-cozy themes.
• You also like to read and play about sex in an adult, positive, not giggling and smirking, way.

In any of these cases, our mutual vibes can match and our creations can be pleasing to you.

The reasonable conclusion

So, obviously, there’s nothing that you can’t see something else. We’re just people of many kits and bloodlines, after all. And we’re just trying to tell the stories about our special interests, including the social struggles, xenophobia, injustice, ethical and morality questions, politics, psyops, conspiracies, (trans)humanism, and many other things that quirk in our minds at the moment.

Like many other folks, we’re not truly unique (and that’s why we can understand each other), but sometimes our creations have a glimpse of an original temper. And sometimes our experiments can be very satisfying to your tempted mind. So feel free to buy our stuff, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, join our Discord, and have fun with any games you’d like!

About b2b activities

Currently, we're not looking to adopt new external products because of a lack of free resources, but it can change, so stay tuned. And anyway, if you really want to connect with us for some reason, feel free to send a message by email or Telegram.

Draft 2

Welcome, stranger, and thank you for the curiosity that led you here, to the page with explanations of our visions, ideas, reasons, and treasons. So, what we can tell you on a single page about ourselves and our small, Balkanian-based, publishing collective? So much and so small at the same time. 

Let’s start from the beginning. Once we were just gamers from different places and origins. We narrated stories, made characters for living their lives in imaginary worlds, and had humble fun with our friends. But after a while just telling stories for the small groups of people started to be not very satisfying for us. And that’s why we traversed to design and write, draw, and lay out our imaginary ephemerals into something more complex and polished – into our own game products, settings, and many other things of this kind.

It was some time ago and for the last few years, we faced many experiences that melted, forged, and honed our current vision of what should we make and how we should make it.  And now we're not just a collective of creators or friends; now we're trying to be a focused and aimed beacon of humanism and social consciousness, according to our acts of creativity.

So we try to produce more than just distraction pamphlets and toys, we seek to weave thought-provoking narratives that can even stray from traditional RPGs, exploring realms where mechanical simplicity meets cognitive complexity on many levels. Our themes can lead you deep into the flesh of social struggle, xenophobia, injustice, ethical and morality questioning, politics, psyops, conspiracies, and (trans)humanism. You can end this journey with a few new ideas, cognitive dissonances, and long-lasting aftertastes. It can be not-so-escapist experience as in some more mass-produced games.

And, of course, it’s all about our specifics and beliefs. ‘Cause we’re a mosaic of voices of very different people of different generations and ethnicities, bonded with common tone – rebels, gender- and neuro-queers, vagabonds, immigrants, feminists, dissidents, outcasts, rejects, exiles, heathens, darklings, passionate seekers for quaint fantasies, humans after all.

We’re not only writing about complex social processes, not only describing the struggles and injustices, the life-breaking points and thought choices, occasionally, now we’re living in them. And our creations inherit this experience as well. And we produce them, probably as a compulsion, as confession, just and only because we can’t share all these terrible questions, harsh topics, dark thoughts, and overwhelming impressions of our everyday lives.

If the standing points above make sense to you, then we can have a similar part of the experience, scars, and bounds. And then we invite you to join our journey of cultural exploration and creative discoveries. Feel free to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, join our Discord, and dive into our creations on Itch.io and DTRPG.

Also, we're not looking to adopt new external products now, but if you have any specific interests, applications, or propositions aside, you can email us or send a Telegram message.

Hello, my friend is just getting into queer media and I want to be able to get them into some movies and tv shows, possibly books and music as well. As of right now movies wise I have “But I’m a cheerleader” “All of us strangers” “EEAAO” “Moonlight” and a few others. Tv wise I only have “Pose” and “The L word” I want to be able to provide her shows and movies that are crucial to queer history and culture and unfortunately these are what I’m coming up with, while some of these are 100% queer culture others just happen to be gay. I was hoping I could get some recommendations to give her that are really good but also teaches about queer struggle rather that be general homophobia, queer heartbreaks, queer coming of age, whatever. I just can’t remember everything I’ve consumed that has helped me be aware of the history and the culture, you know, so any recommendations would be appreciated! Thanks!

im a gay mlm whos new to animation and i really want to grow an lgbt+ friendly fandom one of these days. this is an english/swedish yt series about an organization with quite obscure methods of dealing with the rise in cirminal activity in sweden.
the pre-ep is here

Hello all! A wee bit nervous... this is my first reddit post. Like, ever. But I'm coming to you today with a project very near and dear to my heart, in the hopes you'll take the time to give it a try.

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'Hurt' is an LGBT-led webseries about a gay, AuDHD man as he navigates suicidal ideation. After he meets Fin, a Black, trans man, he discovers Fin is also planning on ending things... and the two set to work trying to save each other.

'Hurt' was designed as a sort of Anti-13-Reasons-Why... so while it tackles gritty, serious subject matter, it does so as a sort of Heartstopper/Skins hybrid, avoiding details that might trigger in favor of the deeper emotion behind it.

'Hurt' currently consists of 14 episodes across 2 seasons. A third and final season is being filmed right now. I would love- LOVE- to reach a broader audience, so if you're game to give the series a go, you can check out the series on Sparkk TV or at our YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYA3HbLuIZQv5Vqm1JMl9Dw

A quick note that we are a no budget webseries, and we struggled a bit with audio in our first season. Nevertheless, we have an 8.7/10 on IMDb as of right now due to our strong story and character work.

I hope you watch and enjoy Hurt! Any and all shares, comments, and/or reviews mean the world!

Hello! I'm Sukanya, a PhD research scholar at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, and my thesis focuses on Queer Studies and Fairy Tale Studies. As part of my research, I am curating an anonymous Reading Group wherein participants would be offered to read some of the novels selected for my thesis and answer a few questionnaires. This would help me collect data for my research on fairy tale retellings. If anyone is interested, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/MdduZcRZ4vDY4Q138
Upon filling the form, an email with a PDF Information Booklet shall be sent that explains the privacy measures and research procedure, so that readers may make an informed decision before confirming their participation.
Participation is voluntary and the collected data shall be used to support my thesis' arguments favouring queer retellings. Any questions/doubts regarding this study can be directed to me at sukanyagargsmail@gmail.com Thank you in advance!

I just wrote my first article on a looong time :)) if anyone is interested you can read / join the discussion on: whether Saltburn will be queer or if we have been baited https://medium.com/@zeo-roma/saltburn-how-queer-is-fennell-s-latest-feature-really-b2e8f39571af Is Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan's Saltburn Queer or Not?

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I just wrote my first article on a looong time :)) if anyone is interested you can read / join the discussion on: whether Saltburn will be queer or if we have been baited https://medium.com/@zeo-roma/saltburn-how-queer-is-fennell-s-latest-feature-really-b2e8f39571af Is Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan's Saltburn Queer or Not?

I'm writing a dissertation on queer representation in media. I'm focusing the essay on "Call Me By Your Name", and also looking at "Moonlight" and "Love, Simon" as a before and after. As part of this I am doing a survey on the films, and it would be very helpful if people took it. I've linked it here

Thank you :)

Hi everyone! I am a university student from the Netherlands, and I am currently researching viewers’ perceptions of characters from Sex Education for my bachelor thesis. My study explores how the portrayal of lgbtq+ characters and characters of color relates to different viewers' engagement with them.

I am looking for more diversity in my respondents (in particular, I need some more insights from members of the lgbtq+ community and people of color). If you have watched the show, I would really appreciate if you could take some time to fill out this short 5-10 minute survey. This will not only help me graduate, but it will also contribute to the wider understanding of why diversity representation on TV is important. Thank you so much!!

Link to survey: https://erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ahizowKbmd3W1mK

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