@7b682b86 ah no! You missed so much 😆 .
If I was born 10 years later I'd have had a lot more fantasy and heroine leads in books as a teen. I'm that generation writing what they were a generation too early to get themselves. 

 @ce78dee8 Yeah, there was an explosion of fantasy later and it was a lot of YA fantasy with heroines that led the way. I missed that by, well, a lot. 🤣 

So, now I write it, just not YA (mostly). 😃 

 @7b682b86 its still great to get to write what you couldn't read. I'm even more recent on that frontier, writing the nonbinary lead even I wouldn't/ couldn't yet have identified as even a decade ago. 

 @ce78dee8 We're on similar journeys. 😃