@b2ab0244 I am all for gender vagueness. I've done the best I can to obscure mine in everything I've written on mastodon, not that I am hiding it. If you took any of my hints in our previous conversations, you probably know it. Gender does add subtext— I always want the reader to think about certain things, and since I write gender fiction, this is it, definitely!

If you look at my recent (hashtag) writever titled  Mask, I am very vague about almost everything about how the two characters look. This is intentional so that the reader can  imagine them being more like them. The MC is implied to be Japanese, but is she?  I almost made the main character, gender-vague also, but I had mentioned "curves". I spent more time  writing  it than I planned, so I didn't write that part out. In retrospect, I probably should have. It would've made it more interesting if it wasn't understood it was.M/F or M/M.  Oh well! 

 @6e9427cf Yeah, exactly this. I like playing with stereotypes in general, gender or otherwise, so my male characters always have at least a few traits considered classical feminine and vice-versa. I like the idea of making an MC more relatable by leaving it vague. Indeed, that is what would be my ultimate goal with Blue, but I might realize I will not be able to do that while writing. Let's see, it is all unwritten until it is. 

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"it is all unwritten until it is."

This was the hardest thing for me to get, but I will state it: /It is all unwritten until it is published./ I got myself into an unfortunate pattern of writing things and then considering them canon. You can revise anything until it is sold or in front of your readers. 

Um...

I've actually taken it a little further. Since I write I-POV, I sometimes have the MC admit to little lies and face-saving things in subsequent stories. No whoppers, yet, though I have let a retcon slip through without pointing it out.  [grins innocently]  I took this dance to the max when I wrote a sequence of prequels... but made it work. The DJ novellas I mentioned in my yesterday's (hashtag)Music2WriteBy post.