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 nostr:npub1k24sy39zjs7pccfcafcfghn0tcl96wht85tf7ygv3tv2cqa7kezqum26zw 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!