Bronte-Marie Wesson

Yeah.

And if you're writing queer fiction as a queer person, I'm not sure if like you want to go there either.

Because chances are if you are a host of a bunch of different things, like, mind you, I'm on the spectrum.

I am queer.

I'm a plus-sized woman.

I walk around with a cane because I have a knee that likes to dislocate.

Cool, if I put all those things in a book, even if it's like, cool, I want to project onto this, a bunch of other people aren't going to be able to.

That's just not how that works.

But it should be, though, isn't it?

I'm a big believer in the divide.

There's self-insert fiction that exists for a reason, but you can't expect everything to be a self-insert.

You can't read everything with the expectation that this character is going to completely reflect me and be a black hole upon which I can present.

It's like Bella from Twilight.

She is, A, a really great self-insert to present on for a bunch of people, but she is also just Stephanie Meyer's self-insert, isn't she?

And she talks about it.

That's not a secret.

Well, originally we...

Originally we, role-playing is such a funny word.

But I'm talking role-playing in like a 2005 MSN groups way, not in like a BDSM kind of way, right?

um we're with you yeah so that that was kind of how we met was in like a pokemon oh god a pokemon role-playing group shout out to starfall academy um and we just continued on from there like we when msn groups shut down we moved to skype when skype got weird and scammy we moved on from there but we were always writing these stories with different characters and it just took a very long time to amalgamate into something where i went oh this is