forum Things You Want MORE Of In Books
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@wordlesswriter

a queer coming-of-age story where the queer mc's main conflict is not coming out or homophobia. we have enough of those, write something else

@Nightmare_Eclipse language

I want more girls that are the hero WITHOUT love. If fell like almost every time the girl is the hero, she ends up falling in love and using the boy's help. I want more independent girls.

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Excellent friend group dynamics, with conversations that flow naturally.

@Kefi

This is probably my stress-addled brain showing it's hand but:
Platonic sleepy fluff. Like, falling asleep at your desk and having a loved one carry you to bed or throw a blanket over you. Crashing after a stressful day and just waking up in a dogpile of friends with the lights off. Waking up with your head on someone's lap. That's GOOD stuff, man

@Mojack group

romantic relationships that aren’t shown through typical ‘romantic’ gestures. like they kiss sometimes but one might just think of them as partners in crime when they first see them. bonus points if the people are actually ‘partners in crime’

I’ve probably said this before and this has likely been said anyways in here, but healthy poly relationships please

representation of ailments that don’t go away (scoliosis, for example; my specific type is more severe than my dad’s but not bad enough that it’s stopped me from walking from pain. but it has stopped me from sleeping well. it doesn’t have to be the focus of the story, just a character that mentions it and the conversation hangs on that for a little bit.)
going back to ailments that don’t go away, characters that get injured and dont just recover from it within a week or something.
on that note, loss, a character dies and the other characters don’t just forget about it within a day is nice as well. especially when that death has (good or bad, or neutral) impacts on the world around them

on injuries, characters that may suffer from pain (light or not) years after that injury. I fractured both of my arms at different points and occasionally feel soreness in the area where the fracture was, not often but sometimes

selective mutism, which while its usually not always associated with autism, in my case I have both (I could be very talkative in situations where I’m comfortable in, but very quiet in situations where I’m not)

yeah this has been said before but more asexual characters. aroace characters, biromantic asexual characters, etc, use that split attraction model! i say this as a biromantic ace myself. asexual characters not necessarily repulsed by sex, asexual characters who are, etc.