Cliche and likely not helpful but ... create for the love of it and don't worry if things have to wait a while for the creative well to fill up again.

The 'hustle' mentality is the enemy of enjoying the things we love to do.

I have sympathy for women who read BL/MM as a 'safe' escape lit. I don't understand how it works for them, but it is obvious the need is there.

But damn, I hate it when they get mad at us saying, 'This doesn't reflect the queer male experience of anyone I know.' It's like we are imaginary people.

She was such a good writer. And a hell of an ally, from what I've heard/read.

Modern fantasy. Kind of urban fantasy but small town/rural based. Savage Worlds for the system, using the horror book for most stuff, but we toned things down by introducing 'heritages' that are the human descendants of various 'monster' types.

A little WoD, a little Supernatural, a lot of fun.

The plucky little common folks who see a problem and step up. Usually halflings. Anti-chosen ones who make my heart grow three sizes at the table.

I read the WoT series back when doorstops were trendy.

I could never figure out why the only queer people in the whole world were bisexual women. And why he was both obsessed with seemed to portray them (and all the women in his books really) as malicious children.

Oh wait, we know why.

I am a technical writer by trade and I am 100% onboard with this sentiment. TTRPGs are often just poorly executed in terms of information organization.

One step further: given that YouTube is free to publish, why do so few publishers embrace multimedia support of their games?

I feel both horrified and faintly ripped off. I mean, there isn't even a laser drone? When the AIs started killing us off, I expected at least to rate a flying laser bot!