Yes, I want more fantasy/historical non-straight characters. No, I don't want them to use our modern words for their identities. I've read a YA fantasy book (that I overall quite liked) set in a medieval fantasy world and suddenly one character proclaimed himself bisexual and another said she was asexual and it took me out of the story soooo hard. You can describe both those orientation quite easily in ways that make them clear without spelling them out like that imo.
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Yes, I want more fantasy/historical non-straight characters. No, I don't want them to use our modern words for their identities.
I've read a YA fantasy book (that I overall quite liked) set in a medieval fantasy world and suddenly one character proclaimed himself bisexual and another said she was asexual and it took me out of the story soooo hard. You can describe both those orientation quite easily in ways that make them clear without spelling them out like that imo.