I want CoC. All colors. All orientations. All those stories. Do you understand that all the other stories have already been told? A thousand thousand times?
We live in a world of stories, and we can’t underestimate how we are placed in slots by those stories. Fat girls don’t deserve adoration, black girls can’t be sad or confused, Muslim girls wear hijab because they’re not smart enough to cast it off, Asian guys are clueless, white girls are self-involved and lip-bitingly silly, gay men are shallow…it’s all an exhausting lie.
Never, ever think that your stories are required to fit in these parameters. They don’t belong to you. Honestly, they don’t belong to anyone. They are inauthentic and insulting.
Your stories are the things that make you itch. You can’t scratch that itch unless you tell it truly.