REC: The Plaguey Cheese by Iulia_Linnea

A (much) happier post! Everyone go read this and tell the author how fabulous it is, please! ♥

The Plaguey Cheese by iulia-linnea (PG; Harry Potter, Kreacher, Luna Lovegood; 1304 words) There were advantages to sharing Grimmauld Place with Luna, but receiving her "gifts" wasn't one of them.

This is all I love in the Harry-Luna dynamic, with appropriately "loony" Luna and out-of-the-loop Harry. I don't even have the words for this, I just love it. It's sweet, funny, and captures my sense of Harry and Luna perfectly. >:) Go read it!

SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA

Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA

This comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled, Say Yes to Gay YA.
(click the link for the full article)

Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is
gay and has a boyfriend. Yuki's romance, like the heterosexual ones in
the novel, involves nothing more explicit than kissing.

An agent from a major agency, one which represents a bestselling YA novel in the same genre as ours, called us.

The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay
character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to
his sexual orientation.

This isn't about that specific agent; we'd gotten other rewrite requests before this one. Previous agents had also offered to take a second look if we did rewrites… including cutting the viewpoint of Yuki, the gay character.

It's time to stand up and demand change. Spread the word everywhere if you are just as angry and outraged by this.