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Identities & pairings shouldn't occupy a trope slot

Feature RequestFor Author ✍️Improvement 👍For Reader 📖

Authors writing LGBTQIA, BIPOC, and/or Poly books shouldn't have to lose out on one or more applicable trope slots to make room for correctly including the identity representation. Likewise, forcing pairings into the trope selection can make authors choose between accurately listing all the tropes in a book or accurately listing the representation.
Identities and pairings (MM, FF, MFM, MMM, etc) would be better served by a separate set of checkboxes or options so as to enable filtering and searching without losing out on correctly including all the tropes listed in a book.

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  • Gold ZeroG

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    May 22, 2025

    I would like to reiterate this point. Putting queer pairings under tropes is quite problematic for many in the queer community, and I would feel very uncomfortable listing pairings & identities under tropes. Would it be possible to add a separate section just for pairings?

  • Copper Canary

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    Jan 6, 2025

    There also needs to be an option for non-binary pairing identities. Usually this is designated with an "X", so MXM, or MX, FX, XX, etc.