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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.10.01 — How are things looking for you creatively this month? Alt: Pigeon?I should finish the wip. Hopeful.
***Pigeon*** *the Pilferer* is a character in the current wip in a world where people name themselves. Fun, huh? This SC's profession, if you want to call it that, is *Thug.* He is Bolt's coworker in the mob (Bolt is the MC). He is both stupid and malicious, proving the old adage that if he were a rocket scientist he'd be building rockets instead. What shocked me about the character was that once again, without thinking it out, I had made one of the minor villains presumably gay. I had already recast parts in another story, sparking a partial rewrite because I hadn't like this. In this story, all that had happened so far was that Pigeon had accosted a male SC the MC befriends, and had seemingly made a pass at him. Presumed gay until proven otherwise. As I wrote further into the story, opportunities arose to further characterize Pigeon as he pays for his stupidity, which gave me ideas to transcend the gay stereotypes that wanted to adhere to him. No way does he reform, but giving him humility to apologize and a crush on the nurse from high school (a guy), made the opportunity for a minor gay romance subplot too good to pass up. I needed him for a continuing character in the series, so this is a good development.
So, *that* describes the chapter I am writing after I post this response.
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