Patreon exclusive story -- July 2022: voting time! (Patreon)

Hello hi hello! It's time once again to vote for the Patreon exclusive story, this time for July 2022.

As a reminder, and for newcomers, here's how it works: you will be given a series of prompts (which have been proposed by the patrons in the Young Bird tier), and you will vote for your favourite; Hatchling tier patrons get one vote, Young Bird tier patrons get two. (Young Bird patrons will get a second poll to vote on.) The prompt which gets the most votes will be written out as a 5000-6000 word short story.

This month, I'm trying something new: to avoid everyone being able to see the votes before the poll is over, I'm using an external website for voting. You will be given a link to follow. Let me know in the comment if this gives you trouble: if this doesn't work out well, I'll go back to using Patreon for voting next month.

So, without any further ado, the prompts!

Vicky Variations, or: the Sound of Something Hitting a Wall -- Ok. So liking oneself is one thing. Loving yourself another. But getting anger under control is …. yet another. Journaling is supposed to help right? This time she will totally stick with it. The perfect look, the perfect dress, the exacting makeup might be armor, but it’s not like a temper just vanishes. Several journal entries, taking place after Performative Masculinity and during or after To Own the Libs as Vicky tries to refocus her old temper as a righteous shield for her friends, and not at all throw the journal against the wall even once. Sometimes, in the moment, you just gotta punch a TERF … But it would also be nice if that perfect poise held.

What's in a Name? -- Two people from cliques that have never gotten along get cast as Romeo and Juliet, and when they discover that they have more in common than they thought, they decide to swap roles and names, both in and out of the play.

The Prophecy -- Two parents go to a fortune teller because their child isn't doing well in school. After identifying some issues the child is going through (bullying, etc), the fortune teller assures them that their child will be successful, claiming that she sees the child graduating with honors and thanking their moms for all the support they've given. Wait, "moms", plural? What happened to Dad?

I'm With the Band -- When a local rock band which suddenly went big after their vocalist came out, is in need of a new member to temporarily fill in for a guitarrist who is taking a break for a exchange program, Sam thinks this is their chance to meet the members of their favorite band, even if they didn't make it, at least they could greet them face to face in the auditions. However, they didn't expect to actually be accepted into the band, much less, that they would think Sam was a girl with a very nice voice? What should Sam do, tell them the truth and risk their chance to play with the band? Or just play along?

To My Beloved Friend -- A therapist assigns their trans client an assignment, write a letter to your past self to try to help them heal and gain closure.

Class Change -- A young man in college plays MMOs in his spare time, always playing as healers because his friends say he's good at them. But when a new expansion comes out, he decides to make a new character, a swordswoman who awakens a part of her self she never knew existed: a badass sword lesbian.

So... vote for your favourite! The poll is located here: https://strawpoll.com/polls/05Zd1p9bly6 and will be open until Wednesday, July 13th, at 12.00 noon CEST.

And thank you for being here, y'all :)