Oh yeah, I know about Doctor Who! Unfortunately I haven’t been able to watch it, episodes aren’t available in my country (or wasn’t last time I looked 
And I did look, from what I’ve heard I’ll absolutely love it.)
Edit: Oh wait, apparently it may be available on Disney+ here now. I’m going to resist the temptation to buy a subscription for now because otherwise I won’t write a thing for a month lol, but soon…
Thank you 
It’s in the drafts, I wanted to focus on Chapter 2 before posting it, because already I had to go back and fix so many things. Editing never ends…
To get something of an idea (though it won’t be as accurate as it could be,) try looking for the mini-series Gentleman Jack about Anne Lister for a quick introduction to the kind of thing that a trans female to male character would have had to face in his daily life. I have no real idea of anything comparable for trans male to female characters, though.
Without knowing your country, I have no idea if that link will work, but if it does, that’s the series.
Thank you! We don’t have HBO but most of the HBO series are available on our local streaming app. I’ll check it out, looks amazing and very useful for my writing.
I think that could definitely work! It felt jarring to me because I had made a choice but felt it wasn’t acknowledged by the game at all, mostly. Some flavor text and acknowledgement of the discomfort could fix that.
If you’re open to suggestions - you already have some choices about gendered societal expectations implemented (the choices for an afab MC to push the carriage or climb the tree come to mind) so it may be good to add some more nuance to those. Does the MC push the carriage because she doesn’t see why she can’t as a woman, or is it because “she” would much rather do what the men are doing? Does the MC maybe dislike shopping for dresses because of some deep discomfort “she” can’t place? You can work in choices that acknowledge the MC being genderqueer without making complete sideplots, essentially :]
Of course, no pressure to go in-depth on topics you don’t feel confident in. Don’t feel the need to make a whole branch of the story for a trans MC if you’re not sure how to navigate it. Anything you can add that simply acknowledges the choice the player made would be a big improvement! I would enjoy a game where you get to be a full-on transmasc dandy or a transfem Eliza Bennet but alas, I will have to write it myself
Okay, awesome, I am at the very least going to be more attentive to adding trans flavour choices for the chapter I’m writing at the moment. Your ideas to add extra trans flavour to the stuck carriage (and the tree climbing scene) are great, I’ll do that too when I finally finish my edit. And I do think I’m going to add some exclusive trans scenes through the story with an optional ending - but if I muck it up somehow, please call me out immediately!
(I did actually add a small trans moment to the modiste and the tailor shop, just MC signalling slight discomfort and wishing they were in their opposite gender shop, but if you didn’t see it I must have made a coding error. It does come after a lot of if/else statements in the code, so I’d be very unsurprised if I messed it up. )
Edit: Here’s my code. Can anyone understand why it’s not showing?
Thank you for your patience and for bringing it to my attention.
You could try *if (trans)?
I have no idea how to do that 
I thought you had to attach a value, a true or false or a word to all ‘set’ statements. (I’m a coding idiot, please teach me!)
Try
*if trans = true
loremipsum
unless the true is a string, it won’t work
Okay, thank you. I’ll test it out tomorrow morning!
The how is… you literally just write that.
Now I’m not 100% sure how choicescript parses things so I could be wrong here, but the idea of “if (whatever)” is that it checks the whatever is in “whatever”, and it either is true (so the “if” is done), or it isn’t (in which case it’s false, so it isn’t done). But if you have a true/false variable, it already is true or false, so you generally don’t need to write a check unless you want to do the opposite of that variable.
I mean it doesn’t mean you code couldn’t work. The only reason it wouldn’t that I can see is if CS treats *if (var = "true") and *if (var = true) differently, and you’ve set it with true and not "true", but I don’t know if that’s the case.
You (and @jaywalker) are both right, I used the parenthesis incorrectly. You do have to use it with some of the code, but not true/false statements.
And I had no idea *if (trans) was a thing! It makes sense though. I should have paid more attention to the coding tutorial…
Thank you, I’m learning. Hopefully I won’t make that mistake again. And I think the mystery of why some of the flavour text goes missing is solved!
Very fun
Yup, this is on purpose. Male MC slams journalism after reading the Slander for this reason. But you’re not the first to point it out, so perhaps my silly joke doesn’t work and I should take it out 
I read this a couple days ago on a whim and forgot to comment but I wanna say I really enjoyed this! Not comparing but it gave me Bridgerton vibes, which I appreciate because I’ve got some fond memories of fun girly watch parties for that show and idk this evoked that. Sorta cozy, polished silliness.
I’m really looking forward to what comes next <3
Leave it in. Most people probably just comment on it before reading the next bit
Hey, thank you! Bridgerton was definitely an inspiration. I originally wanted to write a fantasy courting book with lots of RO’s and a ‘Season’, but while watching Bridgerton I thought ‘why not flip it to actual historical fiction, that’s fun too?’ Fun girly watch parties sound so fun! Btw, I adore your WIP <3
Thanks <3 It may also be my not so stellar coding not showing the response. I won’t be too surprised, I was way too lackadaisical learning Choicescript code, stuffed a few coding statements in my head and charged off to start writing. Btw, I always want potatoes when I see your username.
I did think it could have been on purpose but since I don’t remember my character saying anything about it I wasn’t sure
I’ll check the code when I edit. Big chance that it’s my bad coding. But I’m in a writing frenzy atm so I’ll edit when the writing urge dies down a bit. (Might take a while, I really am loving the writing.)
More importantly, is that Herlock Sholmes in your profile pic? Oh my word! Love him! <3
