Not that there’s anything wrong with lesbians.
As you guys know, Siri and I have begun work on the sequel to City of Hope and Ruin. If you’re familiar with CoHaR, you know that we have two viewpoint characters, Theo and Bree.
If you’re not familiar with CoHaR, we have two viewpoint characters, Theo and Bree.
Because we were writing CoHaR for Turtleduck Press, which requires romance be a part of its scifi/fantasy, we knew that we’d need said viewpoint characters to be romantically involved to some extent. And since we both wanted to write women, well, we ended up a lesbian couple.
(Though, to be fair, both Theo and Bree are bisexual.)
We have a Pinterest board for CoHaR, which we’ve started work on again now as we tackle the series. The board has a lot of setting pins, along with some individual pins of Bree and Theo (as well as some other characters), but I noticed that we were missing pins of the two characters together, and since, hey, romance, maybe that would be a good thing to add in.
So I did what you do–I searched for lesbians, and I sent several to Siri to see what she thought, and she was no help in narrowing them down, so I stared at them for a while and then picked some to pin to the board.
And Pinterest promptly decided that I wanted all lesbians in my feed, all the time.
As I said above, not that there’s anything wrong with lesbians, but it was interesting that the four or five lesbian pins I pinned overruled the other 1.5K pins I have, most of which include castles, dragons, writing prompts, the occasional soup recipe, etc. For a few days, that was it: lesbians.
(On the plus side, I found a couple of other pins that fit well and stuck them on the board too.)
My feed’s cleared up a bit, but it’s still got more lesbians than normal and, interestingly, other couples as well. I guess the algorithm is branching out a bit.
Anyway, I’m supposed to have a chapter to Siri tomorrow, which, ahahaha, I haven’t started yet.
Insights on how Pinterest’s algorithms work? How are you doing?
