Well if you try to force her into doing it, it makes you into the bad one, and I know you're not the bad one. You can help people but only if they want you to. If she wants to stick to girls out of discomfort portraying a male, then that is her choice, and it will sadly cut her off from very good writers like yourself in the future. My personal concern isn't the gender, it's my ability to portray characters that holds me back sometimes. Me being a guy doesn't make me a better Kurama or Tenzin than the next guy. Hope she finds some courage soon. 

You've got a good group of things to do and even some offsite ones--unless those were canceled--so yeah, I'd say you are doing just fine for yourself.

It will probably be vanilla sweet, much like... huh, actually I think we didn't have a pairing that would start it any other way. Slow, sensual, tending to one another's needs--yeah, I'd say that fits Kurama and Botan too. When they're not trying to destroy threats, they'll be doing couple things xD 

Take your time. What always ends up crushing us, and it's 99.9% me, is the stress of schoolwork and writing a good post. I want you to write it when you're comfortable doing so, and if you need to get some work done for your classes then I encourage that. I can wait. As long as we're not going over a week again and can keep this progressing at least once a week, I'd say we're doing better than usual! 

By the way, I foreshadowed in that post and it got me giddy. That whole bit about Botan's spiritual energy >.< I liked it; we gotta give her some abilities later that are dope as fuck.