#the g in Gerry stands for gender

[sydneighsays]

Gerard Keay, based on a doodle I did at work. My Instagram story poll bullied me into finishing it digitally ☹️

You can't convince me that this man wasn't dual touched by both beholding and the hunt.

[valtsv]

the g in gerry kaey stands for gender envy

[laurasinele]

Fictober Short Edition! Part I

Prompt 1: I choose you

Ship: Drarry

No warnings, training partners, pre-ship, a cameo from transmasc G. Wesly

This is one of the two only fics I’ll submit this Fictober because ***LIFE***

I hope you enjoy them.

Who is Gerry Weasly?

He used to be the only Weasly sister, but that changed when Hermione introduced him to the notion of Gender Identity. I’ve decided that if I ever write Drarry again, there has to be some kind of gender non conformism there.

Why not trans!Harry or Draco?

Because in my mind it is fundamental to their each-other-related idiocy that they both grew up as cis boys, but hey, that's just my headcanon! Keep trans!Drarry coming (pun intended).

READ ON AO3 OR BELOW THE CUT

“Very good job, ladies and gents”, drawled the Chief Instructor at the end of a trepidant obstacle broom race, displaying as much enthusiasm as a preschool teacher at the end of the first week of school. “Li, Abbot, younger Weasly, and of course”, she added tiresomely, “Potter, you’ve got the best times. This means you get to choose your partners for the rest, AND I MEAN THIS, the rest of your Auror Training. But save us all some grief and do it after you’ve cooled down in the showers. We meet at the shooting range in 30. Chop-chop, people, do I have to spell it out for ya?”

They weren’t even inside the showers when the chattering began, still more in the phase of lamenting not being able to pair up with fellow winners, like Gerry Weasley who would rather pair up with Harry but was sure Harry would pick Ron, so there went his second favorite. Harry said nothing to that, too busy finding his way back to his glasses. He then attempted to dry them with the towel he’d previously had wrapped around his head, took a foggy look around and loudly said “Oi!”. Given the general silence and the absolute lack of response or attention of the recipient of his call, he tossed his hair towel at his general direction. Malfoy caught it with his left hand, not even turning around completely. Harry smiled brightly. “I chose you”. 

“Are you out of your damned mind?”, was Malfoy’s remarkably calm response, at which the rest of the audience was beyond relieved of not having to be the ones to point that out. 

“Nop”, Harry replied cheerly.

“Have you really thought this through?”, asked Malfoy, already half dressed, stepping towards Harry to return the projectile towel. 

After a quick look around, Harry was able to confirm everybody else was trying very hard not to look like eavesdropping, so he casted a silencing charm only to find that Malfoy had beaten him to it, wandless and wordlessly. 

“Well, that was actually one of the reasons”, he said, genuinely impressed. 

“You do better and stronger wandless and wordless magic”.

“That’s debatable, but the point stands: you can do it too”.

Malfoy closed his eyes briefly and sighed through his nose. When he opened them he found Harry’s, amused and inquisitive. He groaned against himself and asked: 

“Why are you choosing me?”

“Because you could have won. Easily”. Malfoy’s face didn’t betray any emotion before such an accusation, but the tips of his ears reddening did. “You fumbled it on purpose, you had so many chances and let them slip. Why?”

Malfoy pinched his nose and seemed to decide “here goes nothing” before his better sense could catch him. 

“To save everyone the agony of being chosen by me. To know that whoever paired with me would have had no other chance, so no false sympathies should be needed. To be the proverbial short straw if you will”. 

For a second Harry felt like being a bit of an arse. Just for funsies. And the bit of thought “here goes nothing” migrated from Malfoy’s to Harry’s brain, who proceeded to slowly look up and down Malfoy’s figure. “You’re slender, sure, but you're way too tall to be the short straw. Not that I’m complaining”, and then he winked for good measure. 

In a split of a second Harry found a red faced, fuming Malfoy standing at an inch of his own face, and the pointy end of a familiar wand poking his throat. 

“I am not fucking around in this training, Potter. I’ve got plans for myself, and slightly less charming plans for the scum I used to call family and friends. If you really want to pair up with me, you better not step in my way”.

Harry swallowed hard. “Can we begin again?”, he asked. Malfoy didn’t move, Harry soldiered on: “I think you are the best trainee of our class, and I want you to have my back, even though I don’t really understand why you’ve been sabotaging yourself. But please, from now on? Don’t bomb your training? And partner up with me?”

Malfoy doubted for a moment. Then he took a step back, sheathed his wand and offered Harry his hand. Harry shook it and Malfoy undid his silencing charm. A bunch of fellow trainees in various states of undress were looking at them with their jaws on the floor. 

“Shoulda made that a notice me not”, mumbled Harry.

“Agreed”, said Malfoy. “Now get bloody dressed, Potter, don’t make us late”.

[gerrydelano]

hey i just wanted to say that you've had a positive impact on so many people and that's incredibly important

Like, but your choice to write gerry with your personal experiences? Incredibly brave, and it inspired me to write characters with my own experiences, while I'm able to have a look at someone else's life. I get to understand what it's like to be a different kind of person! It's great!!

Also, the fandom metas that you write/share?? Such a gamechanger to the way I write now. When I first started writing it was chockfull of mis-characterisations that I look back on now and just,,, wince at. I haven't had time to rewrite my drafts lately but I'm actually really looking forward to it! Because now I'm writing characters that feel authentic and real that make mistakes but aren't like,,,, Fandom Archetype No.69 lmao. And I can also apply these skills in original writing to, so thank you so much!!

I like,,,, check your blog daily. Not in an obsessive way, and I hope I'd doesn't come across like that, but like a typical American dad checks the newspaper. Either for some big brain take or a cheer me up or a good old cathartic cry about tsp (man,,,, the impact that fic has in me to this day,,,,,) or just a reminder that the g in gerry stands for gender, anything really!!! And I'm not upset if there's nothing new bc i can just scroll thru your blog and read old stuff!! It's great!!!

Anyway I just broke into your inbox and wrote you a whole ass essay without wiping my feet in the doormat, but I just wanted to say you've had a huge impact on me, and I'll forever be grateful!! Hope you have a nice day!!!

crumples under the weight of the love i feel,,, thank you, anon, this was incredibly kind of you to send to me.

for the few things i gave gerry that i deal with (DID and EDS, namely,) i actually don’t have a lot in common with him overall! that’s probably what’s so compelling to me about writing him, like. emphasizing the inherent differences there even if i can pepper in some experiences that i think make sense for his story as it’s given to us in canon. projection in moderation is definitely a useful tool to help make simple things more organic, and to understand yourself better, so i hope you have a lot of fun with it! and learn where to draw lines, too.

don’t beat yourself up for past mischaracterization, either! we’ve all been there. i know i’m really passionate about certain takes of mine but not all of them are actually me saying “rargh i’m right you’re wrong do it like this or else blaaargh.” if a bunch of people are pointing out something actually harmful, then yeah, pay attention to that, but make sure you’re still having fun! it’s nice to see you’re excited to revamp some of your old stuff, i hope it’s a rewarding experience for you, whatever you end up doing with it :’-)

american dad jhkdfh i am honored to be a column in your newspaper! (cries with you about TSP,,, owww i can’t believe so many people still have feelings about that one augh) YES the g in gerry DOES stand for gender! damn right!

i think things will start looking up soon, i mean, they have to eventually! this did put a smile on my face when i first read it, thank you again for taking the time to send me this. good luck with all of your stuff!!!!

[megumigender-moved]

the g in gerry keay stands for gender envy

[ivy-williamss]

isn’t that IVY WILLIAMS? yeah that is her, sitting there at the HUFFLEPUFF table with those other SEVENTH years and i think i heard sybill saying they look like SARAH HYLAND… whoever that is! when she looks into her crystal ball she sees a handful of glitter being released into the air, a tiny warrior wielding a bat and a dangerous smile, laughter that makes your belly ache and tears you can’t wipe away fast enough to save your mascara, a family with many branches - every one of them with something to scream about, a trio in yellow tucked into the corner of the room surveying their kingdom, a pair of girls so close that even death couldn’t separate them - and she tried, a dangerously wobbly pile of vinyl records, sundresses and stilettos, a can do attitude, a shoulder to lean on, and a heart large enough to hold the world.  anyway i’ve heard they’re pretty SHARP, SWEET and VIBRANT. apparently they’re a HALFBLOOD but i;m sure that’s not related --

→ NAME: adelyn ivy addison williams jnr → NICKNAMES: ivy, glitter girl, addy → AGE / D.O.B.: 18 / 7 january 1959 → SPECIES: halfblood witch → GENDER / PRONOUNS: cisfemale / she&her → SEXUALITY: open to love in all it’s multifaceted glory, but prefers men

FAMILY → PARENTS: steve williams, 38, division head, accidental magic reversal. adelyn greengrass, 37,                             housewife, but always busy - charities, hogwarts pta, whatever → SIBLINGS: alice none → COUSINS:   alice, andrew, elsie, abigail, barty (ew) → PETS: clyde, long-eared owl she received for becoming quidditch captain, year five

LIFESTYLE → BORN: manchester, engalnd → RAISED: manchester, england → CURRENT RESIDENCE: hogwarts castle / manchester → NATIONALITY: english → SPOKEN LANGUAGES: english and french → OCCUPATION: student, quidditch captain and beater, hufflepuff wine aunt,  → DRINK | SMOKE | DRUGS: occasionally, occasionally, occasionally → RELIGION: god is a woman and heaven is whatever you want to be - but you shouldn’t need                           a god to tell you you need to be a good person.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES → FACE CLAIM: sarah hyland → ETHNICITY: caucasian → HEIGHT: 5ft. 3 in. → WEIGHT: 110 lbs → BUILD: petite and proportional, toned muscles → HAIR: medium brown hair, usually curled, falls below her chest → EYE COLOR: green → DOMINANT HAND: right → SCENT: sweet pea and peonie → NERVOUS HABITS: paces, crosses and uncrosses her legs, start stops a thousand sentences, tears up

CHARACTER → MORAL ALIGNMENT: chaotic good → MBTI:  → WESTERN ZODIAC: capricorn → SONG: belter - gerry cinnamon

MAGIC → WAND: blue spruce, phoenix feather, 10 1/4", swishy → PATRONUS: st bernard → BOGGART:  with her tendency to tackle everything head on (after a breakdown and a lot of crying) ivy’s fears are much more to do with her own nature and her family’s tendency to drive those they love away. typically, her boggarts change and the last emotional event she experienced will guide the change, but the most frequent tends to be a separation from alice, a permanent one - a fight that drives her away, and, most recently, her death, after the attack on nye.

BIO

most people forget that ivy is a halfblood - she doesn’t go out of her way to correct them, either, but the topic rarely comes up, and she has a soft, easy existence. raised in the same pureblood society as her cousins - thanks to her mother’s continued good standing in the community, the greengrass in her dominates the williams line, and ivy, as a result, is almost exactly what her aunt wanted in a daughter...if she weren’t tainted

her aunt causes a lot of strife in the family, actually, and so does her own mother. the greengrass triplets (adelyn, aurelia and adrian) are still separated, but their children, the would-be next gen triplets, are not - and the girls are a little too like their mothers. andrew is their main peacekeeper, like his father before him. 

as a child in manchester, she attended (private) muggle primary and played field hockey (and rugby, for two weeks, before her mother figured it out)

she’s been a beater on the hufflepuff team since her third year - and her sparkly bedazzled bat is her signature

she became the captain at the start of her 5th year, weaseled alice into joining the team “temporarily” and was thrilled to see her for try outs in their 6th year. they’re an unstoppable team - on and off the field

ivy loves to bake and she’ll use any excuse to make you some cookies

everything she owns is covered in glitter

e v e r y t h i n g

she almost always looks like she’s going to a party - and a lot of times..she is

she’s the president of the manchester chapter of the burt reynolds fan club - and has a framed autographed headshot in the dorm

do not get glitter bombed by ivy - she is every bit as petty as she is sweet, and vindictive to boot

idk

ivy is ivy

she’s just ivy

im gonna shut up now

ay ay ivy

[princegabriel]

Dear Rule 63 Writer

Welcome to the party, pal!

For this particular exchange, since I’ve been fortunate lately to have found and consumed media that mostly has gender dynamics I like, I’m mostly interested in seeing “the further adventures of character A and character B” except that one or both of them has a different gender. Doesn’t mean I don’t think anything would change about them, and I don’t mean to stifle your creativity, it’s just that there’s no specific Thing I want to see w/r/t gender. 

Here are some general things I really like:

Matter-of-fact declarations of love/friendship.

People being productive while pining–either acknowledging their feelings but realizing they still have important things to do, or straight up burying the feelings in work.

Women And Nonbinary People Getting Stuff Done

Fake dating

Black comedy

Silly comedy and bad puns

Conversely, people being very extra and having THE MOST feelings, in the style of 19th century romance

Stories where STUFF happens due mostly to people just being people

Places with secrets

Game narratives, as in, the MC(s) are playing some kind of immersive, fantastical, high-stakes game. See: The Game of Sunken Places, Doctor Who: The Ghost Monument. IDK how that would apply here, but they are neat and if you come up with a concept that you think would work, I bet it would be cool!

I know I didn’t put this in my sign-up, but here are some general DNWs:

Rape/dubcon/torture porn

Major character death

Tooth injuries

Misgendering

Characters’ defining characteristic being “in love with this person”

Unrequested non canonical ships

Diet talk

A/B/O dynamics

Any bodily waste products being used for sex

Unrequested AUs

Now for the specifics:

1. The Magnus Archives

Rating: G-M

Ships: F!Gerard Keay & Gertrude Robinson, Sasha James/F!Tim Stoker, F!Robert Montauk & Julia Montauk, F!Michael "Mike" Crew & Jude Perry, F!Adelard Dekker/Gertrude Robinson, F!Trevor Herbert & Julia Montauk

I love Gertrude Robinson very much. She’s a stone-cold badass and I love how straightforward she is when it comes to resolving some problems (just blow up the building where the ritual is, duh) and how sneaky her approach is to other problems (”why the tape recorders, you ask? well, I'm just an old-fashioned lady, haha!”). 

I’m a big fan of her mentorship with Gerry, and how she is explicitly not a mother figure. Like she has more experience and Gerry is a baby but they’re colleagues, really. I wouldn’t mind Gerry having some complicated feelings regarding Gertrude as a surrogate parental figure, though. I love Gerry being whip-smart and capable but still lacking in things that come from a healthy upbringing (you know, where one of your parents doesn’t murder the other and then recruit you into their spooky magic plots).

I’ve chosen to extrapolate from the bits and pieces we get that Gertrude and Adelard are the kind of close friends where even if they don’t speak for years they know where they stand with each other and can pick right back up. Of course, we also know that Gertrude didn’t let very many people get close to her, so there’s a pretty wide spectrum of possibility in there. In the case of a romantic relationship, I think Gertrude would not really want to talk about it while Adelard would. I also like how Adelard is characterized as terse and efficient in the “Distant Cousin” episode but more poetic in letters and statements to Gertrude. 

Sasha/Tim is just cute. I’d love to read more of their banter, maybe see them working closely together while researching a statement, or see what they’re like outside of work. I’d rather this be set during season 1 or earlier, or have an AU where Sasha doesn’t get got by the Not-Them. There are some lovely fics where Tim is trying to figure out how accurate his memories of Sasha really are, but they are very sad and I can’t read them all the time.

Oohoohoo, Julia Montauk. I love Julia Montauk. She goes from having a seemingly normal childhood to her mom disappearing, but that’s okay because her remaining parent takes good care of her, then that rug gets pulled out from under her, and everything is wrong. And she really tries to be normal, and then Trevor saves her and not only is normal not really an option any more, weird and horrible is so much more fulfilling. 

I’m not a big serial killer fan, but Robert Montauk is just trying to keep Julia safe in a world that is so much worse. How do you do that, how do you kill that many people, after losing your wife, and still come home to your kid and make sure she’s safe and happy and has no idea what you do when you say you’re going to work?

And then there’s Trevor Herbert—homeless, recovering from addiction, and risking incarceration and worse because there are things out there that people don’t understand that can and will kill them. Trevor Herbert, who saves and inadvertently adopts an adult to form a little monster-killer family.

Mike Crew and Jude Perry: I just really like the idea of their being buds and hanging out or comparing stories of tormenting innocent people. Or maybe they have a weird symbiotic relationship—how do the Desolation and the Vast relate to each other? Are they rivals? Or do they have their own (Leitner) book club?

In terms of changing names, the only one I’d feel super weird about keeping the same is Robert—could be shortened or turned into Roberta, whatever works.

2. The Penumbra Podcast

Ah yes, my one-stop gender shop. I love the way this show approaches gender and sexuality, that even if characters don’t spell out theirs (which I think only happens once, with Jet), we can usually assume they’re not both straight and cis. Also, despite the show being a noir/scifi story set hundreds of years in the future, it feels very realistic w/r/t identity and personal interactions. Fandom-specific DNW: coming out. One of my favorite things about Penumbra is that everyone just knows everyone else’s pronouns. It’s not that people can’t or don’t realize their gender identity or sexuality later in life—they do even in the show, it’s just that I like the way canon covers it so much that I’m all set.

Rating: G-M

Ships: Juno Steel & NB!Rita, Buddy Aurinko & F!Jet Sikuliaq, F!Peter Nureyev/F!Juno Steel

I love Juno’s and Rita’s friendship so much. Would love to see them working together, especially after the events of Soul of the People, when Juno finally, explicitly starts treating her better. I love seeing characters getting to exercise their competence, so Rita’s hacking combined with Juno’s detective skills: *chef’s kiss.* Are they solving a case? Are they working a heist? Is it a heist that turns into a case?? Alternately, maybe they’re just hanging out. Juno needs a better work/life balance, and Rita’s a lot better at that. 

Buddy and Jet are also very much friendship goals. I love how Jet has Buddy’s back no matter what, which definitely includes calling her out when she’s doing something destructive, and Buddy loves and appreciates Jet for that. They know each other and accept each other, but they also grow and change together. Meeting when they were both in a really unsteady place could have helped that. I’d love to see one of them comforting the other during a difficult time, or doing a job together either before or during season 3.

Peter/Juno: I mean. This is my jam. Maybe something set during season 1 that plays up the thief/detective dynamic? Maybe something set during season 3 when they’re trying to navigate their relationship in a healthy way when they’re both simultaneously terrified and also just want to make out already? Pairing specific DNW: please please please no Peter alone in the hotel room at the end of or just after Final Resting Place.

Rating E:

Peter/Juno: I mean. This is my jam. Everything above applies here. Smut likes: praise kink, frottage, masturbation, phone sex, teasing, edging, sex when the characters are def supposed to be doing something else, sex in public places where other people probably can’t actually see them but it *feels* risqué.

3. Wolf 359

Ship: F!Daniel Jacobi/F!Warren Kepler

GOOD SHIP. The trust. The loyalty. The King Lear quote when they meet! I love the rare occasion when Kepler lets Jacobi in. I love how they try to let each other know how they feel through actions rather than words. I’d love another time-out from the job like in Mission Mishaps: No Complaints, or a high-stakes situation where they have to defuse a bomb or blow something up, or something in between.

Thanks for writing for me! I hope you have fun with this!

[slogrepellent]

ur gerry... the gender envy... he’s so beautiful... go bestie keep making ur art <3

the g in gerry stands for gender ❤️