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thefirstpaleontologist · 1 year ago

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I love genderbend fics where the character is basically the same person personality wise (same morals and interests and such), but has slightly different skill sets and understandings of certain matters as a result of being socialised and treated differently by those around them.

I love "gender bending" characters but HATE HATE HATE designs where canon buff dudes are wispy little fairy ladies and canon tiny women are beefy ass male linebackers. If you're not in it for JACKED WOMEN and TWINKS then what's what's FUCKING point

#i love gender bending when the characters got the same personality and skills etc but is just a diff gender #and so the plot changes depend on how other characters and society perceived that gender #I also love when genderbending is an in-depth study of how being born and raised a different gender would have effected the character #would the different socialisation have affected their personality or ideologies or interests wtc #what is core to who they are and how much was environment? what changes and more importantly what stays the same?#what new difficulties would they encounter when their body is different?#I appreciate when a genderbend au also doesn’t shy away from considering how gender identity and sexuality might be effected #does the author think of sexuality as liked girls as a guy and still likes girls as a girl?#or does the author think that if they’re straight as a guy then they should also be straight as a girl?#and vice versa #because one keeps attraction the same and changes the sexuality #and the other keeps sexuality the same and changes the attraction #and then with gender- if they were a girl who was born a guy does that mean they could be trans or otherwise gnc?#or would they remains equally comfortable in whatever their biological gender is?#most genderbend au fics in my experience go with them remaining comfortable in their birth gender #as the point of the fic is usually to explore that new gender rather than an exploration of what this character would be like if trans #and trans au fics tend to be their own seperate thing #and genderbend au fics also more often than not are down for the sake of ships rather than social exploration unfortunately #so I think it’s usually a guy character being genderbent into a girl for the sake of shipping them with another male character #anyway this is getting away from me

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