Sticky Post: Where Do I Start Reading?

I’ve just found your work and there’s a lot of it, where do I start?

Welcome to my website!

First off, my name is Johannes (Yo-Han-Ehz) T. Evans. I’m a gay, disabled, transgender man originally from Chepstow in the South of Wales, and I now live in Bradford in West Yorkshire, though for several years before now I lived in Galway, in the west of the Irish Republic.

I’ve been writing for years, and you might actually already be familiar with my work – I’ve been on Tumblr under various URLs (before using my own name, JohannesTEvans, I was at PatricianAndClerk, for example), and I was a very active poster on Twitter before it stopped being usable for non-Nazis.

Much of my original work takes place across the same two universes.

Magic Beholden is my main universe, which is a magical parallel to our Earth – there are angels, fae, vampires, and the like existing in relative secrecy, and there are also historical and mundane events happening. I generally include information as to rough geography and time period on my works.

The Dragonplanet is a higher fantasy world with elves, orcs, adventurers, and the like.

I have a Directory of Work here where I keep track of all my published work under genre categories, alphabetically ordered by title; I also have a tag page where you can navigate by tag, inspired by the Ao3 tagging system. With hundreds of stories and hundreds of tags to choose from, though, that can all be a bit overwhelming!

This sticky post is to help you pick somewhere to start with reading my work rather than feeling overwhelmed by the massive list of free-to-read works and books for sale.

Assuming you’re interested in fiction, let’s get started!

Pick a statement and start with a fic under it at random. There are full descriptions in each of these posts of the story in question.

I want to read something starring a trans man.

I want to read something romantic.

I want to read something with neurodivergent and/or mentally ill characters.

I want to read something with an asexual character.

I want to read some erotica.

I want to read something with sailors or pirates.

I want to read some erotica with fucked up power dynamics.

I want to read some erotica with weird sexy body horror.

I want to read something with angels.

I want to read something sweet and light-hearted.

I want to read something with physically disabled characters.

I want to read something with Norse gods.

I want to read something funny.

I want to read something with vampires.

I want to read something with cats.

I want some erotica with sexy older men.

I want something sexy in a historical setting.

I want to read something in Ancient Greece.

I want to read something with fae and faeries.

I want to read some dark romance.

I want to read some horror.

I want something that’s loving and kinky.

I want something to read something emotional.

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Since something like 2010, I’ve been a fervent writer of fanfiction for various fandoms. I still write fanfic now, in fact, albeit not as often. You might have read fanfic from me under the name DictionaryWrites, and may be familiar some of the below :