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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…
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New Novel, New Anthology!
Hi, hello, hello! Firstly, BETWEEN THE STACKS, an erotic anthology of various short stories featuring books, readers, and libraries, is now out as an eBook, and the paperback is in the works! Featuring a variety of authors including myself and Achilles King, across a range of stories and vibes. My own short is based off of the fun and sexy vibes in The Music Man, but with Marian the Librarian being a stern old fussy man instead of a pretty young woman. Lots of banter in this one, lots of fun, in a small American town! 20% of proceeds on…
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I Am Bad Representation
And I could not care less. Yesterday, I went to my GP and got my testosterone injection administered. It’s an intramuscular injection generally administered to my backside, where the fattier, softer flesh makes the intramuscular penetration of the needle less painful, and also gives it space to settle in the flesh and slowly be assimilated into my endocrine system over time. Every 12 weeks — 3 months — I get this injection administered. I have been on it for about five years. Prior to that, I was on Testogel, a topical form of testosterone where you slather a very strong-smelling slime over your shoulders every…
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Art Market Tomorrow & New Releases!
Good afternoon! Just a quick reminder, tomorrow at Hyde Park Book Club in Headingley in Leeds tomorrow from 12pm until 3:30pm! I’ll primarily have some paperbacks for sale of Heart of Stone, Strange Liberty, and Touch-Starved, some assorted badges, as well as some copies of the newest edition of Transmuted‘s magazine! An Uncommon Betrothal, my erotic romance serial set in the 1920s between a gentleman polio survivor and his sexy new butler, is now complete! You can read it in its entirety for free online, but it’ll be re-edited for the full release soon. I’m currently working on editing the…
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Autism Shopping Trip
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An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Twenty-Two
Final chapter. Alexos and Harry go home. Alexos Fox is of course quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew, Harry Sutton. Alexos, overcome with feelings that are simply too much to repress, tries his best to avoid him, but it seems that Mr Sutton has more than his employment on his mind as he attends his new employer with keen and concentrated focus. Previous Chapter Directory of Chapters Alexos’ body was, understandably,…
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Johannes T. Evans Merchandise Interest
Hello, all! Not a proper update – I am currently abroad in Greece visiting family – but I am going to be selling at the Trans Solidarity Market at Hyde Park Book Club on the 6th July in Leeds in-person, and any new designs will also be made available on my TeePublic store. Are there particular characters, stories, locations, lines, et cetera, that you would like to see referenced or portrayed in merchandise, particularly in badges or stickers? Please let me know in the comments!
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Johannes T. Evans’ Irregular Update
Hello, hello! Had a lovely few weeks. As a birthday treat, we went along to Tropical World in Leeds and it was so much fun – I wore a suit with a pirate hat, and when we went by the enclosure for the cotton-tail tamarins, one of them was so baffled by how wide my head was and rushed over to peer at me through the glass, and then was delighted when I took my hat off to show it my head was, in fact, regular-sized. It’s only £9 for a ticket, and honestly, apart from being such a nice…
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Johannes T. Evans’ Irregular Update
Hello hello! Not too much by ways of going-ons the past few weeks. I attended an Urban Sketchbook Worshop run by Leeds LGBT+ Community Consortium on Monday 19/05, and they run every month. It’s a nice easy walk around some sunny areas in Leeds, sketching elements of local architecture, and I absolutely recommend it – LLCC run a bunch of different events, and if you’re based in Leeds or Bradford, their calendar might be worth a look! The event was run by Jude Allen of Splodge Blossom Art. Jude is an illustrator and UX designer with a focus on combining…
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I’m in the mood for a queer movie…
Some queer movie recs to enjoy this weekend. Got no plans for the weekend? Want to just chill? In the mood to stay inside with the windows open, the sun streaming in, and a fun queer movie on whilst you bedazzle your jeans and stud your sunglasses in preparation for Pride? Here are some recs to get you going. Note that I’m not going to include recommendations I’ve made in the past for I’m just in the mood for a movie with gay (or bi!) dudes or the follow-up, so if you go through this list and it doesn’t feel sufficient,…
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New Works & Recs
Good evening! In order, blog stuff about the North Leeds Food Festival, a TomTom update, and some rejigging in our living room; media recommendations, mostly movies; new works published from yours truly. I am mostly not tinkering on the website for the time being, as I’ve got a lot of juice to write with, several pieces on the to-do list, and several publications I’m working to submit to, but your reminder that my commissions are open if this is something you might be interested in! A peaceful enough week this one past – my partner and I went along to…
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New Works, Releases, & the Flamingos Coffee House Event
Hello hello! In order below, we’ve got an announcement for a new publication from A Coup of Owls; a charity drive for the Black Trans Travel Fund; Monstrous May and a new work published; some chatter about TV and film this week; and finally, a write-up of the Flamingos Open Mic earlier this week and all the excellent artists there, as well as a video of me reading one of my short stories. Firstly, a new set of dates for the schedule – my fantasy romance novelette, Eyes of Magic, is going to be published by A Coup of Owls…
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New Short & General Updates
Hello hello! I have been tinkering away on the website and have made a great many changes and additions, and I’m very pleased with how it’s coming along. The homepage has been altered to show a selection of hand-picked shorts and essays rather than the archives, and I’m thinking I’ll change these out semi-regularly. I have now mostly completed work on the Tags page, meaning that it’s incredibly easy now to browse works by tag. You can click different settings, characters, kinks, or themes, and then you’ll be able to browse through the lists of results. It’s been my long-time…
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TeratoCon 2025 Write-up
Had a spectacular time talking monsters at the very first special convention! Yesterday, I had the delightful privilege of attending the very first TeratoCon at the Future Inn in Bristol, an 18+ convention for monster lovers with a special focus on all things monstrous, especially on monsterfucking and monstrous romance! I had an initially bumpy journey getting there, entirely as a result of my own silliness — I came down south from Bradford to stay with my family in Chepstow the day before yesterday on the train, which came with its own issues (no seat on the entire train between Bradford and…
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Further Apologies & Easy Unsubscription
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New Website and My Fervent Apologies
Hello, this is Johannes T. Evans. You have apparently just received a great many emails from myself as I set up my new website – I apologise profusely, I’ve been trying to import my back catalogue of works from Patreon, Medium, and elsewhere so they’re readable on the new website, and against all common sense, the default options for posting have been sending email updates directly to everyone in my subscriber lists, also imported from Medium, Patreon, and from my original Buttondown newsletter. If the rapid fire hundred or so emails were not announcement enough, I have a new website.…
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Ringing The Devil’s Doorbell: A Light-Hearted, Practical Guide
Let’s talk sex! Vulvar and vaginal stimulation for fun, pleasure, and profit. Originally published on Medium in November, 2021. Content note: this is a reference guide for the stimulation of the vulva and vagina. Throughout this piece there is in-depth discussion of sex and sexual practice, there are diagrams, and there are photographs of vulvas to aid our learning and understanding, not to mention a lot of terribly suggestive fruit. Contents Preface The Anatomy of the Vulva and Vagina: the actual anatomy of the vulva, it and the vagina’s attendant parts, and how everything fits together On Testosterone: the effects of…
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A Month in Cats
Three cats in our home in the last four weeks. I love cats. We had two cats after our first dog, Jethro, died when I was growing up — mine was a tubby black-and-white darling we called Blackjack, and my sister’s was a thinner white sweetheart called Kitty, who unfortunately had a case of chronic anxiety where Blackjack had what we might call chronic overconfidence. My grandparents in Greece always kept through the years cats, generally named after cartoon characters — Wellington, Top Cat, Bagpuss, Pilchard, Kipper, Olive Oyl, Kaluki — and apart from those, I was well-familiar with local cats in the cafés and along the…
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Using Epithets Effectively in One’s Writing
Putting alternatives for a character’s name to good use. Photo on picjumbo.com via Pexels. For the use of epithets, where you’re using something other than a name to refer to the character — the other man, the blond, her elder, the policeman, etc — it’s good to think about WHY you want that epithet. Why would you use an epithet instead of that character’s name? Firstly, does the POV character know that character’s name? If the POV character doesn’t know it yet, they’re likely to fixate on the most obviously unique or identifiable aspect of that person’s character to use as an epithet, and then stick…
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Rescue Dogs: Chapter Twenty-Two
Valorous and Cecil get the train to Camelot, and talk futures. Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker. A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous to see a therapist, on the condition that Cecil attend one himself. Previous Chapter Full Chapter Directory Next Chapter On the train to Camelot that afternoon, Cecil paged through the last job packet Coshel had sent ahead of them, so it was waiting in Valorous’ train carriage…
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An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Twenty
Alexos and Felice Garibaldi go back to his hotel room. Alexos Fox is of course quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew, Harry Sutton. Alexos, overcome with feelings that are simply too much to repress, tries his best to avoid him, but it seems that Mr Sutton has more than his employment on his mind as he attends his new employer with keen and concentrated focus. Previous Chapter Directory of Chapters Next Chapter…
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A Queer Indie Author’s Experience of 2024
Looking back on my top stories, sales stats, and best experiences of the year past, and looking to the year ahead! A screenshot from Kindle Direct Publishing, showing my orders processed on Amazon in 2024–1548. Hello hello! I’ve just been in the process of attending to my yearly tradition, ordinarily attended to in the last days of December and the first of January — I sit down with my new year’s calendar, and I write down all the vital dates and pieces of information. On the current calendar in front of me — a charming Peter Rabbit family planner with a little attached whiteboard, as…
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An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Nineteen
Harry has a pint with a fellow valet, and talks about love. Alexos Fox is of course quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew, Harry Sutton. Alexos, overcome with feelings that are simply too much to repress, tries his best to avoid him, but it seems that Mr Sutton has more than his employment on his mind as he attends his new employer with keen and concentrated focus. Previous Chapter Directory of Chapters…
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A Transphobe Ruined His Own Night Because I Was Existing Next to Him
Hate is a miserable business — but in this case, not for me! Originally published in Prism & Pen in December, 2024. My partner and I went to DILF Leeds for the first time this week — DILF, which obviously stands for Dad I’d Like To Fuck, is a regular gay dance night that runs here in the UK. It runs all over, in Manchester and London and a bunch of other cities, as well as more locally to us in Leeds. I will be the first to say that dance music is not my vibe as a rule, and a lot of the DJing…
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The Prince’s Crown: Chapter Four
Fantasy/Romance. Forseti attends the Silver King’s fae revel. Rated E, M/M. In Victorian England, a young and sickly Norwegian immigrant, Ansgar “Forseti” Borson, quarrels with his father over what his future is to be. The man is stern, cold, and distant, and never seems satisfied with anything Forseti pursues, seems disappointed with every facet of him and yet will never explain why. In secret, Forseti escapes these punishing expectations by dedicating himself to something very unorthodox indeed: magic. Previous Chapter Directory of Chapters Next Chapter Forseti woke with the rise of the sun and moved slowly from his bed. He coughed…
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Little Devils: Chapter Eight
Fantasy serial. Velma works at Hamish’s, and the two chat childhoods. Velma Kuroda, a young specialist in magical and enchanted antiques, is taken under the wing of Hamish MacKinnon, a master enchanter and centuries-old immortal — a crotchety old man possessed by a horde of little demons. Previous Chapter Directory of Chapters Next Chapter Her mother mustn’t have realised she’d come in last night, because when Velma woke blearily from the sofa, it was to the sound of biting arguments on the phone. She had to blink a few times, rubbing at her eyes, to try to understand what she was saying — when…