Tag: Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity
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My Favourite Films of 2025
My top watches of the year! 2025 was a really good year for me flicks-wise, and it’s been a great year for film in general — a lot more of my favourites are new releases than usual, and a fair few of them I actually watched in the cinema. I watched 120 films in 2025 — a few were rewatches — and…
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Movie Review: Victor/Victoria (1982, dir. Blake Edwards)
Had the absolute pleasure of going along to the Pictureville cinema here in Bradford this weekend to watch Victor/Victoria (1982, dir. Blake Edwards) as part of their Widescreen Weekend film festival. It was on my radar for a while, but I’d never gotten around to watching it, and when some friends of mine were going…
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A Man’s Indentures
Category: M/M, Length: 10k+, Rating: M, Theme: Accountants & Bankers, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Body Horror & Transformation, Theme: Body Modification, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Debt & Money Troubles, Theme: Enforcers & Bodyguards, Theme: Eunuchs & Castration, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Intersex People & Intersex Bodies, Theme: Mages & Sorcerers & Witches, Theme: Magic & Powers, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Slavery & Indentureship, Theme: Twinks & Femboys, World: The DragonplanetFantasy/romance short. A man indentured is dispatched to an island to be a bailiff’s bodyguard. Photo from Pixabay via Pexels. 13.5k, M/M. A man indentured for his parents’ debts is dispatched to a magic-poor island to serve as bodyguard to the local bailiff — an imperfectly beautiful man who has indentures of his own. Adapted from a TweetFic.…
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The Joy of Trans Creation
On the liberty of making unapologetically transgender art. Originally published in Prism & Pen. For me as a child, there was no real transgender representation around me. Transfeminine characters were exciting when I saw them, even though they were frequently the butt of jokes, highly sexualised, or the targets of violence from the narratives they…
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Crimson Peak: A Love Letter To Gothic Romance
Adoring thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro’s 2015 masterpiece. This review and bit of analysis is related to the talk I’ll be giving on Crimson Peak tomorrow, responses to misogyny and marginalisation in and around Gothic fiction, and how much of this social conservatism is mirrored in BookTok and modern retorts to problematic fiction. All proceeds…
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Finding Your Style, Part I: Shape & Silhouette
A deep dive into deciding on your own personal fashion and tailoring your clothes to fit. Introduction Before I start with the actual meat of this piece, I want to establish what this series of guides is not going to be. These guides are going to be about building and cultivating your wardrobe and accessories for…
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Good Coin
Category: M/M, Character: Bale, Character: Quiver, Character: The Champion, Rating: M, Theme: Adventurers & Dungeon Parties, Theme: Found Family, Theme: Gender Dysphoria, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Identity & Personality, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Retirement, Theme: Self-Esteem Issues, Theme: Sex Work & Sex Workers, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Thieves & Rogues & Burglars, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Warriors & Mercenaries, Theme: Weight Gain, World: The Dragonplanet
Romance & Fantasy short. A warrior has tension with the rogue in their party. 7.5k, rated M, M/M. Just some romance and learning to understand one another. A mercenary — not an adventurer, thanks much — struggles to understand the compulsive deception of the party’s rogue. Adapted from a TweetFic. Mentions of sex work, past sexual abuse, trafficking, implied gender…
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Raped and Ruined: Themes of Sexual Assault and Reproductive Coercion in Alien (1979)
Theme: Capitalism, Theme: Debt & Money Troubles, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Horrors & Thrillers, Theme: Misogyny & Sexism, Theme: Monsters & Monsterfucking, Theme: Patriarchy & White Supremacy, Theme: Pregnancy & Reproduction, Theme: Science Fiction Movies & Books, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Sexual Health & MidwiferyExploring the underlying anxieties around sexual assault, loss of bodily autonomy, and forced impregnation in Alien (1979). From Merriam-Webster: Rape: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person’s will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of…