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Well this was a bit longer than I'd anticipated! I'm doing a lot of thinking here.

I've just watched this amazing video about masculinity in Fantastic Beasts.

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I loved it; I think this is exactly the kind of discussion about masculinity and performance of masculinity that society needs to be having, and I think Pop Culture Detective does this kind of thing really well in other videos too.

That's not the bit that I want to talk about. I haven't seen Fantastic Beasts, but I identify a lot with Newt as he is described in the video - a nurturing, empathetic person who can have difficulties forming friendships. What interests me is that this is described in the video as a way of performing masculinity. When cis men behave in these ways and display these personality traits that can be understood as a performance of masculinity, whereas when I or any other transmasculine person behave in the same way it is often interpreted as proof that we're 'really women after all'.

( More about transness and gender performance )

Snowflake challenge, Day 2

Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

I have to keep this to just three or else the list will go on forever! I decided to not rec more than one from the same fandom as well. So, in no particular order:

Harry Potter

the dogfather - T rated, 45,000+ words, fix-it AU, Harry is adopted instead of going to the Dursleys, Sirius is part of his childhood. Background-ish Wolfstar.

Tamora Pierce, Tortall

Miss Atomic Bomb - mostly T rated, a couple of E and M rated works, 96,000+ words, series of one-shots starting with a modern coffee shop Song of the Lioness AU. Mostly canon relationship pairings.
Edited to add: it's been a while since I read this series all the way through; I'm reading it again today and it turns out I entirely forgot about some of the relationship pairings! Probably equally split between canon and non-canon ships.

Dragon Age Inquisition

our wide eyes burn blind - E rated, WIP, 49,000+ words, Krem/Female Trevelyan, Krem is the Inquisitor's bodyguard and then feelings happen.

I love the writing in all of these, and I really enjoy how much story there is to get into; I have massively oversimplified them for brevity's sake. I'd completely recommend all of them to anyone with a passing familiarity with the fandoms!