Dusty Soul and Katie Mayo join the mod to take on the extremely broad topic of gender and fanfiction. We muse on why so many women write fanfiction, their obsession with gay romance, trans characters and the language we use to refer to gender in fanfiction, and the pros and cons of A/B/O and genderswap fics.

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Fic Recs:

Born From the Earth by venusm

(http://archiveofourown.org/works/1013991/chapters/2013424)

in which lips has shitty opinions by stubliminalmessaging

(http://archiveofourown.org/works/3507845)

Things That Haven't Changed by a_pocket_full_of_fancy_words

(http://archiveofourown.org/works/1652621)