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Multi-Fandom Transfic Master List
Introduction

As you have probably noticed, the list is no longer here. Instead, I have moved it to delicious, which makes it much, much easier for me to keep it updated.

It will also make it easier for you, if you have a delicious account yourself. You can add me to your network and thus be notified immediately when the list is updated! You can also use delicious to send me links that I don't yet have on the list by putting "for:transfic" when you save a link (of course you can also comment here same as always). Please do not hesitate to link your own fic.

What Qualifies for the List?

The list includes fics with both canonically and non-canonically trans characters. So far canonically trans characters are not as well-represented, so if you know of any fics that aren't on the list, please comment and let me know. The character must be either the main character or one of the main characters of the fic. Mentions or walk-ons don't count.

In terms of non-canonically trans characters, I am only taking fics that are explicitly about trans people. Traditional "genderswap" fics don't count, nor do "always a girl/boy" AUs.

Despite the name of the list, I also accept fics about characters who are (canonically or not) genderqueer or intersex. However, I will not accept "hermaphrodite" fics. I use that word because that genre has nothing to do with actual intersex people, but is rather based on a fantasy of what a "hermaphrodite" is like.

Tagging

I hope the tagging system is fairly easy to follow. Tags for fandom and author should be self-explanatory. Following is a list of other tags I use, by bundle:

Type: Canon/noncanon refers to the status of the trans (or genderqueer or intersex) character. It does not imply anything about the fic itself (such as canon vs. AU), but simply is there to let people sort between stories about canonically trans characters and those who are written as trans in fic. I have divided the trans category into MtF (male to female) and FtM (female to male), again, so that people can sort for one or the other.

Length: The length divisions I use are short short (under 1000 words), short story (1000 to 7500 words), novelette (7500 to 20,000 words), novella (20,000 to 50,000 words), and novel (50,000 words or more). Series are tagged as such, rather than listing each fic in the series individually.

Warnings: These are not what fandom traditionally calls warnings, but rather are extra info people might want to know. So far the three tags are WiP for works-in-progress (usually abandoned series), broken link for stories that have been deleted or locked since I added them, and potentially offensive for stories that may be offensive. This can refer to the story itself or the headers and/or author commentary. However, I have not read every story on the list (and probably never will, since many are in fandoms I don't know). If you read a story and feel it is offensive, please comment and let me know and I will tag it as such.

Reviews

I review everything I read, and I have read/plan to read a lot of the stories on the list. If I have published a review, I will link to it in the comment box.


Please feel free to comment with any further questions (or to link to stories not on the list).



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[info]nixwilliams
2008-02-03 11:30 am UTC (link)
thanks so much for the list - i haven't time now, but i'll check to see if i can find more in the next week or so.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-03 11:32 am UTC (link)
Awesome! :D

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[info]nixwilliams
2008-02-03 11:36 am UTC (link)
ok, gonna post on my journal - to clarify, you're not after any genderswappy stuff, are you?

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-03 11:51 am UTC (link)
No, there are plenty of genderswap (gah, I hate that word) fics out there. I would only take it for the list if the character was trans already.

Like, there's that really good Panic! At the Disco fic by [info]impasto where Ryan gets turned into a girl and doesn't turn back and ends up having to live basically as a transguy, but while that's a very cool take on the genderswap thing, it's not quite what I'm looking for.

A story where someone (or whoever) is MtF (whether they're in denial about it or at whatever stage) and gets changed into a girl or a story where someone else is post-op whatever and gets changed back to their original body and is freaking out, some sort of genderswap like that would be perfect for the list.

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[info]nixwilliams
2008-02-03 11:34 am UTC (link)
also, hahaha! i totally forgot i'd written that! *g*

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[info]lilacsigil
2008-02-03 12:39 pm UTC (link)
Here via [info]nixwilliams. A very cool list - the only one I had read was "Blaise". I wish I knew somewhere to find some more...

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-03 12:44 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. :)

I've seen a huge increase in the number of transfics this past year, so hopefully that's a new trend. (I'm certainly doing my best to pester encourage everyone I know to write more!)

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[info]incidental_fire
2008-02-03 05:37 pm UTC (link)
What a great list and useful resource! I've seen your recs before, and I really like how honest you are about your opinions on fic. Especially with topics like this that are often written so badly, I like knowing before I start reading that I'm not likely to get hit over the head with something offensive.

On a somewhat related note, I noticed that in one of the comments above you said that you hate the term 'genderswap'. I've been having difficulty with this myself, because while it (and similar terms) are definitely problematic/not accurate, I haven't been able to find another term that can be used for the same concept. Have you seen or come up with any? Or is it more of a 'not liking the entire idea' issue?

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-04 12:45 am UTC (link)
Thank you! It's always great to hear that people find them helpful. :)

I have just not really found a term I like for that type of fic. I tend to go with genderfuck as an umbrella term, and I would include the fics on this list under that, because they are fucking with the stated gender of the canon characters, but it would also include what fandom generally calls genderswap, where someone magically (or through sci-fi tech) gets turned into the opposite sex.

But genderswap as a term irks me because no one is swapping genders; they're swapping sex. But sex swap sounds odd and sex change makes me think it would be about transexuals. However, I can accept genderfuck, because gender is still being fucked with if someone is a man in a woman's body or vice versa. It's not ideal to me, since as I said, I don't consider it specific to just that type of fic and wish there was a word that just meant "wakes up the opposite sex/is changed into the opposite sex by magic or technology or whatever", but it will do for now.

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[info]isiscolo
2008-02-03 07:41 pm UTC (link)
Girl Stuff and the Boys by [info]gatewaygirl is an HP story in which Hermione changes (permanently and deliberately) to male. It was written for a "bad-summary-athon" and is a bit cracky, so I don't know if it fits your "respectful" criterion. However, I thought it had some clever and thinky bits. Harry/Draco/Hermione, NC17.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-04 12:37 am UTC (link)
Does she change because of a "genderswap" type situation or does she change because she's trans and wants a male body? As I said to [info]nixwilliams above, while I am interested in new takes on genderswap fics, they're not really what I'm looking for in this list.

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[info]isiscolo
2008-02-04 02:10 am UTC (link)
She changes because she wants a male body, but it's not because she always felt she was a male in a female body, but rather that she has always felt "out of place" as she was. It's not a long story, so, read it and decide.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-04 02:18 am UTC (link)
Will do, thanks! :)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-04 02:19 am UTC (link)
LOL! Apparently I already had it bookmarked to read on delicious.

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[info]melannen
2008-02-04 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Oooh, awesome! I love this list and it's getting bookmarked.

Would the DW/TW fic Sex Addiction: An Argument From Aetiology count for this list? It's about a bio-female character who is mis-classified as male as a baby (in a very sexually segregated society) and what happens when everyone else starts growing a beard and he gets weird chest-lumps insead. I have it tagged 'intersex' because it's so close to intersex stories I've read, but it is borderline.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-05 01:09 am UTC (link)
It does sound like it would fit. I'll check it out, thanks! :D

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[info]trascendenza
2008-02-07 04:02 am UTC (link)
Yay! Thanks so much for this resource. I'm really looking forward to digging into it. ♥

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-02-07 04:07 am UTC (link)
Yay! :D

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[info]gemmi999
2008-12-08 02:34 pm UTC (link)
So, I discovered this close to a year later, but...thank you! All the transfic! It's like heaven!

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2008-12-08 11:25 pm UTC (link)
You're welcome! :) I'm always glad to hear other people find it useful.

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[info]fizzyblogic
2009-05-29 02:42 pm UTC (link)
A friend emailed me this link -- I haven't read it yet, but the friend is another FtM and it's Arthur (Merlin fandom) as FtM and said friend enjoyed it.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-05-29 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh neat! I don't have any Merlin fics yet. :) Thanks!

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[info]sailorptah
2009-06-03 09:29 am UTC (link)
I feel awkward about self-pimping, but I tried my hand at a fic with MtF!character!Stephen Colbert, and commenters have said the gender-confusion bits rang true to their own experiences, so! Here is the link. Peruse at your leisure.

(Also: the existence of this list is quite awesome. Followed a trail of links here from your review of the intersexuality-related manga at [info]50books_poc, which was also appreciated. So thanks for the reccing all around :D)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-06-03 09:49 am UTC (link)
Haha, I'm kind of horrified at the idea of character!Stephen in such a situation, I must admit. XD I may have to read it just to see how you managed to pull it off.

And please, don't feel awkward! I want all the links I can get. :)

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[info]sophinisba
2009-06-08 08:35 pm UTC (link)
Hey there, these are links to six trans ficlets in Flashpoint fandom:
http://lonetread.livejournal.com/85687.html (MtF)
http://lonetread.livejournal.com/85970.html (FtM)
http://lonetread.livejournal.com/86146.html (FtM)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-06-08 10:17 pm UTC (link)
Oh cool, thanks! And that's a fandom I don't have any from yet, either. Double neat. :D

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[info]lonetread
2009-06-23 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Hey, thanks for linking those for me! I meant to do that. >_<

(And while I'm here: I also have "Sam I Am", my ongoing series of Supernatural drabbles featuring FTM!Sam; I compiled the links at this post.)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-06-24 01:07 am UTC (link)
Oh cool, thanks! So far it's been nothing but Dean as trans, so I'm excited to see some variety. ([info]busaikko just sent me an MtF!Sam fic to beta, too.)

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[info]lonetread
2009-06-27 12:55 pm UTC (link)
1. Um, while I generally call it the "Samverse" because it rolls off the tongue better, its 'official' title is "Sam I Am", and I'd rather you use that on the list, please and thanks.

2. I was rereading "Sexing the Pumpkin", and it now has a sequel, and two other fics inspired by it: The Price of Silence, and this one (and I don't know what your criteria is for the "potentially offensive" tag, but IMO you ought to consider it for that last one; I'm only mentioning it at all for completeness).

3. Looking forward to MTF!Sam! :)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-06-27 01:06 pm UTC (link)
Oh cool, thank you. I thought about asking you if you had a title for the whole series, but then got lazy and figured if you had you would have put it and I didn't want to feel like I was bugging you to make one for my sake.

And erk, yes, I definitely think that last fic needs a label. *headdesk* I don't really have a policy, per se, just if I read something (for all I know some of the fics I haven't read could be problematic, too) and either something in the fic or in the headers/comments (one fic was fine itself, but the author put "LOL crack" several times in the headers, and I don't appreciate being thought of as someone's idea of hilarious crack) really upsets me, I'll put a warning. There are a lot of fics that are kind of clueless/borderline offensive to me, but I don't label those (if I've read something, I link to my review, so I figure people can get a better idea there).

Thank you for the links, though! Yay more fics! :)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-06-27 01:25 pm UTC (link)
Actually, on second thought, I'm not even going to add that last one to the list. It may be inspired by Sexing the Pumpkin, but without knowing that, I would never think it was about Snape being trans at all. Snape clearly thinks of herself as female, not male, and was only pretending to be male because her father wanted an heir. The author does not say Snape is meant to be trans, so I am just going to go with what the fic tells me, which is that this is just a female Snape who pretended to be a man.

Otherwise...ugh!

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[info]lonetread
2009-06-27 03:09 pm UTC (link)
ITA. Good call.

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[info]scheherezhad
2009-06-23 02:15 am UTC (link)
I meant to comment with this ages ago but never got around to it. [info]thete1 has her The Young and the Battish 'verse where Tim is trans and became Batgirl instead of Robin.

All the things of the world
A wondrous mirror
The old earth spins

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-06-23 02:18 am UTC (link)
Oh neat, thank you! Batman is a new fandom for my list, too, so doubly exciting! :D

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[info]lonetread
2009-07-02 04:46 am UTC (link)
I really should bookmark this post, I'm here often enough, lol.

I'm doing this unofficial-NaNoWriMo-in-July type of thing, and, well, the very first thing I wrote for it was 725 words of fic for The Listener, in which I've made the main character, Toby, MTF: Reflections in a Broken Mirror.

I've got 7+ more prompts in this general vein to write this month, but I liked this one enough to not want to wait till August to pimp it. :) I'll be back, though, I'm sure.

*runs off to go read that MTF!Sam instead of writing*

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2009-07-02 05:56 am UTC (link)
Awesome, thank you! :D

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