Thursday: Genderswap

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone. I’m canonisrelative and today's theme is genderswap. Prompts can be anything so long as they show a character interacting with their gender in a way that differs from canon.

So gender is totally a construct, right? That’s why it’s so fun to play with. Whether it’s taking a look at how the story would be strikingly different or shockingly the same, subverting stereotypes or letting a character’s suppressed traits or tendency shine through…it’s fascinating. Have fun!

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...

+ Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers, Stevie Rogers was actually born Stephanie Rogers and spent her/his childhood playing with the boys and taking on bullies twice her/his size. When the war came, s/he was desperate to enlist like her/his best friend Bucky... Author’s choice: Tomboy (she) or trans (he) Stevie, gen or paired with Bucky.

+ Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki (+Thor), Loki always wanted to be a Valkyrie. As a child playing at make-believe battles with Thor, Loki used to pretend to be a Valkyrie, and that’s how Loki learned to shift between genders.

+ X-Files, Mulder +/ Scully, girl!Mulder and boy!Scully

+ Little Women, Jo March +/ Theodore Lawrence, Sometimes when it’s just the two of them, he lets her dress him up in her clothes and brush his hair and call him Dora.

+ Star Trek (any), Any (+/any), show me a Trekian vision of the future where one can abstain from gender or revel in its multitudinous manifestations and no one’s bothered. (I kind of imagine a lot of Jacob Tobias running around and it's glorious 🤩)


We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2021 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out the just created Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet. For more recent prompts to write, you can also use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.


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Comments

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Star Trek (TNG, DS9 or VGR), ensemble, an alternate reality where they're all the opposite gender

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Any, any group/ensemble, for [insert fandom-relevant reason] they get genderswapped - who's freaked out, who's okay, who's unconcerned...?

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers, Stevie Rogers was actually born Stephanie Rogers and spent her/his childhood playing with the boys and taking on bullies twice her/his size. When the war came, s/he was desperate to enlist like her/his best friend Bucky... Author’s choice: Tomboy (she) or trans (he) Stevie, gen or paired with Bucky.

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki (+Thor), Loki always wanted to be a Valkyrie. As a child playing at make-believe battles with Thor, Loki used to pretend to be a Valkyrie, and that’s how Loki learned to shift between genders.

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Superman and Lois, instead of having two sons, Clark has two daughters who inherit his powers

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

X-Files, Mulder +/ Scully, girl!Mulder and boy!Scully

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

Little Women, Jo March +/ Theodore Lawrence, Sometimes when it’s just the two of them, he lets her dress him up in her clothes and brush his hair and call him Dora.

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

Star Trek (any), Any (+/any), show me a Trekian vision of the future where one can abstain from gender or revel in its multitudinous manifestations and no one’s bothered.

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

DC, any, really just anything that takes place on Earth-11

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Marvel, Jane Foster &/ Ororo Munroe, there are more female Thors than either first realized

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Any (please no Star Wars or SPN), author's choice, "Gender? Never heard of her."

No fill, but...

[creepy_shetan]

...I can sense a plot bunny is lurking nearby...

Btw, when did you start avoiding SW as well as SPN? Did something happen?

Re: No fill, but...

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Nothing happened with Star Wars, just sometimes it's a bit Too Much for me, not a massive squick but just not feeling Star Warsy with these prompts :)

*offers a carrot for the plotbunny*

Re: No fill, but...

[creepy_shetan]

Oh, okay. ^_^ I was a little worried there. ♥

And, uh, my draft is ~550 words so far. XD;; I was thinking it'd be 200~300 when I started. I'll see where it takes me... (plot bunny, take the wheel)

Re: No fill, but...

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

*offers entire carrot patch to the bunny*

Re: No fill, but...

[creepy_shetan]

...Um.

... ...It's 2K now.

... ... ...Just like another draft I started this week for one of templefugate's Loki prompts.

... ... ... ...In addition, I have two drafts from late July that are each 1K and 1.6K right now. (Not y'all's prompts, but yes, for here, and featuring one common character of chaos.)

I simply wanted to write drabbles... or fills that would fit in one LJ comment... @__@;;; what happened

Re: No fill, but...

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Plotbunnies gonna plotbunny XD

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Good Omens, Aziraphale +/ Crowley, Aziraphale rarely changes his gender but Crowley likes to zhuzh up his gender every few decades. Somehow, even without looking, Aziraphale always knows what gender and which pronouns Crowley feels like using, sometimes even before Crowley does. One day, Aziraphale decides she's zhuzhing up her gender.

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Author's choice (please no SPN/Star Wars), author's choice, "My gender is whatever Gonzo has got going on."

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Lucifer, Lucifer Morningstar +/ author's choice, just because Lucifer *usually* presents as a hot English guy doesn't mean he always does. Sometimes Lucy's a hot English woman or a genderless eldritch being of infinite beauty.

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Dragon Age, any Dwarf +/ any, "Are you a girl dwarf or a boy dwarf?" "Probably." "No, no, I mean what's in your breeches?" "My legs." "No, no I mean..."

AKA a bearded dwarf wearing proper non-obvious-boob/codpiece-armour has a gender that is Confusing and also gives me gender vibes I want to be them.

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

MCU, Sylvie, meeting other female Loki variants

THIS. This needs a fill

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

Putting it high up on the list.

No fill, but...

[creepy_shetan]

...throughout watching the show, I was making references to the 12 Monkeys TV series, and now all I can imagine is a horse-drawn wagon full of female warrior nomad Lokis living in the Void. (They don't need a car. They know how to track the storm and how not to draw its attention. ...So maybe it's a bit A Quiet Place, too.)

RE: No fill, but...

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

The picture you just drew in my head is amazing!

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

DC , Harley Quinn/ joker , joker is a women who is a bit toxic to her boyfriend Harley Quinn

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

One direction rpf, girl Zayn Malik/ girl harry styles, + otp5 , they were a girl band who stayed together

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Venom, venom , likes being a women

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Buffyverse willow Rosenberg /anyone , willow is a sexy guy and they are just noticing