Gender play in Shakespeare and fanfiction

[gement]

ALFRED: You’ll both go either way in the end. We all do.
- me, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Magic, Act II, Scene iiI identify as genderqueer and pansexual. Trying to capture the sense of permutation available in sexual and gender expression, in the voice of a character who isn’t long on rhetoric or academic gender vocabulary, is an exercise in

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[mimerki]

I have read all of these words and I have a crush on your brain.
Whether or not the thinky-thoughts I now have in my own brain ever coalesce into a useful thought, I thought I should let you know that you are being read and causing thinky-thoughts.

[gement]

*beam* Your comment prompted a chemical reaction in my brain that I believe matched your intent of making me feel all glowy and grin like a fool. Thanks.

[drakemonger]

I have no suggestions to offer, but the fact that you think these kinds of things is why I want to be friends with you.

[gement]

You as well! I will work in Downtown Seattle starting, um, Monday. We should get together and do a thing.

[drakemonger]

We should! Except I won't have time to breathe until the 10th of October. If I email you then, will you remember we consider each other mutually awesome and thus work with me to set up a time for lunch or dinner?