☆ Round Two!

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Welcome to the second round of the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Kink Meme at jsmn_kinkmeme!

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■ Anonymously comment with your request – a character/pairing/nthsome, and a kink or prompt.
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Comments

any male character/book!drawlight: trans or intersex boy drawlight

[(Anonymous)]

I have seen several people mention both these headcanons for him and I would like to see a fanfic where someone eats him out. For the other character, my preferences are Childermass or Segundus, but I'm open to others. Just no misgendering or other abuse please. Thank you for reading my prompt.

Re: any male character/book!drawlight: trans or intersex boy drawlight

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds good.

I wonder how people of the period would have understood the concept? Did they have that weird idea transsexuality was the same thing as homosexuality (cf "mollyhouses" with men with female personae, late-C19th theory about sexual inversion, the way Radclyffe Hall and her viewpoint character identified as masculine in the early C20th--there just seems to have been a lot of the idea about before gender dysphoria got named as a thing)?

If Drawlight was what would now be considered as a trans boy--women "passing" as male has been a thing in all past centuries, but it would probably have been understood as an escape from the difficulties of the female role/attempt to gain male privileges. The only thing I can see against this is that it would have been a high-stakes game played to win--to keep passing--and playing up feminine aspects the way he does canonically would be the last thing he'd want to do. Even nowadays non-binary or mixed signifiers are probably the least common ways of being trans, i.e, most trans men probably want to be/be perceived as men, although this is probably somewhat down to the practicality that not-passing can actually be physically dangerous.

(Didn't mean to get too meta, it's just an interesting question!)