#i should do a compilation post of my binary trans characters and another of my nonbinary characters sometime

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elf gender link masterpost

For an anon who asked for this a few weeks back! Sorry it took me so long, I’ve been busy :)

Disclaimer: The links in this post do not necessarily reflect my personal opinions on the subject. This is simply a compilation of different people discussing elvish gender in Tolkien’s Legendarium.

If you do not want your post included on this list please message me and I will take it off!

Additionally, if you find a post or resource that you think should be added to this list, message me and I will consider adding it!

I, personally, have not yet put together a post with my own headcanons around elves and gender, but once I do I will come back to this post and link it! This post will very likely change over time :)

link to a pdf scan of Laws and Customs among the Eldar for you to peruse at your leisure and form your own opinions!

a breakdown of Laws and Customs among the Eldar by @absynthe--minded

“Some Arda Pride thoughts” by @theoppositeofprofound

“Some House of Finwë Gender and Gender Presentation Headcanons” by @outofangband

“There’s really no reason why elves have to conform in any way to human binary of sex and gender” by @outofangband

meta on trans characters in Tolkien’s writing by @tolkienlgbt and @morbidfinwe

“Another take on gender in Tolkien” by @contemporaryelfinchild

headcanons and discussion on trans elves by @ambarto and @silmallyrn

an anon’s headcanon about Noldorin gender

headcanons about elvish gender by @absynthe--minded

and for further headcanons / meta / art / etc based specifically around trans characters in the Legendarium, check out my “trans tolkien” tag!

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Results From a Different Fanfic Community Survey (old, from Tumblr)

Hey everyone! I saw the survey post going around (thanks for doing that u/cephalopod11!), and it reminded me of a survey that me and my friend had done literally years ago on tumblr, but never got around to sharing! We were making a documentary about fandom for our senior project (yeah, i was cool in high school) but because of time constraints and lack of editing software/skills, we never actually finished the doc, and we never got to share the survey results. Which is a bummer, because it had over 2,000 responses. So I thought you guys might appreciate it! It might be interesting to view the results from tumblr and the results from reddit side by side to get a more accurate view of fanfiction readers all over.

I typed up a summary of the most relevant questions but you should be able to view the google generated summary here (which is also proof of the response numbers and things like that lol). There are a lot of questions at the end about reader insert fanfiction because for some reason that was going to be a big segment. Legitimately i cannot remember why we thought that was an interesting or good idea, but we also have another survey we did just for people who read reader insert stuff if anyone is interested in that.

A few other things to keep in mind:

Our questions were kind of badly worded, which is unfortunate since we got so many responses.

Since we were in high school we definitely had an age bias which is very clear in the how old are you question lol.

This was done in march of 2018 so the data is 2 years old.

I think it got reblogged by a big drarry account which may have skewed all the numbers towards the Harry Potter fandom specifically. So is any of this accurate?? God only knows.

maggie if you are reading this, I'm sorry i didn't ask first before i posted this but I knew you wouldn't care and also you take forever to respond to texts. sorry love you lol

Question 1: How old are you? 12 or under: .8% (19 responses)

13: 3.9% (90)

14: 6.3% (146)

15: 9.7% (223)

16: 10.2% (234)

17: 9.8% (227)

18+: 59.3% (1,366 - clearly we made a huge mistake with this question lmao)

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Q2: If 12 & under or 18+, what is your exact age?

(We had people write these in, but I’m compiling them into age groups for simplicity. 1,205 out of 1385 who were supposed to wrote in)

11: 5

18-24: 757

25-34: 327

35-44: 52

45+: 23

The oldest response was 62!

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Q3: What is your gender?

My biggest regret with this whole survey was not differentiating between cis male/female and trans male/female. At the time we only really cared what gender people identified as and didn’t want to differentiate but now I wish we had that data. :(

Female: 80.4% (1,853)

Male: 4.2% (97)

Non-Binary: 9.9% (229)

Prefer not to say: 3% (63)

Other (these responses ranged from “questioning” to “what is gender” to “i dont knoooooow): 2.5%

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Q3: What is your sexuality?

I was a dumbass and forgot to put asexual- some people wrote it in but it the numbers for that are probably wonky

Bisexual: 32.9% (759)

Straight: 23.1% (533)

Pansexual: 13.9% (320)

Gay: 9.8% (226)

Asexual (write ins): 5.8% (134)

Prefer not to say: 5% (115)

Other: 9.5% (this was usually some more specific denotation of an LGB id)

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Q4: What fandom, characters, or people do you read fanfiction about? Check all that apply

People could check multiple things, so these percents do not add up to 100

Harry Potter: 82% (1,891)

Marvel Cinematic Universe: 45.5% (1049)

Sherlock: 33.3% (767)

Supernatural: 25.9% (598)

Star Wars: 21.1% (486)

Yuuri! On Ice: 19.3% (445)

Marvel Comics (including cartoons like Ultimate Spider-Man): 18.2% (420)

YouTubers: 15.4% (354)

Star Trek: 14.1% (324)

Doctor Who: 14.1% (324)

There were a ton more but those were the top 10. I think you can see all of them on the google generated results.

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Q5: What fandom, character, or person do you read the MOST fanfiction about? Please only write one

Again, I regret the wording on this one. Should’ve just been fandom. Also, we should have just had them select from the same list because the write-in is a nightmare.

Harry Potter: 682

Sherlock: 68

Supernatural: 51

MCU: 44

Star Wars: 40

There’s literally over 1,000 more responses that are impossible to sort. Sorry :(

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Q8: Which relationship/pairing/orientation types do you regularly read? Check all that apply:

Male/Female Relationships: 51.6% (1190)

Male/male relationships: 89.7% (2069)

Female/female relationships: 48.4% (1115)

Multi - more than one kind of relationship, or a relationship with more than 2 partners: 42.2% (974)

General - no romantic or sexualrelationships, or relationships which are not the focus of the main work: 39.5% (912)

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Q9: Which relationship/pairing/orientation do you MOST OFTEN read?

Male/Female Relationships: 12.7% (292)

Male/male relationships: 72.8% (1,679)

Female/female relationships: 4% (92)

Multi: 4.2% (97)

General: 6.3% (146)

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Q11: Where do you MOST OFTEN read fanfiction?

Tumblr: 9.6% (222)

AO3: 76% (1,752)

FFN: 7.2% (165)

Wattpad: 6.3% (145)

Other: .9%

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Q13: Which rating do you MOST OFTEN read?

General Audiences/K: 3.4% (79)

Teen & up/T: 25.5% (588)

Mature/M: 43.4% (1,000)

Explicit/MA: 27.7% (639)

That’s all the relevant stuff! But there were 19 questions in total, so if you want to see the results of those and all of these in graph format, you can click on the link above and just click on “see previous results.” Enjoy!

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