"honestly! where’s the fun in making a hockey player gay and/or a girl if they’ve already unlocked those levels on their own?" what's the fun in someone being a girl???
(context for the quote in comments here)
for me, the fun in in making someone a girl is exploring how a male character's traits might express themselves differently if the character were operating within the cultural constraints of being a girl. for example, rutger mcgroarty's canonical thesis statement is "i love the game, i love the boys, i love life. what's there to be sad about?" i started to wonder what it would be like for rutger, as a girl, to deal with the realization that she was never going to be one of the boys, and that became a 60K fic with internalized misogyny as an animating theme (which i will finish eventually! perhaps even in 2026!)
here are some other fun examples of questions that r63 fic can explore:
how would owen power's canonical discomfort with physicality translate to a girl's body?
what would trevor zegras's brand of confidence look like as a girls' soccer player?
how would quinn hughes's eldest daughter traits manifest if he was an actual eldest daughter?
what if rutger's brand of irrepressible optimism collided with a guy who did not reciprocate her feelings?
how devastating would will smith's slow blink be if he was a girl?
wow wouldn't nolan moyle be an incredible slutty disaster of a girl? (the questions don't always have to be deep)
somewhat relatedly, and just because i'm always looking for takers on this one, i also think a super interesting question is how rick celebrini's parenting philosophies would affect a trans kid's relationship with their gender.












