Christian A. Young's Dimlight Archive  By way of clarification…
Yesterday's post about swapfic? Not the only thing to be said
about swapfic. Nor, incidentally, do I think that every
incidence of swapfic is something that someone has written with
the intention of producing a trans narrative. Nor am I in any
way outraged by the existence of swapfic. I don't regard it as a
moral evil. I don't even have the same reservations I have about
it as I do with mainstream m/m romance and slash. And yes, I
know that swapfic can be something more complex and challenging
than "VWOOP! new body, let's shag!" and that this more complex
thing can touch on trans themes under the right circumstances.
While I like to think I'm speaking the obvious in explaining why
I think there's a distinction, I also encounter a lot of people
in my daily life who think they understand dysphoria and what
happens under the big trans umbrella a lot better than they
really do.  While most of my friends are pretty savvy people,
and a great many of