No one asked, but to be clear, my issue with cisswap has less to do with changing a character’s gender and more to do with how shitty it is for femslash.

If you want to do always-a-cis-girl!Cas or genderfluid!Cas or transgirl!Cas or anything other than cisdude!Cas I think that’s great. I only have an issue with it when I have to filter out a buttload of fem!destiel from my femslash searches, and even then that’s my personal damage and not on anyone else. I would just rather read about some of the canon female characters when I read f/f fic because they don’t get a whole lot of attention.

And when it comes down to it, I would rather do genderbends outside of cisswap for characters because, frankly, there aren’t a lot of fics that deal with characters who are nonbinary. But that’s just me and my feelings.

I just thought I’d make that clear because I know I’ve said before that I didn’t like cisswap and I wanted to clarify. It’s not that I have an issue with it just on principal, I just don’t like having to sort through a mountain of the most popular ships in order to get to fics that feature minor characters.