Johannes T. Evans

Hello, I'm Johannes T. Evans, and I am a gay, disabled, trans man who writes a bunch!

There are hundreds of pieces available for free on my website as well as subscription-only content - here's a selection of free works for you to check out:

FREE ESSAYS:

How Much I, A Queer Self-Published Indie Author, Made In A Year (2025)

Gregory House, Disabled Bastard, in House MD Season 1

I Am Bad Representation

Ringing The Devil’s Doorbell: A Light-Hearted, Practical Guide to Vaginal & Vulvar Stimulation

What’s In A Uniform?: Imperial Attitudes Reflected in Starfleet’s Uniforms

FREE ROMANCE FICTION:

Dirk and the Weaver — 12k, rated M, MB. A shopkeeper slowly comes to fall for a weaver when he comes to town. Slow romance and fantasy short between a shopkeeper in an isolated Scottish village, and a weaver that comes up from somewhere way down south.

Sweet On — 7k, rated M, M/M. A chocolatier falls head over heels for one of his most austere customers. A very exuberant chocolatier crushes on desperately on the deadpan professor who begins coming into his shop for coffee. Autism for autism and lots of flirting and teasing.

Deep Breath — 7k, M/M, rated M. A painter is utterly obsessed with the butcher across the road, and the butcher is a little obsessed back. Lots of mental illness in this one, lots of reference — implicit and explicit — to suicidality, drug use, alcoholism, sexual assault and rape, ableism, consent issues, including past child sexual abuse, all in the context of a victim in recovery whilst also being in active addiction.

FREE FANTASY FICTION:

The Lord of the Wood’s Spring Bride — 10k, rated M. MB. A trans dressmaker is embroiled in the strange schemes of a local deity, and he lets himself be carried away with the tide.

Obviously Reid is in many ways effeminate and just clocky. They originally wanted to make him bisexual and didn't get to, but MGG's physicality in the role and the way other chars, especially men, respond to him, still has that

He's treated as trans-adjacent or queer or effete or however you want to interpret it; not just less masculine compared to his counterparts, but emasculated and faggy and deserving of homophobia

JJ on the other hand establishes herself in this episode as like. In some ways quite tomboyish

Physically she's very comfortable in her femininity - to be honest, the way that she and Reid often dress identically is very cute but also like, imo is a great culmination of their parallels in this episode

She dominates in sports and athletics, she's from an ag background

So the episode starts with Reid playing Star Trek trivia whilst JJ dominates two lads at sports - she drinks her beer from the bottle, and she's not just good at it, she's confident and she like, slings her arms over the men she's playing with shoulders, faux casual, very dominant

And then in this episode, we get JJ using a cop's misogyny to manipulate him - the cop is a bit insecure and insists she won't find anything in the records that he won't, and she very cannily goes, ugh well, my team won't let me do anything else :( can't i try anyway?

And we see her smirk at Hotch as he basically shares her humour at using this guy's assumptions of her against him

Then when meeting Hankel, we get to see Reid basically use a trick out of JJ's arsenal, which is firstly obviously impactful BECAUSE he is a man and she's a woman

But he bounces on his feet, he pouts out his lips and widens his eyes, he's almost bratty and whiney as he tells Hankel he needs to pee in order to try to manipulate their way into the house

It's tropily a very classic trick employed by women in shows like this and you can SEE Hankel like

Disturbed by it - Reid is basically relying on the additional discomfort caused by the fact that he's a man and this is such an emasculating performance, to better manipulate an unsub

And obvs JJ like. Dominates again, she kills all six dogs, and she's scruffy but not BADLY injured

And the way her immediate post-trauma response develops is extremely traditionally masculine, tropes wise

We see her wetting her face - although not fixing her hair or her clothes - in a mirror and then going right to her gun after a threat, she's posturing, she's aggro and ready to fight

Meanwhile Reid in the torture chair is obvs employing the traditionally feminine position. He's a damsel in distress as the team come to rescue him, he's conniving and appealing to Hankel's emotions, he's crying, he's showing submission

And ultimately like. Appeals to a male figure to save him

You can see Hotch as a father figure as well obvs, from a shipper's lens their dynamic is hot - but Gideon specifically work to mentor Reid and to comfort him, but it's Hotch that Reid knows Best, as in well enough to send a code to him and be certain that Hotch will understand him

And idk i always love that

Hotch in many ways is the one both JJ and Reid feel most supported by and understood by even though Gideon (hilariously) is closer emotionally with Reid, and JJ is closer with the women on the team, obvs Garcia and now Prentiss

JJ and Reid both like. Relate to Hotch

Hotch bc he basically respects JJ's manipulation to deal w shitty ppl and because she's a multitasking manager who can use her skills whilst cultivating distance, and JJ and he can click on that

Hotch bc he can keep up with Reid's train of thought

He never has the same breadth of knowledge, but bc he and Reid have a very similar flavour of autism and how they arrange knowledge in their head, they're often in sync. I think they're also both outsiders too - they're both visibly socially Off, Reid bc of his awkwardness, Hotch bc of his affect