you made a thread about detrans baby the other day, are you a publisher fishing for interest in another book of hers? if so yes please put out another book of hers.

>>43470643
She’s a big author if you’re trans and read books. It’s genuinely not weird at all

>>43470643
No I just saw that she was a finalist. Book is still in my backlog but its funny theres a bunch of short stories I read on her website like 10 years ago in there

loved the reprints of the masker and iyfalo, didn't love the title story

hope she writes more. there are other authors writing boundary-pushing stuff (persona is great so far), but she's got a way of seeing social scenarios and the posturing involved and how we form our identity around each other and the ways it hurts us that no other trans authors have.

>>43470594
infect your friends and the chaser were excellent, the masker was ok and stag dance was eh. I get it what she was trying to do but it just went for too long imo

>>43470643
Yeah it's a conspiracy you're so smart

>>43470594
I've read the synopsis of both Detransition, Baby and Stag Dance and its short stories, and they sound absolutely abhorrent. I hate that this is the best literature we have to represent us, just complete 21st century faggot degeneracy and stories about nontraditional family structures between mentally ill people attempting to raise a child. This is the kind of stuff that makes the average person look at us in disgust. What we need is to be recognized as normal people, with normal desires and normal lives outside of our condition.

>>43470594
I enjoyed it but I think I'd have liked it more if it hadn't been pitched as some sort of sequel to DTB. The weird lumberjack story got many keks out of me

>>43470643
>america; reading is for faggots
And you're on the faggot board so perhaps you should leave

>>43471143
I hope the heritage foundation sees this bro

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>>43470707
wait there's a reprint? ive been waiting for her to re-release the masker for like half a decade after i read it, i can't find it anywhere.
> she's got a way of seeing social scenarios and the posturing involved and how we form our identity around each other and the ways it hurts us that no other trans authors have.
it makes for good prose and storytelling but the actual situations she constructs come across to me as myopic, dramatic, and not theoretically good. im not very familiar with twitter discourse, but much of her writing seems to be driven by it in a way that borders on exploitation media.. i like it because of how pulpy it is, honestly.

>>43471143
You're right but you will never get traction on this on this board.

>>43471231
oh I'm not on twitter either, so maybe it's from that? I think the situations are usually unrealistic, but they give the foundation for real insights into how a lot of gender and social stuff work. idk I'm kind of dumb but the masker for example has a lot of interesting stuff about shame, internalized conceptions of identity, how the visibility of trans people can help or hurt us accept ourselves.

and the masker is reprinted in stag dance! It's the masker, infect your friends, and 2 new ones

>>43471350
nta but is the masker in stag dance different from the original The Masker?

Also I have nevada on my bookshelf unread, am I going to like it?

t. chaser (straight)

>>43471402
Anon you were supposed to read Nevada and crack your egg in 2012

>>43471402
I don't think it's different? I have an original copy but I haven't compared them. There's a pdf floating around of the original if you wanted to read that, I think you can just google it

I think Nevada is great, but it's probably partially nostalgia glasses (read it before realizing I was trans and it hit super hard)

>>43471447
I didn't know what hrt was in 2012

>>43471457
Maybe I'll look for it if I'm feeling especially avoidant regarding my everyday responsibilities

>>43471160
>>43470643
I misread your post, sorry for being like that. I will try to improve

>>43471350
>They give the foundation for real insights
Maybe that's my problem, it's that they're elementary and seem to problematize things that never really seemed like a big deal to me. Like IYFALO seems like she was saying maybe transfem separatism can be connected to the ways our misanthropy turns destructive, which can be true, but the response I've seen to it generally doesn't develop that premise in a meaningful direction, it to me sort of just put it in line with the other stories about the Seattle t4t scene that can just fall back on cultural presumption in general.

The masker is my favorite of hers because it's a creepy horror story that gets very personal and because it addresses *how* power delineates between transness and fetishism, how normative transition narratives can confuse or alienate vulnerable young people (and push them into the arms of sex predators), but it didn't elicit enough of my sympathy for the ending and the vehicle she uses for that, the gender bus, is a little contrived.. in a way almost reminiscent of anime in how it's the aestheticization of a thought experiment, or the fictional irl-ization of a space that can only really exist online.

where are u guys seeing trans lit twitter discourse
all i see is stupid highbie and highbie-adjacent shit

>>43470594
is torrey peters agp? i haven't read any of her stories but from other people's descriptions it makes it sound like she is

>>43475494
read glamour boutique, you'll be able to tell

>>43475494
also she's successful without being a hooker, drag queen, makeup vlogger, or model

>>43475518
do you have a tldr?

>>43475494
>is torrey peters agp
kill yourself bro

>>43475578
what i'm genuinely asking

>>43475550
you kinda have just read it to get it. there used to be a pdf online but link doesnt work anymore

>>43475589
npc question

>>43475826
i don't have time to, i can't find much about it online

>>43471143
but you arent a normal person by definition retard, you have totally different reproductive organs and you move in a community full of people that necessarily live very differently to normal people.

>>43475945
tldr lil jeepy goes to a crossie store and gets a boner or something idr

>>43470594
In the middle of it. The story where the mc is a sugar baby and has a difficult relationship with her friend makes me feel dread for my addiction to glamour and lack of desire to be around trans culture. The Stag Dance story is well-written, but seems to move slowly. The most interesting part imo was the mc's realization of his relationship to the twiny guy. Losing interest as it goes on though.

>>43476184
is she writing about herself? her stories seem to revolve a lot around agps and sissies

>>43476660
idk, maybe there are some 10 sec tiktoks you can watch that'll explain it to you

>>43470594
i didnt like chaser as much as the other ones. it didnt fit in with the other ones, somehow.
i liked iyfalo the most. idk, why. liked the premise and was weirdly funny.
i found the masker okay, i guss just not my tast in the end.
And Stag Dance itself was quit good. i agree with >>43470756. the buildup was to long, but i really liked the setting and climax/plot.
Also the new book is a completely different writing stile than detransition, baby.