Dear @Thallo@hexbear.net , hi! I read Us by Sara Soler based on your rec based on my rec, glad you enjoyed it and I did too.
lets fucking goooooo
When I was reading it, I was not "wondering why we want to spill our guts", who fucking wouldn't, isn't that the entire point of talking? One of the things I realised reading it though, was that regarding coming out/early transition stuff, I was/am so fucking blackpilled. Maybe I need to examine that, I wonder if I have personal trauma around the whole coming out thing somewhere? It could just be that the entire experience of yelling at people and throwing coffee and shit at age 16 was traumatic in itself, Idk. I am gonna fucking Adjust My Posting around this realisation right the fuck now, though. Exposure therapy time, brb boutta take the bloomer pill.
Part of it is also like, the trans-coming-out is an automatic freebie offer for max sympathy, to my brain anybody coming out as trans is a lovely smol bean who should be defended at all costs from cisnormative society and I will want to kill their entire family in minecraft if they don't fuckin fall in line. Plus, a lot of the coming-out-early-transition stories are fucking suffering pits, so there's that too. Imagine my shock that Us is actually pleasant and affirming and cool! (I was recommended it on this basis)
Diana and Sara are just cute really, I don't think stockings are as hard to get into as Diana makes em out to be, but the scene is cute, and the whole book is like that. I love to see a coming-out story that mostly just involves a loving partner helping her girlfriend slowly poke her way out of the closet. I was like, first time skirts, makeup, oh yeah I member. Sure any relationship that survives a transition has to be rad as fuck.
I was surprised that I kind of liked Sara as much as Diana if not more, though? She is a dopey cissie but she's great actually, "FUCK THAT! THE FUCK KINDA BULLSHIT IS THAT?!" is an awesome moment that tells you early on this is gonna be cool. Plus Us has the bit where trans people are occasionally inadvertent fuckin SOCIAL AGITATORS (or very advertent agitators, watch out) and sometimes cause "cis" "het" people to question their shit and realise or become considerably funnier genders or sexualities. I think that's cute, mood.
This has been good for me, I've needed to decompress from [ridiculous absurd book you've nevet heard of that couldn't possibly exist] for a long time, and Us was that for me. It could even be a good one to throw at cis people you know, I think. Happy to have enjoyed it ❤
Us pairs well with:
Wallsocket by Underscores (like most things)
Reddishness by Girls Rituals
ULTRA PARADISE by Angel Electronics
It's been a while Ashina, good to see you back with your signature frenetic bookposting style!
I'm happy that the book bloomerpilled you! Frankly, I think it would be hard to read this one and not feel the same way
book talk
I think it's not surprising that you like Sara so much. She's our point of view and the story is just as much about her as it is Alex. I mean, the story is called US not ALEX! It was really sweet watching them grow together, and Sara really does remind me a lot of my wife. I feel like it gave me a lot to look forward to as I grow as well.
I think it's too bad that so much of this lit is a suffer fest because I don't think that's healthy to wallow in early on.
Currently, I'm reading "Until I Love Myself" by Poppy Pesuyama. It's about an AFAB NB person as they come to terms with their gender identity. Despite the cute art, it is, in fact, a bit of a suffer fest and deals with things like mental health, self loathing, and SA.
I'll always be signature and frenetic autism and adhd, together at last ✨
Yeah I was really pleased, not that I had low expectations but it was still pretty surprisingly rad.
boooooooktalk
See I thought I might hate that Us is told basically from the cis lady's perspective, I've hated the cis half in these things before, but Sara is rad and funny and "so punk..." I was instantly endeared to her, she's so good to our smol bean y'know? I love to see it
Okay I'm still putting that on my TBR though. I was just really exhausted and psychic damaged this... month, two months, book reading period. Usually grim and suffery is my bread and butter, I'm far from against trans lit being dark in that way, cause them's the breaks y'know?
Dear @Thallo@hexbear.net , hi! I read Us by Sara Soler based on your rec based on my rec, glad you enjoyed it and I did too.
lets fucking goooooo
When I was reading it, I was not "wondering why we want to spill our guts", who fucking wouldn't, isn't that the entire point of talking? One of the things I realised reading it though, was that regarding coming out/early transition stuff, I was/am so fucking blackpilled. Maybe I need to examine that, I wonder if I have personal trauma around the whole coming out thing somewhere? It could just be that the entire experience of yelling at people and throwing coffee and shit at age 16 was traumatic in itself, Idk. I am gonna fucking Adjust My Posting around this realisation right the fuck now, though. Exposure therapy time, brb boutta take the bloomer pill.
Part of it is also like, the trans-coming-out is an automatic freebie offer for max sympathy, to my brain anybody coming out as trans is a lovely smol bean who should be defended at all costs from cisnormative society and I will want to kill their entire family in minecraft if they don't fuckin fall in line. Plus, a lot of the coming-out-early-transition stories are fucking suffering pits, so there's that too. Imagine my shock that Us is actually pleasant and affirming and cool! (I was recommended it on this basis)
Diana and Sara are just cute really, I don't think stockings are as hard to get into as Diana makes em out to be, but the scene is cute, and the whole book is like that. I love to see a coming-out story that mostly just involves a loving partner helping her girlfriend slowly poke her way out of the closet. I was like, first time skirts, makeup, oh yeah I member. Sure any relationship that survives a transition has to be rad as fuck.
I was surprised that I kind of liked Sara as much as Diana if not more, though? She is a dopey cissie but she's great actually, "FUCK THAT! THE FUCK KINDA BULLSHIT IS THAT?!" is an awesome moment that tells you early on this is gonna be cool. Plus Us has the bit where trans people are occasionally inadvertent fuckin SOCIAL AGITATORS (or very advertent agitators, watch out) and sometimes cause "cis" "het" people to question their shit and realise or become considerably funnier genders or sexualities. I think that's cute, mood.
This has been good for me, I've needed to decompress from
[ridiculous absurd book you've nevet heard of that couldn't possibly exist]for a long time, and Us was that for me. It could even be a good one to throw at cis people you know, I think. Happy to have enjoyed it ❤Us pairs well with: Wallsocket by Underscores (like most things) Reddishness by Girls Rituals ULTRA PARADISE by Angel Electronics
It's been a while Ashina, good to see you back with your signature frenetic bookposting style!
I'm happy that the book bloomerpilled you! Frankly, I think it would be hard to read this one and not feel the same way
book talk
I think it's not surprising that you like Sara so much. She's our point of view and the story is just as much about her as it is Alex. I mean, the story is called US not ALEX! It was really sweet watching them grow together, and Sara really does remind me a lot of my wife. I feel like it gave me a lot to look forward to as I grow as well.
I think it's too bad that so much of this lit is a suffer fest because I don't think that's healthy to wallow in early on.
Currently, I'm reading "Until I Love Myself" by Poppy Pesuyama. It's about an AFAB NB person as they come to terms with their gender identity. Despite the cute art, it is, in fact, a bit of a suffer fest and deals with things like mental health, self loathing, and SA.
I'll let you know how it is!
I'll always be signature and frenetic
autism and adhd, together at last ✨
Yeah I was really pleased, not that I had low expectations but it was still pretty surprisingly rad.
boooooooktalk
See I thought I might hate that Us is told basically from the cis lady's perspective, I've hated the cis half in these things before, but Sara is rad and funny and "so punk..." I was instantly endeared to her, she's so good to our smol bean y'know? I love to see it
Okay I'm still putting that on my TBR though. I was just really exhausted and psychic damaged this... month, two months, book reading period. Usually grim and suffery is my bread and butter, I'm far from against trans lit being dark in that way, cause them's the breaks y'know?
Looking forward to this update from u