Admiral Krunch

I had a similar response when I read the article and saw your name - hey I sort of know that lady!

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Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.

@badambulist.bsky.social Am I the only one who noticed that Alyson Greaves got a very cool mention on The Verge?

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Are we prepping for something? Do I need to start listening to AM radio and buying dry goods and supplements for my shelter?

Oh, you funny Brits 😀 Texas isn't part of the US.

That feeling as an American when you realize you don't understand English. 🤫

Being Samantha Masters An homage-sequel to Being Christina Chase Twenty years ago, Christina Chase came to Oak Grove to visit with her long-lost cousins and, through a series of improbable and very distressing events, was m...

Back on the restaurant WiFi 😤

I forget who recced it to me but I've been reading Being Samantha Masters in my free time and it's so fucking good.

The way it takes the implicit race connotations of Being Christina Chase and makes it text is great.

Highly rec to anyone with fond memories of the OG.

That feeling when you hear one side of the phone conversation. 😅

No kidding 😅

That's unnecessarily kind of you to say. 😄

But, hey, I'm an amateur writer. I'm not good at this. I'm not gonna tell anyone that how they interpret the story is wrong. I'm as shocked as anyone that people are still talking about it. I'm grateful that anyone took the time to read the whole thing and think about it this much.

Andrei is not nearly as bad as his father but he's also wrapped up in what he thinks a man should be. But he realizes that he can't run a business and he needs Christina to do it for him. They literally end up as equal partners with Christina managing things.

Her uncle isn't going to completely change overnight. But she got a mountain to budge. He'd never apologized to anyone for his behavior, but he apologized to her. In the end he recognized her as an adult. He's still gruff and grumpy and stubborn, but he yielded.

I don’t see her as a junior partner in her marriage. When she goes to Richard and tells him she decided to stop running she's clear that she’s not asking for his permission. When she leaves on their flight at the end, she able to put him in his place.

Richard's turn is when he admits that everything he does is inherently selfish. He sees how selfless Christina is and he learns from her that real love means caring about someone else more than yourself. He admits that he's not good enough for her but he can't go back to how he was either.

Christina doesn't change other than learning to accept herself. She starts out believing she's rejected because she's defective. She's terrified of being bi. She's scared to accept she's trans. She runs from it all. It takes her a long time to accept she's good as she is and worthy of love.

I want readers to feel the tension between Christina and Alek's love for each other and the unhealthy behaviors they're both trapped in. My theory? I think some people are just into spanking and don't care about my complex literary tapestry of symbolism and words and stuff. 🤓😜

Christina ends in a good place. She's running her own business. She has the means to send Nina to college. Alek sees Christina never needed anyone to protect her and he doesn't know where he fits. Christina tells him she just needs him to love her and that's all. They end in a good place.

When Christina realizes it's not sustainable, Misha calls her on her shit and tells her if she wants to be seen as an adult she has to stop letting her uncle coddle her. Later, Misha tells Alek that Christina is not a child and if he wants her in his life he's gotta let all that bullshit go.

Christina is traumatized by rejection and having to grow up too fast. As much as it's not healthy she craves Alek's attention and feeling like a parent actually cares about her. She retreats into it. She let the man tuck her into bed 😛

Alek is trapped in masculine expectations. A man provides and protects. It's the root of all his bad behavior. Anastasia tells him her independence 'just kills him' because it does. He can't let go of what he thinks being a man and a father is and it breaks his heart to not feel needed in that way.

The spanking drives home how Alek literally infantilizes her, which sets up near the end of the novel when she asserts herself as an adult and ties his boots for him. Novels 😛. Alek will come around in the end. It just takes a very very long time. But yeah I was surprised at how people excused it.

At least I got your attention 😅

I have to admit I was surprised at how willing people were to give Uncle Alek's behavior a pass because he 'meant well'.

also a new chapter of the homage-sequel Being Samantha Masters just dropped on Patreon and I am *spoiled* tonight

You kids these days, with your Discords and novelty mugs.

Bigots can win court cases and pass exclusionary laws but it still vexed them that the culture has left them behind and that's not going to change.

"The main love interest is this annoying pushy guy who kind of sucks."

I know, right?

The Inside of My Forcefem Torture Basement is 1/4th of an Inch Bigger Than the Outside: My 2024 in Prose Did that title get your attention? I had a hard time reading prose for pleasure while I was doing my English BA and MA degrees. I suppose I always felt like I should be on schoolwork if I was going…

Hey check this out - a review of Being Christina Chase!

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Are people still reading this? 😛

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Watch out for for travel back to the US. I know it's not fair but to government is trying to make travel impossible.

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Yeah it's pretty neat that Miriam is writing something based on it. Blows my mind. 😜

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