#im alive hi hello

[lambdalibrary]

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Content Warnings

transmisogyny, abuse, alcoholism, putting self harm here just to be safe honestly

Link

Download it here. There's no audio version yet from what I can tell.

Summary

This short novella covers the events pre and post outbreak of a virus that causes people to stop producing any kind of sex hormones like estrogen or testosterone from the perspective of its patient zero.

Thoughts

I loved this just so much I thought it was really smart and honest and I always need more trans apocalypse/horror stories. If you liked Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin I would definitely recommend this as a companion piece to it. They're both drawing on similar themes of inter community violence and connnection, the need for hormones for both cis and trans people, the construction of gender, and survival for trans women in both the real world and in fiction.

The worst thing I can say is that I wish so much this wasn't a novella and was a full fledged novel. I wanted to spend more time with these characters and the way the virus changed the world and the way we all construct gender. What was there was great but I just wanted more, especially more of what the first chapter brought to the table. The exploration of how even in a world where no one naturally produces hormones, people still have ideas of what being cis and being trans means in a way that's also tied up in classism and transmisogyny. Estrogen gets rationed out for cis women to increase the birth rates, and cis men over inject testosterone to preform masculinity in even more drastic ways. People who can't afford pure hormones take riskier methods that create an underclass of trans women still because our cultural ideas of gender are so ingrained with transmisogyny even in a world where there are no "natural" genders.

#im alive hi hello #dead animal #animal death #<- for the cover #pride month #bookblr #lgbt #book recommendations #lgbt books #lgbtq #transgender #trans women #trans books #torrey peters #infect your friends and loved ones

[egg-baby-official]

HATEsune MEANku

#my art #hatsune miku #初音ミク #vocaloid #hagane miku #hi yes hello im still alive and drawing

[memeticsdivision]

#IM ALIVE #hi. hello. i have been in a massive art block #so heres some dapper art #for the qsmp people on my blog #qsmp #qsmp fanart #dapper qsmp #dapper fanart #qsmp dapper

[pyrrhicos]

boosing OUT!!!!!!

#stex #stex caboose #cb the red caboose #sorry for disappearing im ALIVE hello #very busy and very art block lately i am pulling thru #anyway hi stexbros #starlight express

[metrixnos]

Siren out of water

#blood tw #dsmp #technoblade #technoblade fanart #im alive #hi hi hello #have a phone doodle #siren!techno #i love drawing them so much #i heart mermaids

[majickth]

Lets get to work.

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #zombiecleo #zombiecleo fanart #zombie cleo #zombie cleo fanart #limited life #limited life fanart #traffic series #life series #mcyt #mcyt fanart #mcytblr #hermitblr #majickthart #hi hello im alive :] #just crawling out of the art block hole

[eskiinox]

Hi there!! We just became mutuals (which I'm amazed by, this feels like being mutuals with a god) and I'd like you to know I love your hfth fan art!! This is a relatively small fandom, so you are doing the lords work here!! And if its not too much trouble, can I request a still-attached-to-the-piano Percy doodle? No worries if you don't want to, I'm just happy we're mutuals!! ✨️💕

AWEWDIHEFUO THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR THE REQUEST <33 !!!!!!!!! you are always the nicest ever I love being mutuals with you :DDD HERE IS YOUR PERCY!!!!!!

#PERCYCYYY #love you percy #NOW AT. 135. #starcrossed gods ended my life #and im very scared #for whatever is going to happen next #hfth percy #eskiart #asks #hfth #hfth fanart #hello from the hallowoods #i drew him alive and happy the other day #here is him dead and miserable #hi broocks

[turrondeluxe]

You alive?

yeahg

#ive gotten a bunch of this exact ask #dw yall im alive and well i was just really busy and could not manage more than one public social page #anyways its been a While hello hi #ask

[beforeyougo-turnthebiglightoff]

do you ever wish murder was legal

#im joking dont take this srs #what if im not though #genuinely though like go after Matty not his mum?? fucking freak #me when im in the worst person alive challenge but my opponent is a matty hating swiftie #theyre all fucking freakkkkkssssss like hello jesus fucking christ #blah blah! #the 1975 #matty healy

[misciouscave]

hb Lu Guang... You deserve all the love in the world...

#YES HELLO I AM ALIVE #just had 6 very difficult months but now i have a computer AND a drawing pen so all's well that ends well :) #i wanted my first drawing to be link click related beacause i really enjoyed s2 ans i was so sad not to be able to contribute to the fandom #i know im late but i just wanted to give this good boy a happy birthday with his friends... #just a little thing to get back in the mood :D #Lu Guang #Cheng Xiaoshi #Qiao Ling #Link Click #Shiguang Dailiren

[vixentrickz]

they're similar I think

#hello niche audience of rhythm thief and mlb fans #i hope at least 4 people see what im seeing #shitpost #my art #woah colored shitpost #miraculous ladybug #nathaniel kurtzberg #rhythm thief #phantom r #raphael rhythm thief #phantom r rhythm thief #mlb #run #oh yeah im alive hi

[imaginepostingonsideblogs]

guy experiencing the 'no knowledge of the passage of time' and 'forgetting about the existence of large swathes of the world when he is not Looking Directly At Them And Even Then Its Like A 50/50 Chance' disorder voice: bwugh

#HI. HI... #how longs it been #no seriously how longs it been i have no idea #it feels simultaneously like three months and nine years skull emoji #maybe its only been two minutes but oh well WHATEVRR hi folks #its me. ya boy. im alive i swear #FIVE DAYS. alright. thats cool thats cool #oh i am not reconnected with reality yet i can feel it #okay im definitely going to delete this in the morning this is like a slow decent into madness atp #tldr. im fine. hello. everythings fine and normal #thumbs up

[medi-bee]

making a two minute animatic for a podcast 99% of my followers have never heard of well that’s just how it goes sometimes

#im alive hello hi can you hear me #the cycle continues #medi bee talking #i’ve never animatic’d anything before in my life this whole process has been a learning disaster #but you know what. it’s actually coming together i think #even though i started it without so much as figuring out what i want the characters to look like #i’ve drawn more humans for this stupid thing than i have in the rest of my entire life #the podcast is dungeons and daddies btw #single-handedly carried me through these past two months #binged all two season and now i’m in ‘waiting for the next episode to come out’ hell #get me out of this office i want to go home and draw‼️ #i wasn’t actually sure how serious i was abt this but now i’m like. 80% done somehow? #but i am the master of jinxing myself so let’s see

[royalreef]

i hunted for like 10 minutes for your blog bc i needed you to see this

(( GOD I WISH THIS WAS REAL — I'm starved for more ocean music, let alone deep sea music. Only the other day I managed to find Sea Synth and I'm still not satisfied.

#Most secret royal advisor || OOC #Dreaded rumors || Asks #turnecoat #(( also hi hello im alive #(( i promise im still active here i just havent had much to do + have low energy as hell

[almostharmon]

birthday gift for an amazing friend 💙🦋

#my art #fantasy #butterfly #friend's oc #friend's character #idk what to tag ngl #anyway hi hello im still alive somewhat

[spaceprincessem]

seven sentence sunday

thank you to everyone who tagged me in things this weekend. i promise i wasn’t ignoring anyone i just had nothing to share. blowing kisses and sending all my love to @spotsandsocks @alyxmastershipper @ebdaydreamer @swiftiediaz @cowboy-buddie @shortsighted-owl @mysteriouslyyounggalaxy @firehousewithaview @thekristen999 @rogerzsteven 💖 i finally got my shit together and did some writing this weekend so here have two sss from the photo booth fic and my hunger games au

photo booth fic

Despite whatever has settled between them they’re still partners out in the field. But, everything feels slightly off kilter, like everything has been shifted to the left or the world’s tilted a degree on its axis. Eddie gives him the wrong tool. Buck’s fingers miss the hand off and it crashes to the ground. They’re constantly bumping into each other; wrong-footed and frustrating. Eddie snaps when Buck asks him to repeat a question. Buck accidentally elbows Eddie in the ribs when he pries a door off a dented car. 

It’s not enough to interfere with their job, but it does capture the rest of the team's attention and by the time they’re back in the engine on opposite sides Buck’s eyes burn with unshed tears as he keeps his gaze firmly set on a grease smudge on the window.

and

hunger games au

He’s not quite sure whether Buck was really real or if it was just a hallucination. But his desperation and fear sounded real. His cry of pain as Eddie sprinted away sounded real too. Suddenly, like a wave crashing against the shore Eddie feels a deep, deep sorrow overcome him. He doesn’t know if Buck is alive and the thought of losing him even after everything terrifies Eddie. He saved Eddie. He just wished he knew what was going on in Buck’s head. 

He wonders what Shannon thinks of Buck.

He immediately pushes that thought away as he rolls his shoulders. Buck and Shannon do not coexist well together in his thoughts.

tagging @buddierights @elvensorceress @eddiediazes @renecdote

#buddie #buddie wips #911 #hello yes hi im still alive #hunger games au