"Sorry my voice is hoarse, I just saw AFI"
I just burst out laughing. I just got back recently from seeing Rise Against with AFI and Anti-Flag, where I wound up recommending your work to an AFI fan who, it turns out, knew your stuff already.
Anyway. This duet is probably my favorite of all of Tammy's works (Yeah, I've been using Kyprioth/kyp as an online name for years, now, and before that I was (GevpxGurQnexvat/Gevpx). Hearing those names in the original context again is going to be interesting). Looking forward to this!

This chapter reminded me of part of WHY I loved these books so much, and why I identified so strongly with Aly when I first read them as a young teenager. As I discovered my passions, and that I wouldn't be happy in any of the futures my parents wanted for me, well, the conversations Aly has with her parents this chapter were painfully familiar. Naq jngpuvat ure svaq n jnl gb hfr ure cnffvbaf naq gnyragf naq znxr n yvsr sbe urefrys gur jnl fur jnagf, jryy - gung tnir zr ubcr.

So, yeah, dead thread. But, speaking as a trans dude since only one other has done it so far:
This series was a mixed blessing and curse for me as a kid. I absolutely never want to imagine what my life would have been like if I hadn't found Tammy's books in middle school (over a decade ago now). That said, twelve year old me internalized the hell out of the idea (my young interpretation; I'm not saying it was Tammy's intended message) that one could dress like a man, one could act like a man, one could reject having an AFAB body, but none of that mattered and AFAB people are women and bodies can't be changed. But also that being a woman wasn't a bad thing, that women could do absolutely anything men could, and that it was something which could be embraced.
So, I kinda blame this series for keeping me in the closet a few years longer than I otherwise might've. But it's also largely responsible for me becoming and remaining a feminist, as well as (through one convoluted train of events or another) pretty much everything good in my life. So I really can't hold a grudge.