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Almost 1K words in the "Chrissy Cunningham/Eddie Munson" tag on AO3!!! Started reading when there was just a couple hundred and it's been awesome seeing the numbers grow everyday and all the new fics!

WHO'S AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD ME

"You don't get to tell me about sad"

"If you wanted me dead you should have just said"

"Is it a wonder I broke, let's hear one more joke...And then we can all just laugh until I cry"

"I was tame, I was gentle until the circus life made me mean"

"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me"

"Put narcotics into all of my songs and that's why your still singing along"

"You caged me and then you called me crazy, I am what i am, cause you chained me"

Just finished episode 10 and WOW. I swear if we don't get a season 2 I will riot.

Honestly, I still can't belive Stede and Ed kissed on screen. INSANE. And the ending! I loved how Stede did resolve everything with his family and left on better terms this time around. You can tell he's really starting to embrace being a pirate.

And the scene where Stede and Mary talk about being in love and he says Ed's name and HE. Then the hug. LOVED IT.

The "breakup" between Ed and Stede was also nuts. Ed really goes through the whole breakup process from mourning (the robe!) to rage. (If Lucius is actually dead I will be so pissed.) It was actually cool to see him go all badass. Tho it's still weird seeing him with no beard.

Watched all 8 episodes of Our Flag Means Death yesterday. I really loved it. I'm such a sucker for historical shows. And you know, GAY PIRATES!!!!

Funny enough, I started watching because it trended on Tumblr.

And I totally ship Ed and Stede.

The depression barbie hit a little too close to home

Why are the hulu subtitles so bad. They are always so far ahead.

Finally watching Birds of Prey with my dad! (I like it so far.)

A little while ago I saw someone made a spreadsheet to keep track of all the fanfic they read and became obsessed. I started searching to see if others have done the same and discovered they had. Got inspired and made my own spreadsheet and have started keeping tracks of the fics I've been reading from Sep. 1st (though I might have missed a few). I'll probably wait till the end of the month to share some photos so I can finish tweaking it but it looks so beautiful!!!

[ID: Reed Erickson, a trans man with styled hair, wearing a dark suit and posing with his hands folded. END ID.]

Reed Erickson (1917–1992)

Excerpts from the podcast Making Gay History, S04E07: Reed Erickson.

“He was really accepted in society, both for his relationships with women and his transition, which is really interesting when you think about the 1960s. There were very few people who could so openly and publicly transition, let alone maintain multiple marriages.”

“The influence of the Erickson Educational Foundation cannot be stressed enough. We today would not have trans health care, period, without the funding and the information provided by the Erickson Educational Foundation.”

“It was the first organisation in the world that actually provided support and information to trans people, both through its newsletters and publications as well as an in-person office where people could call or drop in to receive information.”

“Essentially, the framework that trans rights organisations use today in terms of collecting resources by area and distributing them to trans people in need, is based off the work of the Erickson Educational Foundation. So without that, the modern trans movement as we know it would not exist.”

[ID: Three photos of Reed Erickson. In the first, he is standing with his girlfriend Daisy Harriman, wearing a dark suit while she wears a pink dress. In the second, he is posing shirtless, with his top surgery scars visible and obvious facial hair. In the third, he is posing with his wife Ailene and their daughter, in the late 1960s. END ID.]

Trans history involves a fabric of people across generations and cultures. Many trans stories have been erased, particularly trans male contributions, in favour of the myth that Stonewall rioting was the single galvanising event responsible for all progress.

Remember:

Trans men have always existed, and have always been involved in the fight for trans rights.

Stonewall was vitally important, but LGBT+ activism existed before then, too. To think otherwise is to erase the hard work done by the full spectrum of LGBT+ people.

Erasing trans male history further isolates modern-day trans men, and perpetuates the myth that we have never been involved with our own communities. Erasing cis gay and lesbian history perpetuates the myth that our communities have never overlapped, or acted as allies to one another. If you’re passionate about Stonewall, for example, I suggest you educate yourself about Stormé DeLarverie, AKA “the gay community’s Rosa Parks”. She instigated the uprising.

There is not one single person, or one single event, which is responsible for all progress.