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Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees showed what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest hurdle came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories considered her brave or heroic for her openness. National papers would even celebrate her wedding in 1955. At worst, her narrative was seen as banal and unnewsworthy.

The New York Daily News ran a surprisingly respectful series of articles on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees' were among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity but also other trans people like her.

Completed fic is up on ao3! With 33,000 words its the longest piece that I have written in probably a decade. I had a lot of fun writing it

Chapters: 16/16 Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith, Levi Ackerman/Mike Zacharias, Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith/Mike Zacharias, Erwin Smith/Mike Zacharias (ish) Characters: Levi Ackerman, Levi Ackerman’s Mother, Kenny Ackerman (mentioned), Rico (mentioned), Dot Pixis, Keith Shadis, Zeke Yeager (mentioned), Hange Zoë, Mike Zacharias, Nile Dok, Moblit Berner, Petra Ral (mentioned) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Pirate, Pirate Erwin Smith, Captain Erwin Smith, Pirate Captain Erwin Smith, Sadist Erwin Smith, Top Erwin Smith, Dominant Erwin Smith, Bottom Levi Ackerman/Top Erwin Smith, Erwin Smith Has a Big Dick, Mike Zacharias has a big dick, Dot Pixis spelled as Dot Pyxis, Nonbinary Hange Zoë, They/Them Pronouns for Hange Zoë, Masochist Levi Ackerman, Submissive Levi Ackerman, Levi Ackerman is Bad at Feelings, Sexuality Crisis, Minor Character Death, Eventual Romance, Eventual Smut, Suicidal Ideation, Suicidal Levi Ackerman, Face Slapping, Non-Consensual Bondage, Threats of Violence, Hair-pulling, Erwin Smith Has Both of His Arms, Erwin Smith is not Subtly Sadistic, Choking, Guns, self-harm ideation, Rope Bondage, Levi Ackerman-centric, Blood and Violence, Size Kink, Size Difference, Pining, Mutual Pining, Miscommunication, Blood Kink, Porn With Plot, Slow Burn Ish, Dom/sub, BDSM, Hand Jobs, Safewords, Frottage, Praise Kink, Flogging, Whipping, Aftercare, Threesome - M/M/M, BDSM Scene, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Not Beta Read, Fluff Series: Part 6 of AOT (Okay mostly/just eruri) works Summary:

“Please just kill me,” Levi said again, slowly. “Oh, now he’s even using his nice words. Why?” Erwin questioned. “I don’t want to deal with this anymore,” Levi forced out. “You are a coward. As I thought,” Erwin raised his fucking dumb eyebrows.

Handbinding Project: My Immortal by Tara Gilesbie

This really started over a year ago, with a project started in the Renegade Bindery server: people would format different chapters of My Immortal, without knowing what anyone else was doing, and we would put them together into one file. It was agreed upon that everybody would disregard both good design and good taste. 

(If you click on each image, the caption lists who designed the page in question. I couldn’t include them all here, but every page is basically a work of art. Horrible, typographically hellish art.)