#crystal frasier

[transbookoftheday]

🍂 Trans Books To Read If You Love "Heartstopper" 🍂

Here are some trans books you should read if you love "Heartstopper":

Book titles:

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Out of the Blue by Jason June

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars (comes out September 14, 2023)

#cheer up #cheer up: love and pompoms #crystal frasier #always the almost #edward underhill #the passing playbook #isaac fitzsimons #the heartbreak bakery #a.r. capetta #out of the blue #jason june #meet cute diary #emery lee #beating heart baby #lio min #the borrow a boyfriend club #page powars #transfem #transmasc #nonbinary #agender #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr #heartstopper

[traeumenvonbuechern]

⚾ Books To Read If You Love "A League of Their Own" ⚾

I can’t believe Amazon canceled "A League of Their Own" 😭 Here are some books you should read if you miss this show as much as I do.

(Also, please remember that ALOTO wasn't canceled "due to the strikes". Amazon is the one to blame here, not WGA & SAG-AFTRA!)

Book titles:

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

You Don't Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (comes out September 19, 2023)

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise and Oscar O. Jupiter

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker

The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes

Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

Running With Lions by Julian Winters

#a league of their own #aloto #last night at the telegraph club #malinda lo #you don't have a shot #racquel marie #cleat cute #meryl wilsner #cheer up #cheer up: love and pompoms #crystal frasier #val wise #oscar o. jupiter #home field advantage #dahlia adler #joy to the world #kai shappley #lisa bunker #the avant-guards #carly usdin #noah hayes #like other girls #britta lundin #the passing playbook #isaac fitzsimons #running with lions #julian winters #bookblr #booklr #book recs

[yourdailyqueer]

Crystal Frasier

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: N/A 

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Artist, comic writer, game designer

Note: Is Intersex

#Crystal Frasier #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt people #intersexuality #transgender #trans woman #white #artist #video game designer #graphic artist #comic book writer #writer #intersex

[cateyedfox36]

I made a poster board!

This was meant to go to work, but apparently we can't display solicitations bc as always the MLM huns ruined it for everyone.

So here it is! I was feeling very elementary school science fair when I made this and gosh I am delighted!

I'm starting bright and early tomorriw- I'm cheating a little by already starting 'When the angels left the old country" but it's so flapping good you guys!

Ok the organization is my local trans support project that provides clothing and other necessities to trans folks in my state. If you want to donate to your own, that's cool, I know in US every state is going full nazi on trans folks, just keep in mind SOUTH DAKOTA is a trash pit of human rights and were very small.

Heres the link. Any amount pledged helps.

#trans rights readathon #Boost #Transformation project sd #South dakota #trans rights #Books #Cheer up! #Heart haunt havoc #when the angels left the old country #akwaeke emezi #dead collections #The witch boy #The witch king #Nizoral #molly knox ostertag #crystal frasier #maia kobabe #Gender queer #freydis moon #H e edgmon #noelle stevenson #sacha lamb #Val wise #Oscar o Jupiter

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

goodreads

Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser—a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro aggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they’d lost and discover there may be other, sweeter feelings springing up between them. 

Mod opinion: I haven't read this graphic novel yet, but it sounds really sweet <3

#cheer up #crystal frasier #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #graphic novel #to read #trans woman #ya #romance

[qbdatabase]

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser—a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress or check it out for free from the Queer Liberation Library!

#Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms #Crystal Frasier #bookblr #black rep #daily book #FF romance #fat rep #lesbian #queer rep #trans female #transgender #wlw #cheerleading #female protagonist #graphic novel #lgbtqia #opposites attract #queer books #romance #sports #YA books #Queer Liberation Library

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#cheer up! love and pompoms #lgbt comic #trans character #wlw comic #crystal frasier #val wise #oni press #indie comics #poll

[bullfrawgs]

I've finally found the piece of media that is going to make me go feral with the need to fix it fic. I've put in my AO3 account request and now I wait.

Venus Envy just has so much to answer for. It has its problematic moments in its first 600 pages / 3 years but is generally at least sane... And then the last 300 pages hit... 300 pages take take 11 years... The very final scene of the comic is 26 pages long and it goes on for literally 5 years.

And something *breaks* in that last third. The number of lost and dropped plot threads are so many... The final boss is not in any way the one the story was building up or even *really* hinting at... I feel like I'm going insane. I probably just need to write down the entire plot and try to connect the narrative tissue on plot threads finished and dropped.

Worst part is I can't join a community that talks about this thing, because it's a 2001 Trans Webcomic that has been orphaned for a decade or more.

#venus envy #crystal frasier #erin lindsey #ask me about my obssession

[connyscomics]

Cheer Up by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise

Trans rep: 8/10

General enjoyment: 8/10

Age rating: all ages

Id seen this one come up a few times, so I finally sat down and read it. It wasn’t bad by any means, but it also wasn’t the greatest either. I felt like the author tried to fit a bunch of story into a very short timeline and with underdeveloped motivations. The story follows a cis lesbian named Annie who is pushed to join the cheerleading time by her mom. There she reconnects with her old friend, a trans girl named Bebe. They quickly begin to develop a romance while fending off pressures from crazy parents and transphobic bullies. The culmination is a weirdly “happily ever after” type ending that felt really weird and underdeveloped, like all of the “bad people” just kinda had a change of heart or something. I dont wanna hate on this too much, it really was a fun read and I’d definitely recommend checking it out if you want something not too emotionally taxing.

#trans comics #comic review #comics #media review #trans #transgender #transfem #connyscomics #lesbian #cheer up #crystal frasier #val wise

[katesharmasheart]

books i read in 2022♡ Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier & Val Wise

“Oh? You're held to a different standard because of others' preconceptions?”

#cheer up #cheer up: love and pompoms #crystal frasier #val wise #dailylit #dailylitgfx #bookedit #litedit #books2022 #litcreators #aliedits #and that's the last one bye bye 2022

[transbookoftheday]

My Favorite Trans Books

Today is my (@traeumenvonbuechern) birthday, so I want to share some of my favorite trans books with you to celebrate!

#the witch king #godly heathens #h.e. edgmon #cheer up #cheer up: love and pompoms #crystal frasier #sir callie and the champions of helston #esme symes-smith #a lady for a duke #alexis hall #lark & kasim start a revolution #moonflower #kacen callender #the genesis of misery #neon yang #lakelore #anna-marie mclemore #the heartbreak bakery #a.r. capetta #grit #silas denver melvin #transmasc #transfem #nonbinary #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

[beeblackburn]

Top 5 media with trans rep/themes?

Thank you, @xserpx!

Truth be told, this question is actually trickier than you think, because I haven’t read/watched that much medias with explicitly trans rep/themes, I own a lot, but haven’t read them quite yet, and the better stuff I’ve read is sequestered in my writing server via snippets and tidbits from others... or indie/self-published publications and patreons... and, uh, not to oversell my stuff, but my own writing KOFF KOFF.

To be clear, I do have enough to give a list, but given what I’ve heard of Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (can you believe I bought that damn book six times?) and Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, this list is liable to change after checking out at least the former.

But without further ado...

Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise - Look, I promise I love pain and violence and self-loathing and feeling like your skin’s a stranger to you, but this was done by a trans writer and artist team and it damn shows. As a whole, it really sings in how the trans experience feels like acceptance in your support network is conditional on how well you act. How well you don’t rock the boat, how well you perform to your preferred gender, and how unstable and insecure you can still be, despite all that and more. It doesn’t wallow in those thorns too long, but in terms of trans rep and theme? It’s my favorite, and it doesn’t hurt that I love the art. 

Tangerine, directed by Sean Baker - If the above was the more optimistic take of trans childhood, this is the poignant, if still playful, reality behind a decent chunk of adult trans womanhood, done with a cheap budget, but with verisimilitude intended. It doesn’t pull punches on how shitty trans sex workers are treated, how they’re objectified and abused, but it still allows them agency and personhood in how they go about the tangle of their professions and personal lives. And, more importantly, it doesn’t pull punches of how fellow trans people can hurt each other through their flaws and bad choices... but doesn’t surrender that they can still offer solidarity when the going gets really tough from systemic transphobia.

A Grisly Communion by N.J. Barna - If the first above was trans experience as childhood joy and love, the second was grounded street-walking reality, this is transcendental body horror. It’s a story that understands following our commonplace religious institutions can give you some degree of safety... but it can’t give you peace of mind, nor body. That the (fat) trans experience is conditional on being useful, on not taking up so much space for threadbare tolerance, and it’ll never be enough, given that fatness intersects upon the transness of it all. So, when unusual idols of worship are offered... we take them, because they, at least, would pay respect to our bodies and grant us the power to be on the other side of being meat from judging eyes.

Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku - I really wish this wasn’t cancelled before its time. This manga deserves at least a year’s worth of chapters, being an unconventional look into high school adolescence through a trans man’s pen, and a trans boy’s eyes as he navigates through being closeted in Japanese school culture and masculinity, his love life, and especially his daily choices of fashion, and how he eventually tries to gain more friends and allies through opening himself up... with plenty of teeth in how trans privacy must be respected for their safety, and how influencer culture intersects with gender performance and the need for online cache, with no easy answers there.

Realm of the Elderlings - What Hobb lacks a bit in the full understanding of transgression in the trans experience or culture as a whole, she makes up for in allowing a messiness in individual characterization and having one of the best gender nonconforming characters in all of fantasy. I’m not as crazy about the Fool as some fans, but he’s eminently quotable, layered, complex and messy as hell, and when he talks about love and yearning, such concept of malleable bodies, and how he transgresses cultures with utter confidence in his presentation, it’s enough to make one’s heart swell and ache at how there are not more characters like him in fantasy, for when he speaks of such experiences, it feels like he touches a part of you that transcends the physical.

#cheer up! love and pompoms #tangerine #a grisly communion #boys run the riot #realm of the elderlings #crystal frasier #val wise #sean baker #nj barna #keito gaku #robin hobb

[readtilyoudie]

Cheer Up: Love & PomPoms

#rainbow reading #cheer up! love and pompoms #crystal frasier #romance #queer #sapphic #graphic novel

[draconiclore]

30 Days of Pride Books with @miraclerizuin

Day 7: Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms

After joining the cheerleading squad, Annie finds herself falling for the team’s captain.

#books #pride month #cheer up love and pompoms #crystal frasier #lesbian #wlw #transgender

[garyfischy]

webcomics screenshot compilation (2001/2006/2011)

'war on terror' / 'trans day of remembrance' / 'Stop Online Piracy Act'

#cannot imagine this flying nowadays lol #no particular reason im posting these: love how on the nose they are #and using characters from preestablished comics too.. #i fucking love old webcomics #bit of a connosieur #anyways its 11pm i havent done any of my homework but ive been rereading old stuff #wonder how crystal frasier / erin lindsey feels now that the afghan war is over after 20+ years of fighting #fish talks

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

It's funny - I just watched a brief video on IG that a mutual shared in his stories and I realize now what I need to do to help my mom and to improve our living situation. And once I do that - do my part - all I have to do is wait and see if she agrees and is willing to cooperate or think of/suggest some compromise.

If I'm going to play a helpful, encouraging part, I have to do what will actually be helpful by honestly seeing and addressing the ROOT of the problem and not just the problem itself. And man, I feel kind of stupid for not realizing and thinking about that before/much earlier. I really have let her down. But at least now I truly realize what I need to do in order to do better.

#crystal visions of lilies in the valley #strangely I'm feeling optimistic. like...holy shit this might actually work. #and it's all thanks to my friend and this ~2 min reel on IG. holy fucking shit Universe! This is Frasier Crane and I am fucking listening!!