theultimatepisces asked:
Just saw the post where someone says Mags is their favorite canonical trans woman. It (along with being slightly full of crossfaded courage) inspired me to tell you that The Last Girl Scout changed my life for the better. Despite a very redneck upbringing, it was the first thing that ever truly inspired me to learn to shoot. It was the first book I loaned out to multiple friends; I always said "only borrow it if you're gonna read it right away, then get it back to me" because I didn't want to lose my dog-eared, annotated personal copy. I did lose it eventually, but I lost it to a household that ended up having multiple trans kids and I know that they have/will love reading it when it falls into their hands. And when I recommend it to friends I tell them "the transbien sex is on-page, explicit, and incredibly hot. There is a fade-to-black, but it happens right after 'well if you read your Marx…'" (That moment made me laugh so hard [positive, affectionate] that I had to put the book down for a few minutes the first time!)
Truly, I could go on for days about how much TLGS means to me. I won't clog your inbox with that though.
Thank you for writing it, and thank you for sharing it with us.