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hopecomesbacktolife · 9 months ago

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I don’t have the words to articulate this more fully without getting way too into the contextual plot and subsequently giving away so many spoilers, but I think José Tyler in The Rift by Peter David just saw their future post-transition self as an out and proud trans woman?! good for her honestly ♡

source: this convo José has with Pike on pages 36-37 (in this edition at least) (convo begins w/ “there was a chime at his door..” ends w/ “come on. let’s greet our guests”)

#like even though the words on the page say one thing. the inherent subtext due to what we know of onscreen canon and this convo added 2 that #actually indicates the opposite of the straight text on the page and seems to imply this IS in fact the case!!!#trans josé tyler ily #star trek #book quotes #sorta #the rift #peter david #and this book was published in 1991 btw!! how cool is that #I do have to mention it has had some sexism in the first 40 odd pages already but I get the feeling based on how it’s written that it’s like #actually being written in a self-aware. critiquing the sexism. head-nod about the cage sexism. we are aware this isn’t great kind of way #which is a totally vastly wildly different tone than just actual sexist writing yknow?#again like the words on the page say one thing but HOW it’s written makes me think Peter David is like critiquing it #idk I’m not always great at subtext but to ME this is how it’s reading and doing so very well I might add #so I’m gonna go with that 🥰#enjoying this book a lot so far! for many reasons! but HAD to share about the implied trans character ♡

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