The Daily Mail is talking about the Ortburg/Lavery drama. (
Link) (
Archive) They talk about the pedophilia scandal, but they also make much about Grace Lavery and Daniel Ortberg's recent transitions, posting a pic of Daniel's standard twist-mouth "I am uncomfortable" facial expression, and a blurry insta grab of their wedding.
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Officer I have just one question)
Lavery is "deeply freaked out" by the use of the wedding photo in Britain's premiere Tory rag, comforts self with feminization fantasies. If everyone's trans, then no one is, right?
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Grace Lavery is also one of those people who cannot resist dropping hints about their bedroom habits. The latest is Grace's response to the haydurs, which is posted in full on her paywalled blog. I'm not yet invested enough in these two to pay to read about them, but once again Grace doesn't hesitate to reveal some darker impulses.
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Both, I'm thinking. For those not informed, Yoko Ono was in a relationship with John Lennon of the Beatles, and some fans thought she controlled him or wrecked his artistic direction or was only the relationship because she wanted to further her own artistic career. Grace is casting herself as Yoko in this metaphor, of course.
(One of the things that really fascinates me about these two is that they're both such massive fantasists. They really do interpret themselves and others through the lens of book characters and historical figures.)
Grace is right, though. Since she came on the scene, Danny has gotten much less interesting. Even at his own wedding he was swathed in a sea of black velvet, while Grace peacocked it up. It's an established fact on this thread that FtMs are not nearly as fun to follow as the MtFs, and that remains true. Danny's outfits are bad--Grace's are worse. Danny's essays are personal and strange--Grace takes it further into
grotesque dick-related
self-revelation.
I'm also highlighting the tweet above because "mean person erotica for perverts who enjoy ruining things" is a very long way of saying "degradation fetish." She's degrading the reader, but also, implicitly, Danny, as an arch literary style, but she wants you to know she's only doing it ironically and could never ever be that mean in real life. Grace also made an oblique reference to this morbid impulse of hers in
an unpublished piece from 2017 about a glass of whiskey that lights a cigarette: "
smoking is cool will not help you understand (...) why the people you love most are those you go out of your way to humiliate." God what
did go down between Grace and her family, I wonder?
Of course, we are T+ 2.5 months after the wedding, and things are going great in the Lavery household, despite Daniel's recent trauma and family estrangement. They're just quirky, guys!
