#Submitted For Your Approval

[eyplaylist]

Among the various type of genres we feature, the genres we hardly feature is Rap, Hip Hop, and R&B. Funny enough, current Hip Hop & Rap music is the most submitted type of music that we receive when we ask for music submissions, so it was only a matter of time we made this playlist!

[sheherlockholmes]

idk if its just my university or if being a grad student is just stupid as fuck everywhere bc why is every procedure i have to follow some secret mystery hidden ten pages into a random webpage or just something i have to learn by the wisdom passed down by my elders

[etheluu]

Wrath and Despair

Render credits under the cut ↓

Made a cover art/render for the rewritten arc of "Wrath and Despair"! I couldn't be more excited for this, but I have yet to finish writing it.

As of making this post, I've wrote 23k words so far and I would say that is ~80% done. The rewritten story starts after the ending of episode 64 in the original comic, picking up right after the events in it.

As such the rewritten story will replace episodes 65-77 entirely, making those episodes no longer canon. For now, I don't intend to outright delete them, just put information at the beginning of each episode saying that they're not canon anymore. It's for the archiving purposes, but it may or may not change in the future.

Additionally, NamiComi has added novels so after publishing it, you will be able to read it there!

Currently, there are no chapters available, but you can check it out and/or follow it here:

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[become-a-robot]

submitting stuff to whosampled is a lot of fun, but also how tf did they not have Weep Day in their database when Logan Whitehurst covered it AND Open Mike Eagle sampled it 😭

[vigilskept]

thinking abt my wardens in each others worldstates again & coming to the incredible realisation that ylva aeducan/diya surana toxic yuri is not only possible in ylva’s worldstate… it is incredibly likely

[cc1010fox]

Submitted for your approval: Fox and Quinlan are having some steamy alone time in Fox's office, where Fox has Quinlan bent over his desk, teasing him by pushing his codpiece against the Jedi's "shebs". Thire opens the office door to witness it, at which time Fox, after the stunned realization he was just caught with the Jedi he's always complaining about, grabs Vos's arms and positions them behind his back. "You're under arrest! You know your rights by now, Vos!" Thire just stares at them. He knows, Fox. He knows.

[deerest-me]

sexiest moments of my life are definitely the two times that i was literally radioactive. needed to play it cool when the doctor injected the radiotracer so i didnt seem too excited and / or moan

[eyplaylist]

It's a day early before the "official release" but the blog post and playlist are now up on the website. The 6th edition of the "Submitted For Your Approval" playlist series is out and ready for your listening and music discovery. Give this playlist and these musicians a chance. #newmusicplaylist

[shadowglens]

i submitted my leave request for my scandinavia holiday 🤞

[mangonatural]

Rules: Make a 24 hour poll with the names of your WIPs, let it run, then work for 10 minutes for every vote the winner receives.

Thank you for the tag, @angelcasendgame!!!!! I am not sure I will be able to work on anything very soon just because life came after me again, and turns out I'm gonna be moving over the next month or so, but I really do hope I can find time!!

None of these have names yet lol. I put the SPN ones first, but technically I've been trying to break my writer's block by returning to The Great Gatsby (It's all Nick/Gatsby btw, just realized that might not be immediately evident) with limited success. It's always come easier for me. But all of this is stuff I do actively want to work on.

Ohh I don't know who to tag. I'm sure everyone in this circle has been tagged already, and most of the people I talk to regularly enough to know about their projects have more or less left Tumblr... I do absolutely want to pass this your way though, @antique-ro-man!! (It's Wes, btw!) I also wanna tag @heyfagbutt! And then anyone else who sees this and wants to participate, I also encourage it!! This is such a cool idea :D !!

Long, rambling explanations down here ⬇⬇

I think the name is pretty explanatory? The gist of it is they go after the same guy and become pseudo-enemies but they keep bumping into each other like this and decide to work together after a while 👍 this is a really bad hook LMAO. Anyway, I'm trying to build on the idea that they work REALLY well together when they do it intentionally but fail comically when they don't.

Pretty much what it says on the tin as well. No Supernatural AU. Dean goes to a community college to get a certification to help with his work elsewhere, but Cas, a figure drawing model, catches him drawing (which Dean's been doing on and off as a hobby) and tries to get him to sign up for the arts program.

I technically only have a summary of this, and I'm not entirely sure if I will write it all out, but I do want to at least put more time into the development before I dedicate to giving up on it bc of scope lol. I just have SUCH a soft spot for fake relationship AUs. Also, I just found out that while I have FINALLY aged into independent FAFSA eligibility, I am once again tax bracketed out. Anyway, financial abuse is real and I want to project my suffering onto Dean. Also immigrant Cas, but I haven't decided where I want him to be from yet. I think this has a lot of potential for some pretty hefty character redesigns too so it's also compelling to me from that angle. I guess I could also write it for TGG, but I did initially think of it for Destiel, so.

I don't know how to explain this one very well except that I had unhelpfully written "poolboy au" in my notes and then proceeded to forget what the hell I meant. This fic was an attempt to resurrect that but ended up being a funky modern West Coast re-imagining where Gatsby can't even "make it" as much as he wants to, and Nick can't find a place to live except for a less-than-legally rented pool house. It's not meant to be a full rewrite or anything though.

Uhhh yeah, I'm keeping the details private for this one ahaha but that's just because it wasn't supposed to be a big deal and I told a friend she would see what it was when it was done...like oh god probably a month ago at this point... My original scope for this was quite small, but research for it, indecision, and a nasty case of writer's block that I've had for nearly a year now have kept development a bit slow. Hopefully, I'll finish it before the year comes to a close.

I also don't know how to explain this one well other than "after being rejected by Daisy (Canon Divergent), Gatsby attempts to buy his way into a bewildered Nick's heart. Though the fic is from Nick's POV, Gatsby's just had his worldview shattered and is in a bit of denial, but instead of pursuing Daisy harder, he channels all of that energy into Nick (though he's not really sure why he's doing it at first). I wasn't sure what to put up at the top because I absolutely don't want my code name for this public at least until it's done LMAO.

[gingersnapwolves]

So today I want to talk about puberty blockers for transgender kids, because despite being cisgender, this is a subject I’m actually well-versed in. Specifically, I want to talk about how far backwards things have gone.

This story starts almost 20 years ago, and it’s kind of long, but I think it’s important to give you the full history. At the time, I was working as an administrative assistant for a pediatric endocrinologist in a red state. Not a deep deep red state like Alabama, we had a little bit of a purple trend, but still very much red. (I don’t want to say the state at the risk of doxxing myself.) And I took a phone call from a woman who said, “My son is transgender. Does your doctor do hormone therapy?”

I said, “Good question! Let me find out.”

I went into the back and found the doctor playing Solitaire on his computer and said, “Do you do hormone therapy for transgender kids?” It had literally never come up before. He had opened his practice there in the early 2000s. This was roughly 2006, and the first time someone asked. Without looking up from his game of Solitaire, the doctor said, “I’ve never done it before, but I know how it works, so sure.”

I got back on the phone and told the mom, who was overjoyed, and scheduled an appointment for her son. He was the first transgender child we treated with puberty blockers. But not, by far, the first child we treated with puberty blockers, period. Because puberty blockers are used very commonly for children with precocious puberty (early-onset puberty). I would say about twenty percent of the kids our doctor treated were for precocious puberty and were on puberty blockers. They have been well studied and are widely used, safe, and effective.

Well. It turned out, the doctor I worked for was the only doctor in the state who was willing to do this. And word spread pretty fast in the tight-knit community of ‘parents of transgender children in a red state’. We started seeing more kids. A better drug came out. We saw some kids who were at the age where they were past puberty, and prescribed them estrogen or testosterone. Our doctor became, I’m fairly sure, a small folk hero to this community. 

Insurance coverage was a struggle. I remember copying articles and pages out of the Endocrine Society Manual to submit with prior authorization requests for the medications. Insurance coverage was a struggle for a lot of what we did, though. Growth hormone for kids with severe idiopathic short stature. Insulin pumps, which weren’t as common at the time, and then continuous glucose monitoring, when that came out. Insurance struggles were just part and parcel of the job.

I remember vividly when CVS Caremark, a pharmaceutical management company, changed their criteria and included gender dysphoria as a covered diagnosis for puberty blockers. I thought they had put the option on the questionnaire to trigger an automatic denial. But no - it triggered an approval. Medicaid started to cover it. I got so good at getting approvals with my by then tidy packet of articles and documentation that I actually had people in other states calling me to see what I was submitting (the pharmaceutical rep gave them my number because they wanted more people on their drug, which, shady, but sure. He did ask me if it was okay first).

And here’s the key point of this story:

At no point, during any of this, did it ever even occur to any of us that we might have to worry about whether or not what we were doing was legal.

It just never even came up. It was the medically recommended treatment so we did it. And seeing what’s happening in the UK and certain states in America is both terrifying and genuinely shocking to me, as someone who did this for almost fifteen years, without ever even wondering about the legality of it.

The doctor retired some years ago, at which point there were two other doctors in the state who were willing to prescribe the medications for transgender kids. I truly think that he would still be working if nobody else had been willing to take those kids on as patients. He was, by the way, a white cisgender heterosexual Boomer. I remember when he was introduced to the concept of ‘genderfluid’ because one of our patients on HRT wanted to go off. He said ‘that’s so interesting!’ and immediately went to Google to learn more about it. 

I watched these kids transform. I saw them come into the office the first time, sometimes anxious and uncertain, sometimes sullen and angry. I saw them come in the subsequent times, once they were on hormone therapy, how they gradually became happy and confident in themselves. I saw the smiles on their faces when I gave them a gender marker letter for the DMV. I heard them cheer when I called to tell them I’d gotten HRT approved by insurance and we were calling in a prescription. It was honestly amazing and I will always consider the work I did in that red state with those kids to be something I am incredibly proud of. I was honored to be a part of it.

When I see all this transgender backlash, it’s horrifying, because it was well on the way to become standard and accepted treatment. Insurances started to cover it. Other doctors were learning to prescribe it. And now … it’s fucking illegal? Like what the actual fuck. We have gone so far backwards that it makes me want to cry. I don’t know how to stop this slide. But I wrote this so people would understand exactly how steep the slide is.

[trujellyfish]

so frustrated with myself lmao

"i should set an alarm for this thing. its important, and i cannot afford to forget."

nah, its important, so i wont forget :)

*forgets* :o

babe you've been like this ur whole life. the adults that told you "if you forgot, that means it wasnt important" were Mean and Unhelpful. forget them and their nonsense!!

make alarms for yourself im begging you

[bestbusinessdirectoriesinaus]

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[gabavaldman]

This Sunday I defended my MSc thesis in Chemistry and I passed with a high grade. The thing is that my P.I wanted me to write a paper. I on the other hand am not interested in writing one. So instead of lying to him or making him false promises about writing it, I told him that I’m not interested (since I don’t think the results I have are sufficient to write one) and that there is still more to do and my successor can do it. In return I get an email saying that he’s very disappointed in my approach and he could have suggested me to pay hourly for writing it but clearly that’s not what I want. Now I get why he’s disappointed. I did manage to do something no one has done before and to not write a paper about it is a waste of his time. But I know my research. And as much as my preliminary results seem promising, they are not paper worthy. I don’t like disappointing people (I hate it) and it sucks to be told by your P.I that you admire so much that he’s disappointed in you. But I seriously didn’t want to put a paper out there that I didn’t believe in. Also I’m really burned out after 6 years in the academy where I got my masters and two full bachelors degrees (one in Chemistry and the other Material engineering). I wanna go to work and not write a paper. Writing my thesis SUCKED and I don’t wanna be subjected to that ever again.

Maybe I could have written the email in a more delicate way than I did? I bet it wouldn’t have made a difference. He’d still be disappointed anyway. As much as I admire my P.I he is a diva sometimes (old white man in academy am I right?). Man I’m so glad he was my P.I and it sucks to leave on a sour note after 3 years of working for him. But I need to come to term with the fact that I’m gonna disappoint people wether I like it or not, and it’s ok. I probably need a day or two to just process that email and then I’ll be fine.

TL;DR

I finished my masters in Chemistry and my P.I wanted me to publish a paper which I’m not interested in. So I told him I didn’t believe my results were sufficient and my successor should optimize my research and publish the paper. My P.I didn’t like my answer and said he’s disappointed in me (which sucks to hear since I’m a people pleaser and I really admire him). So I have to come to term with the fact that through life I’ll disappoint more people and that sucks ass but I need to move on and not grovel.

[whoslaurapalmer]

did I call the eye doctor two weeks ago and ask them to fill my prescription? yes! did they do it? no!!!! and did I only find out about this today, when I was out of the sample of it, and called the pharmacy to see if it was in, like it was supposed to be, cause I asked for it two whole entire weeks ago?? yes. yes indeed