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Survey about renaming PCOS

A team of doctors have put out a survey about renaming PCOS! You should fill it in!

Why fill it in?

PCOS is a misnomer. Lots of people with it don't have polycystic ovaries.

They're open to keeping the acronym the same, which I think is a good idea personally. That would help people find existing resources, especially resources from the intersex and PCOS communities.

As @intersexpolls pointed out, changing the acronym would be a barrier for PCOS folks learning that we, the intersex community, overwhelmingly agree that hyperandrogenic-type PCOS is intersex!

There are some reasonable options for what PCOS could instead mean! Like P could be polyhormonal or polymetabolic! And C could be for complex or cardiometabolic! I also like S for spectrum instead of syndrome! (so... Polyhormonal Cardiometabolic Ovulatory Spectrum? Maybe?)

There are also some VERY BAD options like adding "female" to the name, which is straightforwardly transphobic.

The folks running this whole thing do not seem very great about gender inclusivity, like only asking "women with PCOS" (my emphasis) to fill it. So tell them that's transphobic bullshirt, but like, diplomatically. Because doctors have very fragile egos.

You do not need to have PCOS to fill in the survey! Despite the language on the landing page saying it's for "women with PCOS", the survey itself explicitly includes PCOS allies.

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many on here need to be learning this lesson

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“Contrary to common-sense understanding, the transformations of self-identity are not just a personal matter. Historical shifts out there provide the social conditions of existence of personal and psychic change in here. What mattered was how I positioned myself on the other side - or positioned myself to catch the other side: how I was, involuntarily, hailed by and interpellated into a broader social discourse. Only by discovering this did I begin to understand that what black identity involved was a social, political, historical and symbolic event, not just a personal, and certainly not simply a genetic, one. From this I came to understand that identity is not a set of fixed attributes, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning. We tend to think of identity as taking us back to our roots, the part of us which remains essentially the same across time. In fact identity is always a never-completed process of becoming - a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being.”

— Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger

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Dance of Death, Lucerne.

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Dust & Dread is updating again!

Big thanks to Solomon for drawing this awesome cover and to louceph for helping me write this chapter.

If you want to catch up, you can read it over here!

The first three pages are also up for free for all members of the patreon! There are also 30 something pages if you subscribe for 2 dollats ,':^)

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You simply cannot predict the length of these babies’ legs until you see them stand up

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The bells are ringing

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stop! youre forcing the thought into the posting hole, it will come out mangled inconceivably if you do that

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5 Tiny Writing Tips That Aren’t Talked About Enough (but work for me)

These are some lowkey underrated tips I’ve seen floating around writing communities — the kind that don’t get flashy attention but seriously changed how I write.

1. Put “he/she/they” at the start of the sentence less often.

Try switching up your sentence rhythm. Instead of

“She walked to the window,”

try

“The window creaked open under her touch.”

Keeps it fresh and stops the paragraph from sounding like a checklist.

2. Don’t describe everything — describe what matters.

Instead of listing every detail in a room, pick 2–3 objects that say something.

“A half-drunk mug of tea and a knife on the table”

sets a way stronger tone than

“There was a wooden table, two chairs, and a shelf.”

3. Use beats instead of dialogue tags sometimes.

Instead of:

"I'm fine," she said.

Try:

"I'm fine." She wiped her hands on her skirt.

It helps shows emotion, and movement.

4. Write your first draft like no one will ever read it.

No pressure. No perfection. Just vibes. The point of draft one is to exist. Let it be messy and weird — future you will thank you for at least something to edit.

5. When stuck, ask: “What’s the most fun thing that could happen next?”

Not logical. Not realistic. FUN. It doesn’t have to stay — but chasing excitement can blast through writer’s block and give you ideas you actually want to write.

What’s a tip that unexpectedly helped with your writing? Let me know!! 🍒

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my contribution to the deltarune fandom

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you can't "protect trans kids" if you're too scared to interact with them btw

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i saw a girl on tiktok who put her salt lamp in the dishwasher and didn’t realize it would dissolve, and it’s been on my mind for like 3 days

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in the club begging strangers for forgiveness and proving incapable of articulating what for when asked