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sorry everyone following first blood, I promise wild hiatuses will not be a regular thing!! i have had legitimately like 30 minutes of time alone total in the last two weeks so. as soon as i get a chance to edit this goddamn chapter...

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What’s it like to have the best username on tumblr? Genuinely, it’s so perfect <3

why THANK you! i often feel as though i am unworthy of it, but i strive to live up to my title

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TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES, I am currently travelling and have like 0 time alone to work on anything whatsoever, but hopefully I'll have a new chapter of FIRST BLOOD up soon. Sorry about the informal hiatus! I promise this will not be a regular occurrence. Life's been wild recently!!

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Rip Vertelion. Elder sisters truly going thru it nonstop. Sorry to hear that you are also going thru Experiences™️. Much love!

aw thank you so much ❤️❤️ I'm totally fine, just having a really frustrating housing experience, but nothing terrible at all.

shoutout to eldest sisters tho for real. i am a little sad that urien is an only child and ruta is very alienated from her siblings because there is nothing that i love more than writing siblings correctly. i dont know what the hell it is that makes 90% of authors forget entirely how siblings are irl when writing them?? even ones with siblings?? anyway i am a middle child if anyone wants to psychoanalyze me about it

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Ofc this will potentially be covered in upcoming chapters, but do you have more about Ruta’s siblings? (Maybe even doodles if you have the time/energy/willingness 🥺)

here they are! the living ones, that is

There will definitely be more on them soon. Galegantin is kinda the heartthrob hot boy of the capital, Vanitaiya is a big socialite, and Lamorak is sort of a more subdued version of both of them. She's also the only one who's married with kids (so far). They are all polar opposites of Ruta, very sociable and traditional. Essentially what you would expect from a royal family.

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Are urien and ruta a one and done couple or will they be having more kids in the future?

I can tell you this: Urien under no circumstances wants more than one kid, and this will not be his last pregnancy :)

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want to write but must pack... forced to contain my little guys inside my brain....

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"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth. 

More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. “It’s a complete new world,” said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.

Almost a third of those babies — 22 and counting — have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the program’s first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.

Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby.  

“That success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,” said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. “We want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.”

Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were “technical” failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organ’s blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant. 

The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.

Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.

“It’s hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,” Johannesson said. “This is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.”

So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants — typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies don’t reject the new organ — may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...

“They’ve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And that’s reflected in the results,” said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...

Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants. 

“The firsts — the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,” Walter said. “Immersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers — it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.” ...

Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but it’s likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different “hormonal milieu” before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.

Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.

“We want other centers to start up,” Johannesson said. “Our main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.”"

-via Stat, August 16, 2024

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@hellehyen requested Urien as the Lord Blood one Million years ago and I finally had a minute!!

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ok very late new chapter is up!!! please enjoy this week's edition of "two people have the weirdest and worst reactions to impending parenthood"

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im being TOLD we need tfpreg‼️

[ID: a two-part sequence of drawings. the first part shows a woman looking at the tag for a bracelet she's wearing, which says "baby charm," as her belly begins to poke out. the second part shows the same woman now heavily pregnant, holding her belly with a worried look on her face.]

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Im Being Told We Need Tfpreg

[ID: a drawing of a woman looking very surprised at her very pregnant belly, which is pushing out of her clothes and straining the seams of her skirt. behind her is a counter with a coffee maker on it, labeled "tfpreg coffee."]

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apologies, my life just got very hectic (moving + travel + having so much adhd so so much) so i am forcing myself to put posting on schedule on the backburner. New chapters shall come when they come for the next few weeks, sorry!!

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one fun thing about first blood is that these characters have existed in several iterations/stories and in every other one Urien is very ace-spectrum and bi if he has any sexuality at all, but for some reason he is in this one very squarely gay. i dont know what it is about feudal society that makes you into a transfag but who am i to question such things

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as promised… another student enrolls in Monsterpreg U! 

he’s a shapeshifting… imp… thingy, and he was unintentionally cursed with recurring spontaneous pregnancy! he gives birth every six months, only to swell up to the second trimester precisely three days after. but here’s the kicker:  he can’t tell what he’s carrying, or how many. it could be anything from twins to an eldritch horror beast! 

(essentially i just wanted an excuse to draw the same character at vastly different sizes lol)

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I’m so excited to learn even more about Gabe! Also is it that no one in her chivalric order or whatever knows how to style/care for her hair type or is it a Gunker thing?

Happy travels!

-crying-over-Ruta anon 🫶

oh no it's just her lol. She just doesn't really give a shit about her appearance, so I think she forgets hair care like half the time. her hair type is the majority where she's from so she got plenty of shit about it there im sure

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man i do wish i could have gone this insane for like, an established fandom instead of my own OCs, because not to be pompous but i do kinda feel like id be doing numbers in certain fandoms