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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Post canon kandrew

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

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I’m blown away by the fact that they did a REAL STUDY and uncovered the ACTUAL FACTS. There are a depressing number of so-called studies that have conclusions that match the evidence, which is why the fascists and TERFS are losing their minds over it.

Two years after being tasked with commissioning a review of medical evidence surrounding gender-affirming care for trans youth, Utah’s own state health department has concluded that trans healthcare bans “cannot be justified.” The Republicans who commissioned the study aren’t too happy about it.

Back in 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill that placed an indefinite “moratorium” on doctors prescribing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy and puberty blockers to trans youth. That bill ordered the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to compile their report in order to produce recommendations for the state government on whether or not to lift the moratorium.

This week, the department delivered their long-awaited, over 1,000-page report — which is dated August 6, 2024 — to Utah lawmakers. The report’s authors found that “the consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric GD [gender dysphoria] patients.”

The authors added that “the evidence also supports that the treatments are safe in terms of changes to bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer.” Trans youth who had received gender-affirming care were within the bounds of normal, non-pathological ranges for these conditions.

y’all this is huge. please don’t “water is wet” all over it! I understand that we all already know this… The point is that the world doesn’t know or care or believe and so these studies really fucking matter!

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Oh no. See, Cody can do the math. Kevin and Andrew were on the team first, obviously they must have been the couple. They would ask NEIL. “Were you worried about getting between them? Did you approach them or did they approach you?” Neil would be so bewildered he would tell Andrew and Kevin.

Andrew would think it was hilarious and Kevin would be, as OP suggested, questioning every interaction he’d ever had with Andrew and Neil.

obsessed with the idea of cody going to kevin and asking how on earth he managed to talk to andreil about it, trying to get advice for their own throuple troubles and kevin is just like 😐😑😐 "what" 😐😑😐 which leads to weeks of kevin overthinking every single interaction he has with andrew and neil

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all i’m saying is andrew minyard is a LOVERBOY at his core

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Oh, but.

Cat has a string of hickeys on her collarbone. Jean sees them when she moves and asks her (v. concerned about Mysterious Bruises) and she GLEEFULLY EXPLAINS.

Jean, of course, KNOWS about bite marks but he never imagined them being enjoyable and this gives him a lot to think about.

the second jean learns how to give someone a hickey, it’s OVER for jeremy. he can show everyone who his partner belongs to AND have jeremy a whimpering mess beneath him? win-win

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I can't believe it's been over a year since I last drew them together properly (respectfully looking away from the failed attempt to draw the temple kiss scene, but I'll get back to you🫵🏻🫵🏻)

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Cackling in my office

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Her rainbow tipped hair and gold cross contrasted the sharpness of Renee Walker

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Jeremy and Neil are not the same but Jean and Andrew, watching them, are.

jeremy dancing looks like he’s spent his entire life practicing, and jean loves to watch him. neil dancing looks like a toddler walking for the first time, and andrew loves to watch him. they are not the same.

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Some Greaser AU edits I did based on a convo with @kittenball

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The way they love each other.

Aaron would also go see Neil play, though he would complain the entire time and he wouldn’t buy a jersey because he has Standards.

Katelyn would wear Neil’s jersey.

andrew's first pro game in the city aaron lives. he doesn't send tickets or ask aaron to come and he doesn't even tell aaron his team is coming to town. if aaron wants to come he will. andrew can't make him do anything.

between quarters, the jumbo tron is showing a "look-a-like" game on the screen where the camera operators find people in the crowd who look like different celebrities or animated characters. andrew's not paying any attention to it when the crowd goes wild. a teammate nudges him to look up and lo and behold, wearing a Minyard jersey is andrew minyard's look-a-like, aaron minyard himself.

he rolls his eyes when the camera focuses back on him for the side-by-side shot and but aaron can see that andrew is actually very pleased.

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They make me insane actually

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A cool evening breeze. Rainbows. Open roads. Friends. Fireworks.

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The only thing that gave him courage to leave was when he *couldn’t* play, and the first thing he did when he was healed was to learn to play with his other hand.

Jean does it too; “I can still play” while everyone else is annoyed that he thinks that would matter to him.

the foxes get rightfully frustrated with and make light of kevin’s first reaction to any injuries / deaths being But Can You Still Play, but.,,.,,.,an inability to play is tantamount to a sort of death for kevin, one he has endured already. look how easily the ravens cast him aside after riko broke his hand, so easily made worthless.

if you couldn’t play in the nest, you were not only subjected to riko’s abuse but the abuse of your teammates, who were all vying for your spot and willing to worsen your injuries to take it. we see this with jean in tsc, when he feels that his nose is broken and is worried about how he’ll have to defend against checks that target the injury; we see this when kevin visits him the first time and checks jean’s grip strength, breathing a sigh of relief when it is intact. jean, who also grew up in the nest, does not think this is ridiculous or laughable. he knows better than any other what would happen to him if he could not play anymore. it is a comfort — it is a way of showing care.

kevin asking after exy when traumatic things happen is his way of asking if others are okay. can you play? are you okay enough to keep yourself alive, to keep yourself safe, to keep yourself intact? are you okay enough to avoid retribution? because you know what will happen if you aren’t. you know it is worse to be unable to play than it is to be injured.

and, thankfully, the foxes don’t know or understand that, but kevin does, and the only time he can forget it is when he finds the bottom of a bottle.