#based Cass post

[casseroledinner]

The masculine urge to conduct the electric city

I promise I’m completely normal about this musical (hades is my dream role)

[gothamite-rambler]

Stephanie: So, in a year or two, if we’re both single, do you want to start dating?

Stephanie turned to Cass, who was in the middle of crocheting. The selective mute fighter looked up, momentarily pausing to consider the question before glancing back and forth between Stephanie and her yarn.

Stephanie: Before you answer, I get why you might be wondering why I’m asking this. I like you a lot, and I’ve been contemplating my sexuality. But at the end of the day—heck, in two years, I want to be with you. I really like you already, you're... amazing.

Stephanie scooched closer to Cass making the girl lean back slightly.

Stephanie: I don't want to rush into this. That's why I think a two year pact is the best bet. We’re young, and I’m still not ready. I dated a guy who stole my car and left it at a Dairy Queen, Tim dumped me, so I don't want to frack this up. If we're going to date, I need to be super ready. Okay, you can talk now.

Cass (shrugging): Hm… Sure.

Stephanie (perking up): Really?

Cass: Yeah. I don’t really lean straight, and you’re someone I can see myself being happy with for a long time. How you described your feelings for me is exactly what I’ve been thinking for you. I share the same concerns about not being ready so two years is a perfect waiting period. I can definitely see myself being happier with you, though you already make me happy now.

Cass paused, smiling softly.

Cass: This is a pact I want to make, especially since you’re not related to me or adopted by Bruce.

Stephanie (placing a hand over her heart): That’s… the sweetest thing you’ve ever said to me. Wait, would you ever steal my car, run away if we got robbed, or vote for a crazy celebrity for president?

Cass: I would never steal your car, but I’d definitely buy you one. I’d take on the robbers if they ever tried anything, and voting for a credible candidate is how I roll. When we’re a couple, I’ll enjoy spending every second with you, and when we fight side by side, I’ll kiss you under the moonlight. If that works for you.

Cass resumed her crocheting as Stephanie smiled, her cheeks flushed.

Stephanie (yelling across the hall): Bruce! Cass and I are going to start dating in two years!

Bruce (confused, then worried about Stephanie possibly dating his daughter): What? You’re going to WHAT?!

Stephanie and Cass burst into laughter at Bruce’s stunned reaction, their agreement sealed with a handshake.

StephCass Masterlist

[butterfilledpockets]

@tapakah0 @somerandomdudelmao

I am sorry I could not help myself-

based on the apocalyptic au these two have conjured

(featuring some small Easter egg peeps)

[neptunezo]

Roy: What happened to your stitches?!? I just did them like 3 days ago!!

Jason: I pulled them out...

Roy: You pulled them out?

Jason: Yeah.

Roy: Why?

Jason: They were annoying.

Roy: They were annoying?

Jason: Got in the way of…life

Roy: Well, they were essential to your healing.

Jason: Oops

[aalghul]

to me, tim and duke occupy a similar position in the batfamily where they're clearly not (or previously weren't, in tim's case) bruce's sons but also clearly have a connection to bruce's children that separates them from barb, steph, helena, jean paul, etc. none of the latter three are dick's siblings, but tim nearly always has been, and then he's cass' too. even if he hadn't been adopted, this would be true. duke is jason's brother, and is implied to have a sibling relationship with cass and damian, and has even shown up in tim's picture of his brothers. this is not changed by the fact that duke should never be adopted.

[mimzaucracks]

First post on sideblog, let’s goooo!

Image ID 1.0: The uppermost image is an image dump of rendered sketches of a ROTTMNT: The Movie AU version of Renet. She’s a young black girl, about the same age as April in the film, and she shares a striking resemblance to her, short for Renet’s hair being bleached blond. The drawings included in pictures described later, and in the bottom left corner is a photograph of the pencil sketches from a notebook. The text in the image reads:

Renet (ROTTMNT MOVIE AU)

- F!April’s daughter

- Master Michela[n]gelo’s protégé

- Got sent back before Casey but got stuck in limbo; emerged after events of the movie.

- Possibly a clone of April

(End ID)

I was rather disappointed we got another Casey as the MC in the movie instead of her, so it got me wondering if she could fill the same role as him. In my opinion she can, and that birthed this AU idea. Her being Future April’s daughter and Mikey’s protégé fit too perfectly, so I would actually have her be Jr.’s old childhood friend who was missing for many years (in limbo), so both of them are happy to see each other again in the present new timeline.

Regarding the “possible clone” comment: Many headcanon Casey Sr. either finding Jr. in a dumpster somewhere and adopting him, or that she asked Draxum to clone her. I’ve never really subscribed to either, since he does look very similar to her (which makes me think they are biologically related), but his temperament is basically the complete opposite of hers (which refutes the clone theory in my head). I always just assumed Cassandra had a boyfriend too irrelevant to mention in the show, even long before the movie released. I figure he’s her biological son, but he inherited his father’s temperament (and his mother’s looks). That being said, I’m willing to apply the cloning idea to Renet. I cannot picture April with a man, ever, so I can see her demanding Draxum clone her to give her a daughter. Maybe the kinder side of April’s personality is stronger in Renet since she grew up in an environment where kindness and hope are the only things keeping a community together and its members sane. Maybe she even adopted some of her other mom’s (Sunita’s) traits, who knows?

Image ID 2.1: A 3/4 view of Renet’s head, drawn in a style very close to the show’s/movie’s. She’s looking forward, away from the viewer, smiling slightly with a little of her teeth showing. She wears her blond hair in a ponytail like April did in the show’s finale arc, and she has a blue headband and a decorative silver tiara resembling a clock (10, 11, 12, 1 and 2), which bears a slight resemblance to the Statue of Liberty’s crown. Her cape is the same shade of indigo as her headband, and the cloak’s collar is majorly oversized, revealing her neck. She has an earring in the shape of an hourglass. (End ID)

Image ID 2.2: A fully rendered illustration (not in the style of the show/movie) of Renet and a teenage April from the end of the movie in front of a sunset. They are standing in profile towards each other, with Renet on the right, holding April’s hand in her left and her time sceptre in her right. April’s expression is slightly confused whereas Renet’s is tender and happy. A small speech bubble reads “Hi mom.” Renet’s chest plate/plastron is brown/dark orange to mirror Casey Jr.’s teal, showing her connection to Michelangelo, much like Casey’s shows his connection to Leonardo. (End ID)

I’m not entirely sure on her cloak’s exact design yet. If you look closely at the pencil sketch of her body, you can slightly see Donnie’s Genius-Built Apparel ‘D’ logo on her sleeves. I left it out of the illustration with April by accident, but I’m not sure whether I necessarily want his logo in those spots on her cloak. Maybe it’s at the bottom of the tail? I’m also not sure whether I want it to have those glitter-esque particle effects from the bust drawing; it’s not really a design element in-canon. Although, I do find it very pretty.

[hot-chocolate-art]

we interrupt your regularly scheduled program for mister othello von ryan!

[yunieful]

today on "hehe miqote ears are just horse ears"

teehee miqote ears are just horse ears-

[welcomefortune]

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[stephmainly]

whenever i see a post starting with “so i don’t know much about [one of the batgirls, duke, etc.]” + then go on to ramble a bunch of bullshit i just have to sigh. and block, but mostly sigh

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Editorial Board

Published: Dec 15, 2024

The Biden Justice Department on Dec. 4 challenged before the Supreme Court a Tennessee law that bans the use of puberty blockers and hormones for gender-transition treatments in minors on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates based on sex.

The court’s decision will be consequential in the 24 states with these restrictions, but it won’t resolve the crux of the debate over pediatric gender medicine: whether, as the plaintiffs argued, the treatments can be lifesaving or, as some global health authorities have determined, the evidence is too thin to conclude that they are beneficial and the risks are not well-understood.

This unresolved dispute is why Tennessee has a colorable claim before the court; it would be ludicrous to suggest that patients have a civil right to be harmed by ineffective medical interventions — and, likewise, unconscionable for Tennessee to deny a treatment that improves patient lives, even if the state did so with majestic impartiality. The issue is subject to legal dispute in part because the medical questions have not been properly resolved.

Multiple European health authorities have reviewed the available evidence and concluded that it was “very low certainty,” “lacking” and “limited by methodological weaknesses.” Last week, Britain banned the use of puberty blockers indefinitely due to safety concerns.

“Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led,” British Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said in a press release. “The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.”

The uncertainty is the result of scientists’ failure to study these treatments slowly and systematically as they developed them. Early studies from a Dutch clinic seemed to show promising results, but the research started with only 70 patients (dropping to 55 in a follow-up study) and no control group. Treatment results that look impressive in small groups often vanish when larger groups are studied. That’s why the Food and Drug Administration generally requires large, randomized controlled trials of drugs: to ensure that encouraging initial results aren’t mere statistical noise.

Conducting gold-standard medical research on gender-transition treatment was never going to be easy; it would have been obvious to those in any control group that they were getting placebos, making it impossible to conduct a “double-blind” study. Yet researchers could and should have used randomized control groups, gradually expanding a patient population enrolled in systematic clinical research, to rigorously assess effectiveness, refine treatment protocols, and — crucially — improve their ability to tell which patients benefit, since at least some patients who transitioned later experience regret and suffer the fate the treatments were supposed to avoid: a body that doesn’t match their gender identity.

Yet as other doctors began copying the Dutch, clinical practice outraced the research, especially as treatment protocols rapidly evolved. A British study attempting to replicate the Dutch researchers’ success with puberty blockers “identified no changes in psychological function” among those treated.

Some clinicians appear reluctant to publish findings that don’t show strong benefits. The British lackluster results were published nine years after the study began, after Britain’s High Court ruled that children younger than 16 were unlikely to be able to form informed consent to such treatments. Internal communications from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health suggest that the group tried to interfere with a review commissioned from a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Johanna Olson-Kennedy, medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, told the New York Times that a government-funded study of puberty blockers she helped conduct, which started in 2015, had not found mental health improvements, and those results hadn’t been published because more time was needed to ensure the research wouldn’t be “weaponized.” Medical progress is impossible unless null or negative results are published as promptly as positive ones.

The failure to adequately assess these treatments gives Tennessee reason to worry about them — and legal room to restrict them. We have serious reservations when states make decisions about minors’ medical care, rather than leaving them to parents. But in the absence of clear data — and with the possibility of significant publication bias or researchers massaging their results — parents might not have adequate information.

No matter how the court rules, though, the federal government should supply the missing evidence at the heart of this dispute. Randomized trials would be best, though harder to pull off now, since children who are placed in a control group might drop out and seek blockers and hormones elsewhere. Congress should nevertheless fund new research of maximum possible rigor, overseen by scientists who are not gender medicine practitioners. Those studies should set timetables and specify the outcomes to be studied in advance to avoid the risk that researchers will pick and choose what to show the public. Children with gender dysphoria deserve clearer answers.

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Shockingly, this is from The Washington Post.

[casseroledinner]

Why are there so many grown men whimpering and yelling istg I need jumpscare warnings

[catboyjughead]

i forgot the words

[forestwhisper3]

Working on different things, but the song that I listened to while writing Goodbye to a World is playing and now I’m curious.

What did you all imagine Chip to look like? In all honesty, for me, he was sort of a vaguely humanoid-shaped cloud of semi-solid data that sort of shifted between purple hues depending on what was going on. My headcanon was that Mikey was working on drawing/creating a sort of avatar for him, but didn’t get the chance to show it to him before...you know.

Anyway, that’s enough out of me. I got a kitten pawing at my laptop because I didn’t initiate playtime when she wanted me to, ahaha.

[erythristicbones]

updating Lorelai's TH profile is making me sit back and realize that like. it IS lowkey weird that i went "here have this cool primordial Death demigod thing" for very little plot reasons. like she does affect some kind of integral plot points, but in theory those could also be mostly the same if i used some other less powerful being. it feels absolutely like the kind of thing a critic would see and go "why would you include this character when very little of what she does involves actually being a creature that guides souls to the next life and could be done by some other random person"

too bad Lorelai remains the most favorite OC ive ever created in my entire life and i refuse to remove or change her as a person

[mossing-around]

You know those posts about one of Bruce’s kids getting kidnapped and him having no idea which kid they have based on the vague descriptions he’s given? Well now I can’t only imagine Bruce getting the dreaded call and immediately pulling out a guess who board filled entirely with his kids. Like

kidnapper: we have one of your children

Bruce: I have so many of those you need to be more specific

kidnapper: the loud and annoying one

Bruce, flipping down Cass and Duke: that does not help as much as you think it does

kidnapper: well he has black hair?

Bruce, flips down Steph: keep going

kidnapper: uhhhh? He’s short?

Bruce, flips down Dick and Jason leaving Tim and Damian: more specific

kidnapper: he’s been condescending and judgmental since we got him

Bruce: yeah they both tend to do that

kidnapper: he keeps throwing around words I don’t understand

Bruce, realizing that Damian and Tim are significantly more similar than he thought: uhh more specific?

kidnapper: more?? look just wore us the mon— WHERE’D HE HIDE A KATANA???

Bruce: ah you have Damian