#let me document this

[if-you-dont-ask-me-to-stay]

I just hit 150k words on my WIP yayyyyyyy

[omensofatimelord]

The thing about testosterone being a controlled substance means that acess to it for hrt is restricted. While it makes access a significant issue for many people and an easy and effective way to prevent trans men and mascs from transitioning (as we've seen terfs campaign for and succeed at doing in Britain) it also means that is very easy for health care professionals to be able to take it away from trans men/mascs arbitrarily. This is most aborant in cases where trans men/mascs are forced to detransition to gain access to abortions after being raped. However, the first sign of an issues tangentially related to hormones a gp, without any training in trans people or hormones, can and will stop a person's testosterone. Apart from how stressful it is to know that for the rest of your life you'll be dependent on the goodwill of a random person, this has measurable negative consequences for a trans person subjected too it.

Going off t fucking sucks at the best of time, but being forced off t will most likely result in depression and worsening mental health for a trans man/masc, who are already one of the most likely groups to attempt suicide. It can also put a trans person at risk if they suddenly start being visibly trans again, especially if they're closeted in, say, a work place environment. Trans people, including trans men, are already one of the most targeted groups of harassment and violence and sexual assalt and forcibly reducing or stopping t can out people and risk their safety. And a gp won't see this or care about this, or attempt to treat a trans man/masc first or ask for their opinion or situation.

Ultimately, testosterone is seen as entirely optional and so the first resort when something goes wrong it to take it away, when it should be considered the last resort, and is considered the last resort for cis men. And as long as testosterone continues to be a controlled substance it will remain like this.

(edit for clarification: I am a kiwi, this post was intended as a general critique of accessing t through health care systems - based in my lived experience in NZ and what ive heard from international trans ppl; including but not limited to the USA)

[carlyraejepsans]

I'm sorry i just think it's hysterical how in both the worst (toriel is overthrown and exiled) and best (she leaves the ruins in a pacifist run) case scenarios of sans and toriel's first official face-to-face meeting they either explicitly or implicitly shack up immediately after. they are NOT beating the u-haul syndrome allegations

[bonefall]

The guy who made the "Squilf is worse" document said that Squirrelstar needs to be leashed by Brambleclaw. Using that exact word. They said that the relationship was failing because Bramble couldn't leash her.

How do I even respond to something like that. They'll say "I don't hate women" and wash it down with "I just think relationships fail when they're not leashed." Sigmund Freud rises from his grave like a popstar on a stage, complete with dry ice smoke, high heels, and hotpants, and uses his cigar as a microphone to perform his smash hit; The Freudian Slip.

[nevesceramics]

Video showing the grazing donkey sculpt from start to finish!

[drawfee-quot3s]

italian cold steel cinqedea?

babygirl is that you?

- nathan + karina

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

For $5 USD stop making everything about that goddamn show for five minutes.

[vaxxman]

I know Fritz is a popular headcanon first name for Medic, but I need you all to know the objectively funnier headcanon is that his name is Friedrich which is what Fritz is short for and Medic just lets everyone on the team call him Fritz so they don't butcher the pronunciation.

[obnoxiousselfdiagnosedneurosis]

“It requires an intolerable sacrifice. [...] To apologize.”

Naruto Shipudden (2007) // Black Sails (2014)

[ambyandony]

every time I draw pannacotta fugo in sketches he’s always just holdin papers n shit 😭

[isbergillustration]

Guys (gender neutral) from the previously posted story. Did you know correction fluid is a bad art supply to attempt to paint with?

[forestgreenivy]

Fancy stuff last night. I guess it warrants a selfie.

[charmac]

The prop used for Barbara Reynolds' Will in "Dennis and Dee's Mom is Dead"

It's mostly the script repeated and then standard legal clauses. It's interesting it does name Frank as the Executor because we know he isn't later on, as the Lawyer is in Season 8. And there's randomly a Codicil, with the same script language but adding and naming a son, "Frank Miller"... probably means nothing. (Weird, though, cos there's seemingly no sense in having a Codicil with the exact terms retyped, but handwritten language added...lol)

"County of Los Angeles, Pennsylvania" is taking me out.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

[stuckinapril]

Like this post if u would be interested in me sharing my goodreads ??