#work on multiple levels

[sixseasonsofodestawithatardis]

so glad the mute and block buttons work on the bird app still!

I've seen two accounts asking for Jessica Jones to wear her Jewel costume 😡. I'm not even going to bother explaining why that's never happening, both within the TV canon and the comics canon.

Jessica Jones returning to the MCU was a mistake.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[itadooori]

s2 gihun with s1 characters PLEASE

wait i love this concept omfg

[kagihirapotato]

i want kagihira to KISS for valentines day

[way-too-obsessed-gamer]

Do you think when Gideon ruffles his hair, embers fall off like when you poke at burning firewood. Forest Fire Mcgee over here

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce being a wolf in Beast World actually fits him really well.

Wolves are believed to be loners, we even label people as "lone wolf" when they live on their own and don't seek interaction with others. But this is not the truth, wolves are actually family-oriented animals. They live with a pack, which is their family. The Alpha wolf theory, when it was proved false, showed that in the wild, the "Alpha" of the pack were the parents, often the mother, because the other wolves are their kids. And yes, wolves can go through period were they are alone, but this "lone wolf" period is them looking for another wolf to start a family with. They are looking for a family, because they know they need one.

Now, apply this to Batman, aka Bruce Wayne. He is believed to be a loner, but what he is actually doing when he is alone is looking for a family. He is actually family-oriented and not a loner at all, he is happier with his family, with his kids around. He is suicidal when he has no kids or family, and once he has them, he finds being alive easier.

Also, very protective of his kids, like a mama wolf that will fight to the death to protect her kids, even the ones that aren't actually wolves but she found them, so they are hers.

[prince-liest]

A little bit of celebratory light in the current political climate: I'm working with a local endocrinologist who is versed in gender-affirming care as well as my local LGBTQ+ resource organization to start a quarterly pride clinic that I'm going to run with and staff with the aforementioned endocrinologist. I don't know yet how successful it will be, but we're in a really under-served area and a lot of the local federally qualified health centers are pulling back their gender affirming care offerings due to the recent federal policies so that they can retain their funding, which after speaking to my residency program directer he seems to believe is unlikely to affect us. So I'm going to be working with our program attendings and this endocrinologist to help refer more queer and especially trans patients to myself and one of my seniors who is also really involved in LGBTQ+ health goals for gender-affirming care.

The clinic itself is only going to be quarterly at this time (hopefully monthly in the future) due to the limitations of patient panel sizes and also residency scheduling, but we're hoping that we can also follow these patients in our actual primary clinic, since it will all be in the same building and part of the same system, and the endocrinologist has said she is willing to co-precept these patients (aka. have us forward her the notes and look over them to make sure the care plans are copacetic, as well as get curbsided by us when needed) when we work on hormone therapy in the primary care clinic. I think the main challenge is going to be 1) making sure we have the resources and access to a good multidisciplinary team (main points are mental health resources (gonna ask one of the psych program attendings, he is both openly queer and invested) and infectious disease specialist options that aren't going to result in bad experiences for the patients that we refer that way) and 2) making sure we have appropriate follow-up for patients, which I think on my end is just going to mean me telling our clinic coordinator, "Hey, if it's for this patient panel specifically, you can book me an extra patient per half-day for continuity."

We're also going to be doing internal-ish referral advertising through the LGBTQ+ org, as well as training through the organization and also just through research done by myself and my senior for our co-residents for things like cancer screening guidelines adjusted for risk factors we see in queer people (anal paps, three-site testing, when to screen for breast cancer in trans women, etc, etc). Waiting on my program director to talk to our clinic coordinator to see if there's any way for people to self-refer straight to the pride clinic (probably insurance-dependent) but otherwise it's just...happening.

I think my main wish is that I had more days to directly work with this endocrinology attending to pick her brain. She said she's game for any [redacted weekday] for the clinic once we get things going and I'm on my endocrinology rotation, but I'm mostly working with another endo and only see her twice this month due to her work schedule. She's a great teacher and next time I see her this month I'm going to see if she has time to give me a crash-course on HRT management that will help me synthesize the gender dysphoria treatment clinical practice guidelines I'm reading through from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. My PD actually specifically referred a trans patient to us to see that day because he knows I really want more experience with this (and, y'know, she's a great endo doc) so that will be the perfect opportunity.

Anyway! It's a great time to be working on offering more medical resources to LGBTQ patients.

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

something something au where recently divorced but still extremely closeted trent walks into a bar owned by beard and frequently bartended by ted

[moonfromearth]

Every year, the Ultimate Horse Championship contestants who make it past the intermediate level are invited to a special gathering at the bar. Lou hadn't been to event like this in years... Not since she was in the symphony.

In the mirror she recognized a part of herself she hadn't seen in a long time, contained in the pearls draped around her neck. They were a gift, from her parents, some 30 years ago when she first played in Windenburg. A remnant of who she used to be blended with the elements of her newer self.

She took a deep breath. Just one party. It would be fine.

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[transcript below cut]

[Lou is looking at herself in the mirror, examining her current outfit, a long pink dress dotted with pomegranates and a white apron stained with the memory of time spent in the kitchen.]

[She smiles as she makes an attempt to hype herself up.]

Lou: Alright, Lou, it's just one party. You can do this.

[A few moments later... Lou has changed into her outfit for the party. her hair is tied up in a single bun, her hair ballooning over a tan scarf like rising dough. Her teal dress was covered in orange flowers with green stems trailing behind them, a fabric reminiscent of curtains her parents would have hung in her childhood home.]

Lou: Wow...

[Lou is giddy at her appearance, dressed up for the first time in years. She's beautiful. Slowly, the initial excitement dissipates, as her examining gaze drifts to the strand of pearls around her neck. She has a moment of melancholy remembering how they were a gift from her parents during a performance in Windenburg.]

[The moment passes and she leaves for the party.]

[wardensantoineandevka]

genuinely SO demoralizing to actually check the ages of fairly middle achieving people in fields I want to work in, like not even the major household name types, like, people who are fairly successful, and learning so many of them are +/-3 years of my own age and they got in three or four years ago is just...

I know we all say that one's age isn't ACTUALLY a road block for anything and you can be successful or break into anything at any age, but y'know, still, it's a fact that is incredibly demoralizing and everything seems impossible all the time

yes, yes, i know checking these facts and dwelling on it is NOT helpful, but also y'know, I already know too much of the state of the industries so

[front-facing-pokemon]

[halloweeneva]

I remove my mask (ADHD) only to reveal a second smaller mask underneath (Chronic Fatigue)

[tj-crochets]

My birthday is coming up, and every year for my birthday* I try to make a thing just because I want to but this year I am not sure what I want to make. Like, zero ideas. Well, I mean I always have ideas, but none that appeal more than others? I'm not sure if I should ask for suggestions or just make a series of polls leading up to my birthday to narrow it down, what do you think? *within a few weeks of my birthday, I am bad at time

[stoneshipmapper]

CRISIS OF FAITH

[ducktracy]

hello i just wanted to say i've been a fan of yours for a while now and i wanted to thank you for providing me with looney tunes brainworms it has actually done me so well artistically and in general (definitely better than r&s brainworms! that shit was like a spear in my head!!)

HI THERE!! OHH I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR THIS!! thank YOU!! TRULY the LT brainworms are incredibly beneficial--i wouldn't be working my dream job without them and probably wouldn't have this sheer sense of Finding My Purpose that i do. i've always loved cartoons and definitely felt a flip switch a few years before i got into LT, but actually studying the history and figures behind them, and being able to connect that to other interests in my life such as history and anthropology... well! i'm so much more well-read and well-rounded because of it! ALSO LMAO THE REN AND STIMPY COMMENT HITS TOO CLOSE TO HOME, VERY TRUE... talking with other friends and animation historians who once drank the Spumco kool-aid really does feel like an Alcoholic's Anonymous meeting. i was never full blown as i sadly see so many people who are (and can't help think that they too will have their inevitable detox), but... yeah, if you want a golden age influence and one done correctly, go straight to the source! that's exactly what i did and it did me a world of good

[slowdrippingnoise]

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