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i feel like jeremy knox is the kind of person that is genuinely kind and so so happy but also stares at the ceiling with silent tears running down their face in the middle of the night for no reason and every reason all at once

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Your honour he’s actually just a little guy who loves his raven

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Mean girls 😌✨️

I think that's what they’d wear on a shopping day 🙂‍↕️

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sorry another bald tshirt post that came to me last night

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Jeremy: Just so you know, Jean and I are dating now.

Neil: Hmm. I preferred Renee :/

Jeremy:

Neil:

Jeremy: I don’t know how you expect me to respond to that.

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he's so beautiful my darling boy my darling gansey i wanna throw up

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There's this thing called being the cutest ever and. Well. They've gone pro

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Possibly unpopular opinion but I think Aaron gets too much hate

My literal favorite interaction in any of the books is the morning after Columbia when Neil throws a GLASS FULL OF WATER directly at Aaron’s head and Aaron COMPLETELY UNBOTHERED by this smacks it out of the air before it can hit him

Like girl please he invented the word cunt

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drops them in a gothic horror au

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Neil: *realizes he’s receiving an ominous countdown*

Also Neil: I have Spanish homework to do, a team to unite, exy to play, a championship to win and Andrew to kiss delete

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Jean: Jeremy shouldn’t frown, his face is made for smiling

Jean 1 chapter later: Neil shouldn’t smile, his face is NOT meant for that

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MORE SNEAK PEEKS AT THE RAVEN BOYS GRAPHIC NOVEL

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gentle hour

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a bunch of tiny adams. if you all even understand

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has anyone done this yet

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THESE ARE MAKING ME GO INSANE. GANSEY IN HIS POLOS!!! BLUE HOLDING THE BOOKS!! BLUE AND GANSEY HEIGHT DIFFERENCE!! THEM HOLDING THE ROPE!! HINTS OF ADAM AND RONAN

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one piece of anti-trans rhetoric that pops up now and again is the "your skeleton is your agab" thing, which for some reason turns into "archeologists will know your agab" (which is a very weird scenario that I don't like to think about for other reasons. Like why my grave specifically? What do they find? Was I helpful to their research? Why does the thought of someone touching my skeleton send shivers up my spine?)

anywho, I'm learning about archaeology atm and thought I'd share some cool archaeological info about actual grave identification!

Number one biggest point of note for this argument that "oh but archaeologists will know" is that if an archaeologist is handeling your bones someone has done something very wrong. A forensic anthropologist is who you're looking for! These are going to be the people trained in all the science/medical stuff and are dealing with humans. Cause there's a big difference between idenifying a sword, and idenitying a person. Two different sects of knowledge that work together, sometimes its the same person, but most times the body will be "handed off" so to speak to the forensic anthropologist while archaeologists work on the physical grave site. this leads to my next grief with the retoric; identifying gender when it comes to graves is mainly guesswork, very educated and very well researched guesswork, but guesswork non the less. When archaeologists are looking to identify the gender, you're looking at the grave itself and its contents (plus historical records and research and yada yada yada). If we know "hey men were typically burried in suits, with watches, dress shoes, and had masculin names" and the grave that's found matches all of the above, then yeah it'll probably be marked as a male skeleton.

you can say "oh but what about height charts and science!?!? The hormones in your body! They'll know!!!" But listen, humans show very very little sexual dymorphism, and humans come in all sizes. It is easy to tell a deer skull's gender because males have rivets where the antlers grow and fall off, where females do not. It is much much harder to tell the difference between a male and female pelvis even though female pelvises (pelvi?) are typically bigger (unless you're trained for body id and have many different factors to aid you). Theres just not enough information to go off of for identification! Humans change in size, yes depending on sex, but also on a million other characteristics like diet, medical history, ethnicity, medication, exercise, so if out of a hundred men, one end up 5'4 with wide hips while the others are 5'10, well them something probably went different with the growth of the 5'4 guy!!! Plus, the standard mesurments used to determin the stature of a person are based on white europeans from historically healthy families, meaning that the measurements are only accurate if you're looking at the body of a white european from a historically healthy family, but that's a side thing that doesn't matter if you have a (mostly) complete skeleton. "But what about the hormones!!!" I hear people in the back screaming. And I have two little things to note for that. 1. Research is really expensive and if you want to justify spending money on identifying the sex of a body you'd better have a really solid research base behind it and 2. Theres so many better things you could learn through bone analysis taht isnt "this person was trans" (unless thats your research topic you do you boo). What does that have to do with hormones you ask? Well bones change with time and as you change, right? So if you take hormes, your skeleton will reflect that. Now its not going to like change your pelvic shape or something, but it will show chages.

Say that a cis woman goes through menopause and then takes hormone supplements for it, that will show change, and change that is important to archeological research. One of the effects caused later in life after menopause is often osteoporosis, the body has a hard time taking in and processing calcium, so it leeches it from the bone, making bones more brittle and prone to breaking. Well, hormone supplements after menopause mitigate osteoporosis, so the bones are stronger, which you can tell from stuff like bone density, to less fractures in the bones in old age. So say you have a city of people you're excavating, and you can tell these people, city-wide, had stronger bones in old age, with less fractures, than most other cities. What this can tell you is that these people had systemic access to medical care that allowed them to live longer, which tell you A LOT about the people that you are looking at and the city they lived in (ya know, the primary reason for archaeological research).

if theres anything take takeway from this post let it be 1. Archeological aren't interested in your agab unless they are specifically looking for it and 2. HAND OFF MY BONES!!!!!