#2023 plastic surgeon

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Dr. Amit Gupta : Best Plastic Surgeon in India 2023

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🤨 Let's agree to disagree Doc. Who even requested this?? 😂

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Here are some details. (Balance Patch 2, March 8th 2023)

Double Jump (Can be upgraded to gain additional jumps. Has no limit cap.)

Stamina wheel (Can be upgraded to last longer. Recharges quickly.)

3-slot Inventory (An invisible storage. Their total weight is added to you. Can be upgraded to gain just one more slot.)

No Fall Damage up to 10 times your height. Anything above that will still you damage like normal. (Edit 2: NERFED AGAIN.)

Actually Useful Tips from a side character that is with you 24/7. (Edit: Clarification — They will not be doing anything other than giving you really useful tips.)

5mn long Loading Screen when you travel around so it feels like you're instant travelling (You're not. You're zoning out until your destination. Your body remains in stasis during that period, i.e. you can't get old, hungry, or die.) (works for wait times)

QTE (time slows a bit whenever something critical happens. Gives you more time to think. upgrades will make you slightly faster in slowed-time. Only 2 upgrades available.) (EDIT: BUFFED. A Necessary buff.)

Multiple Dialogue Choices (gives you recommended replies during every interactions you have, with approval ratings in percentages next to them.)

View stats (View the stats of anyone and anything, including yourself. "Stats" include anything that can be measured, something quantifiable. INT and WIS for example do not exist. But the weird stats like the amount of neuron connections one has? yeah sure that shows up.)

Health potion (Instantly heal anything a doctor/surgeon/medicine/time can fix. You only get 4 potions.) (EDIT: Clarification — This does indeed include therapy. What else could be healed, I let you choose at your own discretion, so long as it's not death.)

Skip. (You can force people to skip their dialogues and immediately retain info. If upgraded, will work on practically anything that requires you to wait — as in you can force skip a red light to turn green. Or force skip a book to read it quickly. Does not work on the concept of time itself - That's the loading screen's job.)

Achievments (Ex. : Congrats, you've pooped 100 times in one month! Includes % of humanity having the same achievment. + You gain a plastic/bronze/silver/gold/platinum trophy based on the achievement's rarity.) (Edit: BUFFED — you can sell those trophies!)

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On a recent Thursday afternoon, researchers Lanuza Faccioli and Zhiping Hu wheeled an inconspicuous black and white plastic cooler from an operating room at a hospital in downtown Pittsburgh. Inside was a badly scarred liver, just removed from a 47-year-old man undergoing a transplant to receive a new one from a donor.

But what if patients could avoid that fate? Faccioli and Hu are part of a University of Pittsburgh team led by Alejandro Soto-Gutiérrez attempting to revive badly damaged livers like these—as well as kidneys, hearts, and lungs. Using messenger RNA, the same technology used in some of the Covid-19 vaccines, they’re aiming to reprogram terminally ill organs to be fit and functioning again. With donor livers in short supply, they think mRNA could one day provide an alternative to transplants. The team plans to begin a clinical trial next year to test the idea in people with end-stage liver disease.

Alcohol use, hepatitis infection, and a buildup of fat in the liver can cause scarring over time. When there’s too much damage, the liver starts to fail. “Right now, if you get end-stage liver disease, it’s irreversible,” Soto-Gutiérrez says. “Well, we found that is not true. It is reversible.”

Soto-Gutiérrez and his team have been experimenting on rats and organs taken from people undergoing transplants at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, one of the busiest transplant centers in the US. To help design the mRNA and figure out how to deliver it to the human liver, they’ve partnered with Drew Weissman, a physician and immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on mRNA. Together, Soto-Gutiérrez and Weissman lead the Center for Transcriptional Medicine, launched in April with the goal of bringing these medicines to patients.

On the day I visited, I followed Faccioli and Hu through a maze of hallways until they deposited the freshly explanted liver at a pathology lab, where a team of scientists was anticipating the special delivery. After infusing the liver with an experimental mRNA therapy, they placed the organ in an oxygenated bath meant to maintain its function for several days.

A healthy liver is spongy and reddish-brown in color with a smooth appearance. But when the surgeons took this one out of the cooler, it was hard, marbled, and covered in bumps—evidence of cirrhosis, a type of end-stage liver disease. Over time, the man’s healthy liver cells had been replaced by scar tissue, and eventually, his liver stopped working. His only option was to get a new one.

Livers are the second most in-demand organ. In 2023, a record 10,660 liver transplants were performed in the US, driven in part by a steadily growing number of living donors. In a living liver transplant, a piece is taken from a healthy person’s liver and transplanted into a recipient. But even with this uptick in transplants, not everyone who needs a new liver receives one. Patients may have other health problems that disqualify them from a transplant, and others may die while waiting for one. In 2022, the latest year for which data is available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded nearly 55,000 deaths due to chronic liver disease.

Living donor transplants are possible because of the liver’s unique capacity to regenerate itself—more so than any other organ in the body. In a healthy person, the liver can regrow to its normal size even after up to 90 percent of it has been removed. But disease and lifestyle factors can cause permanent damage, rendering the liver unable to repair itself.

When Soto-Gutiérrez was studying medicine at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, his uncle died of liver disease. From then on, he became dedicated to finding a treatment for patients like his uncle. In the early years of his medical career, he noticed that some patients with scarred livers were bound to a hospital bed waiting for a transplant, while other people with cirrhosis were walking around, seemingly living normal lives. He figured there must be cellular differences in these livers.

He teamed up with UPMC transplant surgeon Ira Fox to look for transcription factors—master regulators that can dial up or down the expression of groups of genes—that can potentially reprogram injured organs. Genes rely on transcription factors to perform many essential functions in organs. Together, Soto-Gutiérrez and Fox have analyzed more than 400 failing livers donated by transplant patients. When they compared them with dozens of normal donated livers that acted as controls, they identified eight transcription factors essential for organ development and function.

They zeroed in on one in particular, HNF4 alpha, that seems to act like a main control panel, regulating much of the gene expression in liver cells. In healthy liver cells, levels of HNF4 alpha were turned up, and so were other proteins it controls. But in the cirrhotic livers they examined, HNF4 alpha was almost nonexistent.

The team needed a way to get the transcription factor into liver cells, so they turned to mRNA technology. Used in some of the Covid-19 vaccines, mRNA is a molecule that carries instructions for making proteins, including transcription factors. In the Covid vaccines, the mRNA codes for a part of the virus known as the spike protein. When injected into a person’s arm, the mRNA enters cells and kicks off the protein-making process. The body recognizes these spike proteins as foreign and generates antibodies and other defenders against it.

The Pitt team is using mRNA instead to essentially turn back time in injured organs. “What we’re proposing to do with mRNA is use it to deliver proteins that have the capacity to repair those damaged liver cells,” Weissman says. “Our hope is that we can treat end-stage liver disease and turn the livers around, maybe forever, or at least until patients can get a transplanted organ liver.” Instead of delivering instructions for a foreign protein to generate an immune response, they’re delivering the genetic code for producing a transcription factor—HNF4 alpha.

In a paper published in 2021, the approach revived human liver cells in lab dishes. The researchers have since tested the mRNA therapy in rats with cirrhosis and liver failure. They treated a group of rats every three days for three weeks while a second group served as a control. The animals that were receiving the injection of HNF4 alpha started being more active. The untreated rats continued to decline and eventually died, the expected result at their stage of disease. Some of the treated rats were still living six weeks after receiving the mRNA medicine. Those results have not yet been published in a peer reviewed journal.

The team is also testing the mRNA infusions in human livers removed from patients undergoing transplants—the process I got to observe. Unlike live rats, explanted human livers can’t be observed for weeks on end. Livers have to be retrieved quickly and infused with the mRNA treatment soon after they’re removed from the body. They stay fresh for just four days or so in a preservation fluid. Six hours after the mRNA infusion, levels of HNF4 alpha start going up and last for two to three days. When HNF4 alpha peaks, other essential liver proteins, such as albumin, start to increase as well. That’s important, Soto-Gutiérrez says, because maintaining those protein levels could mean the difference between a patient needing a transplant or not.

Ideally, Soto-Gutiérrez says the mRNA therapy would be something patients could get once a week or every other week in an outpatient facility and go back home. But initially, they’ll need to test the experimental treatment in very sick patients, likely ones that are hospitalized, to make sure it’s safe. The team is gathering data from the rat and human liver experiments to submit a clinical trial application to the Food and Drug Administration in the coming months.

While livers are the first target, Fox thinks other injured organs may be amenable to this approach. “We’ve been wondering whether the same process might be taking place in other organs,” he says. Currently, the team is searching for similar transcription factors in lungs with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidneys with chronic kidney disease.

Josh Levitsky, a liver transplant specialist at Northwestern University who isn’t involved in the work, says new treatments for chronic liver disease are sorely needed. Current therapies can help slow down scar tissue buildup and ease symptoms but don’t address the underlying disease. “The concept of reprogramming and being able to reverse liver failure could be really game changing if it were to pan out in clinical studies,” he says.

But lots of questions remain. How much damage could be reversed? Would patients need to be on the therapy indefinitely? Or would their livers rebound enough to go off it? Could a liver ever be restored back to normal?

“It certainly has a lot of promise,” Levitsky says, “but the clinical development is going to take a long time.”

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iNTouch Mag: The former Suits actress allegedly got such a good nose job plastic surgeons say that when patients come in for a consultation they show a photo of the Duchess of Sussex's nose! by u/Sonialove8

iNTouch Mag: The former Suits actress allegedly got such a good nose job, plastic surgeons say that when patients come in for a consultation, they show a photo of the Duchess of Sussex's nose! https://ift.tt/nDdCIMR post link: https://ift.tt/3YzDhPC author: Sonialove8 submitted: October 01, 2023 at 05:38AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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We hear about the surgeon of the first phalloplasty procedure, but we don't hear about the man under the knife Laurence Michael Dillon, or Michael Dillon (article)

Pink News Article about Michael

Commonly known as Michael Dillion, he was born in 1915 London, but grew up in Iceland.

After graduating university in 1938, he began to transition, and was prescribed hormone tablets (testosterone).

After a horrible experience working (being misgendered and mocked), he found a plastic surgeon who performed his top surgery and allowed legally change his name, with the note of the surgeon.

Some time after his transition, he became a follower of Buddhism and settled in a Buddhist colony without anyone knowing he was transgender.

And that's just a tiny snippet of his amazing, yet tragically short, life.

Be sure to check out the amazing articles I have found on him!

Sources: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/laurence-michael-dillon-trans-man/

https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/life-here/library/blog/michael-dillon/

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List of healthcare workers killed by Israel attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023

Physicians:

Dr. Omar Ferwana, a Professor and former Dean of the Islamic University of Gaza Medical School and an andrologist, Gaza

Dr. Aya Ferwana (Dr Omar Ferwana’s daughter), a family medicine specialist, Gaza

Dr. Medhat Saidam, a senior burn and plastic surgeon, Shifa Hospital, Gaza and MSc in Burn Care alumnus from Queen Mary University of London

Dr. Mohammed Dabour, a consultant pathologist and dean of pre-clinical medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza Medical School

Dr. Tamer Al-Khayyat, an anesthesiologist and intensivist, European Gaza Hosptial, Rafah

Dr. Mahmoud Al-Khayyat, an internist in Rafah and Dr Tamer Al-Khayyat’s father

Dr. Razan Al-Rakhawi (Dr Tamer Al-Khayyat’s wife), an obstetric and gynecologist, Emirati Women’s Hospital, Rafah

Dr. Sereen Al-Attar a consultant obstetric and gynecologist at Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis and an Assistant Professor at the Islamic University of Gaza Medical school

Dr. Saeed Drabieh, a urology resident, Shifa Hospital

Dr. Mohammed Al-Samarai, Iraqi volunteer intern physician

Dr. Rafat Abou Foul, radiologist, Beit Hanoun Hospital

Dr. Amal Al-Maqadma, family medicine specialist, Rafah

Dr. Ibtihal Al-Astal, intern doctor, Khan Younis

Dr. Duaa Awad, emergency medicine doctor, Al-Aqsa Hospital

Dr. Moath Nabaheen, emergency medicine doctor, Al-Aqsa Hospital

Dr. Youssef Jadallah, intensivist and anesthesiologist (based in Germany, from Gaza but was visiting his family)

Dr. Inas Yousef, emergency medicine doctor, Al-Aqsa Hospital

Dr. Israa Al-Ashqar, anesthesiology resident, Shifa Hospital, Gaza

Dr. Abdallah Ashour, emergency medicine doctor, Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis

Dr. Hamam El-Deeb, orthopaedic surgery resident, Shifa Hospital, Gaza

Dr. Munther Abu Sariya, consultant pediatrician, Mohammed Al-Durra Pediatric Hospital

Dr. Doaa Shammout, pediatric resident, Rantisi Hospital, Gaza

Dr. Baraa Abu Elaish, intern doctor, Gaza

Dr. Abdlallah El-Helou, general practitioner/internal medicine doctor, Indonesian/Beit Hanoun Hospital

Dr. Muhannad Ezzo Afana, general practitioner, Gaza

Dr. Mohammed Refaat Mekki,

 

Dentists:

Dr. Ahmed Al-Hourani

Dr. Nada Mahdi

Dr. Ibrahim Al-Dali

Dr. Bilal Lubbad

Dr. Marwa Swelim

Dr Areej Eid

Dr. Tawfiq Al-Farra

Dr. Abdallah Baghdadi

Dr. Jameel Tarazi

Dr. Maysoon Al-Nuweiri

Dr. Mona Dughmush

Dr. Noha Dughmush

Dr. Mamoun Afana

Dr. Mohammed Afana

Dr. Anis Mekki

Dr. Tasneem Abdulnabi

 

Medical/dental students:

Bisan Halasa

Shaimaa Saydam

Abedelrahman Abu Shammala

Nour Al-Ashqar

Yaseen Al-Akhras

Osama Abu Safia

Duha Dughmush

Haneen Al-Shannat

Abdallah Abu Jayab

Zainab Azzam

Mohammed Abu Jiadan

 

Medical Scientists:

Prof. Salah El-Din Zanoun

Prof. Ahmed Al-Dalo

Prof. Ameed Mushtaha (Head of laboratories department and blood banks

Nurses:

Mohammed Lubbad  

Mohammed Al-Azzaiza  

Ahmed Moshtaha  

Rami Lubbad  

Somaya Temraz  

Mohammed Rafat Gomaa  

Osama A'eed Abu Safiya  

Saber Al-Nimnim  

Mohammed Hamad  

Mohammed Al-Baz  

Suleiman Abu Zour  

Badr Mohammed Abu Daqah  

Shaimaa Rayan (Midwife)

Maryam Abou Daher

Kefah San’allah

Walaa Adwan (Midwife)

Rawaa Al-Thalathini (Midwife)

Samah Rasheed (Midwife)

Rida Al-Masri (Midwife)

Ibrahim Abou Isaac

Amjad Abou Ouda

Ibrahim Al-Farra

Aya Al-Shrafi

Tamer Al Efesh

Momen Mansour

Asmaa Al-Asar

Feras Ftaiha

Diaa Bardaweel

Rana Shalaby

Itemad Miqdad

Zainab Al-Sharafi

Hamdan Malaka

Suheer Jbara

Hassan Al-Hennawi

Sabha Al-Sherafi

Azmi Al-Jamal

Yousef Al-Shareef

Hadeel Fanqa

Emad Esleem

Enas Al-Zeen

Heba Salamah

Nuha Esleem

Amro Masoud

Hanya Qudaih

Mohammed Al-Moqayyed

Ali Nasrallah

Tariq Abu Obaid (cardiac perfusion specialist)

Ahmed Al-Nuweiri

Abdulrahman Shaheen (Ziada) 

Ahmed Mahmoud Alrann

Dr. Yahya Abduljawad Juda (Public Health, nurse) 

Haytham Tawfiq Alnabih 

Loai Alzuhairi (Nursing student) 

Saleem Abu Zour

Waleed ElMahalawi

Rola Althalathini (Midwife)

Duaa Ashour

Amer Elramlawi

Safa Zeino

Saja Doghmosh

Moayad Ezzo Afana

Ramadan Doghmosh

Moemen Arab (Nursing student)

Oun Nofal Ashour (Nursing student)

 

Paramedics (EMS providers):

Marwan Abou Raida

Hatem Awad

Khalil Al-Sharif

Ahmed Al-Dahman

Yousri Al-Masri

Ahmed Abdel Rahman

Mohammed Al-Ghaliz

Mohammed Ali

Iyad Salim

Abdelrahim Abou Baid

Alaa Abou Ghanima

Naji Al Fayoumi

Mohammed Qateet

Tareq Ashour

Mahmoud Abou Mashayekh

Nafeth Al-Natour

Mahmoud Othman

Mohammed ElOmour

Ibrahim Matar

Yasser Alnaseri

 

Physiotherapists:

Ahmed Al-Masri

Ahmed Sameh Abou Herbeed

Shaimaa Sbaih

Mayar Al-Wahidi

Ahmed Ashraf

Shahrazad Al-Akhras

Nour Ibrahim

 

Pharmacists:

Ahmed Al-Jerjawi

Aziz Elfarra

Afnan Al-Astal

Shereen Abou Jazar

Eman Abu Al-Jalil

Safaa Hasouna

Ibraheem Meqdad

Mohammed Ali

Maysaa Khader

Nisreen Al-Dammagh

Sally Al-Aydi (Pharmacy student at AlAzhar University)

Mohammed Al-Shannat

Lina Abu Mualaileq

Noor Ibean

Haneen Albasyouni

Amira Dahman

Rawand Albanna

Khaled Abu Ma’ala

Amal Mekki

Abdullah Altartori (Pharmacy student at AlAzhar University)

Asmaa Abu Salah (Pharmacy student at AlAzhar University)

Mohammad Alshami

 

Lab technicians/clinical microbiologists:

Natheer Shaban

Asmaa Hijazi

Rawan Yassin

Alia Al Hinnawi

Maryam Kabaja

Nahid Abdullatef

Mohammed Abu Karsh

Mohammed Shabaan

Riham Elkahlout

Ismail Sharaf

Taiseer Alghouti

Abdulmohsin Abu Alrous

Duaa Jad Allah  

Optometrists:

Omar Khorsheed

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Pixie and her family members

Taglist: @mynameisnotlaura, @palindrome969

༊*·˚ birth name — Fei Hao (浩飞) 

༊*·˚ other name — Henry 

༊*·˚ birthdate — July 15th, 1946  

༊*·˚ birthplace — Rehe (Now known as Chengde), China 

༊*·˚ hometown — Chengde, China 

༊*·˚ race — Asian 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Chinese 

༊*·˚ nationality — Chinese 

༊*·˚ mbti — INTJ 

༊*·˚ occupation — Retired State secretary 

༊*·˚ relation —  Father 

༊*·˚ contact name — Baba 

༊*·˚ Status — Dead (August 20th, 2022) 

༊*·˚ birth name — Lee Hye-Jin (이혜진) 

༊*·˚ other name — Mary 

༊*·˚ birthdate — January 13th, 1967  

༊*·˚ birthplace — Sokcho, Gangwon, South Korea 

༊*·˚ hometown — Sokcho, South Korea to Chengde, China 

༊*·˚ race — Asian 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Korean 

༊*·˚ nationality — Korean 

༊*·˚ mbti — ESTJ 

༊*·˚ occupation — IT technician 

༊*·˚ relation —  Mother 

༊*·˚ contact name — Eomma <3 

༊*·˚ Status — Dead (August 20th, 2022) 

༊*·˚ birth name �� Fei Bo (페이 보, 费波) 

༊*·˚ other name — Benjamin 

༊*·˚ birthdate — September 13th, 1991 

༊*·˚ birthplace — Changsha, Hunan Province, China 

༊*·˚ hometown — Pheonix, Arizona 

༊*·˚ race — Asian 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Chinese/Korean 

༊*·˚ nationality — Chinese and American 

༊*·˚ mbti — ESFJ 

༊*·˚ occupation — Plastic Surgeon 

༊*·˚ relation — Older Brother 

༊*·˚ contact name — The least favorite child 

༊*·˚ Status — Alive 

༊*·˚ birth name — Fei (nee Charles) Jennifer 

༊*·˚ other name — Jenni, Kasa 

༊*·˚ birthdate — February 12th, 1992 

༊*·˚ birthplace — Hopi reservation, Arizona 

༊*·˚ hometown — Hopi reservation, Arizona 

༊*·˚ race — Mixed race 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Indigenous and White 

༊*·˚ nationality — American 

༊*·˚ mbti — ISTP 

༊*·˚ occupation — Interior designer 

༊*·˚ relation — Sister-in-Law 

༊*·˚ contact name — LOML 

༊*·˚ Status — Dead (August 20th, 2022) 

༊*·˚ birth name — Bak Nabi (박나비) 

༊*·˚ other name — Neveah 

༊*·˚ birthdate — June 16th, 1995 

༊*·˚ birthplace — Seoul, South Korea 

༊*·˚ hometown — Seoul, South Korea 

༊*·˚ race — Asian 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Korean 

༊*·˚ nationality — Korean 

༊*·˚ mbti — ESTP 

༊*·˚ occupation — CEO and Chairwoman 

༊*·˚ relation — Brother’s fiancé 

༊*·˚ contact name — Ms. Steal your woman 

༊*·˚ Status — Alive 

༊*·˚ birth name — Fei Di-a (페이디아) 

༊*·˚ other name — Destiny 

༊*·˚ birthdate — October 31st, 2018 

༊*·˚ birthplace — Pheonix, Arizona 

༊*·˚ hometown — Seoul, South Korea 

༊*·˚ race — Mixed 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Asian, Indigenous, White 

༊*·˚ nationality — American 

༊*·˚ mbti — ESFP 

༊*·˚ occupation — Pre-schooler 

༊*·˚ relation — Neice 

༊*·˚ Status — Alive 

༊*·˚ birth name — Fei Il-Seong (페이일성) 

༊*·˚ other name — Issac 

༊*·˚ birthdate — July 12th, 2023 

༊*·˚ birthplace — Busan, South Korea 

༊*·˚ hometown — Seoul, South Korea 

༊*·˚ race — Asian 

༊*·˚ ethnicity — Korean and Chinese 

༊*·˚ nationality — Korean 

༊*·˚ mbti — N/A 

༊*·˚ occupation — Toddler 

༊*·˚ relation —  Nephew 

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CW: mention of drug addiction, bullying, exploitation of minors/young people (all in the past)

Go Cairo (고카이로) was born in Gwangju, South Korea, as the first of three sons to a school teacher and a plastic surgeon. Cairo took an interest in rap music from an early age thanks to his father being a fan of the genre, however he had never considered the possibility of performing for a living until he was approached outside his middle school and handed a business card for HMT Entertainment.

After miraculously passing his audition despite a glaring lack of skill or training, Cairo trained part time with the company whilst still attending school for three months before he was selected to debut in STATIK, making up one half of the duo alongside fellow trainee and classmate Park Ohyeon. The two were only fourteen years old when they made their debut in 2012, with the song ‘Bounce.’ Although the duo were severely undertrained and garnered much criticism for their live performance, the song was catchy and performed moderately well, but their next effort would fail to match it’s minor success, and the duo were unofficially disbanded and returned to training in 2013.

Cairo would remain with HMT for three more years, during which he also returned to public school per request of his mother. In 2016, Cairo re-debuted as the lead rapper of VoX, a seven member boy group. Although the group failed to ever impact the charts and were often only discussed when they were being mocked, Cairo managed to somewhat stand out within the group for his low voice and position as the only rapper. This wouldn’t always benefit him, as the lyrics given to him were often corny and nonsensical, but it at least made him slightly more memorable than the other members.

After declaring bankruptcy in 2018, HMT Entertainment were bought out by Pantheon Entertainment, a massive force in the industry. This brought hope to the group’s fans, however following a shift in management and the departure of VoX member Lee Bohyung, the rest of the group were dropped from the label sans Cairo, who would be subsumed into Pantheon‘s training programme.

In 2019, Cairo made his breakthrough appearance as the sole representative of Pantheon Entertainment on the survival show nextUP. Cairo made a huge impression on audiences from the very first episode, after being awarded an A-rank after facing initial dismissal from the other contestants. After continuing to impress with his singing and dancing skills, Cairo ended the show in first place and debuted in the project group NBT. As a member of the group, Cairo finally cracked mainstream success, garnering popularity for his masculine image and becoming known for his rapping.

NBT promoted for the agreed period of three years, disbanding in late 2022. During this time, Cairo made a solid name for himself, appearing on variety shows, taking on CF deals, working as an Inkigayo MC, and collaborating with other rappers. During NBT’s final year preparations began for his career going forward, in tandem with the formation of the label’s first boy group in 10 years. Cairo was selected as the first member and leader of Polaris, debuting for the fourth time in late 2023, after a months-long predebut period with the group.

NAME : Go Cairo. BIRTHDAY : April 1st, 1998. ZODIAC : Aries. NATIONALITY : South Korean. HOMETOWN : Gwangju, South Korea. POSITION : Leader, Lead Rapper, Vocalist. FC : Jeon Jungkook.

Park Ohyeon (박오연) was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in the summer of 1998. Raised by a neglectful, drug-addicted mother, Ohyeon grew up without much to his name and he was the subject of bullying during elementary school due to his home-life often leading to him having to come to school unwashed and in too-small uniforms. In middle school, Ohyeon was scouted by HMT Entertainment outside of his school at thirteen years old, after the talent scout saw him walking home while lugging a guitar case on his back that was towering above his head.

Ohyeon debuted alongside Go Cairo in STATIK in 2012, and was especially noted for his poor dancing ability. Clips of Ohyeon messing up STATIK’s near-beginner level choreography would frequently go viral, and Ohyeon became a laughingstock among online communities. To some, despite only being fourteen years old, it was an insult to the hard work of other idols for Ohyeon to have debuted at all, leading to an influx of hate that was completely ignored by the label, including, most famously, a petition for him to ‘never sing again’ boasting a higher number of signatures than 'Bounce' had sales.

Following the unofficial disbandment of STATIK in 2013, Ohyeon trained with HMT for one month before it was announced that he had left the label to focus on his studies. Ohyeon was not seen again publicly after this for three years. He continued to communicate with fans in small ways online for a while, although after a few unconfirmed accounts cropped up online stating that he and Cairo were being bullied by their classmates for their failed idol career, Ohyeon erased all of his social media accounts and completely removed himself from the public eye.

In 2018, Ohyeon suddenly re-emerged when he was announced as a member of HMT’s upcoming boy group VoX. Although the circumstances of his abrupt re-signing were never made public, the widely-accepted rumour is that he replaced former HMT trainee Ahn Kyung last minute, as he had left the label only months before the debut announcement. Ohyeon was the sub-vocalist of the group, and was not well-received when it became clear his dancing still hadn’t reached industry standard. In thanks to VoX’s smaller audience and his lack of lines, however, Ohyeon avoided reaching such levels of polarity again by grace of irrelevance.

Ohyeon did not remain with Cairo at HMT upon VoX’s disbandment. In response to a sarcastic comment asking if he thought ‘third time will be the charm,’ Ohyeon spoke his final public words; ‘we’ll never find out.’ Throughout the following years, Ohyeon was confirmed by fans to be studying at a university in Gwangju and working at a nightclub, but no further information was uncovered, and eventually his intent to be left alone was understood.

Throughout 2022, several photographs were taken by fans of Cairo, showing a masked young man believed to Ohyeon entering Pantheon Entertainment’s HQ, leading to rumours of a STATIK reunion following NBT’s disbandment. It was confirmed in early 2023 that Ohyeon had signed to Pantheon Entertainment and would immediately start work on an upcoming project. This was later revealed to be his debut as the lead vocalist of Polaris. In an early live during the group’s pre-debut era, Ohyeon confirmed that he was cast for the group by the recommendation of Cairo.

NAME : Park Ohyeon. BIRTHDAY : June 18th, 1998. ZODIAC : Gemini. NATIONALITY : South Korean. HOMETOWN : Gwangju, South Korea. POSITION : Main Vocalist. FC : Ji Changmin.

Jeon Daehyun (전대현) was born in Seoul, South Korea. His paternal grandfather is a famous director who garnered worldwide attention in the 80s, while his mother is a professional golfer. Daehyun's father owns a large amount of property in Seoul, including residential and commercial buildings. Thanks to this, Daehyun received an extremely privileged upbringing. Daehyun took interest in performing after being chosen as the lead in an elementary school play. His parents spent hundreds of thousands on private lessons in singing, acting and dancing for him since before he was ten years old, and he took part in theatre programmes both within school and as extracurriculars . At his private school, it became a running joke that students dreaded school festivals or any events involving singing or dancing, as they would inevitably become a captive Daehyun concert.

Daehyun studied theatre and film at SOPA. Following his graduation in 2016, Daehyun was accepted into the department of vocal music at SNU. During his studies, Daehyun also made his official debut as a musical actor the same year, in a production of Spring Awakening.

Daehyun has appeared in a handful of productions since his debut, always featuring in either a lead or prominent supporting role. This has drawn much controversy within the theatre community, as he is widely considered not to have paid his dues. This also raised further question into the validity of Daehyun's academic accolades, as he possesses a decent level of technical skill but does not stand out as a particularly gifted performer amongst his industry peers, many of whom have received far less prestigious training and schooling. It has been noted that while active as a musical actor, Daehyun's fanbase very rarely had crossover with other theatre stars. His good looks made him generally popular, but he was largely unpopular with those with a real interest in the medium, who saw news of his casting as a role gone to waste. Regardless of rumours of nepotism, Daehyun's enrollment in SNU was never officially challenged and he graduated in 2020, after some deferrals. While his degree focuses on Opera, Daehyun has never publically displayed this skill.

Following his social media, Daehyun's official and personal accounts were scrubbed and he seemingly retired from acting. Unbeknownst to the public at the time, he had signed as a trainee to Pantheon Entertainment. From his early days at the company, Daehyun built a strong reputation amongst the other trainees, who found him to be an intimidating competitor, and became something of a ringleader amongst the male trainees. Daehyun's attitude towards an individual could cause palpable effects on their social standing within the programme.

After three years in the top class of trainees, Daehyun was one of two trainees selected for the lineup of Polaris. Having kicked off the pre-debut project, any complaints from Daehyun's previous naysayers were largely drowned out by excitement towards Pantheon's newest group. He is the group's lead vocal - a secondary role which some have detected a hint of bitterness towards.

NAME : Jeon Daehyun. BIRTHDAY : October 2nd, 1998. ZODIAC : Libra. NATIONALITY : South Korean. HOMETOWN : Seoul, South Korea. POSITION : Lead Vocalist. FC : Jeong Yunho.

Pachara Nateprasertkul (พชร เนตรประเสริฐกุล) was born in Yala, Thailand, on the twelfth of December, 2000. As his birthdate is 12/12, his mother gave him the nickname Noon (นุ่น) to match his older sister, Dawn. Noon's father is an electrician and his mother is a manager at a supermarket, and he lived a largely ordinary life. Noon had never considered performing as a career, instead harbouring the dream of becoming a pilot, which had been adapted from his childhood goal of being a bird when he grew up. However, Noon had always been an active child and took up dancing as a hobby alongside soccer and long distance running.

As a teenager, Noon joined a local dance crew, and began dancing competitively, though his motivation for this was simply to save any winnings he may earn to put towards University. As well as entering competitions, Noon's crew would often film themselves dancing in public and would busk in the street. Very little planning went into these activities, and they would frequently find themselves getting into trouble. In 2016, Noon obtained a juvenile criminal record after being charged with trespassing on private property.

Noon was scouted by Pantheon Entertainment in 2017, after his crew placed first in an international competition held in South Korea. As he had to return to Thailand quickly due to school, Noon auditioned via call, and after several more phone and video meetings with him and his parents, it was agreed that he would move to South Korea to train at Pantheon Entertainment. As a trainee, Noon was almost cut from the label several times, as he'd arrived in Korea with no idea what he was in for. Initially, Noon treated training like summer camp and neglected to take it seriously. Mixed with the hyper-competitive atmosphere of Pantheon's training programme, and the heavy language barrier between he and the other trainees, Noon's seemingly passé attitude made him unpopular among the others and gave him a reputation for not wanting to work. After making an offhand comment about never having dreamt of being an idol, and taking the opportunity to train at Pantheon because it 'seemed fun,' Noon was publicly scolded by Jeon Daehyun and became an outcast among the trainees.

After it became clearer to him just how much was expected of him, Noon began to work a lot harder and passed the monthly evaluations with growing ease each time, however the damage had already been done and he'd remain isolated from his peers even as his understanding of Korean developed. While his fellow trainees were unimpressed by him, however, Pantheon's casting team had been noticing his steady improvement, and Noon was one of two to be selected from Pantheon's pool of trainees to debut in Polaris. He debuted as the group's main dancer, and is the only member to have had no prior professional experience in the entertainment industry.

NAME : Noon Pachara Nateprasertkul. BIRTHDAY : December 12th, 2000. ZODIAC : Capricorn. NATIONALITY : Thai. HOMETOWN : Yala, Thailand. POSITION : Main Dancer, Vocalist, Sub-Rapper. FC : Neo Trai Nimtawat.

Momohara Taiga (桃原泰雅) was born in Kyoto, Japan, as the only child of an iemoto; the head of a traditional arts school of ikebana, or floral arrangement. Typically an inherited role, Taiga spent much of his life learning to follow in his father’s footsteps, so much so that the majority of his childhood memories involve sitting on his heels and painstakingly taking in every little nuance of the craft. Adhering to traditional principles became the basis of his entire being, from how to clip his stems to how to hold himself, address others. His reputation within the community was just as crucial as the beauty of his arrangements.

When Taiga was fifteen years old, his grandfather fell sick, and his mother temporarily moved to Shibuya to look after him. Taiga would visit during breaks from school, and on one of these trips, was stopped outside Shibuya Station by a magazine photographer who liked his outfit. His picture was printed alongside his Instagram handle, and so Taiga took to purposefully hanging around Shibuya and trying to catch the attention of more photographers. After a few more appearances, Taiga was contacted by a modelling agency.

Although his mother was supportive of this venture, his father was firmly against it. Regardless, his mother gave him permission to sign the contract, and he began appearing in catalogues and small-fashion magazines. His mother would stay in Shibuya for another three years, and during them, Taiga would go back and forth between studying and practicing ikebana in Kyoto, and booking modelling gigs in Tokyo for every school break he was afforded. Due to his part-time nature, his growth in the field was stunted, and despite starting to land bigger jobs he was still leagues behind a lot of people in his agency who’d started around the same time as him.

After graduating high school in 2019, as his mother moved back home following the death of her father, Taiga made the decision to move to Tokyo and pursue modelling full time. Years later, in an interview with an online magazine, Taiga stated that this caused a massive fight with his father, resulting in Taiga vowing never to take over as an iemoto, and that he and his father have been estranged ever since, causing him to lose contact with his mother as well. The quote was later redacted from the article per Taiga’s request, presumably to avoid bringing negative attention to his parents or the school, which has been in Taiga’s family since 1897.

Upon arriving in Tokyo, Taiga struggled to make a living as a model, even as his agent began to pressure him into accepting jobs for sleazier publications and to take far more revealing pictures than he was comfortable with. Taiga kept himself alive through a cycle of part-time jobs that he would routinely be fired from. At one of these, Taiga was spotted by a scout for Pantheon Entertainment’s Japanese subsidiary, Atalanta, who informed him that the label’s iconic boy group Boy Trouble, who initially debuted in 1999 and were famous for their graduation system, were about to lose half of their lineup in the latest batch of graduations, and Atalanta were in the process of recruiting their new generation.

Despite initially thinking he had been cast for the group, Taiga turned up to their ‘meeting’ to find he was actually one of over 400 to attend an open audition for Boy Trouble in 2019. He was one of five boys to pass the audition, and debuted a year later. Although initially holding a dance position and not singing on the records, Taiga’s quick improvement as the group promoted and his charming interactions with the members gained him popularity, and eventually he found himself a regular centre. Throughout his tenure as a member of Boy Trouble, Taiga quickly escalated to it-boy status, appearing in dramas and receiving more solo offers for variety and photoshoots than group ones. Taiga's habitually formal mannerisms and learned grace gave him a princelike image, one which was juxtaposed by his cheeky, sometimes flirtatious personality, which built him a strong base of female fans. Thanks to his exposure, Taiga became somewhat polarising, with some taking issue with his previous modelling work, and some criticising him for seemingly ending the Momohara family’s ownership of their prestigious school. This prompted several unsavoury rumours about Taiga’s life before fame, but none ever became common enough knowledge to threaten his popularity among the general public.

In March 2023, After spending three months in South Korea for undisclosed reasons, Taiga announced his graduation from Boy Trouble on stage at their Tokyo Dome concert, to the shock of the audience and, allegedly, the majority of his groupmates. His graduation song, ‘Idol,’ became the first graduation song from Boy Trouble to reach the top 10 since 2014. With this, Taiga earned the record for the shortest run in Boy Trouble, clocking out after three years and five months. Almost immediately after the finalisation of his graduation in May, Taiga was announced as a member of Pantheon’s upcoming boy group, Polaris. He debuted as the group’s main rapper and lead dancer later that year. Pantheon have expressed an intent to continue Taiga’s Japanese activities in the near future.

NAME : Momohara Taiga. BIRTHDAY : February 28th, 2001. ZODIAC : Aquarius. NATIONALITY : Japanese. HOMETOWN : Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. POSITION : Main Rapper, Lead Dancer, Maknae. FC : Terazono Keita.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

"¹You'll never be Gwyneth Paltrow — sorry Meghan Markle... & ²Meghan Markle’s participation trophy case is starting to fill up."

Goopsie Daisy🤭

"Unlike many celebrities — ahem, the Kardashians — who are full of fillers, Ozempic and  bulls – – t, Paltrow is transparent about the ridiculous measures required to look like her. Her gaunt cheekbones are earned, not excavated by a plastic surgeon.

She’s also no Meghan Markle with her Tig — a pre-Prince Harry lifestyle blog 🤭🤭🤭🤭— which reportedly will be reincarnated to be a Goop knockoff.

Markle cries victim from her Montecito manse and has a “strange relationship to objective reality,”🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 according to a reporter, while other accounts have debunked her rags-to-riches story"

²Lying Meghan Markle shouldn’t be celebrated — sorry, Gloria Steinem

Kirsten Fleming April 4, 2023

Meghan Markle’s participation trophy case is starting to fill up.

It was announced Monday that she’ll receive the 2023 Women of Vision award from famed feminist Gloria Steinem next month.

Perhaps the committee behind the Women of Vision could benefit from a trip to the optometrist.

According to a new tax filing made public last week, Markle and her trauma-loving husband each put in only one documented hour of work a week for their Archewell Foundation in 2021.

That’s 52 hours a year on the books — the equivalent of one episode of “General Hospital” per week.

No, “She Works Hard for the Money” will not be the duchess’s walk-up anthem.

And for her all grit and toil, she’s getting a gala full of self-important, self-congratulatory virtue signalers to throw roses at her feet.

Markle — who never misses an opportunity to share her victimhood bona fides — is living the dream in Montecito, Calif. But the only work the “privacy”-obsessed Sussexes are doing is peddling family secrets to streaming services.

Great country, this America.The award comes courtesy of the Ms. Foundation, a Brooklyn-based organization which called Markle a “feminist, champion of human rights and gender equity and global role model.”

Well, she did write inspirational messages on bananas for sex workers.

And she used her 2019 trip to Africa to bemoan her VIP lot in life: She was “existing, not living,” she said, adding, “not many people have asked if I’m OK.”

As a working royal, she made sartorial sacrifices: wearing neutral colors lest she overshadow those higher on the Windsor food chain.

She can put the newest trophy between her Gracie Award for her Archetypes podcast and the Ripple of Hope honors she and Harry received in December for exposing structural racism within the royal family, according to Kerry Kennedy.emember that brave Oprah interview where she accused an unnamed family member of commenting on how dark Archie’s skin would be?

During his media tour for “Spare,” Harry denied calling his family racist, saying: “No, I didn’t. The British press said that. Did Meghan ever mention that they’re racist?”

Maybe she didn’t use the r-word, but her comments virtually set the palace afire — and secured the couple a spot on the red carpet to be fêted by emcee Alec Baldwin, whose Massachusetts-born wife still insists she’s Spanish.

Meghan is, however, well deserving of a Whopper Award for her numerous royal tall tales, including gushing to the Cut that a South African cast member of “The Lion King” compared her to Nelson Mandela.He said, ‘I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison,'” she told the mag.

Of course, the only South African male in the show called the claims “baffling.”

Then there’s the bizarre story she told Oprah about marrying Harry in secret before her fairy tale wedding, which the Archbishop of Canterbury categorically denied.

And she has no competition for this year’s Wah Award bestowed upon the whiniest in the land. The Wah Academy couldn’t ignore her inspiring whingefest about the indignity of being a suitcase girl on “Deal or No Deal” on her podcast.

We all know these honors are empty accolades meant to sell tickets to pricey dinners, raise funds and profiles.But in a time that has been so consequential for females — the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the inability of officials to actually define a woman and biological men invading women’s sports — perhaps there’s another lady who is more deserving.

Maybe one who punched in more than an hour’s work. But the schlubs who do the real heavy lifting in life never get the credit.

[drsonnet]

The “unique” view of doctors on Gaza

Canadian doctors are being tapped for evidence in war crimes case against Israel ⋆ The Breach (breachmedia.ca)

The International Criminal Court has ramped up its activities in the past few days, with reports that the Israeli government is concerned about prosecutors issuing arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top cabinet ministers. Staff at hospitals in Gaza were also interviewed by ICC war crimes prosecutors this week, but there are no identifying details available because of risks for witnesses. 

“The ICC basically is investigating a crime scene without access to the crime scene…it obviously means that certain types of evidence are not immediately available to it,” said Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of Fraser Valley, whose research focuses on international law and the investigation and prosecution of war crimes. 

“Doctors are in a very unique position to see victims and survivors of atrocities almost immediately after they have been harmed. What they are seeing is stuff that the ICC cannot see.” 

Forensic Architecture is a multidisciplinary group of researchers based at the University of London, that uses architectural technologies to investigate instances of state violence around the World. The group used Ge’s testimony in a report published last month titled ‘Humanitarian Violence: Israel’s Abuse of Preventative Measures in its 2023-2024 Genocidal Military Campaign in the Occupied Gaza Strip’, and continued to interview doctors after it was published. 

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians is composed of lawyers, academics and politicians—including two Canadian lawyers—that in January filed a complaint with UK police’s war crimes unit against Israel and prompted an investigation. 

Neither of the two people who interviewed the doctors agreed to be quoted for this article, and officially the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians said they cannot speak publicly about their evidence collection “because this is an ongoing investigation.” 

An interviewer for International Centre of Justice for Palestinians said some witnesses they speak to will go on to testify at the International Criminal Court. The Centre  has already facilitated one such testimony, he said, with UK-based plastic surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta providing his statements to both The Hague and to the British Scotland Yard’s war crimes investigations unit. 

According to international media reports, Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit has been collaborating with the ICC to investigate war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas since Oct. 7. 

Within the first five days of the war, there were 13 Israeli air-strikes on healthcare sites in Gaza, and as of May 1, 491 health workers have been killed. 

Canadian doctors are being tapped for evidence in war crimes case against Israel

International lawyers and investigators are interviewing Canadian doctors who’ve done stints in Gaza to build a case against Israel at the International Criminal Court

by Brishti Basu

[staygoldsquatchling02]

Happy Trans day of Visibility to my Trans siblings.

In honor of this day I'm making myself extra visible and showing my transition so far so enjoy.

Here we have me Freshman year of High school about eight years ago, I didn't know what being transgender was, but I knew the long hair and dresses I was expected to wear weren't me.

Fast forward to sophomore year not pictured above, I cut off all my hair and figured out what it means to be transgender, but I didn't think that was me. When junior year came around I started toying with neutral pronouns and trying to look more masculine. In the summer before senior year I got my first chest binder and was so happy. I was still going by my birth name but was trying to get people to use neutral pronouns for me. In many ways I was figuring myself out.

In June of 2020 I graduated after having my four months of high school taken from me and spent a year at home doing nothing but figuring my self out. I figured out my new name and when I finally got my first job I went exclusively by my preferred name at work.

In 2021 my family moved from our home in Oregon to Nevada where I started a new job and was quickly accepted by my coworkers. I made few friends at the job who helped me with some tough stuff but I got through it. I even felt confident enough to petition for my legal name change. So as of July 11th 2022 it's no longer just my preferred name, it's my legal name and it feels amazing to be called Newt everyday of my life.

In July of 2023 after four years of being openly trans and nonbinary, I finally came out to my doctor deciding I was ready to face the medical side of my transition. After being told by the plastic surgeons office I would need to do a year of hrt before I could even be seen by the surgeon, I took a few months to think about what I really wanted. I have wanted top surgery longer than I've none I was trans even if I didn't know that's what it was called but I was nervous about doing Hrt.

Finally in October of 2023, after so much debate and talking with other trans people, I decided hrt was the right choice for me. Not just because it's a requirement for top surgery but I want to sound and look more masculine and hrt can help. So by the end of October I started hrt and now five months later I'm so happy even with the small changes I've seen. I've started growing facial hair and my face is looking more square, my voice is starting to crack every now and then. I'm feeling so much happier with this choice.

If you told this eight year old that in fourteen years they would be going by a different name and dressing the way they want with out any one telling them no, they wouldn't believe you. But here I am, 22 and so proud and happy to have finally found a community that accepts me for me and doesn't expect me to fit in a box.

So I say this to every person who may be questioning they're gender or any other part of their identity, It will happen. You'll figure it out eventually, be it today or ten years from now, You will find your place and be so happy with what you find. Don't worry if it takes time or you switch things up all the time, life's an adventure and only you can decide where it takes you, no one can tell you who to be.

Any way have an amazing day and know no matter how you Identify you are loved.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Plastic Surgeon's Analysis of Hazz's Transplants Friar Tuck-ness &amp; New Bald Patches by u/Reasonable_Acadia500

Plastic Surgeon's Analysis of Hazz's Transplants, Friar Tuck-ness & New Bald Patches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24TQFaIv5o post link: https://ift.tt/vX5qK9i author: Reasonable_Acadia500 submitted: August 13, 2023 at 11:54PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[deada55]

Excerpts from When the River Meets the Sea

For Winter Wonderklok 2023 Day 24: Toys for Tots

It's a loose interpretation. Chapter 9 was posted today! Here's a section I like, and the matching setup from Chapter 7.

crossposting: ao3, Chapter 7, Chapter 9

synopsis: Nine-year old Pickles has a floor full of broken toys.

cws: Molly's a bitch.

From Ch. 7

“So when you gonna shovel out the driveway?”

“I’m not.” Pickles shot back as he bent down and shook the snow off his hat. “Mom said-”

“I didn’t ask you what mom said, did I?” Seth grabbed the back of Pickles' snowsuit and jerked it up and around until Seth was inches from Pickles’ face. The game hadn’t really stopped, but with two people arguing by one of the goals, the rest of the neighborhood boys stood around and watched the sun shine helplessly on the snow-burdened, slumping cedar trees in neighboring yards.

“I’m not gonna shovel the stupid driveway!”

The white snow sparkled with such a sincere invitation that Seth couldn’t help but kick Pickles in the back of the knees, but before he could do much of anything else Michael Jones’ mom poked her head out of her door, swathed in her own winter fleece housecoat and slippers, but with a silk scarf over her hot-combed hair.  And Michael’s mom wasn’t afraid to pull out the phone book and find your parents. And if they hung up on her, she’d write them. And if she wrote them and called them and what you did in front of her house was bad enough, she’d tell Mrs. Wallace or the grocer or even the Schwan's guy… Mrs. Jones would get you in trouble if she thought you deserved it, and not even Seth would test her this close to Christmas. At the sound of her screen door squeaking, everyone stood still.

Seth stood back, casting a shadow over Pickles when he stumbled back, after Seth used the same grip that held him close to shove him away. “So that’s how it’s gonna be, huh? Alright.” Without another word, he turned and left. Slowly, the game resumed, but Michael himself came outside, and he and Pickles and Rodney left the game to go sledding on trash can lids a couple streets over.

When he came back down the road, red-nosed and cold-handed, it was after lunch. He shed his boots and his snowsuit at the door, freeing his sweaty hair from his hat and flinging his gloves to the floor. Snow had managed to wiggle into the arms of his clothes, wetting his undershirt, so he went upstairs to change it while he shivered off the lingering cold in his legs and ears. Seth bounded down the stairs, shoving right past Pickles, with a pair of scissors in his hand.

The door to his room, typically wide open, was cracked. The inside was as dark as it usually was, but the outline of his plastic Millennium Falcon looked more like a microwave omelet maker than a blurry dinner plate on the ground. He turned the light switch on and almost gagged at the sight of it cracked in two parts, all the glued plastic joins popped-out, with shards of gray plastic spilling out of the splits. Around it lie the whole cast of Star Wars (at least, the ones Pickles had) in pieces, their arms and plastic boots scattered like they’d lain down on landmines. A couple heads were broken off, or marred by the force of two blades attempting to saw them in half.

He knelt, but he kept his breathy torment and pathetic tears in his hands. After all, they were only toys, right?

From Ch. 9

When her toilette was complete, Molly circled the house in freshly polished brown shoes. With only ten minutes left to spare before they had to leave, she was on a manhunt for Pickles. It was 6:30 A.M., which wouldn’t matter if only she’d remembered to make him put a bag together the night before. When she raced up the stairs to do it herself and find him later, she heard coughing. 

“Pickles, what are you doing with your toys? Get your medicine together to show the surgeon!”

Pickles was kneeling in front of the broken pieces of all his action figures, with Sam’s raggedy head over his shoulder. When he heard her, he came up on his feet and put Sam in front of his chest, but when he tried to skirt past her into the upstairs hall with his friend, she took a step to the side and blocked the doorway. 

“You’re not taking Sam to the hospital. They’ll burn him so you don’t bring him home covered with measles or some crap, and you’ll never get him back. Then you’ll have ruined all your toys. Don’t try it, mister, or you’ll be sorry. ”

The tears burned, too, but he refused to blink as he walked downstairs with his empty hands in his empty pockets.

[lezarus]

in 2023 were burning all tiktok plastic surgeons at the stake

[crash-bump-bring-the-whump]

Whumpril 2023 - Day 28

This was originally supposed to be for Day 11 but I had an even better idea for that day! c:

TWs: car crash, impalement, hospitals, medically induced coma, intubation mention

Bedridden | Semiconscious | Light Sensitivity

"He's just being kept asleep to make sure that his body has more time to heal. The doctor will check tomorrow to see if he's ready to wake up. " The nurse had explained. "It looks scary, but he's comfortable and not aware of anything."

Bastian didn't give a fuck. He hated it anyway. His Mariano was covered in tape and wires and had tubes going in his arms.

One was going down his throat to help him breathe.

Bastian had even been told that he wasn't allowed to hold Mariano. He could touch him though, as long as he didn't mess with the equipment or electrodes. So he'd be careful.

One of Mariano's chilly hands lay between both of Bastian's. His thumb slid along bandaged, scraped knuckles. He'd have to ask someone for another blanket when they came by again. Mariano always hated when his hands or feet were cold.

Bastian's head ached. No concussion, the scans and doctors said. Scrapes and bruises. Cuts from flying glass. Soreness all through his shoulders, but only in the muscle. Minor whiplash. All of it was minor. Even their backpacks had survived, no worse for wear.

He'd been lucky. Or Mariano had been unlucky. It didn't really matter, in the end.

The silent peaks and valleys on the monitor were steady. The nurses swung by frequently enough to check on how Mariano was doing. They'd had his blood type in stock, and the surgeon had been good at what she did. She was a specialist in this sort of trauma, they'd reassured Bastian.

He just kept replaying it in his head. Their light turning green, and how Mariano shifted gears in his dumb manual car as confidently as always. The sound of the horn blaring at the driver's side. Blinding headlights shining behind Mariano, through his hair. How Mariano's hand braced against Bastian's chest just before everything became chaos, as though he could do anything the seat belt couldn't.

Mariano had looked so calm after that truck had hit his sedan. He'd leaned back in his ruined, crumpled seat once they'd skidded to a stop, dark eyes immediately flicking over Bastian before looking at himself. Even when he'd seen the jagged chunk of plastic door paneling embedded in his upper abdomen, he'd just taken a shaky breath and nodded. His hands had been just as cold when Bastian had held them, then.

It didn't matter how long it took for Mariano to wake up again. It didn't matter how many surgeries he needed. Bastian would still be there at his side, warming his mage's hands for him and making sure he had enough blankets.