#Paul Bowers

[diioonysus]

love + art

[marshbevvie]

We took a picture with Henry’s new truck because he wants us to make him famous so he, like Jake Paul, can commit essential suicide against Mike Tyson (idk guess Henry thinks he’s a fighter now). I looked away at the worst second. And also, I can promise that those aren’t real wounds on Ben. I designed the shorts he’s wearing and he was just in a video to prove the shorts can withstand damage, like blood getting poured on them (my new campaign manager is probably insane).

[bebx]

[magicovento]

Jamie Campbell Bower as Psul Allen??? 👀👀👀

I wish

[notoneofyouhere]

anyone remember the band Counterfeit? 🥲🥹

[ploypotter]

Just unpack fan merch from @ afterblossom 🤩 They’re absolutely stunning! ✨✨✨

[art-portraits]

Deborah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthasar Gerbier, and Her Children

Artists: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)

Date: 1629-1630, reworked probably mid 1640s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

Deborah Kip and four of her children are shown on a terrace elaborately appointed with entwined caryatids that support a bower, a setting that points to the family's elevated status. Their prosperity is also evident in Deborah Kip's elegantly embroidered skirt and lustrous blouse and cap. Perched on her chair is a blue-gray parrot, a symbol of aristocratic wealth and an allusion in Christian art to the Virgin Mary, the perfect mother. As she holds the baby on her lap, son George holds back a curtain; Elizabeth, dressed entirely in black, is serene and composed; and Susan rests her arms on her mother's knee and returns our gaze. Despite the elegant setting and the bravura brushwork, Rubens controlled the composition so that the tender relationship between the mother and her children remains the focus.

Rubens initially painted the family group at the core of the composition on a vertical rectangular central piece of canvas, to which he - perhaps while still in England - added strips on all four sides in preparation for the almost square final composition. When Rubens returned to Antwerp in April 1630, he took the still - unfinished family portrait with him. The painting, which remained in his possession, was probably completed by Jacob Jordaens after Rubens's death in 1640. An expanded copy from the Rubens workshop, one that Balthasar Gerbier almost certainly commissioned for his personal collection, is in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.

[sixxteenbullets]

REQUESTS

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IT (2017) || Henry Bowers, Beverly Marsh

THE OUTSIDERS || Dallas Winston, Ponyboy Curtis, Darry Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Johnny Cade, Cherry Valance, Tim Shepherd, Curly Shepherd

THE WALKING DEAD || Daryl Dixon, Carl Grimes, Michonne, Maggie Rhee, Glen Rhee

TWILIGHT || Jacob Black, Seth Clearwater, Leah Clearwater, Paul Lahote, Embry Call, Sam Uley, Edward Cullen, Rosalie Cullen, Alice Cullen

TOP GUN(MAVERICK) || Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky, Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw, Robert 'Bob' Floyd

SHAMELESS|| Lip Gallagher, Carl Gallagher, Veronica Fisher, Kevin Ball, Mandy Milkovich

PERCY JACKSON|| Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase

CALL OF DUTY|| John Price, Simon 'Ghost' Riley, Johnny 'Soap' MacTavish, Keegan Russ, Konig

JUJUTSU KAISEN|| Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, Ryomen Sukuna, Takuma Ino, Shoko Leiri, Kento Nanami, Choso Kamo, Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, Toji Zen'in, Maki Zen'in

OTHER || Johnny Castle, Rusty James, Brigitte Fitzgerald, Ginger Fitzgerald, Randall 'Pink' Floyd, Tyler Durden(Brad Pitt), Brad Pitt

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I'm a feminist

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I'm Bi

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My favorite artists are Jeff Buckley, Lana Del Rey, Hole, Megadeth, Ethel Cain, Cigarettes After Sex, Bon Iver, and Evanescence

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STRANGER THINGS 2022

Dear Billy, I don’t even know if you can hear this. Ever since you left, everything’s been a total disaster. For a while, we tried to be happy, normal. I know that’s impossible.

[zinniajones]

Florida House of Representatives Office of the Speaker 

Paul Renner  Speaker 

MEMORANDUM 

To: The Honorable Randy Fine, Chair, Health & Human Services Committee From: Paul Renner, Speaker Date: April 23, 2023  RE: Authorization to Commence Investigation 

Dear Chair Fine, 

According to correspondence from the Florida Chapter of the American Academy Of Pediatrics (FCAAP) to the Florida Board of Medicine, “gender-affirming care is the widely accepted standard of care for treating transgender adolescents with gender dysphoria.” Many medical organizations are said to endorse “gender-affirming care,” although FCAAP’s statement indicates that the standards of care are actually developed by just two organizations — the Endocrine Society and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). 

Last year, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) adopted a rule excluding from Medicaid coverage certain treatments for gender dysphoria. That rule is the subject of ongoing litigation in federal court, where the plaintiffs rely extensively on WPATH’s and the Endocrine Society’s standards of care and guidelines and describe them as “widely accepted best practices.” AHCA sought to probe that assertion by serving subpoenas on those entities and others that endorse “gender-affirming care” for minors in order to determine whether this purported medical consensus was truly the result of an intellectually rigorous and open process — as any medical consensus should be. Those entities — including WPATH, the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychiatric Association — responded by fighting vigorously to avoid any meaningful inquiry or disclosure. And they did so notwithstanding their knowledge (and likely, their intent) that their own standards and endorsements are being cited in litigation as a basis to effectively veto state law.

Similarly, in an ongoing legal challenge to Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which prohibits the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and surgical interventions as “gender-affirming care” for minors, the plaintiffs have likewise relied extensively on WPATH’s guidelines. But when the State of Alabama sought discovery regarding WPATH’s development of those guidelines, WPATH’s response once again was to seek judicial protection from any disclosure. When the federal court ordered WPATH last month to respond to Alabama's subpoena, WPATH’s reaction was to seek extraordinary appellate review rather than comply. 

Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper, the first psychologist at what has been described as the first major gender clinic in the U.S. (at Boston Children’s Hospital), has publicly expressed concern about the “irresponsible” treatment being administered to minors with gender dysphoria. Referring to her fellow practitioners, she stated that “everyone is very scared to speak up because we’re afraid of not being seen as being ‘affirming.’” And Dr. Marci Bowers, a transgender gynecologic surgeon who has performed more than 2,000 “sex-change” operations and who served as president of WPATH, has commented regarding the state of open discourse and debate: “There are definitely people who are trying to keep out anyone who doesn't absolutely buy the party line that everything should be affirming and that there's no room for dissent.”

Although these leading practitioners (and others) have sounded alarm bells regarding contemporary treatment of minors with gender dysphoria, organizations including FCAAP apparently maintain that there is medical consensus that “gender-affirming care” is the appropriate treatment. The foregoing (and other) indicia of widespread self-censorship in the medical profession suggest that the purported consensus may be little more than a mirage. 

WPATH's own published standards of care at least acknowledge what we all know through common experience to be true: that the human brain continues to develop well into early adulthood, that “adolescence is often associated with increased risk-taking behaviors,” and that adolescence is commonly characterized by “a heightened focus on peer relationships, which can be both positive and detrimental.” Dr. Erica Anderson — a transgender psychologist, a former president of WPATH’s United States chapter (USPATH), and a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) task force that writes the APA guidelines for transgender care — has publicly acknowledged that “teenagers influence each other” and that “to flatly say there couldn't be any social influence in formation of gender identity flies in the face of reality.” Concluding that “it's gone too far,” Dr. Anderson asked rhetorically, “What happens when the perfect storm — of social isolation, exponentially increased consumption of social media, the popularity of alternative identities — affects the actual development of individual kids?” It appears that those responsible for developing and endorsing the purported consensus of gender-affirming care for minors may not have engaged with that question in any serious way. And it appears that they wish to avoid any inquiry into their possible failures to do so. 

As our courts and the Supreme Court have long recognized, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Yet it appears that the medical organizations who create and endorse guidelines on a contentious issue fraught with scientific uncertainty have gone to great lengths to avoid scrutiny and to keep the public (and their duly elected representatives) in the dark regarding the process by which these "consensus" guidelines were developed.

Therefore, I now authorize and direct the Health and Human Services Committee to investigate whether the adoption and endorsement of “gender-affirming care” as the standard of care for minors have been the result of rigorous medical and scientific analysis and consideration, or whether the integrity of the medical profession has been compromised by a radical gender ideology that stands to cause permanent physical and mental harm to children and adolescents. As part of this investigation, the Committee may look into any relevant matter within the scope of the House's constitutional investigative powers. The Committee may also issue any necessary subpoenas for documents and testimony, including from Florida-based organizations that recommend, endorse, or otherwise promote the standard of care described herein. 

Respectfully, 

Paul M. Renner, Speaker of the House 

cc: Kathleen Passidomo, Senate President  Ron DeSantis, Governor

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WATCHLIST 2022: Stranger Things

[ri-punk]

Hii love bugs, Since it’s the new year, I think I’m gonna get back to writing much more! It’s probably going to be a variety of different things and people!

I understand I was gone for so long, but I’m back from a long break!

Check hashtags for sneakpeak👀

[rabbitcruiser]

Boulder Geese, Red Deer

Naturally rounded river boulders are cleverly transformed into a flock of Canadian Geese. Imbued with a sense of whimsy and playfulness, this sculpture series has a very light hearted feel. The artist's intention was as a first impression to the viewer, to have the river boulders come alive! Each "goose" is a unique individual, come down to the park and get to know them all! 

Source

[spilladabalia]

Hopper - Sugary

[thecraggus]

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Review

Beverly Hills Cop II is a worthy sequel to the illustrious original that overcomes a familiar plot with an injection of Tony Scott's signature style. #Review

[leotanaka]

i find it really amusing actually when leo fans, particularly those who have only watched the show since the revival message me upset about the way i talk about him and how i'm always calling him out on his behaviour and assuming the worst of him because they see him as a really, really good person who's just struggling to hold it together and making mistakes like, buddy, i've been a massive leo fan since his very first episode eight years go. i know that man is a manipulative, gaslighting asshole and have watched the things he's done to people for years and and i'm going to call him exactly what he is when he behaves that way.