#Project Consulting

[edimatrix]

[mxactivist]

[URGENT] UK NHS consultation on puberty blockers

VERY SHORT DEADLINE! (Wednesday 1st November 2023)

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) are about to ban puberty blockers for all trans adolescents, except for a small group who are eligible and willing to be research subjects.

"As part of this NHS England-led process, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) was commissioned to review the published evidence. Overall, there was no statistically significant difference in gender incongruence, mental health, body image and psychosocial functioning in children and adolescents treated with PSH." -- 6-page introductory PDF to consultation

That's because puberty blockers don't change gender characteristics by definition, you absolute donuts.

They're carrying out a consultation on this because they have to, and there's only two days left. If you are in the UK and you are a young trans person or know any young trans people, please check out this consultation.

Need help answering the questions? Here's a couple of handy links:

Here's a really helpful article about the consultation and some persuasive arguments you could include in your answers, from What The Trans!

Abigail Thorn outlines some excellent points on Trans Writes.

Mermaids, a UK charity supporting trans kids and their families, has a guide for responding to the consultation, too.

Here's the first question, to help you work out if you're in the target group:

In "other", you could put anything like "friend of a trans adolescent", "family member of a trans child", etc. If you're a trans adult who was on blockers or who would have been on blockers if waiting lists had been shorter or family/doctors had been more supportive etc, choose "patient".

Click here to participate.

Deadline: Wednesday 1st November 2023.

[andromeda-vita]

GUYS WAKE UP MAJOR UPDATE !!!

WAR IS OVERR!!!!!

[fried-trash]

two toontown art posts in one day? wow! say hi to the override buddies!

[mathewton-cl]

As An IzuOcha Shipper…

…them not ending up together isn’t the problem.

Horikoshi taking the “leave it up to interpretation” approach and then proceeding to COMPLETELY AVOID ADDRESSING their relationship status is the problem.

Horikoshi failing to tie up that one last loose end for Uraraka’s character arc (not closing off her feelings) is the problem.

Again, I ship IzuOcha. Still do, because I’m stubborn. Would I have liked for them to end up together, even if it was only a somewhat blatant implication that could be handwaved? Obviously. But you know what? Maybe I would be upset if the story went out of its way to explicitly de-confirm any chance of Midoriya and Uraraka being a romantic pairing, but I’d at least respect it and understand it a lot more if the story let Midoriya and Uraraka actually talk about this, or at the very least SHOWED US them talking about this. I’d understand if Uraraka completed her character arc by having a heart to heart with Midoriya and telling him that her feelings have changed, her priorities have changed, and Midoriya understands and they remain good friends. Let’s be real, romance isn’t Horikoshi’s strong suit, despite his many attempts to leave romantic implications throughout the series. I’d completely understand if he just had Midoriya and Uraraka talk and they didn’t end up together, because at least then it still provides both of their characters with closure.

But no, that’s too simple. Let’s just “leave it up to interpretation,” because it clearly wasn’t that important, right?

Well, as many people on the internet have already brought up, if it wasn’t so important, why did you spend so much time putting emphasis on it? Why did you have Uraraka, up until the FINAL WAR, have her crush on Midoriya be a crucial part of her character (it wasn’t her only character trait, mind you, but it was still important)? Why did the penultimate chapter have the class come to comfort Uraraka and tell her that they can talk to her… and then come the next chapter, Uraraka apparently hasn’t done anything regarding her supposed crush on Midoriya? For literal YEARS!?

…see, this isn’t even a shipping problem anymore. This is a character problem.

Horikoshi, for whatever reason, chose not to include a romance for the main character and his supposed love interest. And again, that’s fine, not every story needs to be a romance. Two problems with it here though (well, one problem and an observation):

1) Choosing to not at least address the romantic subplot with a “I think we’re better off as friends” encounter, thus actually concluding the subplot and providing a sense of closure, not only leaves the result feeling underwhelming and frustrating, but also actively damages Uraraka’s character arc. We can have her address the problem that caused people like Toga to exist, but heaven forbid she talks about romance with Midoriya.

2) Despite his supposed aversion to romance, Horikoshi still went out of his way to give Gentle and La Brava wedding rings… he’s willing to establish a side romantic pairing without bringing too much attention to it, but he can’t be bothered to do something similar for the arguable MAIN pairing? It’s the “Togata has special clothes so he doesn’t end up buck naked, but Hagakure’s still gotta go commando” debacle again…

I’ma go ahead and wrap this up ‘cause I don’t wanna keep y’all much longer, but like… being optimistic, this ending was… functional. I’ve got my problems with it, obviously, I don’t think it was BAD bad… but it certainly wasn’t good. It works. Barely. And it’s ‘cause of stuff like this.

Midoriya and Uraraka didn’t need to end up together, truly. All Horikoshi had to do was put the smallest amount of effort and give us something of substance, something with closure. Instead, we got what we got.

I get that he was exhausted and wanted the manga to be over… but that excuse only holds up for so long.

[touhoutunes]

Title: 封滅の蓮花蝶 (Lotus Butterfly of Extermination Sealing)

Arrangement: ながもん

Vocals: ℃iel

Album: 星影メモリア

Circle: MISTY RAIN

Original: Eastern Mystical Love Consultation

[crooked-corvid]

aro hyuna btw. if you even care

[hack-saws]

Late night mspaint Chip doodles upon ye

[hood-ex]

Ana Nogueira is writing the script for a live-action Teen Titans movie... someone tell me her writing credentials because I'm not feeling confident in her abilities. I mean... she wrote a play and is writing something for Supergirl. But like. That's a bit... sparse aslkdja. I wanna root for you, Nogueira, but idk if I can trust you yet...

[heartreactor]

Here's a thought: have you ever considered that writers really just want to *le gasp* write their story themselves?

[chiprewington]

Why should I bother "fixing" how others view me, when it is easier to be the worst version of myself?

[mackmp3]

GOOD MORNINGGGGGG HOW ARE YOUUUU

GOOOOOD EVENING TO YOU GOOD SIR i'm doing pretty good! i've been working on my neocities like all day lol its really absorbing But it's fine that ive been on the computer all day cos i'm making something! i like doing graphics too though i'm not sure how good they are lol i'm working on a little site button & the other pages hehe its really fun! ooh & i saw my cousin today she's a couple years younger than me but she's nice & kinda cool so that was nice HOW ARE YOU

[datamodel-of-disaster]

I need to write user stories and a full analysis.

For the French Project Manager.

Who is just gonna mansplain at me and make me feel bad about my work and piss me off.

I need to do it even though I don’t want to because it’s literally my job.

Please send encouragement.

[eerna]

i want to clarify that i think Lada is a super pretty name!! i wouldn t associate it with romanian at all if i didn t know the character herself is supposed to be romanian - hence i think it s a bit of a silly choice on the author s part. if i heard it from anyone else i d only think of the goddess!

also: Lada is indeed not a romanian name, which is why i wouldn t think of romanian at all when hearing it. i guess Ladislav sort of is? it s clearly meant to be a form of Vladislav, which would normally be shortened to Vlad. Vladislav very much is a real romanian name, but i ve never met anyone in real life called that. (Vlad is common enough however) also also: nothing about Ladislav screams dainty and feminine as the book claims -- feminine names here rarely end in anything but a in the first place okay and last addition sorry: i do think Ladislav is an actual slavic name? just not very romanian. and if it were to be feminine, it would have to be Ladislava - i really don t think a wallachian voivode would ve named his daughter something that decidedly does not end in a

OH yes I agree with you! I am Slavic (Croatian to be exact) so I feel the same naming sensibilities, Ladislav is 10000% a manly man in my mind. I don't know much about Romania specifically outside the broadest strokes considering how regional differences and cultural influences work and I appreciate your POV!

[fried-trash]

Where once we dreamt of independence, Now we stand and dream alone

[rad-roche]

longer term project: at some point i'd like to write a karras fic because he's the most interesting guy in the setting bar maybe garrett. pros: he's my scrimblo and i love him. cons: fuck me, he speaks early modern english