#that comes with it. bc like there isn't really a scientific difference that creates a strict line between intersex and not intersex

[intersex-support]

hi! i have some hypothetical questions:

is it be possible to have more than one intersex variation? maybe if one was a chromosomal variation and one was a hormonal variation, or etc? can you have more than one very similar variation (e.g. PCOS & CAH)? (i think that one would probably go undiagnosed if that was the case)

is hyperandrogenism outside of hyperandrogenic PCOS always intersex? i assume that hyperestrogenism is intersex too? what about hypoandrogen/estrogenism?

are uterus differences intersex (uterus didelphys, bicornate & septate uterus, etc.)?

and finally a personal question: i have hyperandrogenic PCOS & recently had a total hysterectomy. my surgeon told me i had a very small cervix, to the point where they almost had to convert to an open surgery because they didnt think they could use the cervical opening to pull the parts through. could that be related to hyperandrogenism? or was it just a coincidence/within the dyadic size variation?

thank you & i hope youre all having a good day :)

Hi!

So generally, most intersex variations are pretty mutually exclusive, and it all really depends on the underlying genetic cause. Some intersex variations we don't know enough about the genetic cause or how it functions to really have conclusive information about some aspects of it, and it might be hypothetically possible for some intersex variations to be comorbid. I am not an expert and really can't say more than that, but generally, most people are only diagnosed with one intersex variation.

For PCOS and CAH, that's a bit complicated. Currently, there are several proposed sets of diagnostic criteria for PCOS (Rottendam criteria, NIH criteria, and Androgen Excess Society criteria.) Generally, a key factor of PCOS is exclusion with other hyperandrogenic variations, meaning that you have to rule out things like NCAH before getting diagnosed with PCOS. But there are people who are misdiagnosed with PCOS when they actually have CAH, and people with CAH who have polycystic ovaries. So there is some overlap between the two, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are actually comorbid.

Hyperandrogenism is not always considered intersex. If it's caused by Cushing's, tumors, or medication, that's generally not considered intersex. When it's caused by other congenital variations, it usually is considered intersex.

Hyperestrogenism in people with XY is considered intersex, although it's more commonly referred to as Aromatase Excess Syndrome.

Hypoandrogenism and Hypoestrogenism is called hypogonadism and it isn't always considered intersex, as sometimes it can be caused by injuries or infection. It is sometimes considered intersex, and is associated with intersex variations like Klinefelter's and Turners.

I think uterus differences are a little less clear cut-they aren't usually grouped together with intersex variations, and traditionally haven't been considered intersex. However, if people with uterus differences feel solidarity and benefit from the support of intersex community, I'm not going to tell people that they can't participate in intersex community. This is one of those times when it really comes down to self + community evaluation about whether or not intersex is a label that makes sense.

I couldn't really find any data showing definitively that PCOS causes a shorter cervix, although there did seem to be some association. So I don't really know for that one!

Overall when it comes to defining what is and isn't intersex, I usually refer back to InterAct's explanation of what intersex is:

An innate physical trait that falls under the umbrella of variations in sex characteristics, generally meaning that the variation:

Shows up in a person’s chromosomes, genitals, gonads or other internal reproductive organs, or how their body produces or responds to hormones;

Differs from what society or medicine considers to be “typical” or “standard” for the development, appearance, or function of female bodies or male bodies;

and is present from birth or develops spontaneously later in life

Is often significant or noticeable enough to cause stigma or violence in a person's life, whether through explicit discrimination or implicit ways that society enforces the sex binary

I'm not the authority on what is or isn't intersex, and there are definitely some areas where it's clearer than others. I just generally consider whether or not something is an innate physical trait not caused by temporary factors such as a medication, whether or not that trait causes variations in sex characteristics, and whether that trait is considered within the "typical" variation of dyadic sex characteristics or if it's outside the sex binary in a way that causes societal stigma. I'm not interested in telling people whether they are or aren't intersex or denying people intersex community resources if they feel like their variations meet the definition.

I hope that makes sense!

-Mod E

[ballcrusher74]

hi. I'm interested to hear of the fellas.

🎥LCLethal Company/CCCleanup Crew bcs I'm curious

💔Roblox but I like hearing about stuff so any would do

💎Any, but I'd like to hear of Abstrakt or Metanoia if anyyyy— :³

💕Anything that might not get as much attention otherwise I guess

OK SO

🎥 I think for the base game, it was def the reveal of the nutcracker in the update trailer. That shit still affecting me to this very day. As for CC stuff, that's a really hard choice... There was a thing where Brain was outside the ship, Faux walked by and kinda flicked his head at him (like the kinda flick you do to say 'what's up') and then just.. walked away. I don't know why but that's a little funny to me, but for a GENUINE scene- I think it would have to be when Dopey and Inspector first fought on Offense, WAYYY back in the beginning of CC. 💔 I actually don't know for this one because there's a lot of characters that come from Roblox games, but then there's also weird like. Roblox lore relevant guys and a bunch of other baloney. I think least favorite here though would have to be Folly from Regretevator, maybe because it feels like she just kinda. came out of leftfield? Idk, I don't hate her, I just don't really hold much interest (but that also goes for the game in general now) 💎Did you know about Quasi stars being hypothetical stars that existed in the beginning of the universe and are cool ass stars powered by a fucking black hole in the center of it? It's when a protostar collapses into said blackhole, and the outer part of the protostar being so big enough to not immediately fall into the black hole or being blown away. There's a lot more mumbo jumbo that has to do with the blackhole at the core being the energy source of said star because of material falling into it and creating energy, but I feel like if I sit here and try to proper explain this with scientific terms then my head and your head will explode in due time. anyways I really like space and stars and stuff ( Also I think I've shared as much Metanoia and Abstrakt shit as I can rn so OOPS ) 💕HOOOUH. HOOUH OK. There's a couple that could go here honestly. Lewis Pepper (MSA), Herobrine (Minecraft), Null (BBIEAL), Red (BRC), KAngel (NSO), The Nutcracker (LC)- but really I do think one of these fellas take the cake.

Herobrine.

Despite the fact that his original story is literally just the play on the dead brother trope, despite the story being so short, literally despite everything- this guy has been sticking with me ever since I was a wee little creepypasta fanboy, lurking over my shoulder. It doesn't help with the discovery of White Eyes and the original Copeland stream being found that this has fueled the fire even more. There's something so alluring about the mystery behind him, but also with how malleable his character is because there... really isn't a canon way to portray him. Sure, he's just a little stalker, but that's all we really knew. He's just a husk to free form and I think that's why I like him a lot. I like seeing all different interpretations of him, I love seeing the creativity this white eyed freak brings, and I love seeing the stories people weave based on this crusty ass picture.

Sure, the other characters I listed have either better and more creative designs or well thought-out and complex stories and I still do adore them very dearly, but there's just something about Herobrine that I don't think any other character could do, and for him to stick around with me for this long is fucking wild dude.

[clonehub]

Man even the way they're standing in this scene is annoying me like every ounce of their visuals is dedicated to showing how sooooo different they are. Wrecker pls stop speaking

I don't believe Hunter is 5'9 and Tech is 6'4 because in this scene hunter looks like 3 inches taller than Tech.

Having the clones cheer is uh. A Choice. Tech SHUT UPPPP "were such free thinkers" bc ur writers fundamentally don't like u fam

Whiplash going from talking about genocide and the rise of fascism to having ur lil white baby girl show up and having two grown men act ABNORMAL ABOUT A CHILD?

"What's that????" and this nerd pulls out his lil scanner YOU JEAR THE BEEP WHAT???

"you know who we are??" youve established these guys are well known already so like

Hunters face texture is so weird. Y'all saw a CHILD Please calm down 😭

Shout out to this clone on the very end of this row who's standing w his legs apart rather than at attention

I like how the Kaminoans talk tbh.

Again tonal dissonance. How do u go from the news about the end of the production of clones to a food fight

These chairs don't look comfy

"I am merely stating a scientific hypothesis based on factual data".....something about how this line was written. Like the lines. The word choice. Is bad. It's so heavy-handed.

And why is wrecker arguing that his tendency toward destruction might not have anything to do w how he was raised/created huh. He should know that? Not that genes have any bearing on personality but. You know.

But again this is what contrast between like. The logical white man versus the loud and aggressive brown man. Why is wrecker yelling

"we'd never pass a mental evaluation" okay but it's been shown multiple times that tech and crosshair are meant to be smarter than wrekcer like that's a contrast that's been made already. So I really can't see this as a line that isn't about wrecker specifically. Not after y'all just had him yelling about blowing shit up.

I think omega should have been introduced here in this scene. Like imagine some kid just suddenly coming up to y'all and sitting there. That happens irl.

I'm sorry the way hunter is a animated here is so weird. SAD BATCH PLEASE

Girl get OFF the table

No see this is why ppl don't like tbb bc how does someone get food thrown at them and ur telling them to back off like huh. Also also. I'm SORRY I cannot imagine having BEEF with a CHILDDDDDD

As far as I'm concerned this is self defense idc idc

Like idk the whole thing seemed so unnecessary. Because yeah u show echos medical trauma but u never get into it again do you.

I remember. I remember someone said AZ saying that they were defective was meant to be actually a shock to them but it's really just wrecker being surprised. And again like they already know their genes are different. This humor in this show is so WEIRD it's like trying v hard to be funny in this really inappropriate or tonally dissonant ways and it's feeling very repetitive and huh

I'm not even half an hour in

"we're more deviant than we are defective" HWAT THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN SAYING uwwtbb haters whove been calling them defects this whole time need to permanently SHHHHHHH

"and turned into that" SHUT UPPPPPPP

What even is echos eye color tf

No like. Anyone who watches this would say wrecker is just the comic relief he has no depth he doesn't actually add anything to the convo huh like WHAT. Why were people arguing with me on this 😭

Wrecker just. Repeats what everyone says doesn't he. He just repeats it in the Slow Excited Way pls really is caricaturish

Ngl this fight scene is p boring

Wrecker not knowing the hand signals isn't a good look guys it's just so. It's just so annoying.

Omg he called the battle droid a him

Something about the knife still ain't working for me

PLEASE TECHS GRUNT THE NOISE HE MADE????

Oh like did that really fuck up tech did he not just fall a few feet. See if tech were incredibly weak in the body it'd be one thing but I think they just needed to take him out of the fight 😭 unless he's dazed or something

These babies don't have umbilical cords because the animators are cowards

"cellular mutations who's enhanced traits desirable in a soldier" Oh look canon confirmation they're inherently enhanced.

Like they keep pushing the enhancement over anything else. VERY rarely is the word defective used with them.

Okay this is the one time Wrecker saying what's happened isn't a bad thing he's just expressing disbelief but Tech and Crosshair move so quickly to dismiss him

I wonder what Tarkin thinks of the smell of the room

I wonder how we're meant to take wreckers "we both did" bc like it's so. As a line it's so

(I'm sorry the dialogue is punching me in the chest and not in a good way)

Omegas got the shoulder to head ratio of a newborn almost. Like ik kids got big heads but she's dbsmbdmansma her proportions are funny. She's got long legs maybe she's destined to be tall

No why are they so loud on a mission

JEEZ THE WAY HE LAUNCHED TECH?????

this is actually like one of the first times we see like different body types in tcw/tbb

Crosshair is SO ready to start blasting civilians 😭 lowkey I feel like he'd do that even if he didn't have the chip working on him rn

Saw my man saw they PERMED YOUR HAIR AAAAH

Star wars reay hates Black ppl lol

Not tech being the info machine 😭 this is so funny ik theres tbb watches that dk shit about tcw but this is like. HFKSBDMANSKSNS

Oh I can see why ppl say saw looks like a white man tbh I dew nawt trust the animators with animating Black features like at all

PLEASE TECHS FACE WHEN SAW INSILTED HIM AAAHHHH

Hunters eye color annoys me

"I am the only one with clarity of purpose"

Their voices are really annoying. All of them.

PLEASE the drama of the eye level zoom ins

Crosshair conspiracy theorist

"I thought it was obvious" tech ur so annoying

Oh look Hunter caring now that he knows omegas also an enhanced clone. Lowkey I feel like they'd abandon echo without thinking

I wonder if omega thinks their room stinks

Ppl write/say AZI but I feel like in canon ppl only say AZ

Oh hunter has a second pair of boots and another bandanda

PLEASE THIS WAS SO AGGRESSIBE FOR WHAT?

they make good use of silence bht sometimes I feel like there's too much music

Crosshair says later on that they're predictable

Dave Twink army lmao. Now why'd they put the baby in the brig

I'm sure they still stink

Also wrecker should have a gut

The like. The animation itself is good but the models are so weird bc ppl have a natural fall to their shoulders but hunter doesn't. Like they're shaped like toys not people.

Oh right hindsight. Omega knows he's chipped up and that's why he's acting like this.

THATS NOT EVEN CROSSHAIRS XRAY THATS A NORMAL CLONES????

I think they should have zapped him more tbh. No reason

The like. Little sound effects when ppl touch things

I'm sorry this plan is so conspicuous folks are just punching things hard as hell you got these dudes standing in a wall formation 10 feet from dbskndskndksks

No like its so loud

I'm sawrry. The stakes are simply not that high idk. This ep feels v slow. A lot of back and forth.

WRECKER PUNCHINGGUY AHRD ENOUGJ TO CRACK HIS HWLMET IS HE DEAD????

No like this is insane

Oh no he's alive ok

I think their pelvises/hips are too small. That's why they kinda look weird

Crosshairs shape is v dumb soz

Rewatching tbb wish me luck.

S1E1

First thing I've noticed is that the way tbb fights is really inefficent. It looks cool until you realize they're taking out droids one by one and techs droid poppers are only good for one use each. A normal droid popper would take out maybe like 6 droids at once if they're close enough. Tech used three and got three but we saw the whole sequence of it ig bc it's mean to be cool?

And again like I'm confused bc how much of this is their own skill and how much is access to weapons that regular clones don't have.

Like why does tech insist on getting as close as possible to stick these grenades and droid poppers on droids when the more efficient thing is to throw it from a distance?

"if you're done hiding down there" shut UPPPP oh my god

You know how like. Ppl say the Travis books are mean spirited and the jkr books are mean spirited. This feels mean. Like these are clones who were about to be overrun, who needed help, who relied on you to save them and you're immediately berating them for what?? Needing reinforcements? Waiting for YOU to do YOUR job?

No bc like just how like in s7 tbb gets away with breaking chain of command they do it here too. The captains right to berate them for insubordination like huh.

Caleb's voice has me in tears 😭

Geez the way they converse is so annoying. Wrecker is so annoying. I don't like characters that yell a lot sorry.

Kinda crazy that it took tbb that long to run back.

"talk to the reg captain" he has a name

Again the way they say regs just sounds like a slur.

Also like I feel like episode one is just the beginning of everyone else being rewritten in order to prop up tbb like kanans fans were PISSED his entire story about O66 was rewritten to give something to them.

Ah yes the first instance of Wrecker and tech being the dumb/genius trope.

Now that I think about it it actually feels kinda disrespectful to have like. The goofier/funnier moments of like the food fight and all that in an episode where a genocides just been committed???

And like wrecker isn't funny they don't actually know how to write funny. When that one critic said their personalities had been turned up to an almost caricaturish degree they were right.

And tech here asking that one clone what division he's from and naturally being brushed aside and then using that as evidence that they're still the same. Like huh. You see kaminos lockdown you see the Jedi have all been executed you see ppl got shit to do and you step directly in front of someone to ask them a stupid question like that 😭 like what was even the point of that scene they just screen wiped immediately after 😭

Good lord they're so ugly.

"they manipulated preexisting aberrations in our DNA--" ok so like. An aberration implies something bad. Defect implies something bad. But it's clear these aberrations were good differences taken to their extremes. Because in what world is looking at someone's DNA and seeing there actually a genius (barring that this isn't how this works) like actually a defect. "Oh this guy's strong and this one seems to have stronger senses" that's. They started out good and then were taken further??? Like??? And it was done on purpose too, not like the the Batch were unplanned, the Kaminoans specifically made them this way which is a luxury and privilege like no other clones can have.

Which is what annoys me so much about tbb being bullied by regs for being ~different~ bc that's such a shallow read on what differences exatly would make the regs hate tbb so much. Like no kdy gets bullied for being smart or strong they get bullied for being annoying as hell and being arrogant and derisive to ppl they think are "beneath" them. So the bad batch were bullied for their appearance then and the privilege they have over other clones in clone society. So like. These white boys that were made to be better than everyone else and get rewarded for it all the time look down on the """regs""" why am I meant to side w tbb lbr. Like it looks like hyped up white kids getting bullied by jealous brown kids. Huh. Bffr.

This is so bad. IM ONLY 18 MINUTES IN WHAT--

"you're more machine than man percentage wise" die

[commander-chaoss]

🦴 Malcolm

Answered, but I will gladly take any opportunity to talk about my characters bc I'm a narcissist.

So I will be approaching this question from a different angle now and talk about not what inspired me to create the character, but what inspires me in where the character is at.

But in truth, nothing inspires me in the moment I just make stuff and connect dots later. Sometimes years later. Took me years to realize that Nexus was a superhero story. ANYWAY.

The American Dream. Malcolm is the pinnacle of the American dream. Average guy from a rural upbringing works hard goes to college works hard some more and works his way up a corporate ladder and boom! Success story! Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps! And that's a good thing. But this is also his villain origin story.

See, his father rightly wanted him to be independent, so he raised him telling him that "no one will pick you up but yourself, no one will help you make good YOU have to make good. You've gotta stand on your own two feet because no one will be there when you fall." and this is a good lesson (and to be clear, was not used as justification for neglecting young boy Malcolm he was well taken care of his parents were awesome) the problem is that being raised in this mindset Malcolm's worldview developed into one of "there is no altruism, generosity, or truly good people." Not exactly in a cynical way, but in a very neutral way. He doesn't believe there is any grand cosmic force ruling the universe so all we have are the days under the sun and no one is really going to spend that time caring about other people we've all just gotta get as far as we can go.

And truly, there's nothing really bad about his worldview. I mean, I'm a Christian so I disagree in a very fundamental way, but it's not like he's some twisted individual. He's a very normal guy, actually. But when you believe that nothing really matters outside of life, and that right and wrong are defined on an individual basis save for a handful of rules we all agree on to function civilly, why shouldn't he partake in shady deals? Sell weapons to people who maybe shouldn't have them. Fund research that may not be entirely ethical. Steal information from other studies. After all, it's just business, and what good does integrity actually do in a world where there is no higher power watching?

And then enter Arely, who's worldview is entirely different, and she acts on it. And she gets herself in trouble simply because she has enough faith to give people the chance over and over again. to give Malcolm the chance over and over again.

Malcolm is equally interested in Arely as a person and as a interesting topic of scientific study. His world is so different from hers, and yet, hers cannot be dampened for anything. And the weird part is that he comes to see that she's right. Because people do risk their lives to protect each other, and people do go out of their way to care for each other, and people do pick her up when she falls. And it takes him a long time to admit it, but his worldview is wrong.

Nexus isn't really a story about a teenage girl with cool superpowers and an unbreakable spirit. It's about a average man who believes there are no good people in the world, and it's about the Korean family who can't really understand her but could tell that Arely was in danger and took her in. It's about Joe, who keeps paying her because he knows that she's just trying to support her friends but can't reliably work. It's about Xander, who learned that his dad was a criminal and vowed to be better. It's about Quinn, who cared so much about the world's first superhero that he'd put everything he had into a doomed case to protect her. And it's about a mugger who accidentally fired a gun and never wanted to hurt anybody.