#the one surprise

[soranker]

laios985

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[sanjiaftersex]

Honestly, no one is doing it like Vinsmoke Sanji. He's royalty. He's homeless. He's a convicted criminal. He is a damsel in distress. He's a knight in shining armor. He takes down the Government at 10 am then makes a Bouchée à la reine from scratch at 11. He has the empathy of a buddhist monk in the Himalayas. He will beat up a 90 year old. He has never given a fuck, he cant sleep at night cz of how much he cares. He is a ballerina. He sets his legs on fire. He is a slut. He is a virgin. He is a feminist He is a pervert. He's a fashion icon. He wears Alexander McQueen suits to the beach. He has never known happiness. God has personal beef with him.

[etoilesdeglace]

Percy and Vex'ahlia in The Legend of Vox Machina 3x03 "Vexations"

[babyspacebatclone]

Quotes from your previous post.

Italicized and bold emphasis mine.

How is strong legs and a good posture the same as surgery and hormones? As long as you didnt suffer an injury or fall into an eating disorder; what would be inherently regretful about the physical changes ballet has on one's body? Nothing.

Being a dancer or sportsperson has physical effects. Those are effects, yes. Everything has effects! But the severity and negativity of those effects force us to weight up opinions about whether the action is worth the effects, and whether we should allow the action to take place freely.

Ballet's effects are not harmful and so not disputed.

My list of articles was intended to highlight that one of the positions you portrayed - that the original article is incorrect in stating “If I wanted to be a professional dancer, my normal ass joints were a ticking time bomb.”

Now, let’s take a look at current research into Gender Affirming Care by age.

Oh, wait, first, let’s define that, shall we?

“Gender-affirming care, at its most basic level, is about validating and supporting children and loving them for who they are as they explore their gender identity,” says Dr. Chang, who specializes in adolescent medicine.

(Note: These two additional quotes were edited in after initial posting, as I feel they provide context for the direction I chose to go after reviewing the below articles. These quotes are presented in reverse order from where they appear in the linked article, an emphasis decided by me.)

“People may assume that gender care means that you’re going to do surgery, or you’re going to put them on hormones. While that might be part of it, that’s really not the focus,” says Dr. Chang. “It’s a lot of continual checking in and seeing where the child is on their journey. It’s about love and support and affirmation.”

“Patients under the age of 18 who are seeking medical intervention will need parental consent,” says Dr. Chang. “If they do start medical interventions, such as hormones, they are followed carefully by a pediatric endocrinologist. A comprehensive gender-affirming program, such as Compass, provides families with access to a team that includes a pediatrician, endocrinologist, mental health professional, and social worker.”

Quotes from the first linked article.

Information found by searching the phrase “Impact of Gender Affirming Care on Children.”

I’m going to quote the last article of this three, and provide a direct link to the study referenced. Again, italicized and bolded emphasis is mine.

The study — led by senior authors Drs. Kym Ahrens and David Inwards-Breland at Seattle Children's Gender Clinic — found that having access to hormones and puberty blockers for youth ages 13 to 20 was associated with a 60% lower odds of moderate to severe depression and a 73% lower odds of self-harm or suicidal thoughts compared to youth who did not receive these medications over a 12-month period. This adds short-term insight into what was already known about the long-term benefits of gender-affirming care.

So, um, yeah, we actually do know what the risks are for allowing youths access to hormone treatment, including puberty blockers.

The risk of less depression, less self-harm, and less suicide ideation.

Horrible.

Edit: In the interest if fairness, as I did stray away from the initial point, here’s a good summary of the known physical impacts and concerns of puberty blockers and cross hormonal treatment in youths.

This post is not about ballet.

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[imma-dragon53]

You’ve heard of “justice league doesn’t know Batman has kids”

Now prepare for “the Team doesn’t know Batman is Robins dad”

[1v31182m5]

GOD BLESS DELTARUNE, AND GOD BLESS SPAMTON G. SPAMTON

[doctorsiren]

The books reveal that Ford is actually a secret partier

(Available as a print on my Etsy Shop)

(wips under cut)

[apollos-boyfriend]

i think the funniest thing someone with boobs could do is to get tattoos that look exactly like top surgery scars and if anyone ever asks respond with a different cryptic non-answer each time

some suggestions:

yeah that didn’t stick

i changed my mind

do NOT get top surgery at claire’s they will fuck your shit up

i’m like prometheus. every day i chop these bad boys off and every night they fucking grow back just to spite me

i got bored and glued them back on myself

etc etc

[vaxxman]

"Do you miss the time when you used to do no harm?"

Old habits.

Merc behaviour is based on a nice little comment @up-in-flames-writing left on one of my comics :)

Rambling and more silly drawings below.

Loosely based on the Solemn Vow's public blurb:

Art lovers will cherish the bust of Hippocrates, commemorating a time when the Medic still thought doing no harm was a good idea.

I am absolutely convinced that Medic carries dextrose drops with him. German pharmacies throw these after you when you buy anything at all. I went to check if this one specific brand I know of had been around since the 60s and 70s and yes, it was.

Small acts of kindness I can see Medic doing is giving everyone one of these if they are tired. I'm talking about Engineer mostly.

Or they snack on them when solving practical problems together, like during the teleporter bread tumor incident.

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[kedreeva]

She has finalized her decision and chosen the mailbox with her name on it to start making her hammock!

[redpapercraness]

i wanna see that girl DEAD on the GROUND