#this escalated tbh

[catboybiologist]

By now, there's lots of people have heard about the internal CDC memos for all newly prepared manuscripts (like future scientific papers waiting to be published):

There's so much to comment on, and I'm seeing it all right now. What the state of science is. What this means for the queer community. All of that.

But fuck, I think I might genuinely start crying over this. As a transgender biologist, this feels like a brutally personal blow. I slowly accepted my gender alongside my biology education. The more misinformation that was spewed about "biological sex" by mainstream media, the more my professors, colleagues, and primary sources would casually drop information that proved they have no idea what they're talking about. I'm not an expert on sex determination, gender, or transgender biology specifically by any means. But my worldview has been crafted by my studies in genetics and molecular biology.

Engaging with this research helped me demystify transition. It helped me optimize my transition. It helped me explain how HRT and other steps of trans healthcare work to other people. And it helped me overcome my own internalized transphobia, and finally start transitioning, despite knowing I wanted to since my preteen years.

Who knows how enforceable internal guidelines like this will be. But its certainly going to scare a lot of researchers away from transgender healthcare and science in the coming years, and that breaks my heart.

There's a lot I can say here, but fuck. I just needed to vent for a moment. Fuck.

[battiegutz]

must feed the swinbee enjoyers.... how tf do ppl draw kissing😵‍💫

[noraigo]

TAN AND KHAOFANG: physical contact close-ups.

second tanfang wednesday without them. as you can see, i'm very normal about tan pushing khaofang down so their chests are pressed to each other while kissing in the third and fourth gif. absolutely okay 👍 khaofang's legs that are humping on tan's? nothing outworldly. tan's hands gripping on khaofang's neck and waist? fine for me. khaofang's hands trying to go under tan's shirt and caress his chest? yeah, totally normal...

[shikisei]

spirit mediums and such

[boonanaghost]

PEARLRINA NATION RISE RISE RISE!!!!!

[frommybedroom]

whoa apparently there is some drama in the outsiders ig fandom??

[rocksaltpaperscissors]

this episode was obviously completely devastating and everyone involved killed it...but also what the actual fuck do we think was up with this episode?? it was so...random? setting was crazy and unexplained, the dieter thing and the woe bride were bananas, the weird "twins" of the refiners...idek. i have to assume it's some kind of reintegration delirium?? also what is going on with the reintegration???

[pharawee]

[icebrooding]

i think this is my favourite dance emote now. i don't think it's cerus's though.

[justwannatalkaboutmyshows]

Bad Buddy really showing that no matter who you are and no matter what your relationship was prior, love turns you into a goofy cheeseball every damn time

[nillas-art-den]

Important question regarding Moshui. Does he bite?

Nope. In fact that monkey has some serious trauma regarding his fangs that makes him not want to show them much less use them. However-

Just because Moshui doesn't bite... doesn't mean their scroll summons won't on their behalf.

Especially Mò hǔ.

[lanternlightss]

it will always be so interesting to me that the two to die out of the main cast we know were amos and nameless bard. one who had dearly loved and stood by a god, witnessing his actions up close, until she could not take him not listening anymore. one who befriended a thread of the thousand winds, istaroth’s thread, and (presumably) taught them more of how humanity is.

what a particular pair.

[jyndor]

imagine if hamas was hanging out in tel aviv. would israel just endlessly bomb the shit out of tel aviv in order to get hamas? no of course not, because they value israeli lives. what if al qaeda had been chilling in new york city after 9/11? would the us have bombed manhattan???? no because the us values american lives.

that's the difference. to be clear that's the fucking difference. the us and israel do not value palestinian lives and they don't care who knows it at this point.

[theothermaidoftarth]

Baela and the Myth of the Child Fighting Pits

Not sure why I keep seeing from green-leaning accounts that in Fire and Blood, Baela visited the child fighting pits. But this is what F&B says about Baela post-Dance:

Nothing about child fighting pits. In fact this is what shows up when I search ‘pits’ in Fire and Blood:

The definition of a rat pit according to awoiaf:

Not the best of places, I’m not going to defend it but there’s nothing about children there (also lower down it’s stated Mushroom said these are the places Aegon II would frequent, which the show turned into child fighting pits).

Also saw it said on here that Baela celebrated Jaehaerys’ murder… Her reaction was not recorded.

Baela is many things and she is not perfect but what I’m seeing is just not accurate. And that’s not even getting into what I’ve seen on Reddit where they say she wasn’t faithful to Jace before his death and was kissing squires while he was in Winterfell. (Narrator: she wasn’t.)

[dark-wil-wheaton]

Drops a truckload of cheese slices on your head

You will not see the next sunrise.

[theragamuffininitiative]

🙃