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some observations on color coding eyewear in ficton and their meanings
Some alternative statements you could consider when your initial reaction is just ‘!’:
- I’m glad we took that X-ray
- Well this is almost certainly diagnostic
When one of my classmates broke my leg in 2nd Grade, there was an entire fiasco and I nearly died but I do remember the guy from radiology storming out to the little curtain area I was in and SLAPPING the X-ray up on the back light and the doctor actually shouting "JE-YAY-SUS! No wonder the kid doesn't have any damn blood!"
Not really an X-ray. But my older sibling had a bout of appendicitis when xe was younger, it ruptured and xe needed to stay in the hospital for an extended stay. So my mother is sitting in the hospital room, when the doctor comes in and says "So, we don't get many chances to see something like this, would you mind if I bring in some students?"
when I was in middle school I was getting routine blood work at a new lab than the one I usually went to. this new lab was not quite up to date on my chronic anemia. so when they went to do the draw and my blood came out with the consistency of honey and a dark purplish color, the nurse responded by yelling "what the FUCK".
I was swiftly instructed that I wasn't allowed to repeat that.
For a shoe-on-the-other-foot addition, I went through a period of my life in high school where I ended up getting an x-ray done about once a year for a few years in a row. All non-related stuff, sometimes life is just weird like that. But the point is, I ended up going to the hospital for another one, and the nurse asked, "So you're here for [basically a check to see if you have scoliosis]?"
Yes, that was indeed the case.
But what I actually said was, "No, that's just what they put down. It's actually because if I don't get my yearly dose of x-rays, I die."
And I was so proud of my smooth delivery and straight face that it took me several steps to notice I was now walking alone and turned back to see the nurse standing there in the middle of the hallway with an absolutely horrified expression on her face. My mom quickly caught up and reassured her that I was joking, my poker face cracked and I started laughing, and she made little 'oh, of course' noises and trying to play it cool.
But for a minute there, she was living in a world where the teenager she was about to give x-rays to needed a yearly dose of them for an undisclosed medical reason, and that will always be special to me.
you gotta slap my ass bro…. for the economy……..
WHAT DID YOU DO
what else was he supposed to do
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this is me. if you even care. uses my hollow flame attack on you
The way terfs describe women in sports like
Have you noticed that vibrating layer beneath everything yet or
I'm sorry I'm going fucking insane over trans people in sports issues the anti trans crowd has lost the fucking plot and then has the audacity to act like its the trannies who are ridiculous
I used to be of the "well the sports issue isn't really important to me its w/e I just don't want it to be a gateway into other transphobia" but oh my fucking god we are so far gone. The fencing shit is sending me over the edge. What the fuck.
I can't even articulate my words so I'm just going to tell a story in screenshots
I am so fucking tired of being gaslit about this
I'm also still so fucking pissed that we have to include "ooo the trans fencer only finished in X place" because its a reminder that trans women will never be allowed to excel at anything in the public eye without being cut down. Fuck OFF
I know the forfeiter, unfortunately she's from my fencing club. Everyone at our club agrees she did this purely for the spectacle, in a sport that's heavily steeped in sportsmanship and respect.
If she's ejected from the club (she might have been already, the club understandably probably won't issue a public statement) it'll be because she broke the rules in a direct, intention, and disgustingly public way. At tournaments, they don't just kick people out, she almost definitely was warned and told to go and fence, then refused again. The rules are unambiguous and everyone knows you can't refuse to fence. And thankfully USA Fencing already decided to officially allow trans athletes.
But she'll claim any repercussion she faces is for her politics, she'll describe herself as a victim and keep raking in conservative money. It's shitty, she's shitty, but thankfully most of the fencing community agrees on the absurdity of her claims. She regularly fenced in coed events, and it's ironic because the tournament allows grown adults to fence 14 year olds but she decided that including a trans woman was unfair. It's bigotry and looks idiotic, but she'll benefit because conservatives are deciding to be "woke" snowflakes about trans people
Credentials: I have fenced since 2009, I am a certified fencing referee, and I unfortunately know this woman
me on days when i’m in the lab doing gruesome medical experiments on human subjects
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If I was a billionaire for a day I truly only would be a billionaire for less than a day because I would be doing an anti-Mr beast challenge of “how fast can I spend 1 billion dollars” because the only moral way to be a billionaire is to then hot-potato your way out of being a billionaire as fast as possible by giving away to worthy causes. I’d become reverse Elon Musk and buy Tumblr to hire all the staff back and threaten to rename it “Y” for the bit. I would set the world record for blowing a billion dollars in under 5 hours and giving to every fundraiser on this entire site and it would be worth every penny