dragonsthough101

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touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know

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pls reblog and put your answer/team in the tags i’m trying to see something

#hockey #tumblr polls

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literally. THE guy of all time. no one else is even close.

#PK Subban #hockey

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For the most part, my approach to prescribing hormones is “sure,” but I will note that the one thing I lean HARD on patients about is smoking. If you’re transgender, and you’re on hormones, the number one thing we want to protect is your cardiovascular health. That’s frankly the number one thing I want to protect in all my patients, but anyone taking exogenous hormones is at higher baseline risk. And the best thing you can do for your heart is DON’T SMOKE. It’s a bitch to quit, and I didn’t even smoke much or long before I quit in my late teens, and I STILL didn’t enjoy quitting and had smoking dreams for years. It’s harder to quit than just about anything else up to and including crack and heroin, and that’s coming from a patient of mine who recently passed in her early 60s who’d done all of those things—for years and years—but eventually was able to quit everything except smoking. And that killed her. She developed severe COPD and eventually called to say her blood oxygen saturation was dipping into the 70s, which is incompatible with life. She was lucid enough to decline medical care, including refusing to call 911 or go to the ER. A week later, after both I and one of our outreach nurses had contacted her to ask her to please go to the ER, I got a notification that she’d been found dead. She had been so frustrated that she wasn’t a candidate for a lung transplant.

One of my oldest trans patients is in her late 50s. She’s had blood clots that went to the lungs. Repeatedly. Smoking raises that risk. Estrogen raises that risk. She’s a veteran with PTSD; of course she smoked.

These aren’t theoretical. These are humans I’ve cared for over years of their lives. I have been rooting for them—my beloved former addict, who spoke without shame about her years of homelessness and drug use in the city; my queer elders, who are slowly trading in their motorcycles for power scooters. I want everyone to live their fullest, best life.

Smoking doesn’t fit into that. Please don’t smoke. I don’t want you to die like that—not now and not later. I want you to have the future that you may not be able to see yet, but exists.

Since I moved home as an out queer, word got out, and there’s a whole apartment complex of lesbians in their 60s to their 80s who come see me—sitting next to their wives in the office, nagging about blood pressure meds, tattling about not having gotten the shingles shot they said they would. To be clear, when I was growing up in town, I knew no lesbians. Not one. I knew one gay kid in my class, which eventually turned into two. We were it. To see these women living decades with their wives and being able to squabble like any couple in my office over who was supposed to bring their home blood pressure cuff in for us to check it… it means the world to me.

#smoking #death tw #interesting #trans folks #LGBTQIA+

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

#reblog meme

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359: Sure, play another song. I've got nothing better to do.

( 6/? ) x.

#fuck #Linus Ullmark #Jeremy Swayman #hockey #Boston Bruins #edit #poetry

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"I guess we're gonna play seven games and things are gonna happen" thanks quinn

#Quinn Hughes #Vancouver Canucks #hockey

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He has this great huge smile that is contagious. I love when he comes in with that smile because it makes everyone around him feel better.

—Team Slovakia Coach Craig Ramsey about Juraj

Cole Caufield is a pleasure to be around. He's got that big smile on his face all the time.

—Play-by-play announcer Bryan Mudryk about Cole

😊😄😁😆

—Cole + Juraj, Montreal Canadiens Team USA + Team Slovakia, IIHF World Championship

#Cole Caufield #Juraj Slafkovský #2024 IIHF Worlds #gifset #hockey

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i wish all my beloved followers and mutuals a very “you find a fic that has the exact premise and characterization you’ve always wanted to see but never had the energy to write yourself and it’s really good and just as long as you want to read”

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fictional characters........head in hands

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i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

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The Gathering of Bastards, Romeo Oriogun

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my life, i will not waste it, i will enjoy this life (Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”)

#Vancouver Canucks #Arturs Silovs #hockey #poetry #edit

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Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️

#reblog meme

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Beautiful red hen made out of chicken wire by Helen Godfrey Wire Sculpture i have seen this shared around chicken pages on facebook.

I really liked this hen so i went to the artists page and I am floored at the skill and beauty of these sculptures. Anyone who has built anything with the help of chicken wire knows that it is not an easy material to work with but this artist is able to make very realistic organic shapes with it. I love the softness, i love the wire people and how the wild birds use them as perches.

Mother duck with duckling

Runner beans, they are so funny and whimsical

Sculptures about to go to their new home, the hare and owl are amazing and the guineas look just like the real thing lol

A beautiful barn owl

A cute little wren

The wire women. I love how soft their curves are

Im so thankful that i got to see this artists work its so sweet.

Here is her store page but i dont think she has any new sculptures up yet.

#art #beautiful

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#frogs #art #beautiful

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can't do this one as a poll bc there's endless choices but if you're in college/university or went to college/university what's been the most fun/enriching class you've had?

#for the purposes of this post I’m not counting anything that I did for my actual major #so probably I’d say either the Fantasy and Science Fiction class I took that was taught by a female Pakistani professor of Islamic studies #or the class I took about scriptures taught by a Jewish professor (funnily enough with a guest lecture by said professor of Islam) #I didn’t actually have a religion major or anything I just tried to take interesting classes