#One More Dorei

[6lostgirl6]

Hi!! I was wondering if I could request a poly! Lost Boy's with a female s/o (or gender neutral) who has a southern accent? Like it's real hick and definitely not native to California slang? I think that would be hilarious 🤣 if you don't mind writing this! Thank you and have an awesome day! 🥰💗

Poly!Lost Boys With a Southern S/O

Tw: none

With this, I kind of imagine a southern reader that moved to Santa Carla from a young age that their accent kind of faded, however whenever they’re irritated or not thinking much about it, the accent slips back out. However, your slang never left. 

You were talking about your day before visiting them and you said something like, Hunkey Dorey which literally means everything was great and the boys were super confused, except David.

That’s when you told them that you were originally from the South and said a few things with your accent slipping through. 

Paul was the most surprised out of the boys and was like, “what the fuuuck?”

Marko would react with something like, “Woah, I didn’t know you were southern?? That’s so cool!”

Dwayne would give you a smile and tell you he thought your accent was super cute. 

David basically was like, “Oh damn-” 

I headcanon that David would have a southern accent too which also faded away over the unlimited amount of time that he has. 

Plus, Paul used to tease his accent constantly so David basically went, “yeah, no.” and that accent went straight out the door.  

Paul would constantly tease your accent and say stupid shit like, “yeehaw.” You’re not amused. 

Furthermore, Paul would bug you about saying something in your accent and hear the difference in the way you say things in comparison to California slang.

If you feel a little self-conscious about your accent, well guess what? David would start talking to you in a southern accent too. It kind of slips out of him because it just reminds him of the old times before he was a vampire. Plus, he doesn’t want you to feel out of place. 

He would feel more comfortable that someone else shares the same accent as him and would open up a little more in letting his accent slip on occasion. 

David would use old pet names he used when he would flirt with people back when he was human and they don’t fail to fluster you.

Those pet names would include; Doll, Darlin, and that accent would make those names sound even sweeter with that teasing smirk on his face. 

He would also compare southern slang with you and see which ones were still being used in the South. He’s really surprised that some phrases that he knew were still commonly practiced. 

Dwayne could listen to you talk in your southern accent and wouldn’t get tired of it. He already knew some slang because of David but he liked hearing more common slang that current southerners say. 

Since Dwayne loves to read and he has read some romance that resided in the South and he would call you sweet things like his Southern Belle. 

Marko would happily ask you some questions and how you felt about how different California was compared to where you used to live in the south.

Don’t trust him completely though, he will also tease you along with Paul. He’s still the mischievous vampire we know and love.

#the lost boys 1987 #tlb 1987 #the lost boys #poly!lost boys x reader #poly!tlb x reader #david the lost boys #david tlb #dwayne the lost boys #dwayne tlb #paul the lost boys #paul tlb #marko the lost boys #marko tlb #the lost boys headcanon #headcanons #southern reader #g/n!reader #keifer sutherland #billy wirth #brooke mccarter #alex winter

[kyuusei-shadowleaf]

Lessons in Darnassian #319

“Anato'dorei”

Literal: "Child of Parts" or "Fragmented Child". Child or "Dorei," in this context, refers to the elvish peoples and not literal children.

Colloquial: While children of mixed unions are not common, half-elven children have existed for thousands of years - more commonly among the Thalassian elves (quel'dorei and sin'dorei) than among the notoriously reclusive and often xenophobic (until recent decades) kaldorei.

Anato'dorei is among the more polite and accepting ways to refer to a person of mixed elvish heritage, although it can still easily be an insult with the right (or wrong) intonation and context. The term, like several others, is used both in Darnassian and Thalassian languages.

Additional Notes:

There are several more insulting terms for half-elves, some considered profane or worthy of a challenge from the insulted party. Two notable examples include voril'dorei ("Ruined Child") and anre'vor ("Broken Kin"). Neither is considered acceptably polite in any context, and there are records of challenges issued and accepted - duels to first blood or even to the death - when such an insult was given.

Indeed, one might note that anato'dorei spoken of in tales are often described as powerful, heroic, or accomplished.

They are the ones who lived.

[OOC: Many thanks to the members of the Talah'dorei RP discord for helping workshop this headcanon/fanon, and to the maintainers of the Darnassian Dictionary Project for a wonderful resource of canon and speculation!]

#darnassian #thallasian #headcanon #rp #warcraft #lessons in darnassian

[retrosofa]

We have some interesting bits of trivia this week for Cutie Honey episode 10: “The Castle of Illusion Smothered in Fog.”

Screenwriter: Susumu Takaku

Art Director: Eiji Ito

Animation Director: Takeshi Shirato

Director: Takeshi Shirato

Junpei’s lovey-dovey sleep talk is apparently referencing Chiyo Okumura’s 1969 song, Koi no Dorei or “Slave to Love.”

When Honey holds a mirror to Miharu’s face, she’s so frightened by her own reflection, she runs away screaming for her mother. This gag is actually lifted from the original manga. Honey doesn’t do this to Miharu but rather the hideous gang leader of St. Chapel Academy, Sukeban Naoko. We’ll talk more about Naoko for episode 22’s trivia post.

The animation director for this episode was Takeshi Shirato, who was also heavily involved with Devilman, Mazinger Z and Dororon Enma-kun. Honey’s hunchback disguise is based on the character Demon from Mazinger Z episode 29, which also featured Shirato as the animation director.

You may have noticed Cutter Claw is the one Panther Claw whose name doesn’t reflect any of her powers or abilities. Originally, her hair was supposed to act as a giant pair of scissors. The animation staff probably didn’t want to have two scissor-themed villains in the show and thus Cutter Claw became a shapeshifting illusionist instead.

#cutie honey #cutey honey #go nagai #trivia

[kishiren]

• Dorei-san - slave maid.

Her name comes from the word "Dorei(奴隷)", the Japanese term for "slave" is the most controversial figure in the Nijiura Maid fanbase, Dorei is a slave, despite never actually shown to be "owned" by anyone. •2005/10/17.

• [source material]

She has been trained in all kinds of games by her former master, and because of the drugs used in her life, she is small and resistant to most drugs. She does not menstruate and is unable to bear children. It's been rumored that she was seen during the construction of the pyramids, but it has not been confirmed whether she is the same person or a look-alike (some say she was brought here by Madoi-san who wandered into the past).

She has a older sister of the same name who was separated during childhood. They met but because of the change in her appearance, she does not recognize her as her sister, and they continue to pass each other by to this day.

She is the second graduate of Megaku. There is a theory that there is more than one Dorei-sans seeing that she can be seen anywhere to working with Yakui-san to being a temporary martial arts instructor.

• [appeareance]

She have dark color skin and has black or brown eyes. Her uniform is tattered at the bottom, and varies in colour, usually sticking to a dirty olive green. The other is a brownish color. Her hair is black with a low ponytail tied with a red band.

She wears five shackle cuffs around her neck, wrists, and ankles.

She carries a ankle weight on her left ankle and is owned with abnormal strength due to her hard work. She can remove the iron ball from her foot if she needs to, but if her master tries to remove it, she thinks it will be thrown away.

• [personality]

She has a very stoic and cold personality and always seen with a blank gaze devoid of emotion. She thinks that she is just a thing. Therefore, if her master tries to treat her as a normal person by dressing her up or giving her normal food, she thinks she will be sold.

She is well aware and experienced, and can be trusted with the work of a maid, but her slave-like behavior may cause her to behave in ways that are strange to ordinary people.

Her specialty is stewed offal and beans. Her favorite food is sugar cubes, but given too much she will get overexcited. She is used to eating poor food and digesting nutrients very efficiently.

There are many Kakkous who try to bring back a sincere smile to her face, but none of them have succeeded, because even if they show affection, she takes it as a play. They usually try to bathe her or give her a new outfit or a nice meal, but they need a reason to do so.

She is a strong fighter the uses capoeira, a form of martial arts made by slaves. Because of her broken heart, she may show no mercy even in situations where other maids might take it easy on her.

Sometimes she sings songs from her hometown, but she doesn't talk much about her past and is too afraid to ask questions.

• [controversy]

Dorei's "joke" is being the only dark skin maid being also made into a slave. Overseas (especially westerns) found the character in poor taste due to the racist topic. Because of this her image is not used often and using such is seen as bad taste.

There has been other dark skin maids but not based of different kinds of nationality of people.

Due to the offensive background of her character she has been grouped in with the Inappropriate Maids along with Yakui-san and Shitai-san.

• [note]

Let's remember that nijiura maids do not have canonical articles and everything is a creation of the fandom, and dorei was created in 2005 where racist jokes were not missing.

#2000 #nijiura maids #maidcore #2chan #futaba #futaba channel #dorei san #dorei the maid

[imoanurparentsnames]

"you shouldnt hate your mental health/disability, thats ableist!"

my mental health has ruined my relationships with others. my mental health has made me cry for hours. my mental health has, at some points, made my hate myself. my mental health has made is harder to focus and do what i need to do. my mental health has been the subject of ridicule by others. my mental health has led to some physical health problems. my mental health made me ostracised and lonely for a lot of my life.

my disability partially led to my mental health going downhill. my disability will kill me early. my disability led to a bunch of other physical health problems being more likely for me. my disability is also my mental health (as well as a physical one too). my disability means i literally cannot move countries unless im earning a very good income because the medicine i need costs too much. my disability led to me being suicidal/depressed as a child. my disability makes me tired. my disability meant when i was young i missed a lot of school. my disability ruined my body.

we dont hate YOUR disability/ies or mental health. we hate how society affects it and also the natural consequences of those disorders. stop making everything about YOU. disabilties and mental health issues are not fun or quirky, hating your disability/mh is okay. i hate mine even though it made me who i am. i would still hate it even if society was all hunky dorey and there was no capitalism and more awareness about stuff. i dont hate others for having that disability. i just hate the disability/mh itself.

#imoanurparentsnames #disabled #disability #mental disability #physical disability #adhd #neurodivergent #autism #audhd #diabetic

[cosmic-star-dust]

so i have some thoughts on the state of critical role lately

so. this whole arc of c3 has been getting me thinking, and i just want to get some thoughts down, maybe for the people who also aren't super jazzed about this whole... pc cameo extravaganza that's been going on (obviously, huge spoilers for c3, up to e51)

a few disclaimers:

I love CR. I adore it. I love matt and his storytelling. All of these things are what got me into D&D to begin with. This is not just me shitting on CR or matt for no reason

i haven't seen c1. i don't know if vm have any sort of major standing in the plot. but i'm just not interested in vm, never have been, and, especially after this stint in c3, i can say with confidence that i won't ever be, unfortunately

i have so much respect for matthew mercer. i cannot imagine what it must be like to run this show. these are just my opinions as a fellow storyteller-- i can love the show, and love his work, and still not agree with its narrative structure

now i know i'm in the minority for not particularly enjoying the c1 and c2 cameos that have been happening in the last couple of episodes of c3. i understand that a lot of people love it, and i think that's great! i'm glad you guys enjoy it! i'm just not one of them, and here's why.

first and foremost, it's gatekeepy. i got my friend into CR via c3, and both of us were working on the promise that someone who was brand new to CR could start with c3 with no prior knowledge and be totally fine. but now, they've kind of gone back on that. and listen, i get it. narratives change. characters get introduced. but to have them continuously play such a large role in the narrative is really making it difficult for newer fans of the show, while appealing to the nostalgia of the older ones. this is a tough (and most likely very sensitive) topic, as nostalgia is a very attractive thing to a lot of people. but, at the same time, it robs new fans of creating those meaningful memories of the characters for this campaign, which is just kind of sad, honestly

second, the dependency on c1 and c2 characters is robbing the c3 characters of their own character arcs. now, this one... is a little spicy. i'm sorry-- character arcs are my bread and butter, and this is something i'm quite passionate about. my first irritations with the c1 cameos really goes back to laudna's revival, because, in all honesty, i don't think vm should have (or would have) helped bh from a narrative standpoint. i understand, you don't want to paint your players' former pcs as total assholes, but, by the same token, imagine it was turned around. imagine the members of vm were approached, cold turkey, by a group of random assholes who said their friend just up and died-- when they had already lost their own members. they had already failed to bring someone back. and now, this random group wants to bring back their friend who is carrying the spirit of one of their greatest enemies of all time? the dependency on the c1 characters really started here, imo, because matt showed the players that, yes, no matter how outlandish the request, they could just ask a few favors of some of the highest-ranking individuals in tal dorei, and everything would be hunky-dory.

but imagine a narrative where vm refused. imagine a narrative where vm antagonized the group. imagine a narrative where they had to continue on without laudna-- the trauma that would inflict upon the group, upon imogen, upon orym. imagine a narrative where keyleth told orym that he can't keep depending on her help every time they face a battle they can't win. imagine a narrative where bh and vm were enemies. but, no, now the c3 characters are essentially acting as little more than lackeys and frontmen for vm... and, narratively, it's just kind of... lackluster, and, unfortunately, disappointing (and i hate saying that, trust me).

now. with e51, especially. imagine a narrative where these characters, who are believed to be essentially invincible at this point... died. beau, caleb, keyleth. imagine they died because of bh's insistence that they help them. imagine the character arcs that could have come out of keyleth's death alone. if they had to face the consequences of their actions, and lost favor with vm because of keyleth's death, or orym had to abandon the air ashari because of it, or a million other ripples that could rise just from that scene alone. i love happy endings, don't get me wrong, but i also don't want it just handed to characters in a narrative. a happy ending is much more fulfilling when one has to work for it.

but now, it more feels like these characters have stagnated, and aren't actually developing on their own anymore. and i really noticed it as soon as they got vm's help with laudna's revival. it's just... a shame, honestly. i was really excited, and really hopeful, but now it's becoming an obligation to watch episodes, especially since i don't care about vm. even beau and caleb being there is like... fine, whatever, i guess it makes sense, but i would much rather have people who work with them rather than beau and caleb, themselves (and i love those two goofballs!). think of other members of the cobalt soul, or just other agents, in general. there are so many opportunities for other npcs to come in and be their allies, and it's a shame that they're just recycling old materials instead of coming up with something new.

this is not, by any means, all matt's fault, or a result of bad storytelling, or anything. there are certain players that are equally as responsible for nostalgia pandering. and i get it, you're excited to see what your old pcs are up to, and how they're doing, but, if that was the case, then just play a c1/c2 reunion campaign, as they have in the past. as far as what could be done now... it would honestly just be matt putting his foot down, and having the old pcs say "no, we're not helping you. you need to figure it out on your own." they're busy people in canon, after all!

i could go on and on (i already have), but, ultimately... if you don't like the pc cameos that have been happening, you're not alone. if you're disappointed by the narrative as it stands right now, you're not alone. as someone who loves cr, and wants to be a fan of this arc so badly, i get it. i just want these characters to stand on their own again.

#critical role #critical role c3 spoilers #c3 spoilers #sorry if i step on any toes for this one #i try to keep my opinions to myself but this has been gnawing at me

[thewriterowl]

So I just finished reading Blooms for the first time...and man what a roller-coaster of feels to say the least.

I know this didn't happen, and wouldn't have happened but how would it go if after Luke killed Palpatine he went full on villain mode unwilling to listen to or trust his husband, and dad? If he had turned to them and told them that if they ever cross him again, Palpatine's death would look merciful in comparison to what he would do to them? With bright golden eyes and an emotionless expression.

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I will forever believe that he forgave everyone way too easily, and that nobody really had to do anything to get him back. That they didn't have to fight for him, and while I tried to see it from their perspective, and while yes I do understand why they felt the way they did and that they changed their minds...I have a strong belief that actions speak louder than words...and unfortunately their actions says to me that Luke isn't a priority to them, or at least a main one.

I mean his own father and husband decided to watch videos of Luke being tortured instead of rushing to his rescue, Like both of them would have undoubtedly have done for others. But no...they decided to wait, until Luke snapped. Only then did they hurry.

They all took him for granted again, and again assuming that since they changed their minds about him it should all be honkey dorey. He was treated like a second class citizen, literally nobody cared about him and I don't see many people trying to apologize to him either.

He didn't deserve any of that, and it's a shame that nobody is willing to put in much effort to make it right. And that they all just want Luke to just move on.

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So that leads to my next question...just how are the mandalorians going to make it right when they see Luke again? After all he did sacrifice himself for them despite them being so cruel to him.

Will they apologize or try to brush it off like it's nothing? Would they shower him with gifts? And give him flowers? Would the children hug him?

I'm really curious about how the citizens all feel about this whole situation, their consort sacrificed his life for them, and the next time they see him he's missing an arm and is unconscious.

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I did really enjoy the fic overall, I just wish that Din and Anakin had to grovel a bit, and work a bit before Luke was willing to give them a second chance. Cuase he definitely deserves to have someone fight for him. And truth be told, he deserves way better than anything they could ever hope to give him.

I'm sorry I just kinda want someone to yell at Anakin, and Din...hell all of Mandalor for being idiots, but nobody is going to do that, cause the only people who love Luke to that extent are all dead. Jeez....Luke really is all alone, only surround by the people who took him for granted and continued to hurt him.

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Hello! I am glad that you found Blooms and took the time read it! Sorry it took me so long to respond to your ask!

I just don't see Luke doing that. he wouldn't torture them or even threaten anything like that. Going Dark wouldn't mean he would've gone full blown evil. If he did go Sith, he would just reject them. He'd want to wipe hands clean of them like he was tempted to do in the end. If he had turned, there would've been no second chances. He would've just been done. He'd had no hope and no more affection to give or try to receive from them. Instead of hate, he'd done them worse by just turning off his emotions and being apathetic. He wouldn't bother to care any more. They wouldn't even be in his heart to hate.

To be fair, they literally couldn't leave--and that was a driving force in why they watched the videos. Both were emotional and about to go when they had to be reminded that if they do in the state they were in, they'd probably get Luke killed along with thousands, if not millions, of others. BUT, that is something that haunts them because of their power and skills they probably could've snuck off to start the mission a few hours earlier than what they did. They were stuck and they are haunted by that, as they should be. Luke did forgive them a little easy and part of that also really hurts them because he stole a bit of their power away. He decided what he wanted to do and gave them a line they can no longer cross or he's gone. The forgiveness was 100% for Luke, not for them. But they are willing to do whatever is necessary to help support him--they just need reminders that what they think is right or healthy may not be the case and may be more selfish of them.

I probably should've done more groveling. I 100% concede to that. It needed far more groveling over all. It's some of my favorite tropes and i didn't do enough of it. I will admit to that and apologize cause Luke deserved better. But Blooms could have more short-stories added to it in the future (like I did the sexy times fic) I wouldn't be opposed to that one day. Maybe another little story with a more focus on the others (Din and Anakin included) and it is more about them and what they need to do since the end of Blooms was more about Luke finding his own voice and comfort.

You're all good! You are more than welcomed here to share your thoughts and ideas and wants! it's always fun to hear about! And for Blooms, which has been completed for a while, it makes me excited to hear people finding it and having interest in it and sharing things about it is always super fun and exciting! I also agree with more groveling cause I made Luke suffer hard through Blooms, no lie lol

#owl inbox #bloomsday

[turojo]

gio moment tell me about one of your favorite threads! it can be something you played with this muse or any other, follow your ♥

OOugh,,where do I begin — lemme shout a few that occupy my mind rn.

edit: this got so long so slippy under a cut it goes:

last complete thread with @lvsamine. I like exploring his relationships before SCARVIO on people he's met and worked with possibly. This is a sort of break in his melancholy; recognizing and being comfortable with someone who knows him for his work rather then ... uh, you know. There's literal changes in his demeanor from light returning to his tired eyes and getting excited over working with Lusamine and Aether on a big project.

And it's also the start of a shift in his story too.

Throughout the blog he's been teetering between "being good": recapturing escaped paradox pokemon, reluctantly remeeting people in Paldea, slowly taking on actual regional professor duties, and rebuilding the Poco lab to keep track of the Crater from above. But he's also very solemn and withdrawn.

But then there's moments of excitement, of going through efforts to get work done, explore and build something....granted this all happens during temptations. His mind strays from staying out of pathways that quickly get him into trouble. He gets so excited sometimes he doesnt see or even care that what hes doing is going to hurt him or someone else in the end. It's very easy to fall back into comfortable, malign habits.

Talking with Lusamine, remembering and feeling invigorated by all the work he did and the things he discovered ... he questions if its worth forcing himself into a comfortable and safe box to appease people is worth it when he feels so much better "breaking boundaries and discovering impossibilities" people are going to be scared of and that's their problem. But he forgets ya know...Arven, the son he left behind and like...all the destruction his "happiness and well being" selfishly takes.

He's always cusping a villain arc or good direction and I love seeing wherever it goes as more plots and interactions come by ; >c

v. paradox verse in particular, the whole “hey Sada used the Time Machine to yoink Turo from a point in time before he gets mauled so things are hunky dorey again but oops, it’s a lot more complicated then that and there’s emotions all over” deal

There’s several threads with nox/ @prosada that I love but in particular the thread where Turo is completely existential on him being here. He’s having a hard time trying to step back into a husband/father role like nothings happened. Arven is very indifferent with him as expected which causes Arven and Sada to get into a lot of arguments Turo of course overhears cause hey its a small lighthouse-house and he has ears. So Turo being Turo turns to absolute truths like physics and numbers and equations when he can’t emotionally deal with something. And what do you know…! It definitely spells out he should be dead and it’s very unnatural he’s here and it’s putting everything off. He takes this as a certain and gets really distant and sad and quiet. He doesn’t belong here and maybe he and Sada could never naturally stay together in any timeline.

But Sada comes in, smacks that idea out of his head cause it’s silly. She literally shattered expectations and literal laws of physics, time and reality itself to change that to get him back.

Can you believe he’s loved so much that someone literally became a momentary God to change the fabric of reality itself? Just for him?? For their family??? No matter how dysfunctional??? Cause he didn’t until he realizes it and does a 180 in perspective and it!! Just makes him so happy and so awestruck and --

I JUST REREAD IT ON OCCASION…ON THE REALLY BAD DAYS…STILL GET EMOTIONAL OVER IT….

Okay both have really good writing and reaaallly good grasps on their characters too hh.

There's like several other threads I have in mind too but this got ridiculously long; might have to make a new post sometime.

#ooc. » .001 ✦ #infernalpursuit #I hate this man-- #but love both muns hiiii hiiiii #thanks gio ; > might have to do this for my other blogs too LMAO

[polyamanga]

Thank you as always for the recommendations! I was at a con for the last several days so they piled up a little lol!

1) Looking up Joujuu Senjin!! Mushibugyou on MyAnimeList to get a summary actually led me to this list of titled "Real Harem Series", which is dedicated to canon harem endings! A lot of the recs I've gotten on this blog are listed there, with a few I don't recognize. Exciting!!

In Feudal Japan, the people of Edo are under siege by giant insects that ravage the land. The people desperately beg the government to do something about it. Thus the Insect Magistrate Office is established, gathering strong warriors to defend against the onset of pests. Joujuu Senjin!! Mushibugyou follows Jinbee Tsukishima, a young man striving to be a master swordsman like his father. To atone for a horrific incident that occurred at his fault, Jinbee seeks to take his father's place as a member of the Insect Magistrate Office. On his journey there, he meets the lovely Haru, a young woman who helps manage her family's tea house, and is forced to put his sword to good use in saving her from a grisly fate. This act of bravery that earns him a spot in the Insect Magistrate. Will this rookie exterminator be able to rid the land of the horde of insects swarming in?

2) That's interesting! I know little to nothing about Disgaea, it's something that's been in the background of my life for a long long time, but I've never even seen any gameplay for it lol. I'd love to learn more about these three, if you'd like to elaborate, anon!

3) Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu (or How NOT To Summon A Demon Lord in English) is licensed by Seven Seas in the US for the manga, and J-Novel Club in the US for the light novels.

An elite but socially-stunted gamer finds himself in another world, inhabiting the body of his character Diablo. Despite his powers, his awkwardness keeps getting in the way, so he decides to pretend to be a Demon Lord and soon finds himself with a pair of slaves: a well-endowed elf and a cat girl. Together, they struggle with everything from interpersonal relationships to diabolical beast battles.

4) Hazure Hantei kara Hajimatta Cheat Majutsushi Seikatsu (Cheat Magician Life That Started From Being Judged Useless) doesn't seem to have a ton of information about it in my normal sources! It doesn't have much of a page on MAL--I guess maybe because it's pretty recent? It also doesn't seem to be licensed in English, but there is a fan translation!

One day, all the students in the second grade of junior high school were transferred to another world. The princess of another world summoned them to make up for the lack of strength. Students who are threatened and decide to follow the princess are given a magical check to check their abilities. While everyone was sorted according to the results, the results of Kento Kokubun's judgment were missing. I was banished because it was judged to be useless. However, there is actually a terrible ability hidden in Kento … Kento, a second-year middle-aged student of life-size, aims to rescue his classmates with his fellow skeleton

#asks #anonymous #recommendations

[k00280489]

Exhibition space

For my space, I'm located in Studio 3 and this was my first time displaying more then one piece in this sort of setting. I played around with the placement of the pieces and I think I could have done a better job with the prints and wire pieces. Would have been better if they were spaced out a bit more and I would have made sure they were more level and straight

I think it's important to exhibit the work because it's hard to tell the scale of some of the pieces from just the photos of them by themselves .

The wire lip gloss is not a piece I like all that much but I felt like I had to add it because I spent so much time on it. But I dont think it looks great with all the other pieces.

I did like the wire and ceramic hunky doreys a lot and I think they fit well and worked well with my other pieces like the ceramic Bueno wrapper and the drypoint print I did of the hunkey doreys.

[artificialqueens]

I Love You, Professor (Biadore) - Bogozbinted

A/N: i wrote this at 2am. enjoy you freaks

Hellooo, is anyone home?” 

Bianca waved her hand in front of her younger student’s lost face, as usual they weren’t paying attention at the slightest. She had to deal with dumb, moody teenagers all day, it was her entire career after all. But something about Adore was different, in a way that couldn’t be explained.

“Huh? Oh, soz…”

Adore kept her head tilted, their posture still slouched and uninterested. She was relying on no more than 3 hours of sleep, plus recovering from a shitty break up with her boyfriend. She was bored, too busy focusing on the relationships in her life instead of studying 18th century European music, not the most exciting topic ever…

They started eyeing the older woman as she continued to teach the rest of the class. From her long curly ginger hair to her black heels; Adore just couldn’t take her eyes off her. Was it the sleep depravity or the weed? Who knows, but Adore definitely knew what she wanted in that specific moment - her music professor.

Their eyes were glued on her. She had a more mature, fuller frame. Adore had never been with a woman before, especially not one twice their age. Usually she would just whore herself out to random men. But, something about their emotions towards this woman was so timid and shy. She was practically flustered, just sitting there thinking about her teacher fully clothed. Her dark tights gripped her curvy legs, complemented with a fitting leather pencil skirt, hugging her wide hips. Adores leg began bouncing like mad, as if she was an excited dog. 

Her body was naturally slender and tall, despite being on estrogen for 2 years she wasn’t very shaped but it was usually good enough. They liked being manhandled, but she had never thought about being with another woman. They couldn’t stop thinking about their pale body being held and groped by h-

“Sleepyhead, it’s been 20 minutes and your pen hasn’t even grazed your paper. Can you stay after class so we can talk?”

Fuck. Adore felt as if she’d just been caught in the act. She was just tired on a Tuesday afternoon and not in the mood (for class at least). They would usually try in school, however after a decade or so of it, you get quite bored. She was 18, they could drive, drink, the last place they wanted to be was a classroom. And as people packed their bags and chattered down the corridor, Adore’s paper was still completely blank besides some accidental scribbles.

“C’mon sweet, come sit next to me.”

Bianca gestured and pulled out a stool next to her, she was used to the horrific squeak of the furniture against the hard floors. Adore slowly dragged herself, asif she was a corpse, towards the stool.

“Somethings clearly bothering you. I hope you’re just tired and sober, ‘cuz I would hate to see you throw away your education like this, Dorey.”

“No, no, it’s not that.” The younger girl rubbed her eyes, almost sweating at the thought of how close they were to her sexy professor. “I just, y'know, broke up with my boyfriend and I don’t even, like, know how I feel…”

“Hmm, sweetie,” Bianca put her hand on their shoulder, rubbing it soothingly . “I don’t really know how I can help. That’s not really any of my business as your tea-”

“Maybe you could give me extra tutoring?” Adore blurted out, in a heated rush

“Hah, did you make all that up so you could ask me that?” 

“No, I’m just too tired to think.”

“The usual. I think the library will be empty Thursday after school, I’ll meet you then, okay?”

Adore nodded while grabbing their stuff sloppily, turning towards the door. 

“Oh, and when you’re staring at my tits, make it a little less obvious next time.”

Bianca smirked as she watched her student rush out in embarrassment. She had always liked Adore differently to the others. They were just a quiet stoner, but their passion for music seemed more genuine compared to everyone else in the class. Maybe getting off with them wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, infact, she was kind of into it. She’d been fantasising about it for a long time and she had finally found the perfect opportunity.

-> time skip because I’m lazy lolz  <-

Thursday came quickly, neither girl could stop thinking about each other. Bianca didn’t go into work, she told the office she had gone to a different school to examine their techniques. She spent her entire day preparing to meet her student, as if it was a date. Well, basically it was.  

Despite how hard she tried to oppress it, she really enjoyed spending time with Adore. Thinking about the witty banter they would exchange in their classes every other day kept her going. She had a big house she inherited, but no one to share it with. Maybe her favourite student was perfect for the job?

Adore threw on her usual baggy trousers and hoodie. Despite beginning her transition 3 years ago, they never really had an interest in hyper femininity. They had a few slutty lingerie sets laying around, but that’s pretty much a set expectation for any woman in her prime. She obviously wanted to set a good impression in her fashion, however there’s no point when the clothes are just gonna end up on the floor. She wandered out the house, taking only her phone and airpods. The library was only in the city centre, a 15 minute walk from Adore’s trashy flat. The perfect amount of time to think about her actions and how she’s gonna behave.

“You’re on time, that’s new.” Bianca said, leaning into the girl to give her a small motherly kiss on the cheek. 

“I just wanted to see you, that’s all” 

“It’s sweet when you put effort in.”

The library was completely empty. After all it was a late Thursday afternoon, fairly dark outside. Even Bianca wasn’t really in the mood for education, she just needed an excuse, a cover up, to get closer to Adore. She plopped her bag on the wooden table, pulling out a thick leather-bound book.

“Here baby, these books have most of the notes in. Can you just copy them up for me?” She said, playing with the other girls’ brunette hair.

Adore nodded, whimpering slightly. She felt her professor’s warm hands travel up and down her thighs. Fuck. She has clearly done this with someone else before, the young girl had never seen anyone tease with this much skill. They bit down on their pen, cracking it slightly, trying to muffle her soft moans. By now, Bianca had fully unzipped her students’ jeans and had her hands gently massaging Adore’s ever growing bulge. She began grinding on her lover’s hand, still pretending to seem interested in her music work. 

“Sweetheart, you haven’t written anything down yet.”

Adore let out a loud moan, she couldn’t help herself. She had never been teased so viciously in her entire life. Noone had ever focused on pleasuring them specifically, without benefit involved. Bianca’s touch was so aggressive in nature, yet so timid and loving towards Adore specifically. To think that her strict, well dressed music teacher was currently jerking her off in a public library was sending her brain further into overload. 

“Ple-please, suck me off please.” 

Adore whispered, their entire body tense. Their breathing became more vigorous as the gentle pace of the jerking slowed down.

“I don’t think you’ve done enough work baby.” 

She worked her way down her students sensitive neck, leaving predominant purple bruises. Adore advanced her hands down the older woman’s blouse, squeezing her tits softly. Their cock started throbbing even harder. The risk of being caught, turned them both on to an extreme, combined with the nature of their ‘taboo’ relationship: Adore was set to cum any minute now. She pulled Bianca’s head from her butchered neck and to her lips. They could hardly keep their lips and hands off each other. 

“Fuuck…” 

Adore squirted cum up her lover’s shirt and all over her hands. Drawing her in for one final sloppy kiss. Reality had finally sunk in for both of them - had they just really done this in a public library. No actual progress was made in furthering her failing education, but it was still the most productive studying she had ever done in her life.

“I love you, professor.”

#rpdr fanfiction #adore delano #bianca del rio #biadore #smut #lesbian au #trans character #student/teacher #college au #bogozbinted #concrit welcome

[meili-sheep]

(i cant spell at all so ignore the nicknames for il dottory and anything else lmao)

meili_sheep, the chilucer supreme, after the 3.1 demo, i started thinking. now i am not a very clever guy and cannot think for long periods of time but i got a brainworm and it wont leave me alone so now youve to deal with it too.

il dottory, the weird lil guy that he is, clones himself every year ya? but what it he cloned someone else... 👀

picture this, diluc gets captured during his trip to shnez by the funky doctor guy and he see that not only does diluc wield a dillusion with no (major/notable at least) issues and he also knows that diluc has a vision, which isnt on him (cause like, one of the clones interacted with di in the manga when he had a vision on him (i think anyways, might be misremembering that)) that also doesnt seem to affect him so instead of dorey being a good loyal harbinger and bringing him to the big icy woman, he clones diluc 2 times, one to send to The Cryo Lady™ and the other to send to Mondstad.

i dont have any idea what to do with this little brainrot but all i know is that

1) potential to make a load of chiluc angst eg. good ol tartaglitits finds out about dr crime and watchs experiments and maybe he says, "hey fuck it why not join in? could be fun" and sometime during that luc says something about kaeya referring to him as his big brother ((kaeya bigger brother, cant pry that from my cold dead hands)) and child(e) feels stupid guilt about whats been happening to luc cause ✨family ✨ and they become jailbreak bfs or smth idk.

and to

2) hurt diluc at the same time! (i love him but he needs to suffer, he too much like me fr).

im not a writer so i need other ppl to work with me on this one please i am begging this concept wont leave me alone lmao.

(if i ever come back to annoy you with more of my brain ideas ill sign off as "🌙🫀" :) )

Meili underscore Sheep the Chilucer Supreme.

I also want to make that my Twitter bio.

Anyway. I actually do like this idea quite a bit. I had an idea a while back about Diluc being captured and brainwashed to be a Harbringer. Childe who had fought with Diluc before his captures, hates this new Diluc because he'd admired the old Diluc. He admired the wild passion and the fiery strength and with this new Diluc. All of that was gone. So Childe was secretly trying to break Diluc free. And I can see a similar angle here. When Childe finds Diluc trapped by Dottore.

Maybe even finding Diluc in a delusion state and Diluc called out for his big brother.

And Childe is instantly hit with guilt cause... that could be his little bother. So again that combined with knowing how firy Diluc was before Childe sets to getting ride of the Diluc Clones and breaking free the real Diluc.

#tw: brainwashing #Diluc #Diluc Ragnvindr #Diluc Genshin Impact #Childe #Childe Genshin Impact #Tartaglia #Ajax #Ajax Genshin Impact #Chiluc #Diluc x Childe #Childe x Diluc #il dottore #dottore

[clichenuance]

had top surgery today, back home safe and sound :) report: little bit of leakage bleeding on the left lower side adjacent to the sternum, but that has been re-padded/addressed.

right side is.. pleasantly, surprisingly, just hunky-fucking-dorey. Earnestly so. there is no pain, no discomfort, no through-bleeding (yet). it is only the left side that is throwing a bit of a tantrum, with 2-3 specific spots of discomfort (which have to do with wearing the medical binder; whenever i wore regular binders before, it was Always the ribs on my left side that popped/ached) that oscillate/switch out, one of which being in the region of my armpit. i’ll just have to be sure to ghost-duct-tape that arm to my side and be a little more right-handed than usual.

other than that, it was.. an entirely pleasant and fulfilling experience. my left shoulder has a nerve ache like they cut something while flattening me down, but my ma assures me that that will dim down and go away. i have a water bottle, coffee, lemonade, and powerade at my side, and i’ve just taken 1000 mg of tylenol. the ICU nurse that did my IV was very pleasant and understanding of my having questions, the anesthesiology nurses who were there when I woke up enjoyed my cheesy medical jokes, and gave me ice chips to chew on because of post-intubation sore throat (and also i just like ice chips). no drain tubes to contend with, thank g-d. just.. a normal, sleepy day.

oh! and also! just because you can Feel your legs and feet, does Not mean that they aren’t dead weight. so be careful of that.

#clichenuance text #clichenuance talks to a wall #top surgery #post-op same day #i think i'll be trying to go the way of gendercube with these sort of logs #he was the one who inspired me the most about this actually. i appreciate him. wherever he is

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Dorey Scheimer, Meghna Chakrabarti and Tim Skoog

Published: May 8, 2024

Puberty blockers and hormones are sometimes used to help gender-distressed children.

But a new groundbreaking review from the UK says the science behind that practice is far from settled.

"The studies that the team looked at, well the quality was disappointingly poor, none of them really effectively reproduced results in seeing improvements in mental health," Dr. Hilary Cass, the review's author, said.

Today, On Point: Dr. Hilary Cass gives her first U.S. broadcast interview.

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PART I

MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: In April, a long-awaited report from Britain's National Health Service concluded that for most gender-distressed young people, quote, "A medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their distress," end quote. That is the result of an almost four-year long, 388-page systematic review of all available studies on the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones in adolescents.

The report is called the "Cass Review: An independent review of gender identity services for children and young people." It was commissioned by Britain's National Health Service, and it found that the evidence base for medicalized treatment of adolescent gender distress was quote, "Inadequate and poor."

This comes as the number of young people seeking clinical help for gender distress continues to grow. And unlike a decade or two ago, most of these people are adolescent natal girls. Many often suffer from concurrent mental health issues or autism. Dr. Hilary Cass led the review. She's one of the UK's most respected pediatricians and former chair of the British Academy of Childhood Disability and former president of the Royal College of Pediatricians and Child Health.

She granted On Point her first U.S. broadcast interview. You'll hear responses from American clinicians later in the show. But first, to the Cass interview. I began by asking Dr. Cass to describe what her team's review found regarding the quality of medical evidence for using puberty blockers in gender-distressed young people.

HILARY CASS: The quality was disappointingly poor. One of the significant reasons is that they just didn't follow up for long enough, particularly for young people who were taking masculinizing and feminizing hormones. Another problem is that many of the studies didn't take account of the fact that this is a really, what we call heterogeneous, so a mixed population of young people who were very different from each other.

And that population has changed in recent years, from predominantly birth registered boys presenting quite early, to predominantly birth registered girls presenting in the teenage years. Now, within that group are young people with autism, there are young people who may have other complex mental health issues.

There are young people who may have had a series of traumatic events in early childhood. So you can't take the results of how somebody does if they are presenting as a child, and have had consistent long-term gender incongruence from say, when they were four or five. They may not have the same response to medication as somebody who is presenting considerably later.

So you can't put all of these young people into the same treatment group and say they're all going to respond in exactly the same way to this kind of approach.

CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So more specifically then, in the systematic review of studies relating to the use of puberty blockers. We should say that puberty blockers do have quite a well-established evidence base for use in some situations, right?

For example, children with precocious puberty, so they are an accepted treatment for certain things.

CASS: Absolutely right, but it's really important to say that it's a very different thing to take a young person whose hormones are going through the normal increases that you expect to see in puberty. And pausing that. Because during puberty, all sorts of things are going on. Your brain is developing very rapidly. You're developing what's called your executive functioning, which is how you do some complex problem solving, complex judgment abilities, and you're also developing your sexuality. And we just don't know what happens if you put brakes on all of that.

CHAKRABARTI: Specifically, in the review report, there's a discussion that there are claims, actually from quite well-respected bodies, including here in the United States, that providing puberty blockers as a form of treatment and care for gender questioning youth, they're prescribed as treatment because they can alleviate gender dysphoria, they can improve mental health of young people who are genuinely suffering.

Did the review find an evidence base for those goals or aims?

CASS: Okay, so that's a really important question. And the Dutch found that there were some improvements in mental health of those young people, but it didn't affect the dysphoria. In the UK, we attempted to reproduce that using exactly the same approaches as the Dutch.

And disappointingly, the team did not find improvements in mental health. In fact, some young people got worse, some made no changes. And that's the sort of result you might expect from a treatment that's not particularly effective for those outcomes. There may be a group of young people who do have early gender incongruence, for whom this might be the right treatment, particularly that group of birth registered boys who will develop irreversible changes of male puberty.

But just to go back to the systematic reviews, the other studies that the team looked at, none of them really effectively reproduced the Dutch results of seeing robust improvements in mental health.

CHAKRABARTI: To be clear, the report states, quote, that the University of York concluded, and that's the group that did the review.

CASS: That's right.

CHAKRABARTI: That there is insufficient or inconsistent evidence about the effects of puberty suppression on psychological or psychosocial health.

CASS: Correct. And we also have to think about which young people have been receiving puberty blockers, because certainly in the UK, as time has gone on, the young people who were most likely to receive puberty blockers are most commonly aged around 15.

And by 15, obviously, you've gone through most of puberty. So instead of really thinking, okay, how are we going to manage the distress that these young people are feeling? Somehow, we've got locked into puberty blockers as the totemic treatment that young people feel. If they don't get onto puberty blockers, they're not going to get onto a medical pathway.

But actually, there are many different ways in which we can manage distress and anxiety in a 15-year-old that don't involve puberty blockers. And yet we've somehow stopped short of trying those, just because puberty blockers have become so widely believed to be effective.

CHAKRABARTI: This is a really important point that's been brought up by the Cass Review. About did the focus on trying to provide medical forms of therapy perhaps overshadow other forms of care.

CASS: Yes.

CHAKRABARTI: So I want to read to you this is from 2022. And this is from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs, and they stated that, quote, "Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents," end quote.

Now I should say that they're speaking about gender-affirming care overall and not just exclusively medical treatments. But there's a gap there, though, between what seems to be the conclusions of the Cass Review vs. that statement, which is not uncommon from the United States.

CASS: We spoke to young adults directly through the review, and we also had some qualitative research, so some researchers talking to young adults, as well.

And one of the things that they said is, I wish I'd known when I was younger that there were more ways of being trans or expressing my identity than just a binary medical pathway. And so a lot of what the focus of our review has been on is saying, what do we do to help these young people to thrive?

And how do we give them the widest range of options that also don't foreclose for them?

CHAKRABARTI: I just want to recap. So the systematic review found that there's insufficient evidence, or inconclusive evidence, about the effect of puberty blockers on mental and psychosocial health or in the alleviation of gender dysphoria.

There's also the question of, there have been competing claims about whether puberty blockers have negative impact on a young person's bone health.

CASS: Again, those results were inconclusive, and we need to follow people up for much, much longer.

CHAKRABARTI: So, Dr. Cass, one thing that the review notes very clearly at the top is the rapid rise, and actually the exponential rise, in the number of young people, adolescents, in particular, seeking treatment for gender dysphoria.

In fact, you have a chart here that shows that around 2013, 2014, every year, essentially, the numbers spike up higher and it's more, many more adolescent girls. What do you think, or what did the review seem to find in terms of what may be driving that rapid rise?

CASS: That's a really good question.

So we looked at what we understand about the biology, but obviously, biology hasn't changed suddenly in the last 10 years. So then we tried to look at what has changed? And one is the overall mental health of teenage girls in particular, although boys, to some degree. And that may also be driven by social media, by early exposure to pornography and a whole series of other factors that are happening for girls.

It's a tough time to grow up. But secondly, a much more fluid approach to how young people see gender. They see gender much more flexibly than, say, my generation did. So for some young people, gender becomes the main anxiety for them and the way in which they focus their distress. And just as an example, a colleague of mine described a not infrequent sequence of events. Which is a young person comes to clinic, a birth registered female is identifying as male.

And the gender is massive for them. The first thing she may do for that young person is put them on the pill to stop their periods. That's a much more straightforward intervention than puberty blockers. If she's binding her breasts, it's really important that she does it safely. So the nurse in the clinic will show her how to do that safely.

And then often, by the next visit, the distress, the anxiety just ramps down. And the next time they see her, it's not that the dysphoria has gone away, but it's just slipped into the background. And then they can talk about whatever the other things are that are bothering them, which might be sexuality.

It might be an eating disorder. It might be anything else. And over time, they may go on to have a trans identity, or they may decide that the issue was around their sexuality or a series of other issues. Sometimes it just resolves, and they stop seeing all of their distress through that gender lens.

PART II

CHAKRABARTI: You're back with On Point. Let's now continue my conversation with Dr. Hilary Cass.

About cross sex hormones, again, because I'm very focused on understanding the evidence base, right? Or lack thereof.

CASS: Sure.

CHAKRABARTI: Regarding cross sex hormones, the systematic review authors said there is a lack of high-quality research assessing the actual outcomes of cross sex hormones.

CASS: Yes, because we need to follow up for much longer than a year or two to know if you continue to thrive on those hormones in the longer term. And we also need to know, are those young people in relationships? Are they getting out of the house? Are they in employment? Do they have a satisfactory sex life?

What are the things that matter to them, and are they achieving those things?

CHAKRABARTI: So once again, the answer is, we don't know. There's insufficient evidence or poor-quality studies, which aren't enough to make informed guidelines for families and practitioners.

CASS: That's right.

CHAKRABARTI: By the time young people are seeking out help for gender dysphoria, they are quite distressed, right?

And as the report says, "It is well established that children and young people with gender dysphoria are at increased risk of suicide." But then the report adds this, "But suicide risk appears to be comparable to other young people with a similar range of mental health challenges." So first of all, what's the evidence for that?

And why is that important to understand?

CASS: So how do we know if this is down to the gender-related distress? Or is it because they also have an eating disorder, or they're depressed or a whole raft of other issues? And because a majority of these young people have all of these issues, then what you need to do is compare to what the population rates are of suicidality in young people who have all of those other issues, but are not gender questioning.

And that's where you find that the rates are fairly comparable. So we can't say that it is the gender questioning or the gender incongruence that's giving you additional suicide risk. And so the second part is, does the gender-affirming treatment pathway reduce that suicidality? But such data as we have shows that we can't detect a difference in the suicide rates before and after treatment.

CHAKRABARTI: So the systematic review then though really combed over all of the studies essentially that are cited when people say that gender-affirming treatment helps save lives. That's not an overstatement on my part. Because Admiral Rachel Levine, who is the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States, in fact, has said that gender-affirming care is, quote, "Quite literally suicide prevention care."

So I'm sure you've heard similar things in the UK, but the review concluded that in a majority of studies that looked at a reduction in suicidality, the studies report that there was a reduction, but there were problems with those studies in terms of they didn't control for the presence of those psychiatric comorbidities that you talked about. And then there was another study that showed that suicidality and self-harm decreased, but out of the 109 eligible participants, only 11 of them had actually completed the questionnaire on suicidality and self-harm.

CASS: What is the important practical issue here? And that is that we have to provide holistic care for these young people.

And what we need to try and do is pick out young people who we think are at risk and say, what are all the things we need to get in place to support this young person's risk? It may be helping with their eating disorder. It may be that they are in difficult family circumstances. There's a whole raft of things that we may need to think about.

And it's much more important to say on an individual basis, how do we manage this person's risk, than just assuming that gender-affirming care is going to be the answer.

CHAKRABARTI: So Dr. Cass, this brings us back to where we began. And that is, you and the independent review team undertook the world's largest systematic review of all of the evidence and studies related to care for gender dysphoric or gender-questioning young people.

It's interesting to me that the world's largest and most influential body that provides guidance for trans care, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, in their most recent standards of care document, they said that the number of studies is still low and there are few outcome studies that follow youth into adulthood.

Therefore, a systematic review regarding outcomes of treatment in adolescence is not possible. Yet, is that not what the Cass Review did? A systematic review?

CASS: Yes, and actually, so did WPATH. So WPATH commissioned a systematic review from John Hopkins, which is obviously one of the most credible organizations in the U.S., but then they didn't refer to that in the youth part of their guidance. And that was one of the reasons that when our team rated the various guidelines, they rated the WPATH guidelines relatively poorly in terms of the rigor of their development process. Because there were points within the chapter on children and youth where the WPATH team suggested that there was strong evidence and there wasn't.

CHAKRABARTI: They do conclude that the evolving science has shown clinical benefit for transgender youth and then they cite three different studies that they claim supports the assertion of clinical benefit, but the Cass Review points out that one of those studies cited was that original Dutch protocol that we talked about, that deals with a completely different cohort of young people.

Then there's another study that had a one year follow up showing actually very modest changes for young people. And also, I think your team thought the study was too low quality and didn't even include it in your review. And then, most remarkably, the third study that WPATH cites is one that the Cass Review said is a study protocol and does not even include any results.

CASS: Yes, so you have read this extremely carefully, probably better than most of the UK commentators. I think the problem is that there has been an echo chamber of guidelines. So one of the things that the York team did was they looked at where guidelines had followed each other, and they found that most of the guidelines, there was a circularity between the Endocrine Society, WPATH, and a series of other guidelines.

CHAKRABARTI: Dr. Cass, I just want to quote some of the criticisms that have been made of the report. For example, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that we just mentioned, they issued an email statement saying the report is, quote, "Rooted in the false premise that non-medical alternatives to care will result in less adolescent distress."

And they criticized some of the recommendations from the report, which they claim would, quote, "Severely restrict access to physical health care for gender-questioning young people." Your response to that?

CASS: So we've not taken a position that any form of care is best, but what we have said is that it is important that all young people get access to evidence-based, non-medical interventions that address the full range of their difficulties.

So this group of young people, if they are depressed, if they're anxious, if they need an autism diagnosis, all of those things should be put in place. We don't know which young people may benefit from medical care. And we have proposed that every young person who walks through the door should be included in some kind of proper research protocol so that we can follow them up and we can get those answers over time. So that we don't continue in this black hole of not knowing what's best.

CHAKRABARTI: So Dr. Cass, I just have two more questions for you. You write in the report that gender-questioning young people have been failed by the medical establishment, by the NHS in England. In order to recover from that failure. What does the report recommend change for the treatment of young people?

CASS: I think first and foremost, seeing them as a young person and not as somebody who is gender-questioning, or with a gender problem or a gender issue, they are a young person first. And I think one problem has been just seeing them through a gender lens.

I think we need to re empower professionals to not be afraid. And in the long term, I think if young people could walk through the same door, that doesn't have to be labeled gender. But is a clinic for young people to talk about a range of issues, whether it's their mental health, their sexual health, their sexuality and their gender.

And they could see somebody who would really see them as a whole person, then I think they would get a much better deal.

CHAKRABARTI: Dr. Cass, I just would like to read the last sentence of the review. You write, quote, "I am aware that this report would generate much discussion, and that strongly held views will be expressed. While open and constructive debate is needed, I would urge everybody to remember the children and young people trying to live their lives, and the families and carers and clinicians doing their best to support them. All should be treated with compassion and respect."

CHAKRABARTI: For those children and families and clinicians listening to this interview now, Dr. Cass, what would you tell them? What thought would you leave them with?

CASS: I think the most important thing is keep your options open. I'd say what some of the young adults said, it's not as urgent as it feels. Take your time. Think about all the possibilities open to you. Talk to other young people, but try not to rush.

CHAKRABARTI: Dr. Hilary Cass, she led the team that recently published the independent review of gender identity services for children and young people. It's a massive report that was published at the behest of the National Health Services in England. Dr. Cass, thank you so much for joining us.

CASS: Thank you.

#Meghna Chakrabarti #Dr. Hilary Cass #Hilary Cass #Cass report #Cass review #gender affirming care #gender affirming healthcare #medical scandal #medical malpractice #medical corruption #gender affirmation #puberty blockers #wrong sex hormones #cross sex hormones #evidence based medicine #religion is a mental illness

[starlingsrps]

no one's ever had me, not like you.

sid is in the lobby when her train arrives and if dorey didn’t know any better, she’d assume he was tired. it’s well into july and this is the first time they’ve one whole free day line up together, not that she hasn’t been embarrassingly eager for this since the invasion. that it’s also the same day she’s due back in london for her parents anniversary party tomorrow can’t be helped and really, since jessa is supposed to pick her up at victoria at seven, it’s really more like a few hours than anything else. 

speaking for herself and fully planning to take it to her grave, she couldn’t bear to wait any longer to see him. 

“nice dress,” he says with a wolffish smile that makes her want to roll her eyes. it’s the same red one from their dates weeks ago, her best one at this point. she’d debated but she could be an adult if he could be. “looked better on the floor.”

now she does roll her eyes. “that’ll do, captain.”

he sweeps her up, swinging her once to make her laugh before setting her on her feet. still, she doesn’t let go yet, not quite ready to do so. he sighs into her neck, hands skimming down her sides. she hadn’t realized until now how much she missed him or how happy she’d be to see him in one piece. it mortifies her and staggers her at the same time but still, she squeezes just a little harder. there’s a relief when he squeezes back. “it’s just really good to see you,” she murmurs. 

his lips brush against her hair. “it’s really good to see you too.”

just a moment longer before they split apart and move down the platform like it didn’t happen. “i thought we could walk around newnham for a bit and get lunch?”

“sounds good.”

they walk over to newnham, hands brushing occasionally but he never takes it, no matter how much she tries to will it into happening. newnham always makes her feel more like herself. it was the first place she felt like she fit in perfectly and passing through the gates immediately puts her at ease. she points out her old dormitory and lecture halls before they turn into the gardens.

“i’m too stupid and poor for this place,” he says.

“i wish you wouldn’t say that.”

“that i’m poor? baby, i’m sorry. i thought you knew.”

“now you tell me. i thought all americans were rich cowboys.”

he laughs. “i mean, i’ve worked for those guys. that close enough?”

“you’re not stupid.”

“i can be pretty stupid. don’t you have to know those old greek bastards and shakespeare and shit to get in here?”

she shakes her head. “yeah but-“

“and there’s letters in your kind of math, dore.” he shakes his head. “i can’t do that.”

“and my type of math is very useless.” he gives a derisive snort and she slaps at his shoulder. “yes it is. you can fly and fix anything.”

“most things.”

“i could teach you math with letters. i nearly burned down the house to last time i tried to fix our heat pump.”

“i like you being the brains,” he says, his hand slipping into hers now. “sexy.”

“should have known you were always harboring dirty tutor fantasies.”

he kisses her on the neck, the brim of his hat bumping her. “only with you.”

“then let’s get you to the library so we can get started.”

“lead the way. i might learn something yet.”

#type: writing #s: dorey x sidney #verse: at the end of the world #they are Very 'so high school' okay

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Thoughts on Chaos;Head Noah

Last week I finished my playthrough of the recent localization of Chaos;Head Noah, The first entry in the Science;Adventure series which also features Steins;Gate and Robotics;Notes. Having played and enjoyed both of those games, I was excited to sink my teeth into another adventure concerning a high schooler squaring off against *not* the Illuminati. And for the most part, my excitement was met.

Chaos;Head concerns Takumi, a high school aged student in Shibuya. Takumi suffers from intense bouts of paranoia and misanthropy that have lead to him living in a shipping container atop an office building rented by his father. Takumi shuns most forms of social interaction in favor of playing an mmo and fantasizing about his dozens of anime figurines. His life of isolation and masturbation is interrupted however when a series of gruesome murders begin occurring in Shibuya and Takumi becomes suspect Number 1. Takumi thus sets out to prove his innocence and stumbles upon a massive conspiracy in the process.

As mentioned above, the basic setup is standard “boy learns about conspiracy and endeavors to fight it with the help of his new, conspicuously mostly high school aged girl friends:. The big shift this time around is two fold:

1. Takumi is a total recluse. Unlike Okabe or Kaito, who begin the story with at least some friend group, Takumi has no real friends to speak of and spends a good chunk of the run time actively avoiding making friendships. This gives the story a colder, more desolate and paranoid feel. While this does mean that I seldom felt as invested in the full cast as I did in other S;A  titles, it does give this game a unique feel and makes for a tense few opening hours.

2. This is a MUCH darker game than the others in it’s tone and concept. The body count is higher, the deaths are bloodier, the villain not as goofy, and the protagonist in general much less likeable. I really can’t overstate just how difficult it is to like Takumi at points. He’s like if Daru was marginally less horny but ten times more of an asshole and coward.

This dis-likability in some cases becomes a problem. While the game generallt gets that Takumi sucks as he is and needs to change, a few of the games endings and story beats either have characters giving Takumi a bit too long of a leash or generally overplay how much he’s changed. I was particularly frustrated by the games true ending, which ends much too cleanly and hunkey dorey for a protagonist as messy as Takumi.

Those endings represent probably the biggest issue with this game. For starters, unlocking the true ending or any of the games 7 alternate endings, which mostly focus on Takumi’s relationship with the aforementioned conspicuously high school aged girl friends, Requires unlocking the games common ending, which is easily the games lowest point for me. It’s a 13 or so hour straight shot to this endings, with your choices having no impact on the story, a story which only maintains momentum for it’s first 3-4 hours before dragging the next 5. this pick up again towards the last quarter, only for a final act that goes on for what feels like ages right as the game should be absolutely speeding to it’s conclusion. The alternate endings, for the most part, pick up some slack, with the scenarios concerning the aloof musician Ayase and the precocious Kozue being particular standouts. 

Getting to these routes is a painfully tedious process however, involving holding down the skip button for several minutes before making a single choice, answering a brief quiz, and then holding the skip button for another several minutes. A chapter select does become available, but only after unlocking the games true end, a process which requires unlocking every alternate end, thus making the feature useless.

Despite these complaints, I cant help but look back at my time with C;H as a positive one for the most part. The alternate routes are spectacular, among some of my favorites in the series so far, and the drastic shift in tone creates a story that feels tangibly different from its franchise companions, despite having the same basic premise. Ultimately, I’d say that c;h is my least favorite game in the series this far, though it’s by no means bad. If you’re a visual novel fan looking for a fix, I give C;h  Noah a thumbs up, albeit with some caveats.

#steins;gate #Chaos Head #science adventure #robotics notes #visual novel #nintendo switch #video games