Roan

personal/fandom blog ✦ art only: @faindriart ✦ he/him ✦ minors get blocked 🔞

[faindri]

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Roan | 30s | he/him 🏳️‍⚧️

I post whatever I want here; this is my personal blog

anti-harassment / anti-censorship / profic or whatever

sometimes NSFW | 18+ only 🔞🔞🔞

No reposts/edits/AI/NFTs of my works

Art Only: @faindriart

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[motherofcatsandmess]

[faindriart]

🩸 Rebirth 🩸

My OC Narok, a trans man, something something symbolism.

Full sized image w/ no watermarks + process images on Patreon.

PATREON | COMMISSIONS | KO-FI

[vampire-loving-vampire]

why is ut always "being fat puts pressure on ur joints" but never "being skinny makes u more vulnerable to joint/bone injury" like lets be real im not playing this game with u where u get to pretend u know anything about medicine much less my personal case . u are going to have things happen to u and ur body no matter what size u are and pretending fat people are somehow the only people who can possibly sustain weight related injuries PISSES ME OFF . be fucking serious

[mousegirlheart]

people give me shit like "you wouldn't have such severely impaired mobility if you weren't so incredibly fat" like nice try fucker i lost my mobility when i was thin and fit and then i got fat when i could no longer walk, you know fuck all about me.

[scorchedhearth]

characters who dig themselves out of their graves (whether literal or metaphorical) are at the top of the list. nothing beats a character who should have died but didn't and comes back to haunt their own life and the world around them, benevolent or violent it doesn't matter, it's enthralling either way

[prenbyw]

Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.

[hinako-supremacy]

op i love your fish so much i made it a png

they are now a school of fish

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

basically i like to pick my interests based on what will be most embarrassing for me at any given time

[vintagehomecollection]

The cluttered charm of this kitchen is not solely a designer's whim; it is a necessity. Look closely and you'll see that this space is only as wide as a very narrow stove. In a wraparound environment like this, everything is at your fingertips simply because it has nowhere else to go!

Beyond The Kitchen: A Dreamer’s Guide, 1985

[faindri]

how my dad perceives me:

stupid brainwashed idiot bc I use the internet, Uppity City Person bc i went to college, Evil Liberal bc I voted for Biden in 2020, Moronic Hysterical Woman TM bc I go to the doctor

this man is so insecure it's embarrassing

told him i picked a tick off my leg with TWEEZERS and he is convinced i SMASHED THE TICK GUTS INTO MY WOUND like a MORON and im like bitch do you not know how tweezers work are you that stupid

[faindri]

"why don't you try to date"

my gender is confusing to everyone around me bc i don't pass as a man 98% of the time and idk what to do since I can't medically transition or be out and i'm almost exclusively attracted to women so i am assumed to be a lesbian but that feels like unintended cultural appropriation and i am also sometimes attracted to men so i'm technically bi but the only ppl who have ever been interested in me are cis men and id rather vomit than date a cis man

im sure there's a very nice woman out there who would gladly date me at all stages of my transition HOWEVER, that also requires effort and going out to socialize, and i am too autistic for that.

not knowing i was trans fucked up my sense of self for so long I thought I wasn't attracted to anyone so I identified as aro/ace to cope with my dysphoria that i didn't realize was dysphoria. now when i think about trying to date im like oh.....i have missed a critical point in development. like I didnt realize i liked women until 2021....came to terms w/ being a trans man in 2023....

i'm pissed about that! im pissed i couldn't embrace myself until i was 28 years old !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[crowwkui]

a blind vampire and her changeling companion ✄ (it's yuri)

[depsidase]

[saathiray]

I think it's been said but I'll say it again. Asking for a photo with an application is illegal because of this

[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[sirartwork]

[therealjambery]

Not platonic, not romantic, but a secret third thing (real fucking weird about each other).

[thememedaddy]

[genderkoolaid]

so do people know that multiple trans people across the US have reported that their pharmacists have arbitrarily denied them testosterone prescriptions, either because "you need authorization" or "company policy" or, in states where its legal, because they don't feel comfortable giving it to them.

i wouldn't be surprised if its also common for this to happen with estrogen, i found one news story on a trans woman experiencing this, but looking it up there seems to be a LOT of cases of this happening with testosterone. which makes me suspect people feel empowered to do this with T in particular because of its criminalized status. regardless, i do not see this brought up much! and i think we should discuss it more, at the very least to prepare people in case they experience this, so they know how to handle the situation.

examples below the cut for length:

Austin Pharmacist Denies Trans Man Testosterone Prescription

Walgreens says pharmacist was uncomfortable with injection method

For Tristan Martin, a 34-year-old trans man living in North Austin, that fear became a reality last week when a Walgreens pharmacist refused to fill his testosterone prescription. Martin says his pharmacist’s explanation for not filling his prescription was that she was uncomfortable with the doctor’s instruction that the medicine be administered subcutaneously, meaning as a shallow injection under the skin. But, as Martin explained to the pharmacist, he’s taken the same meds for four years, with the same method, and never heard such an objection. Plus, Martin said that the pharmacist was only being asked to provide the testosterone itself, not the equipment necessary to administer it. He later attempted to reach Walgreens’ pharmacy department and store manager to ask about the situation but wasn’t able to reach anyone and never got any calls back. A store employee told the Chronicle they could not address the dispute. Tristan’s wife, Hayden Martin, said she received an apology from a Walgreens regional healthcare supervisor, after the supervisor contacted her on May 23. “He said there was absolutely wrongdoing and that it’s going to get figured out,” Hayden said. “He said he was going to reach out to the higher-ups and he’s going to let me know by Friday what happens.” Hayden Martin told us she was able to contact the pharmacist in question two days after the refusal to fill the prescription. “She would not give a reason as to why she felt the doctor was wrong,” Hayden said. “And she said, ‘I’m not comfortable filling it for ‘her.’ So automatically the assumption is that it’s just an issue of her not being comfortable with the fact that it’s testosterone for a trans man. So I, of course, asked her if this was the reason – because he’s a trans man – and she got very defensive and denied it. And then I tried asking for her name and her license number and she said, ‘Well, that’s not important information.’”

Area Pharmacist Denies Gender Affirming Medication, Reader Spots Substandard Site, Proposed Gas Station Spurs Survey, and More

Walgreens Pharmacist Denies Gender Affirming Meds, But Other Options Exist

Recently, one of our readers, who wishes to go unnamed, sent us the following email:

On the 24th when I went to pick up my testosterone prescription at the Walgreens on Lomas & Carlisle, I was asked by the pharmacist why I took it, and when I told him it was gender affirming, he told me he wouldn’t fill it going forward… I want other trans+ folks in our neighborhood to know that this is not a safe pharmacy (I don’t regret reacting by sobbing loudly in the middle of a Walgreens, but I don’t want anyone else to have to go through that), and I want all our cis neighbors to know that this is a thing that is happening.

We reached out to the Walgreens location, and the person who answered (and who we will keep anonymous) confirmed that there is a pharmacist on staff who refuses to fill prescriptions for gender affirming medication due to their beliefs. However, they clarified that other pharmacists at the location would fill a gender affirming prescription if they were on duty, or the prescription could be filled at other Walgreens locations. Unfortunately, they were not able to provide further information as to the pharmacist’s name or when their shifts might be.

A year after KC investigation, another trans customer turned away from Costco pharmacy

The city’s Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department launched an investigation in October 2022 after a Star report about five transgender and nonbinary people who said they were denied their prescribed testosterone at the pharmacy. Costco denied the allegations. [...] Dave, whose name has been changed in this story to protect his identity as a transgender man, was grocery shopping at the Linwood Boulevard Costco on Monday when he decided to pick up some syringes. Dave has used insulin syringes for years to take his prescribed testosterone — their thin needles make his regular injections less painful. These small syringes don’t require a prescription, making them easy to obtain — and Costco offers a bulk pack of 100 at a nice discount compared to other pharmacies. At first, the transaction was painless: Dave asked for a pack of syringes and an employee asked him his preferred size and gauge. But when he mentioned that he uses them to inject testosterone, the tone of the conversation shifted abruptly. “They got weird about it,” Dave said. “The pharmacist, I guess, overheard and she came out and she’s like, this won’t work for testosterone.” Dave explained that he has used these syringes for his testosterone injections for years — and has even bought the same syringes at that Costco pharmacy before for the same purpose. Insulin syringes are regularly used to inject low doses of testosterone. But despite being an over-the-counter product, the pharmacist insisted that Dave needed a prescription before she would sell them to him. “She’s like, well, we won’t sell it to you unless you have your doctor call it in,” Dave recalled. He stepped aside to call his doctor’s office, but they were closed for Monday’s holiday. “I didn’t feel like arguing (with the pharmacist). So I just left.” An assistant general manager at the Linwood Costco said Wednesday that he was not aware of the incident and couldn’t comment on it. A pharmacy employee said that she and her coworkers are not authorized to speak to the media. A request for comment from Costco’s corporate office was not immediately answered. Dave called the Missouri Pharmacy Board Tuesday and was told that syringes only require a prescription if they bear the label “for Rx only,” which his syringes didn’t. Beyond that, he said he was told that the state gives pharmacists discretion over what they choose to dispense, as long as they don’t violate federal anti-discrimination laws.

How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People

On a Saturday night two years ago, Stann Fransisco was driving back home to New Mexico after visiting their parents ...

“Criminalization has made it easy for pharmacists to deny my [testosterone] prescription, which has happened to me many times,” Artemis McGettigan, a trans student in Dearborn, Michigan, told Filter. “[Pharmacists] have told me in the past that ‘It’s corporate policy, they’re not allowed to fill that type of prescription … but I knew that was false because other CVS locations, for example, were able to fill it.” A CVS media representative told Filter that its policies “do not prohibit our pharmacies from filling testosterone prescriptions.”

CVS Pharmacist refused to fill my T

I have been on T for coming up on 3 years. I’ve never had any problems with any pharmacy I’ve gone to. I recently had to switch pharmacies and for over two weeks this pharmacist at CVS has given me the run around. “I need to talk with your doctor about why you need it” (which I’ve never had happen before). And then the next day would say “I need prior auth”. It’s been so long without my T that my period came back today and I am freaking out. So I sent a very frantic message to my doctors office. They called me about an hour later telling me the pharmacist sounded fishy and said “I’m not comfortable filling this prescription.” Ok? Your job isn’t to judge my prescription your job is to give me the medication my doctor decided I needed. The doctors office was nice enough to transfer everything to a different CVS close by and even apologized for not getting the pharmacists name. We did call to get his name. My partner is very nice and called corporate to file a complaint and the corporate pharmacist on the phone said that they do have grounds to deny a prescription only if there is not enough info or it’s fake. So they reported it as discrimination. Unfortunately I can’t take legal action or I would. Sorry this is more of a rant than anything. This should be illegal and nobody should work in healthcare if they’re going to gate-keep health. I truly hope this man gets fired. I’m trying to file a report to the state board of pharmacists because he can have his license revoked for discrimination. Thanks for listening.

My pharmacy tried to deny me my testosterone

So I called in my prescription on the 2nd and they told me that it would be ready on the 5th. It’s the 8th today so I called and asked if it was ready yet and the pharmacist told me I needed prior authorization and that my insurance wouldn’t cover it. Thing is, my insurance has covered it for the past two months, which is when I first started T. The pharmacist told me to call my doctor and get the authorization so I did and my doctor said that there’s no issues on her end, no authorization needed, and that my insurance still covers my prescription so she’s not sure why he would say that. I end up calling them back and end up speaking to the lady who took my original prescription and she was like “Oh my god. I don’t know why he said that to you. I’m seeing a refill request but nothing that requires an authorization. I’m gonna send this in today and it should be ready by Friday”. I think it’s hilarious too that when I told him my name, he was like “oh you’re (my grandparent’s names) granddaughter!”

[transcyberism]

I believe this has happened to me, specifically I believe the pharmacy used malicious bureaucracy fuckups to undermine my attempts to get my medication. I needed prior auth for it per my insurance, but they never sent my doctor the paperwork despite verbally telling me they had done so on multiple separate occasions. every time I would call or physically go in to the pharmacy to check, they would say they submitted it via insurance to my doctor already and my doctor needed to fill it out, and to call my insurance if I had questions, but every time I would call my doctor asking about it, they would say I needed to go to the pharmacy and ask them to send it. I went back and forth like that with different pharmacy techs and insurance reps and clinic office staff answering the phones every time for literal MONTHS getting the runaround until finally one of the staff in the doctor's office noticed how long I had been at this and how upset it was making me, and she took it upon herself to get on hold with the pharmacy herself and personally ream the pharmacy out and make them give her the paperwork. I ended up switching pharmacies after that but not before submitting a complaint to the State attorney general. The AG's office did actually call me back and seemed interested in taking up the case, but when I told them I had switched providers they told me unfortunately it was a moot issue at this point and they could no longer do anything.

Anyway fuck Duane Reade