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sh4rkguts

I just found this meme I made of my fish when I was a teenager.

innerchildabortionclinic

my-dailydreams

ryrolie

bead neuron!

frogyjones-art

Gingerbread SAW (2004) bathroom

lcb1313

a WHAT

heweramber

... Say that again?

soymikki

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!

Hi! I'm trying to save up money so my friends and I can move out of our parents houses and find a place together! I'm also trying to pay off a few vet bills I had to take on for my dog a few months ago! So even if you commission something small, it helps me out in the long run!

To apply and for more info please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/1ajvFMaCjzHUYuPT7

REBLOGS APPRECIATED <3

soymikki

Bumping this again bc my mom lost her job so it's gonna be rough for a bit

transgendz

Trying to keep this short, but I have several surgeries coming up, and a PET scan which will tell me if i have cancer. They're thinking i have lymphoma. Below is some of the paperwork from my oncologist with personal info redacted. I need s lot of help to ensure I can have surgery and be prepared for chemo if thats my next step, bc if it is, I won't have much time to prepare.

PP--V--kofi--$C--gfm

$529/$2,000

hunter-rodrigez

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

these-violet-delights-fic

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

coopercurly

art compilation post

genderkoolaid

Access to gender-affirming care (GAC) varied across gender identity when comparing trans men to AFAB nonbinary individuals (Table 2.5). For example, both groups highly desired top surgery; however, trans men were significantly more likely to have already undergone the procedure (32%) compared to AFAB nonbinary individuals (10%). Both groups also showed interest in hysterectomies, though access again differed, as 10% of trans men had undergone a hysterectomy, while only 2% of AFAB nonbinary individuals had. Overall, this indicates that while transgender men and AFAB nonbinary individuals often seek similar forms of care, nonbinary individuals experience a larger gap between desiring a procedure and receiving it, possibly due to systemic barriers or variations in how medical providers approach nonbinary transition-related care.

When comparing across gender, some similarities exist between transgender women and AMAB nonbinary individuals in their desires for certain procedures (Table 2.7). For instance, both groups wanted laser hair removal at high prevalences (54% of trans women and 58% of AMAB nonbinary individuals). However, transgender women were far more likely to have undergone the procedure (40%) compared to AMAB nonbinary individuals (15%), suggesting a greater gap between desire and access. In contrast, desires for surgical procedures diverge between trans women and AMAB nonbinary respondents. Trans women wanted vaginoplasty at much higher prevalences than AMAB nonbinary individuals (48% vs. 17%), and a substantially larger percentage of trans women already had the procedure (11% vs. 1%). These findings highlight that gender-affirming needs are not uniform across gender identity.

from the USTS 2022 Health & Wellness report, pages 47 & 49

genderkoolaid

^ also from the 2022 USTS. & from the 2015 USTS:

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of respondents wanted to receive hormone therapy at some point in their life, but only 49% of respondents have ever received it. Ninety-two percent (92%) of those who have ever received hormone therapy were currently still receiving it, representing 44% of all respondents. A large majority of transgender men and women (95%) have wanted hormone therapy, compared to 49% of non-binary respondents. Transgender men and women were about five times more likely to have ever had hormone therapy (71%) than non-binary respondents (13%)

& note that all of this comes from 2022 (& 2015), so does not represent the full impact of more recent anti-trans legal attacks.

grorges

i’m a man with a mission… a boy with a gun

i got a picture in my pocket of the lucky one…

who doesn’t know….

i’m a big mess!

theswordwizard

Interested in self-publishing anthologies?

The editors of Glimm*r & American Fujo will present "Working Together: Organizing Queer Anthologies of Writing and Comics" at @flamecon this August! I'm super excited for us to talk about making your own collaborative work outside of traditional publishing >:)