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been in a big #timkon mood these past few days

Can u tell I’m excited abt them

I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?

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I had a breast reduction when I was 16. I was so top heavy that my back had started spasming badly by the time I was 12, if I hadn’t been able to get my reduction, I would’ve been in more extreme pain for much longer. The relief was almost instant. Just one example of medically necessary plastic surgery, in case people aren’t sure what that looks like.

Medically necessary plastic surgery also includes removing excess skin when someone loses a lot of weight: skin folds can become infected. Burn victims’ skin grafts, those are plastic surgery too. The field covers a lot more than people think.

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Harold Gillies, now considered to be the father of modern plastic surgery, developed most of his techniques (many of which are still in use today) specifically to reconstruct the faces of men who'd been injured in WW1.

Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.

In both cases, the techniques he developed were still being used in similar operations decades later. Gillies himself stated that he wanted no publicity for performing these operations, saying that "If it gives real happiness, that is the most that any surgeon or medicine can give.”

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Tim Drake caught in 4k at five in the morning in Alfred’s kitchen eating instant noodles

By Damian

waylaidmanager

Bold of you to assume Alfred hasn’t already replaced all of the cheap cups with his own healthier version that tastes identical…

It doesn’t matter how good of a detective you are, if you’re in the manor he’s two steps ahead, three if you’re a Wayne

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When I rebought some Robin issues a million years ago, I mentioned on here that there was a two page comic about Cass (and Tim's there too) that was part of an ad, and it was pretty cute but I imagine it isn't preserved digitally too much because of its ad nature. Someone asked to see it, I said I'd take a picture, and then I promptly forgot. For months. But I was reorganizing my comics and suddenly remembered. So here it is.

For the record, this is from an ad in Robin (1993) #109.

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aeliad

HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!

It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.

Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266

wiseacrewhimsy

Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.

the-geek-cornucopia

In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.

pluts04

Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.

Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…

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I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.

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It’s 2023 and i just now learned that Nicole’s response was also out there

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NGL, I don't... really like this new thing of Elseworld Robins coming as a pack. Especially a pack that forms without Batman.

Like. Sure, the adorable trio of Dickensian/Baker's Street Irregular Robins was my favorite part of the Gotham by Gaslight movie. And the way the Robins are used and introduced in the main books of Dark Knights of Steel somewhat mitigates the issue by introducing them piecemeal as the plot requires -- that felt like more natural world building, hinting at a longer story and a more expansive history.

But then that short story collection came out, where it's revealed they actually formed their gang totally independent of Bruce instead of being a network of spies/apprentices that he built up gradually over time, and that really rubbed me the wrong way.

Ditto this whole thing with the Absolute universe. Is the general concept of those five characters acting as essentially Power-Suit Sentai Gotham Rangers fun? Sure, I guess. Does it feel like any of them are Robin? Fuck no. Not even by Absolute's standards.

Worse, it feels... pandering, especially in the Absolute universe with its thematic focus on isolation, deprivation and struggle. Why, out of all the characters who get shuffled and re-dealt and re-imagined, forming new connections that explore new dynamics, do these five characters appear as a set?

It feels like the answer is: because if they picked one Absolute Robin, even if they tried to make it clear that they'd just be the first Absolute Robin, they wouldn't be able to sell the book to fans of the other four. I can't entirely put my finger on what it is that makes me feel this way but the whole business just screams cynical corporate pandering.

As much as I mostly have no interest in the White Knight universe, I really prefer the way the Robins are handled there: switching Jason and Dick's order in the line-up, giving Duke some time in the spotlight, even adding a brand-new Robin of their own creation... it's more interesting and feels more like I'm being told a story, even if it's a story I don't like, as opposed to being lured in to buy a product where my blorbo gets a glorified cameo.

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Anyway, imho Absolute Robin should've been Carrie Kelley. Or fuck, give blue-collar Bruce a single unwise college fling with a mysterious rich girl he never sees again and skip straight to Damian.