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[tailsnumber1fan]

hm... doodles in my 2nd art style...... i rlly like drawing creepypastas in this style

[maramoonae]

theyre besties theyre worsties theyre everything in between...

close ups under cut

[weepywhale]

9-1-1 address buck's suicidal tendencies challenge (level impossible)

[rollercoasterwords]

hii rae, in another ask you mentioned writing a paper on plastic surgery- do you have any interesting sources to recommend on that topic?:)

hmmm honestly idk if i do...my paper wasn't about plastic surgery itself so much as it was about the marketing for a specific brand of scar gel sold primarily in plastic surgeon's offices; i was essentially looking at how the medicalized marketing of these sorts of products create the problem which they claim to "cure" by establishing the notion that scars should be unwanted and then saying they'll help improve the mental health of patients who are distressed by their unwanted scars.

in general i find a lot of the current scholarly & feminist debates surrounding plastic surgery to be tedious. the conversation tends to play out in this sort of looping binary where one side claims all plastic surgery is inherently wrong because it reifies hegemonic beauty norms; the other side claims that plastic surgery is actually empowering for various reasons (bodily autonomy, gender affirming, etc.), and in many cases the focus is on shoring up one of these two positions, which each party considers fundamentally at-odds with each other. i am often unconvinced by each side's rhetoric and have grown increasingly less interested in the argument they're having. kinda feels like seeing a game board with black & white squares & watching two people set it up to play checkers when i was hoping to play chess, or vice versa.

i guess in terms of reading suggestions i'd say that for any conversation about plastic surgery i think it's important to have a solid grasp of social models of disability & health and some engagement with trans theorizing re: bodily autonomy. i do think some understanding of how "plastic surgery" has evolved over time can be useful...bernadette wegenstein has a book called the cosmetic gaze that provides some useful historical context, but i don't recall whether i always agreed with her framing & arguments...eli clare's writing on disability has been influential for my broader understanding of health...katrina karkazis has a book called fixing intersex if you want to learn more about the use of surgery to create & maintain sex binaries...cary costello has a lot of writing on the body & medical interventions that i find useful...susan stryker's "my words to victor frankenstein" is a foundational text on the medicalization of transness as is sandy stone's "the empire strikes back." but again most of my own thoughts & opinions regarding plastic surgery have grown out of my engagement with queer theory, disability studies, trans studies, etc. moreso than like. any specific texts that are focused entirely on plastic surgery as a modern phenomenon.

[spiderst4rs]

how it felt giving life to my aquadragons (they died four months later)

[valzhangism]

"hazel levesque not in wotg" moodboard