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these miis are driving me nuts

#tomodachi living the dream #EDIT: sorry this post broke containment and got WAY more notes and attention I thought it ever would #so to answer the questions: yes that is Lukas from minecraft story mode #and he's fought at least 10 people became ex friends with two maybe three of them #and shot down another miis love confession to him by choosing the miis sister over them

when i was younger and stupid and in the (glass) closet i was dating the son of a pharmacologist. this man had made millions developing medications. he was fond of me and privately told me i was too funny and smart to be dating boys.

he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.

the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."

it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.

at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.

i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.

i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.

how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.

it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.

who cares about you and your actual safety. think about what you could be carrying.

#spilled ink #warm up #i think of this moment OFTEN #edit in the tags: op is nonbinary do not be weird on this fucking post i will nuke you from space #medical injustice on the basis of your body is a real thing that harms MANY people across HUGE populations #it is one of the places where intersectionality is SO important #and btw to the haters being like '' this isn't realistic u can just say no to the pregnancy test :)''#girl READ THE NOTES. horrifying #like 8/10 of them are other people being like ''yeah i had this exact thing happen''#so many people being like ''i can't even have kids and they do this''#i am AWARE of the ''oh but'' arguments. how the lawsuits are an issue. and ''what if people lie? or don't know what counts as sex?''#''we HAVE to test!! because what if ur lying to us :)"#.... why did you even ask then lol. they always ask. i always tell them i neither can have kids nor CAN i have kids #bc despite how hard my partners try. scissoring just does not seem to be doing it #. like sir the child would be plastic. don't get me wrong she did try her best despite the circumstances #but alas the strap seems to be shooting blanks here #:( there's always next time i guess #anyway it's wild. it literally just doesn't even matter what you say here they're gonna test. i think maybe 1/10 times have they just #actually taken my word for it #but yeah btw this is incredibly complicated FURTHER by how you are perceived !!!#bc god forbid you be overweight! or have a chronic illness! or GOD FORBID!!! you be a person of color!!!!#one time a doctor said ''oh. i see you checked hispanic.'' then she turned her little stool towards me.#'i need to ask this seriously. will you be sending any of these medications to other people? maybe in another country?''#m'aam i'm here because i have tonsillitis and a fever of 105.

MS paint fantasy, mixed media.

Congratulations! The alien you befriended is a Stone Femme!

#project hail mary #project hail mary spoilers #ryland grace #rocky #First order of business; technically the punchline should be ‘femme butch’.#Stone femme means something different. However the average person rapidly scrolling a timeline will not notice.#Second order of business. We gotta talk about Ryland Grace and his relationship to gender.#The guy who woke up with amnesia so bad he couldn’t be certain if he was straight/gay/divorced/had children or not -#But heavily focuses on the absense of ‘anything feminine in my apartment’.#So he canonically has this innate sense of femininity. So deep it surpasses his *OWN NAME* in memory priority.#Another detail I really love is how Rocky and Grace love to swap informatiom about their cultures.#The endless curiosity is what makes their bond so deep and genuine!#Alien Gender doesn’t have any synonoms when you both have vastly different reproduction systems.#They must have talked about it at some point - and Grave absolutely just used wikipedia to make his presentation.#He does not know a god damn thing. Despite being incredibly Aroace (and dare I say…Agender) coded.#Rocky on the other hand…Okay so we only use he/him because Grace was biased.#But realistically we know nothing about eridian gender.#Gender is often coded in clothing though - and we do see Rocky in a rather fancy (noted to his detriment) outfit.#All in all I think Rocky deserves to be a little femme leaning. As a treat for us not using their name nor pronouns.

thinking about a very specific scenario of a grace with no video logs, with no xenonite failure, who comes back to earth as rocky comes back to erid, heart full but missing a very distinct piece. ten, twenty years go by, and grace is not malnourished nor does he look even half his age, but there's a deepset something in his eyes that has nothing to do with stratt's actions being revealed or the press or adjusting to earth again. about earth getting news of a ship coming down, whose atmosphere is fundamentally different now and causes trouble for that ship. damages sustained on that ship. a red light in the sky. suspected eridian contact as confirmed by dr ryland grace. thank you tom, anna temple here and we're live at nasa's makeshift landing pad, ready to receive, watching- oh, my- a row of officials that cannot pin down ryland grace this time as he, live on air, tears apart every country's anxiety of eridians by ripping from the crowd and jumping the fence into the launching area. a camera pan that judders from dr grace sprinting, the most energetic he's been in years, to a brown eridian careening towards him in a xenonite suit. prepared to catch ryland's tackle and embrace him properly, there on the green grass, for the very first time. first contact.