My Quiet Corner

Hi there, welcome to this little place I'd like to call my own. I'm just your average twenty-something young woman... and a shameless geek. XD Hobbies and interests include video games, reading, writing fanfiction and doing crossstitches and puzzles. Main Fandom: Transformers, especially Animated. My favorite character? Hard to say, but I do like Sentinel Prime, odly enough. Also have an interest in various others, such as Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Harry Potter, Ranma 1/2, Full Metal Alchemist, Final Fantasy 6-9,... and about anything and everything that manages to catch my interest. Mea cupla, I'm French; don't be surprised if my notes are filled with mistakes sometimes. That says... Enjoy your stay!

[darkdanc3r]

Donate to Assist Kat in Keeping Her Car and Moving, organized by Katherine Koehn

Heyla, I'm Kat. Looking for assistance in keeping my car and getting some bil… Katherine Koehn needs your support for Assist Kat in Keeping

Please please help me keep my car and collect the funds to move out of this town with no public transportation. We need to find a place for two adults and 2 cats, and everywhere requires deposits and cat deposits and... and it's expensive. So expensive. Please Help. Signal boost if you can't help, every little bit helps.

[keyblack]

pictured: my attempt to fix the disrespect on my boy Anubis of Ronin Warriors.

[fusanology]

描いていたら子供っぽくなってしまったので……室町後期（戦国時代）頃はこんな身なりでしょうか。

[asksamuraitroopers]

It’s totally Anubis.

[sagefearstudios]

For the past few months, this one dress has been HAUNTING my pintrest. Just randomly showing up.

It is beautiful. So my smooth brain says 'we should totally draw some anime characters in it, but not FEMALE'.

SO who did I choose? Well.....

Dais and Anubis from Ronin Warriors. Cause why the hell not.

[samurai-skittle-squad]

Another redraw of an official illustration!

[dracoqueen22]

For QuietShadow: FF7, Mistaken for a sex worker

“Aren’t you a little overdressed?” 

At first, Vincent doesn’t realize the stranger is talking to him. Why would he? Vincent has kept to this quiet, shaded corner for hours without being disturbed. With everything to do in Costa del Sol, why would anyone notice him? Or care?

Vincent lifts his chin and peers at the obvious tourist dressed in khakis and a bright floral print. There’s even a camera hanging around his neck. “I don’t swim.” 

“No, I mean, obviously you’re not on the beach.” The tourist coughs into his hand and stares somewhere over Vincent’s left shoulder, which is a wall, and not interesting enough to stare at. “I meant, you know, shouldn’t you advertise the goods?” 

“I’m not a shopkeeper,” Vincent says, his brow furrowing. “I have nothing for sale.” 

The tourist’s red face gets even redder. He should probably drink some water instead of another over-priced fruity cocktail. “Oh. Are you already spoken for? My mistake.” He coughs and tugs at his collar. “Maybe next time…? Can I do that? Make a reservation?” 

Vincent stares at him. “What?” 

“Yeah, you’re right. That’s dumb.” The tourist scratches his bald head and makes a sort of helpless, resigned laugh. “Better luck next time, Dwayne.” 

‘Dwayne’ wanders off before Vincent can parse what in the world he’s babbling about. He glances at the two men loitering a little further down the way, leaning against the rail with their chiseled bodies gleaming in the sunlight as if they might have an answer, but they have been doing a great job ignoring him. 

‘Dwayne’ was probably drunk. 

Vincent doesn’t think anymore about it until it happens again, this time in the shanty prison town beneath Gold Saucer. 

It’s hot and dry, necessitating that Vincent spend as much time in the shade as he possibly can. He doesn’t know what business Cloud has here, and frankly, he doesn’t care. But the sooner they leave to go after Sephiroth, the better. 

There’s a group of young women loitering nearby, scantily clad and chatting as they pass a single cigarette around. They ignore Vincent; he ignores them. It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement. 

Vincent passes the time in a meditative state, always fully aware of his surroundings, but calm enough to quell the beast within. Cloud and the others may enjoy running around, but Vincent prefers to conserve his energy. 

“How much?” 

The question is practically sneered, and again, Vincent isn’t sure it’s directed at him until he lifts his head to see a heavily tattooed woman staring him down. He has to look up at her, and it’s a bit unsettling. 

“For what?” he asks. And though he does not reach for his gun, he shifts his weight to make it more visible on his hip. 

“You,” she snaps, like he’s an idiot for not bowing before her. 

“What?” Vincent is, once again, confused. 

The trio of young women who had been loitering nearby break off into giggles and whispers to each other. 

“I’m not paying more than fifty gil,” says the tall woman, her biceps thicker than Barret’s thighs. She could snap him like a twig, were he not the end-result of one of Hojo’s vile experiments. “Can’t tell what you’re hiding under all those layers.” 

Vincent stares. “It’s no business of yours.” 

The giggles erupt into tittering laughs. 

The tall woman looks down at him, as utterly bewildered as Vincent himself seems to be. “Then why the fuck are you standing here?” 

Vincent squints. “To pass the time…?” 

“Give up, Dora!” one of the scantily-clad young ladies shouts. “Ain’t no fresh meat here for you.” 

“Tsch.” Dora spits at the ground near Vincent’s boots and lumbers off, but not before them all a middle-finger of a salute. 

The shortest of the three young woman, with bouncy red curls and a button hanging on for dear life, saunters over, popping gum. “We don’t care what you do so long as you don’t steal our regulars, yeah? It’s hard enough earnin’ a livin’ out here.” 

Vincent blinks. One plus one add together in his head. Details become clear. Conversation starts to reorient itself around an obvious point that he’s somehow missed, and a deep embarrassment takes root in his chest. 

“My apologies,” he says, and flees with what’s left of his dignity. 

Highwind, of course, finds it hysterical. 

“You didn’t notice?” he guffaws, head tipped back, laughter echoing around the Tiny Bronco’s interior. 

Vincent burrows deeper into his cloak. It hides the stain in his cheeks. Back in his day, sex workers were more discreet. They didn’t loiter in out of way corners that somehow everyone knew was the place to go to find comfort for the night.

“How much would you charge anyway?” Cid asks. 

Vincent rolls his eyes. “More than you could ever afford, Highwind.” 

Cid snorts a laugh and dives back into the Tiny Bronco’s innards with a clatter of wrench on metal, certain he can wrest a bit more speed out of the makeshift repairs. 

Vincent sighs. 

From now on, he’ll wait by the plane. 

***

a/n: This is dumb, I know. I'm sorry, but the idea wouldn't leave me alone! Vincent's always lurking somewhere in a town after he joins your group, and it was a cute game of Where's Vincent? But what if...? XD

anyway, feel free to comment/like/reply/reblog, etc

[kitten-kin]

[sarahthecoat]

<3

[juniper-tree]

Is the “fluffy one shot” pig doing whip its with those cans?  Cause that feels accurate.

[kitten-kin]

@skyholdherbalist Yup! XD

[valkyrien]

@frozensnares

Then… where do I go? I’m just at home muttering

into the void of an open word document.

[kitten-kin]

@valkyrien Oh but there’s more to this party than sugar and sweets~ ♥︎

Fluff Fest on RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/kitten-kin/works/36582633

Dark Side on RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/kitten-kin/works/36634358

[atlinmerrick]

THE PIG IS EATING PINE TREES IN THE PINING I CAN NOT DEAL.

[owlinautumn]

IT GOT BETTER

[alltheusernameiwantistaken]

Where’s the lemon buffet

[kitten-kin]

Third Comic, featuring the citrus-themed juice bar~ @alltheusernameiwantistaken

Available on RedBubble at https://www.redbubble.com/people/kitten-kin/works/37192337.

[clarasimone]

This has me in stitches !!!!! LOL ah mon dieu, woo, I needed that :-) Thanks @lodessa

[probablynothumanish-deactivated]

@ashensanity

[izhunny]

Literal FANFIC art. Art of FANFIC. I love this so much!

[izhunny]

This could use another go round.

[redcurlzbychoice]

Always reblog

[shadow-manor]

The “Protein” shot on the juice bar poster always makes me giggle.

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

Fandom!

[avastazyana]

insp

[saikyo78]

[matan4il]

If tigers are big cats, look at these big kittens! <333

[reasonsforhope]

More than 70 babies have been born from uterus transplants: 'It's a complete new world'

A new study found that 14 of 20 women had successful uterus transplants, and all 14 went on to have at least one baby.

"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth. 

More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. “It’s a complete new world,” said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.

Almost a third of those babies — 22 and counting — have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the program’s first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.

Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby.  

“That success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,” said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. “We want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.”

Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were “technical” failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organ’s blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant. 

The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.

Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.

“It’s hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,” Johannesson said. “This is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.”

So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants — typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies don’t reject the new organ — may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...

“They’ve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And that’s reflected in the results,” said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...

Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants. 

“The firsts — the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,” Walter said. “Immersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers — it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.” ...

Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but it’s likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different “hormonal milieu” before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.

Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.

“We want other centers to start up,” Johannesson said. “Our main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.”"

-via Stat, August 16, 2024

[leebrontide]

Holy shit????

[baphonnicula]

i am an advocate for Big Dumb Man rights and i will not take this blatant erasure by the anime twitter users

[baphonnicula]

they're in love

[venlafaxine-rx]

[thegenderdruid]

I subscribe to the "Holding out for a Himbo" theory of himboism:

He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast

And he's gotta be dumb and polite

[the-haiku-bot]

I subscribe to the

“Holding out for a Himbo”

theory of himboism:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’

The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of A

Happy September everybody, NaNoWriMo has decided to go "no YOU'RE the baddies" because no one likes their AI-ridden sponsor, lmao. In other news, multiple authors are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.

[391780]

[ffs-abalisk]

As a disabled writer myself I find this stance to be immensely insulting, mostly because they are using disabled people as a smokescreen to push their agenda, while also completely ignoring the fact that there are plenty of tools for disabled authors to employ that don't rely on fucking STOLEN MATERIAL to get it done.

We already have TTS, Dictation, and Predictive Text (though this has actually gotten WORSE because of AI so.... thanks for nothing assholes) software to assist for those of us that may be physically challenged and further handwriting and keyboard tools for those who might have motor skill issues or are blind.

There are Graphic Organizers, Dictionary and Thesaurus for those who may not be great at organizing their thoughts or as adept at words...

So this EXCUSE they are putting forth for us and claiming we are being "classist and ableist" is disingenuous and IMMEDIATELY makes me think they got their talking points from that Lore.FM faker that tried to claim they were making software "to make fanfiction more accessible."

Only for it to have turned out to be a shell company for a larger Generative AI scheme.

It would NOT shock me if NaNoWriMo got a huge donation from an AI company with the stipulation that they have to advertise it. Would not shock me, at all.

[scarletsspirals]

I want prowl getting creampied from left to right, transfluids everywhere 🥰🥰

he's a slut. he's a slut your honor

[hauntedorpheum-moved]

Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme Se7en (1995) dir. David Fincher Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) dir. Raja Gosnell Zodiac (2007) dir. David Fincher Jennifer's Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) dir. David Fincher Paranorman (2012) dir. Sam Fell, Chris Butler Last Night in Soho (2021) dir. Edgar Wright

[userautumn]

the biggest secret that Big Fanfic doesn't want you to know is that the best way to find fics you'll enjoy is to scroll through the bookmarks of a fic written by an author you already like. people gravitate toward fics written in similar styles, etc that they enjoy. so if someone's read your favorite author, chances are they've read fics that are similar to those written by your favorite author. if i get killed by Big Wattpad we'll know why