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elireese

@orbitalbeetle

mostly for fun but i also post my art here • 22!

you can never go back. this is your one life. you had a bad childhood and that's it. you lost your teen years to mental illness and that's it. you're miserable in your 20s and that's it. you just go forward

In incredible last-day-of-trans-visibility-week news:

f1nn5ter has successfully set up her trans healthcare non-profit Anne Health

  • It is already the highest rated trans healthcare provider in the country apparently
  • Here's the page on what they actually offer
  • For HRT it seems to largely be about shared care agreements with GPs (-> they provide the expert info needed but your GP provides the actual meds -> better than *AHEM* other people's subscription models bc this means you can actually get your privately-prescribed meds on the NHS (how I got mine back in the day), but the downside is your GP has to be cool and not a transphobic dickhead about it (which I would generally recommend as a trait to look for in your GP))
  • *They can do surgical referrals but you need to check with your surgery provider if they accept them (correction bc I had not checked the FAQ properly!)
  • It includes trans youth!!! At least for therapy and advice around puberty blockers (again they do not provide any meds themselves)
  • Co-founders are former CEO of mermaids (THE trans kids charity in the UK) and founder of Think2Speak (peer support organisation)
  • It's a non-profit, so any money made outside of what is used on operational costs goes back into a pot to fund/subsidise people's care who can't afford it
  • even if you don't want to use the service itself, they also have a FAQ/resource page for general useful info
  • you can donate to it!!!! (there's a big donate button on the top of the page)

(also tiny, (big) bummer correction: the news clip at the beginning citing 8k+ people on the waiting list - yea it's double that meanwhile, and that's only the London GIC, and only the not-yet-seen waiting list (they're currently booking in ppl who got referred in 2020 for first appointments) if I am not mistaken, so not counting everyone already in the system having wait for years between appointments (hi), other services across the country, and private services' waiting lists)

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Welcome to the Just Roll With It Fan Gacha Skin Challenge!

Each month, a theme will be announced that you can use to design special costumes for JRWI PCs/NPCs! January 2026’s theme is Olympics/Sports, as the Winter Games are beginning soon!

Tag your art and discussion with #JRWIGacha!

proximity

original image: four panel comic titled "Proximity" by @JNYMFG (op). Each is numbered in the corner, counting from 3 down to 0.

Panel #3 is yellow-toned, with an over-the-shoulder shot of a cheerful man reading the newspaper headline MORE WAR and thinking: "How awful... but I have my own problems!" Panel #2 is orange-toned, showing a distraught woman reading the same headline, and thinking: "But my husband has family there!" Panel #1 is red-toned, showing a pensive man reading the same headline, and thinking: "If I'd stayed, maybe I could have saved them." Panel #0 is entirely blacked out.

reblog image: photo of poem titled The Diameter of the Bomb. Poem reads:

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range - about seven meters. And in it four dead and eleven wounded. And around them in a greater circle of pain and time are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. But the young woman who was buried where she came from over a hundred kilometers away enlarges the circle greatly. And the lone man who weeps over her death in a far corner of a distant country includes the whole world in the circle. And I won't speak at all about the crying of orphans that reaches to the seat of God and from there onward, making the circle without end and without God.

Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew by Yehuda Amichai & Ted Hughes) /end ID

*through gritted teeth* when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my character. when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my worth as a human being

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