roaming through magnificent skies

I’m not looking for a career that I can ride on my looks to obtain. I’m not looking to take the easy route because I “can”.

My looks and my ability to practice medicine are not anything to be held up against each other. I can be feminine and still completely willing to cut someone open. I can be a blonde and wear fake eyelashes, I can be a brunette who wears dresses all the time, I can enjoy working out and keeping my body in shape and simultaneously be a hardworking pre med student.

Would you say that to a male pre med when you learned of his career goals? That he’s too handsome to be a doctor? Then don’t say it to me, thanks.

Women can be traditionally beautiful and practice and pursue medicine. Women can be non-traditionally beautiful and be wonderful doctors. Women can look however they want and still be wonderful physicians and surgeons.

So if you really want to boil me down to my looks, you can say this: you’ll look really great in a white coat.

Don’t tell me that I’m too pretty to be a doctor.

Season 2019/20 throwbacks (2/?)

Thank you to @vierschanzentournee for going on this emotional journey with me.

It all started at about 20:18, when I had just finished painting a picture of a cat in a party hat, and I decided that I'd try my hand at paining a real human - something I have wanted to try for ages. The time seemed perfect - I had just gotten new paints and wanted to try them out. There was only one question left. Who to paint?

After what seemed like hours of pondering, Eve and I decided that Richard Freitag seems to have 'the most paintable' features, and my work begun.

I started by choosing a reference picture:

And drawing an extremely hunted sketch:

Then the real fun began. Furiously mixing paint for the right skin colour:

Cursing off the gods that made his hair dry out black instead of brown:

Starting on the bib, nervous about messing up the eyes:

"Watch me ruin the eyes"

"YOU WON'T"

And I didn't:

After some finishing touches, I was done with the masterpiece:

Is it good? I don't know. I'm happy with it. I had a heart attack after I finished, because I noticed I had been painting with gouache instead of regular poster paints. But it still turned out great, seeing as it was my first painting of a human ever. Looking back on the large amout of paint consumed by accident and the amount of soap used to clean up my hands, I have one last thing to say.

So, the results are in for the 2019/20 survey!

The system used to ascertain popularity was as follows: one vote for favourite was worth 3 points, one vote for second favourite was worth 2 points, and one vote for third favourite was worth 1 point. I counted up the votes each person had in each category, multiplied them by the right number of points, and then added them together - in the event of a tie, ranking was determined by who had more votes for favourite (or, if that’s the same, who has most votes for second favourite). 

So, according to this system, the most popular ski jumpers among the Tumblr fandom in 2019/20 were… Stephan Leyhe and Maren Lundby. Again. Full results and analysis under the cut!

Sandro Pertile: "It's already challenging for the majority of the girls to jump in large hills, we can't pressure the girls to also jump ski flying. Think of all the negative effects this could have on the girls if we get a bad fall."

Maren Lundby: "Let us jump in Vikersund during Raw Air next year. Make a 'super final' with the 10-15 best in the world. To develop and become better ski jumpers, we also have to jump in the largest hills."