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If you are getting gender affirming surgery, especially if it’s your first major surgery, PLEASE be aware that you can become SEVERELY depressed afterwards ESPECIALLY if you have a history of depression or suicidal ideation.

Post op depression is a natural reaction to the crazy mix of hormones your body goes through after major surgery as well as the stress and anxiety of recovery. Think of it like an adrenaline crash, but dragged out longer.

For me it kicked in about 6 weeks after top surgery and the worst of it lasted until about 10 weeks post op. EVERYTHING felt IMPOSSIBLE. None of the skills I’d been practicing worked. I thought everything was going to be bad forever. I didn’t attempt, but I was in the hospital. If it wasn’t for my support system I probably would have attempted.

This is not regret, but it can feel like it. I remain happy about my results to this day (going on six years later).

This is not you failing to maintain your mental health, but it can make you feel like a failure.

Things are not hopeless, but through the haze of this depression they can feel hopeless.

It can be terrifyingly sudden or it can sneak up on you. I didn’t even realize what was going on until after the depression finally passed and my mental health went back to normal.

I am writing this post because nobody told me about this before my top surgery. I was caught completely off guard. For my subsequent surgeries being aware has made all the difference. Being able to treat those symptoms as an expected and normal part of the healing journey has made them far easier to deal with. Because even when my emotions go to dark places I *know* they will pass. I have been able to tell the bad thoughts to take a bad seat and focus on healing.

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WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

Also for anyone curious, the character is Luye from The Legend of Hei II. Official design vs. the fanart under the cut:

1.The camera pans from the ceiling to Griffin. He sings directly into the camera “I’ve got a new drug!” He stops singing, holding up a bottle of Beano medication. He continues. “It’s Beano? My body can’t digest plant fiber, so I have to–” The video ends.

2. Griffin stares directly into the camera and rubs his eye. The Fantasy Costco Theme plays as Griffin speaks over it: “My neighbors think I’m an insane person.”

3. Griffin is behind several VHS tapes of Dr. Dolittle and Nutty Professor stacked in a house shape. Griffin says, “Hey! Welcome to my place. Come on inside!”

4. The camera pans from water being turned off from a sink to Griffin. He says,  “Hi, welcome to Griffin’s cooking corner. First thing’s first, you wanna peel and chop whatever the fuck this is.” He holds up a root vegetable.

5. Griffin is wearing headphones and brings an earphone to the side. He says, “Alright, you guys ready for that new shit?” He forcefully hits a button. Tupac’s Dear Mama starts playing with a circus-style instrumental. He looks wide-eyed as it plays, his headphones falling off.

6. Griffin is nodding with a pleased, awed expression to the beat of a rap ad telling him how to vote. It cuts to him typing “how do to i sign up vote” into Firefox Search as the ad continues playing.

7. The camera is filming an episode of Masterchef Jr. where the host says “The loser will be hit by a lemonade shower.” It pans to Griffin, who gives a goofy, dubious look to the camera.

8. Griffin is in his car bobbing along to The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song by The Flaming Lips. His hand is to his ear and he looks around in anticipation. There’s a low note that he lip syncs and then immediately nods to an imaginary crew in an imaginary booth.

9. Griffin spins a cologne bottle to read a sticker on it that says “Don’t steal this, asshole.” It cuts to Griffin filming himself, pocketing the cologne and flipping off the mirror.

10. Griffin grins into the camera and says “Kiss cam!” He starts peppering his cat in kisses, who runs out of his arms.

11. It shows a box of Captain Crunch Oops! All Berries cereal before panning up to Griffin. He’s chewing and says “You do not need to apologize for this.”

12.  In the style of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Roundabout by Yes plays as Griffin sits in his office looking at his phone, headphones on. The drums kick in as the lens filters sepia. Griffin holds up a sign that reads “I don’t understand this meme and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.” At the bottom right is a black and white arrow the reads “To Be Continued.”

13.  Griffin holds up a rubber tube with a mouthpiece and says “Everybody, I just got in my new vape, here’s my favorite tricks.” He sticks the mouthpiece in his mouth and it’s revealed that it’s a melodica, on which Griffin is playing Carly Rae Jepson’s Cut To The Feeling.

14. Griffin is next to a clock that reads 4:20, grinning wide. It turns 4:21 and he grimaces, sighing.

15. An outtake from Griffin’s Amiibo Corner. He speaks into a GarageBand microphone, “And now, much like Lord Jabu Jabu, I’m about to put this green hero inside me.” He starts laughing.

16. The camera is focused on the Totino’s logo on his t-shirt, then pans to Griffin’s face. He says “My art wasn’t meant to be bought or sold by big businesses and that’s all there is to it.” It pans back to the Totino’s logo on his sweatshirt.

17. Griffin stands in a room, camera focused on his face and a sign that reads “Pipis Room.” Griffin takes a breath and says “Pipis Room.”

18. Griffin smiles into the camera and asks “Happy 4:20, you want some pot?” The camera cuts to meat cooking in a slow cooker. Griffin continues, “Roast?” It cuts back to Griffin, who says “Just kidding, it’s short ribs.” It cuts to a clock that reads 4:29. He says,“And it’s 4:29.”

19. The camera is panning around a house before coming to a closet. Griffin opens the door to reveal a Minions piñata. He turns it to another man and says “We have to leave.”

20. He’s sitting in an office chair and speaking to the camera, “Take the Laura Dern challenge, how fast can you say Laura Dern’s name?” It cuts a screen where a slideshow of Laura Dern pictures plays rapidly, Griffin chanting “Laura Dern” quickly and more garbled with each attempt.

21. Griffin is driving as a radio talk show plays, a man saying “We don’t know what’s going on, we got some chemtrails, we got so much going on.” Griffin talks over it. “Yeah, there it is.”

22. Griffin looks off camera and says “What do you want for breakfast, Tim Curry?” It cuts to Tim Curry in Home Alone 2 saying “Pizza.” It cuts back to Griffin, taking his glasses off and rubbing at his eye exasperatedly, “No, you can’t have pizza, it’s breakfast.”

23. Griffin looks around frantically and exclaims “Where’s all the Pipis?” He opens a door and focuses on a sign that reads “Pipis room.” He looks relieved and says “Aw, oh yeah!”