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at first glance it passes for mildly sexist humor (him growing up being treated like a girl) but the creators are pretty progressive so i wouldn’t be surprised if that was their way of sneaking in a trans character. 

that’s FALSE, actually! and a common but dangerous misconception, which i’ll get to in a minute.

it blows my mind that i have accidentally found myself in a discussion about dr  doofenshmirtz’s theoretical hrt status, but he canonically cannot grow facial hair & has an unusually high voice, so it doesn’t sound like he’s been through testosterone based puberty. not all trans people choose or are able to go on hormones, and plenty of people discontinue or take a break from hormone therapy (for person, medical, financial reasons etc).   

also he does have a daughter in the show. idk if it’s confirmed that she’s his biological child but plenty of trans people have kids, before or after transitioning. 

an important fact to know about trans health is that afab people who are on testosterone or have been in the past can still get pregnant. (some trans parents pause hrt in order to do so.) though in most cases testosterone lowers fertility, these changes are not necessarily permanent and hormone therapy is not a form of birth control (the last is true for both testosterone and estrogen therapy). If you’re having the type of sex that can result in pregnancy, talk to your doctor to make sure you’re using the right precautions. and whatever your assigned sex at birth, if you think you may want kids in the future be sure to talk to your doctor about fertility issues before starting hormone therapy. you shouldn’t have to choose between your transition and your ability to have children, if you want them. 

again, i cannot believe i’m having this conversation in regards to a kid’s cartoon character, but trans healthcare education is piss poor in my country, so we take opportunities where we find them

500 words or less prompt: 544 words oops

Cassian stumbled through the front door, trying to be quiet but completely failing. He assumed his girlfriend was asleep, considering it was just past midnight, and he really didn’t want to wake her.

She was cranky when woken up from her sleep.

Azriel and Rhysand had kept him out way too late. He was too old for this shit, and yet, it was fun to let loose for once. All he did was work, and then come home, and it was only one of those things that he looked forward to. He couldn’t remember the last time he had gone out with the boys, and now, as he was stumbling through the foyer of his townhouse, he was beginning to remember why.

After kicking off his boots, he padded to the stairs and took them each one by one. His eyelids were drooping, his body feeling light. With a firm grip on the banister, he made his way to the second-floor landing and let out a long, slow breath.

Almost there.

As he approached the bedroom, he noticed a light was still on, the bedside lamp, it looked like.

“Nes?” he called, her name slow coming from his lips.

She muttered a response that he couldn’t quite place, but then he appeared in the doorway, and snorted.

Still awake, but in her pajamas - one of his old tees, Nesta was sitting against a series of propped pillows, her nose in a book. 

“I thought-thought you’d be asleep,” Cassian said, falling into the bedroom and plopping down on the bed.

She eyed him for a moment before returning to her book. “I got distracted. And it’s Friday, I have tomorrow off.”

“Hmmm,” Cassian hummed, yawning, as he crawled across the bed and dropped himself down right next to her, his arm tossing over her waist. For a moment, all was quiet, but then his eyes began scanning the page of her book, and he froze. “Holy shit, you’re-you’re reading porn.”

Nesta tensed. “I am not.”

“That page alone says penis in at least ten different ways, Nes-.”

She snapped the book shut before looking down at him, his head against the pillow, with daggers in her eyes. “You’re drunk.”

Cassian’s grin spread across his lips, slowly. “And you’re naughty.”

After setting her book down on her nightstand, she reached up to turn off the lamp, and the room went dark. When she settled back into the bed, Cassian was halfway on top of her.

“Care to elab-elaborate on your book of the night?” Cassian asked, into her ear.

She shoved against his chest, but her laughter was quiet. “You smell like shit. Go brush your teeth.”

Cassian groaned, but did as he was told. After hurrying into the washroom, he removed his shirt, and his jeans, and his socks, and brushed his teeth before going back into the bedroom, where Nesta was bundled up in their comforter. He crawled up behind her, wrapping his arms around her body, pressing his abdomen into her back.

“There,” he breathed. “Bet-Better?”

“Yes,” she whispered.

“Good,” he said, yawning. “Now we can try what those characters were trying on that pag-.”

Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:

Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.

“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.

“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.

“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.

Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.

People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.

No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.

Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.

Humans are actually more genetically homogeneous than most people suspect. This is possibly due to a population bottleneck at some point in our evolutionary past. Two chimpanzees from different sides of a jungle are likely more genetically different to each other than any two human beings in the world.

Our big brains may help us use tools, but what was really principal in their development was the need for empathy, communication, and cooperation.

Humans. Are. Social. So social it drove an incredibly energetically costly increase in our brain size.  Don’t believe anyone who says its our nature to fight “every man for themself.” We’re humans, not bears. We fight for each other.

And we always have. Fossil remains are found of ancient humans who bore signs of crucial mobility impairments that lived to notable ages. Some even have sticks or other mobility aids – community care and support is our way. We don’t cast off those with impairments, we stand by them.

Human sexual dimorphism is on a decreasing trend. Our ancestors had greater difference in canine size and overall size. Our dimorphism gap has gotten smaller.

Occam’s razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Don’t believe someone who says the reason we evolved bipedalism is so that males could carry gifts to females to woo them. Yes, this is a real ‘theory’ on how bipedalism evolved.

Skin tone is an adaptation of UV levels vs vitamin D levels. Both come from the sun. UV is harmful, so where sun is plentiful populations develop a darker skin tone for more protection. The skin needs sun to create vitamin D, so where sun is scarce, the skin tone lightens to allow more sun in. This is literally all it is.

Final thing: No one’s mind is really equipped to fully understand how long a billion years is, or a million, or even tens of thousands of years. Evolution takes place over a loooong time. Its very, very, slow, slower than we can really comprehend. We can’t “stand in the way” of natural selection by caring for our ill. We don’t need to “help” evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so don’t fall for anyone that tells you not to “stand in the way” of natural selection. That’s fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.

Oh shit

I love the hilarious “Zuko as the avatar” aus and all but guys

Guys.

Azula as the Avatar

Prodigy Azula. The one who firebending came so easily.

Now imagine Azula accidentally airbending or something

Imagine her journey going from the perfect fire nation princess that her dad wanted to being what he wants to destroy

Now imagine 13 year old Morally Righteous Even When It’s Dangerous Zuko learning that his father wants to kill his little sister no matter how horrible Azula is to him

What I’m saying is imagine their ship ending up in the south pole because Iroh stole his niece and nephew and a ship and the three of them are the run from the fire nation

Imagine Azula hating everything about this but meets Katara and despite everything Azula finds herself bonding with water tribe girl because they’re the same age and their moms are gone and their brothers are annoying af

Idk how but the brother and sister teams end up having to travel around the world and teach a very pissy Azula all four elements and how to care about other people

Maybe Sokka and Zuko make out in the background

Everyone: you should consider murder as an option

Aang: noooooo :(

Azula as the Avatar:

Everyone: maybe you should consider options besides murder

And if you wear anything baggy or loose people will be like oh what a gross monster. You obviously dgaf about your "health."

The judge that signed that warrant was complicit or maybe a warrant was never issued.... either way the indictment of Breonna Taylor’s murderers would expose the deep-seeded structural Racism in Louisville’s system.

Many more people than those cops need to go down for Breonna Taylor’s murder.

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.