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fun story

i first learned about this meme when i was trying to teach the kids about functions, so i had the example of "f(x) = x+2". and i asked the teens to give me a number

when they said 67 and the others giggled, i did some quick mental math to realize that the result would be 69. so i was like "yes haha 69 so youre very clever" but that didnt seem to be what they were laughing at

so then when the *next* period did it i was like okay hang on something is up here. and then used google

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

>research shows testosterone HRT is not a contraceptive so you still need to use protection!

>ok. do you know if it has literally any effect on fertility whatsoever?

>lol no

>ok. so hypothetically how would a trans man on HRT know if he's pregnant?

>well silly girl :) you just check your period :) if you missed your period you might be pregnant! duh!

>ok. testosterone HRT stops your period after, like, 3 months though

>[windows error sounds] well then you can usually feel your breasts get heavier and more tender :)

>ok. what about people who don't have mammary glands anymore? how would that even work?

>listen i don't know. why don't you have a pregnancy test?

>those tests work by detecting a specific hormone. does HRT interfere with this hormone by either making it undetectable or stopping its production entirely or anything? how do i know the test itself is reliable?

>have you tried the morning after pill?

>the morning after pill is also hormone-based. how do i know it's reliable? does taking testosterone HRT have any impact on its efficiency? could it potentially cause an adverse reaction? could a trans man with updated ID documents even access it in the first place since the pharmacy only delivers it to people they think, at a glance, could be pregnant?

Because, like. As we all know, decay exists as an extant form of life. That matters, if your magic is powered by death. More importantly, though:

“Call it a communal soul,” said her Emperor. “What’s a human being, other than a sack of microbial life?”

And:

“Flesh magicians are exposed to this idea of a system earlier than in your school.”

So it's intriguing, isn't it, that incinerators are so present, isn't it.

Not everywhere: it seems like the Ninth doesn't immediately deflesh their skeletons. Wake only got "boiled and sent out" when Gideon was eight. (and isn't it creepy to put it like that. Stuck in that hole, where they left her...) There's a lot of references to mummification, which are of course also ways to stop decay from happening.

The Seventh House is famous for that, too: soul-stoppers and mummifiers. And while John never officially declared it a sin, it is fully against the law. What if it isn't just about avoiding fraud? What if it's about the risk of keeping a body around for long enough that it creates a new communal soul?

That's Anastasia’s tripod principle: The body needs thalergy and a soul to keep the lights on. When the body doesn't fail naturally, the soul flees the body, but it wants to return (revenants). If the soul is removed from a functional body, Pyrrha calls it a "weird vegetable" that'll give out eventually, but the Eighth does that to siphon - and of course a lyctoral body with its healing powers would be dispatched by Mercymorn immediately.

This is all vague speculation, and could mean nothing. Might mean nothing in regards to human bodies.

But in regards to planets?

What happens to a body, if it died - went through apopneumatic shock - but people kept living on it? Yes, the houses are dying. Yes, the houses are small. Maybe that's what's keeping it all in check.

But shepherd planets?