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remembered about this silly vid from 2024 I never posted lmaoo

for isekai it tends to

be right at the start.

But ye lions do this once cubs each a certain age. A decent amount of birds do it (for example: flamingos and a lot of penguin, duck, and goose species). Gharials (a type of South Asian crocodilian) form creches with hundreds of babies from multiple nests (they lay under 100 eggs each and sometimes as few as 20). Feral hogs tend to form groups of mothers and young like this, and I saw 3 sows and like 15+ tiny babies the other day and they were so cute

But ye that's how you get pictures like these

(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

Implementing this has improved how I feel about myself, and HOW I SEE OTHER PEOPLE!!

I’m not a burden to put up with. I’m a person who deserves respect, but does have some idiosyncrasies.

Other people aren’t barely tolerating me, they’re being patient and considerate and working hard to be polite.

like, are they in cahoots. can they laugh together. do they have a similar enough or at least complementary enough outlook that they can connect over something being funny (even if it's funny in a fucked up way! sometimes those are the best in-jokes!)

Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.

whatever it is, whatever it isn’t, make sure that it’s real - E

ships: aiku/barou/sendou, karasu/otoya, kaiser/isagi, niko/charles, other background relationships

tags: no blue lock au, mall employees, light angst, eventual smut, multiple povs, complicated relationships

ch 22/33 - aiku - 2.3k

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Do changing seasons bring a change of heart?

Sendou - propositioned by Itoshi Sae, of all people - has to contend with an unexpected resurfacing of emotions he never really considered he might have to confront. He definitely didn’t expect Sae to be the one to force him to confront them.

Kaiser deals with the aftermath of Alexis’, Sae’s, and Isagi’s confrontations while Isagi deals with the harsh reality that his expectations in a relationship might not always match what others want.

Karasu, still bruised from Hiori getting a new boyfriend, isn’t really looking for a relationship right now - good thing that whatever he gets into with Otoya, it’s not a relationship. Otoya won’t call it one, anyway.

It’s not that Niko doesn’t like Charles - completely the opposite, unfortunately - but this whole sudden obsession with Shidou’s really starting to make him feel like Charles never really cared much about him in the first place.

[read new chapter | read from beginning]

[read mall au part 1]