Never was cool, never will be cool

Happy March 11!

>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?

I once went to A&E for heart palpitations/chest pain and they even said my blood pressure and heart were genuinely concerning. After being kept overnight the main doctor on the ward came to me and kept asking why I was on testosterone and I had to sit there after being kept awake for 8 hours and, well:

"Why are you on testosterone? What is it for?"

"Um, I'm trans."

"Trans what? What is that?"

"... Transgender?"

"Huh?"

*growing desperate* "FTM...?"

"What?!"

"FEMALE TO MALE TRANSGENDER. I AM ON TESTOSTERONE BECAUSE I AM TRANSITIONING."

"Oh, well your bloods came back fine. It looks like it's the testosterone that's messing with your blood pressure." (said with a clear implication that I should Not be on it and/or I should get off it if I don't want medical issues???)

My period didn’t stop for quite a while, and she never checked my blood levels because, in her words, 'she knew what was in me since she prescribed the HRT.' Eventually, it did stop and it was seen as a success.

Cut to a year later and I move and there's a doctor who specialises in trans health closer to me. I go on the waiting list and the new doc is horrified at my first appointment because my testosterone was like 3 times the level of a cisman, despite it already being 3 months since my last HRT injection. She makes me go off HRT and my periods come back. I'm upset when I suddenly have my first period at work and have to admit it to the receptionist to go home and clean up.

Reception was an absolute ally despite the forced outing and ensured that sanitary bins could be put in the men's toilets(like legally she had to talk to the legal team about discrimination in the workplace) after someone started reporting me for being a 'non disabled person using the disabled toilets'

When I go back on HRT and am at a 'normal cismale level' my periods still don't stop. I start a new job and decide to be a pain in the ass to get sanitary bins put in the men's toilets for my convenience. Surprisingly, they are being used by someone else (don't know who, not my business)

>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?

I once went to A&E for heart palpitations/chest pain and they even said my blood pressure and heart were genuinely concerning. After being kept overnight the main doctor on the ward came to me and kept asking why I was on testosterone and I had to sit there after being kept awake for 8 hours and, well:

"Why are you on testosterone? What is it for?"

"Um, I'm trans."

"Trans what? What is that?"

"... Transgender?"

"Huh?"

*growing desperate* "FTM...?"

"What?!"

"FEMALE TO MALE TRANSGENDER. I AM ON TESTOSTERONE BECAUSE I AM TRANSITIONING."

"Oh, well your bloods came back fine. It looks like it's the testosterone that's messing with your blood pressure." (said with a clear implication that I should Not be on it and/or I should get off it if I don't want medical issues???)

My period didn’t stop for quite a while, and she never checked my blood levels because, in her words, 'she knew what was in me since she prescribed the HRT.' Eventually, it did stop and it was seen as a success.

Cut to a year later and I move and there's a doctor who specialises in trans health closer to me. I go on the waiting list and the new doc is horrified at my first appointment because my testosterone was like 3 times the level of a cisman, despite it already being 3 months since my last HRT injection. She makes me go off HRT and my periods come back. I'm upset when I suddenly have my first period at work and have to admit it to the receptionist to go home and clean up.

Reception was an absolute ally despite the forced outing and ensured that sanitary bins could be put in the men's toilets(like legally she had to talk to the legal team about discrimination in the workplace) after someone started reporting me for being a 'non disabled person using the disabled toilets'

When I go back on HRT and am at a 'normal cismale level' my periods still don't stop. I start a new job and decide to be a pain in the ass to get sanitary bins put in the men's toilets for my convenience. Surprisingly, they are being used by someone else (don't know who, not my business)

This is an anime about writing and the creative process and they were on holiday to do research.

He fed silver haired girl an egg to distract her from pleading for a sip of beer, which had taken the form of a long string of sexual innuendos being thrown at him, because she's under the legal drinking age (she's 18)

She has been practically throwing herself at the protagonist, who keeps turning her down. The "strange fetish" she alludes to, is that he's into little sisters. which to add: He’s an author who writes stories about little sisters and constantly laments not having a little sister, in a creepy way—ironically, he does have a step-sister who’s spent their whole relationship pretending to be a boy… because, well, yeah

If you knowingly write a check you know you don't have the cash to cover, then take that cash out of the bank, that's fraud, kids. A federal fraud at that because banks are federal institutions.

It showed people in Australia how to commit tax fraud a year or two ago and also touted it as some kind of infinite money hack.

It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.

And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.

The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down. 

Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city. 

And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families. 

For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.

Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”

A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.

Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.

Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.

Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew

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