A writer and a reader

These are all collected as a multi-chapter work on Ao3, where I’m Peterqpan!

1) Not yet written 2) Not yet written

3) Spring Break (and Pinky Swears) Post S2 fixit of sorts, getting together

4) Rollerskates What if someone unexpected encountered the mindflayer…

5) Secrets and Butterflies Max and Billy friendship, abuse depiction

6) Cthulian Stargazing Steve’s dad is an evil cultist, but Steve’s just there to run errands

7) Selkie Skins and Daisy Chains  Billy’s mom is a selkie

8) Rebirth  After season 3, Max tries to save Billy, any way she can.

9) Blue Clues Steve returns home stoned after a day with Robin, finds mysterious traces, and tries to use his Detective Skills to find his True Love.

10) Peaches Summer in Indiana is depressing, particularly when Billy runs into Steve Harrington eating a ripe peach.

11) Hug Billy can’t take any more of his dad, but he gets a softer landing than he expects.

12) Soda The dude in Steve’s night class is a little grouchy, and a little beautiful.

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You are trying to explain the trajectory of research on trans issues, and how the informed consent model came about as a wildly successful alternative to the gatekeeping model because time and again, people with clinical experience who actually cared about their patients found that just letting trans people transition was easier and the fear that it would lead to something bad was unfounded.

The Principle Understander is shouting at you that the medicalization of trans people is inherently unjust, and even the informed consent provider is still a gatekeeper, just a more lenient one.

You are already aware of this.

You are talking to someone who, as a first priority, needs to know what the worse gatekeeping model looks like.

"What the fuck do you think freedom MEANS, Earl?"

so i’m gonna put it out there ahead of time.

This is actually pretty easy to do. Case in point: I grew up watching Bill Cosby on Fat Albert, as Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show, and listening to his various comedy albums. He was one of the most popular comedians of the time and he was everywhere. My family listened to a The Best of Bill Cosby cassette tape on roadtrips and I have both his Noah and Frankstein's Monster routines memorized to this day. But, when how horrible a person he really was became public knowledge, I put all that down and that was that. His comedy made me laugh, a lot, and some of my favorite family memories involve his work, and it makes sad that he tarnished that by being a bad person. But he was/is a bad person and I no longer want anything to do with him. So my kids do not know his comedy routines, and have not watched his tv shows, and know of him only as a rapist who once worked in entertainment, and that's as it should be.

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And I clutch the little warm tubes of blood and feel this sick person warming my hands and I think about how kind you might be and how I wish I could hold your hand and how badly, how really really badly, I want you to get better and stay warm and hold someone’s hand again.

And anyway sometimes it’s better to not think so vividly about the people I’m doing tests for. I’m a good little cog in a vast machine of people all trying to heal and cure, and my cog feels so fucking small sometimes. But I hope the blood I prepare for you helps you breathe better and laugh and wake up feeling well rested.

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Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.