Egos Everywhere

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2025.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

Ily molly brown

Referenced one of her concepts for our beautiful elli

B&W ver under the cut --v

United Front: Breasts Without the Airbrush

The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth’s pictures of 100 women’s breasts isn’t the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem to be so rare. “We see images of breasts everywhere,” says the 41-year-old photographer, “but they’re unreal. They create an unflattering comparison but also an unobtainable ideal. I wanted to rehumanise women through honest photography.”

feel free to use them! I’m just spewing stuff outta my brain that I might write :)

Astrophage baby shower. The balloons say “it’s a cell!” on them

slow dancing together on the vatt <3

strangers to qpr roommates AU (Carl works for the local government & ofc Grace is a teacher)

Locally famous boxer!Grace x gym owner!Carl………or boxing fan!Carl…..idk I just want Carl looking at Grace with stars in his eyes lmao

OR they’re both boxers…………..sparing partners

5 times Grace fell asleep at his desk and 1 time Carl made sure he didn’t (can be freaky or cute lmao)

A classic high school AU. Stratt is there too

for a taste of bloodymary (if u want) we could do “because Simon traveled thru a wormhole we figured out faster space travel and now Grace can see Carl again”

something transformers. Transformers show up to earth and use the space bridges to bring Carl to Erid to reunite with Grace. If we go sorta bayverse we can get Simmons and sector 7 in there uwu

childhood friends AU :3

a meet-the-family fic (coltland twins, & my hc for Carl having just a fuckoff huge family)

ummmm sad stuff, Carl grieving Grace after he got yeeted into space

grace yearning for Carl in space and missing him so so bad

what if....... single father!Carl (or uncle who drops the kid(s) off at school!Carl) x the kids' teacher!Grace!!!!!! i think uncle works better for this one tbh

EDIT: I had another idea. Carl gets sick and Ryland “immune system forged in the fires of teaching middle school” Grace takes care of himmmmmm!!!!!! Snuggles ensue (Carl is like “Ry ur gonna get sick :(((“ n Grace is like “baby I’ve survived SIX flu seasons without getting sick I will be okay and I WILL be taking care of you. And taking samples to examine. For microbiology reasons. ILY it’s chicken soup time”)

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