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Not to be sappy but can I say I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of love Pete and Nate are getting? Like this was just a silly idea made sillier by an ask from an anon and suddenly I'm super invested in them and I find ppl invested in them too. Your requests, your asks, your support, your feedback, and even the fact that any drawing of mine with them can do well despite them just being ocs and me not even tagging them in main until recently is like... Woah.

Thank you sm for all this love 😭😭 it's always a little overwhelming for me when I see this sorta support for my work. I never get used to it but know I'm eternally grateful 💜💜💜 thank u sm! 🥺💜 Your love and support inspires me to keep doing what I do.

i turn 30 this month which is crazy. i genuinely did not think i would be alive by now lol. im kind of behind on all the life stuff ur supposed to accomplish by now but ive got amazing partners, a bunch of good friends, a good job that actually uses my degree, and fulfilling creative outlets. And medication that works . thats a big one

the funny thing is i would have absolutely none of this if it werent for being involved in the hlvrai fandom. (even the job.) i would probably still be extremely sad and lonely and useless. let the record show that i got way more out of it than any sad hlvrai fan who made hating me their passion

sweet bod!

Take your time of course!! Just know your stuff is greatly appreciated. You even inspired me to write my own stuff with my silly characters and it's been great. I may even have taken inspiration from Jamie for my own main character. Hope the brain chemicals are kind to you and good day

Hi, first of all I hope you're having a good day/night/whenever. I just read through the 4 chapters of SAFDC and it is fantastic. The part in the woods really caught me off guards in the best way and the tension whenever Daniel is in the room is palpable. I love your stuff and I can't way to read the rest of it someday. Thank you

yayyyy thank u : ) it makes me very happy that people are still taking a look at it. tension is one of the funnest and most erotic things for me to write......i would love to tackle it again now that my hands are a little better and my brain has better chemicals in it

[Fig. 01 Mikuchondria]

The powerhouse of YOUR cell

silly little edits i made for myself

Doctor Coomer: "Do your job, and I leave you and Tommy alone." Right, Gordon?

Gordon, stammering, whispering: ... I ... can still ...

Doctor Coomer: Bad job, Gordon! (does a V-sign with his fingers and snips them together, then the lights go out and he lunges)

...

Cyn: [I think it's good that he died!]

semptember 1st

i got put on an antidepressant and now im about to finish remote access so maybe were onto something here

reblog to give your mutuals a BLÅHAJ

have not drawn him in forever

As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

Working on an actual comic ("""series"""" but using that term loosely) but that's gonna take a while to get done so please have this shitpost instead

Dummy loving dummy relationship

gordon feetman is one hell of a yapper, guy who really loved his job

belly of the beast

Friend shaped <3

Its name is Colimery

fuck you Netflix stop cancelling shows

Variety

‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Canceled After One Season at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)

"Dead Boy Detectives" will not be returning for a second season at Netflix

STAT

More than 70 babies have been born from uterus transplants: 'It's a complete new world'

A new study found that 14 of 20 women had successful uterus transplants, and all 14 went on to have at least one baby.

"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth. 

More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. “It’s a complete new world,” said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.

Almost a third of those babies — 22 and counting — have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the program’s first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.

Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby.  

“That success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,” said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. “We want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.”

Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were “technical” failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organ’s blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant. 

The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.

Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.

“It’s hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,” Johannesson said. “This is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.”

So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants — typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies don’t reject the new organ — may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...

“They’ve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And that’s reflected in the results,” said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...

Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants. 

“The firsts — the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,” Walter said. “Immersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers — it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.” ...

Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but it’s likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different “hormonal milieu” before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.

Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.

“We want other centers to start up,” Johannesson said. “Our main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.”"

-via Stat, August 16, 2024

Trying to prove a point

REBLOG IF YOU THINK AROACE / aro/ ace PEOPLE ARE A VALID PART OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY , LIKE IF YOU DON’T

are you well known in your fandom?

So Discord...

I'm curious. I know it's common for a lot of people to join servers and just lurk or join and immediately perma-mute BUT

edit: obligatory "reblog for reach" etc etc blah blah pls

I really truly hate them

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flower appreciation post