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Later that night I had a dream that started with exploring a swimming pool and ended in an ecstatic orgy between humans, dolphins, fish and some particularly beautiful yellow sluglike flukes that danced in a spiral in the water and slithered over each other's bodies. Again, v much not my usual Thing
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I woke up shouting after a particularly terrifying nightmare in which I was trapped inside a squaredle word search and all the words were scary
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Emphasis on the 'very rare': if anyone reading this has a transplanted organ, do Not give it a try, the overwhelming odds are that it won't go well. Researchers are trying to find signatures that might indicate that this could be the case, in order to better tailor treatment with lower risks.
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But yeah, the spread on transplanted organ duration is pretty wide! Very, very rarely people even develop immune tolerance, where their immune system figures out that the organ isn't a threat and stops responding to it as a threat, even without immunosuppression. Usually discovered accidentally.
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One of the really cool things about liver transplants is that even if they don't work longterm, sometimes they buy enough time for the liver to regrow, because livers do that, just, yknow, too slowly for that to be relevant when you're in liver failure
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As I've pointed out to you, you're clearly just going to age into Mike White, which is not a problem <3
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Like some people are Fine on it but for some people DHT in the brain is a major component of the emotional wellbeing side of T & without it they're v depressed. I do think probably everyone who's not intensely averse to getting facial hair should experience T without DHT blocking first as a baseline
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Finasteride is something that I think transmasc people should be cautious about bc it blocks DHT conversion, so a) no facial hair (some people want this, in which case it's a good option for them) & also b) a lot less DHT in the brain, which is a YMMV thing
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Yeah, that would probably have been what I'd suggest. It's not a good idea for Briar bc theres a possible link to connective tissue problems which is probably not a concern unless you have a severe connective tissue disorder. I'm taking it although my main goal is getting more facial hair.
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Like we are talking about a film that LITERALLY begins with a PSA/infomercial about eugenics that repeats all of the talking points of 1920s and 30s eugenicists with little illustrative diagrams. It's not subtle or subtextual.
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There’s like 3 basic things you never do — land war in Asia, Chotiner interview if you have something to hide, and fuck with Derek Guy on anything fashion-related.
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I'm really confused what has Joyce Carol Oates done now.
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oh wow what a weird coincidence, I read this a few months ago on a whim because I found it in the bargain bin at the bookshop near where I have therapy
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this was pretty much the bulk of my film viewing during my teenage years
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ooh I thought of another one that definitely ought to count, even if it's a bit left field: Christopher's Christmas Mission
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does kiki's delivery service not count because it's not an 'official' postal service?
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I don't condone travelling to Turkey bc the Kurdish movement has asked for a boycott of Turkish tourism due to their military action against Kurds, but I believe there are a lot of decent alternatives.
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This is a genuinely a serious q, have you considered medical tourism? From what I can make out the US is one of the most expensive places in the world for dental stuff, things are cheaper even in at private dentists in the UK, and there are definitely cheaper places than the UK.
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(dentist brother in law gave us free checkups when we were in the states last year, but we accidentally got sent a bill and I was horrified by the prices. In the UK you could have got several teeth out for approximately the same price)
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Podcast: "we're going to gently walk around the National Gallery. This beautiful building from 1838 -'
My brain: seems like a good time to think about the colonialist and nationalist project that underlay the founding of the national gallery... hmmm.... we need some adrenaline up in here...
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I'll never forget a classmate in Primary school telling me that they made one sequel to Home Alone (my favourite film) where Kevin McCallister is evil and another one where he's killed by bees. I was very disturbed by this knowledge. Didn't want to see Home Alone 3 and 4, 2 was already a bit strong.
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oh noooo
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And I'm not just saying that because I married you! I don't think anyone would mistake you for someone else, even though you do look pretty similar to your siblings. Meanwhile I just look like a second-tier Eastenders villain.
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Briar your face is HELLA distinctive