#cw // mensturation

[cnmcn]

I think we should normalize talking about periods but here's your tw in case you don't wanna hear me --

If you have hormone issues like me, i.e. PCOS, that cause your menstual cycle to be absolutley awful, like soaking a XXL pad through in a day bad, don't be afraid to use underwear style stuff like depends. They're usually marketed for menopause and incontinence in older women but they work great for blood as well and are way more secure than sticky pads since they're basically absorbent underwear.

I've had a lot less stains and nighttime slips since starting to use them and I really reccomend them. They work pretty well and alliveate the stress of checking constantly if I've bled through.

Don't let people sigmatize this kind of stuff especially when it can bring people peace of mind like that. And don't ever let someone give you shit for a product that makes your life easier.

[strawberrystepmom]

feeling lustful about madara again am I ovulating

[desthebolt]

Can i just say like… its insane that i am never, EVER, gonna have another period again. My whole life it was just pain and misery but now its just… gone. I fucking love it so much yall dont even know i am just livin it up

[huboi]

period pain

ft ganyu, zhongli, xiao

reader— gn (afab)

cw/tw— periods, cramps

🥥 | GANYU

she’s able to relate to having periods, so she understands how painful they can be at times

sadly she’s very busy so you won’t get to see her often :(

good thing is whenever she does come home she’ll bring you your fave snack, a hot water bottle etc. anything you need she will get

if your cramps are very bad and you want to snuggle, then don’t hesitate to tell her, she will gladly snuggle with you <3

expect to be somewhat spoiled by her when you’re on your period (but expect her to still work way more than she needs to cause she’s a workaholic)

🐲 | ZHONGLI

we all know that zhongli has taken the form of a female before, which means that he’s most likely gone through the pain of having a menstural cycle

zhongli may be technically human but his dragon instincts/senses are still there, which means he can sense when your period’s going to come before you do

as soon as you start groaning in pain about the cramps, he will not hesitate to run to bubu pharmacy to get all your needs taken care of

he will also brew you some tea to help with the cramps, which is just HFGGDJGH

will also buy you as many sweets/snacks as you want (poor childe’s mora)

if you want to, then he’s alright with laying with you and purring to help ease the pain in a way (I’ve heard that cats purrs are healing to people, so I decided that zhongli does the same thing, u can’t change my mind)

luckily hu tao let him off for a bit to take care of you, cause she too knows how agonising periods can get. she told him he’s going to have to work during some of the holidays in return but anything for u <33

���� | XIAO

when you’re on your period, there’s only one way to explain how xiao reacts

panic

he doesn’t know how to deal with the pain you’re in, which low key makes him feel useless and like he doesn’t deserve you in his life :(

even tho you’re the one in pain, you’re going to have to reassure him and try to show him the ropes

he surprises you with some pain medication and a heat pad along with some sweets and snacks

also he asks if he can brush your hair to help you relax a bit more

which is super soothing, he’s surprisingly good at brushing your hair

dw tho he eventually gets used to your periods and what to do in certain situations, he’s a fast learner

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[obstinatecondolement]

Having kind of a post-NaNoWriMo dip in mood re: the fic groove I have been in tbh. (mental illness and insecurity bullshit, mensturation mention cw)

I do still feel Very Strongly about the ideas I have and I do want to write them/continue working on them in the case of the two WIPs I started this week, but without the external structure of the event it's harder to thinking about sustaining that, especially given that I was making so many glaring mistakes that I feel looked very amateurish (I know it's an amateur hobby, but whatever, I expect very ridiculously high standards of myself in almost everything that I would never hold anyone else to and it's always crushing when I inevitably fail to meet them, lol).

The things I was getting wrong were mostly basic spelling errors, using the wrong word in common phrases that turned things into the uncanny valley of that phrase that didn't not make sense but weren't how anyone would say that particular thing naturally, accidentally flipping word order (or not rephrasing the rest of a sentence properly after copying and pasting things around, etc.), and just, like ... random gibberish typos that only became obvious to me after I posted, despite trying really hard to self edit myself carefully.

It's very difficult for me to have the focus to be able to do that sort of detail oriented task when things are in fast-brain mode. And, like, attention to detail is something I am typically very good at, so it's deeply embarrassing to me, especially in a new fandom where I'm creating a first impression.

And like, more generally I also feel like the shine has kind of gone off me and, I know that this is just my literal mental illness distorting my perception of Everything, but it feels like the fandom is already kind of over me because I'm too much. This is all very much a me problem and I don't think it's true or that anyone has treated me badly or done anything that would reasonably create this impression to a person who was not Going Through It (hence the read-more and, like, also: if you are a recent Ghosts follower you have done nothing wrong and have been nothing but nice to me and I don't want you to reassure me*, I'm just insane and I need to get a grip/have serious mental health issues and need to be better at distress tolerance and not being so insecure in how I'm perceived and prone to assuming that people are sick of me.

But, anyway, I think that part of this is just like... also pretty normal? Hypomanic episodes can last up to months, but usually they do fizzle out much sooner than that for most people most of the time, so I think that I just have kind of run out of steam and now I'm going low again having been pretty high for a sustained two-ish weeks and the very obvious external end of the line signal given by NaNo ending has kind of naturally triggered that downturn.

And I am like, speaking pretty approximately here? I think I probably have mixed episodes more than pure hypomanic episodes, for the most part? But, yeah, I don't know. I think the rollercoaster is coming out of a corkscrew and it's just going down now. Which, you know, does suck but it also won't last forever, so that is some comfort. I also still think I might be premenstrual, which does fuck with my head a lot, so, y'know. TL;DR, I'll be fine, but I am having a hard time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*Like, genuinely, please don't. This is a Me problem and I think it would be bad both for me and for my relationships with others if I were to make the people around me feel that they had to constantly protect my feelings by showering me with attention and reassurance, or whatever. And also, like, I'd feel Very Bad if I thought other people felt guilted into doing that because I made a vent post about my irrational feelings that I know full well on an intellectual level are not reflecting an objective reality, because other people do not deserve to feel personally responsible for the bullshit my brain pulls on me.

[bangchanswolfpelt]

please PLEASE elaborate more on sweet bf hongjoong who tries to pry open every kink you have 💋

quick warning: this is more me thinking out loud than it is actual smut, so feel free to ignore it if that's not a thing you're interested in.

i'm still definitely getting to know Hongjoong, but he gives me the distinct vibe of someone who could be very sexually adventurous, but also someone who doesn't really have a whole lot of actual experience. like, this boy was so busy working, he barely even went to high school—to me, that kind of laser focus on work says that he probably hasn't had time for much of a social life or relationships, and i feel like he's not the type to necessarily go for quick flings.

so like, i'm really into the idea of exploring a relationship where he's figuring out sex with a more experienced reader. reader might be older (i can definitely see Joong being the type to be interested in someone older than him), but we might also keep that vague.

there would be lot of actual talk about sex and kink, i think, and definitely a lot of doing things out of order, because he's a fuckin Scorpio and what do order and convention even mean??? did you think Hongjoong was going to wait until after he put his dick in you to pry all your deepest and most depraved secrets from you? virginity is a social construct, he has pussy to eat and a soulmate to unravel like a murder mystery.

(also, i. almost never use the phrase soulmate unless i'm talking about aus where soulmates are a real, observed phenomenon, but also. i feel like Hongjoong would genuinely think of the person he's with as his soulmate? idk, i just feel like when things get serious with this boy, they get Serious, he doesn't seem like someone who does things halfway.)

((re: doing things out of order, one thing that's very vivid in my mind is Joong on your lap after he's confessed to you that he really wants you to peg him. you're both fully clothed, and at this point in the relationship he’s never even gotten more undressed for you than maybe taking his shirt off, but he's grinding up against you, panting and moaning and babbling as you grope his ass and tell him exactly how you're going to ease him open with your tongue and your fingers before you make him take your strap. he cums in his pants with his face buried in the crook of your neck, tears running down his face because he wants you to fuck him so badly.))

i'm imagining a lot of very gently (and occasionally not-so-gently) taking care of him and exploring what he's interested in. as he gets more comfortable, eventually Hongjoong would realize how much focus you're putting on his wants and needs and start trying to find ways to delve into yours, because he cares about fulfilling your needs, but also because the idea of leaving you in any way unsatisfied is unbearable to his pride and the idea of not understanding the fullness of your desires would be untenable to his curiosity. he'd also be interested in switching things up in a more distinctly d/s way; you take the lead in a lot of earlier exploration and he defers to that, but as time goes on and he inevitably sees you in more vulnerable situations, he'd realize that sometimes you're more inclined to follow than lead, and that he's also sometimes very into that.

we're definitely getting into watersports and ear kink. ear kink because watching ALICE ASMR and going from 'i think this is kind of hot?' to 'what do i even do with this?' was a big impetus for this whole disjointed verse—like, i just very vividly imagined him finding you getting yourself off and playfully demanding to know what you're watching, then instead of being weirded out, just jumping fully onboard in a way you didn't even think was possible—kissing your ears and whispering the weirdest, filthiest dirty talk into them while he fingers you in motions that mimic the way the ears in the video are being played with. watersports because i feel like Joong would be really into the vulnerability of you wetting yourself for him, and also the inherent filthiness and taboo of it, and also because i personally am very into it.

medical kink could be a lot of fun, i think—i can see him being the type to look up and teach himself how to do a whole actual cranial nerve exam while thinking "This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in sex, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve."

playing with consent might also on the table—i can see him being into cnc, but also maybe a little uncomfortable with how into it he is, and that could be an interesting place to go. menophilia, somno, and sounding are all things i can see him getting into, too, but i'm not leaning super hard into any particular direction with any of them.

there's definitely gonna be some affectionate degradation: Hongjoong strikes me as the type to very lovingly call you 'slutty', and i feel like a part of him would enjoy it more knowing that you did used to sleep around before you settled down with him. he enjoys knowing that you could have anyone you want, that you had so many people you wanted, but it's him you've chosen to be with now. it's a very unique kind of possessiveness that i think he has—he doesn't care about being your only one, he just cares about being the one who's indispensable to you—which is why i think we could also get into him sharing you, i'm thinking with either Seonghwa or maybe the rest of 5racha.

this is all very up in the air, tho. i've got some scenes a little more clearly sketched out, but i'm honestly not sure i've got Hongjoong's character down well enough to do something so ambitious? if you've actually made it this far, i'd love to hear your thoughts!!

[whimsyprinx]

my period hasn’t started yet and it’s been days past when i figured it would’ve started so I’m living in fear of it starting

[nonbinaryshotgunman]

⚡My uteruz be like "Hiiiii! *gets blood everywhere but the pad*⚡

[sidhewrites]

You know what people who menstruate should get 200$ for every cycle just for dealing with the inherent grossness of your insides leaking out at all hours of the day for multiple days at a time

[wizardbubs]

i need one of those purposefully shitty microsoft word art t shirts that says "MY UTERUS IS A DUMB BITCH"

[lazy-cat-corner]

Are people buying out maxi pads?

I luckily found something that will work for my period, but I don’t think it’ll hold me over because my usual pads (and everything else) are GONE! 😭😭😭

What the hell are people who menstruate supposed to do?!?!

[neon-mooni]

Kind of an inappropriate question, but, does Elsa still have a menstrual cycle, or do her powers prevent that?

[bardicbeetle]

Hey hi if my period could pretty please not be fucking debilitating, that would be cool.

Ugh...

Someone assassinate me why am I allergic to fucking Ibuprofen AND Aspirin.

Tylenol is useless.

[habibialkaysani]

canarei replied to your post “okay, so, tmi but I kinda need to ask it. is it normal do you think...”

I remember the dr telling me that for the first 3 months your body might act a bit different during you’re entire cycle, not just when you’re actually on your period. Cramps might feel different, but after the first 3 months your body should get use to the meds and your cycle will most likely be more consistent and they’ll be a lot less pain. However, after those 3 months if the pain barely changed, ask your dr to up the dose (I think it’s estrogen you need to up??) Also if you notice your flow is a lot heavier and everything is worse, then make sure you check in with the dr because that might not be good. My first month on it was back in March, it was a normal period that month, and I don’t recall the dr saying that the flow and/or pain will be worse or heavier or anything. So just make sure that if anything is really bad, or feels off/wrong, you check in with your dr just in case.

yeah I mean what bothered me was that I had really godawful cramps before I had any bleeding. and now it’s started there has been barely any flow so presumably this is just my body adapting. 

I really appreciate everyone reaching out about this :)

[weirwoodforest]

My activities for tonight included

-being on the first day of my period/dealing with PMDD

-feeling dead inside and very numb because of the aforementioned chemical depression that seems to exasperated everything else

-going from 0 to 100 reading a post about how hard it is to survive a nuculear bomb and all that entails and getting this shit scared out of me

-watching a horror movie about a little girl and her alcoholic mom trying to survive a night in a woods with a monster and crying my eyes out because Feelings (reading about the nuculear bomb scared me more tbh)

-listening to Last Podcast on the Left and working on an old Harlots fanart in order to cheer myself up (this worked)

-taking my meds and looking up Hereditary memes on the internet while I wait to fall asleep

Tonight has been A Lot. I think I’m going to order my favorite Thai food tomorrow and try to take care of myself.

[whatbigotspost]

Cw: blood, genitals, surgery

If a surgical procedure will inherently cause some bleeding from the vagina why in the fuck would you not provide patients the the correct type of pad needed? And covered fully by insurance? You’re REALLY gonna make them have to go to the store and pay for them? In order to recover from surgery properly?

Ohhhhh right. Silly me. The for profit medical system. And actually...the for profit EVERYTHING system. And a government run almost entirely by people who cannot relate to this experience in the slightest. And have no empathy.

I mean fuck, we’re still paying SALES TAX on menstural products. I am such a fool. SALES. TAX.

People not in the US...is this another case where you’re like “wtf?” to all of this or are these things present in your systems too?