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[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

”I don’t want to give Jehovah’s organization a black eye so I have to suffer in silence. Oh the pain! The pain!”

Mhm. Have you ever considered that Jehovah’s organization has given you not one, but two proverbial black eyes, broken ribs, and a concussion over the years; and maybe you should expose them for the abusers they are, if only enough to get yourself help to heal from the abuse you’ve experienced? You’ve got Stockholm syndrome bad, and you’re making it everyone else’s problem. You cared about your abusers so much that you abused me in their name, just because I wanted no part of their organization. Even if I didn’t seek out apostate resources, I wouldn’t have needed them to make my decision to leave because of how much you vented about them to me since I was about five years old. Did you just expect me to stay here and take the abuse like you did? I’m better than that; I’m better than you.

[phantomram-b00]

Can we normalize this for 2024? Pretty please?

[comet-wire]

Ngl I've been having a gender crisis again on top of all the stuff that's happened with my dad, I think I still identify as male/masculine idk 🗿

Same with my ace/aro spectrum placement ☝️🗿

[a-little-bit-poss]

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[autisticasgore]

Shoutout to that one person who said that "no wonder I'm being stalked" because one of my crimes was apparently (checks list) posting "wooby asgore art" in the asgore tag because that's definitely a normal thing to say to someone being harassed over pixels

[barstoolblues]

i guess i officially have no college friends anymore as of today. so

[regular-lord-reckoner]

aaaand home again!

good trip!

happy to be back!

do still feel like i'm in a moving vehicle but that'll pass

g'night!!

[navree]

once again on my frankenstein bullshit because i’m sure it’s a very nice bookend but it is baffling that so many fix it attempts for this story are built on frankenstein asking the creature’s forgiveness in the arctic because like??? no??? the only time victor was ever in the position of “hey you should really say sorry to this guy” is after he first ran away. everything else after that should be the creature fucking groveling and saying “hey sorry i murdered your brother and then framed your friend so she’d be executed and then murdered your boyfriend and the murdered your wife which made your dad weaken and die”  because in the scales of who’s been wronged more, guy whose father was mean to him is very much trumped by guy who had everyone he loves wiped the fuck out because his son threw a temper tantrum. 

sorry.

[emile-hides]

If you could make only ONE fairy tail ship of yours canon with the magic of your brain which ship would it be? Please ramble. 💚

Laxus/Freed no question about it. It's not even a contest.

Would I like the Levy/Lily/Gajeel polycule to be real? Yes, yes of course I would, but Gajeel/Levy is canon and that's enough for me.

Honestly out of all my Fairy Tail ships (which you can see a full list of Here on my Ship Blog) Laxus/Freed is the closest to canon, and the only one I'd think "Big Win" if it did go canon.

I've never cared much about a ship I like going canon anyway. It doesn't effect much other than the amount of people talking about it.

Honestly what I'd rather do is uncanon some ships.

Number 1 being Erza/Jellal. I have such a thing against Jellal and I apologize he deserved his redemption I'm glad he didn't just like. Die or vanish into obscurity but like! I hate the idea of him and Erza being a canon couple with children some day!! Hate it!! It puts a bad taste in my mouth. I hate being negative tho so I'm not gonna ramble about it too much...

You know what else I want to uncanon?? The ship that floats the whole damn story; Zeref/Mavis

I hate it I hate it I hate it so much I hate how fanon treats it all cute and shit when it's probably the canon most Dead Dove do Not Eat kind of content canon has given us. I don't hate it because it's Dead Dove, that's actually what's holding it together for me, what I hate about it is how integral to the plot it is, how True Love it's treated, how sweet and tragic and twisted by fate it's treated.

It's not! Any of those!! It's a 400 year old man falling in love with a 13 year old girl and yes she's 20 Years Old when he actually realizes what he feels is love but she's still!! Physically!!! Thirteen!!! That's the Point Of The Curse!!! And then!!!!! He impregnates her!!!! AFTER HE THINKS SHE DIES!!!! HELL-FUCKIN-O????

I LOVE Zeref, and I really like Mavis too, I love The Curse Of Contradiction inflicting them both, I love the twisted "love" Zeref feels for Mavis, I love his desperation to find something to love to cling to project on to to save him to fix him to make him feel human again, I love Mavis' bleeding heart, I love Mavis' desire to save Zeref to fix Zeref to make him whole because she's so ful lof love for the world around her and she can see he's suffering and need someone anyone to help him

I think they're story is wonderfully dark. I think Zeref's obsession with her is something I'd very normally adore reading about, but the way it's treated in canon and fanon as a wholesome romance lovers torn apart by fate Romeo and Juilet Bella and Edward bullshit really ruins the whole thing.

Zeref/Mavis is really fucked up and I think we should treat it as such. Not in a boo hate the artist hate the shippers way but in a fun acknowledgment of Dead Dove content way.

[makerscockandballs]

having beef w a professor and being ready to fight with him real bad, but then getting a super good grade in his seminar feels like im a bloodhound who just got a treat by someone it was growling at. where do i put all this fighting spirit now

[bookwyrminspiration]

For your answer on number 6, I can think of lots of animals that could be/would've been taken in by the elves

1. Kākāpō, there's only 104 of them in the entirety of new zealand

2. White Heron, only 100-104 of them

3. Moa, extinct

4. Huia, extinct

5. Ha'ast Eagle

5. Maui's Dolphin (that's the actual name), only 55 of them

6. Greater short tailed bat. The exact population is unknown but they're listed as endangered

I'm mostly thinking about the Moa and Ha'ast eagle, though, as they are very extinct, and I lowkey think they'd fit into the world.

The Moa was about 3 meters (Roughly 9 ft tall). They were similar to Emu in stature, but fatter and with thicker legs. Their feathers were similar to a kiwi's feathers.

The Ha'ast eagle had a wingspan of 3 meters (Roughly 9 ft) and often fought and killed Emus. From what I can tell, they looked like standard eagles aside from the size

Tuatara might be included in the sanctuary, just because they're endangered and also are legitimate dinosaurs. Like, they are the last species of a reptile that thrived in the triassic period. They aren't lizards. They have a third eye. They're absolutely epic and I love them with my whole heart. Also they take about 35 years to fully mature, and live to 60 years on average but can live up to around a century.

-Heathen

(for context, this is in response to an ask I answered a while ago talking about how more human animals fit into the elven world)

I agree with you! In fact, it's technically canon that these animals would be looked after by the elves. No animals have ever gone extinct (to their knowledge, but as humans are aware of these they would be too) under their care and they look after those that in danger of doing so, which would include all of these! I'm sure there are innumerable other species throughout different counties all around the world that would be protected by the elves.

When answering that ask game I was thinking more along the terms of dogs and horses because those were the examples given. Really well known, widespread, non-magical animals that are associated with typical human life. So that's where my "they don't fit" answer came from. For endangered species that changes because it's explicitly stated that the elves work to prevent extinction.

They definitely would be caring for all these creatures, and they're probably chilling out in the sanctuary right now. it's one of those "it's not directly mentioned but is entirely supported by canon" things! Shannon will likely never say anything about the Moa or the Ha'ast eagle, but since no species has gone extinct they'd have to be cared for!

That's a long way of saying I agree with you, but I agree with you!

Also for fun, to those seeing this ask under the cut are pictures of most of the animals Heathen is talking about! The only one I didn't include was the White Heron, which is because google is telling me the White Heron isn't actually in danger. The white-bellied heron is, but not the white heron, and to avoid confusion I'm just omitting it

but otherwise here are a lot of animal pics!

Kākāpō

Moa, extinct

Huia, extinct

Ha'ast Eagle

Maui's Dolphin

Greater Short Tailed Bat

Tuatara

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[yoohyeon]

If my parents learned how to apologize, 90% of the fight we have wouldn’t happen….

[casiavium]

ahhhh

[veone]

I can’t handle an different opinion, coming from the person who people are critical or have a different perspective on a topic (because shit don’t only effect you) and can’t let people have that thought and express it without injecting well I as a [identity] see it this way in a tone thats argumentative in a space where if you meet the energy of said person a mod will tell you to stop arguing and possible blocked but nah not fucking corspetrait. The person who started the shit had multiple black people leave a server.

[x-birdsong-x]

@lockandkeyhyena said it first. Halloween Ends is.. something.

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