#it's exhausting

[iliiuan]

I learned recently that they will remove chunks of a woman's cervix with only otc pain medication and I was livid. LEEP or cone biopsy are the names. Demand anesthesia.

Let's just call this what it is. It's abuse.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have recommended that women are offered painkillers before IUD insertion. Here are just a handful of what women had to say about this news:

[blindmagdalena]

enough "it's bad writing to portray evil characters sympathetically" and more "i'm uncomfortable sympathizing with characters who do evil things"

discomfort does not warrant censorship, it warrants self reflection. it's good to be challenged by the art and media we consume. the world is messy. fiction should be, too.

[ex-foster]

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

POV: You're reading a Star Wars fic, you love it, it hits you in all the right ways, the main characters are funny lame and relatable and the themes are just perfect.

Then comes a misunderstanding of Jedi philosophy, negative views on the Jedi seen as in the right or Luke Skywalker as a gray Jedi (bonus points if he follows Jedi philosophy to a T but the author missed the point).

And then you get frustrated and can't enjoy the fic.

[lovemyromance]

Guys so apparently - out of 4.5, 800+ page books, SJM did not want people to pick up on the actual Elriel scenes on the page. She was both building and destroying the Elriel romance before ACOSF through a secret code that only ELs & GAs picked up on.

I'm here to translate what we should've picked up on years ago, that apparently is common knowledge amongst the other side!

SJM wanted us to pick up the 3 separate times she used sunlight in regards to Elain & the zero times it was used in regards to Lucien (but this still means they're mates)

She wanted us to notice an alleged dagger lesson Azriel gave Gwyn

And pay attention to the 183rd time someone looked at someone with amusement or challenge in ACOSF only- that specific moment which happened to have Azriel and Gwyn (and Nesta and Cassian and Emerie and the other priestesses) was more significant than the past 3 books.

She wanted us to remember that she used the word spark for multiple things in the TOG series and not remember the other time she used it in ACOTAR with Feyre & Tamlin.....

And Idk if you guys picked up on her "secret code" but she actually wrote the first 3.5 books for you to use as kindling and doorstops.

Apparently in ACOSF, through a series of Morse code blinks first mentioned in TOG and also her elusive book Catwoman, SJM basically tells us that the first 3.5 ACOTAR books are useless and we should just act like they don't exist.

There's probably more secret messages we missed, but I don't have the energy to comprehend more GA canva ppts 🫠 it sucks to not have a English degree that helps me understand this book on fairy smut

[mimi--diary]

[awkwardrocker]

I know there's a lot of Yuki hype and Liam hate happening but I think everyone is jumping the gun.

Just the same as the reporters asking Horner if they were giving up on the car and switching to 2026 designs after 2 races when one of their drivers is still 2nd in the championship.

Everyone needs to calm down.

Redbull have been saying since testing that they focused on fixing the balance and kerb issues. They seem to have done that and now it's about optimizing the car to find more pace.

Max unlocked something with the tires in that 2nd stint with the hards. I think Redbull will take that, analyze it, and apply those changes. If Liam still cannot get a handle on the car after those changes, then we should discuss a swap. But 2 races in, with limited practice (in a car with like 16 upgrades on it compared to testing), is insane. The poor kid's had 2 practice sessions in Australia (since the third was cut short due to a mechanical issue) and 1 ahead of a sprint weekend in China. He deserves time to figure it out. It should be limited but 2 races is insane guys. It seems like the tires are struggling to effectively turn on with this car and even Max struggles with it. (Listen to his onboards from the first half of his hard stint in China. He was testing everything trying to get the tires to work and stop the sliding.) Give the whole team a break. If they listened to social media, they should've quit in testing. Know who didn't quit during testing? Mclaren, last year. So chill out for like 2 second please. The team (including Liam) understand the urgency and are clearly trying to improve.

Additionally, the rumors and immediate lack of support for Liam does not do anything but undermine him and the team and adds even more pressure. I get that Yuki looks good this year, but know who else looks good? Isack and the VCARB car just in general. Yuki is a good driver. I am not denying that. But a rookie with no F1 experience hopped in the car, outqualified him in the second race, and matched him on pace all race. Their car is fast, but more importantly, it is driveable. There is absolutely no guarantee that putting anyone else in that Redbull would show an improvement over Liam. But based on how quick Hadjar took to his car, and Liam's past partial seasons, Liam would probably improve in the VCARB. So cut the kid a little bit of slack. He's a person and he's learning a difficult car. And from what I've seen, he is taking full accountability for not learning fast enough and is trying to understand his mistakes and improve his performance. You can think he doesn't deserve it all you want, but let the kid at least try. And if you guys do get your wish for Yuki or Colapinto or whomever else you'd like to drop into that 2nd Redbull seat, you better be prepared for them to fall on their face just as hard because that's the very very likely outcome of replacing Liam right now while Redbull are still learning their 2025 car. Currently, it's not a driver thing. It's a car thing.

[nicolettecallednikki]

Race weekend are so complicated bc how am I supposed to root for Carlos, Esteban, Kimi, Ollie, Oscar, Yuki, & Charles all at once ?

[penofwildfire]

Can Kai fans shut up about the thing with Chen's staff already it was like 13 seasons ago and lasted 20 seconds or something it was not that important.

[sharona-sims]

Hum...

My Wedding Stories is STILL a pain in the bum! 😩😅

[queer-of-hearts]

The femslash bracket always depresses me. How many times do I have to see a couple of boring wonder bread straight girls, who are poorly written and probably only popular because of queerbaiting, beating out actual complex well written canon representation in the brackets?

[fyeahnix]

Nothing kills my motivation to read an otherwise interesting story faster than a writer who puts ALL character dialogue in the same paragraph. Please STOP DOING THIS.

It's so fucking hard to read, my GOD I already have ADHD

NEW SPEAKER, NEW PARAGRAPH. PLEASE.

[loosiusgoosius]

Tired of these movies who's lesson is "the world sucks everything is bad consumerism is killing us media is rotting our brains and killing our empathy"

Maybe everyone is doing the best they can with what they have. Maybe the average person can't just change the world. Maybe we're allows to acknowledge those issues and still find joy in things like video games and pop tarts. Maybe it's not about the horrible person saying X group of people is terrible in some way shape or form. Maybe it's about the lady who gives you a dollar you're short at the gas station. Maybe it's about treating yourself to chocolate after a long day. Maybe it's about the guy helping you load your groceries when you're struggling. Maybe it's about the coworker sending you a tiktok and saying "I thought of you".

Maybe we don't have to always see life as this horrible slog to get through and that we're constantly burdened by the choices made by other people, constantly atoning for sins that weren't even our originally. Maybe, just maybe, we can stop making every single piece of media and topic about how we as a human race are fucked and don't care about each other.

It's not true. It can't be true. The day it becomes true is same day I will decide that life is not worth living.

Fuck negativity.

You are doing the best with what you have.

[tanis-in-a-trenchcoat]

it's amazing that every time the script/actors/whoever makes the slightest queer wink with dean and castiel, the next second the show backpedal so fast It does three backflips

I mean, I'm really tired that after every dialogue like: Castiel is in love with dean humans

or

dean saying: cas I need you

they are separated or immediately overrun by women (yes i'm on season 10 and watching the castiel/hannah roadtrip while dean is a demon, and I just have to laught).

as I have said in some other post of my spn watch: the queerbaiting of this series is unbearable but at a level that is not even comparable to other series of the moment, before or after

not even as in sherlock where AT LEAST sherlock and john are given space to interact, or as in House MD where House and Wilson have episodes and episodes of just them clowning around and being insufferably codependent

the equivalent between supernatural and the other series would be, for example, that after any minimally gay phrase (like the famous blood types dialogue in House) would be that Wilson or John would DISAPPEAR for half of the season with no real narrative explanation

I like this show, okay, but I'm TIRED

[algrenion]

mental health tw

kind of fucking batshit insane in hindsight that i can describe having visual, auditory and olfactory hallucinations to my doctor + feeling out of control of my own body and they'll just be like "hmmm... that's not good... but i don't want to refer you to psychiatry, you should call like a helpline or something"

and my dumb ass will just be like "ok! thanks for your time :D"