#std

[eric-coldfire]

Merry Christmas, one and all!

[minsungincorrectquotes]

Minho, seductively: I bet you're wild in bed Jisung: Yeah, I have rabies and everything

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @nocturnns

‘if we wanna talk about forced li's, let's talk about when justin mercado corners mc against a wall and tells her to "kiss me" even if you never romanced him/are a lesbian. pb obviously plays favorites (cough beckett) but that scene made me feel sick’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[spoiledbratblog]

[sophiasharp]

I- Motherfucker, they gave you this in WHERE?

Jodi get your mans, how the fuck was I supposed to know he has

CARP TRAUMA

[lily10277]

Dave Panpa

[wxvzkk]

for some reason (i know exactly why) byler playlists have been popping up on my feed and i know exactly what i need to do

[coachfortner1]

[oldaussieads]

[sapphic-sex-ed]

despite never having sex before I plan to get tested for STDs since I know you can get them through other means as a precaution, what type of tests do I need to do to make sure I don't have any type?

That’s not really necessary at all. The only ones would be the blood borne ones and if you don’t have a history of using dirty needles (injectable drugs, shady tattoo shops where you haven seen the artist open the packaging for the needle) or having had blood transfusions recently (as in the past 3 months). Some STIs are asymptomatic but not the blood borne ones so you would probably be aware if you had any.

This isn’t aimed specifically at you, anon but this over-anxiety about STIs and sex in general has me worried. Yes, there are risks with sex, as there is with crossing the road, jumping on a trampoline or cooking dinner. Do get tested 3 weeks-3 months (incubation time varies between infections) after an interaction with a new sexual partner or if symptoms occur but to get tested without any real risk of exposure is like going to your doctor and asking to get screened for the plague because you might have been near a rat at one point in your life (side note: the treatment for chlamydia is used for one other infection — the black plague!). It’s an anxiety-driven safety behavior. It’s understandable, because sex is so taboo and moralized about, and at the same time it’s not helpful in the long run. In America, there’s a personal cost to you, and in countries where we actually get healthcare at a reasonable or no price at all it’s a resource and cost question for the institution.

-mod liz

Note: HIV can be transferred by blood contact. Always wash your hands after handling human blood, and if you have an open wound touch someone's blood you should get the post-exposure medications and/or testing to be safe. The virus can survive for hours outside of the body and it's not worth the risk of unsafe handling.

-*Mod Star*

Note: while HIV can sometimes survive for a few hours outside the body, that’s a short time compared to other viruses. It’s known as a fragile virus. Be careful of course and use common sense (avoid touching blood that isn’t yours, keep any wounds and scrapes covered with bandaids or gauze, wash your hands regularly, basic hygiene things), at the same time don’t be overly cautious or afraid. If there is a known outbreak in your area you ought to be more careful than usual, otherwise it’s not something to worry about in your day-to-day life. Being risk-aware, ie taking appropriate precautions like, again, avoiding touching blood and washing your hands, is not the same as constantly worrying about infections and having it control and limit your behavior are not the same things. My main point in the original response is to normalize proportionate reactions and worry about infection because the question itself alluded to some neurotic tendencies towards health. As a counselor within the healthcare sector I meet people with these tendencies often and most of the time it’s an expression of deeper patterns of anxiety/neuroticism where the best course of action is to stop doing the safety behavior (for example screenings, checking in on the body trying to notice if things feel “wrong” etc) that on the lower end are mild and can easily be managed and other more severe end have developed into full compulsions and are often then diagnosed with OCD as a result.

So yes, take appropriate precautions, don’t ignore risks, and at the same time also limit safety behaviors because they may temporarily ease anxiety but in the long run they will cause that same anxiety to increase. It’s not dangerous to feel anxious sometimes.

-mod liz

[theresaraccooninmywalls]

I was checking the article about Harvey's clinic on the wiki for funsies and I found out that Shane has NO appointment at all?????

I should have expected it but still

Wtf honey

[thatspyrocomic]

page 50 (wooo, the big 50!!) Can't belive how much bigger this comic will be vs my other attempts hahahahaa

[rforshort]

std free since twenty twenty-three

[dukeofriven]

A couple days ago that post was going around about that scene in TOS where Spock breaks down and cries after being hit with a virus that limits his ability to control his emotions in The Naked Time. It's a famous performance, one that I think works even better on a rewatch with a stronger understanding of Spock's character (or, rather, what his character will become). The rarity of those tears, the rawness of the performance, the power of it all makes it stand out as something really powerful. I cordially dislike many of the choices Strange New Worlds makes for a variety of reasons, but perhaps one of the most potent is how often Spock cries, how often Spock is emotional, and more than anything its unspoken belief that the human side of Spock is the only valid side. This has long been a tension in Trek: more than any other race besides the Borg, Vulcans are often presented not as different but wrong. Humans needle Vulcans to' be emotional' in a way they don't, say, needle Klingons to be pacifists, or needle Benzites to breathe oxygen. Star Trek Enterprise was really the original sinner here, especially given that—due to clumsy writing and a particular beefy American arrogance on the part of one J. Archer—the Vulcans are repeatedly shown to be completely correct that humans are not ready for space travel. And yet their entire philosophy is sneered at, treated as an aberration of values. The Abrams movies picked up this baton: Spock could only show he loved Kirk by screaming with rage and trying to beat a man to death with his bare hands. Vulcans as Vulcans, as an alexithymia-adjacent species, were always in the wrong, always assholes, the very idea of being un- or under- emotional presented as contemptuous. Freakish. Discovery continued this trend: raised-by-Vulacans Michael Burnham is unrecognizable within a few seasons as she has seemly disposed of the entirety of any Vulcan nature she once possessed. Discovery has to do this because much (not all, but much) of modern Trek relies heavily on pure, unrestrained emotional catharsis for its story beats. Many episodes lack much internal logic or clever plotting:the act breaks all lead to emotive moments and then swing to the next, so that by the end of an episode you're ready to tweet about all the emotions you and the character had—regardless of whether or not those emotions made any sense, or actively undermined the characterization. Perhaps no one is more damaged by this in modern Trek than Spock, who—like my anxious cat—is permanently a single overheard harsh syllable away from some kind of openly emotive reaction. Vulcans have emotions, Spock has emotions, but their central conceit is the way in which they are not ruled by them. In a storytelling world, however, in which being ruled by emotion is equated with being relatable to an audience, Vulcans aren't just different from humans, they're wrong. And so Spock's Vulcan side must constantly be rejected, first Discovery and then SNW: if he's not emoting, then he's not relatable, then he's being wrong, so Spock must sigh, Spock must cry, Spock must constantly wander around looking like a kicked puppy. It doesn't drain the power of Nimoy and that scene for the Naked Time. But it does fail, utterly, to comprehend it.

[wxvzkk]

i love making playlists i probably will never give the person, its enjoyable to put my raw emotions into which songs i choose and to make sure it all fits together with my emotions towards them.