#Prattling

[dandizettes]

Watching RSC Tennant Hamlet rn and once again Remembering that I alone have the most correct Ophelia reads………………….. I ALWAYS imagine the first Laertes/Ophelia scene as very tense and not at all playful (the jokes are pretty easy to deliver as passive agressive jabs/peacekeeping maneuvers on Ophelia’s part to not provoke a shitfest family argument) and it is simply NEVER played this way. When will Big Shakespeare let Ophelia have simmering barely-contained resentment for her family!!!!!!!!!! When will we have Ophelia-Polonius-Laertes Family Dysfunction as god intended!!!!!!!!!!!! When!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dahliaornelas]

so i had a project slated for November (Topaz the Human Girl— a human girl haunts the paranormal world) but lately another project has been tormenting me (magic university set in a Giant Tree) and I don’t know which one to focus on ToT

[cowboygenesis]

we all desire to see an astarion fic again but the worms in my brain want me to write a sexy wlw karlach oneshot there's no winners im afraid

[spikerzky]

Honestly, for a “don’t know what I’m doing, wing it & learn” weekend thing I’m still pleased with this doofy little live2d goober.

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Garrulous

Garrulous originates from the Latin garrulus(talkative) and from garrire(to chatter). The word entered English in the 17th century. It describes someone who talks a lot( often about unimportant things).

[wayfaringminstrel]

Whoops. Didn't mean to go MIA from tumblr again. I wound up getting lost in Elden Ring so I can access the DLC.

[fcdemon]

welcome to my 3 square micrometer slice of the internet!

🪞 hal/haskel/simon. 21. it/he/they. white american jew. melodramatic goth. not from pittsburgh (citation needed.) collector of hobbies & interests; lab-grown lover.

🕯️ i primarily reblog art but i would like to start posting my own writings & visual works.

🖼️ i am dubiously autistic and spend a lot of time thinking about irish culture, fashion design, and final fantasy xiv. a more complete list of my interests can be found on my neocities.

🪡 uni student pursuing an english writing & a biology major & an irish minor

🦋 interaction is welcome!! i have been lurking on tumblr since i was a sixth grader. i'm tired of hiding in corners and i want to make friends.

👁️ defenders of zionism/israel — stay off my blog and away from me forever. i have zero patience for your genocidal nonsense. also KYS!

google doc of fund links for gazans

[siover]

i do think that like shiv pretending to be broke in college is very real but she'd probably eat peanut butter straight out of the jar/granola bars etc instead of cooking. i cannot see her ever cracking open a cookbook even for appearances i feel like as part of any artifices she props up she's far likelier to go the low-effort route than otherwise simply bc shes such an intense person in general

[wayfaringminstrel]

Almost the same for me (re: I'm a fuck around and find out reader). I don't even pay attention much to tags—if I remember correctly, I have to actually click to show the tags since I find them primarily useless (for my reading taste). Now, there's been a handful of times I'll click for certain pairings and also will read tags while browsing. Considering I only have one or two things I dislike with a passion and, if I see them, all I have to do is merely scroll by. In the end it's not worth the effort to block two tags. c':

Often I just dive right in after reading a summary (I straight up even skip titles 99% of the time).

My only "nope" is when the formatting is one, massive paragraph.

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

[steel-4-brains]

TIS HOTTER THAN THE CIRCLES OF HELL THEMSELVES, AND BROTHER MINE BALLS OF STEEL ARE MELTING.

[husband]

This is all that stupid ass baby hippos fault

[dandizettes]

pasta alla vodka compilation (first is w pappardelle & veggie sausage, second is w buratta & cremini mushroom, third is with mushroom/veg sausage mix & mascarpone in place of cream & basil from my sister in law’s garden)

[dahliaornelas]

lol my wrimo has not gotten off to a great start I have yet to write/edit a single word

[cowboygenesis]

good morning sweet creatures im back from my cave and ready to post some filth again

[spikerzky]

This BOY. I love them!!

It’s not what I was looking for, but it’s cute AND might work with the card I wanted to build my first commander deck around so I’m happy.

[copperbora]

Copper Prattles: I'm Thinking of Getting Spayed

So to avoid avalanching my loved ones in my various prattling I'm going to blog my prattling here instead so that my potential dumbassery is optional reading instead of something that they have to wade through in order to reach the cute cat pictures that I also spam them with. Which means, yes, now you poor souls will be subjected to my addled mind but at least that's easier to skip over and entirely ignore.

I'm thinking of getting spayed. I have only done a bit of research but so far this is what I have learned:

- Recovery for a laproscopic or vaginal spay is only two weeks! Of course, this means that I would need income to cover those two weeks. Hmm. In vet med we call this variety of spay an 'uncomplicated hysterectomy' because I have never been pregnant which means that my uterus is tiny and therefore much easier to remove.

- For reasons so far unknown surgeons like to leave the ovaries behind. Apparently this is to 'preserve the hormones' which to me who would absolutely love to skip menopause, and who absolutely despises having a period, sounds like utter tripe. My hormones can eff right off and my ovaries can take a hike to the kuiper belt for all I care.

EDIT: Whoa, okay, so the reason why they leave the ovaries behind in human hysterectomies is that if they don't leave the ovaries behind women whose ovaries are removed are significantly 30% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CHD or stroke,) which is a significantly higher risk than them developing ovarian cancer. (1 in 413,800 will develop ovarian cancer per year versus 1 in 14,700 fatal heart problems per year.) This is the study I found which explains this.

Reasons I want to be spayed:

- Not only do I carry neurodivergency genes which would almost certainly make any biological descendant of mine suffer as I have suffered, I probably carry multiple potentially extremely dangerous blood clotting factors on my maternal DNA based on far too many family members' medical experiences. And there's a possibility of cancer. And there is generational trauma in my epigenetics. (I do have some good genetics too, but the scary stuff has weight.)

- CLIMATE CHANGE.

- There's so (too?) many humans in the world and parentless kids, I don't need to add to that. If I am ever in a healthy headspace for parenthood I can adopt instead and love the crap out of a kid who really needs me, and who is already here through no fault of their own, who should grow up adored, thoroughly hugged, and supported unconditionally.

- I am already 33, which means that I am about 10-15 years past peak childbearing age which means that should I reproduce I will be at increased risk of life threatening pregnancy complications (which could also debilitate me for the rest of my life,) at increased risk of carrying multiples (after 30 your body gets desperate to throw out as many offspring as possible it seems,) increased risk of miscarriage (potentially life threatening,) and at increased risk of biological offspring having glitched genes - aka health problems.

- I don't feel female. I have always had some body dysphoria; making myself physically more neutral would be kinda great. (I would be gleefully on board with the entire removal of all of my lady bits including the exterior parts.) Puberty was The Worst for me; I did not welcome it - if anything I gritted my teeth and spat expletives because of how thoroughly unwanted it was. I already feel spayed, like an It. That's why I identify as not-quite-female.

Hangup #1: Culture Conditioning

I was born biologically female. That means according to my unbelievably misinformed and religiously influenced white European-Canadian culture that I am supposed to meet a nice boy either during or right after highschool, get married with him, become pregnant (multiple times of course,) and spend the rest of my life raising his spawn while he potentially cheats on me ('boys will be boys') in order to 'sow his wild oats' (because humans are not actually monogamous by nature.)

This all means that everyone around me is by default aghast at the idea that a woman like me might want to yeet her uterus. When my mom had her hysterectomy - a procedure done to save her life - her surgeon had the gall to ask my father permission to remove it. Which is enraging for so many miriad reasons.

People will say "But what if you want to have kids someday?"

Yeah, I want to be a mom, but at 33 the good ship Biological Offspring is already sailing off without me into the sunset with its imaginary friend Prince Charming.

"You'll meet a nice man someday and you'll want to give him some kids."

Probably not. Kids, like women, are not objects to be 'given' and as an aromantic ace I'm just not attracted to other human beings. I'm honestly more likely to adopt a dog than another human being. (Honestly I want a dog more than I want to be a mom to another human.)

But then there's my own culture conditioned mind, and how I feel like a traitor for wanting to yeet my uterus.

Hangup #2: Instinct

There's something that I can't seem to beat down: instinct. I'm prone to fussing over my loved ones and I have extremely strong maternal instincts so there's a significant part of my psyche that gets upset at the idea of slamming the door on my uterus' misty potential forever.

Hangup #3: (Which Kinda Goes With Hangup #1,) DOCTORS

- Doctors will generally argue the same stuff as #1.

- They'll also probably try to make me keep my uterus just because.

- They'd also likely insist on my ovaries being left behind which makes zero sense to me. In veterinary medicine we yeet the ovaries without batting an eye; why in perfect hell would anyone want to retain them? (I need to research this more!)

- Gaslighting. I get gaslit by my doctor eeevery time I visit her so I can't imagine other doctors being any different.

Hangup #4: Money

'Nough said.

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Anyway, that's today's prattle. If you want a solid educational source regarding women's health I strongly recommend Mama Doctor Jones on Youtube. The podcast Lady Killers and the wonderful television show Call the Midwife are also fantastic sources of feminine knowledge and history.