#birth control mention

[lieutenantselnia]

Imagine your scientist f/o inventing a new kind of birth control for the two of you. They'll do everything they can to come up with something that's easy to use, and most importantly, doesn't have any health risks or bothersome side effects. They'll try to come up with something that you don't have to keep track of all the time, but only has to be renewed once every few months or so. Maybe they even manage to create something that can be used regardless of which biological sex a person has, so you're free to decide who of you is going to take it, or maybe you want to take turns or both of you use it to make sure. And should you decide one day that you want to have children now, it will be completely reversible without issues, and you can start your family together.

[myokk]

Being this close to her mother, Eloise was struck by their physical similarities. As a young girl, it had been impossible to see, but now that she was a young woman they were striking. She felt as if she were looking in a mirror, but a twisted mirror: everything that was warm about her appearance was turned cold in her mother: hazel eyes to a frigid silver, unruly brown hair to straight black; her mother’s skin was somehow even more pale than Eloise’s, as if she were cut from marble. Everything soft about Eloise was made sharp in her mother, and Eloise wondered what had made her this way. She was terrified that in twenty years’ time, the two of them would be indistinguishable.

Had Elladora Black always been like this? Eloise couldn’t imagine any time when her mother might have smiled, or even huffed in quiet laughter. No moments where she had been caught staring at her husband with love and warmth in her eyes. Eloise had only ever known her as an ambitious, cold woman who was always striving towards some goal, even if it was known only to her.

Someone couldn’t spend their whole life like that, could they? Even growing up at the manor, Eloise had always had Leo to confide in and love unconditionally. Had her mother ever had something - or someone - like that?

“Soon, we will be the family we were always meant to be,” Eloise’s mother said, causing Eloise to startle out of her thoughts and stare her mother in the eyes. They were filled with longing. They were mesmerizing. Eloise shivered under the intensity, but couldn’t tear her eyes away. “Soon, we will be back on our way to being the most prominent pureblood family in Britain, with the help of you and your brother. You can’t fail us. You can’t.”

From chapter 23 of my fic, Before It Felt Like A Sin

this post is dedicated to @elliecutte the only other person who is as crazy about Elladora Black as I am😌🙏

[luck-of-the-drawings]

FOR A BEAT OF HEART, THE BREATH IS SHOT. AND WITHIN A BREATH, THE HEART IS CAUGHT. THE PIPES ARE BURSTING, UNDER GREAT STRESS, BOLTS TORN ASUNDER, MAKING A MESS. A FINAL COUGH, A FINAL RETCH, A GOREY SLOUGH, CLAIMED BY WRETCH.

[arrowmaker15]

(Steph, Jason, and Tim sitting on the couch in Wayne Manor)

Steph: So, why did you and Rose break up?

Tim, curious:

Jason: Well, we broke up for the reason every other couple breaks up. We weren't having the amount of sex required to ignore the bad things about each other.

Tim: ....what...?

Jason, not stopping: It's just like this one phrase; "Love is blind. Lust is Hellen Keller."

Tim, spitting coffee out: JeEZus!

Steph: We don't have that problem, do we?

Jason: Oh, hell no. Three times a day is perfect.

Tim, partially choking: STOP TALKING-

[cardsharksplayingames]

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[leupagus]

Say what you will about Martin's writing style (and I've said plenty) but I do think he's got the White Walkers' mythos worked out for a future book and IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO NICE IF THE SHOWRUNNERS HAD DONE 1/100TH OF THAT WORK SETTING THEM UP

Gus: I am mad all over again that there was absolutely zero explanation given as to why/how the Night King operates or how his powers work or why he chose now to attack or ANYTHING ELSE

Gus: on the plus side it means I get to make up a whole subplot that, not to brag, I'm comfortable saying is at least as good as anything D&D could've made up IF THEY HAD EVER EVEN BOTHERED

Gus: but like - okay so craster's infant sons get sacrificed to the Night King, who them magics them into White Walkers as babies

Mardia: Yep yep

Gus: so does that mean there's a white walker nursery

Mardia: Omg

Gus: do they have to change diapers

Mardia: LOOOOOOOL

Gus: is there a white walker daycare center

Gus: how does the night king TEACH his lil adopted monster babies

Gus: is there like storytime around the - well not fire

Gus: does the Night King remember what it was like to sit around a fire?

Gus: does he miss being a human and all his rage at the spell the Children of the Forest put on him to kill the First Men has curdled his brain?

Gus: what was he DOING for like 8 millennia, just hanging out?

Gus: did he get really good at ice fishing?

Gus: DO THEY EAT?

Gus: where the fuck do they get their snazzy outfits from

Gus: are there white walker tailors

Gus: what's the currency situation

Mardia: Lololololololol

Gus: I'M JUST SAYING

[horny-deadcat]

Kinda a vent: The struggle about bc as a trans masc… first of all you have to be on one if you’re going to start t, since having a kid while taking T can lead to all sorts of side effects.

There are two kinds of birth control: estrogen based and progesterone based. Estrogen is the generally feminizing hormone, whereas progesterone is what the body produces when pregnant so that fluctuating estrogen levels don’t cause you to release more eggs.

You’d think, oh, I don’t want more estrogen in my body if I’m going to be taking T, cause that may hinder some of the effects, so I’ll take a progesterone one… thing is, progesterone based bcs don’t stop your period, and can in fact make it longer. The last two months my period has lasted for 2 weeks ish. It’s probably gonna happen again this month. I got maybe a week and a half of not bleeding. And yes, I have cramping and unstable hormones the. Entire. Time.

I’ve switched to pretty much only tampons because they make me less dysphoric, but even going to get them feels awkward. I hate the fact that there’s pretty much nothing I can do now to lessen my period. I cant even be on t because of various things. I can’t do any of my hobbies too much because the cramps hit out of nowhere and I’m doubled over in pain. It even happens at work.

Idk… I’m tired of my body’s bullshit, and if I could id get the fucker ripped out of me (the uterus I mean)

[doomdaysdecays]

contraception should be just as much if not MORE the responsibility of men. its their fuckass sperm that invades and causes pregnancy in the first place yet all theyre expected to do is put some rubber over their dick for like 15 minutes if they even make it that far

[semiotomatics]

lol. i think ive reached my limit.

[jennifersbod]

so tired of birth control (medicine) shaming. Like yes it’s a band aid fix in some cases but we do very much USE band aids?

[tittysuckersworld]

lettin here know first but uh. im a resident usamerican and because of. well. my family is already planning on moving out of the place! so! uh yeah!!! were plannin on headin somewhere where we can take time learning new languages and can hopefully make ourselves a good life. i dont know when this will happen. i know im at least going to be finnishing this school year as long as stuff dosent get too bad. my older bro is going to be leaving somewhere else first early so he can be safe while me and lil bro plus dad are gonna be staying here to finnish the year. sorry all this is really surreal and i dont know what to say. ya

[tpup]

You fantasize a lot about being a trans woman. That puffy nipples post you made in march made me do a double take when I saw your url was tpup (trans man url.)

Interesting interpretation of my posts! I specify that I'm TME in my bio; I don't wanna mislead people. My posts are not about me fantasizing about being transfem 🤷‍♀️

A lot of posts of mine are made with transfems in mind; I was in a long term relationship with someone while she was transitioning & a lotta my posts come from me enjoying being part of that. I'm also for the first time in my life feeling comfortable as a woman, and enjoying that exploration, but I always try to mention I'm TME so as not to mislead TMA people.

I'm t4t, a lesbian, and generally more comfortable & feel most sisterhood with transfems. I don't identity as a trans man (although I have in the past) I guess I'm something closer to a cisgender transsexual lately. I'm a woman, I like being on T, and I think I want to pursue phalloplasty some day.

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about fallout 4 against my will

[forgotten-daydreamer]

vent moment but my health is a bit worse than i let on, which is weird ik since it seems like complain about it all the time here, and apparently i also look sick, because two separate people in their 40s or 50s asked me, 24, if i needed their seat on the bus. kind of them. but humiliating nonetheless.

[marcusbrutus]

UGH the lead-in-tampons shit makes me so mad, this would have been solved yesterday if it happened to men. i hope they realize how much western medicine caters to them specifically. they have like 16 different prescription and non-prescription pills for erectile dysfunction but things common among women like PCOS and endometriosis and PMDD remain a ~mystery~, usually treated by hormonal birth control that we will probably lose access to next year.

[wishesofeternity]

“Warwick launched his final bid at kingmaking, this time in alliance with Margaret of Anjou to restore Henry VI. He and Clarence landed in Devon while the King was in Yorkshire. Elizabeth (Woodville)’s initial reaction was to prepare for a siege in the Tower of London where she had already retired in expectation of the imminent birth of another child. But on 1 October news reached the capital that the King was preparing to set sail from Bishop’s Lynn, abandoning his kingdom. With no hope of imminent rescue, Elizabeth moved swiftly into the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey with her mother and her daughters. She sent Abbot Thomas Millyng to advise the Mayor and Aldermen that she was surrendering the Tower, and consequently Henry VI, into their custody.

- J.L Laynesmith,  “Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight’s Widow” in “Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts” / “The Last Medieval Queens, English Queenship 1445-1503″

"Elizabeth (Woodville) at first fortified the Tower of London against the approaching Lancastrians, but then decided instead to hand over custody of the Tower to the mayor and aldermen of London while she went into sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. It was a move which not only protected her daughters, who were with her, but also saved London from attack, which perhaps explains some of the praise she later received. The author of 'The Historic of the Arrival of Edward IV, who claimed to have witnessed much of what he recorded, stressed

the right great trowble, sorow, and hevines, whiche [the queen] sustayned with all manar pacience that belonged to eny creature, and as constantly as hathe bene sene at any tyme any of so highe estate to endure; in the whiche season natheles she had browght into this worldc, to the Kyngs grcatystc joy, a fayrc son.

...When Edward (IV) arrived, there was a scene of family bliss, in which the queen's vulnerability and domesticity could be contrasted with his heroism.  The king was thus presented in an unusually human guise, which might appeal to readers familiar with such partings themselves throughout the civil wars:

The king comfortid the quene, and other ladyes ckc;  His swete babis ful tendurly he did kys;  The yonge prynce he behelde, and in his armys did bere. Thus his bale turnyd hym to blis.