#but she stands her ground

[kae-eee]

i would’ve really liked a scene of kitty coming out to her sisters before her break from school ended. self discovery and connecting with family are such big themes in season two, and it’s pretty clear that they know by the time she comes back to kiss, so i think the opening scene of the season being kitty having a sit down with lara jean and margo kind of like the one she had with her dad and step mom in the beginning of season one would be a nice touch, cool parallel, and redeem the shit way season two handled kittys bisexuality a little bit.

[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?

[unpersoniverse]

Skén:nen sá:sewh

as promised, here's Precious boy™ getting kissed by Precious wife™ because he deserves all the love in the world :cc

translation: Get home safe

[reinventboy]

challengers (2024) dir. luca guadagnino

[sherurose]

“I know what you're trying to do right now.” “I'm not trying to do anything Art. [...] I don't need to play mind games with you. :)”

Arguing like a married couple without looking like it while trying to flirt with a girl is hilarious. (I'd give anything to see their original conversation about stanford.)

[rottengurlz]

“Sometimes I dream about you. I memorize every detail of your face like a prayer. Those moments seem so real that I grieve whenever I wake up and your spot next to me is cold. Why did you beg me to kill you? I would’ve stopped. Even in death I cannot escape you. I’m not sure I want to even if I was begging for it.”

w/ @kashisun !! (happy birthday 😭)

[zerozeroren]

Feeling wistful feelings over the fact that the form of Ahiru the majority of us viewers end up loving and rooting for the most (girl Ahiru) is also the most illusive and unreal of the three

[mamaclownhunter]

So I am watching dandadan.

Is it my usual cup of tea? There are bits I can be without. But honestly?

Honestly I am here for the dynamic main duo. I am here for the nerdy boy and the dorky girl. I am here for the fact there are two kids shamelessly themselves and fighting the strange together.

I am here for a nerdy boy who will throw hands at the girl in the next class over. I am here for the girl being a bit of a bitch and the guy is openly calling her out on it.

I am here for the girl who has the strangest fun facts at her disposal. I am here for the boy who despite his typecast as a shy nerdy is loud and shameless and ruthless.

I am here for the story of two kind hearted teenagers with years of masks and walls and anger seeing each other under all the high-school bullshit and gripping each others hands like otters at sea while snapping at each other.

Idk it is refreshing in terms of anime

[ganondoodle]

the idea of playable zelda in itself is really cool, but then i think of how her 'type' of character typically gets animated/sounds/treated and i just shrivel up inside

the only way id accept if it was like fromsofts way of doing it, which is there is literally little to no difference no matter who you play as, but we all know nintendo would never lol

[viric-dreams]

Roberts fun fact--She's able to fall asleep on any size sleeping surface, but regardless of its surface area she will find a way to expand and fill it in her sleep. Expect to wake up on the floor next to your own bed.

[cream-and-tea]

oh pallas and agnes power dynamic you really are SO unbelievably fucked,,,,,

[centaurianthropology]

I am both surprised and not surprised at all that Fearne is the only voice of common sense in this entire party.  If Orym ‘they murdered my fucking family’ of the Air Ashari and Ashton ‘their ends don’t fucking matter because their means are terrible’ Greymoore aren’t there to smack FCG and Imogen back to sense (and our two new anti-gods friends aren’t really helping with that one, much as I like them), at least Fearne is here going “WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS!  THEY MIGHT HAVE JUST KILLED THREE OF OUR FRIENDS!  THEY ALREADY MURDERED ME AND ORYM AND LAUDNA, IN CASE YOUR MEMORIES SOMEHOW FAILED YOU!  THEY ARE GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD BY UNLEASHING A MONSTER THAT CAN EAT THE GODS!  THEY ARE NOT THE DAMNED GOOD GUYS, YOU DUMMIES!!”

Good for her, honestly.  Putting that 20 wisdom to good use.

[scentofpines]

have you ever considered...that identifying out of woman/girlhood because you don't relate to the societal implications, expectations, etc... contributes to making womanhood (feel) even more restrictive? maybe you feel better when thinking of yourself as anything but a girl/woman because you do not feel like a woman (what does that even mean?) but in my opinion you just added another brick into the prisonwall that is gender.

[bennett-mikealson]

POV: Me whenever I started to read a Bamon fic but the author had Bonnie still playing second to Elena.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

ty lee literally doesn't have a single scene in which azula isn't watching her until when she reveals she joined the kyoshi warriors. like. that says it all there, right???

[abirddogmoment]

We took our steadiness training out into the wild last night!