#the mun is using one for period cramps

[out-of-heaven-and-hell]

Heating pads are a god sent.

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

Hello there.

I know you are feeling a bit down but...would it be possible to give us a list of the DI5 infected monsters that's been hunting the fractions down? So we know what we know so far?

((Oh, hello. I guess I can give a list of the infected and the types. Though, I do have some things to add or maybe reactions? I don't know but anyway, here is your list. Tagging @demon-blood-youths since muses are part of this Au so if she was curious, here is some new updated information.))

Silver butterfly mun/Peahen mom

~~DI5 infected monster/turned list so far~~

~~Data update~~

~DI5 demons (First stage)

These creatures were once demons that was bitten by another infected demon. They are infected within the first 5 hours. One will know they are infected with the area being slightly red with the bite marks. The following will happen within the new few days:

*Days for infection/progress through changes*

1st day: bitten area will be swollen or red as it heals. The demon bitten will still be okay but area will or might start getting irritated and itchy.

2nd-4th day: the area has healed but red veins will be seen showing they are infected for a short period of time. Extra teeth will start showing/growing on 3rd day. The red veins disappear on the 4th day.

5th-10th day: In between these days, blood cravings will start to kick in. First urge is painful and will result in the infected attacking or biting another demon

12th day: Will or may need to either get demon blood in before losing themselves to the hunger or bloodlust. Demon blood tablets were made to help with cravings. However, blood from another demon is also strong.

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They seem normal far away but up close their skin is a different tint of color, eyes are glowing a darker shade of their own color. When bitten, has the following abilities:

~Able to turn another demon to another infected by biting only. Theirs been no report of scratching that spreads infection yet.

~Has extra set of sharp teeth that makes a strong venom that once bitten it infects them through their blood. Goes through a day cycle during the changing process even if it's slow. The more bites you have from one, the higher chances it will cause the change to speed up.

~Physical traits has increased in strength, hearing and sight has increased in strength

~Can climb buildings while hunting for prey or others to turn, can seen a lot more better in the dark at night. Tends to stay hidden during the day though but some do come out to hunt.

~DI5 demons (Second stage)

Within 12 hours, infection has started showing some side effects/changes to the demon that was bitten. Bite area is no longer showing red veins or swelling but now has other effects:

Stomach pain/cramps due to not having/eating demon blood. This has adapted so now they can have any type of blood. Being human, demon, or other creatures.

Body aches (Trying to fight infection leads to this and tends to be painful the longer the demon fights it.)

Fever to sweating slightly. (Not much is reported but it's common or seen. Tends to lead to chills and shaking of the body.)

Sudden behavior changes (Sometimes, infected tends to attack another of their own kind if one is either adapting or becomes weaker to losing to the infection. Right away, they are killed in the process by the aggressive infected demons. Or even Feral around others that's not infected or is. Sometimes tends to have nightmares or visions due to it or what the brain is effected thanks to the virus.)

Body changes (Tends to get sharp talon nails or sharper teeth. Eyes remain the same but it's been recorded some might have new eye colors of blood red, gold, and dark blue. Only a few were seen with these changes)

Mating/marking (something like in the omegaverse), very possessive of other if they are either bond to them. This happens if a demon or human is that infected blood giver. For a while, if they drink only that one's blood they would only want theirs and no one else. Reports say primal and other urges are seen during this so it's advised to know them. Behavior will changed along with needs and urges for that bonded other/mate.

Increased strength in Power, demonic power. (This will increase their strength but they will be more dangerous depending. Might end up giving into blood urges but can be calmed down or stopped by blood giver or side medicine (demon blood tablets)

~DI5 demons (Third stage)

Within 24 hours or more, the demon is fully now heavily infected where the increase for blood is tripled. It's said when this happens they have the need to either claim their blood giver for themselves, becomes more aggressive around other infected. Is more protective of that one and it's allies. Although most are now in this state others that were not so lucky turned or adapted to the infection.

Their own demon blood has either adapted to the infection and became one with that demon. For now, the few that has turned or is still sane are safe. While others who lost their will to the madness has become mindless and hungry for blood and others to infect.

It's also been said, humans now can become infected after the increased adaption of the new strain found within the DI5 infection. On about 78% that's human will either turn while the rest of of the percentage shows the human dying due to the strain.

Update information: Right now, their is a cure being worked on but no results have shown just yet. This remains unknown.......

However, this Virus has spread outside of NYC territory to outside of NYC Report says it's been seen in Philly(Philadelphia), New Jersey, and Yokohoma, japan, and other cases have been seen popping up.

~~Different types of infected Recorded~~

Regular DI5 infected: The first few that was released into NYC to spread the virus to any other demon. This has spread within 24 hours and now is over run in the city. The main ones were killed but the infection has already spread by them.

Population of infected demons: 100% of NYC

Di-H (Infectious predator): Infected hunter demons that is seen either running on two feet or all fours. Behaves like a wild animal ready to strike to infect or kill whoever is not infected. Their appearance has changed from looking more ghoulish like beasts. While some remain human like walking around their mind still thinks like a wild animal.

Population of infected: 98% within NYC

DI5 adapted: Infected humans that's roaming the streets within packs or by a few people of 3-5. They tend to hunt around looking for food or other humans to either turn or kill. Theirs not a lot of them in NYC since most are either in hiding or in safe houses all over.

They tend to make hidden dark underground burrows where most of the infected brings prey and uninfected people or demons to feed off of later. These burrows are under NYC but you can avoid it by seeing the hidden caps that hide the deep dark cave in holes.

Population of adapted infected: 34% within NYC and increasing rapidly

Population of healthy humans: 29% within NYC but decreasing slowly and steady

Population of Healthy demons and other creatures: 48% within NYC but decreasing rapidly

DI5 Lurker demons: These ones are not seen in packs but is well known for ganging up on lonely travelers that tends to try attacking prey when near. Most have already claimed a few so far or has infected others that come in their territories. Most are seen in subways, hidden tunnels, dark alleyways, or other places that's dark. It's strongly advised to travel in groups.

Population of DI5 lurker demons: 84% hidden within NYC

Sky jackers: demons that only has the ability to fly to have a 57% chance of their infection having a evolution strain change. This is a infected that's able to fly through the skies of dark NYC to look for prey and unfortunate people to snatch up. They don't fly in packs as much but theirs been sightings of some that do.

Population of Sky Jackers: 27% in the skies or hidden within NYC

Mutated DI5: Theirs not a lot of these types but some are rare to find. Their bodies go through different changes that helps with their power or gift. It's strongly advised to keep away from these types.

Population of Mutated: 10% within or hidden in NYC/most was killed

DI5-B/Were type: Demons or other creatures having animal traits of some kind while infected. They go through very different changes that makes them look even more demonic or ghoulish. Theirs a decent number of these types of infected but tends to hunt in packs.

Population of DI5-B/Were types: 74% within NYC

DI5 **** ***** [Redacted information]

((Data has been corrupted/update is required on this following infected. If you seen a large object within the shadows and a ghoul like hissing noise, run to other direction. Do not engage if seen))

Population of DI5 **** *****: Unknown but guessed of just only 10 roaming within NYC, 6 in Philly, and 9 in Yokohoma japan.

??? Hunters: Theirs not much information about these people wearing army body armor like clothing, dark helmets that has a covering face shield to cover their faces but they follow the orders of the two that started this. Dr. Doctor Hashmar and Scientist Dr. Mart K and Scientist Tabatha Jones. They are hidden but gives orders to find more test subjects to test out this new infection.

Population of these hunters: Unknown but has been seen through out NYC and Outside of NYC

((This is the info that's known due to documents and research through out and outside of NYC. If more new information is noted; this log will be updated.))

~~End of Log~~

[souldraggedmuses]

Hana Shimura - Pro Hero Verse

At a young age, Hana Shimura faced a tragedy.  After a painful event involving her father and her brother, she had gotten some money from her mom so that she could go and get Tenko a gift.  Something so that she could say sorry for an event she believed to be entirely her fault.  But upon returning to the site, she found everything destroyed.  Her house, her family, everything was gone.  She was alone.

Picked up by some police whom had arrived to the scene, Hana was quickly dropped into foster care.  Her foster family, a group of individuals who only really wanted the publicity.  The good karma for taking a young child away from such a tragedy.  They didn’t love her.  They barely acknowledged her all through her childhood.  And as soon as they were legally able?  They kicked her out of the house.

Thankfully Hana had known it was coming.  She had been preparing.  Taking part-time jobs wherever she could, making enough money to get a cheap apartment.  From there, she continued on her desired path; the path that she and Tenko talked about at length before the tragedy.  Though no small amount of hard work, she managed to make her way through the Hero Course of UA.  To graduate, getting into a position as a sidekick for some time before attempting to move out of that spot- to become a full-fledged hero.

It was difficult, but she managed.  Barely.  Mostly due to the restorative abilities of her quirk proving useful in crisis situations.

Upon getting her official Hero License, Hana Shimura became publicly known as Retier, the Mending Hero.  She wasn’t ever that popular, unfortunately.  Mostly stuck with clean up after the ‘real’ heroes caught the villain.  This has made her desensitized and generally apathetic towards Hero Society as a whole.  It had been her goal for so long, but because of her quirk it seemed she’d be nothing more than the one to clean up messes left by flashier and more popular heroes.  As such she has fallen securely into true neutral, as a hero with heavily ambiguous morals and only really keeping the job to help pay for bills and groceries.  She still saves people.  Protects where she can.  But day by day, she finds herself caring less about why she’s doing it.

Now?  It just feels like another job.  One where she has to pretend to be much happier than she really is.

Bonus- Notes about the Mending Quirk! [With some lovely parallels to Decay because I love sibling duality]

- Mending can repair any object, so long as she can touch at least a piece of said object.  If the other pieces are there, then it will simply patch itself up with those pieces.  If there are no other pieces, it will form new components to repair the object.  The first method takes significantly less time than the second, with about a 1:5 ratio.  She can, however, use the second technique to make multiple of the same object.

- Mending can repair injuries as well, but there are limits.  Injuries that have already healed and have left scars cannot be healed.  Burns or cauterized wounds can be healed if they happened within five days.  Missing limbs can be healed if it happened within three days.  If the person is dead, the body can be healed but they will remain dead.

- Mending cannot be used on herself.  She has a faster natural healing ability, but she cannot use her quirk to accelerate any healing and cannot use it to regain lost limbs.  As such she tries to keep herself out of immediate danger as much as possible.

- Mending has to be manually activated and deactivated.  She can, in theory, activate it, put her hand on something broken, and then go to sleep if she thinks it’ll take a long time.  She’s done this the few times she’s been needed to repair massive structures.  Her hand always cramps up afterwards however, and activating the quirk before she has time to recover can cause intense pain.

- Hana has an innate want to mend things.  If she doesn’t get to use her quirk for extended periods of time, she tends to get worked up and fidgety.  This tends to manifest in her rubbing at her cheeks or around her eyes.  This has left her with cracked raw patches on her cheeks.

- Mending and Decay interact in a strange way.  If Mending is used on Shigaraki, it is slowed down so severely that it would be more practical to just get some bandages first and then worry about the sluggish healing time.  If Decay is used on Hana, it gets the same sluggish treatment and would take some time of sustained contact to even start doing noticable damage.  [Open to changing depending on the Shigaraki Mun- this is simply what I default to]

[ncscope-archived-blog]

// Hiya kids, it’s me again! Here is a post I’ve thought about doing for the longest time, and recent events have finlly convinced me to make it. Don’t worry, nothing dramatic or really sad under the cut, but trigger warning for health issues, (brief mention of) mental health (depression), and probably much more information than you relly bargained for, so feel free to overlook this post and watch out for my IC stuff instead. This is simply a post I wanted to make to clarify the reasons of my occasional disappearances and comebacks, both for old and new rp partners, and it will be added as a link in my rules just so that anyone new to the blog can be warned about my somtimes wavering activity and its reasons. Still got your attention? Then read below - otherwise, I’ll see you around in my IC stuff!

So, those of you who’ve been around for a while have noticed that I can alternate between periods of intense activity and periods of complete desertion/absence. Tumblr in itself has pretty much nothing to do with it: I thoroughly enjoy being here and writing, and I never run out of inspiration for any of my muses, really, even if sometimes I privilege one muse or one fandom over the other. 

However, for the past three years or so, I’ve been living with a condition called hypothyroidism. As the word itself indicates, hypothyroidism is when your thyroid, a small butterfly-shaped gland in your throat, doesn’t work as well as it should and ends up not producing enough of the hormones it’s supposed to produce. Think of your body as a car or a vehicle: it needs energy to function, right? Well, think of the thyroid as the engine (*insert Junkrat ult punchline here*): if it runs too low, the car isn’t getting enough energy to work properly, and you can expect a few bumps along the way. Long story short, the thyroid ensures your body has a functional metabolism, and when the thyroid slows down its hormones production, so does your metabolism and your body. My thyroid has been messing up for the past three years, and it’s translated through the following symptoms:

- Physical exhaustion, feeling constantly tired regardless of the amount of physical effort I actually perform in one day. It’s basically feeling sluggish and heavy and like I can’t move without a tremendous effort. There are days I can’t go out and take a 15min walk to get the groceries without being unable to leave my couch for the rest of the day and feeling like I’ve ran a marathon. I’ve never actually ran a marathon but you get the idea. - Muscular and joint pain. This one is luckily more rare, or at least not as intense as the exhaustion, but it’s there. Feeling like I’ve got cramps even though I didn’t do any sports - when coupled to the tireness, it can be a pain in the ass (see what I did there?) to deal with. - Depression. It’s not actually depression, it’s the symptoms of depression but with a different cause entirely. My brain is (supposedly) fine, but the hypothyroidism is causing the same symptoms as depression. That’s one of the hardest symptoms to deal with because it’s difficult to tell the difference between a throid-induced depression and a “regular” depression, but I definitely get worse when my thyroid treatment is not adjusted, so it’s definitely a factor for me.  - Cognitive disruptions, mainly difficulties focusing and memory trouble. I’ve definitely noticed inscreased difficulties focusing on tasks or conversations, and easily forgetting stuff (where I left my keys, a conversation, etc etc). 

There are more symptoms but those are the ones that really have an important impact on my daily life and, consequently, on my activity on tumblr.

So, to resume the story, I’ve been on treatment for hypothyroidism for the past three years, however, doctors were not able to find an explanation to this disorder - and therefore were unable to tell how long it would last. After a few months/years, we just ended up assuming it would really be a very long term condition, but still no explanation (not to mention the stupid doctors who would tell me: “the cause doesn’t matter, you’ll be on the same treatment anyway”).

 This changed just a few days ago when I went to see my new doctor (5th or 6th over three years) and told her everything about this endless process of non-diagnosis. She took a look at all my blood analysis (approximately one every six weeks/two months for three years, quite a pile of paper) and finally gave me a proper diagnosis: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Bad news about this is: it’s an auto-immune disease, meaning I actually have an illness, and it’s my auto-antibodies turning on me and slowly destroying my thyroid, also meaning that there is no cure and that it’s a life-long condition. Good news is: it might not be cured, but it can easily be treated by maintaining and adjusting the same treatment I’ve been taking for three years. 

So what this means is, the symptoms are never going to completely disappear, but since I understand the causes and consequences of the disease better now, it will be easier to predict and adjust when the symptoms occur. There are days I can function absolutely normally, do sport, do lots of activities, be really active here too, and there are days (like the past few days) where I’ll hit rock bottom and turn into a tired slug and have energy for literally nothing. Hence the occasional disappearances: if you see that I have not posted anything in a few days, it probably means that the symptoms are back and that I’m busy getting through them with a new dosage of Levothyroxin. The fact that I have the auto-immune version of the disease means that I’m alternating between “normal” periods (when the auto-antibodies are on normal levels) and what I’ve decided to call “siege periods” (when the auto-antibodies are attacking again and my thyroid is begging for mercy, which is usually when my body gets at its weakest). Meaning that my treatment will probably need a lot more adjustment and all that - tbh that’s when I start getting into unknown territories, I need to work out the specifics with my doctor and, I guess, find out on a day-to-day basis how to deal with all this for... well. Hopefully the next sixty years or so. 

I should probably wrap up with this but I wanted to take the time to make this post because it was honestly something I did not expect, and I’m coming to realisation that it’s not something that will go away, so I might as well use tumblr to try out strategies to cope with this. Should I tell people? Should I keep quiet and deal with this silently even though my daily life has drastically changed since I got the first symptoms? I don’t know, and I guess there is no right or wrong answer in this type of situation, so I thought I might as well let you know what’s up and see how that goes. And this way newcomers and old followers alike can have this reference thingy when you wonder what the hell I’m doing not logging in for a few days. I’m not losing interest, I’m not losing motivation: chances are, I can only focus on one blog and it’s not this one, or I’m literally physically unable to do anything because I’m undergoing the symptoms mentioned above. Good news is, it’s only temporary, and I just need a few days (in extrement cases maybe two weeks) til I come back to normal and I write again. 

If you have a doubt, just shoot me a message on IM, or Discord, or veen in my askbox to check ithat I’m still around!

Again, this is pretty new and this long post probably makes it seem a lot more dramatic than it really is, but it was important to me to get all these thoughts on paper (metaphorically). If you’ve read this til this end, you’re a champ and you have my sincerest thanks. I’ve seen quite a few people disclosing their mental disorders to let their followers know why their activity might be sporadic, but “Hashimoto’s thyroiditis” is much less evocative than “depression” or “anxiety”, and I didn’t want to just link you to the Wikipedia page, so yeah. You end up with a textwall of explanation instead. Guess I truly am a rambling grandma after all. 

And in all cases, stay awesome kids, I love you all, and I send you all the hugs. Thank you for bearing with my stupid ass butt (hehe, ass, butt, see what I did th - *Ana suddenly takes over and sleepdarts her mun before dragging away her body *)

J’vous aime les copains.

[pisscff-archived-blog]

// Hiya kids, it’s me again! Here is a post I’ve thought about doing for the longest time, and recent events have finally convinced me to make it. Don’t worry, nothing dramatic or really sad under the cut, but trigger warning for health issues, (brief mention of) mental health (depression), and probably much more information than you relly bargained for, so feel free to overlook this post and watch out for my IC stuff instead. This is simply a post I wanted to make to clarify the reasons of my occasional disappearances and comebacks, both for old and new rp partners, and it will be added as a link in my rules just so that anyone new to the blog can be warned about my somtimes wavering activity and its reasons. Still got your attention? Then read below - otherwise, I’ll see you around in my IC stuff!

So, those of you who’ve been around for a while have noticed that I can alternate between periods of intense activity and periods of complete desertion/absence. Tumblr in itself has pretty much nothing to do with it: I thoroughly enjoy being here and writing, and I never run out of inspiration for any of my muses, really, even if sometimes I privilege one muse or one fandom over the other. Those of you who follow me on my Over.watch accounts will have noticed that I’ve been more active here recently, but honestly that’s mostly due to the fact that I have a lot more followers and rp partners over there, meaning more variety in my threads, more crack, more ic stuff, etc.

Anyway, for the past three years or so, I’ve been living with a condition called hypothyroidism. As the word itself indicates, hypothyroidism is when your thyroid, a small butterfly-shaped gland in your throat, doesn’t work as well as it should and ends up not producing enough of the hormones it’s supposed to produce. Think of your body as a car or a vehicle: it needs energy to function, right? Well, think of the thyroid as the engine (*insert Junkrat ult punchline here*): if it runs too low, the car isn’t getting enough energy to work properly, and you can expect a few bumps along the way. Long story short, the thyroid ensures your body has a functional metabolism, and when the thyroid slows down its hormones production, so does your metabolism and your body. My thyroid has been messing up for the past three years, and it’s translated through the following symptoms:

- Physical exhaustion, feeling constantly tired regardless of the amount of physical effort I actually perform in one day. It’s basically feeling sluggish and heavy and like I can’t move without a tremendous effort. There are days I can’t go out and take a 15min walk to get the groceries without being unable to leave my couch for the rest of the day and feeling like I’ve ran a marathon. I’ve never actually ran a marathon but you get the idea. - Muscular and joint pain. This one is luckily more rare, or at least not as intense as the exhaustion, but it’s there. Feeling like I’ve got cramps even though I didn’t do any sports - when coupled to the tireness, it can be a pain in the ass (see what I did there?) to deal with. - Depression. It’s not actually depression, it’s the symptoms of depression but with a different cause entirely. My brain is (supposedly) fine, but the hypothyroidism is causing the same symptoms as depression. That’s one of the hardest symptoms to deal with because it’s difficult to tell the difference between a throid-induced depression and a “regular” depression, but I definitely get worse when my thyroid treatment is not adjusted, so it’s definitely a factor for me. - Cognitive disruptions, mainly difficulties focusing and memory trouble. I’ve definitely noticed inscreased difficulties focusing on tasks or conversations, and easily forgetting stuff (where I left my keys, a conversation, etc etc).

There are more symptoms but those are the ones that really have an important impact on my daily life and, consequently, on my activity on tumblr.

So, to resume the story, I’ve been on treatment for hypothyroidism for the past three years, however, doctors were not able to find an explanation to this disorder - and therefore were unable to tell how long it would last. After a few months/years, we just ended up assuming it would really be a very long term condition, but still no explanation (not to mention the stupid doctors who would tell me: “the cause doesn’t matter, you’ll be on the same treatment anyway”).

This changed just a few days ago when I went to see my new doctor (5th or 6th over three years) and told her everything about this endless process of non-diagnosis. She took a look at all my blood analysis (approximately one every six weeks/two months for three years, quite a pile of paper) and finally gave me a proper diagnosis: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Bad news about this is: it’s an auto-immune disease, meaning I actually have an illness, and it’s my auto-antibodies turning on me and slowly destroying my thyroid, also meaning that there is no cure and that it’s a life-long condition. Good news is: it might not be cured, but it can easily be treated by maintaining and adjusting the same treatment I’ve been taking for three years.

So what this means is, the symptoms are never going to completely disappear, but since I understand the causes and consequences of the disease better now, it will be easier to predict and adjust when the symptoms occur. There are days I can function absolutely normally, do sport, do lots of activities, be really active here too, and there are days (like the past few days) where I’ll hit rock bottom and turn into a tired slug and have energy for literally nothing. Hence the occasional disappearances: if you see that I have not posted anything in a few days, it probably means that the symptoms are back and that I’m busy getting through them with a new dosage of Levothyroxin. The fact that I have the auto-immune version of the disease means that I’m alternating between “normal” periods (when the auto-antibodies are on normal levels) and what I’ve decided to call “siege periods” (when the auto-antibodies are attacking again and my thyroid is begging for mercy, which is usually when my body gets at its weakest). Meaning that my treatment will probably need a lot more adjustment and all that - tbh that’s when I start getting into unknown territories, I need to work out the specifics with my doctor and, I guess, find out on a day-to-day basis how to deal with all this for… well. Hopefully the next sixty years or so.

I should probably wrap up with this but I wanted to take the time to make this post because it was honestly something I did not expect, and I’m coming to realisation that it’s not something that will go away, so I might as well use tumblr to try out strategies to cope with this. Should I tell people? Should I keep quiet and deal with this silently even though my daily life has drastically changed since I got the first symptoms? I don’t know, and I guess there is no right or wrong answer in this type of situation, so I thought I might as well let you know what’s up and see how that goes. And this way newcomers and old followers alike can have this reference thingy when you wonder what the hell I’m doing not logging in for a few days. I’m not losing interest, I’m not losing motivation: chances are, I can only focus on one blog and it’s not this one, or I’m literally physically unable to do anything because I’m undergoing the symptoms mentioned above. Good news is, it’s only temporary, and I just need a few days (in extrement cases maybe two weeks) til I come back to normal and I write again.

If you have a doubt, just shoot me a message on IM, or Discord, or veen in my askbox to check ithat I’m still around!

Again, this is pretty new and this long post probably makes it seem a lot more dramatic than it really is, but it was important to me to get all these thoughts on paper (metaphorically). If you’ve read this til this end, you’re a champ and you have my sincerest thanks. I’ve seen quite a few people disclosing their mental disorders to let their followers know why their activity might be sporadic, but “Hashimoto’s thyroiditis” is much less evocative than “depression” or “anxiety”, and I didn’t want to just link you to the Wikipedia page, so yeah. You end up with a textwall of explanation instead. Guess I truly am a rambling grandma after all.

And in all cases, stay awesome kids, I love you all, and I send you all the hugs. Thank you for bearing with my stupid ass butt (hehe, ass, butt, see what I did th - *Mundy suddenly takes over and headshots his mun before dragging away her body *)

J’vous aime les copains.

[thelanternwretch-archive]

Threshbae’s Guide to Menstrual Cramps

Now that I have your attention

I’ve come to realize that a lot of the muns around here have one thing in common - if they have a uterus, menstrual cycles follow. Everyone who has to deal with them never likes them. Ever. And on multiple occasions, I have seen someone mention hidden in tags about their cramps and how awful they are at the moments and I’ve even talked to some of you about them.

What if I told you I might have a solution to your painful cramps and mood swings?

I know. A Thresh blog telling you how to avoid pain. Get your laugh in now, people. But in all seriousness, from one person with a cycle to another, periods suck and no one deserves pain. So what am I going to recommend to you?

Motha. Fuckin’. Evening Primrose.

A little backstory for you. I have grown up with getting ovarian cysts every month. Every. Month. For a quick blanket sweep on it, imagine these little annoying sacks of acid that grow on your ovaries and cause a lot of pain and discomfort and muscle issues. Now, mine would have this mildly annoying tendency to pop. How much does that hurt?

Let’s just say that women have been rushed to the ER because their appendix or another organ burst and they ignored it because cyst pain hurt more and they had no idea that something other than an ovarian cyst exploded and sprayed acid on the inside of their body parts.

I am no stranger to the worst of the worst of menstrual pain. I tried everything. Tylenol, heating pads, every single PMS drug on the market, all the different variations of Midol - nothing came close to even touching the pain I went through every month. It got to a point where I was put on birth control and even then the birth control didn’t diminish the pain.

I was going through a week of pain, worse than usual, to where I was practically bedridden and screaming. Thresh was a kitten compared to the monster I was at this point. My friend’s mother, a practicing witch, stopped by and gave me a few of these yellow-clear pills and told me they were Evening Primrose Extract and to take them. I was desperate. I took one so fast.

Wouldn’t you know it? After a while, I noticed the pain started to ebb off. Before I went to bed, I took another. I woke up the next morning and took the last one she gave me. I was out taking a walk by the next afternoon, blissfully unaware I was still on my cycle.

Some of you have been referred to me by Uncle Touchy already about these and I hope they are still working for you! I’ve recommend these to many people and while I can’t guarantee they will work for you, I can say that no one has not come back to me yet saying, “HOLY SHIT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WISH I KNEW ABOUT THESE SOONER!”

What I do to keep myself relatively pain free every month? Keep track of your cycle. When you know you’re due to start in a day or two, take one or two pills a day, depending on what you need. Once you start, figure out your dosage. You can take them 1-3 times a day. You might only need one or two for the first couple says of your cycle. You might only need to pop them if it starts to get uncomfortable.

Why do I recommend it so much? Besides the fact these worked better than anything else, they’re just plant extract. Unless you’re allergic to Primrose, there’s really no side effects from them that I know of except for maybe nicer skin. They’re not addictive so you can stop using them without withdrawal symptoms and there’s nothing else in them. Just liquid plant extract. 

Where Can I Get These? 

I find them all the time in Rite Aid or CVS in the Vitamin section. The ones that I have been using you can even find HERE on Amazon. 

But I Have a Hard Time Swallowing Pills, Threshbae! :’(

Thankfully, the ones I recommended are Gel capsules, so swallowing them is made a little easier with a good mouthful of water, but I get you. Can’t do pills? I even have a substitute for you! 

YOU LIKE TEA? BUY THIS TEA.

I have a huge jar of this tea that I keep stocked. If you notice on the list of herbs, what’s the second ingredient? Primrose. This tea has a very earthy herby blend, so if you try this, don’t expect an Earl Grey or English Breakfast tasting tea. Caffeine free and all natural herbs. Same benefits as the pills but in a not pill form. (( Also I recommend any of their other tea blends for natural relief for various things. I have pretty much all of them and I love them dearly.))

You really want to tell your cycle, ‘FUCK OFF’? Pop a pill and follow up with this tea. 

If you try either of these or both, I hope they help you as much as they help me. Go forth and stop being in pain, damn it. >:c

[askandyoushallrp]

‘Things Mun Has Said’ Starters

“Live life like it’s a car you’ve hot wired and stolen.”

“I’m going to die alone with my millions of goldfish.”

“One can always try, right?”

“Sorry, that was the red neck in me.��

“Do you think dogs get period cramps?”

“Would you like some popcorn with that bucket of butter?”

“Fite me. F-I-T-E. Fite me.”

“SWEET HONEY BADGERS OF JESUS!!”

“Back off before I kick out your eyes!”

“I don’t get drunk. I get loopy.”

“Touch me and you’ll lose an appendage.”

“How long can sperm survive in soda?”

“Have you ever wondered why breasts grow differently?”

“Blood does not taste like ketchup.”

“Oh yes, because us young people, we be smokin’ da weed.”

“You see, I will NEVER need to cut myself to know that ‘I’m alive’ because I wake up already with that pain.”

“See this area. Right here. My upper-middle torso. Yeah. If you stab a ritual knife here I’ll die and my life will actually be useful to someone.”

[2getmeoutofthis]

i don’t think these drugs are working (yet?)

i also don’t know how to make tumblr mark my posts in my local time even though it’s already set in the settings and it makes it harder for me to count for how many days i haven’t written for or honestly i just have a headache so i don’t feel like counting

or thinking, tbh

anyway all those days are a blur, with some exceptions, and honestly, i don’t think i’m doing any better

ok

day 11 was saturday, and i did spend most of it in bed/doing nothing, just as i wished. i’m pretty sure i did completely nothing on that day, which is why i didn’ t feel like i had anything to write about.

day 12 - sunday i spent at my parents and that was nice, all the kids around etc

my brother and his family just came back from africa and it was the first time we met after that trip, his daughter gave me a big hug and i have to say it caught me offguard, i never really expect her to miss me that much so it’s surprising in a really nice way though somehow makes me feel awkward?

then i took the two other nieces back home while my sister + O. + L. went to the cinema and i was supposed to put them to sleep. Lena came out of the bedroom like 15 later and said she has these bad scary thoughts about war and she knows they’re not ..smart? but she just feels really anxious

it made me sad for her in a “oh fuck, not that early : / “ way, she’s only 7 years old uhhh

but i managed to put her to sleep no problem telling her stories about some underwater scenery and creatures, no idea at which point she fell asleep cause  i just kept talking and talking and it reminded me of how i used to do exactly that - tell goodnight stories to my older siblings and not realizing they’re asleep and i’m talking to myself, only with them the agreement was that we would each tell a story...only i somehow always got first and they would always fall asleep.

why am i telling this to myself, i already know this story

i didn’t even get to watch anything on netflix other than a bunch of trailers, went back home with an uber and i remember that day i felt somewhat nice and i got money for babysitting which is kind of awkward cause i don’t think it’s right when it’s my family but i’ve become not just poor, i got to a point of not being able to afford catfood, so that + my parents giving me money too earlier that day at least made me feel a little bit at peace financially

day 13 was mun-day(ne) i’m pretty sure i did nothing

soo day 14 was tuesday and that would be yesterday? (i mean it’s 4 am now and it’s telling me it’s thursday and that’s fucking with my brain but ok)   my mom wanted me to go to the museum with her and i didn’t, cause Olga messaged me saying they’re coming to town and wanted to meet up. so i went and met them and just told my mom i won’t come because of that, i also got my period 10 min before leaving the house which made me leave it 40 mins later, had a really nice meal atthough they were already done by the time i joined and that makes me feel kind of bad (but i guess that’s silly cause if it wasn’t for my period i might’ve been on time?) i had a tempura sushi which was really awesome and matcha creme brulee which was really awesome too and i just kept talking about north korea docus cause my life is too boring but at least i watch a lot of youtube now so i can talk about that also went to a book promoting event with them at which i pretty much spent at least half of the time wondering if i should leave, cause a) i have social phobia especially at “official” events like this and somehow it doesn’t matter that it’s my friend who’s the speaker, bright lights + microphones + plastic chairs = NO for me, also i was getting cramps and took one ibuprofene after another while at the same time worrying how that’ll go with sertraline so i didn’t take that much of it, i also probably awkwardly talked about my experience with the psychiatrist and some stuff related to my mental health and i say awkwardly in the sense that i’m kind of worried it might have been awkward for d. to listen to it because i guess it’s not really a topic we ever talked about? aand today is day 15, feels weird that this tumblr exists for that long already. i’m starting to feel a bit anxious about how easily time slips through my fingers these days, i mean honestly i just do nothing most of the time and it’s not making me feel really great, + the increasingly fucked up sleep schedule is not helping.. anyway today was just shitty and i feel like i’m kind of getting worse

i’ve been crying, had cramps and headache too, took ibuprofene really late in the day aka at midnight just when i take sertraline, freaked about mixing them s o just took half although today should be the day i start taking the full dose, talked with M. or more like realized that he replied to me saying to him like 4 hrs earlier that i  had a dream about his kid, and it took him 4 hrs to get back to me and say sorry i forgot to respond to you

which somehow combined with him saying how he and his kid say nice things to each other a lot made me feel really really shitty and i started crying and so i decided i want to take this other fucking half of sertraline right now because i really fucking need it to star t working like asap, i know that period hormones are making me emo too but fuck, this shit isn’t working, i’m crying right now as i’m writing this, my dad was here too today and not really here i just met him on the stairs cause he brought me some food and went to the skating ring to celebrate hanuka and he wanted me to go too but i told him i felt bad

and i’m worried about him cause he said he’s not feeling well and obviously that’s making me feel more depressed too

i started thinking about j. at some point too, thinking about writing to him at some point of feeling really miserable and crying and then i’ve read his email again which obviously made me cry more, i still didn’t write to him though i don’t know what to say . i stopped myself thinking it’s a horrible idea, cause it honestly is, sure it seems good for a split second to whine to him cause at least he expressed caring about me but yeah i’m fucking SURE he would just love to me crying about getting heartbroken by another guy... and i just kind of wanted to tell him that i’m actually really, really not okay, since he’s wished me happiness multiple times in that email and it felt really genuine.. but it’s not really fair

plus it’s all still really confusing, what he is, was or should be to me, on one hand he seems genuine and genuinely caring etc, said sorry to me about many things, not like he has bad intentions, but then there’s this other thing in my head where i kind of know our relationship was toxic and he’s responsible for at least half of that, so... i kind of know i should stay away? though it’s becoming blurry lately, which i’m kind of afraid of, afraid that its because i feel lonely and want to feel cared for/taken care of

fuck i need to get out of this house really soon