#there's no need to fuss with this

[overtake]

red bull's admin is cruel for ruining this clip with fancam transitions but he eats regardless

[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?

[bacchuschucklefuck]

found those sketches I mentioned. and added more

[juuria]

ive never played resident evil, does he go to bingo

[sleevebuscemii]

the core of danstat is that they will fuck each other because they don’t want to feel left out in that daniel doesn’t want to be the only one who hasn’t fucked lestat and lestat doesn’t want to be the only one who hasn’t fucked daniel. ​like no way lestat is gonna let louis and armand have something in common that doesn’t include him and at this point daniel thinks fucking lestat is just part of vampire culture and part of his initiation as a new fledgling

[warrior-of-sunlight]

[the-fyre-flie]

Bruce taking Clark out to dinner and spoiling him and kissing his cheek after every little date, causing Clark to fumble and quickly refuse his attention cuz "I-i dont w-wanna make a scene, M-Mr Wayne...////", but as soon as it's Batman and Superman, Supes is happily carrying Bats around and tending to him and always checking his heartrate/well being. He's so happy to just hug and lean on Batman, all while Batman huffes and scowls and pushes him away.

Their alternate egos are inverses of each other PDA wise and it's so cute :3c

[carnage-queen-exe]

Vivid Shadows Kintsugi

[djarin]

the way they both sidled up to each other. the way they kissed under the moonlight. the way they set and respected each other's boundaries. the hand holding, the thumb war, the gentle smile, the "you won." this is the queer representation i needed. queer people being unapologetically queer in all the gentle, sweet ways we know.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

The most accurate thing about Lockwood and Co is the entire British Isles just being like we will call a horrifying infestation of ghosts "The Problem" no need to be dramatic. Calm down now.

[mirensiart]

The newest pain sharing update is literally just the post about that 6 week old kitten trying his best to take care of a couple 2 week old kittens

Its them

YEEEES, THAT'S THEM !!!!!! OMG

I personally headcanon hyrule to be 16 almost 17, four to be 15 and wind 13 almost 14, so they're all babies lmao

A kitten looking after two kittens being chased by a mountain lion lol

[dharmafox]

Thinking some more.

I'd bet that the "mother" theme is not only present in Hinezumi but also in the third movie, and may in fact be what's behind all of the combined mononoke in these movies.

The same theme is sort of lurking in Karakasa behind the foremost theme of discarding precious things. There's an implication, pointed out by @ruiniel, that many of the items discarded into the well were gifts from the women's mothers and grandmothers. (Not only is Kame made to discard her comb, but the onigiri from her grandmother were thrown in too.) Another possible link to the idea of discarding "gifts" given by mothers is an alternative interpretation of the kokeshi dolls, given by @purplealmonds here: as symbols of infanticide.

Still another connection is the "throwing away" of Tenshi's previous consort after she gave birth to a female child (the audacity!).

And of course, there's our beloved friend Giant Demon Sky Vagina, which seems to "give birth" to the Karakasa:

The presence of all three "eyes" of the combined mononoke more than suggests that when the GDSV released the Karakasa, it released the Hinezumi and the third mononoke as well.

And naturally, there's the association of the Medicine Seller's sword Trigram with mothers.

I think all of these hints in Karakasa point to a seething rage within the Ooku born of the feelings of "discarded" mothers, one that underlies the entire mononoke infestation.

(As I've also noted elsewhere, the month-long gap between the emergence of the Karakasa and the Hinezumi suggests a connection with menstruation as well.)

This moment from the Hinezumi trailer suggests that another mother may have been "discarded":

The Medicine Seller asks someone urgently, not to say aggressively, where their mother is.*

A theory has been batted around (I think by @teacakesmgeethesecond as well as myself? Apologies if I'm misremembering) that the Medicine Sellers may be born from the "positive" side of the feelings behind the mononoke. So if, for example, Kon Kusu is a tsukumogami (this theory I know came from @teacakesmgeethesecond), he might have been born from the love shared between the women in the Ooku and their precious objects, while the Karakasa is born from their anger at being discarded.

Given their suggested connections with mothers, these objects may not merely have been objects the women cherished, but symbols and vessels for their mothers' and grandmothers' love. And given the hinted-at themes of Hinezumi, this mononoke is probably also fueled by the anger of "discarded" mothers.

This Medicine Seller, then, who has a Kon Trigram assocation and a very protective attitude toward humans, may be made up of the unconditional love of these mothers, separated from the feelings behind the mononoke and emerging as a Medicine Seller created specifically to put them to rest.

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*I noted that the pronoun he uses here for whoever he's speaking to is "omae," which in modern usage is pretty rude. Historically, though, it was polite, so I'm not sure if he's using period-appropriate language here or if the person he's talking to has actually pissed him off. What would it take to piss off such a sweet Medicine Seller? Something offensive to his associated Trigram maybe?

(This would also imply that Medicine Sellers are not immune to the "negative" emotions within the mononoke, something I would absolutely believe, especially given "Ri" Kusu, who has a constant air of wanting to smack a bitch.)

[sttoru]

im thinking of satoru / toji who gets turned on at times when he knows he shouldn’t — like when u show concern for him when he gets home injured from a mission 😋

[itsnevssin]

Jimmy antagonized Curly throughout the game and he never said anything against him.

Curly couldn't stand up for himself, he could have never stood up for Anya.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 80

 So Dan knows that there’s heroes that have gone back in time, he’s aware of that fact. But he doesn’t exactly care and has more important things to worry about. Like the fact that Danny and Ellie are now three years old, right when he’s moving, though maybe that’s a blessing in disguise seeing as the GIW are searching for them in Amity. 

  But still, he has more important things to worry about than the speedster vibrating five feet away from him. Like making sure Ellie and Danny are alright to visit (ugh) Peepaw Clocky while he goes to work. 

  Ms. Mercy is not messing around, which he appreciates in a workspace, but he has to wait for another opening in the daycare before he can bring his, as far as everyone else is aware, siblings who he got emergency custody of. 

  What with how Jazz is interning in Gotham, they figured Metropolis would be safer. Now if the speedster would stop following him, he would really appreciate it. He’s literally just an intern under Ms Mercy as an assistant, not even one of the scientists, and it’s not like his timeline of the end of the world exists anymore! 

[arthursfuckinghat]

Accidentally burned my hand earlier, currently -5° outside, feeling like Charles Smith in Colter 😔❤️