#understanding hormones

[naturalholisticmedicalcenter]

Understanding Hormones How They Impact Your Overall Well-Being

Hormones are like the conductors of a grand orchestra within our bodies, orchestrating a myriad of functions that affect our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Understanding how hormones function and their impact on your overall well-being is essential for maintaining optimal health. In this blog, we delve into the intricacies of the intricacies of hormones and explore their profound effects on the body.

[sciderman]

hey how are your brain bees? Are you doing better?

god, you know, my brain bees are very quiet lately, thank you so much for asking!

really, actually, the surgery fixed most of the problems that i had - but - it did cause a few new ones, that i'm trying to work out.

i feel tired, all the time. i'm medically depressed, and - that isn't really very fun. i don't feel sad, necessarily - but really tired. too tired for drawing, and reading, and all the things i used to love to do. but i have friends to help me through it, and they've been distracting me as best as they can.

[veritas-scribblings]

illegal - @moonwater-microfic - words: 735 | trying my hand at a different pairing cos @deathnguts's moonwater posts keep appearing on my feed | apologies for the essay in the tags | writing this was more fun than I thought it would be | [warnings: self-loathing, some implied internalised homophobia, if teenage boys were werewolves]

In the days leading up to the full moon, Remus feels it in his bones like a thousand hair-thin needles boring into him. The scent that lingers in the hallways. That has invaded the library and spread through the potions lab and lives in the wood and the stone. The scent that beckons to something dark and perversely primal in Remus.

He feels it penetrating his skin. The itch of it travelling through his gut. And sometimes, shamefully, lower and lower. It grows and grows until he feels full, almost bloated with it.

“You right there, mate?”

Remus cringes and grabs his bag and clutches it to his chest with a grip he’s surprised hasn’t crushed it to dust. James, for all his teenage boy-ness, can be annoyingly perceptive. Sometimes he gives Remus this sad, concerned look that implies he knows Remus has been staring where he should damned well not be staring.

Across the Great Hall at the boy with the head of curly black hair who’s always buried in a book. The one that travels with a damned impenetrable attaché that includes one Bartemius Crouch Junior with the (according to Sirius Black) “perfectly punchable face”.

If Remus has learnt anything about Slytherins, it’s that they’re fiercely territorial (and occasionally violent). And none more so than the attaché Regulus comes with, like Regulus is some sort of diplomat. Or prince, even.

Remus knows territorial. He knows it, because the wolf in him feels it in its soul. For his books. For his clothes. For his dormitory. For his friends.

Remus has learnt to channel this. To, for the most part, redirect those unnatural urges that centre themselves around his friends the closer and closer he gets to the full moon.

But those Slytherins. They wear territorial with pride, and Remus just knows that he will never be able to cross the boundaries they’ve so meticulously carved out alive. Or, at least, in one piece with all of his limbs attached where they should be.

“Thought you were going to meet me at the library?” Lily dumps her bag onto the grass next to where James and Sirius are laid ‘soaking up the sun’, according to Sirius.

“The library?” Sirius scoffs. “The library for what?”

“Not you, Black. Not everything’s about you.” Lily rolls her eyes and kicks Remus in the shin when he doesn’t acknowledge her. “Remus. Our study date?”

“Nonsense. I am the gravitational centre of this Earth, I’ll have you know.” Sirius flashes Lily an easy grin that everyone knows will roll off her like water. “Just ask McGonagall. Everything’s about me.”

“You know she was being sardonic when she said that…”

Remus can smell it again coming from across the lake, stronger and more distinct than any other scent around them: vanilla-ish, cinnamon-y and a touch Earthy, nutty. It shoots straight through him and hits him so hard in his groin that he has to pull his bag into his lap with a flush of shame.

Of course it does.

Of course it does.

And of course Regulus is there again surrounded by his friends (he’s always surrounded by his friends). Remus recognises the smell before he recognises the outline of him and the movements of his body that have a decidedly “child of the House Black” beauty and grace to them.

Only, Remus reminds himself, he would never go there. He would never try; he doesn’t need the humiliation.

And he would never break Sirius’s trust, no matter the dreams that plague him around the full moon. The things he does to himself to stave off the hunger when he wakes with every nerve in his body feral and inflamed. Not only because Sirius is a friend—a friend that Remus never, in his wildest imagination, could have ever possibly thought he’d be able to dream into reality—but also because Sirius has a reckless, terrifying fierceness about him. Sirius Black does not bear darkness or traitors lightly. And he’s made that more than clear to the world.

Remus just doesn’t know what’s worse. That he likes a boy. That the coming of the full moon fills him with filthy, lustful thoughts and urges for said boy. That said boy is Regulus Black.

Or that it’s really just a matter of time before his friends find out that his condition is not just a fun rollick in the forest once a month…

…but is something darker and much, much worse…

…and Remus finds himself alone again.

[sunshine-zenith]

I remember someone pointing out that even by anti-fairy standards, Irep's cube shape was unusual, and that it might have something to do with Anti-Wanda craving/eating rectangular objects all throughout her pregnancy lmao. And even if he can change his head shape- I'm assuming that changing his name to Irep specifically to match Peri was also a choice and he's just really committed to the bit.

But I do hope he comes back, if for no other reason than I'm fairly certain they were on good terms by the end of the original series; or at least, Peri didn't hate Irep, and was actively trying to befriend him. Did they pull a Hazel and Dev and that friendship only lasted until Irep got jealous of Peri again and then the cycle just. Continued infinitely. Why is Peri gloating and laughing in Irep's face these days.

Like I don't think Irep has really changed through the years, but Peri definitely has and it's clearly impacted their relationship.

I just wanna applaud those last few paragraphs because you helped out to words another thing I was thinking about — Peri grew up, and he looks it. Irep hasn’t, if anything he’s gotten less mature. Him still looking like his infant self could be a reflection of that, either by the writers out of universe or as a subconscious manifestation in universe (or, yeah, it could be all those couch cushions lol)

He did specifically call Peri’s name change irritating, so I’m imagining there’s some bitterness on his part at least

I do desperately hope that if we get a season 2, we get something to fill the gap between Irep and Peri’s infancy and adulthood — a flashback, some sort if magic hijinx, even an off hand comment. Outside of their parents, they are each other’s most long lasting relationships, and there was some serious growth by the end of the original series for both of them

When Cosmo and Wanda said to Dev that Peri was waiting for him to call and that he thought they were just “on a break,” it made me wonder if something similar happened between him and Irep — like at some point, they had their own falling out (possibly closer to what Dev and Hazel went through throughout the series’s than Peri and Dev), and Peri just Waited. He waited for Irep to cool down, to call. He put in so much work to befriend Irep, got to know and treasure him, and he was possibly in denial for the longest time about losing his friend (which, again, would just be another loss for him — he lost his brother, he ended up low/no contact with his parents for a while, and now he’s lost his first ever godkid. Having lost Irep would be another thing for him to deal with along the way)

That might even be why he acted so smug about Jorgen putting Irep in his place — it could’ve been a little bit of that years old hurt leaking out, combined with the fresh hurt of his godkid basically rejecting him. Maybe not the most mature way to handle things, but hey, Peri was going through it that episode

I would love to see them possibly reconcile, as a way to officially close the arc from the original series (but that would require them to handle the whole Letting Peri Almost Die From Magic Build Up thing. I give Dev a lot of leeway with that since he legit had no idea, but Irep had to know he was basically committing manslaughter, even if he didn’t think through the fact that if Peri dies, he probably also dies. Dude needs to at the very least give Peri an I’m Sorry for that one first)

[uncanny-tranny]

You can be opposed to taking DIY hormones yourself, but don't treat trans people who DIY like they're stupid or they're uneducated. Oftentimes, people DIY because there are no other options for them. What you do about people who DIY is basic harm reduction - that means educating as many people as possible about the safest ways to monitor hormone levels, how to inject safely if they're taking injectable hormones, teaching people about common signs of hormone imbalance, among other things.

DIY hormones already have risks, and people who DIY know that. The least you can do is not shame them or treat them like they're stupid because they DIY. Again, people will often DIY as a last resort because trans healthcare is rapidly being targeted.

[batunatu]

guys it hurts me a little to know that class of 09 it's known for being "the game for the lesbians/wlw gang" but sbn3 is enough of an idiot to put wlw couples in the game as a comedic factor and not for representation and huhh, it's weird to know that

also impopular opinion as a bi girly, aricole it's not that good, ari didn't deserve that miserable human being called nicole.

[three-milkz]

I was thinking about 1234ji being a hormonal mess. Obviously they didn't get it from Judge, but from whom then?

Sora, the answer is Sora.

Maybe Sanji reacts this way thanks to Zeff's influence, but what about his brothers? They have all been seen to have heart eyes and drool or act silly when seeing a cute girl (Yonji).

So it's not just Sanji's thing. There are many things that a child can inherit from his or their parents genetically and attitudes are one of them.

I don't see Judge being a hormonal mess, he was probably bitter all his life. But I totally see Sora doing it. I know less about Sora than Judge, but doesn't matter, that woman drooled and had heart eyes when she saw someone attractive.

124ji must have very little of Sora, but I want to believe that they have attitudes that are similar to those his mother had, maybe not kindness, but other things, no matter how small.

[thebadboysuprememcshizzle]

The Lightning Thief, in a nutshell:

Percy: I hate Annabeth

Annabeth: I hate Percy

Grover, in the corner as a 20 something year old: Oh golly the roads….

…

Percy: Nevermind I like Annabeth

Annabeth: Yeah I liked him the whole time too

Grover: *confused goat noises*

[farfromstrange]

Crying at all the gifs of Charlie Cox on my timeline pretty much sums up my mental state when I’m on my period.

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

[himblebo]

She’s married she’s married she’s married she’s married (to a man to a man to a man to a man)

[krebs-gorlon]

Listen, If 16 year old me, who was obsessed with skinny emo boys that were so thin their veins bulged out of their arms, knew that this is what I found attractive on a carnal level now, she would have a brain aneurysm

[akamikazae]

my tiny baby sister who is too cool for everything and is away for college just texted me out of the blue that she misses me days after I dropped her off...im not crying your crying !!

[meownotgood]

i want to cry in aki's arms so bad... just desperately hug him and cry into his chest

saw this ask while curled up in bed crying..... anon.... I feel you so so much.... just need aki to hold me and gently comfort me in his sweet voice

[dilfsisko]

Not to keep going on about it but my cystic acne, while bad, was not nearly bad enough for the prescription they were going to put me on. It was like the accutane was just some kind of stunt to force me on hormones and blood test me once a month.