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don't you just hate it when you're just trying to plant parsnips but your world intersects with the rust dimension drawing horrors beyond your comprehension into existence?
sucks when that happens
Vintage Story doodles. One random one and some of the current player critters. I like the big wet eyes
players commonly spite the dangerous world of vintage story with tall castle walls, keeps and castles. personally i elevate that arrogance in my 1950s bungalow
The Seraph
big plans tonight
it happened. someone sent me a screenshot of my own post. i won't let the fame get to my head~
Any hormonal method changes your hormone profile. Whether this is for better or for worse depends ENTIRELY on your individual body. Some bodies naturally have more estrogen and would be happier with less, some people need progesterone for sleep and a healthy mood while for others any tiny fluctuation in that shit makes them feel insane (me). Everyone has a different rate at which they metabolize hormones, how they respond to metabolites, and what their body produces naturally.
Trans people on HRT will know exactly what I’m talking about here. There are transmascs who felt like shit with estrogen in their bodies and transfemmes whose depression magically goes away as soon as they start progesterone. Different amounts, delivery methods, and combinations of estrogen/progesterone/testosterone work for each individual and it can take years to figure out what that is. It's exactly the same for those of us with uteruses who take hormones. If you’re taking birth control for any other reason than to prevent pregnancy, you’re basically doing HRT in search of a hormone profile that works for you. Uteruses will hijack your entire body and make it work for reproduction and almost nothing else. We are not our ancestors who spent most of their lives either pregnant or breastfeeding. Some hormones can make your menstrual cycle go away! Yes that’s healthy and no there is no reason to have like 500 periods in your life.
On top of that there are many different progestins and formulations with synthetic estrogens and they all have different effects. Drospirenone for example, usually makes your acne clear up and decreases blood pressure! Dienogest decreases the amount of estrogen in your body so much that when you first go on it you can get menopause symptoms. Norethindrone has minimal side effects but doesn't stay in your body as long so you have to take your pills at exactly the same time every day. You can get pills that do not have estrogen in them! The pills that do have estrogen in them can cause the same problems that high endogenous estrogen does, like increasing the chance of cancer and blood clots. If you take one that doesn’t have estrogen in it, you can get side effects related to having not enough estrogen like impacted bone mineral density and lowered chance of estrogen responsive cancers. On top of THAT the worst symptoms like migraines, acne, and mood changes are going to happen when there is fluctuation of sex hormones and it can take up to 3 months for your body to get used to the new hormone profile.
There are IUDs that release a lower amount of progestins right where it’s needed in order to minimize side effects while being super effective at preventing pregnancy, there's an arm implant that lasts 3 years, there's even a shot you can get every 3 months. These methods are the most recommended by doctors because they’re the most effective at preventing pregnancy. They’re the most effective because you can’t use them wrong. They also work wonders for a lot of people! But some bodies simply do not like them! And that’s ok!
Speaking of doctors, you have to understand how they operate. They’re looking at studies which are very inefficient at observing and establishing the causes of side effects when experiences vary so widely. Their goal is to treat whatever single issue you ask them to. If you go to a gyno and say “hey I want to not get pregnant” they’re going to say “ok, the best way to do that is with an IUD” and they’ll be correct. What they don’t care about is whether it changes your hormone profile in a way that sucks for you. Even if your doctor is up to date on the scientific literature, they usually just have a list that they’ll try in order until they find something you tolerate. There is no grand conspiracy to abuse women or sell more IUDs, doctors are largely just sort of shitty and doing their job on auto-pilot.
ALL THIS TO SAY birth control is not poison and people who have bad experiences with it deserve to be heard. It’s ok to talk about how much doctors suck and to say bad things about birth control. Some people love their IUDs, some people love their pills, and some people are better off not taking any hormones at all. Condoms and fertility awareness and stuff (or getting your partner to take hormones instead) will be a better alternative for people who don’t want to alter their body’s natural cycle. Meanwhile, some of us are much better off not having a menstrual cycle at all. Either one is fine and does not need to be moralized!
There should be no pressure to use birth control. There should be no pressure to NOT use birth control. It’s a personal choice with many variables.
IMPORTANTLY: Fearmongering and lying about important medical information is bad! please don’t do that!
getting stuck in a costanza-esque lie with ikea customer service while trying to buy a blahaj for my girlfriend's birthday because when I made my account I put in a bart simpson prank call name and I was too embarrassed to be like "yes my name is Seymore Butz" so i just pretended like I was mrs Butz using my husband Seymore’s account buying a plushie for my 6 year old daughter who wants that specific shark and no won’t take any of the other plushies they have she only wants the big shark yea she uhhh wants to be a marine biologist
I really don't think clowns are that funny. except for the thing where you can fit a lot of them into a vehicle
idk who needs to hear this but if you desperately want to be gay/bi/trans/aro/ace/queer in any way you are not being disrespectful to “actual” queer people by thinking that
Antidepressants change your personality it's true. Wellbutrin turned me into the kind of person who cuts apples before eating them and has a tupperware with tofu in it that hasn't gone bad.
I want to start a cafe where when you order a drink you also get a little cup of free food like oatmeal or vegan chili or vegetable soup or just like 2 hardboiled eggs or whatever. Just want to make sure the patrons have had something to eat that's not a pastry. A little snack.
so far the most baffling response to the graveyard fruit question are people apparently horrified or surprised that anyone would even consider picking any fruit from any tree anywhere that was just out there, not owned by them or not purchased from a store.
breaks my brain. you see a tree or a bush with fruit outside - not even on someone's property, just outside - and you don't take from it? you don't eat the fruit? why? what?
Btw they did at least one study looking at pollutants in blackberries along a busy highway (this was in the UK) and they found that the levels were far below what is considered safe.
The main concern is if pesticides are being sprayed on the fruit, so not an issue for plants like neighborhood apples and plums.
"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.
The female equivalent is "lady" and "woman". Fish lady = she owns lots of fish or maybe sells them like at an aquarium store. Fish woman = mermaid.
@linkware you get it
"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.
The female equivalent is "lady" and "woman". Fish lady = she owns lots of fish or maybe sells them like at an aquarium store. Fish woman = mermaid.
People throughout history have tried to come up with mean things to say about lesbians and ended up with the most awesome sounding shit ever. Like "lavender menace"? "Bulldagger"??? FUCK yes