My Favorite Obsession

Whatever is keeping me up at night

[cryptidyke-deactivated20181126]

lesbian culture is how we were all one of the weird girls in middle school

[bananapeppers]

how modest! we were also weird in elementary school and high school

[blackness-by-your-side]

[louloutche]

there are actually two people in the show who are perfectly good for Kara, but one of them is black and the other is a woman, and their opponent is a white straight man so

[evgar]

you’re like the ocean. pretty enough on the surface but, dive down into your depths, you’ll find beauty most people never see.                                         lucky me. i fell in, headfirst.   

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[endiness]

[racethewind10]

#mood 2017 - @elsodex

[fangirl-jos]

So...I am eating candy for breakfast.

#adultingfail

[fangirl-jos]

Visibility means that out public figures can casually talk about their families on TV. Love this so much <3 

[selfeffacing-jokes]

Daisy Ridley looks like the love child of Keira Knightley and Hayley Atwell

[selfeffacing-jokes]

[zedface]

Omg that’s it. That’s fucking it

[alkimea]

can i just

gif creds

[lazarusgirl-deactivated20181112]

Because the gifs don’t really do it justice, here’s the clip.

[love-order-chaos-repeat]

What’s that from

[regionally-the-best]

its from the duchess 

[elsodex]

#who’s gonna tell Rey we found out who her parents are ( @ennn )

[trufemale420]

The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))

[newtonssidedick]

What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?

[trufemale420]

Endemetriosis

Vaginal Thrush

Menorrhagia

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Fibroids

Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.

[hyggehaven-deactivated20200904]

Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.

Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.

Chronic pain is overwhelmingly experienced by women, and women are less likely to be taken seriously or given treatment by medical professionals. I went through two years of diagnostics to finally find out I had occipital neuralgia; I felt doubted when I described my pain at every step of the way, but was lucky to have a partner who was persistent in helping me get treatment.

Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.

[feminerds]

Don’t forget that most pharmaceuticals go to market without ever having been tested on people with a uterus, lest someone get pregnant… seriously that is the whole rationale behind not testing >50% of the population. This has been legislated against in some countries, but still persists in the of majority drug development because of other regulations, and traditions and laziness. The use of a drug is of course monitored in the population after release, but the people “trying” it in this capacity get none of the insurance, close and regular medical examination or monetary benefit of essentially being in a late stage drug trial. Drugs that are pulled from market after release are sometimes done so on the basis that the dosage is just too high for females/afab people and this is, of course, after they’ve experienced the adverse affects. 

This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!  

Sources: Nature, Nature, Medscape, Biomedcentral.

[prokopetz]

Indeed, the issue is so severe that, in many cases, folks with uteruses are routinely told that their diseases and disorders are not, in fact, disorders at all, and are just a normal part of having a uterus.

Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?

Except that’s not right at all.

Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis - and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.

Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.

And yet we tell folks it’s just a normal thing that everybody has to deal with.

[dottewa-deactivated20200728]

Bonus round: Look up PCOS and gender identity.

Then look up PCOS and diabetes.

[thepageofhopes]

Ok, to show how incredibly important this post fucking is, I just looked up endometriosis and I match just about every sympton, and it would explain not just my incredibly painful periods but many other things as well. I had no idea this existed. Please, read this post and reblog this so others can learn.

[philosopher--queens]

I will reblog this every time because my cousin (a cis girl) went through seven years of pain without being taken seriously until SHE suggested it was endometriosis. And that’s not even unusual - that’s the average amount of time it takes between first symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis.

[ainokiseki]

Those firsts that you talked about…I want to have them all with you. I never want to stop having firsts with you.

[writerstealth]

Do you suppose the showrunners fully appreciate how the fandom feels about Susan Vasquez?

i mean look at her.  why wouldn’t you want her on your team, whether she’s watching your back in a firefight, helping you pick up chicks, or banging your face off?  do they understand how much we love her?  how important she is??  the fandom took one look at her and was like “yummy butch latina you are very important to us” and while this fandom has its share of fuckery like any other, the way it treats Susan Vasquez is one thing it gets very right.

More Susan Vasquez 2017!

[writerstealth]

OK but now picture those nimble fingers on some piano keys.  Maybe that image was subliminally in my mind when I thought of pianist!Vasquez.  *sigh*

[thesameenshaw]

@like-rain-and-phones i’m so sorry u have to deal with this also

@fangirl-jos JSKFKGSJSHDHJD I WOULD BUT i hate making women uncomfortable and objectifying them, even if it’s like part of their job. one time my friends took me to a strip club and paid for a lap dance for me and i was still terrified to like touch the girl, she literally grabbed my hands and put them on her ass and said “don’t be shy!!!” lmao i’m ridic polite and gentlemanly (for lack of better word) towards women

[fangirl-jos]

I’m the same...and a vegetarian...but I couldn’t help myself. If I were stuck in that situation I would have to laugh or cry. One or the other, lol...

[ulibeanzz]

straight people really think that i dont want to be around homophobes because i find their “opinions” unsavory like its disagreeing on economic policy or some shit. the reality is that i dont want to be around homophobic people because they pose a direct threat to me, because i am terrified of them and the potential violence they bring, because feeling their judgment is enough to make me lean back into self hatred and shame. please dont act like my refusal to chill with your local bigot is obstinate and unreasonable  

[linda-belcher]

I hate people who can go to sleep as soon as they shut their eyes, like that shit takes me 3 hours, 700 position changes, and a sacrifice to the gods

[little-wolfy]

[bykatiebarnes]

Actress, Aussie and philanthropist Eliza Taylor talks 'Thumper'

Eliza Taylor on her new film "Thumper," career, body-image positivity and why she's a huge fan of her fans.

“It was a crazy time to be on social media,” Taylor said of the fans’ response [to Lexa’s death]. “This affected people so deeply, but being able to portray the first lead of a show on network television who is bisexual is an absolute honor. The life of Lexa completely changed my career and my fanbase.” Eliza is kind of the best. I can’t even lie about that. 

[basketcasemp3]

when you havent made plans for the future and then suddenly it is the future and everything didnt just magically work itself out