Tbh

Meg. Christian. Loves gen relationships and finding the Gospel in the least likely of places. Meggledy on ao3

[apolladay]

If you don’t menstruate anymore, but used to, feel free to answer with how you remember the cramps feeling. If you don’t bleed but still experience cramps, feel free to answer as well!

How would you describe your period cramps?

No pain/Minimal pain. Hardly noticeable, and I can ignore it.

Uncomfortable. Bothersome, but I can ignore it.

Moderate. I’m constantly aware of it but it doesn’t interfere with my life.

Distracting. I cannot do some of my daily activities because of the pain.

Distressing. Always thinking about it, I cannot do many of my daily activities.

Intense. I am in pain all the time. I cannot do most things.

Severe. I cannot think about anything other than the pain. It’s hard to move.

Worst pain ever. I cannot move. This is the most pain I have ever been in.

Varies too much to tell.

I don’t menstruate/Have never menstruated/Can’t remember.

Results/other.

Voting ended onJun 3

If comfortable, feel free to specify in the tags how you answered and whether or not you have a medical issue that can affect the pain (such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids, etc.)

[steeb-stn]

hail mary fam, please advise. Is eridians’ lifespan about 400 earth years or 400 erid years? And was rocky alone at tau ceti for 46 earth years or 46 erid years? As i understand it an erid year is roughly 40ish earth days, so this is a big difference

[steeb-stn]

also phm has me Feeling Things about ryan gosling in a way that i never have

[steeb-stn]

i love that the main adjectives we’ve all agreed on to describe humans from the eridians’ perspective is damp and leaky

rocky trying to keep up with all the different fluids humans make - ‘wait, you make how many different secretions? Who needs that many????’

[steeb-stn]

Yes rock and grace saved both earth and erid, but like if we r being realistic, if grace brought rocky to earth, rocky would immediately get whisked away to a black site somewhere, and grace may or may not be able to be with him, and rocky would most likely be treated like a external threat to the entire planet

so imagine this is what the eridians do to grace, put him in a box thats too hot and has no light whatsoever, and rocky is losing it because hes totally helpless to help his friend

[steeb-stn]

also i love how grace was trying so hard not to scare his kids about the petrova line even knowing they were all screwed, he really does love them

[steeb-stn]

i love project hail mary bc ryland grace is not a hero. He is awkward and scared and when faced with the choice of sacrificing his life to save thousands of people he said no. Idk its just nice to see like a very human main character onscreen. Like realistically we are not all captain america

(and yes hes brave later, but thats because he had to be. Thats because he loves rocky. And really thats what his cowardice teaches us - to be a hero is to love)

[raven-star7]

The beast doesn’t need to transform to be loved. He doesn’t have to turn into a boring fucking prince to be loved. Or renounce to the essence of who it is. To me love is not transformation, love is acceptance and understanding.

Guillermo del Toro

[aerialsquid]

This man gets me like no other

[edgar-allan-possum]

I still don’t feel like Del Toro gets it. The Beast doesn’t change to be loved. He changes because he is loved. Totally different.

[celestial-prism999-deactivated2]

I’m gonna say something controversial here.

I get that there are a lot of monsterfuckers who insist that the Beast in these stories doesn’t need to become a Prince in order for there to be a happy ending. But that is not true. It’s important to remember that in most versions of the story the monster is not who the Beast really is. He’s under a curse; one that prevents him from expressing his true self and from interacting with others. Beauty’s love for him is what breaks the spell because by piercing through the false form and seeing him for who he really is the curse loses it’s power. It’s a story of love triumphing over ugliness and loneliness, of how anyone can become beautiful and worth knowing if they are given love and are seen for who they are on the inside.

The Beast was never really a Beast. He is a Prince. The only thing that love really does in the end is turn him back into who he always really was, and I find it ironic that a lot of the people who insist that they love the prince for “who he really is” can’t accept his true self. They couldn’t have missed the whole point of this fairy tale any further if they were doing it on purpose.

[steeb-stn]

now i want a reverse beauty and the beast where the beast was always a beast, but then he gets cursed to become a beautiful human prince and has to live in a castle and wear frilly shirts and be waited on, and he hates it, and beauty comes and breaks him free of the curse and they go run feral in the woods together

[deer-vertebrae]

kissing my sick wife (ao3) on the forehead with tears in my eyes. tucking her into bed with shaking hands. praying for her health. bless the doctor (otw volunteers i think) that gave us medicine (working on unexpected maintenance). she needs to sweat the fever out

[themaidenofwords]

MY WIFE (AO3) IS BACK FROM WAR

[themaidenofwords]

My wife has been redeployed

[themaidenofwords]

My beloved wife has fallen ill again. Please pray for healing 😭

[steeb-stn]

once the hbo hp show comes out im sure there will be tons of comparison between it and the movies but like… why are they even trying… they will NEVER have a score like the hp movies… nothing will ever be as iconic as hedwigs theme. They could could kill it in all other aspects but they wont have that magic

[steeb-stn]

season 8 kinda sucks. Even the monster-of-the-week episodes suck

[hangsawoman]

leave tonight or live and die this way

[steeb-stn]

ok im NOT gonna watch it but i just need to know. In the new wuthering heights movie, do they show hareton and kathy’s romance at the end? Do they present it as a spark of hope and goodness and redemption like it is in the book? I need to know

[mookybear12404]

Nothing makes me angrier than when certain hard-headed (usually boomer) Christians refuse to listen to, or believe in science because it “opposes their faith” when I would literally not be a christian at this moment if it weren’t for science

[takineko]

Science is just the study of the physical world that God created. It doesn’t oppose God.

[saint-ambrosef]

science-denying boomer Christians and “im not religious because science” atheists are equal and opposite energies

[no-mere-mortals]

The Apollo 8 crew read Genesis 1-10 as they became the first men to orbit the moon.

Shortly before becoming the second man to leave footprints on the moon, Buzz Aldrin became the first man to take communion on the moon (he was an elder at his church and had received special permission to serve himself communion).

Mary Anning, the paleontologist, retained her devout faith as she discovered dinosaur remains that were millions of years old.

A nun (Mary Kenneth Keller) was the first woman in the US to earn a computer science PhD.

Katherine Johnson, a Black woman whose work on orbital mechanics were critical to manned space flight in the US, was a longtime member of her church.

Christians have always been active in the sciences, and we will continue to be active in discovering the wonders of the world our Creator set for us to find.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Do y’all want to hear the story of the most ridiculous church I’ve ever encountered?

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

Shoot

[supreme-leader-stoat]

>Be me >Be taking an internship over in California for a few months between school years >Be looking for a church >Mom recommends one she found on Facebook >All their stuff on the page is for the Lorax >Figure it must be some thing they’re doing with their children’s classes >okayletsdothis.jpg >Pride flag flying outside >Okay that’s a little weird for a church, but it’s Cali, maybe they’re just trying to be welcoming >Go in >They sing a couple hymns I haven’t heard before >Is nice >Pastor goes up to preach >Eventually I notice he doesn’t have a bible >He pulls out the Lorax book >Reads it in its entirety >Keep in mind this is the adult service >Proceeds to wax poetic about nature and environmentalism for the next 45 minutes >Mentions a vague ‘creator‘ maybe twice the whole service >Still never mentioned the gospel the whole time >By the end of this I’m beginning to think maybe the Catholics are right about us all being heretics >My family still jokes to this day about the Church of the Lorax

That’s the second worst I’ve seen.

The story of the worst one goes like this

>Same summer >Family is in Cali for another reason so they visit me while they’re there. >It’s Sunday Sunday Sunday! >Figure we’ll find a place to go to service >Already know to avoid the Church of the Lorax >See that Stanford chapel is nearby >Figure we’ll see what that’s like >Place is gorgeous >Looks like a cathedral inside >The ordained minister comes up >She’s a woman >First thing she wants to tell us is that she’s a lesbian >The rainbow stole already kind of gave it away >californiansbelikethat.png >Preaches on the sermon of Jesus driving the legion of demons into the pigs >Seems weirdly fixated on the legion character >Quotes his lines a lot >Not a lot of focus on Jesus >Gets really passionate about LGBT people and how people may hate them but they’ll never back down >Flat out says ‘We are Legion, We are Many‘ at one point with no trace of irony >Tries to use it as an inspiring slogan >I think by this point she’s forgotten she’s flat out endorsing the demons >In what is nominally a church >Rest of the congregation just nods along like ‘hey, maybe the demons had a point‘ >You know, maybe it’s not protestants >Maybe California is just Hell

[macabre-muses]

vader every time he came across 3po and r2 during the war probably