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kayla-denker

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

kayla-denker

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

kayla-denker

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

kyoshi-lesbians

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

kyoshi-lesbians

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

kyoshi-lesbians

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

edgar-allan-possum

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

library-graffiti

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

clearascountryair

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

terriwriting

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

alexseanchai

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

uberguber89

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

oneheadtoanother

grand-theft-carbohydrates

victusinveritas

nyantara

have you lived somewhere (not on vacation) where you had to sleep under a mosquito bednet

yes

no

Remaining time: 4 days 1 hour

nyantara

do you know who was someone permanently disabled / died of mosquito borne disease?

yes

no

Remaining time: 4 days 1 hour

#the mosquitos were SO bad in rome I genuinely couldnt sleep #it was more for comfort than fear of disease though

socialpants

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

junglejim4322

People really underestimate the power of just telling someone you like them. romantically obviously but hell even just platonically too. You can admit you enjoy peoples presence it doesn’t have to be mind games it’s okay to just be sincere and true with your thoughts and intentions btw

nostalgic-suggestions

Tell The People You Love That You Love Them, By Rachel C. Lewis

jaynovz

[text id: "I love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, “Kiss me harder,” and “You’re a good person,” and, “You brighten my day.” I live my life as straight-forward as possible." /end id]

guerrillatech

heartseeker

i do im celebrating my dogs birthday

shes turning 2

awbrainno

I’m also celebrating your dogs birthday

storms-and-illness

celebrating tumblr user heartseeker’s dog’s birthday on the fourth everyone

wavezies

things in phm that really tickled me as a marine biologist:

the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade

dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on

the entire "life is reason" scene really

grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot

academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character

grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)

also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)

grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box

copious duct tape usage

just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop

eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption

grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)

humanity's greatest hope being a teacher. humanity being saved by grace's ability to find novel ways to communicate well with others -- something that made him excellent as an educator, and enabled him to bond with rocky

briikasar

hottest things din djarin does

- stare at people

- drop the crest out of the sky to evade or attack. That entire maneuvre

- the slutty lil knee stance

- sighing

- getting in someones face when they piss him off. Like he consistently stands RIGHT up in their business

- when hes talking to someone who is clearly some type of nefarious, and lets them think he’s going along with everything they say (“agreeing” to find and “kill” ahsoka in s2)

- the wide shots where he’s far away and looking toward the camera (again idk)

- the way he goes statue-still sometimes (esp when stressed out). Like every muscle in his body is pulled completely and totally taut

- the way his stance shifts and his body braces RIGHT before a fight

- his pained crackly groan when he gets up after being knocked down. Its probably a stock sound they reuse but maaan is it good

- actually all of his noises of discomfort are amazing

- scanning a room

- the way his helmet jiggles around when he talks

- darksaber

- getting injured. limping. labored breathing.

- being kind to people consistently

- honoring his word, even if it means certain death

- when he makes some dark ass jokes about dying a horrible death?? Hot.

- when he’s comfortable around people and his cute ass personality shows. Yes i’m talking about “Wizard.” When he’s with peli

- flying/piloting ships

- understanding how ships work intimately. He knows every part. Likely was educated on this, so he can be self reliant and never stranded.

- the way he speaks to everyone equally. He doesnt baby or coddle. He speaks to the kind lizard lady the same way he speaks to cobb vanth. He’s genuine.

i need to cut it off here or this post will never end lmfao

If i have more to add i’ll reply to this post as a part 2

#SO true bestie #🥰🥰🥰#din djarin

frodo-sam

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson.

perotovar

PEDRO PASCAL as JAVIER PEÑA Narcos (2015-2017) 1.04 "The Palace in Flames"

#god he looks so good #javier peña

natalierso

NATALIERSO'S FOLLOWERS CELEBRATION

@sanomalehtitaikina asked: Jyn's speech for the rebel alliance council

In case anyone was wondering tomorrow is my birthday and I don't usually work Sundays but I found out literally tonight that I DO have to work tomorrow bc I was assigned a sale shift without realizing so. That's how my week is going

#how my whole fucking year is going tbh.#feels like. a manifestation of how the universe feels about me. idk. maybe I'm just postMSing

furiosa-femininst

SUPER-BISEXUAL

#lmfao

the-enchanted-little-star

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