liveblogging my descent into madness

IUDs are super effective at managing periods and preventing pregnancy⁠, but the procedure to put them in can be painful. Not everyone who gets an IUD⁠ experiences pain when the device is inserted, but many do. That isn’t surprising! The pelvic region is rich with sensory nerve endings, which is why people experience many sensations, some pleasurable and others painful, in and around the vagina⁠, cervix⁠ and uterus⁠.

Medical providers didn’t used to offer pain management for gynecological procedures because of the (misogynist and now debunked) presumption that these types of procedures don’t cause pain. But pain management is now widely available and should absolutely be offered to anyone who opts to have an IUD placed into their body. You don’t have to use pain management for an IUD insertion if you don’t want to, but everyone should be offered the choice.

Queer nurse Sarah Kiser is here to tell you about how an IUD is placed, at which points during the procedure people experience pain, and the pain management options that can be used at various points during the procedure.

First meetings be like.

Is he a scary man covered in blood? Or is he my baby girl? Spot the difference

Your trauma is valid even if you weren't a perfect victim. Whether that means you screamed back, slammed doors, or got argumentative or something else. It still doesn't mean you deserved abuse, or asked for it.

s1 jon after almost every statement: this is some made up bullshit by someone who was clearly just experiencing extreme sleep deprivation while probably traumatized and also probably intoxicated and also they just decided to lie for no reason because they hate Me Personally 🙄 ugh and here's the "investigation" that we had to waste our time doing. every day I pray for release.

s1 jon, when elias says he should avoid doing follow up on a statement where nothing explicitly supernatural even happened: I'm frothing at the mouth I'm being caged I'm being limited I'm being suppressed by THE MAN. when will justice be served?

Fun fact from the Jonathan Frakes commentary on "First Contact":

That is not Alice Krige's hand, which is why it looks so freakishly large. She only had her makeup done from her shoulders up for this day of filming so they got one of the other Borg drones and had him kneel out of shot then reach up and seductively stroke Patrick Stewart's face.

You know how sometimes you just have to get through November, and to do it you need one particular demon with a bottle of wine. Happy December everyone I guess!

"cant boycott McDonald's because it's my comfort food"

"cant boycott Starbucks because it's convenient for me to eat breakfast there and I need my little treats uwu"

"cant boycott Eurovision because I like the music"

damn. cant do shit. almost like it means nothing to u

I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than ever when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

Can I just ask, why?

(adding your tags since I'm addressing them)

It’s polite, for one. Professional doesn’t need to mean elaborate—in fact, most professional emails are aiming to be as clear and concise as possible. (in english at least, I know some other languages have some very complicated and elaborate email etiquette)

Greetings and signatures also don’t need to be elaborate. I feel like lots of people overthink it and assume that professional emails need the whole “dear x, my name is x and I am writing this email to inform you about [topic], sincerely [my name and all my contact info]” shebang, when really it’s as simple as adding a quick greeting/signature and avoiding super informal slang.

Here’s an comparison using art commission inquiry as the topic, written with zero extra fluff:

If I want to add a little more fluff, maybe I write:

Those are very short while also being more polite than an email that just says:

with zero greeting/signature and very informal tone. 

There’s still a person on the other side reading that email, and just like how being polite with a customer service agent on the phone will get you better results than being rude with them, sending a clear and professional email will have you taken more seriously by whoever is reading it. All 3 emails get the same point across, but the last one leaves a much worse impression. You don’t speak to your close friends the same way you’d speak to strangers, and it’s the same in text form. I get so many emails that are just abrupt questions, with not even a quick "thank you" either in the initial email or as a follow-up after I respond, because they ghost me as if I'm just a chat bot answering questions.

I know complaining about email language sounds like a ~corporate america white-collar bullshit~ kinda thing, and there is indeed significantly more elaborate email etiquette that can vastly differ depending on your job/field that I’m not addressing at all, but just having the very basics goes a long way in how your emails are viewed by other people.

Also relevant when emailing your college professors. Bonus tip: Do not call your professors by their first names unless they have told you to. Particularly women and POC tend to get called by our first names by students while white men are more likely to be called Dr X or Prof X, so it comes across as especially disrespectful. Generally, if you address your emails in whatever way your professor signs their emails to you, you should be good.

I always love when people make a post like “don’t ship this thing, the characters hurt each other!!!” Then uou look at the series it’s from and the entire thing is about people murdering each other

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Shoutout to everyone who can go do things sometimes but spend the next week recovering.

Shoutout to everyone who looks healthy but isn’t.

Shoutout to everyone who has put up with the “why aren’t you better” b.s.

You’re still here. You’re alive. And I’m proud of you.

fuckk that’s creepy as hell. makes me feel sick n disgusting. i love it i need more of it right fucking nowww

Cursed or not.

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An illustration for the final chapter of @casblackfeathers fic "The Stars Will Remember"! If you've been waiting for it to be complete, now's your chance to read! :D

It was fun to do a collab slash fic illustration project like this, outside of a challenge~

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