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Hey! I'm trying to read up on IUDs and came across one of your answers to an Ask! I was wondering what kind of IUD you had- you'd mentioned it was hormone-free? So are you using the copper one? I read that that kind may cause periods to be worse, but the hormone one (progesterone) may help reduce bleeding and may stop periods. Hoping to clarify, and hoping your journey with it is going smoothly! :)

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:15:00 +1200

Yep, Paragard is the copper one. TMI under the cut:

Yeah, it does mean I’ve had worse periods, so far anyway! Previously mine were about five days with very little cramping. After the IUD, the first was nine days, and the second about eight, but the last two or three days of these are just really really minor bleeding. The cramping is ridiculous when it happens, but it’s not all that frequent. I had my second period during exam week and I was on painkillers one of the days and still couldn’t write because of how much it hurt, but of course the cramps only lasted for that one six-hour stretch when I was studying for then sitting an exam, sigh!

I briefly considered the Mirena, but I’d have had to pay for that and I got mine for free, so really that plus the fact that I really don’t know how I’d react to hormones made it an easy choice. I’ve heard the cramps go away and the periods get shorter as time goes by, so I’ll see! If it’s this bad in a year or two I’ll possibly reconsider, depending how disruptive it’s been.

i’m too terrified to start on the face and hair help (also...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:04:45 +1200

i’m too terrified to start on the face and hair help

(also that was meant to be a reference to the feminist raised fist, y’know, punch a hole in the {ceiling/sky}, but how do i put in the cross bar for the venus symbol)

seems like every time i mess with a new medium the first thing i...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:38:30 +1200

seems like every time i mess with a new medium the first thing i do is draw captain marvel. not sure why. two-dollar acrylics on one-dollar canvas.

MY PVP OPPONENT’S IRON MAN JUST HEARTBREAKER UNIBEAMED MY RESCUE THIS IS ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:24:16 +1200

MY PVP OPPONENT’S IRON MAN JUST HEARTBREAKER UNIBEAMED MY RESCUE

THIS IS ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY DISTRESSING

facebook is suggesting i add somebody who i taught they were born in 2000 and they have a facebook i...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:06:54 +1200

facebook is suggesting i add somebody who i taught

they were born in 2000 and they have a facebook

i feel so old

reviewing an article about a lesbian subculture and the author is a trans man and i keep...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:20:17 +1200

reviewing an article about a lesbian subculture and the author is a trans man and i keep misgendering them and feeling horrible for it

cheeseburgerdanvers: fraction is perfect the end

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:37:37 +1200

cheeseburgerdanvers:

fraction is perfect the end

How to change your gender settings to neutral with Facebook Timeline

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:27:53 +1200

How to change your gender settings to neutral with Facebook Timeline:

dcoetzee:

glitterfieldstudy:

Reblogging with a few clarifications since facebook changes stuff around sometimes!

First of all you HAVE to use m.facebook.com! Regular facebook doesn’t work!

You also HAVE to use Mozilla Firefox and Firebug! facebook mobile in chrome doesn’t let you edit your profile…

See full instructions at original post.

Much, much easier way to do this (that works on Chrome, I did it myself!) here. Spread the word!

oyessi: Flamingos take refuge in a bathroom at Miami-Metro Zoo,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:12:57 +1200

oyessi:

Flamingos take refuge in a bathroom at Miami-Metro Zoo, Sept. 14, 1999 as tropical-storm force winds from Hurricane Floyd approached the Miami area.

so apparently i write essays much much faster if i give up on sounding formal on my first draft and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:22 +1200

so apparently i write essays much much faster if i give up on sounding formal on my first draft and basically write out the essay the way i would if i was posting it on tumblr under a readmore at 3am

then make it actually coherent/formal after i’ve got everything down

Being biracial should not define who I am nor dictate my ethnicity within the community | China Insight

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:51:49 +1200

Being biracial should not define who I am nor dictate my ethnicity within the community | China Insight:

weareallmixedup:

By Anthony James, Staff Writer I leaned against the wall in the dorm hallway. It was back in my college days, and I was spending time between classes expounding on light topics with a few fellow stude

“Mixed-race individuals tread an awkward line put in place by those who seek to define others based on ethnicity. I know mixed-race individuals who say they are black, white or that they are Latino. President Obama, though an African and Caucasian mix, chooses one. Though by that standard I could address myself as an Asian American, I wouldn’t imagine doing so. No one asks me what it is like to be Asian American, they ask what it’s like to be mixed. There is accuracy in the connotation: I didn’t experience being an Asian standing in the dorm hall while my friends knowingly made racial jokes. I don’t get the same looks that people give my Asian friends; I don’t experience the same generalizations given to Chinese or Asians. I am an Asian American incognito, I am biracial. Expressing life as being biracial

As my life may or may not fall under the pretense in which those would signify the life of a mixed person there are Chinese and Caucasians who continually choose to dictate my ethnicity to me…There was no eureka moment, but as my childhood transitioned to early adulthood I’ve come to appreciate that although my own identity might not carry one country, culture, or set of traditions, that it is an identity nevertheless.”

SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:31:19 +1200

SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet.:

dduane:

codenamecesare:

helens78:

zillah975:

Just to mention that I use this every day at work. It’s the best thing for calming my anxiety and letting me focus. I typically use the brown noise button, but pink and white are also good, and of course everyone responds differently so it’s good to try each to see if they might help. Excellent for writing, too, at least for me.

Sometimes I’ll open http://www.rainymood.com/ or http://rain.simplynoise.com/ as well, to mix rain with the white noise, depending on the day and how I’m feeling.

I just bought Simply Rain for my iOS devices. Oh man. I’m thrilled. Thank you for the link!

I also really like Coffitivity— ambient coffee shop noises. Apparently hearing an indistinct buzz of activity nearby boosts creativity. I like having it on.

Thanks for the link to Coffitivity! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. (I’ve also been using WhiteNoise Pro and (to fall asleep by) Tiklbox.

invisiblemoose: mooglemisbehaving: kindofdistracting: the-thor...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:33:51 +1200

invisiblemoose:

mooglemisbehaving:

kindofdistracting:

the-thorster:

itami86:

justmeandkevin:

Ad for German chain of do-it-yourself stores “Hornbach”

“You can be everything but clumsy.”

(x)

I love how Hornbach’s claim translates to “There’s always something to do” (or someONE in this case, hah)

HOLY SHIT THIS CAMPAIGN IS FUCKING INCLUSIVE

I’M MORE AND MORE IN LOVE WITH HORNBACH

“You helped rebuilding Germany. So don’t let other tell you how to renovate”

“There’s nobody who is allowed to tell you that you can’t do it. Nobody but your project.”

I will freaking fly to Germany to support this company with my hard-earned money.

Dear New Zealand DIY stores and your tidal wave of “Manly manly Man DIY because you’re a MAN” marketing departments, PLEASE LEARN SOMETHING FROM THIS AD CAMPAIGN

ami-angelwings: eschergirls: I think Vampirella is still...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:19:03 +1200

ami-angelwings:

eschergirls:

I think Vampirella is still recovering from her fight with a giant crab.

I was using this picture as an example of the straight male gaze influencing panel construction and how we are forced to view a character in a scene for a post on Escher Girls, and I finally realized what was going on here.

I’ve never really looked at it carefully, I just always thought she was changing or just posing or something. I only now realized she’s supposed to be changing her clothes and destroying the house. But, because it’s just like butt shot, butt shot, butt shot, butt shot, I never picked up on what was going on because the panel focus is so much on her butt and her body that it’s hard to know what exactly is going on, especially since she’s barely moving, it’s just static butt shots (and the same one copy pasted 3 times at the end). The main focus was to give us butt shots & a full body shot featuring her boobs and crotch.

Not just can it be distracting to constantly have to see things through this sort of straight male gaze, but sometimes it can really detract from your immersion and understanding of a scene if you feel like the “camera” is just so focused on looking at women’s butts and breasts that the other, often important, storytelling elements are being ignored.

there was meant to be PLOT to this page?

thatdudefromnewyork: OH SHIIIIIIIT

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:33 +1200

thatdudefromnewyork:

OH SHIIIIIIIT

New issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on comics fandom

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:12 +1200

fanhackers:

Fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures has published its thirteenth issue on comics fandom. Here are links to all the articles, on topics ranging from women in comics fandom to fans on 4chan to Captain America and various other Avengers-related things. Enjoy! As usual, we’ll be posting some good quotes from the articles too.

Editorial:

Matthew J. Costello: The super politics of comic book fandom

Theory:

Suzanne Scott: Fangirls in refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture

Praxis:

Catherine Coker: Earth 616, Earth 1610, Earth 3490—Wait, what universe is this again? The creation and evolution of the Avengers and Captain America/Iron Man fandom

Lyndsay Brown: Pornographic space-time and the potential of fantasy in comics and fan art

Tim Bavlnka: /Co/operation and /co/mmunity in /co/mics: 4chan’s Hypercrisis

Symposium (short articles):

Forrest Phillips: Captain America and fans’ political activity

Babak Zarin: The advocacy of Steve Rogers (aka Captain America), as seen in hetrez’s “Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York”

Amanda Odom: Professionalism: Hyperrealism and play

Rebecca Lucy Busker: Fandom and male privilege: Seven years later

Kayley Thomas: Revisioning the smiling villain: Imagetexts and intertextual expression in representations of the filmic Loki on Tumblr

Ora C. McWilliams: Who is afraid of a black Spider(-Man)?

Interviews:

Matthew J. Costello: Interview with comics artist Lee Weeks

Kate Roddy, Carlen Lavigne, Suzanne Scott: Toward a feminist superhero: An interview with Will Brooker, Sarah Zaidan, and Suze Shore

Reviews:

Daniel Stein: “Comic books and American cultural history: An anthology,” edited by Matthew Pustz

Drew Morton: “Of comics and men: A cultural history of American comic books,” by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:33:51 +1200

perhaps more importantly what if the conclusion is “you really shouldn’t be in...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:07:54 +1200

perhaps more importantly

what if the conclusion is “you really shouldn’t be in university at all”, and by extension “you can’t function in an adult bureaucratic environment at all i.e. everything from state healthcare/welfare to academia and most work environments”

what do i do then

Ghost

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:04:48 +1200

wikipediafeedback:

Feedback on the Wikipedia article on ghosts:

Can you make a page of: ” How to tell if a ghost is fake. “

We received several requests for more pictures of ghosts:

more pictures of actual ghosts

…actual ghosts? Surely they mean like drawings or paintings, right?

I think there should be more pictures of ghosts, like real pictures not just paintings.

Nope.

really, really fucking angry and i’m going to cry i have an exam on thursday morning. here in...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:57:00 +1200

really, really fucking angry and i’m going to cry

i have an exam on thursday morning. here in nz, it is currently tuesday afternoon. i have, to the best of my ability given how incredibly shitty the last month has been in terms of mental health and how much stress this course has placed on me (it’s a sex and sexuality course which abruptly decides to discuss abuse and other problematic things and/or misgender people at various points without warning), tried to prepare for it.

i made the two-hour journey to and from university today in an attempt to get back the one fucking essay i did actually manage to hand in for this course, which is worth 30% of the grade. it wasn’t there. i freaked out, then went back home when i didn’t get a reply in half an hour (was i meant to sit and wait all day holy fuck)

and then it turns out it’s just that the university system has YET ANOTHER ASPECT WHICH DOESN’T FUCKING RESPECT THE PREFERRED NAME SYSTEM even though i’ve already had more than one breakdown over trying to sort out all the stuff related to it after at the start of the year somebody on staff lied and told me that i would only have to use my given name on exams and the infrastructure for handling everything else was in place

and they didn’t realize this until just now and they had been emailing me but i thought the emails were about the other essay (the one i didn’t hand in because massive fucking ptsd episode the night it was due and then it was the end of semester and i had my anxiety-about-bothering-people/-seeming-like-i’m-making-excuses thing again and just thought i’d accept the no-grade for that essay) because they were autogenerated and

and i know that the staff dealing with me are just being terse in a professional way and i’m trying so hard to interact with them professionally but how do you explain “i’m sorry but even trying to respond to you makes me want to cry i’m not deliberately being negligent” without the logical conclusion being “holy fuck you shouldn’t be in university at all”