#period struggles

[archipelago-siren]

As an Endometriosis sufferer, I wish vagina catheters existed.

No more pads, Tampons and menstrual cups are no goes due to cramping and a tilted cervix. No more period underwear which after Day 3 start to cause chaffing.

Just, stick a tube up there, attach a small bag which I can strap to my leg or even lower belly. No more 'I've probably got a couple extra hours left out of this pair/pad' to then find out, you did not. It'd be efficient and you could wear whatever undies you wanted.

Bonus: And then when the next condensending doctor/gynecologist tells you it can't be that bad and no-one with a uterus bleeds that much, you can throw the full bag from one cycle onto their desk and go "Wanna bet?"

#period struggles #periods #menstruation #endometriosis #A heavy period is considered over 80ml blood loss #You could accurately measure how much your own average blood loss is per period #and then tell the doctors to go fuck themselves when they inevitably don't believe you #a small catheter bag is usually around 350ml capacity

[a-lighthouse-a-man-a-city]

Me on my period: Why does my skin look good for once? All the redness is gone and I look porcelain and smooth-

My anemia: Its because you have no blood left in your body

#period struggles

[toastymangoes]

why does my abdomen hurt so much? my period has not yet begun! am i dying??

*wipes*

oh.

#period cramps #period problems #period posting #period struggles #people who menstruate #menstruators

[failure-chonk]

Literally brought a pot with a small trash bag in it because I would puke decided to force myself to keep it down since I had taken a pain killer for the cramps T>T

#period struggles

[hsonlyangelxo]

#real #period struggles

[cemeterything]

the thing about 2019 tumblr is that it was bad in a way you really had to be there to understand and the romanticization of our own loneliness was dire but at least we had the moomins. it was worth it for the moomins.

#🐉 #and the web weaving which i think was popularized during that period. thats pretty good too. #as someone who struggles with web weaving im endlessly impressed by people who post those

[smash-chu]

Long distance loneliness

#my art #doodles #smash-chu's art #not having the luxury of being able to just drive and see someone i know and love #having all my human connection come from digital screens when not visiting my family once or twice a year #it makes your heart sink down into a place that is hard to get out of #a place of acceptance that i will just have to live with being lonely #i love my friends #i just wish they weren't so spread out away from me #in a way i was left back here cause i was the only one that didn't move back to their parents #and now i struggle alone being comforted via keeping in touch online #but it can never replace seeing face to face #getting to be right there next to someone #touch starved is a understatement #but for now that is just how it has to be #anyways #my period is frying my brain making every feeling feel more intense so i feel super fucking alone right now #it's fine it'll go back to being numb soon enough #but sometimes you just need to let stuff out

[creelmalfoylaufeyson69]

It’s late and I should go to bed, but I have cramps

#period struggles #periods suck #girl things #*screams internally*

[pokeberry5]

directionless anger

(or, something like: the robin mantle is a curse, but that isn't inherently anyone's fault and someone has to wear it)

i adapted the two pages below the cut bc they were haunting me—tim having a nightmare the day of his mother's funeral, from Batman (1940) #455: “Identity Crisis, Part 1”, from this post

#dc #dick grayson #tim drake #bruce wayne #sart #long post #cw eyestrain #sometimes you’re 14 and the people who were supposed to take care of you hurt you but they didn't mean to #in fact it’s the last thing they wanted #and what do you do with that? #trying to exorcise all the brain worms before my semester starts and i inevitably have neither the time nor the energy #i would also like it to be known that i find his hair from the period very charming but BY GOD do i struggle drawing it

[clownshire]

I really want to eat something sweet but the thought of getting up and eating makes me sick. I can't even think about having food in my mouth right now.

#period struggles

[visit-ba-sing-se]

Petition for JSTOR to display “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here" next to the search bar at all times

#academia #jstor #maybe you would struggle less witn deadlines if you would not check every detail- shut up #btw send me a time period/art style you want memes from I would live to do that

[apas-95]

most anarchists don't outright say they want to abolish building codes (or organisations) - but, practically, when the question of enforcement comes down to it, it's a different story. building codes that are not enforced are not building codes, they're fun suggestions. if you are not ensuring that all, in this case wheelchair ramps, are up to code, you functionally do not have building codes. it's the same issue as with organisation - without a concept of democratic centralism, 'what if the organisation decides to do something that a small subset disagree with' generally receives no solution other than just 'those people just won't do what the organisation decides', which in practice means there does not exist an organisation at all, just a group of people who currently happen to all agree on something, and will disintegrate when they stop happening to agree. in practice there can be no actual collective action, no ensuring wide conformity to codes and programs, without some form of central authority to make reference to. 'just let the village's Ramp Inspecting enthusiast decide if it's fine' does not a building code make.

#this is again not even getting into the fact that this is an issue of governance and not the state #where the continued existence of class struggle would further require building code enforcement have a proletarian state character to it #for the duration of the period of socialist construction

[stil-lindigo]

the dredger.

a comic about closure.

(buy the digital copy of the comic anthology here)

creative notes:

#i wrote my best stuff when i was at my very worst mentally #both RED and Patchwork Canary were written during an emotional pit #i struggled for a while. thinking about that #especially since those two came so easily to me back then and its so difficult to write anything like it these days #but i think id trade being happy over writing Only Bangers any day #closure #i made this comic series about the worst period of my mental health ever and now its over #its 10pm #and i dont know who i am #and thats fine. ill figure it out as i go. #thank you for reading #and thank you for your support #i promise my next project wont be as sad #stillindigo art #comic art #stillindigo comics

[toastymangoes]

that second day of the period hittin me like a dump truck

#period struggles #period day 2 #ibuprofen my beloved

[longing-for-rain]

Weird how when people want to “explore taboo topics through fiction” it almost always involves gratuitous sexual violence against women, children, and occasionally gay men but never things like…idk, diarrhea, terminal illness, gynecological conditions, hate crimes, abortion, etc. (or how about periods!)

I wonder why that possibly could be 🤔

#rhetorical question i know #it’s the misogyny #the one that always comes to mind is game of thrones #iirc they insisted on including graphic r*pe to ‘attract viewers’ #most period pieces have this tbh #i struggle to think of a period drama that doesn’t

[pettyprocrastination]

idk what it is about horror movies that take place in the 70′s and 80′s but i love it. Let me see a bitch with a mullet running for his life. ominous revving of a chainsaw in the background as oingo boingo plays. this is where i thrive. 

#tj talks #idk why i just enjoy things set in that time period for some reason #as i struggle to find a working link so i can watch the black phone #also if i wrote a random splurge drabble about a victim having a weird codependent sorta romantic relationship with a slasher would you read #i also have some frankie fluff on the stove atm so like. whatever works