a million stairs and a million stares

You're quite a different man to when I saw you last. And quite the same.

But now.

Now I went to ao3.

And across many fandoms it’s all the same.

Fic.

Fic where every line is a new point of emphasis.

Not just emphasis.

Every line says the next set of reactions, words, description, or emotions have to be set off.

In a new line.

Like this.

Paragraphs can’t be longer than a sentence, not ever.

It’s like the writers have never read a book.

Like they’ve trained themselves to write by reading the floating closed captions that appear.

Sentence by sentence.

Sometimes just word by word.

One thought at a time.

In a short form video.

Maybe it’s AI.

Maybe, though, people just stopped knowing how to write.

This isn’t how stories should work.

Each fanfic an inadvertent poem.

In 5000 words.

Or more.

Sometimes it’s more.

For so many chapters, every line.

Every line a new emphasis.

Imagine if someone talked to you like this.

Imagine a story where nothing varied.

They say we let out breaths we didn’t know we were holding.

What if, every time, every line, every minor moment felt like that.

Like a breath.

A breath you dumbasses keep letting out.

Over, and over.

With never an inhale in between.

That’s not a breath.

That’s a fart.

A long, long fart.

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

It was a very popular thing to do in the middle ages. Pilgrimages were often assigned as penance, or undertaken to fulfill an oath, show gratitude to God, or similar reasons. A pilgrim would travel hundreds of kilometres, often into foreign lands. They were also supposed to be frugal about it; travel by cart or ship was permitted, but a pilgrim was still expected to walk a significant portion of the way. This was quite a difficult and dangerous undertaking, as you can imagine.

(Of course a pilgrimage isn't a purely medieval or Christian thing, it's quite universal)

A period is defined as lasting from ovulation to ovulation. You can reassign it at any point in that cycle, but only ever the specific period you are currently experiencing.

A man only experiences multiple periods at once if he's assigned them by people who are ovulating on the same day. Since human menstruation is asynchronous, even if he's assigned multiple periods, it's much more likely he'll experience them successively.

He will have all the symptoms that come with that specific period.

Menstruation won't kill him. It's perfectly natural. Bodies are built to withstand it. He won't lose that much blood. Most people experience only mild symptoms anyway. Even a couple simultaneous periods won't kill anyone.

If he's assigned a lot of periods, hundreds to thousands, then yes, that could kill him. But lbh if he pissed off that many women, he probably deserved it.

Boys will become eligible for periods at age 14 and age out of it at 65. To keep it fair, anyone 55 or older at the time of implementation will remain eligible for the rest of their life.

It will not be possible to trace a period back to the original owner.

This

For the original owner of the period, it only works as a contraceptive if they reassign it right after ovulation. So not very dependable.

A period is defined as lasting from ovulation to ovulation. You can reassign it at any point in that cycle, but only ever the specific period you are currently experiencing.

A man only experiences multiple periods at once if he's assigned them by people who are ovulating on the same day. Since human menstruation is asynchronous, even if he's assigned multiple periods, it's much more likely he'll experience them successively.

He will have all the symptoms that come with that specific period.

Menstruation won't kill him. It's perfectly natural. Bodies are built to withstand it. He won't lose that much blood. Most people experience only mild symptoms anyway. Even a couple simultaneous periods won't kill anyone.

If he's assigned a lot of periods, hundreds to thousands, then yes, that could kill him. But lbh if he pissed off that many women, he probably deserved it.

Boys will become eligible for periods at age 14 and age out of it at 65. To keep it fair, anyone 55 or older at the time of implementation will remain eligible for the rest of their life.

It will not be possible to trace a period back to the original owner.