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ohhh my god I just fact-checked, Nolan actually DID cut the "Nobody" scene from his Odyssey movie. Mfer that is like cutting the Father reveal from Star Wars. Let me speak in a language you understand this is like not dressing Batman up in his suit. "It was not possible to work it in" the TikTok musical with a budget of $4 and a scratched Hamilton CD managed to work it in in SONG form, step up your FUCKING GAME
Even the Arthur retelling of The Odyssey includes the “my name is Nobody” gag. And if an Aardvark can get that right, I expect more of a billion dollar box office flop.
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hi uh i keep seeing this being debated on tiktok and as your resident adult with a history of infertility who knows just.. way too much about pregnancy and hcg tests: if you are capable of getting pregnant, you really REALLY need to understand how drugstore pregnancy tests work. if there is a line, no matter how faint, that test is POSITIVE. I’ve seen people test positive and get a negative or start their period a few days later and be like “it must have been a false positive”. actual false positives are extremely rare. what most likely happened is something called a ‘chemical pregnancy’ which is when an egg is fertilized but does not implant in the uterus so the pregnancy does not continue. that positive test was not faulty or false, it was just an early test.
if you think you might be pregnant, get your hands on a test. you don’t need the fancy digital ones. the ones you can buy at places like the dollar tree work just as well. buy a few and take one every day until your period comes on if you need to. if there is a FAINT line you aren’t sure about (sometimes tests have something called an indent that makes a shadow that can be mistaken as a very very faint line), test again the next day. as a general rule, morning is the best time to test for most people.
in a post-roe america, is it vitally necessary that you know and understand that because if you intend to terminate, your window is incredibly small in most states and by the time you’ve missed a period or begun to suspect you might be pregnant, there’s a decent chance you are past the cutoff. please please please educate yourselves on this because it could mean the difference between you having access to the healthcare that you need.
As a doctor going through IVF, this is accurate and I'd love to add to it.
Urine pregnancy tests are like covid tests. Even a faint second line...is a positive. But I have a proviso to this that OP has already alluded to...
In infertility/TTC circles sometimes people experience evaporation lines (where a little of the dye from the test has run off and settled in such a way that it may look like a faint line) and indent lines (effectively a shadow due to the groove on the pregnancy test where the line is meant to sit).
Usually, this is because people are testing extremely early - as little as 7 days after ovulation (around a week before a missed period!), and are hoping to catch extremely faint positive tests. Testing even a few days later is much more likely to yield an undeniable line - which is why if someone posts a line that looks doubtful, the advice will usually be to test again tomorrow.
If you have an extremely faint potential line and aren't sure, I'd recommend testing again first thing in the morning (early morning urine is more concentrated), and if in doubt check again the next day or the day after. A pregnancy that is progressing will show a gradual darkening of the test line over the coming days.
I'm going to add some pictures of other people's positive pregnancy tests to demonstrate what I'm talking about, so I'm putting this below the cut as it may be triggering for some people:
Testing pretty much when your period is expected is a good way of avoiding this issue, because pregnancy test lines get stronger as an early pregnancy progresses. This photo from the TFABlineporn communty on reddit by Outrageous-Sock9750 is a good example.
You can see that at 11dpo (11 days after ovulation) the line is extremely faint and can easily be missed - but this is still like 3 days before a missed period in a 28 day cycle (you'd be 3 and a half weeks pregnant IF you were pregnant).
Implantation usually happens somewhere between 7-12 days after ovulation - which is around 2-7 days before an expected period . And bHCG takes a couple of days to build up, so it can take a few days after implantation before you get a line you can definitely see. The more sensitive tests generally say something like 'can test positive up to 7 days before a missed period" but that's by no means guaranteed. Countdown to pregnancy has an excellent site that explains what percentage of people who are pregnant report a positive at each day after ovulation - it's only around 10DPO that most pregnant people get a positive, but even at 14 days after ovulation, around the time the period is due, only 91.8% of pregnant people reported a positive test. This may in part be due to miscalculating when ovulation was, because it's often not possible to pinpoint exactly.
And sometimes we ovulate later than we expect and have a longer cycle that month, so it sometimes happens that people test too early to get an accurate result. This is why in sexual health circles, if someone worries that they could have gotten pregnant, we tell them to test 3 weeks after the sex, or about the time their period is missed, and to keep testing every few days until they have a normal period. If in doubt, keep testing.
AS OP has said, you can buy cheaper tests like the ones above - you can get these in bulk online, I think I paid only £15 for a bulk set of ovulation and pregnancy tests, but you can get about 20 wondfo pregnancy test strips for about £7.
It's also worth noting that whilst people's "progression" photos will show you an array of dry tests because they are comparing day by day, when you are checking at home, you SHOULD only interpret a pregnancy test within the time specified on the packet of the test itself, which will usually say something like 'read it within 5 minutes'. The lines can change as the test dries, which can make it hard to compare old and new tests.
The reason people keep testing after a positive test is that you can sometimes spot an early miscarriage (a chemical pregnancy as mentioned above) by noticing that the lines are getting more faint, before the bleeding comes along. So lots of people who are very early in their pregnancy (remember at this point you are barely 3-5 weeks along, so too early for a scan!), want to see a reassurance that their bHCG is rising well and that their pregnancy is developing. Especially if like me you are in the UK and the NHS doesn't really monitor bHCG blood test progression unless an ectopic pregnancy is suspected or you're waiting out a known miscarrige.
Back to evaporation lines and indents:
Here's some visual examples, though it often doesn't photograph well in my personal experience and in my experience of hanging out in these spaces:
It can be genuinely hard to tell for sure, and if in doubt, the surest thing to do as demonstrated above is to repeat a test the next day or try a different brand that may be more sensitive. This example from reddit is old, and i don't think they updated it, but it's an example of a faint greyish line that could be an indent.
The last thing to say is that sometimes a positive isn't a positive. There can be rare reasons why a positive test does NOT mean pregnancy - for example, a tumor that secretes HCG or having IVF with a HCG trigger injection like I did, where they tell you to test for pregnancy well after they expect the injection to have left your body.
I want to echo that if you have a uterus and ovaries, it's in your interest to learn about his these tests work, and how your body works. If you have any questions I'm sure I and other tumblrs would be happy to answer to the best of our knowledge.
A lot of people don't really know what to say when discussing infertility, and a lot of people who are struggling with it complain that people say hurtful or triggering things to them - often unintentionally.
So I thought I'd write a guide about what not to say, taken , unfortunatelyfrom hearing or seeing people express these opinions:
You just need to relax/get drunk/go on holiday/not stress so much/not want it so much.
Telling someone to be more relaxed or less stressed doesn't work - kind of like telling someone to calm them down doesn't, in fact, calm them down. It also minimises the fact that a lot of people with fertility problems have actual medical problems causing the situation, which may require treatment or might even be untreatable.
It also comes with the (likely unintentional) implication that it's your fault for not conceiving because unlike everyone else, you're just not relaxing enough. You fail at relaxing. You're doing trying wrong.
So you can't have kids? Like, at all?
Putting aside that it is a little insensitive to say this, technically infertility means that a couple tried to have kids for a year or more but were unsuccessful. Infertility is reduced fertility, and sometimes the term subfertity is seen as more accurate.
People can be told that they have a condition that affects fertility like fibroids, PCOS or endometriosis, but they may still conceive if having unprotected PIV sex and should still use contraception if they do not wish to get pregnant.
This is also why folks on T and folks on oestrogen/progesterone HRT should talk to their team about contraception, whether they are cis or trans. Whilst taking HRT can sometimes reduce fertility it does NOT render you sterile and people often need to use an additional contraceptive.
Sterility means being completely unable to have kids - for example, if you have had both gonads removed.
Infertile couples can sometimes eventually have children unassisted, and most infertile couples manage to conceive with fertility treatment.
Have you tried having sex/tracking ovulation/insert absolutely beginner knowledge here)?
Oh crap, we've been mistakenly putting it up the ass this entire time! Silly me!
Unless you're the couple's doctor and your job is to walk them through every possible issue and make sure nothing is missed, please assume that they have done their research and have the basic stuff down. Treat people as if they are sensible and competent. Believe people when they say there is a problem. Leave the diagnosing to their fertility team.
Because when you think about it, if a couple have been trying for like 3 years and you ask them if they've tried LH strips, it's kind of patronising.
You didn't become an expert just because you accidentally got pregnant 5 years ago or conceived first try with your second. People who have been struggling with a health problem for years have usually done a ton of reading, speaking to healthcare professionals and lots of tests - they almost certainly know a lot more than you about it.
Oh yeah, I know how you feel! I've been trying for 2 months / hope to have kids and I'm terrified of being infertile, I couldn't stand that. It would ruin my life!
There's a place for sharing your concerns, but please don't expect people suffering a condition to have to console you about how bad it would be for you to live their life. Infertile people don't want to hear that their life is your worst nightmare, it's just a rude thing to tell someone.
Don't tell people with coeliac you'd die if you couldn't eat pasta, don't tell people who are blind that you'd end yourself if you couldn't paint or watch TV. Just ... have some tact.
Ha, being a parent is hard, are you sure you want that? Would you take one of mine?
No, Debra.
Please stop making light of someone's personal grief or disability. This is like making boomer "I hate my wife" jokes to someone who just lost their spouse.
But what do I say, then? I don't know what to say!
I've legitimately seen people say the most insensitive thinfs and then turn around to say this.
But...
You don't have to say anything- believe it or not you don't have to offer an opinion or advice on sonething you know nothing about. They aren't waiting on YOU to fix their problem or give them advice on something a team of specialists hasn't been able to fix.
If someone tells you that they are having fertility issues, just tell them you're sorry to hear that and that you hope it works for them soon. Or ask them if they want to talk about it and let them know you are there to listen.
More things not to say after the cut...
My friend's aunt's cousin was about to have infertility treatment, then they just had twins! I'm sure that will happen for you, when you stop trying!
Everyone tells us their one in a million "miracle stories"... but they just aren't fun to hear, for many people with infertility. They may give some people hope, but they can make people feel even more isolated and unlucky because we KNOW how unlikely it is that we'll have that same luck.
Also for most of us, stopping trying would make actually conceiving and carrying to term extremely unlikely. Please don't discourage people from seeking medical help when they need it.
Well I don't think IVF/using a donor/single parent families/lgbtq families is right/natural.
It's great that you don't need it and don't have to have it, then! But your opinion is kind of irrelevant to everyone else.
Lots of modern medicine isn't natural - and as a doctor, I REALLY don't think "naturalness" or your personal comfort level with a treatment you are completely ignorant about is a relevant metric for how beneficial a medical treatment is to the people who need it.
We've spent all of human civilisation working to give us more tools (and better ones) to help people. IVF is a tool. It's an accommodation for a disability or inability due to circumstances that lets some people overcome their medical conditions or circumstances.
Are you saying that to cancer patients? To people wearing a cast for their broken arm? To people wearing a prosthesis for their amputated leg? I absolutely hope not. Please do not do that.
Other people's medical treatments are between them and their clinicians. If you don't like it? You're free to not have said treatment. If you don't want kids, you are free to not have any. I'm a passionate advocate for access to reproductive care, contraception and abortion.
But if you're pro abortion, you cannot meaningfully be anti-fertility treatment. Because you either believe in bodily autonomy or you don't. You can't pick and choose only when it benefits you.
I just think that if you can't have kids naturally, then your body/nother nature/God is telling you something and you should just stop trying. Maybe your genes are just bad and shouldn't be spread. Maybe you just wouldn't make a great parent.
Look, nature is stupid. It gives kids type 1 diabetes and genetic conditions that kill them in infancy and gives your loved ones cancer. Do you go around telling everyone that they should just due or accept being permanently seriously ill or disabled because nature gave them an illness? Do you refuse all modern medicine because you should be listening to nature's plan for your body? I bloody well hope not, because that's dumb when modern medicine exists.
There are all sorts of dumb reasons why people are infertile - why would having a tube blocked by endometriosis or slow sperm make someone a bad parent? Why are you literally telling someone to their face, whose meducal problems you dont even understand, that you think they are just too defective to make a family?
Let's stay away from the eugenics, shall we? We could have a nuanced conversation about how genetic testing of embryos can potentially reduce or eliminate rare fatal diseases which kill children and have no hope of a life without significant suffering. And how most couples who have IVF successfully go on to have healthy chikdren who live normal lives. But no, Steve, stopping your mate with a mild varicocele from having children is not going to revolutionise the human race or fulfil some alternate divine fate.
Well, fertility is a first world problem, some people have real problems, we should be focusing on that instead.
Actually, it's a problem for millions of peole, around the world. The IVF industry is huge in certain parts of the Global south, for example India.
People think it's a white rich people problem because most of the people who can afford to undergo fertility treatment privately or adopt...are the wealthy. But it's always been a problem - that affects people across cultures, socioeconomic groups and sexualities. And infertility has often been accompanied with shame and ostracisation. Stigmatising fertility care hurts everyone. Especially the poor.
Many LGBTQ couples need fertility care - whether because their gender affirming surgery or HRT or health complicates things, or they and their partner's combination of gametes makes things tricky. Making fertility care less taboo and more accessible helps them too. The conversation very often side tracks and ignores them but their struggle is valid too.
You people only want kids because they are brainwashed by the patriarchy. Infertility wouldn't be an issue if women were emancipated and not brainwashed by the patriarchy.
Look, I've been feminist in online spaces since before some of you were born. I'm not unaware of the patriarchy and how it colours our choices.
But we have to stop infantilising women abd removing their agency. I know single women and lesbians who have spent decades working through their issues with the patriarchy...who still want kids and are dealing with fertility treatment. Sure, we will never be entirely free from the many ways society affects us. But that doesn't mean we're all blindly falling into motherhood.
You don't want kids, that's great. But it doesn't mean that every single woman choosing to have them is brainwashed and unable to understand what she is getting into - and it's pretty misogynistic to frame it that way.
Nobody should be having kids because the economy/environment/etc
OK there's a conversation to be had about cutting our carbon footprint and being aware of how our choices affect others and the planet. We should all be trying to live more sustainably - I say as I wear thrifted clothes whilst typing this on the train.
But... are you saying that to able bodied people having kids? Are you sacrificing everything that you want for the cause? Or is the easiest thing to give up the thing that someone else wants? I'm all for encouraging everyone to be mindful of the planet but we shouldn't be restricting the rights of people with a disability to make that happen.
We make choices for ourselves, not for other people.
Why not adopt or foster? Adopt don't shop!
Well this is a whole post in itself...but basically, please assume that anyone who is trying for kids for a while... has at least considered adoption. Please tryst people to choose the right option for them and their family.
Children are not puppies, and the massive adoption industry isn't always ethical or safe, can be hugely expensive (often moreso than IVF in some places!), and also doesn't actually guarantee that they get to have a child at the end of it.
There can be a lot of trauma and complicated feelings for the adopted child and their birth family and many kids need very specialised support that not every potential adoptive parent can provide.
There are also far more infertile couples than kids who need adoption - so not every individualor couple could adopt. Many kids just need temporary fostering with the aim of placing them back with their family, which is important but very different.
I intend to flesh out this argument more in a separate post but IMO adoption should ideally be rare - because birth parents should have free access to contraception, abortion and be empowered and supported to look after and raise their kids within their communities if they want them. Adoption should serve the needs of the child, not the potential parents. And certainly not the agencies.
If you truly believe there are millions of kids out there needing a home, why aren't you adopting? Why aren't you clamouring for every fertile couples to adopt? Because on some level society still that's these kids as a consolation prize. And because many of the people judging infertile couples for having IVF over adoption aren't all that invested in actially learning about these kids or helping them.
Infertile people aren't solely responsible for solving complex societal problems on their own. This is something that we as a whole society need to address.
ohhh my god I just fact-checked, Nolan actually DID cut the "Nobody" scene from his Odyssey movie. Mfer that is like cutting the Father reveal from Star Wars. Let me speak in a language you understand this is like not dressing Batman up in his suit. "It was not possible to work it in" the TikTok musical with a budget of $4 and a scratched Hamilton CD managed to work it in in SONG form, step up your FUCKING GAME
Even the Arthur retelling of The Odyssey includes the “my name is Nobody” gag. And if an Aardvark can get that right, I expect more of a billion dollar box office flop.
very ironic that a grown ass man who once directed an iconic film that was about the impact of individual choice between good and evil and how thinking in absolutes is destructive to society as a whole now seemingly only thinks in absolutes and can't control the choices that he makes or the buttons that he presses
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Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i
They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i
They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
A ship being canon does not make it a better ship than any other. Likewise, a ship being not canon does not make it a better ship than any other. Trying to argue that your ship is the better ship for either of these reasons is really, really stupid.
Stop trying to justify why you like your ship to others and just enjoy your ship.
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I don't really trust the Avatar fandom's sense of powerscaling because why do I consistently see Zaheer being presented as this super powerful airbender on par with Tenzin or even Aang like who do you guys think he is?
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i'd make a joke about "let the HUSBAND giggle under the covers and tell HIS WIFE to put that camera away before dying before HIS WIFE'S story starts" but lets be real he'd still get more fanart
The best thing about tumblr is you can just make a criticism of a very specific person completely unprompted and then that person will appear as if summoned in your notes to prove your point for you.
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