Public Secrets

Like for the majority it really is "oh i'm hungrier and moodier than usual"

If, before you get your period, you feel furiously angry, suicidal, irritated by every tiny thing to the point you want to murder someone, stuck in a black hole you'll never escape from. If you are experiencing extreme emotions for what seems like no good reason, especially if you get your period and those extreme emotions just go away. You're probably not just PMSing , you may have PMS's feral big sister PMDD and it's treatable.

Actually, I am of the strong opinion that most main character deaths should come mid-season anyway, so that we get to see the impact it has in the other characters and really feel the hole that their absence leaves. End-of-season deaths always seem to be followed by some sort of time skip in which most of the morning happens off-screen and I despise it.

I tend to agree that ten episodes of morning and then Ezri showing up to get Ben from Sisko's Restaurant would've had a great emotional impact. Worf choosing duty and honor over his wife would've been very in character, but it definitely would've given all of them much more to play. Worf could've saved the symbiont but lost Jadzia in the episode, setting the scene up for Dax to come back as Ezri in Image in the Sand. They only would have needed another tragic event to trigger Ben leaving DS9 and going back to Earth.

They didn't even really use Jadzia to her full potential throughout the series anyway, but she was especially underutilized after Change of Heart. She didn't have huge dramatic turns that would've been affected by her absence, and in some cases they would've been made more resonant because of it. The Sound of Her Voice would've been heart wrenching knowing they were talking to a dead woman during her wake, then they would feel the absence of their fallen friend even more, her absence would be felt without even having to evoke her name. Plus Jadzia only had TWO LINES in that episode, explaining the wake:

Worf could've played his grief while any of the other characters could've explained what an Irish wake was, probably O'Brien.

She had 3 lines in Inquisition. She had ONE line in Profit and Lace. She fixes Quark's replicator in Valiant for a total of 5 lines. She has a little heart-to-heart with Kira in His Way, plus a little interaction with some other characters. All in all, she doesn't have much going on.

In The Pale Moonlight could've been more resonant since what spurred Ben Sisko to action in the first place was the loss of friends and colleagues because of the war, and Jadzia only serves as a bookend in this episode talking about death and loss anyway. Her biggest episode post Change of Heart is probably The Reckoning, serving as a conduit for technobabble and a sounding board for Sisko. She's in Time's Orphan a fair amount for technobabble as well, but that episode serves mostly to set up her wanting a child during Tears of the Prophets. (IMO a cheap tactic to make her death more tragic because she wanted a child, but I digress.) Even in Tears of the Prophets she isn't very present in the episode, since there are bigger plot points being played out on the Defiant and with Dukat. She gets a couple moments with the characters closest to her then a few measly goodbyes and that's it.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.