Vaudevillain Girls and Violin Strings

Ovulation lasts ≈5 days (a few days before egg release, 1 day for egg, few days post until the egg dies)

The luteal phase varies but ≈12-14 days

@troubled-pasta peer reviewing your tags. I’d like it if we could talk about this in way that’s also kind and acknowledging towards the fact that hormonal issues like pmdd are very undiagnosed, and hormonal disorders can absolutely fuck up a significant number of days out of a person’s life.

Being so for real — there are absolutely people who are experiencing a degree of hormone induced mental fog for 200+ days a year. That’s not a crazy, impossibly out there concept. That is just some people’s lives. I personally have had to accept that 1-5 days out of my month are going to be really rough for me mentally, because I crash hard on the week leading up to my period. I’m lucky enough to be on the less debilitating side of where I could be, if my body were less kind to me.

That's the kink

"they can barely/can't control themself from ravishing their partner? How is that portrayed as ROMANTIC??"

That's the kink

"why is the plot so fixated on how tiny the main character is compared to the love interest?"

Grisps your shoulders so firmly

It always troubles me when people talk about trans women (like Meagan and Autumn Hill, my partners who I talk to every day) in men's prisons, describing them as "rape concentration camps" and emphasizing the sexual violence there. Both Meagan and Autumn Hill have told me, explicitly, that the vast majority of their fellow prisoners respect them and respect their gender, and while some prisoners have been threatening (particularly to Meagan), that the violence against them has primarily come from the institutional systems of the guards, wardens, etc. I know this in part because of their actions: Meagan and Autumn Hill have consistently helped their fellow prisoners, with little things like getting artwork to help a prisoner draw a birthday card for his child, or bigger things like helping someone get back in contact with their family. And a lot of prisoners have been supportive to Meagan and Autumn Hill, especially when they know about the Prairieland case. They make snacks to share, trade books, and comfort Meagan when she's feeling particularly sad.

I say all this for two reasons. The first is that prisoners are not all rapists or bigots, and in fact many of them are not even guilty of the crimes they're arrested for. They're an oppressed class of people, even the worst of them, and they deserve to be understood as individuals, not a nameless and faceless mass of violent threats. And, as individuals, a lot of them have been good comrades to Meagan and Autumn Hill. I want people to keep that in mind when thinking about prisoners. There's a lot of racial stereotypes and bigotries in the way people think of prisoners in the USA, and we need to unlearn those things and understand prisoners as people, as our equals.

This is your child before and after one year of exposure to a new street drug knows as “The Animes.” Police forces are still researching the sources of this substance, but it is known to be very addictive and its side effects are nearly irreversible. 

Signs that your child may be under the influence of “The Animes” include:

making an account on deviantART.com - While it appears innocent, this website is actually a black market for different types of “The Animes.” It contains the highest concentration of animes abusers worldwide.

changing their typing habits - If your Honors student starts typing sentences that substitute “teh” for “the” or uses asterisks for actions (i.e., *noms on you XD*) or starts adding -chan to the end of names, “The Animes” have most likely gotten to a near-irreversible state that requires years of therapy.

a sudden interest in Top Ramen - In it’s early stages, your child or loved one may request to eat instant ramen noodles up to a few times a week. At this stage, it is still possible to fix some of the damage “The Animes” have caused. However, if they begin using chopsticks with every meal, you may have no choice but to lock them in their room and confiscate all Hot Topic products.

Some late election news – but clearly worth the wait.

In a special election in a Pennsylvania legislative district north of Pittsburgh, Democrats flipped a seat where Trump won by 18 points in 2024.

Democrats have declared victory in a razor-sharp special election in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, flipping a state House seat that has been held by the Republicans for almost 30 years. Democrat Brandon Dukes is leading Republican Scott Timko by less than 100 votes in the state House's 12th District special election. Dukes has 8,434 votes (50.26 percent), while Timko received 8,346 (49.74 percent), according to unofficial election night returns. Under Pennsylvania law, a recount is automatically triggered for a statewide race if the margin of victory is within 0.5 percent. Chantell McCurdy, the election bureau's director, told Newsweek that they've confirmed with their legal team that an automatic recount does not apply in this election. [ ... ] Dukes, who works as a commercial loan administrator at TD Bank, said he was “ecstatic” and “shocked” following the result, the Cranberry Eagle reported. “I’m still processing this. We just flipped a Trump +18 seat, and we flipped a red seat that’s been red for almost 30 years,” he told the newspaper. “We made history.”

Given Brandon Dukes's reaction, Democrats were probably not expecting to flip this seat. But Brandon was the right sort of candidate for this district and his message resonated with voters.

For all you election nerds, here is a link to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Elections Results site.

2026 Special Election 12th Legislative District (Unofficial Returns)

FYI: PA HD-12 is not exactly a place densely populated by lefty hipsters.

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Okey