#educatedinyellow

No, I don't mind. I actually have polycystic ovary syndrome, and I have seen many doctors because I had irregular menstrual periods, and somehow my periods are now regular, and the doctors are like well that's good news and all, and I keep telling them my period is still painful, but they are all like, "well you've got pos, it's normal that it hurts, just take ibupofren", but I keep telling them, it does nothing except help with the headaches, and all of them tell me that the ibuprofen has to do something, that it can't be possible that it doesn't help with the period cramps.

The worst part is that they only offer me solutions if I want to get pregnant, becuase they can give me medications to help with ovulating but not to get rid of the pain, just like they also offer me solutions if I feel any pain while having sex, but as an asexual person who has never had sex and doesn't want to, it's basically useless. I still have a yearly appointment to see if my periods are still regular, and every year, I get asked if I have already had sex so they can make some test and give me some medication so they can get rid of the pain I feel during sex.

But no one offers to help me with the pain I feel during my period. It's like, the pain only matters if you're unable to have a baby or if you're experiencing pain during sex. Every doctor I've seen is like, "you have pos, so you have to deal with period pain, but if you want to get pregnant or feel any pain during sex, please come back to see me immediately and I'll help you".

Thank you guys for sharing your memories! My First Destiel Fic is a nostalgic survey open to any destiel fan and has a simple goal - to celebrate fics that were our gateway into a wonderful world of destiel shipping. Thank you, fic writers, you are our heroes!

from @lolastarfishthings​

Hey ! I started watching Supernatural in 2014-1015, but stopped at s8 or so. When I heard the series was ending, I watched up til mid s12, (+ also the very last episode –still not over that by the way). I only started reading Destiel fanfics this year, and the first one that I read, and one that I'll always remember is "The One Thing You Can’t Lose" (short, extremely fluffy, totally what I love). Then I read "Thursday's child" (found on your site!), this one is truly incredible (read it!)

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The One Thing You Can't Lose by MajorEnglishEsquire [T, 5,000 word count, posted 2014]

You know what I like a lot? The thought that Dean can just tug Cas anywhere at any time and Cas, who can lift tons without effort, who can demolish things with the light of his grace, who has battled and gone to war, has defended and broken, will just let Dean do it.

Thursday’s Child by strangenessandcharm [NC-17, 114,000 word count, posted 2009] (our review)

Thursday’s child has far to go. Spoilers for 5.04, ‘The End’. So I got to wondering: what would have happened if past!Dean hadn’t turned up in 2014, and future!Dean had actually succeeded in killing Lucifer with the Colt? Apparently, it involves lots of angsting. Who knew?

from @educatedinyellow​

I'd been following bendingsignpost's tumblr for years because I loved his fic in the Sherlock fandom. In 2017 he posted a message asking if anyone would be interested in giving his latest fic a beta read. I contacted him and said I'd love to do that, but when he told me it was an SPN fic, I had to admit I'd never seen the show. I said I'd still be glad to beta if he didn't mind my unfamiliarity, and he said that was fine by him! So beta reading for Cinderwings was my intro to Destiel.  Cinderwings was *such* a masterful and amazing fic, I fell completely in love with the ship and the characters (especially Cas). After that, with the help of a friend who was already a fan, I started catching up on the show from the beginning, and have had the best time joining in the fandom in the years since! Another friend recommended the works of orange_crushed to me very early on, and Fearson's Floating Cigarette was another of my first favorites :)

Cinderwings by bendingsignpost [M, 182,000 word count, posted 2018] (our review)

Under the cover of a masquerade ball, Castiel has five nights to recover the key to his people’s freedom. The world has changed greatly in the six centuries since their banishment into the void, but the task isn’t impossible. Unfortunately for Castiel, this is going to involve talking to people - especially the Knight Prince who has taken an interest in Castiel and his “costume” wings.(Destiel Cinderella AU)

Fearson’s floating cigarette. by orange_crushed [M, 11,500 word count, posted 2014] (submitted rec post)

“That son of a bitch,” Dean says. He strangles the handful of french fries he’s been holding, and one by one their warm, helpless, potato-y insides crumble over the tops of his fingers. He feels a brief burst of irrational, almost homicidal rage. “That floppy bow-tie wearing son of a bitch.” Dean is gonna kill Jimmy Wonderman. He’s gonna shove a never-ending string of scarves down his throat. He’s gonna make him eat balloon animals until he floats off into space.

from @rolling-stoned-girl

Hi! I joined the fandom at the tail end of season 8. Gosh it's crazy to think how long it's been a part of my life. The first Destiel fic I ever read was Thursday's Child by strangeandcharm. Not only was it my first Destiel fic, it was the first fic I'd read period. I remember being sucked into this whole new side of fandom, one where the fans get to decide what happens with these two beautiful characters. Thursday's Child set the bar high for me early on in my shipper career XD.

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Aubrey/Maturin: Probably after I commit to a re-read of the series, which I've been on the cusp of for a while. But when I do: Maturin is a natural history nerd and Aubrey is a mathematics nerd: what's not fun about that? (Well, fun for ME, I don't know about anyone else.)

Peter/Harriet: I've let myself get psyched out that I don't have the kind of Latinate education that would let me write these two; Anglicanism is also one big blank to me. But I need to remind myself that it's not all high culture with them: in Strong Poison Peter quotes Carroll and Gilbert and Sullivan and folk songs, and of course Harriet is a genre writer who later went into advertising/propaganda. All that said, I think I'd rather write the Cattery than Harriet and Peter themselves. (But who wants to read Cattery fic?)

ACK! I feel, as the children say, so seen. The Hound would almost certainly be a steam punk version of this:

Thank you so much, friend!

K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

Samwise Gamgee. He went from a gardener, to a Ringbearer’s companion, to Mayor of Hobbiton. His journey of self-discovery, endurance of hardship, and growth into leadership, is admirable and well worth imitating. 

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

Gregory Lestrade.

S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

Rules: Write your ten favourite female characters from ten different fandoms and tag ten different people.

1 - Doctor Who: Rose Tyler

2 - Sherlock: Janine

3 - Inception: Can I cheat and say Lucky? If I can’t cheat and say Lucky, then Ari.

4 - Gossip Girl: Blair Waldorf

5 - The UK Office: SPOILER David’s date at the Christmas party at the end, because she seems awesome. It’s not Dawn, because poor Tim.

6 - Dynasty: Fallon is a terrible brat and I should hate her, but Ikd, I love her

7 - The Good Place: Janet

8 - Lucifer: Maze

9 - The West Wing: Ainsley

10 - Empire: Cookie

Hee! I legit have enough opinions about punching that I could indeed write such a fic! (Although I’d have to research Victorian boxing -- there were historical martial artists at Left Coast Sherlock last year who suggested that the rules of boxing were changing just about then. iirc, the Queensberry rules “ruined” Victorian boxing.) ...ahem, yes, as I was saying. ;-)

But you are correct, there is indeed something very interesting happening at the conjunction of those three episodes, and I can see exactly how I might write them into a flirtation and courtship!