#pubicare

Ruby is obviously not a very healthy or cleanly person, right? Constantly fighting, running, and no doubt sweating, eating whatever tf she wants, and never showering or bathing. Her pH balance has to be an absolute NIGHTMARE. In cartoon logic, she just continues her life with little to no issues other than stinking like straight a$$, right? In real life, that is NOT how it would go. She would be constantly uncomfortable in her down-there square and have the absolute worst period cramps in the world. (The possibility of being infertile wouldn’t save her from this either. Infertile women can still have regular periods. The difference is that those kinds don’t guarantee eggs.)

Me and my mom have been having talks lately about how the female area is an extremely delicate thing, and I’ve also been trying to get my pubicare practices in order. How bad your period cramps are very much depends on your life. How much water you drink, what kind of food you eat, what you do with your body on the regular, lots of things. Things that make it better, and things that make it worse. Ruby doesn’t strike me as an avid water-drinker, (but to be fair, I’m not either…) and she’s also big on alcohol and meat. That alone isn’t gonna help much. And on top of that, she would have various infections from not washing or eating healthy. I’m talking UTIs AND yeast infections. The one thing that might help is the fact that she’s usually moving. Sometimes moving around even when it hurts can help, but with that alone, it might be too excruciating for that.

I would know myself. I’ve had close encounters with not only Mortal Kombat Fatality-level period cramps, but also with both infections: UTI and Yeast Infection. I had a UTI last year, (caused by me holding my pee too much for too long too often,) which was subsequently followed by the WORST yeast infection OF MY LIFE literally LAST MONTH (January). Ironically, it was caused by my UTI medication. It killed not only the extra bacteria, but MOST of the bacteria population in my “ecosystem,” so the yeast became invasive. (The fact that I had conveniently dodged forgotten about my shower time for 2 straight days prior to first taking the medication didn’t help either.) It was the absolute worst week of my entire life. I was constantly uncomfortable and crying, could barely sleep, and it literally burned just to pee.

(Might be tmi but I don’t even care, no woman should be ignorant enough to land themselves in that pickle like I did. And besides this is Tumblr anyway it’s not like I’d get taken down for this)

I’ve also been constipated before from too much meat intake, so there’s no way someone like Ruby is safe from that either. I’ve also had other yeast infections that were less severe than the most recent one because they were dealt with quicker. Advanced infection or not, it ain’t peaches and cream.

So if I had that much of a problem with 2 infections one at a time, caused by just holding my pee and not showering for a few days in a row, can you imagine how Ruby would fare? Not showering for months if not YEARS at a time, probably holding it in often, with absolutely NO care products for that specific area or even in general?? And likely little access to (and zero knowledge of) even anything regular that just helps the balance, like yogurt and vinegar baths? She no doubt has mondo cramps and at least 3 vaginal infections.

Given, she’d probably be used to just constantly itching and burning and being disgusting and would think it was normal, like most pirates. (In the show it’s obvious that they’ve made their peace about their germs and lice.) But GODDDD as someone who never wants to go through that again I can’t imagine how bad it would be if I was her.