Me, a menstruater: Why must you constantly prep for babies? Can’t you just wait until after we decide we want babies?
Uterus [now with magical eye, hip flask, and peg leg]: CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
Completed by the ever wondrous and talented queendread!
“The one thing I love about storms, about lightning, is that it’s never the same. That phrase you use – lightning never strikes in the same spot twice? It’s true! It forks and bends and cracks like a whip. But never in the same place no matter how hard you try to control it. There’s a lot of beauty in it, really. The way it can light up the night sky, the way it glistens purple and white, and especially the thunderous roar after it strikes. Helps to muffle the screaming. Can I show you?” -Nirah Lavellan
A Japanese legend says that if you can’t sleep at night it’s because you’re awake in someone else’s dream.
Sex ed in school: no one has to know when you have your period, you can keep it totally secret (by which we mean ew no one can know how disgusting and gross your body is be ashamed hide it)
Past me (who believed that): hey – OW – how’s it – OOWWWWW – going? Hm? Me? Oh, no – uuuuggggh – I’m fine.
Present me: my uterus is literally suffocating itself and I can’t walk bring me chocolate and painkillers there’s blood everywhere
Delicious Fish 