Does Anyone Else That's Afab Just... Forget That They Can Have Periods? Like Especially When I'm Identifying

does anyone else that's afab just... forget that they can have periods? like especially when i'm identifying as cis male (context: i'm genderfluid and also have adhd so i switch between genders and also my memory is shit) i just COMPLETELY forget about periods.

just a few weeks ago i downloaded the Flo app to keep track of it after years of meaning to and whenever i'm cis male i look at it and double take because periods? that's not a cismale thing?!? (but it is an afab thing if you're not on T or horomone blockers)

also it fucks with my ability to recognize if my cycle is going to happen or not. just two weeks ago i was "weirdly" craving chocolate so i went out during my usual working time and purchased some and felt like a shit impulse-controller and low and behold i get my period that night and yeah! it's cravings! this is what happens when you try hard as fuck to ignore a craving! it just gets worse!

so yeah basically my memory is shit (bc adhd) and my perspecitve is skewed (when i identify as cis male because then female body?! it does not jive!)

Octavian Caesar was such an interesting guy because his rule was so divisive and he was a tyrant who convinced his people that he was this amazing king who did them good, which was why they gave him the name Augustus (who knoes if he floated the idea out to them, though) though he reportedly didn't call himself that

this guy was such a showman and a stickler for appearing really kind and nice and he was good at it, too

i don't think he was great, he's just interesting

what would i do if i met him? i'd ask him if he chose his hairstyle as a pr technique to appear more approachable as an emperor because BOY is it bad, it's "i just kept clipping with the scissors" bad

Mail Online

2,000-year-old bust of Emperor Augustus, identified by telltale hair

A marble head of Roman emperor Augustus was uncovered during restoration to city walls in Isernia, Italy. It bears the 'swallow-tail' hairst

DC PRIDE #1 has me living for many different reasons so let's go through it story by story

The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass

the mad hatter storyline being pretty much a retelling of kate's upbringing and the fact that her being a lesbian is one part of that but not everything thank god

wonderland parallels keep you more interested in the story bc you know it's mad hatter, you just don't know why he's doing it; just another one of those "i know the ending so the question is how they got there"

By the Victors

constantine just being like that and trying to get gregorio and his husband in bed with him - my guy this is why you constantly run into exes and one night stands i swear

the fact that m and gregorio just casually team up just gets me bc this just further confirms that m will call his friends on missions not just because they're qualified (ref: m being unsure if extraño could undo the, and i'm paraphrasing here, "time blood magic") and calls his friends to join him just cause he can

m's reference to the love story between patroclus and achilles made my heart hurt since it kind of parallels him and andrew and i almost checked the writer before realizing that it was, of course, the one and only Steve Orlando - midpollo's saving grace

also can i just mention how much i love gregorio's costumes they show in this? becuase BOY are they a fantastic, dignified kind of hot; thank you Stephen Byrne

this midpollo cover art is killing me

Try the Girl

renee being a badass is always amazing

also the fact that she was admiring the defense attorney that would sometimes be arguing against her case is such an Inconvenient Crush that i would love expansion on

i love that you can see the lipstick stain on her mask - that's the reality of kissing in costume, kids

the way they draw all the women's outfits has me so happy and i esp. love renee, valeria's hair as well as the question's coat - it's just so nice to look at (all my love to Skylar Partridge and José Villarrubia)

Another Word for a Truck to Move Your Furniture

ant harley and aunt pam being antiheroes soothes all my mortal wounds

btw i love how Amy Reeder draws them; they have such a bad history of being sexualized and it struck me when i finished reading that not once was i uncomfortable with the angles or body proportions and i got to read two antiheroes who are women and bisexuals! and being able to be comfortable with their framing and writing the whole time

harley having cartoon logic as her meta ability is so close i can taste it

the coloring is gorgeous - thank you Marissa Louise

also this format of people arguing while also beating up a villain or carrying out a complex plan is my favorite - i love the dynamic and the dialogue of relationship speak and fighting a large plant monster

i think harley's mallet is alive and honestly that's great for her

"He's the Light of My Life!"

i'm going to be impressed with myself if i don't cry at alan and todd's story

damon being impatient to meet alan is great and i love the flashbacks to when father fought son like "no duh we have issues making smalltalk"

JIMMY AND ALAN I'M GOING TO CRY HE LOST HIS LOVER IN THE TRAIN CRASH THEN BECAME A GL

alan being bad with common slang in the lgbtq+ community is such an Old Queer staple

the fact that they're still kind of awkward at the end but working on getting to know each other is such a breath of the fresh air that is real life familial relationships

Clothes, Makeup, Gift

andy's whole aesthetic is offending me with how cute it is and good lord Lisa Sterle draws us enbys really well

jesse with those suspenders

jesse with those hips! i'm glad we have a non-binary character that doesn't look like a waify cis male

getting real adhd vibes for jesse rn like repeating the same words over and over in order to remember them yes that's my life

Be Gay, Do Crime

whoever pitched the title idea has my ultimate respect - it's not often that queer culture references make it in

plus size queer antihero; dc my guy are you trying to get my money because here it is- take it

they got gen z slang right! i'm impressed; usually i say "bougie" instead of "boug" but hey do you

pied piper being responsible but also not is such a chaotic good move that i love

also drummer boy's costume kind of reminds me of those old rock star ones

Date Night

yes my girl nia's just checking in with her mom during patrol

her little dream journal is such a cute idea that she wakes up and just haphazardly scrawls it in there

"cute face" yes the most important piece of information

her full body panel with the moon in the background is just amazing - thank you Luciano Vecchio and Rex Lokus

this action is pretty hq not gonna lie

love that brainy is just like "well ok i guess we have an unconscious criminal with us; how are you liking the movie?"

tl;dr i enjoyed it

i will one day be murdered by whatever tardigrades turn into that ends up being fatal to humans when ingested

those little fuckers got shot out of a gun last month and were fine. you do realize that's many people's [extraordinarily shitty] solution to things?!?? if a hardass conservative shoots the fucking thing and it doesn't die then that person will probably keel over and have a goddamn heart attack because Murder Thing did not Murder

hey so i was going to reblog your post abt the ao3 formatting bc i dont know how it works and then figured an ask might be easier so;

can you teach me- i mean you dont have to, youre the first person ive seen and im not sure where else to find out how to do that-

i remember looking at instructions awhile ago and just being even more confused too so like 💀

yeah of course, anon! ao3 also has a rich text editor now, which has everything but hyperlinks i think, so if you choose that option, then you won't need most of this.

anyways, here are some basics:

in coding, formatting "commands" are nestled between sideways carats (these things: < >) use two of them. the one furthest along in the text has a forwardslash (this thing: /) to signify that the command's over

when you write your work, each paragraph needs to be surrounded by <p>your paragraph</p> . if you want to go a line down but you don't want the big paragraph space, then insert </br> which is a singular command. there isn't a pair of them for that one.

here's a formatting example; if you want to make something bold, use this command: <b>text i want bolded</b>

it would appear like this: text i want bolded

remember! the commands will do what you tell them to, so they don't appear in the final text - they just disappear! thus, you should finish writing whatever you want and then add the commands.

here's a little list of commands:

bold: <b>bolded</b>

italics: <i>italicized</i>

underline: <u>underlined</u>

paragraph break: <p>paragraph</p>

line break: </br>

i recommend doing indents using eight spaces. for them to show up, though, they have to be in between the <p> command and the first line of your text. otherwise they won't show up. see here:

<p> The first word of my fic.</p> (depending on your Tumblr it actually might not show up :( but I promise there's an indent there if you do it on ao3!)

now here's the command for hyperlinks, which is slightly different from the others on here. you have to add the link you want within the carats. here's an example: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/">link to ao3</a>

it would look like this when published: link to ao3

so here's one you can fill in:

<a href="link">hyperlinked</a>

when i want to do anything more complex than that, i usually search on W3 schools, which has good HTML resources. here's their thing on basic HTML formatting and HTML hyperlinks

hope this helps! if you need any more instruction or have any more questions, just DM me.

okay the Chinese spy ring was cool but they never gave the murder guy props for doing that lotus origami in The Blind Banker

it's a great episode for many reasons but also did you consider the logistics of that he either makes these on the fly, makes them at home, or picks them up from someone else

like how would that go? "hey, great craft shop here, do you have my flowers?" 'yes! i hope your goth niece likes them!!' "haha yeah my neice okay great seeing you, Michelle, i have to go oh no i'll leave through the other exit, not this one with the metal detectors bye see you next week"

or he makes them at home like as a thing he does before killing people, or he makes them on the spot like can you imagine the origami pressure

that's still one of my most favorite episodes and also hey hey asian represenation and mentions of hk which is ideal 👌🏼