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Anonymous:

what’s divacup?? how would you rate it??

alicetheowl:

equius:

pandaswithmustaches:

caffeineanddrizzle:

itsraviolibitch:

itsraviolibitch:

This is a divacup 

AND U SHOVE IT UP YOUR VAGINA TO COLLECT MENSTRUAL FLUID

HOLY HELL LEMME TALK ABOUT THIS LITTLE GEM OF A SILICON CUP

U CAN WEAR IT FOR 12 HOURS AT A TIME UNLIKE TAMPONS. DO U KNOW HOW GREAT THAT IS? I THOUGHT I HAD A HEAVY FLOW BECAUSE I HAD TO CHANGE SUPER TAMPONS LIKE EVERY HOUR BUT THIS LITTLE FUCKER!!!! THIS LITTLE FUCKER RIGHT HERE!! I ONLY NEED TO CHANGE IT TWICE A DAY. U CAN WEAR IT TO BED, U CAN WEAR IT SWIMMING, U CAN WEAR UR FAVOURITE BABY PINK HIGH WAISTED AMERICAN APPAREL SHORTS WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT DESTROYING THEM WITH THE BLOOD OF UR SHEDDING ORGANS

WHEN U PUT IT IN CORRECTLY IT CREATES A SEAL INSIDE YOUR VAGINA SO IT DOES NOT LEAK IT’S FUCKING INCREDIBLE

YEAH UPFRONT IT’S A LITTLE PRICEY, THE STARTING PRICE BEING ABOUT 40 DOLLARS BUT TAMPONS AND PADS CAN ADD UP TO LIKE 30 BUCKS A MONTH! A MONTH!! THIS LIL DOOHICKEY CAN LAST U FUCKING YEARS 

“But it’s gross to collect your period blood” WRONG, PERIOD BLOOD IS SUPER CLEAN! IT HAS TO BE BECAUSE IT’S MEANT TO NOURISH A GROWING FETUS! THAT’S A COULD BE PERSON. PERIOD BLOOD ONLY SMELLS IF IT GETS IN CONTACT TO OXYGEN, WHICH IS WHY U GET A BLOODY SCENT IF YOURE WEARING PADS OR TAMPONS, BUT NO SMELL WITH THIS LOVELY JELLY SQUISH CUP. 

IT’S SUPER CLEAN. IT’S SUPER EASY TO USE AFTER U GET THE HANG OF IT. IT’S WAAAAAY BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND DID I MENTION U CAN SLEEP IN IT!?

So yeah. I’d rate it a pretty solid 5/5 but that’s just me 

I FORGOT SOME STUFF

IF YOU’RE FAIRLY INTUNE WITH WHEN UR GOING TO GET UR PERIOD U CAN PUT THE DIVACUP IN BEFOREHAND TO PREVENT BLEEDING INTO YOUR UNDERWEAR WHAAAAAAAT? YEAH 

BACKPACKING AROUND THE WORLD JUST GOT 100% EASIER FOR PEOPLE WITH MENSTRUAL CYCLES

And no chemicals like tampons and pads which are full of perfumes, and better for the environment because you’re not throwing away applicators!
Just saved up enough to order mine!

I don’t get periods, but here’s some worthyass information to pass along to those who do!

this would be really nice for trans males/nonbinary people in the men’s restroom who don’t want people to hear the sound of pads or tampons unwrapping!!

I did some research of these. Turns out they’re not recommended if you have an IUD. The string can get caught, and then you pull the cup out… yeah.

BUT, there are menstrual cups that allow you to have blood-free sex during menstruation. They don’t work as a contraceptive device, though, so don’t skip the condom.

shadesofmauve:

backofthebookshelf:

It is not a stupid question. Even if it is a stupid question, we have been thoroughly trained to answer your question without judgement or second-guessing. Besides, we’re mostly just glad you’re not asking us about the noise the printer is making again.

There are probably (at least) two desks in the library. One is where you check out books and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Circulation Clerk.” These people can answer your questions about damaged or missing books, fines, and how many forms of identification we’ll need if you want to get a library card but your mailing address is in Taiwan. The other one is closer to the books and computers and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Librarian.” These people can answer your questions about spider extermination, how to rent property to the United States Postal Service, and the number of tropical island nations in which you could theoretically establish the first United States Embassy. We would love to answer these questions for you. It would be a nice change from the printer.

We probably own a 3D printer by now. 3D printers, are cool, right? Please, please come use our 3D printer, it’s so lonely.

We spent a lot of money to hire this woodworker to come and teach a class at the library which you can attend for free. You will probably be the only person between the ages of ten and fifty in attendance, but your presence will fill the librarian with an unnameable joy. They will float back to their manager in a daze. “A young person came to my program,” they will say. You will have made their entire job worthwhile.

Every time you ask us for a book, movie, or music recommendation, a baby librarian gets their first cardigan.

Somewhere in the library, there is a form. If you fill out this form with your name and library card number and the details of the thing you are looking for, we will find you the thing. Sometimes the answer is “the thing is in Great Britain and they will not send it to us,” but more often the thing will just appear on hold for you, and one day you will pick up a copy of that out-of-print book you never thought you would read and maybe you will say, “Wow, the library is amazing,” and the librarian’s heart will glow. 

Please bring back book #2. The rest of its series misses it very much.

Five dollars is not a large library fine. Believe me, before I started working in libraries, I too wondered how someone could sleep at night, knowing they owed money to the library. When we laugh as you sheepishly apologize for your $2.50 in overdue fees, we are not mocking you, we are thinking of the ten people we sent to debt collection already today.

We really don’t care why you’re checking out Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe you have a specifically-themed ironic bachelorette party to plan. Maybe you’re working on a thesis paper about mainstream media’s depiction of female sexuality. Maybe you just got curious. We will give you the benefit of the doubt. 

Whatever you’re smoking in the family restroom, please stop.

Somewhere on the library’s website, buried under “Links” or “Research” or “On-line Resources,” is a page that a librarian spent a month’s worth of work on. It contains many links to websites you thought everyone knew about, and one to a page that you could never have imagined existed that perfectly solves a problem you never expected to be resolved. 

Imagine the kind of person who would think to themselves, “Library school sounds like a thing I should do.” For the most part, you are imagining the kind of person who is now a librarian. We want very much to help you, but we’re not entirely sure how to do that unless you ask. You are not bothering us. Please, come and say hi.

…okay, as someone who works for a library (but is not a librarian), I have to say the other bit about fines is that I and my coworkers generally are running fine totals way over $2.50. We can’t judge. :P It’s… job security?

In recent years I’ve dramatically failed to make use of our local library, apart from to occasionally wandering in and going ‘so pretty’ (because Bristol’s central library is /beautiful/. But p’raps I can fix that in the states. I think US libraries do a bit more in the way of non-book related stuff, too, which looks interesting :) 

ramonajp:

I don’t know what to do.

Getting over someone is like the five stages of grief. People tend to think you move through in one direction, getting better and better. But really you do bits of each stage and meander back and fourth. Sometimes it feels like you’re getting nowhere, sometimes it held like you’ve gone right back to the start, but it’s all healing, and suddenly, without you even noticing at first, you’ll feel better… But in the mean time, it’s a bucket load of cack, so *hugs*.

So, I had this ridiculously optimistic hope about house value. The first person who came pitched our house value at pretty much where I thought it was. The second, a bit higher – ten to fifteen k higher. That’d be amazing – and was kinda where I’d had optimistic hopes of getting to.

Then the third one came in, and she was beyond my optimistic hopes. By another fifteen to twenty k. Yes. Potentially thirty five k on top of the first estimate. That’s a ridiculous range in house price. And then she said ‘most of the ones we sell go above asking’.

Why do people do this evil? Put these ridiculously optimistic hopes in my head.