some days I would like to hold evolution at knifepoint and ask some very pointed questions

[edenfalling]

From the Department of TMI:

I can generally predict the onset of my period, give or take a day or two, purely by physical changes in my body when I am ovulating. I have known how to do that since I was still in high school.

It has taken me a hell of a lot longer to realize that I can also track my menstrual cycle -- less accurately, but even so -- by my interest in reading and writing PWP porn fic, which is perhaps unsurprisingly at its peak two weeks before the inevitable blood and cramps. *headdesk* (Although curiously enough, that interest has a secondary peak during my period itself. Hormones. How do they even work?)

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This observation brought to you by the untitled Homestuck Jane/Dave breast-worship time-travel-abuse porn I just wrote ~1,000 words of tonight. What the fuck is even my life.

*headesks again*

*then slinks off to write more porn*


ETA: The fic is now at 1,650 words, elements of light bondage have entered the picture, and I am going to bed.

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[edenfalling]

Porn intake increased 300% and includes fandoms I'm not even part of.

Funny thing: the fandoms I write in and the fandoms I read in do not always overlap very well. Actually, more often than not they hardly overlap at all -- that is, when I first fall into a fandom, I read everything I can get my hands on. Occasionally it also turns out to be a writing fandom, so for a time all is synchronized... but my reading muse flits away to greener pastures a hell of a lot faster than my writing muse, so within six months to a year I fall out of sync again. Which is not to say that I ever really stop reading in any particular fandom, but I get a lot pickier and quit trolling archives every day.

Like, at the moment I am mostly reading Merlin fic -- this is the third time in the last five years that I've had a fic binge in that fandom -- but I've only ever written two tiny drabbly things for that series. And a couple months ago I was binge-reading Teen Wolf fic when I haven't even ever watched that show, so obviously I'm not ever going to write for it. But my writing interest right now is firmly fixed on Homestuck and Chronicles of Narnia, so yeah. Total disconnect.

But anyway, yay porn! :-)

The warning signs of my actual period are subtle and easily overlooked -- sometimes I get warning cramps, but not always, and sometimes I get a little sniffly the day or two before, as if I'm starting to come down with a cold, but I often get a little sniffly so that's not reliable either. Ovulation, on the other hand, is kind of hard for me to miss, so I just mark my calendar to make sure I'm carrying pads and tampons two weeks later. *wry*

[krait]

Well, I read in a lot more fandoms than I write in, but not vice-versa. When I start reading porn for fandoms I've hardly even heard of, it's generally because I'm craving MOAR PORN and have started tag-hopping because there's not enough porn with [X] in the fandoms I normally read. This is how I end up leaving kudos on a bunch of things whose characters I couldn't even describe to you, much less tell you whether they're acting in-character. :D

I was binge-reading Teen Wolf fic when I haven't ever even watched that show

Haha, that's pretty much what I'm talking about! I have read probably 100K (or way more) of White Collar fic, and I've never seen a single episode. (I'm way behind on Homestuck, too; early Act 6, I think. Doesn't keep me out of the fic featuring characters I haven't met yet! Though that's a little different, given my habit of 'keeping up' vicariously through other people's update reactions and meta.)

My life needs way more Karkat/Dave/Terezi than currently exists, alas.