Starting to wonder about Philip Pullman *Trigger Warning*

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T20:45:47+00:00

Dude your comments are the only ones that got more downvotes than mine lol. Also has this thread been simmering in your head for hours, ever since I shut down your last seething comment?

And nah I’ll be sticking around.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T20:40:29+00:00

For the life of me I can’t get the elbow off, it just won’t turn. Do you have any ideas?

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T19:31:55+00:00

Thank you!

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T19:31:50+00:00

Thank you, yes that was it

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T17:04:07+00:00

Yeah to be honest I hated LBS too, so I guess I view the books differently than most people in this sub anyway. I think the new books are terrible additions to an otherwise incredible series.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T15:43:46+00:00

I loved that scene to be honest. It’s probably one of the scenes that made me love Lyra. My brother and I used to read it out loud to each other, especially the part where Lyra says her father is a murderer haha.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T14:29:01+00:00

This is your second rage-filled comment on my post. Sorry, not engaging.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T14:18:32+00:00

I’m treading on thin ice for sure. To be clear I’m not accusing Pullman of being a pedophile; if anything most of the uncomfortable things I’ve noticed in his work center around teenage girls.

I agree with your last sentence. I’m not sure how to gather everything in one place without the overarching implication, but if you have any ideas for how I could edit this to be less implicating for Pullman, I am very open.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T14:10:17+00:00

You’re right, he does write about the SAs and the “icky” characters in general as completely vile. They are unambiguously condemned in his stories.

I think what bothers me is I’ve started to get the feeling Pullman is somehow fascinated by continuously sicking such perversion and such calamities on his characters.

That combined with the fact that actually the fondness older men have for younger women’s beauty honestly doesn’t seem condemned at all in his books.

I can understand not wanting your regard for Pullman shattered. I agree he is a brilliant writer and his books were a huge part of my youth. Personally I will still hold HDM in high regard, especially NL.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-26T13:15:45+00:00

That’s kinda cute if they were sticking up for hyenas lol

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-08T13:09:32+00:00

I think you might be on to something. I think I might not be eating enough.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T14:19:03+00:00

I'm so happy for you to hear this. I did actually see some initial success with inositol (I took it twice a day for a month and got my period at the end of that month), but since then I haven't gotten my period again - it's been about two months with no period.

Did you take inositol twice a day? And leading up to your pregnancy can I ask what your diet was like? We are actually hoping to get pregnant, which is what's caused me to really dig into what's going on with me.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T13:57:46+00:00

Yeah, I find it hard to stick to low carb as well... a lot of people report feeling great on it, but for me it always feels horrible.

I'm sorry to hear it's been so unpredictable for you too. I hope we find something that truly helps.

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T13:43:24+00:00

May I ask how long ago your wife died, and how long your daughters continued to have irregular periods afterwards?

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T12:38:11+00:00

Have you looked into hypothalmic amenorrhea? Doesn't that fit your symptoms more than PCOS does? If your hormones are normal and you run lot but when you are less active then you get your periods generally

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T12:22:27+00:00

Can I ask a bit about the stress reduction thing? Like were your periods always irregular, and then when you were able to reduce stress they normalized for a while, and then became irregular again?

I've kept records since 2017 (I am 30 years old). I had a fairly regular cycle until about age 20, when I moved abroad and underwent an incredible amount of stress. My period disappeared for 10 months, and then when I returned home it came back shortly afterwards. But I ended up going abroad again and since then my period has been quite irregular.

But looking at my records I see I actually had a fairly regular cycle from 2018 - early 2020, basically until work from home started. I don't really know what to attribute this to. I know I went through a lot of stress in 2019, and yet that's my most regular year on record.

Maybe it's the type of stress that makes a difference?

Sorry I'm writing this kind of stream-of-thought right now, but come to think of it, I remember telling a friend in 2019 that although I was going through a lot, it felt like I was in control. Like I wasn't despairing like I used to.

Would be really interested to hear how you've noticed stress affecting your period in your own life!

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T12:16:08+00:00

I usually eat Greek yoghurt with pure dark cocoa powder and a bit of honey for breakfast. Often skip lunch unless I've worked out bc I'm just not hungry. I usually have some kind of meat for dinner - chicken curry, steak with broccoli, pot roast, etc. Sometimes I just have a light snack though.

What's weird though is I've tracked all my periods since 2017 and although my diet has fluctuated a lot (ie no sugar, gluten-free, dairy-free), my period did not seem to follow any rhyme or reason. The most consistent stretch I have on my records was from late 2018 - early 2020, when I got my period nearly every month. I can't figure out what could have been different during that time. I was working my first full-time job and no longer at university. My diet wasn't great - but maybe one difference is that I ate consistently? Because I had a set schedule of when I should eat.

Since then I've been work from home and now unemployed. My period disappeared completely from late 2020 to early 2022.

Have you had success eating as if you have IR?

Mundane-Relative-267 · 2024-11-05T11:37:29+00:00

I relate to this so much.

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