Anything that evokes the monthly cycle

A long long time ago, I read in a printed-on-paper magazine, a review of the Luna Bars. It might have been Bicycling Magazine, or, as we called it, Buy-Cycling, since it was mostly stuff to buy. But the thing I remember is the writer saying, to the effect, that they were being marketed to women, and so they named it “Luna,” apparently on the assumption that women are suckers for anything the evokes the monthly cycle…

This, somehow, stuck with me all these years. So, anyway, yeah, I’ve bought some Luna bars, and, yeah, I thought about this old thing about the monthly cycle. I think it’s likely that as someone who didn’t have a discernible cycle until I was fifty-one years old I’m a bit more excited about it than is typical, but, still….

It’s a somewhat overcomplicated bar, with like layers and stuff. Very sweet. Depends on what you are in the mood for, I guess.

(Yeah, I’ve long felt like some things seemed to have some sort of cycle and at one point started keeping a spreadsheet with notes about mood and ran it through some mathematical periodicity-finding algorithms but couldn’t find any pattern. (This is a very cis guy thing to do!) Until I saw a trans doctor (she does my trans health care (and also other general doctoring) and also, is, herself, trans) and started injecting estradiol valerate and then yeah the hypothalamus suddenly knew what to do with the gonadotropin releasing hormone and suddenly I had a whole new appreciation for weirdly-predictable hormonal mood swings!)