I guess you could call me bloody-minded

Circumstances happened over the past couple of days that left me particularly behind on f'list reading, etc. I am, however, too lazy to catch up at the moment (though I'm apparently not too lazy to obsessively read TVTropes in this manner).

I've also been low on iron the past month or so (boo!), preventing me from successfully donating blood. Since my most recent iron deficiency has kindly coincided with a natural bodily function of most females my age, I've decided to make a poll of it.

To anyone interested: For reasons beyond your control, your body expels a certain amount of blood every four to eight weeks*. You are magically given a way to choose how you would rather expel this blood. The two options are mutually exclusive.

[Poll #1424442]

* Arbitrary number. I know the less voluntary option is rarely so kind as to be so regular; similarly, the more voluntary method can have you ready to go in as few as six weeks, but everyone I've donated with won't accept fewer than eight.

Edit: I should add, I meant the question to take place in an ideal world, where other issues related to donating blood are suspended. Which I probably should've said. But you could still answer either way, I guess?

Part of me is also just really interested in the reasons people do and do not donate blood, I guess ._.a (FTR, I like to donate because it's basically a lazy way to "volunteer" for the community :D;; The cookies and stuff are just other volunteer perks.)

I guess you could call me bloody-minded

Circumstances happened over the past couple of days that left me particularly behind on f'list reading, etc. I am, however, too lazy to catch up at the moment (though I'm apparently not too lazy to obsessively read TVTropes in this manner).

I've also been low on iron the past month or so (boo!), preventing me from successfully donating blood. Since my most recent iron deficiency has kindly coincided with a natural bodily function of most females my age, I've decided to make a poll of it.

To anyone interested: For reasons beyond your control, your body expels a certain amount of blood every four to eight weeks*. You are magically given a way to choose how you would rather expel this blood. The two options are mutually exclusive.

Which do you choose?

* Arbitrary number. I know the less voluntary option is rarely so kind as to be so regular; similarly, the more voluntary method can have you ready to go in as few as six weeks, but everyone I've donated with won't accept fewer than eight.

Edit: I should add, I meant the question to take place in an ideal world, where other issues related to donating blood are suspended. Which I probably should've said. But you could still answer either way, I guess?

Part of me is also just really interested in the reasons people do and do not donate blood, I guess ._.a (FTR, I like to donate because it's basically a lazy way to "volunteer" for the community :D;; The cookies and stuff are just other volunteer perks.)