Northern Shores

@ladjarica

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

Holy shit, I swear Sweden can be hell to live in but I am NOT mentally capable to stay in Bosnia for longer than two weeks. I think it's generally the fact that I am neurodivergent and probability is high that M is as well. We are going crazy from the lack of structure and planning, people just appear with something to do and you get no choice. Also it's so fucking LOUD everywhere, outside, inside, in a car, at the hairdresser, literally there is some noise all the time. And lastly, I cannot be dealing with people who don't think before they say offensive shit (this has more to do with us living in a small town than the country I think). The last one was literally due to people constantly commenting on Oskar's hair or being very surprised to the fact that he is not a girl. Mainly it's fine, one of my cousins was really surprised but he said he just assumed because he's such a pretty baby and well due to long golden locks (I heard this comment in Sweden as well). BUT someone we know met our two yearold baby and immediately called his hair "fagot-y"

no actually I will quote this garbage because I am seething because how the fuck do you react to someone asking "kakve su to pederske kike" when they see a two yearold with longer hair and a hair tie to keep his hair away from his face so he can fucking see??????

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

*me who just watched David Attenborough’s Green Planet where I learned those plants are tough, like super tough, they can withstand so much, and they have to because water is powerful and they’re anchored to sheer rock, not in the stream bed* I wish I, too, could be flexible and tough enough to withstand the currents of life.

walking around the dashboard at four in the morning stepping on all the creaking posts loud as fuck

so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day

i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.

#we can't afford to see a physician but we do get to see the hat man (via @spiders-hth-is-an-outlier)