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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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I am creating a life i don’t want to run from i am creating a life i don’t want to run from i am creating a life i don’t want to run from

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Trump winning

German government collapsing

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find the small pleasures in life & enjoy them

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not to be overshadowed by the US election results the german government just decided to file for divorce

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the way scandinavians modify their language when around another scandinavian group is absolutely fascinating linguistically

swedes who live in denmark often learn to say numbers in danish, for example. and there are words and expressions they’d use with swedes but not with danes. even though they’re still more or less speaking swedish, they are modifying how they speak it to be easier for danes to understand

similarly, when danes interact with swedes or norwegians in service work or abroad, some construct numbers the way you do in swedish or norwegian so it’s easily understandable. we don’t straight up say them in that language, we just apply their method to the danish words

eg for seventy: syvti (da, lit. seven-ten) instead of halvfjerds (actual danish word for seventy), but not sjuttio (sw, lit. seven-ten) or sytti (no, lit. seven-ten). 

I also noticed in Skam that the danish hotel worker uses “vældig” a lot, which is not the usual word to use in danish, but “veldig” is the usual word to use in norwegian, so again you have this modification of how we speak our language even while we’re still speaking it 

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Any tips for not falling into permanent despair?

I suppose remembering that there is no greater act of defiance that living a full life

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hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you

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i got too optimistic and forgot kamala harris was dealing with the combined powers of racism and misogyny

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*grits teeth* im hopeful i believe there is good in the world im fucking hopeful

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God I wish elections in the fucking US wouldn’t affect literally every other country in the world

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I'm certain this is on Tumblr somewhere, but I haven't seen it around, so I'm sharing it myself