Very Normal Things I Found At The Beach That You Might Not Expect:

Goblin behavior I (and perhaps u?) participated in in childhood:

- sat high in trees and sang lullabies

- hid in improbable places I only fit bc of hypermobility & would not come out till found or panicked the adults (usually meaning I hid for like 1/2 hr)

- gave store employees “super important” things they lost like fallen fake flower bits n those clothing sizes hanger cuffs

- would lay on the ground absolutely anywhere

- kicked bullies in the shins

- produced a dog whistle thru my front teeth n got slowly louder until someone noticed

- would walk around my house on my knees while holding my ankles to the sides like w sitting

- preferred to swim underwater only and had a large lung capacity

- always had pockets stuffed with rocks, roadside trinkets, shells, pencils & pens, makeshift self defense stuff (like a baggie full of thin dusty dirt 2 throw in an assailants eyes), smth to leave a trail so I wouldn’t get lost, pocket knife (unless at school), and a notebook

- would climb doorways and wait by the ceiling endlessly until someone came so I could startle them

Odd things that have occurred around me:

> childhood neighbor with house full of dolls who may or may not have poisoned her husband to death got their house randomly cleaved in half by a fallen tree

> our black cat named midnight disappeared never to be found again on Halloween night

> our other cat lived longer than her body functioned and refused to go even after the first shot to put her down. She was 23.

> My mom left a traveling group early. The next day they all got in a crash. Most died, one was made paraplegic.

> Got rear-ended in a car-totaling crash that shoved us right between a light pole and a steep hill

> Told my cousin I didn’t believe in ghosts and was rewarded an hour later with a store cooler door swinging open as I passed it for no reason.

> Heard what sounded like radio chatter very quietly in my headphones on and off for a couple weeks

> Had a visceral, vivid dream that I got kidnapped, lived there for years with other kids, then the police and our families came but none of us wanted to leave because we felt it was home. I can still remember exactly what The Compound looked like, where I kept my things, my secret stash, my team, and the area we trained in. (I have had many vivid dreams but this one messed me up for days)

Did you know? I have a face.

Western WA things from a long term resident:

Cause eastern wa is basically a different state

… note that while I have lived here for over a decade I’m just talking my experience

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> people who live in the more rural areas find it real strange when there’s continuous smog. Like fog happens all the time but usually that brown haze obscuring the mountains doesn’t last long bc the rain deletes it.

> some people love Seattle and some people hate what Seattle currently is and will rant about it

> The sand is typically relatively coarse and greyish. I went somewhere with kids-picture-tan sand recently and was surprised that that actually exists. Softer sand is usually only in the actual water in areas with more clay.

> We really don’t use umbrellas often, and it’s not so much stubbornness as it is that hoodies exist and no one really walks long distances unless they’re in a city center. There aren’t sidewalks, so you only have to deal with the rain between your transport and the door of your destination.

> if you plant mint, berries, bamboo, or blow dandelions, you are dedicating yourself to having it for life

> ppl are often very careful about food crumbs or they have ants. Sometimes both.

> there are rabbits, deer, raccoons, coyotes, and opossums. You’re gonna see or hear a lot of them, some more alive than others

> people say bag like flag/had/amp. It’s strange and unusual to hear someone say “bayg” but some people do.

> older adults and some of their kids will add an unnecessary “s” to the names of places and I don’t know why (Haggens, safeways, bartells)

> some of those same adults say “worshington” and the rest of us consider them instant enemies.

> during like 2/3 of the year there are bees everywhere. There is gonna be a dumb black jack in your house. It seems like a hive lives in every coffee stand. Wasps have taken up residence by your shed.

> speaking of coffee stands it’s unbelievable leaving Washington and not having coffee stands/shops/bars everywhere. Also where is the lotus?

> Every group of adults u join are gonna have some constant plaid wearers. That’s just the way it is.

> snow plows don’t go everywhere. This isn’t Chicago. We do not prepare. The plows get the arterials and highways and that’s about it unless ur somewhere real fancy.

> you can find clay like… everywhere if you know what it looks like.

> trying to look something up in your state and the results bringing up wa dc is infuriating

> people can get very excited when it’s clear enough to see rainier. For real though you can see rainier, the Olympics, and the cascades from the highway in many places

This is what Porter Robinson’s Worlds album sounds like to me (I haven’t listened to the other albums)

Does anyone get a diff feeling? Similar/same?

I’ve been haikued

More sketches of tristamp. I can’t find the rest of my markers :’D

I did not feel like doing the pattern on Nai’s… shirt. Skin. I am still unclear on what his top is. I am not unclear on what a manipulative jerk he is tho

TW: prescription side effects..? Idk if that’s a TW but I’ll say it anyway

So like I’ve discovered a double edged side effect of sertraline. If u forget to take it it reminds u but it reminds you with a feeling I can best describe as:

-chromatically aberrating for 0.5 seconds.

- your brain goes “!!”

-softest bio emp

-like when u get vertigo and the world tilts but there’s no tilting involved

-astral projecting out of ur body by a centimeter for a second

-your brain to body signal lagged

Droplets splatter on the glass

Shining surreal green

Silent shadows wander past

Caught up in a dream

Glitter swirls of lively light

Play upon the walls

Dancing with the darkened night

It chases through the halls

Water ripples with delight

And all the lilies beam

All are pleased to reunite

in this pleasant dream.

Current mood: ugh.

I like the round ones. And the vivid color ones. And the funky stripey scarred looking ones.

I like to smash them open and look inside and stuff them in my pockets so I have chipmunk cheek cargo pants