Odd Things I Found At The Beach Today:

Empathy without boundaries is self destruction

Be careful not to let your desire to help turn into allowing someone to break you down.

Baby me with fiction: I know this story front to back. I could quote whole chapters to you. I know these characters well enough to have imaginary conversations with them. Any trivia you ask I can answer.

Baby me with nonfiction: Uuuuh it was talking about [topic] or something… there was a picture of a thing.

My coworkers and I have a server on Minecraft.

Things have occurred. This is one of the tamer ones…

As opposed to the random hacker who loosed a wither on our property and was never seen again.

There are many words that I think deserve more use such as psithurism, brontide, and coddiwomple.

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.

Wisdom teeth are the least wise teeth and I’m not sure who their PR team is but they are full of lies

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

If Sir Ghirahim the Drama Queen gets a human form so does fi

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

Enter at your own risk