esther aka essi

| 24 | goblincore academia i guess | ❦ dyslexic linguist, medievalist, & folklorist ❦

[akaessi]

❦ call me esther or essi (she/her) ('tis a nickname)

❦ medieval scandinavian studies and folklore major with emphasis on linguistics (translation and dating)

❦ additional background in anthropology, gender studies, comparative religion studies

❦ forcing myself to study by making a pretty tumblr (and wondering if my master's thesis will ever be finished. edit: I finished in February 2024!)

❦ hobbies: gaming, playing dnd (or home brewing), scripting graphic novels, baking, smiling at people's dogs, summoning gnomes in Icelandic graveyards

❦ likes: forest things, progressive metal and alt-rock, carrot cake, drinking my weight in green tea, hoarding dice sets, dropping yiddish into casual conversation to spite a professor of mine

❦ skills I'm trying to learn: skateboarding, how to draw again, sewing, embroidery, book binding

❦ languages I'm studying: old norse/icelandic, proto-norse, yiddish

❦ using my blog as an aesthetic life plan for how to be a proper adult and forcing myself to stick to one aesthetic

This blog is a hate-free zone. Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and any other bigotry will not be tolerated.

[akaessi]

I didn't think the canvas hack affected me, since I am not currently a student, but now my personal phone is getting calls from my alma mater from people and departments I have NEVER interacted with???

they always hang up when I try to answer, there is no email correspondence that needs my attention, it's the office numbers of people in different fields, my number is not public in the student registry, and the calls are always post 6pm in Iceland???

[akaessi]

I love that I keep having to take blood tests and each time they shorten the time between the last one; every five years, to every year, to every six months, to now every 3 months. Which is not only crazy expensive ($12,000????) but it's super fun to have less and less time to panic about the results of the next one!! Will this next one be a full-blown leukemia diagnosis or still in limbo??

[akaessi]

gambled with my migraine meds and lost

pls don't ask anything of me for 3 business days

[perriaeyjeve]

[myheartis4him-deactivated202207]

any other girls feel a permanent sense of unbelonging no matter where they are or who they are with

[neptunianfairy]

keep looking, keep listening

[quoting-my-linguistics-lecturers]

"How about a poison dart wug?"

- My linguistics lecturer drawing different species of wug during our seminar

[perriaeyjeve]

[existencebringsonlypain]

i need data for a statistics project for school, so be my sample data, worms. i need thirty people minimum so if there aren't enough voters yet i'd love if you could help. thank you very much. worms.

take this test (https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/), then come back here:

what's your JND?

.00030-.00099

.0010-.0017

.0017-.0024

.0024-.0031

.0031-.0038

.0038-.0045

.0045-.0052

.0052-.0059

.0059-.0066

.0066-.0073

.0073-.0080

.0080 or greater

Voting ended onMay 13

it doesnt have to be a good score, you dont have to take it multiple times, you dont have to get on a good screen, etcetera. just gimme your score please this is my final project grade :)

i'd love if you could reblog for reach

[akaessi]

yesterday, I accidentally partially dislocated my jaw and had it put back in place... omg why does the weirdest shit happen to me?

[orchidsound]

[cornbelt]

[scarabies-real]

Realizing the depression is not seasonal is like: Wow! What a beautiful flower! The birds are singing! I sure do love spring! I think I am fundamentally unlovable as a person.

[tuckedinbugw]

Nothing like holding my love

[ellora-borealis]

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion. But maybe we shouldn't be needlessly cruel to people who are just living their lives and doing things that make them happy that do not affect others in any way

[michaelnordeman]

Värmland, Sweden (March 22, 2024).