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lotte ~ learning swedish and danish ~ studying cognitive science ~ native language is dutch ~ i stole my title from a textpost by @georgecuntstanza

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[mediocrelanguagelearner]

10.06.2026

Swedish books read (4/5)

Äntligen är jag klart med serien. Av de tre böckerna jag läste var den andra delen den som jag tyckte mest om. Jag var lite besviken av den tredje delen, jag var besviken att jag såg ingen karaktärsutveckling hos huvudpersonen, att så många personer dog eller hade nånting dålig som hande dem.

När jag började läsa serien visste jag att jag inte skulle gilla många av teman boken pratar om. Och jag hade rätt. Böckerna var för mörka, för äckliga ibland, för naturalistiska. När jag läser andras recensioner av böckerna är jag förvånad hur olika personer kan ha så olika åsikter. Vissa säger att den här boken var årets bästa bok. Nja, för mig var det en bok som jag gav 2 stjärnor till. Och jag är glad att serien äntligen tog slut.

[therefugeofbooks]

brunch and books

[wretchedponies]

polar explorer life challenge!

this post inspired by the insanely good 5 hour scott documentary thats available FOR FREE on youtube. go watch it

while rewatching the documentary abt scott it got me thinking about how scott describes how some people (tryggve gran) as really improving as a person during their stay in the antarctic and it reminded me of how people join the army or something to "shape themselves up". because i would prefer not to join a murderous colonial entity and am too late for the heroic age of polar exploration AND have several mysterious illnesses that would make me wholly unsuited for this, i decided to come up with my own version or this that takes into account that sometimes you cant willpower your way through something and also leaves space for rest and relaxation. so. heres what i came up with !!!

An Explorer's Guide To Living Properly

eat properly! HOW will you survive the winter journey if you're not getting enough energy in,

do One Sports. what the sports is depends on what works for you, some days this is doing lots of cardio to prepare for manhauling your stores and some days this is stretching a bit and not much more!

keep a diary! all hot polar explorers keep a diary! record the weather, what you did, anything of note!

do One Chore. the cold boys would do lots more chores but here is where i make some adaptations to make it doable for me lol. you just gotta do One Chore and if you feel like it do more! if you pick up one piece of paper from your floor thats a chore done btw

if you're in the northern hemisphere like me: now's the time to go for a winter walk and pretend you're practicing for your dash for the pole

stop complaining. this is something i would like to work on personally and something that always sticks out to me when i read about polar explorers, how much they all note that their companions didnt complain no matter how bad it got. while i think complaining every so often is very very healthy, i also think its sometimes good to realise that if you complain too much you start looking at the world negatively. or at least i do!

observe nature! draw or photograph or describe the nature you see around you! you dont have to dissect a penguin but you do you i guess

sleep regularly. as scott put it, at midnight at the latest all crew has to be ASLEEP!

inspiration for this post also comes from those studyblr posts "study like this character" so credits to everyone who made those i guess. anyways this is just for fun pls dont take it too seriously. ok enjoy and dont freeze!

[polyg-lotte]

i (almost) have a masters degree! feels bizarre.

[itsyveinthesky]

[seabassapologist]

[penismage]

Hello!

Howdy!

I’d like, uh, two normal rolls.

Sure thing!

And one with the… With the pumpkin seeds.

Which do you mean?

The one with the… With the seeds.

What are they called?

Uhm… A, uh, “crunchy pumpky.”

Sure thing. Would you like anything else?

Uhh… I’ll also take a, uh… A… A Nutella donut…?

Unfortunately, I don’t know at all what you mean…

A… One of those right there!

You really must tell me, what’s it called??

I… I’m… I’m a dumb piece of shit.

Sure thing! Anything else?

That one there?

You know what you need to do. [Here she switches from the formal, customer service voice to addressing him casually and familiarly.]

I… I’m a little greedy pig, oink oink?

Do it!

[grunts like a pig]

That comes to €13.50, please! Have a beautiful day!

Hello! I’d like an “I hate my father” and two “I have a small willi—” [The word that gets cut off is Pimmel, an un-sexy term for penis.]

[swallowtail-ageha]

Clavicular has allegedly been mogged by the tribunus plebis publius clodius pulcher

[dagenssvenska]

Låt mig avlida

[lilyflxwers]

ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[the---hermit]

"Writing digital notes is faster and makes you more productive", sure whatever, but can you make medievalesque marginalia to point at important stuff?

[elainesknight]

Could the luminous Mamercus be replaced by a lamp of moderate attractiveness? Many do not ask this

[polyg-lotte]

how to ask my boyfriend niceys whether he plans to break up with me in the coming year so i know whether to apply to phd programs far away from him or not

[saccharinerose]

mauling a deutsche bahn executive like a rabid dog would fix me, i think

[classicslesbianopinions]

i'm making myself wait a year before committing to a #stance about academia but i would like to invite you if you are in academia or if you are reading academic literature to ask yourself whose voices are missing from what you're reading. and in particular, who actually "survives" the system and makes it to publication etc. one thing i was thinking about from the first day i set foot on campus is that my friends, who are brilliant but more disabled than me, would not be able to get a phd solely on the basis of physical inaccessibility--they would not be able to get to campus. but those people have insights that are glaringly absent from the knowledge that is produced within the academic system. in a similar vein, i've come across a lot of scholarship by israeli academics in the field of classics, but none from palestinian academics--and of course this is a microcosm of the larger issue in which scholarship from the global south often never enters the conversation in the imperial core. (obviously other people have talked about these things far more eloquently--you can check out the bds page on the academic boycott of israeli universities for some more context re: palestine.) there is a lot of value in the scholarship that has made it to me but the bigger question i'm always asking is what perspectives are we missing and where can i find it. because we are missing so much.

[classicslesbianopinions]

adjacent to my last post i'm thinking about how so much tragedy scholarship feels very clearly written by people who have never performed or done much theater at all + talking to another performer in my program about one of the many contradictions we were experiencing, which was that the faculty seemed super excited about people who came from other disciplines/wanted to talk about things like performance but then when you actually tried to work with anything outside of a fairly narrow range of classics-specific scholarship you would get immediate pushback

[classicslesbianopinions]

like classics in particular 1. is a narrow field with artificial boundaries and 2. has a system in place that enforces those boundaries and this results in a body of scholarship that starts to eat itself at a certain point

[kxowledge]

Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena