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[rikimvra]

─୨ৎ─ Strangers. — n.rk

🐋 — Reader, Ni-ki, Jay ♫ I Like Me Better — Lauv

wrong number. — like & reblog !!

[afusionoffandoms]

So around 0.024% of the total adult Norwegian population has, in the last 15 hours, sent in official complaints to the governmental broadcasting council about our silent compliancy when it comes to Israel's participation in ESC. Each one of those complaints have to be read and logged by a person, by law. That's actually pretty great.

Israel med i Eurovision – NRK har mottatt 750 klager

Beslutningen om å la Israel delta i den internasjonale sangkonkurransen har ført til en klagestorm til Kringkastingsrådet. Tidligere NRK-pro

If your tax money goes to the NRK, you can voice your opinion here:

Meld sak til Kringkastingsrådet – Hjelp og informasjon

[hemovanadin]

NRK TEXT-TV PHOTO COLLECTION

i took a couple photos of text tv pages back in 2021. i can't easily access text-tv anymore and they're killing it dead forever on the 20th this month, i will try to see if i can hook my little philips tv from 2010 up to signal (it's the only tv in the house with a remote that has the teletext button) before then but i don't even know if i can. if i do, i shall take photos of every page i can, if i fail, the following photos are all i'll have left. mostly from the calendar page but a couple other ones too.

(i didn't capture may or july)

i do however have these:

a measly 42 years you became, they're practically killing you in the cradle, my dear sweet text-tv. at least i had the privilege of being your contemporary for 24 of them. my thanks to the editorial staff for keeping it going as long as they did, i'll miss the wonderful words and text art. an era is coming to an end and it is tragic. in the age of the internet, never again will information be broadcast in such an easy, accessible and concise format. soon, it'll have been a beautiful thing. if you're norwegian, take the chance to appreciate it while it still is. snap a few photos, you'll probably never see it again. and if you do, consider sharing them with me. i want more to remember it by.

[andiatas]

NRK: Dramatic development in Crown Princess Mette-Marit's illness - being prepared for a lung transplant

The Crown Princess's lung disease has worsened significantly this autumn. Now the situation is so serious that the doctors have started to prepare her for a lung transplant.

- The development has gone faster than I had hoped, says the Crown Princess to NRK.

Foto: Christian Breidlid / NRK

Less than two months have passed since Crown Princess Mette-Marit underwent a month's pulmonary rehabilitation at Cathinka Guldberg Hospital in Jessheim.

But the development is discouraging. [Her health state] has deteriorated significantly during the autumn.

- I have spent much of this half year at Jessheim or at Rikshospitalet taking new tests, and we have had several conversations this autumn about lung transplantation. That is what is new, that we are beginning to approach that step. It has been…

Crown Princess Mette-Marit pauses for a moment before continuing:

- It has been a long process for me to get there in terms of thinking.

- I have always hoped that we would be able to keep the disease in check with medication, and the development has actually been quite slow until now. Whereas now the development has gone faster than both I and the doctors had hoped for, says the Crown Princess to NRK's «Året med kongefamilien».

The Crown Princess: - Just the thought is quite demanding

We meet her and Crown Prince Haakon at [their] home in Skaugum.

Seven years have passed since they sat in the same room and announced that the Crown Princess had been diagnosed with the chronic disease pulmonary fibrosis.

Pulmonary fibrosis causes scar tissue to form on the lungs, so they become stiff and less elastic and shrink.

This makes it harder and harder to breathe as the disease progresses.

Now the situation for Crown Princess Mette-Marit has become so serious that the need for a lung transplant is approaching, the Crown Prince couple say.

- We are not yet there for you to be put on the list, but these tests show that the disease has progressed [one step further]. So it's more actualised now – we're starting to approach [that point], so it's something we're talking about, says Crown Prince Haakon.

- But it is moving towards a lung transplant, that is the way forward for the Crown Princess?

- Yes, we have known all along with this disease that this is [where it's heading]. But I think it probably came a little faster than at least I had imagined and hoped for, says Crown Princess Mette-Marit.

- But now I've had quite a few such experiences... I think that with all such processes, it takes time. It is a process for me as a patient, and it is a process for my family, says the Crown Princess while the Crown Prince nods.

- Just thinking the thought at all that this is the next step is quite demanding, because it is an operation with a lot of risk associated with it, she says.

Foto: Christian Breidlid / NRK

- Unable to carry out the things I was able to do before

A box of paper handkerchiefs is set out. It remains untouched. The Crown Princess is composed when she talks about the development.

The disease has affected her work capacity for a long time. In March this year, the Royal House announced that the lung disease had worsened.

«The Crown Princess has daily symptoms and troubles that affect her ability to carry out her daily work. The Crown Princess needs more rest, and the daily schedule changes more quickly than before,» the press release from the Palace stated at that point.

Since then, the disease has further developed in a negative direction.

In the last couple of weeks, the Crown Princess has taken part in public reading at a Leseklubben event, was present during the Peace Award ceremony, and the Crown Prince couple were invited to «Jul i Slottskapellet» with Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus.

Just two days ago, just before the serious development of the disease was to become known to the whole country, she was on a pre-Christmas visit to a nursing home in Oslo with her children and husband.

Nevertheless; now the disease [restricts her] even more than before.

- The biggest difference for me is actually that I can't do the things I was able to do before. There are [simply put] too many things I can't do, says Crown Princess Mette-Marit now to «Året med kongefamilien».

The Crown Prince Family visited Langerudhjemmet just two days ago. Foto: Ismail Burak Akkan / NRK

She stops and looks into the air. Takes a slow breath and describes how she has noticed a clear deterioration in a short time.

- I think it is very sad that I am not able to carry out things at work as I would like. It is something that is not only important to me, but also being allowed to contribute. I really don't think I'll be able to do what I managed to do earlier this autumn. So it's... There's something painful about it.

She looks [towards] the Crown Prince, he nods carefully.

- But that's how life is, we just have to take it as it is, she adds.

The Crown Prince: - A mourning process

She says that the development has also been difficult for the children and the rest of the family, and that it has been a process for them to come to terms with the situation as well.

The Crown Prince describes it as a mourning process.

- [Obviously,] for those of us who are very fond of Mette and want her to be well, it hurts that [it's becoming] more difficult, he says.

- And it's a little difficult to understand, perhaps, [just how] ill you are, he says and turns to her on the bright sofa.

- Because she looks very good, he adds and smiles.

- And when we sit quietly, it can seem like she's perfectly fine. But we can see that she struggles more with her breathing. [Bear less] and have less surplus and energy, get sick more often - and it can come on a bit suddenly. So all those things are easy to notice for us who are [close by], says the Crown Prince.

He looks at her. Describes things they enjoyed doing together before, like hiking and skiing, that are no longer possible.

- So we have the big picture, that it is a serious situation, and then there are the smaller things that you also have to adjust to, which are really sad. That you can't do it anymore. So there is a bit of a grieving process along the way, says the Crown Prince.

- And we have to be allowed to be a little sorry and take it to heart every once in a while too. Then you have to adapt and find as good solutions as possible along the way. But life is a bit brutal, he says.

Christmas lights hung on the gate to Skaugum illuminate the winter darkness. Foto: Christian Breidlid / NRK

Become clearer that it is moving towards transplantation

When asked what it is like to accept that things are moving towards transplantation and surgery, Crown Princess Mette-Marit says that she is more ready for things to go in that direction now than she has been before.

- Especially after the summer, I kind of felt that it was necessary. And it is something new. I think I've been very much like: «No, I will make it work. This will go well, the medication will work.» But now I feel that... In many ways, it's probably the case that I've become more ready for it, says Crown Princess Mette-Marit.

- And fortunately it is not up to me to make the decision about when I am put on the list. I am very happy that that decision rests with someone else, with good professionals who have done this many times before. It is a great [comfort] for me.

The doctor: - It's terrifying

The decision as to when the Crown Princess will be put on the list of people who need and are ready for a transplant will be made by the doctors at Rikshospitalet.

Chief physician Are Martin Holm, head of the lung department at Rikshospitalet, is the Crown Princess's doctor and has followed her development for a long time.

He has been given permission to talk to NRK about the situation.

Holm shows with his hand how pulmonary fibrosis often worsens step by step downwards, like a staircase going down.

- The Crown Princess has had some such deteriorations during 2025. Some clear deteriorations. [They are not so noticeable] when you're standing still, but we can measure it, and we see it. And it has been quite noticeable.

- As of today, the disease is so serious that we are beginning to prepare how to deal with further deterioration. And then the only thing [that] can help is a transplant, says Holm.

Chief physician Are Martin Holm describes the Crown Princess's situation as serious and says they are beginning to prepare for a possible transplant. Foto: Håvard Greger Hagen / NRK

In a press release from the Royal House, Holm states that «we are approaching the time when a lung transplant must be carried out, and we are making the necessary preparations so that it will be possible when that time comes.»

- We must start thinking about transplantation when we see that things are going [in that direction]. And that is when life prospects are limited. Transplantation is done to save lives. That is the reason for the transplant, says Holm to NRK.

- When will the Crown Princess be [put] on the waiting list?

– The time to get on the waiting list is when we believe that the life prospects are poor, Holm answers.

– Is it now?

– It's not yet. But we know that this is a deadly disease, so we have to be prepared. We closely monitor people who have this type of disease. The sum of various tests gives us an indication that the life prospects are now...that now it's alarming, now transplantation is the best solution. And then it's time to get on the waiting list, says Holm.

– We are not there today, but there has been a deterioration during 2025 that means we have to start thinking about this, and we have to follow it a little more closely, he says of the Crown Princess.

Holm describes lung transplantation as a major operation.

– It's not trivial. It's a major operation. It's scary too. And if people don't understand that it's scary, I have to explain it to them. Because it is. It should be. But at the same time, it is also a rescue and a solution. And there is hope in that.

A large crowd had turned up when Crown Princess Mette-Marit visited Stavanger in June in connection with the city's 900th anniversary. Foto: Øystein Otterdal / NRK

Rejects royal [privilege]

Holm describes tests they take to monitor when a patient is at the critical point that they should be put on the waiting list for a transplant, and tests they take to check if the person can tolerate the major surgery.

After a person has been placed on the waiting list, they must in practice always be available to come at short notice.

– Because it is completely unpredictable when a suitable organ will become available. It could happen in one day – or never, says Holm.

Chief physician Are Martin Holm says that the Crown Princess's public role will require additional protection in connection with the operation, but denies that she will be prioritised over other patients because of her royal role. Foto: Håvard Greger Hagen / NRK

– Will the Crown Princess be prioritised over others?

– No, she won't. When an organ arrives, it has a specific size and a specific blood type. Based on that, we need to look at the list to see who [it] fits. Of those who are suitable, we always take the one who is the sickest, the one who has the worst time [prospect] and [therefore] least ability to wait, Holm answers.

– What is the alternative to transplantation for the Crown Princess if the development continues as it has this autumn?

– I can say what the alternative is in general for all the patients we are considering for transplantation and investigating for transplantation. That alternative is heavy and difficult to think about, Holm answers.

– But it is necessary for those patients to actually consider what the alternative to a transplant is, when a transplant is the only form of life-saving treatment.

A guard at the entrance to Skaugum. Foto: Christian Breidlid / NRK

Article written by Vilde Helljesen and Kristi Marie Skrede for NRK, published Dec. 19, 2025, at 09:06 and updated the same day at 10:35. Translation and slight editing for clarity by me.

Note #1 from Saga: Since it's such a serious topic and such a long article, I've been more careful with my editing this time around. Usually, I sometimes rewrite or restructure entire sentences just to make sure that the message gets across. So it's not technically word-for-word what they're saying, but it's the message/point that they're trying to get across. However, with this one I've been more careful & that's why you'll see so many [word] & [phrases] compared to other translated articles from me, because I wanted to be as close, as word-for-word, as possible.

Note #2 from Saga: For all the Americans reading this, before you comment or freak out, remember that Norway is a different country from the USA. It has a different health care system. Plus, their population is much, much smaller than USA. Please keep that in mind before I don't know, drawing any conclusions, making any comparisons or commenting about this. Norway is not the USA. Not everything functions the way it does in the USA.

[yena-enha]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐖𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 - 𝐍𝐑𝐊

« Seoulfound Masterlist »

Warning - None, Angst, Depressed Reader

Note - SFW, Heavy Angst

Genre - Soulmate AU, Angst, First Love, Strangers To Lovers

Pairing - Non!Idol!Niki x Non!Idol!Femreader

Song Inspiration - Skin By DIJON

Word Count - 4k Idk?

★ ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☀︎｡⋆　Seoulfound You　⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☀︎｡⋆ ★

Ni-ki had always felt a little haunted.

By the age of ten, he knew bruises weren’t just accidents — not when they bloomed like fading flowers across his ribs in the middle of the night.

Not when they were shaped like hands too small to be his own.

He would wake with stinging scratches on his arms, sometimes faint, sometimes fresh. He hadn’t fallen. Hadn’t moved. But the sting always remained, vivid and personal, like someone else’s sadness had been pressed into his skin.

He didn’t know who you were.

Only that you existed — out there — carrying pain so quiet it never made a sound, but always found its way to him.

And for reasons he didn’t understand yet, he never minded.

Because even as a child, he knew what loneliness felt like.

And he never wanted you to carry yours alone.

---

The first time you wrote to him, it wasn’t even a message — just three tiny stars drawn on the inside of your wrist in fading pen.

They appeared on his skin while he was brushing his teeth.

He stared at them for hours. Not because they were intricate, but because they were real. Proof.

That you were out there.

Breathing.

Alive.

He waited the entire day before gathering the courage to reply.

He grabbed his own pen, hand trembling, and wrote beneath your stars:

> “Who are you?”

You didn’t answer.

Not for days.

But then—

beneath the three stars, crooked and small:

> “Someone you don’t want to know.”

---

He was only twelve, but those words broke something in him.

You sounded like someone who’d given up on being wanted.

Someone who thought they were too much, too damaged, too far gone to be loved.

And that terrified him more than the bruises ever did.

---

You didn’t talk often.

But when you did, it was never light.

> “I’m tired.”

“Do you ever feel like disappearing?”

“I don’t know how much longer I can pretend I’m okay.”

Ni-ki never judged you.

He never asked questions you couldn’t answer.

He just drew a moon beside your words, and wrote softly beneath it:

> “Even if the sun forgets you, the night never will.”

---

You never told him your name.

Never asked for his.

It didn’t matter.

Because names weren’t what made you real to each other.

It was the shared ache.

The silent understanding.

The promise written not in words, but in pain carried together.

---

Years passed like that.

Ink-covered wrists.

Shared bruises.

Soft messages traded in the silence between lonely nights.

Ni-ki grew older.

But the ache never faded.

If anything—it deepened.

Because with every year that passed, you grew quieter.

You still replied. But your handwriting became shaky.

Your words—smaller.

The bruises came more often.

Until one day—

they stopped.

Completely.

---

At first, Ni-ki hoped.

Maybe you’d healed. Maybe you were finally happy.

But that hope wilted fast.

Because he knew your patterns.

And you never disappeared like this.

---

He waited.

Wrote to you every day.

> “Are you okay?”

“I miss you.”

“You don’t have to talk. Just give me a sign.”

Nothing came.

No stars.

No hearts.

Not even bruises.

Just blank, untouched skin.

---

Until the seventh day.

And a single sentence scrawled across his collarbone in weak, uneven ink:

> “I’m sorry I made you carry this.”

Ni-ki broke.

Tears spilled down his cheeks as he read it over and over.

His body trembled with the weight of your guilt.

You’d never made him carry anything.

He chose to.

---

He didn’t write anything back that night.

Instead, he pressed his lips to the spot where your apology had bloomed, and whispered:

“You never have to be sorry for existing.”

---

The day he found you, the air smelled like rain.

He had taken the alley behind the bookstore—something he rarely did—when he saw you.

Huddled beside a wall, legs drawn to your chest, ink-smudged fingers curled around your knees.

And on your skin—his stars.

Three tiny ones. Fading.

Just like the first time.

---

He stopped breathing.

His heart—his actual, physical heart—stuttered in his chest.

Because the moment his eyes met yours—

He knew.

And he saw it in your eyes, too.

Recognition.

Shock.

Relief.

A heartbreak so quiet, it trembled.

---

“Ni-ki?” you whispered, voice cracking. “I didn’t want you to see me like this.”

He fell to his knees in front of you.

Took your trembling hands.

“I didn’t want to not see you,” he choked.

“You were gone. I didn’t know if I’d ever feel you again.”

---

Your hands gripped his tighter. Desperate. Fragile.

“I didn’t think I deserved you.”

He shook his head so hard it hurt.

“You deserve everything.”

And then, softly—achingly:

“You were never a burden. You were the only thing that made me feel real.”

---

That night, he brought you home.

Wrapped you in his softest hoodie.

Fed you soup.

Showed you the shoebox he’d been keeping for years.

Inside: Polaroids of his skin with your doodles. Crumpled napkins with copied ink messages. A dried flower someone once drew over his collarbone. Every piece of you he could hold onto.

You wept into his shoulder.

Told him no one had ever kept anything of you before.

He kissed the top of your head and whispered, “I kept everything. Because every part of you mattered.”

---

He taught you how to draw again.

Not as a cry for help—

But as a way to say: I’m alive. I’m here. I’m healing.

You began to draw constellations on his forearm.

He filled them in with color.

Sometimes, he’d write poetry across his chest, knowing it would show up on yours.

You’d blush, but never tell him to stop.

---

One night, curled in bed together, you whispered the question that had haunted you for years:

“Does it hurt? Carrying me?”

Ni-ki wrapped his arms around your waist, burying his face into your neck.

“No,” he murmured.

“It only hurts when you’re silent.”

You closed your eyes.

And for the first time in years—

You didn’t feel alone.

---

The ink on your skin became art, not cries.

Your bruises faded.

Your eyes opened wider.

And your voice, once a whisper—became a melody.

You started drawing sunflowers instead of scars.

Ni-ki started breathing easier.

Because healing wasn’t instant.

But it was shared.

---

One morning, you woke to find your name written in gentle cursive down your thigh.

Ni-ki had written it during the night.

Beneath it: a heart. And a promise.

“Even before I knew your name—

I carried your pain like it was mine.

Because it always was.”

★ ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☀︎｡⋆　Seoulfound You　⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☀︎｡⋆ ★

«Masterlist || Introduction»

Taglist» @strxwbloody

[love-my-way]

Introducing my new obsession, Rykter:

If you’re like me you may have seen this image of Erik and Mathias from the Norwegian series Rykter pop up on your feed.

So, what is Rykter (eng: Rumours)?

Story: We begin the show seeing a bunch of boys beating up one of their class mates, Erik. Next we see him on a boat to a small fishing island where he is going to now be living. The series explores the relationships he builds on the island and how he tries to hide the past he’s run from. And It’s from NRK who produced Skam.

Characters:The characters are the best thing about this series. So let’s meet them:

Erik is an adorable, awkward, sassy sweetheart and I guarantee you will love and want to protect this boy with all your heart. At the start of the series Erik is not happy to be moving to a fishing island. All of his walls are up and although he’d insist he doesn’t want friends, it’s clear he really does. But he’s terrified that if he gets close to people the reason he moved will come out.

Mathias is rich, charming and popular. His entire future has been planned out by his girlfriend and parents, but he’s coming to terms with the idea that he doesn’t want that future. Mathias definitely isn’t perfect he’s done some really stupid and messy things, but towards the end of s2 I feel like he starts to really grow up.

Sara is Matthias’s girlfriend, she’s the class rep, she’s a part time boxer and has planned the entirety of her life at just 15. Sara is also trying to forget moments from her past. She’s a really interesting character and goes on such a journey of allowing herself to take some time to discover what her dreams really are.

Thea is Sara’s best friend, she’s an influencer and knows everyone’s secrets, so it drives her crazy when Erik shows up full of secrets. I spent most of the series annoyed with Thea, she repeated acts so cruelly to everyone around her. But she’s got a lot going on and I started to feel bad for her at the end of s2. I’m excited to see her s3 arc now that it’s been revealed her whole life is a lie.

These 3 are more side characters but deserve a brief mention: Felix, Matthias’s best friend, he’s a jerk. He’s almost always the worst. Boo! Synnøve, a friend of Saras, she deserves the world and her boss deserves literal jail. Alexander, my king deserved more screen time, he was always so true to himself and wonderful. Go chase your dreams in Oslo king.

Relationships: (Warning: spoilers)

Mathias & Sara: They’ve always been together, but when they realise they want different things their relationship gets rocky. They’re on and off the entirety of s1 and s2, but at the very last episode of s2 they come to the realisation that they will never work.

Sara & Erik: S1 Sara and Erik are both going through a rough time and end up outcasts. Their adorable friendship blooms from this. They truly care about each other and encourage each other to chase their dreams and grow. Don’t worry this is not a romance it’s just a beautiful friendship.

Mathias & Erik: They have a difficult beginning. Erik overhears Mathias saying some unkind things about him and then becomes best friends with his ex (Sara) - so s1 isn’t great for them. BUT at the beginning of s2 Mathias really tries to befriend Erik and from there they start spending more and more time together and kind of become besties. Mathias is the first person Erik opens up to, Erik is the one person Mathias is completely honest with and Erik makes Mathias start becoming a better person. They’re friendship is adorable and full of banter, their hugs are just beautiful and their kiss was shocking (for me and Erik) but at the same time made so much sense.

So that’s where Rykter left off, with Mathias and Erik standing next to each other awkwardly after their kiss. Season 3 is going to be an interesting one - all the characters are going to high school. Some like Sara and Alexander have left the island to go to city high schools, Thea is currently living in England and everything else is a confusing mess too! Season 3 has been filmed, there’s no air date yet, but I’d assume the end of the year.

If you are wanting to watch it @rykteren on Twitter has done the translations. Their team is so incredible - I love them! 2 seasons are released so far (15 episodes each season, and each episode is about 10mins). Have fun! And if you have watched it, let’s talk about our new obsession!

[sigyn-foxyposts]

Me on valentines day:

[royalchildreneurope]

Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway poses for official portraits as she gives an interview to Norwegian media NRK, at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia -November 2nd 2025.

📷 : Frode Fjeringstad/NRK.