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Annica 🇸🇪

@nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy
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SWE: Journalist och författare som försöker förstå sin samtid och sin omgivning. Inte särskilt bråkig. Ganska glömsk. ENG: Journalist and author trying to understand […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.nu/@nemorosa, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
When we buy salmon, I save the trims until I've got enough trims to grind into mince. Make wonderful meatballs. No, that implies beef or pork, at least to me. This is fish. Fishballs. No that sounds terrible. What's it called? Patties?
Fishballs? 
Image shows leftover trimmings from salmon and cod, ground to mince and shaped into puck-shaped cakes.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters. This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience': #thementalmansion
‘Oh! Oh, this one. This one’s a beauty. Hold on, don’t breathe too loudly, it’s delicate.’
They lift a dream that glows colder than the others. The moment it rises from the chest, the air around you cools, and the shadows shimmer as though dusted with frost. 
The cloud unfurls, slow and reverent.
You’re standing in a winter night so still it feels enchanted. Moonlight glistens on untouched snow, each crystal catching the light like a tiny star. The trees are coated in frost, their branches glittering as though dipped in silver. Your path home stretches ahead, glowing faintly, a pale ribbon through a galaxy of frozen sparks.
The snow muffles every sound. The cold steals every scent. And in that silence, the world feels impossibly vast and impossibly gentle.
You remember the way your breath hung in the air like a ghost. The night wrapped around you, making you slow your steps, just to stay in it a little longer.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Ok, this was more fun than I realised. I used to draw a lot earlier in life. Then life happened. I lost touch with the craft. And now life has happened again. Strange how things just ... happen. #drawing
A blank page. A carefully drawn rectangle. A ruler, a pencil, an eraser, a craft knife.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
A small sleeping rodent. First a fish, now a sleeping rodent. The news never stops.
A drawing of a small sleeping rodent.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
#WordWeavers Oct 7: Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality. This is from quite early in my upcoming book 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience': #writersofmastodon #author
“The ghosts are nothing but figments of your imagination, I tell you,’ Prefrontal
Cortex declares confidently and raises their voice a modicum so that they are heard all over
the Mansion. ‘They are fantasies, they can’t hurt any of you.”

A memo rattles through a pneumatic tube clinging to the walls of the office and
materialises on Amygdala’s desk with a burp, signed The Gut Staff.

Bollocks. /TGS

Prefrontal Cortex picks the note up. Frowns, eyes momentarily lost to the ceiling
cornices, contemplating the collapse of civilised memo etiquette. ‘Unfiltered notices?
Really Gut? Didn't we discuss this?"
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
#ScribesAndMakers 1 Draw a fish and share it. (It doesn't have to be brilliant.) Never drawn a fish before!
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Do I really need to have a plan when I start? #miniaturespainting #miniature
A very small fighter with a black mantle, mostly unpainted.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
This is what I am doing when I don't write. They're so tiny! I've got a few larger, like an owlbear, but most are tiny. This is one thing I can't do if over-caffeinated.
Six images of very small miniatures.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The hairdresser did a fantastic job. My hair is more energetic than me now. If there's anything better than a scalp massage, I wouldn't know. I almost fell asleep!
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Good grief, my brain and I don't get along today.
Brain: 'Sleep? Not doing that anymore, not fun. Let's chase a message from August'.
Me: 'When in August?'
Brain: 'No idea.'
Me: 'What app or service?'
Brain: 'No idea!'
Me: 'What did the message contain?'
Brain: 'The time and dates for your child's piano lessons.'
Me: 'So important then?'
Brain: 'Absolutely.'
Me: 'And you don't know where you saw it last?'
Brain: 'Nope!'
*Tearing through SMS, 8 e-mail accounts and every digital messaging service I have ever installed*
Me: 'Are you sure it was in August?'
Brain: 'Yes, almost positive. It could have been husband who got it.'
*Makes husband tear through his digital life.*
Me: 'No message, and we are certain we got it...'
Brain: 'Absolutely, the child has had several lessons already. She likes it.'
*Lowers gaze to desk in exasperation, and freezes.*
Me: 'What is that?'
Brain: 'Oh, good you found it! That's it, the admittance letter. Paper, how quaint.'
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Look at that. On this vintage Remington, the semicolon is placed for quick and easy access, no shift key required. It’s the colon that needs extra effort to be used. When did that change? And more importantly, why did we relegate such a elegant punctuation mark to the background?
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
#WordWeavers Sept 13: Share a line of dialogue that sounds innocent without context but absolutely isn’t. Plenty of conversations in my books are not what they seem, but I will let the readers themselves decide where they want to be, what interpretation they […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
“Hypothalamus!” Prefrontal Cortex shouts, trying to catch her attention. She turns her
head, a movement that removes what little balance she had, and waves a slow wave as her
next bounce sends her tumbling through a door with yet another giggle and a thump.

“Hiiiii Cortiel” Her voice is heard through the open door; you are almost certain she’s
lying on the floor. A pair of feet, toes wriggling, sticks out from the doorway.

“Don’t call me “Cortie™!" Prefrontal Cortex breathes to the clipboard, scribbling
notes. “Hypothalamus, control yourself]

“Or not, love,” the husky voice of Ventral Striatum drifts across the hallway followed
by a sweet, rich smell of chocolate.

You smile. Prefrontal Cortex gives you a stern look, but you can see them swallow
Twice.

“This is not protocol, they protest and snatch the teacup back from you, again
without spilling a drop. The clipboard somehow disappears into their jacket without
disfiguring it. You frown,
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
#WordWeavers 10/9: Share a description from your WIP that establishes atmosphere without explicitly naming the emotion. This is a passage from my upcoming book, “The Management Apologises for the Inconvenience”. Welcome to #TheMentalMansion
They lift a dream that glows colder than the others. The moment it rises from the chest, the air around you cools, and the shadows shimmer as though dusted with frost. 
The cloud unfurls, slow and reverent.
You’re standing in a winter night so still it feels enchanted. Moonlight glistens on untouched snow, each crystal catching the light like a tiny star. The trees are coated in frost, their branches glittering as though dipped in silver. Your path home stretches ahead, glowing faintly, a pale ribbon through a galaxy of frozen sparks.
The snow muffles every sound. The cold steals every scent. And in that silence, the world feels impossibly vast and impossibly gentle.
You remember the way your breath hung in the air like a ghost. The night wrapped around you, making you slow your steps, just to stay in it a little longer.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
A whole year without coffee? That's impressive. I would have declared war within a fortnight.
In 1756, coffee was banned in Sweden.

In 1757, the Pomeranian War broke out.
A coincidence? | don’t think so.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Rosorna vägrar ge sig fastän det börjar bli höst. Nina Weibull är verkligen tjusiga.
En mycket röd ros av sorten Nina Weibull.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Kantnepeta verkar poppis. Så det är det man ska satsa på?
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
Undrar just vad detta är för gynnare?
En fjäril som ser ut som ett gammalt löv.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Det finns många anledningar till varför jag nästan inte kan gå, jag rultar fram. Oförskämt nöjd med att jag orkade.
Knäbäj
1 40 kg 10 reps
2 45 kg 10 reps
3 50 kg 10 reps PB!
4 55 kg 10 reps PB!
5 50 kg 10 reps
6 45 kg 10 reps
7 40 kg 10 reps
Volym  
3 250 kg 
Reps 70 
Medelvikt 46,4 kg
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
Trädgården är full av nyckelpigor, jag har hittat så många olika former och fasoner! Men vad kan en sån här liten gynnare heta, den är mycket mindre än de jag vanligtvis hittar?
En gul och svart nyckelpiga bredvid ett måttband som visar att den är ungefär 4 mm lång.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Small works of art. Nature is beautiful.
Immature larch cone on a branch filled with lush, green needles.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Tiny orc done. Small stabby tiefling next. I think I prefer Vallejo colours, but I'm still using everything acrylic. Still learning. #miniaturepainting #acrylic
A tiny, handpainted orc wading through mud with blood on his axe.A tiefling miniature rouge, mostly unpainted.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Worth a try?
“Write a short story
every week. It's not
possible to write 52 bad
short stories in a row.”
--Ray Bradbury
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
Hittade ett angrepp av någon form av svampväxt på stammen. Jag tror jag stoppade det genom att torka av allt, pensla med rikligt med Atamon, och låta växthuset, och pumpan, torka ut lite. Nu ser den så där äventyrlig ut igen efter att ha sett lite moloken ut i […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
En entusiastisk hokkaidopumpa som försöker erövra hela sin vägg, nästa odlingskrage samt taket.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
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A hot cup of coffee on a desk filled with pens, notebooks, and papers. Word is active on the screen in the background, and outside the sun is shining.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Jag tycker faktiskt om vårt växthus nu. Gurkorna har börjat leverera, tomaterna växer så det dånar och jag tror vi får pumpa faktiskt. Hokkaidopumpan försöker erövra hela växthuset, den är verkligen entusiastisk.
Ett växthus med en mängd gröna växter, så som solros, gurka, pumpa och väldigt mycket tomatplantor.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Enda stället som är drägligt just nu. Jag producerar min egen värme, tack så mycket.
En ovanjord pool under ett pergolatak. Själva vattnet är i skuggan trots gassande sol.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
@LeoR1010 Det där lilla tog 1 timme igår, det går hur långsamt som helst 😄
En 28 mm hög plastfigur i form av en marscherande orc med yxa i ena handen och den andra knuten. Den är delvis grönmålad.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
Ooook... Nu har jag tagit mig vatten över huvudet? #miniatyrer #akryl
Fyra förpackningar med miniatyrer, färg och ett handtag för att underlätta målning.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
Testade sumo-mark på gymmet. Hur kul som helst. Först måttliga 40 kg (i videon, sen kom det folk så då vågade jag inte filma mer), jag ökade till 50 och 60 senare och jäsicken så kul det var! Lite ovan position, jag skulle t ex behöva tighta till latsen och […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
Mer vilddjur. #badger
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
A common guest in our garden. #fox
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
Men oj vilken ovanlig gäst på gårdsplanen? #lynx
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026
Älskar såna här gamla hus. Om väggarna ändå kunde tala, vad skulle de kunna viska om? Det här huset har överlevt två världskrig, minst. Pommerska kriget också kanske?
En mycket gammal trappa i ett mycket gammalt torp i hembygdsföreningen. Breda, gamla plankor, timrad vägg, trätrappan är gisten och skrev. Det lilla spröjsade fönstret har en liten spetsgardin. Det är mycket lågt i tak.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
Digging, digging, digging ... No more rotting pallet collars. We're going galvanised steel all the way.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
Scilla forbesii and Anemone nemorosa is currently trying to take over the garden. Lawn mower stays put until they're done. I'd rather have tall grass, lots of flowers, and happy bees than a trimmed lawn, no flowers, and hungry bees.
Anemone nemorosa. Lots.Scilla forbesii and Anemone nemorosa contending for the sun,Scilla forbesii thriving.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
Jaha ... jaja... *suck* Jag hann inte reda i de jag redan hade som låg ner innan fler ramlade. Fina var de också. 😯
Ett flertal omkullvälta träd som ligger huller om buller.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
Jag har inte sett fanskapet på ett tag, men jag vet att den finns och spanar in mina blommor. Blodmjöl, trico garden, plantskydd och blommor den inte gillar. Vad mer kan man göra - lagligt - för att hålla haren borta?
Fälthare i vinterträdgård.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
Nå nu ska det väl då vara själva... GE FAN I MINA KROKUSAR! Att göra: Plantera fler pärlhyacinter, snödroppar, narcisser, julros, vintergäck och kungsängslilja.
En grön låda "Gyllebo plantskydd" från Landmännen.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
1989? From my first own flat, and I decorated it defiantly. The night stand in the hallway. The kitchen chair by the bed. The dishes in the oven. And naturally, I sit on the floor.
An old image from approximately 1989 of a ~16 year old sitting on the floor with a cigarette and a large smile.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
Finally! The safety harness is located! Thank you, family, for finding it ❤️ It's 20 years old, so I am not going to use it, but I can use the rest of the equipment. Even the shoes fit.
A climbing harness, climbing shoes and two certification cards for lead and top-rope climbing.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
Den spanar efter mina krokusar också, det odjuret.
En fälthare under en fågelmatare i en snöig trädgård.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
Jaha så det är du som pallat koltrastens äpplen?
En fälthare i en trädgård.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
My father's funeral, beautiful service, a lot of people came to say farewell. Seeing his friends, his siblings, my cousins, my own family in tears, that really took a toll. At the reception afterwards, the spirit dampened at first, but as people got food in their […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
A new grave covered in roses.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
Writing: the art of staring at a sentence until it behaves. People think authors glide into inspiration. I trip over it, apologise, and pretend it was intentional. #writersofmastodon #authors
A selfie in black and white, in the background a computer with documents open. Me in the foreground, trying to look cool and failing miserably.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
I've been bothered by Gluteus Medius. I've tried "activation exercises"—if you have a name for them, I did them. All I got in reply was "You wish!" 🤬 There is an awkward silence in the hip now. The hip is making new noises now. Which makes the internal dialogue […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
A drawing of the Gluteus Medius. This muscle of mine has been a grumpy old sod with the attitude of an old groundskeeper that has had just about enough of the youngsters and have half a mind to go on strike, just to show management just how much they need them. 

Now, I don't know Isak Nyqvist personally and I haven't met him. Still, I owe him my gratitude, because one of his suggestions on Instagram actually made some new things happen. Check him out if you have the chance, look for a loving post. You will know what I mean when you find it. 🤣❤

There is an awkward silence in the hip now. The pain is gone. Just gone. Not faded, not lessened. Gone.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
What's your guilty pleasure? Mine is hobnobs. They're perfect for dunking in tea or coffee, they rarely make a mess, and they give just enough resistance when you're consuming them to remind you that you are actually eating something. They don't vanish into a […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
A cup of tea, two hobnobs, and a lit candle on a pretty little tray.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
Half my writing process right now is whispering ‘oh no’ as the story takes a turn I didn’t plan. The other half is anxiety-inducing levels of caffeine. #writerslife #creativeprocess #writing #author
A cup of black coffee reflecting the singer from Falling in Reverse from the video "Watch the World Burn".
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
How am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
A small bookshelf full of books.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
How does your work space look? This is mine, before I have had time to make a mess. I like order and seem to be unable to uphold it for long. It just happens to be one of those things I never seem to be able to master. I'm the chaos collector! And every now and […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
A desk in a corner, not too cluttered, with three screens. A window in the background hints at snow outside, and two small candles are lit on the desk on either side of the tablet in front of the screens. The billboard in the corner has few items, hinting at a not too busy schedule at the moment. It is a restful winter-setup.
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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
Så mycket som måste hända nu, medan tiden står stilla.
"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."
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