Erika Bergren

Writer, artist, aerialist, and adult Third Culture Kid living in Seattle. Pippin's human they/them

[Erika Bergren @gentleslapstick]

Today while driving I thought to myself “Wow, I’m actually really cool and charismatic! Awesome!”
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Then I thought “I think I’ve just been spending a lot of time by myself and I really like me.”

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I made this to commemorate the death rattles of a tech giant. So long and thanks for all the fish

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@MirriGD I CAN HELP!!! It is def a trap though, don’t do it. But if you do you just let me n my addictive personality know.

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Wow, I LOVE lesbian bars, but the lines for the bathroom are the PIIIIIIIIIIIITSSSSSSSS

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@alaskarobotics Whaaaaaat!!! I want your brother to see ME a suit now!

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@MirriGD I loopooooove yoooou!!!

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Coworker 1: Yeah, wide hips fuck up your knees so if you’re AFAB and athletic, you’re screwed.

Coworker 2: Yeah, those birthing hips.

Me: Listen, I’d give up my ability to grow somebody else’s bones inside my body for my own bones to work for me. No doubt.

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It’s me, I’m the chaos

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People getting septum piercings right now getting covid swabs n whatnot, who are you? You’re the most chaotic force in the universe.

[Mirri Glasson-Darling @MirriGD]

I wanna be a short dog in a lonnnnnnnng jacket.

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Listening to the podcast “when god was queer” and the hosts description of gender euphoria as going super saiyan makes so much sense and is so affirming to hear. Like it is potent and transcendent and doesn’t always come easily at first.

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@MirriGD Jellyfish are unambiguously erotic. I will die on this hill.

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People often say queer romance and relationships feel like high school ones if you weren’t able to explore them from a young age. I agree, except that sometimes the people I like like me back? Like high school jitters, but you’re not an awkward teen? Bananas.

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Today I got paid to swing around on a flying trapeze. Being a circus coach thus far is the fuckin bomb.

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@MirriGD Grumpus

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Not me crying at a This American Life episode 😭

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@zebrarocket I wanna hear it! Elevator pitch

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@buttfaceington Thank you! I appreciate you!

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Me, stranded in Skagway, unable to take the only road out of town bc Canada decided they didn’t like me and living out of my car: “it really do be like that sometimes.”

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@AatHairka Happy birthday! Wow, we have the same name AND our birthdays are back to back. Unreal. 🥰

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@greatbignap @zebrarocket My brain read that as “ornithologist” and I was like, “why would insurance cover talking about birds for 5 hrs.”

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Dionysus but they drink dry rosé directly out of the bota box.