Liz Roderick, Veoma Jeziva 👻
@talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
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She/They. US-ian living in Bosna &/or Hercegovina. Author of queer, neurodivergent tales of weirdness. Developmental editor. Bisexual, bipolar, bipedal, bilingual, bicyclist, non-binary, buy my books: Talesfrompurgatory.com
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I just want to eat life down to its poisoned core

and go out laughing and screaming and spitting my final breath into the murmurations of stars
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Healthcare here is actually accessible 🙌
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I’m on the edge of the city but definitely in Banja Luka, not rural. My bike ride kroz sela—ima puno starijih kuća ali i puno velikih novih kuća
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It just looks like the age, not the style. Most of the buildings on the block including my house are pre-Yugoslavia but the apartments and the shops right next door look like they were built in the ‘50s or ‘60s
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If you read it carefully it says municipalities “have accepted” an affidavit sworn before a consular officer. It does not say they will accept.
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He has all this guilt.

Money is something he has to work through, age is something I have to. If we can figure it out, it’ll be fine. That and the visa.
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Like he keeps trying to kill himself on this freelance hustle so that he can pay for this or that and I’m stuck like…it’s not your fault I can make so much more money. It’s just I was born somewhere different than you.

And to his credit he doesn’t seem emasculated by me paying for shit but
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He’s not running a con unless he’s a brilliant sociopath. He wants to sign a prenup, he’s just…he’s the most genuine person and has so much anxiety about me thinking he has some ulterior motive. I know the financial stability thing does for sure appeal to him but the dude works so fucking hard.
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Yeah I’ve been trying really hard to not let my brain weasels sabotage me.

This is fast…it was either get married or break up because there’s no other way for me to stay. And we discussed it and marriage sounded much better. I just hate how badly it will hurt if it doesn’t work.
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🩷🩷🩷🩷 thank you

I’m having a hard time believing this isn’t some trick
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I almost don’t want to tell the wider world about how fucking beautiful it is here
Hills covered in deciduous trees turning golden and red. Cornfield in the foreground. Silver clouds in a bright blue sky. Hills covered in deciduous trees turning golden and red. Cornfield in the foreground. Silver clouds in a bright blue sky.
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If my transcription work dries up and you all don’t want to buy my books I will probably just become one of these guys

That is, if Milenko does not ditch me and they grant my visa
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Ah. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth but always take a big ol gander up its horsepussy
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I hope the trapdoor they all slid out of was in its anus
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There are also little fruit/vegetable stands. I am assuming that these will not be much around during the depths of winter. There’s lots of greenhouses here tho.

There is not the transport here there is u Americi. Most shit that’s imported is done by some guy with a van.
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There are a million bakeries here. They are all good but some are GOOD good. You can spot those—people are pressed against the windows at 2 am on Saturdays begging for burek even tho they officially closed at 11 (they will still give you burek. Denying a drunk person burek is a capital crime in BiH)
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Yeah. Sleep paralysis…nobody is a fan. Lucid dreaming is fun af
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The Bosnian diet is about 99% composed of meat, bread, coffee and cookies. In the local market, which is about half the size of most 7-11s and is crammed into a Yugoslavian-era box along with a pharmacy and liquor store, 2 whole aisles are dedicated to cookies.
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The can’t get out part isn’t a feature of a lucid dream. That’s…probably considered sleep paralysis honestly.
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They have something here called honeyed dates and I need to lie down
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Also I’m not sure how functional the US Embassy in Sa is rn…
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They say that but that has not been other people’s experience when going through the process. It’s the BiH officials and visa inspectors who decide what they will accept. I have read that page but it isn’t the controlling authority, if that makes sense.

I do plan on asking if we can do that.