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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️

@norwavery.bsky.social

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AKA @NorwayTracking Meteorology student and lifelong weather enthusiast. Huge fan of astronomy and ambient music. Other hobbies include Minecraft, drawing, and watching wrestling. Nice to see you here! 20, she/her https://en.pronouns.page/@norway.from.nj

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 26d

I love every version of me!
Except current me.
And that version from 7 years ago where i briefly fell down the right wing youtube pipeline… i try to forget about that one.

A comic I drew, hypothesizing on what would happen if my current 20-year old self got to talk to my past selves at various ages.
The script of it is far too long to paste in this alt text, but i'll sum it up:
I first meet my 9 year old self, who is explaining the mechanics of a lunar eclipse, and drawing a diagram of it. I am very proud of her for this, and slightly somber, knowing how much more gifted she is for her age than I am.
Next, I meet 11-year-old me, who was just informed she would be going to a different middle school from the rest of her elementary school classmates. I try to comfort her, and tell her to keep her head up and keep being herself. She is also worried about whether or not Trump will win the 2016 election, and I tell her not to stress about it.
Next, I meet 16-year-old me, who I try to talk about fan projects with, but she pretty quickly catches on to her impending transition, which I continuously deny since I figure she needs to realize she's trans on her own.
Finally, I meet 18-year-old me, who is extremely distressed about the combination of starting college and being early into transition, and is desperate for any escape from it all. I give her a lengthy pep talk, with emphasis on taking things one day at a time, and how resilient she's been up to this point.
The comic, however, is not over. Two disembodied voices (both being voices in my head) debate whether or not to hypothesize on if I met myself from my early teen years, which is then shown. In this panel - the final panel - my 13-year-old self is going on and on and on about the stupid internet culture of the time, and generally just being an ignorant brat, as she would. In response to this, I can't stop saying "shut up" to her over and over. I also think to myself in this moment, "oh my god, i get it now. all these years of pain... have all been karma... for THIS."

This comic took up all of my free time on Monday, and it's one of my favorites I've made, so I hope you like it!

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 8h

Not many
There’s my fan project friends, there’s my weather friends, and then there’s my irl friends (by far the smallest)

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 9h

So every year since 2020, i’ve made a “moodboard” of my interests and thoughts of that time period
Basically a gigantic starter pack meme
I just made 2025’s, and I just realized I can’t share it in full with ANY of my friend groups because it has stuff i’d rather not talk about with all of them 💀

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 20h

The “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” meme template, with the captions being
Question: “Why do I have such bad luck?”
Choice A: “Because of that mirror I smashed to make the ODAA D-side cover”
Choice B: “Because someone out there has a voodoo doll of me and is doing unspeakable things to it”
Choice C: “Because I scrolled past one of those “repost in 30 seconds or you get 10 years of bad luck” posts”
Choice D: “I don’t, I’m actually just really dysfunctional and bad at adulting”

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 1d

No, I will never willingly share my deadname with you, so don’t ask
And no i won’t participate in the stupid deadname riddle trend i’ve seen going around either
If any of y’all figure mine out, it will not be with my consent

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 2d

Have been pretty depressed and/or dissociated just about all day

…meanwhile, the song that’s been stuck in my head the entire time:

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 2d

Because 1. Why do i need to learn about resistors and capacitors in series and parallel when i’m going into WEATHER
and 2. It’s just alphabet soup where it’s impossible to remember what anything specifically means

Like look at this
I have to remember what EVERY SINGLE ONE of these things means 🪦

A bunch of advanced physics gobbledygook

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 2d

Okay I know i have calc 3 this semester, and i’ve quickly learned that calc 3 is no better than calc 2

BUT my least favorite class this semester is still physics 2

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 3d

2 months ago, Venus would’ve been this high up 2 hours before sunrise, now it’s only this high during dawn
And soon it’ll be unviewable entirely
I always hate watching Venus recede lower and lower into the horizon, because it’s one of the most interesting things in the night sky to view from Earth

Venus, just barely above the trees on my eastern horizon, with the blue glow of dawn already apparent

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 3d

No, youtube, i do not want to “ask” anything about the video, please leave me alone

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 5d

No, ms paint, i do not want you to do a “generative erase”, please leave me alone

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 15d

No, firefox, i do not want you to summarize this page, please leave me alone

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 4d

I did mid
If that, really
Would’ve been a lot WORSE if i didn’t binge study but it still wasn’t great

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 4d

So i spent 6 or 7 hours of last night studying, and am studying another 3 or so right before, all of this while i have several other outside things to worry about

So if I don’t do well on this exam, i’m going to collapse, melt into a little puddle, get evaporated into Avery vapor by the fluorescent lights in the room, and get inhaled into the lungs of everyone in the exam room, causing them all to suffocate to death

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 4d

Fr
“What i learned in boating school is…” and then what the heck do you put after that?
It’s impossible really

(also good luck with driver’s ed lol)

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 4d

You're not the one taking the dang exam 😭

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 4d

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re curious why i have that link in all of my bios, it’s because of THIS
I specifically made this page so everyone who sees me knows exactly what terms to avoid calling me
Bc when people call me by something I really don’t want to be, i’m too socially anxious to say no, and i end up like this

My pronouns.page bio, with a section circled in red reading “Please be mindful of what gendered language you use around me, even if you use masculine language just as a joke or without noticing. I’m pretty insecure about these things, and the tiniest trigger can get me all dysphoric, which is kinda why I set up this page.”

A comic by Brooke Valley

Panel 1
Brooke: “So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to… it’s all been really good”
Other person: “Wow!”

Panel 2
Other person: “Aw MAN, that’s so awesome. Seriously BRO, great.”

Panel 3
Other person: “Like MAN… you’re doing some crazy stuff for real MAN… like DUDE”

Panel 4
Other person: “You keep being you MAN, it’s great - good job MAN YES SIRRRR”
Brooke, in her head: “PLEASE SHUT UP”

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 5d

No, ms paint, i do not want you to do a “generative erase”, please leave me alone

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 15d

No, firefox, i do not want you to summarize this page, please leave me alone

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 5d

Idk if my brain’s gonna ride this high all the way until 5:40 pm tomorrow though
And as for my physics exam on thursday… MIGHT be a bit more cooked on that one

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 5d

It’s 3 am the night before my multivar calc exam, i’m going through the practice exam, and miraculously, my four remaining brain cells are actually working together and comprehending the problems for once

a cartoon character is standing in front of a cloud of smoke coming out of a bottle .

Alt: A gif from Spongebob of a plug hanging down from the brain suddenly connecting to an outlet right beneath it. Once it connects, the gears in the brain start to turn, clearing away a bunch of cobwebs that gathered on them. Pretty much just a metaphor for “wow, progress is actually being made for the first time in a while”

media.tenor.com

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, that’s true, but that’s not gonna get rid of everything else
What we actually have to do is find the one with the voodoo doll and take it away from them

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 8d

I have nonstop headaches, nonstop canker sores, have none of the brainpower required to do well in my classes, my transition hasn’t been how i hoped, and i live in a country that becomes more hostile towards me every day

Someone gotta be having a field day with a voodoo doll of me at this point 😭

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 8d

So last night, i had a raging headache, i finally fall asleep, i wake up today, and i STILL have a headache

I’ve also been getting headaches a LOT more frequently lately, maybe like once or twice a week at this point where it used to be under once a month

What is happening
Why is my head so cooked

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Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 9d

I still can’t believe the Rainforest Café right by me shut down, and now the closest one is hours away
What’s the point in living when you no longer have quick and easy access to a place where you can eat french fries in a room with cool lighting while gorilla and elephant animatronics roar at you

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 10d

We love to see our champion standing on principles
GOATed stuff as usual 🫡

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t think there’s any feeling in life more simple yet irritating, than connecting a device to a charger, and it DOESN’T START CHARGING

And obviously this happens when the device is dead/nearly dead too because why else would you need the charger

So you’re just stuck

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 10d

Okay, from best to worst, i think it would be
1. S+V chips
2. Spicy cheetos
3. Chips + queso

(large gap)

4. Chicken + rice soup
Yes that took 2 days for me to decide on

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · 11d

Planet gazing this winter is gonna be pretty boring ngl
Venus is gonna be unviewable
Mars will be unviewable
Mercury, Uranus, and Neptune are never heckin viewable from NJ anyways
The only saving grace will be Jupiter
And i guess Saturn too in the evening sky

Norway / Avery 🏳️‍⚧️ @norwavery.bsky.social · Aug 24

On a lighter note, I WAS able to find Mars
But it’s very low on the horizon, and it’ll become unviewable entirely around September, and it shouldn’t return to the dawn sky until spring
Farewell, orange friend