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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

For all the non Dutchies: Yes, Watskeburt is in fact our national anthem

This was so funny to make xd

TEMPLATE BY ME!!

Decoy so you can try this too. I wanna see what yall do with this. Any fandom, any characters you like, doesnt matter, put them in this template

Info: Watkeburt is a song from a well known band "De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig" (transating to Today's Youth) Watskeburt was super popular when it aired alot of ppl still know it to this day, orange is our national color thats why we wear it on Kingsday (Koningsdag) our king's birthday, Willem Alexander van Oranje. LuckyTV is a Dutch voice over channel and i have a Scottish friend who used it to learn Dutch. He learned a few words (rn he uses duolingo) :D

Omg!!! Same!

Omg well ikl be using that saying now for suuure

The Water Lily ~ hand-colored lithograph ~ Nathaniel Currier (American, 1813-1888)

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

Being with my boyfriend has genuinely reset my standards for potential partners and like this doesn’t affect me bc we’re already together but now if my friends are single and on the prowl I am like Listen to me. Look me in the eyes rn. Do not go for the bitch who cannot continue the bit

So I saw a video on a technique for patching sweater holes, and I really wanted to try it.

Fortunately (unfortunately?) I had an old sweater that got chewed up when it accidentally took an unprotected ride through the laundry. It had PLENTY of holes to practice on, of various sizes.

I decided to start on some of the smaller holes:

It went......okay? I guess? It's a new technique. You can probably see which hole I tried first and what progress I made doing it a second time....

I ended up getting myself a new toy to continue (a latch hook, because my crochet hook was doing well-enough-I-guess but I figured I could neaten it up a little if I was less likely to drop loops). So I decided to go after one of the bigger, more irregular holes:

(this picture actually has the most accurate portrayal of the real-life color of the repair yarn. I don't know why it's so grass-green in the other pictures. It's even a little darker than it looks in this picture, and blends in better with the rest of the sweater colors.)

Which also went....okay........I'm new-technique satisfied......and there are a lot fewer holes in the sweater now, anyway. (I did a weave-darning on the spot on the very right, but that was only to try it out to see how it looked.)

So it got me brave enough to try some of the really big holes:

The first of which went okay:

but I'm still clearly struggling with how much working slack to leave on the loops, which you can see with the increasing tension as I worked from right to left.

But you know what?

This monster is next. We'll see how it goes! Regardless, I'm enjoying the technique and learning a LOT. Plus....I'll be able to wear this sweater again!