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New project!!!
A sweater for niece with some pink hearts (the pink is hand dyed, I wanted to go for a soft pastel pink, with confetti like other Coors (blue, gry, violet) but moved the yarn way to much 😅)
Here is the free pattern:
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Having some interesting thoughts about König.
So idk if y’all have seen Don’t Worry Darling but I recently rewatched it and the whole thing is so König coded.
And it can go one of two ways
One - you’re his beloved wife. And he worries so much for your safety while he’s away on missions. And your happiness, he worries you’ll get tired of waiting around for him while he’s gone. Even though he makes great money in his position as a colonel, you insist on still having your job to help with the income. He knows you work yourself to death while he’s away because you can’t stand to come home to an empty house.
When he heard about the Victory project his interest was immediately peaked. Knowing that he could do this and you’d be safe, you’d be taken care of; happy with nothing to do but keep the home clean and look pretty for him <3 It tugs at his heart.
But he can imagine what you’d say
“It’s too expensive”
“I like working, I don’t want to give that up”
Or the worst scenario
That you’d think him crazy. That you’d think him absolutely insane for wanting to chain you to the bed and keep you in a practically comatose state 24/7. That you’d leave him.
And he cannot have that. He won’t. So he does it. He convinces himself that deep down you’d know he’s doing the right thing. You’d know he’s just taking care of you. You actually wanted this, you just didn’t know it.
Or two (and the most likely scenario, in my opinion) - you’re the cute little barista at the coffee shop on base. He comes to see you to get a coffee every day. He orders the same thing “coffee. Black, please.” in his thick German accent. You easily memorized his order and learned to already have it made when you see his tall, imposing figure approaching the coffee stand.
You thought he was cute; how he was so big but tried to make himself small when he was around you. How quiet he was and how it was almost like pulling teeth getting him to talk to you about his day. His responses were always short, even on the rare occasion that he initiated conversation with you.
“The weather is nice today.”
“Your hair is nice.”
“Your nails are different from last time.”
When you started leaving little notes and hearts on his cup, he took that as a sign that you wanted him just as bad as he wanted you.
And what better way to have you than to take you. To take you to a place where you wouldn’t have to worry about a single thing. Where you can be his pretty little housewife. Safe and close to him.
He knew you’d put up a fight at first - he can tell how strong you are. But that would all be over soon. He would easily overpower you and get you nice and comfortable in his luxurious king sized bed. He’d have everything you need: an IV bag to keep you healthy, a wet rag to drop little bits of water into your mouth, and feeling tubes to keep you fed. He’d be the best caretaker, you’ll see.
He’ll write to your job and family, pretending to be you and saying that you had left and never wanted to see any of them. You were going to start a new life. A better life.
And in the Victory project, in the perfect world that you’d be waiting for him in, he would provide for you even better. Luxurious cars, your dream mansion, rows and rows of all the clothes you could ever want. You and him will be together.
Forever.
#call of duty mw2#call of duty#konig x reader#konig headcanons#konig imagine#konig mw2#konig cod#konig modern warfare#konig x you#konig#call of duty x reader#konig call of duty
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I just discovered the trick of using short rows (specifically, German short rows) on sweater necklines/shoulders/yokes to provide shaping, and I’m just shaking my fist at the heavens, cursing god I didn’t know that trick before I made my first colorwork sweater. The sweater turned out fine (strictly wearable, and I do wear it) but the fit at the neck is bothersome and it didn’t have to be that way 😭
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Tragic!
I was just at a meetup commenting on all the shit one doesn't know that one doesn't know. It's the advantage of learning from an expert in person, but most of us, including me, just didn't have anyone like that around. It's part of why I like those youtubers who are old ladies who share technical tips. (As opposed to the engaging but learned-3-years-ago influencer types who are fun to watch but not very useful.)
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Twelfth Night
Or during the Riley Clan's celebration of the Day of the Three Wise Kings at their new mansion, Tommy discovers Franz Kafka.
Mentions of accidental violence, and Tommy’s insecurities and also Kafka’s writing
1923
Tommy had been curious about the traditions Eva’s country had about the twelfth night.
He had introduced her to the English ones on her first time celebrating it by making sure she got the pea in the Twelfth so she could have the paper crown John’s children made for even if he got the clove instead of the bean. Tommy had also played a harmless little prank on her the following morning which resulted in her reacting with her fist right on the kisser.
They laughed about it then ---well he did to make her feel less guilty for punching him--- and laugh about it now as they take a holiday to America to see her family.
They’d bought a mansion in the country, the second largest home in all of fucking America to be exact and would be hosting the entire family now that they had a place more than large enough to accommodate them.
Arrow House as an estate was about twice the size in terms of land, and quite large too, but it looked like a modest row house in comparison to the 19th century castle the Rileys had acquired.
It was a status symbol as well as a home just as much as Arrow House was.
But strangely enough, the Rileys treated the cavernous hall as anyone would treat their home while Tommy still felt a stranger in the bed he and his wife had bought.
Children laugh and play with their parents and nannies, servants bustle about preparing for tonight with the members of the family helping out and while everyone treats him well, Tommy feels as if he stepped through the looking glass.
“I didn’t want to interrupt, but I wanted to check on you before dinner,” she said softly as he hid in the library reading Robert Frost. He’d read Kafka’s short stories and when that made his feeling of otherness worse, Tommy decided to turn to poetry and the whiskey in the crystal decanter.
“If you’d come minutes ago, I would’ve asked you if you’d love me if I turned into a cockroach.” He tries to shove his discomfort away and remembers Eva hardly ever saw her family and they’d be home by next week.
“Kafka is definitely worth learning German for, even if his work is rather dark.” The witch smiled as she joined him on the sofa. She smelled of pastries, even in her fine clothes she was found in the kitchen with the staff.
Hates being idle, a trait that seems to be as common as brown eyes in her family.
If she wasn’t helping about, she was taking care of Charlie and taking him to explore the nearby town or the unending grounds.
“So, would you?” he asks shifting to get comfortable with her, with the army of servants and relatives willing to take one year old Charlie off their hands, it was nice to have her all to himself for a while.
Even with so many roaming about, Tommy and Eva still had quite a lot of privacy.
“I’d find a way to turn you back, and in the meantime, I suppose I’d let you roam Arrow House and eat all the rotten food you want.” Eva answered as if she was powerful enough to undo even something as strange as Kafka’s metamorphosis. “Just imagine the stories of Thomas Shelby, the successful businessman and giant fucking cockroach.”
He laughs at her words and wished they could skip dinner, but formal gatherings came with the life he’s made for himself and Eva’s family was a good place to start.
“Anything I should know before your cockroach husband sits down to dinner with your family?” he asks hoping he is all caught up.
“No matter what I tried to stop it, the tiny Jesus figurine is in your slice of rosca. I’m afraid we’ll be hosting my darling family next year. Or have another baby, depending on who you ask.”
And sure enough, on January 1924 he hosts the Rileys at his home on the condition the tiny Jesus isn't on his slice of cake and convinces his wife to have a second child.
Rockwood Hall was the second largest home in America, remodeled and owned by JD Rockefeller until his death in 1922 and then demolished in the 1940s. It had over 204 rooms and spanned 1k acres. Surprisingly Arley Hall, which is used as Arrow House has 2k acres but the house is smaller.
Kafka’s The Sons ,a collection of short stories that features the Metamorphosis was published in german in 1915. Tommy in this fic can understand German as the translation to English wasn’t made until 1930.
#eva smith shelby#tommy shelby x oc#thomas shelby fanfic#thomas shelby x oc#peaky blinders fanfiction#evacore
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First socks
project dates: 2024/01/30-02/11
Yarn used: Malabrigo Sock 859 (Primavera)
Because the yarn line has the word "sock" in it, I assumed it would be a safe choice for this project. However, some crafters have recommended it more for shawls/scarves--pretty much any other fingering weight project. It's also 100% SW wool, compared to the often-recommended 75/25 SW wool/nylon blend, so I'll have to see how this wears over time.
Pattern: Rye Light from Tin Can Knits (free!)
This was my first time knitting (or doing any fiber craft project, really) using fingering weight yarn. Everything was so thin; I felt like I was trying to knit floss with toothpicks! Eventually, I got used to handling both the yarn and the DPNs in a way that minimized laddering (a little visible, but I feel like blocking took care of most of it).
Overall, this project took a deceptively long time to knit! I now understand why knitters often recommend learning sock construction with worsted weight yarn. Thankfully, I never got bored since I could autopilot large sections of the sock while doing something else.
During this project, I learned how to wrap and turn short rows to create the heel. Next time, I'd like to try German short rows--I wasn't too satisfied with the small gaps, though blocking seemed to take care of it. I also learned to graft/Kitchener stitch the toe of a cuff-down sock. I improved my frogging / picking up dropped stitch skills as well. Even though there's some small errors with skipped stitches, I was able to catch most of them during the knitting process.
Bonus tube sock (pattern) for the cat. I would make a full set if he'd be willing to wear them, but he immediately kicked it off as soon as we managed to wrestle it on.
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I do realize the impossibility of creating a "one size fits all" list of "classics everyone must read before they die!" but if you felt like listing a few authors or books you think are basically always left off those lists in favour of some american or english book, i would be interested! i have the same complaint abt anglocentric "classics lists" but to find these books that are neither my own literary culture or English Classics, I am just sending out blind feelers
With the disclaimer that I have seen some of these books on the lists you mention (but infrequently, and often ignored in favour of mediocre Anglo literature), here are a few of my (non-Anglo, but unfortunately still very European skewing) recommendations. To be honest, these are just intended as starting points for dipping your toes in various countries' literary canon.
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
I'm reading this right now and it's so full of sentences I want to serve with tea and biscuits on a Sunday afternoon while watching the snowfall outside, I'm not sure how else to convey the deep sense of contentment I get from reading this.
Kin - Miljenko Jergović
Based-on-true-events family saga about Yugoslavia through the 20th century, and I'm honestly annoyed that Jergović is still relatively unknown in the English speaking world. Personally I think his collection of short stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, is even better, but Kin is more books-to-read-before-you-die material due to its scope and length.
The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
Zweig is fairly consistently left off the lists, even the better ones that actually include German language authors like Goethe and Mann, which is a shame because The World of Yesterday is the memoir of a man who had a front row seat at pretty much all the important events in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. He knew Freud. He knew Rilke. He knew a guy who knew Lenin. He had opinions on everything. In addition to being beautifully written, it's such a good way of learning history through immersion.
Danton's Death - Georg Büchner
Due to personal reasons I really vibe with this. Also a must-read if you're in any way obsessed with the French Revolution.
Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
Really famous in Hungary ever since its publication in 1937, but it wasn't translated into English until after 2000, which explains its relative lack of popularity outside Hungary. If I could scrub every book recommendation list clean of Harry Potter and put this there instead, I would.
Victoria - Knut Hamsun
Look, I've had tough dudes admit to me that they cried on public transport while reading this.
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Undset wrote historical fiction about medieval Norway before it was cool, but she rarely or never seems to make it onto the rec lists, which is a shame. To be fair, even in Norway her reputation seems to have suffered a bit from the fact that she converted to Catholicism, which was considered at best a bit unfashionable, at worst outright scandalous, at the time. At any rate, Kristin Lavransdatter is well worth a read.
The Makioka Sisters - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
I feel like the vibes here are similar to Tolstoy (there's even, funnily enough, a minor character called Vronsky), and it's a very good portrait of Japanese middle class life in the 1930s. An overarching theme in Tanizaki's works is the ongoing conflict between Japanese tradition and the more westernised lifestyle adopted by the younger generation, which has the added benefit of giving a Western readers something familiar to hang on to while reading, so why Tanizaki is left out of those rec lists is honestly beyond my comprehension.
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hey congrats!! you deserve it so much!!
if you don’t mind, i’d like to do german short rows. I speak a lot of languages, but even if I can speak fluently, I’m often insecure. I end up having imaginary conversations in french or english (it’s not my native language) with different people (sometimes friends, but often times artists who have died) about music or books or my life in general.
I’m really curious to see what you think lmao!
oh, this is giving me Spencer, not gonna lie! because, like, he knows an insane amount of languages, but he learned them all from books and is pretty good at reading, writing and even understanding them, but he's terrible at speaking them and he knows it, he knows he doesn't have a musical tongue that can just pronounce all of those words correctly.
omg wait, imagine you two leaving little love notes and stuff in different languages to each other 🥺 like as a way to shyly flirt with each other in the beginning? uuuurgghh my heart!
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Knitting the Glover Sock
Juma likes to support me through stressful days by taking long naps while I work.
Juma also likes to eat wool whenever possible.
I tried to learn how to do German Short Rows for a new heel and I will say this didn't work as well as I imagined, but it's okay. I'm enjoying the journey.
I really love to knit, it is probably one of the most relaxing activities I have ever tried. It also helps me with concentration and to keep engaged on conversations. I like that I can talk to someone while doing something with my hands and I noticed I often do that: I talk to people while organizing things or cleaning my room.
I could investigate further on what that means but I think I already know the answer and it doesn't really matter after all.
You can find more on the Glover Socks on Pompom's Ready Set Socks book.
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Just finished my first ever socks. Some mistakes were obviously made, lots has been learned!
The most glaring mistake has been gauging and sizing: these turned out so large! Not sure what I did wrong: I swatched, measured my gauge, measured the ball of my foot, did the math. 🤷🏻♀️
The second mistake was choosing a stretchy bind off: these are so large I could've easily done without and use a normal, straight bind off. It wouldn't have flared out.
But! Things I learned:
I HATE working with fingering yarn!! There's a reason these socks are so chunky, and that is my first attempt was with much thinner yarn and needles, and it drove me MAD!
Learned to do a seamless turkish cast on for knitting toe-up. Super easy and super effective!
Learned to knit german short rows for the heel turn. It's so easy and looks so neat, I think I'll always use this for my future heels.
Learned to play yarn chicken. Used exactly one skein per sock, but only in one case was the yarn enough. I had to join another skein to complete the bind off on the other sock. 🙄
Learned to improvise. I did not follow any pattern for these, just researched whichever techniques I needed to do seamless socks and ran with those.
Spontaneously did some two-at-a-time magic working on circular needles.
Want to take on my first sweater next, but choosing a pattern to start off with is proving to be the most difficult part already. 😁
Also, this one is for @staff:
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Bonus: misc treats - meta, interviews, poetry, and resources
*well-met by warlight* by wukuiyuxin
summary: have you ever thought about wwx and lwj’s epic romance and said to yourself, ‘damn, I wish I could read some germanic style battle poetry about them’, no? well, neither did I, but this poem is one of the most incredible and creative written works I’ve seen for this fandom.
an intense retelling of the story in this incredible and gorgeous format. the pattern formed by assonance, alliteration, and meter are absolutely entrancing, and I ended up reading this out loud to myself like three times in a row because the language was so captivating. such a unique treasure
work issues: none
author issues: none
Underneath those translations by untamedconnotations
summary: informal meta/explanations about mdzs/cql translations and naming conventions, reposted from the author’s tumblr account. an opportunity to learn in greater detail from someone who knows chinese and can explain context and implications missed by international fans.
work issues: N/A
author issues: whatever it is on their page that’s not fanfic but it’s tagged RPF
Reference for Modao Zushi Writers: Chinese terms by chaoticjoy
summary: a reference guide for character titles and family names
work issues: N/A
author issues: none
The Freedom of Historical Anachronisms by Icarus
summary: explores the potential eras cql/mdzs could have been set in, given the details shown. there is no one right answer, so while short and easily readable, it's a fun trip into the past. a reference guide and helpful resource for worldbuilding
work issues: N/A
author issues: none
From the author herself by untamedconnotations
summary: a translated interview from mxtx. some fun facts and humorous stories
work issues: well. she is kind of homophobic and it does comes through in some of her answers
author issues: see above - RPF?
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There are two kinds of (german) hobby writers:
The ones that think that you only can grow with as much criticism (constructive but on the 'you have to work on that' side) from other hoby writers as possible
And me who thinks that encouraging someone to keep writing helps far more than telling them what they suck at
I'm a bit tired of the first view. I know I am not the greatest writer in the world, but I also know that I am able to touch people with my texts.
And I didn't come this far because of the approximately two actually decent pieces of advice I got over the last 20 years of publishing in online writing communities.
I came this far because of the wonderful people who cheered me on and kept me writing for the last 20 years.
I know in an ideal world it is a mixture of both. But honestly? The criticism from other hobby writers isn't the holy grail they try to make you believe it is.
I don't know why so many people think that they get better if they just get enough criticism. There is no magic point where you have heard it all and then end up to be a good writer. As long as it is just a hobby and not a job, the most important thing is that you have fun doing it. If you end up thinking about every word and every sentence all the time, try to make everything perfect, try to take every piece of advice you ever got into account, what you are doing will become exhausting and nothing else. You will never publish anything because nothing is ever good enough and you (ironically) won't get better at writing.
Getting better at writing means that you actually have to write something and if possible to make it to the ending. You also have to learn to like the sentences you bring to paper. Nothing ever will be perfect.
Criticism is good for finding stuff you have a blind spot for. Plotholes, a style decision that is very annoying (for example being prone to write too many 5 word sentences in a row) and stuff like that.
But if you just started writing, you don't need that. If you just started, the first thing you have to learn is to actually write a story. You don't have blind spots yet, because you only get these with experience.
And when you actually wrote some stuff, be it long or short stories, be it beginnings or just a scene or a whole book worth of words, then it's worth to start exploring new things. But I would still not recommend criticism from peers. Instead I would adivce to search for general tips and see if you want to adopt them. Tips on how to structure a story, how to begin a story, how to plot, how to craft characters, how to do story arcs... whatever you feel might be helpful to you.
Then you write more and try out those tips. Either in dedicated training or just by writing more and keeping the tips in mind.
Only after you did that it is worth to seek out actual criticism. You have a solid foundation, you feel comfortable with your writing, you like writing, you have some confidence from the people who liked your stories so far and you might actually know what you want.
These are critical things you need to be able to actually work with criticism and throw out any kind of advice that doesn't fit for you.
When you got a bunch of advice, go back to writing for fun. Do some exercises to improve on the things others critiqued and that you actually want to improve on. Maybe research tips again for improving in those areas. Get yourself more positive reactions from people who like your stuff, see how your fanbase slowly grows, how people are coming back for your stories, because they start to like your personal style and not only one of your stories.
And after you did that for another while, go back and get yourself criticism again, if you still see the need to. If you feel comfortable with your level of writing, that is okay too. It's still a hobby, not a job.
I know this advice isn't for everyone, and I am not trying to crap on the german hobby writer community, I am just very tired of that world view for a huge amount of time now. I love my fellow writers ♥ I am just seeing too many people quit a wonderful hobby because they put too much pressure on themselves.
No one seems to get my point. 'You can't improve without feedback'. You actually can. And positive and encouraging feedback is btw. still feedback.
If a person thinks they are the greatest writer of all times because they only get positive feedback, but their writing actually sucks, that person was still good enough to make people tell them how much they loved their writing. And the writer is happy. Why isn't that enough?
Not to mention that ciriticism from peers is not always good. I saw people say 'Show don't tell' for years before I looked up that technique myself instead of just assuming that I knew what they meant. And you know what? A lot of people were wrong to give that advice or apply it like that, because they didn't really know what they were talking about.
I saw people asking for advice on how to best approach a specific kind of prologue and the only advice they got was that 'prologues generally suck and you shouldn't do them'.
Criticism is not the be all end all and it can be more destructive than helpful. It's one of many tools to become a better writer, but that is it.
I'm tired of people thinking that you can only improve if someone points out all your flaws.
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I don’t know if anyone will care about my language musings, nor have I done any research to verify my suspicions.
But I think that the English term “Happy-Go-Lucky“ probably comes from the German glucklich, which just means happy. So happiest of the happy. I think this because Happy-Go-Lucky, if you try to think of it solely from English, makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
And Go Lucky sounds like glucklich but with the parts that are harder to pronounce with an English accent removed and I’m assuming they just used the term over time and eventually had to write it out and could only make sense of it using the English words they knew, since the language had changed so much from German at that point.
Which results in a term that we know the meaning of, and is still used, but the individual pieces do not actually form the whole. It sounds more like an anime than an actual English phrase. It resembles English but it doesn’t make sense upon analysis. This is because English is a mess that has gone too far to be cleaned up now.
Anyway, this is rooted in my learning that Toodle-oo, a thing some English speakers still say, is not English. I saw an Austrian Vtuber say Tudelu, and I was like, wait a fucking minute, we say that. We say Tudelu. It’s a playful, silly way to say goodbye. And that’s what she’s doing. It’s the same word. And it doesn’t make any sense in English. We don’t have any other English words that resemble that. Toodle-oo, and Toodles, are still things we say to say goodbye, they are still colloquial English, but the word they came from isn’t English anymore.
They come from Tschuss. A German way to say bye. But it can sound a bit short and has a LOT of consonants in a row, so it can come across as somewhat cold sometimes. So over time it becomes tudelu, because it sounds so much kinder and friendlier. It’s sing-songy, the sound bounces up and down. So this carried over into English, because it’s just a very pleasant way to wish someone farewell, and then it stuck around even after the word it came from left our language.
My head is mostly empty and I failed English twice though, so I’m no expert.
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Check in 5: A small amount of effort goes a long way
Last week, I managed to squeeze in two units of IWC (about 45 minutes of study each, with about 3/4 of a page of notes each time). I'm honestly pleasantly surprised at myself - the visualisation worked, and I went to the library and studied.
Next week is coming up very soon, and I've identified the two days that I'll be able to go to the library once again. To me, it's different when I do it this time, because it's no longer a New Thing, and doubts are creeping in about whether it'll be sustained, but for my own sake, I do need to sustain this. I need to keep studying, as often as possible while working this job. And it's not quite the same as going to the gym - there's no recovery necessary unless I'm studying several hours a day for days in a row, which I clearly don't have the time to do anymore.
Lately I've felt a little resistance when I think of the idea of studying Chinese. It feels like a bit of an obligation, there's none of the frenetic energy that characterised the first few weeks of keeping this tumblr. I guess that's what you call getting past the honeymoon period. But what comes next is the most important part, because it's what the majority of my days look like, that will determine the progress I make in Chinese. Not the very beginning.
I don't want to set any concrete goals for next week. All I want to do is remind myself on Tuesday and Thursday that after work those days, I will be going to the library to study more IWC. I'll keep track of which days I do study - on Wednesday I also want to set aside 25 minutes (one pomodoro) to study more CME - the books are due back soon. I'd like to be as prepared as possible for when the next Chinese classes begin in mid-July.
I want to also write a bit about some other life things. So, I've been telling myself I'll sign up to the gym and go to the swimming pool for at least a few weeks now, but that hasn't happened yet. It's partially financial, and partially because it's winter here, and cold. But i do think it would be a good combo to go to the library, learn Chinese and sort out volunteering, then go to the swimming pool and gym and arrive home in time for bed (the swimming pool closes at around 10 pm, making this pretty perfect). Since beginning this job, I've felt a bit tight in my hips - sitting down all day isn't good for anyone. I also had plans to do a short distance triathlon, but I'm struggling to find the time and motivation to sort out my bike. What I'm saying here is that I still firmly believe that exercise will help me have more energy, which will allow me to study more efficiently and find work more bearable as well.
Then there's the question of writing - I need to set aside time to do writing because I want to be a writer. In the back of my head, writing comes maybe third after learning Chinese and doing volunteering while I'm at the library.
There's also a question of how committed I can be to learning German. I'd like to really study German as well, but that's going to take time.
These past two weeks, I've been changing. Developing my sense of priorities now that so much of my day is taken up by work. I can't say it's all fun, but it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would have been. If I can really find a balance between all these things, I can keep going with this job.
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I finally purchased the Fish Lips Kiss heel pattern and I uhhhhhhh am so tempted to start drama in the sock fandom by reviewing it. Thankfully no sock knitters actually follow me on tumblr as far as I know. So I will rant here.
There are a few good ideas or ideas I had but hadn't yet TESTED, but then. It's such an odd mixture of obvious common-sense advice some of which I was doing anyway and some of which I was considering experimenting with... And I'll pay money to have someone with more experience test ideas and speak from experience. But in purchasing the pattern I agreed to NOT TELL ANYONE the common sense advice from within the "pattern". So while I have been automatically doing some things from it, if I then passed on those tips I'd be distributing the "pattern" without permission? Then there's a lot of advice that's just straight up impossible or requires an archaic type of ruler no longer sold anywhere in the country in which I live, lol.
Some people swear by this pattern and advise people to buy it all the time and like. Howcome? Legitimately did I not understand the "pattern"? Note that I am putting scare quotes around it because I'm trying to find the pattern part. If it had been sold as a tutorial, a pamphlet of hints and tips I'd have respected that, and I DO think it's healthy and good for someone to try and monetize their work in developing techniques in sockknitting. But it has so many issues.
For ages I didn't want to buy the pattern because I have a really low tolerance for what I consider bullshit tasks in sock knitting, (like fucking cuff-down flap gusset heels, noooooo way) and if the pattern relied on those I would never use it. Selling knowledge is complicated. It's a weird black box thing where you can't know what you're paying for until you paid for it otherwise the system breaks down. And now I feel like perhaps I just didn't understand the tutorial, I can't get any support from other knitters because no-one else is ALLOWED to explain how to do the heel without infringing on the rights of the person who sold me the PDF. If I can't unbderstand a tutorial on how to do a twisted German cast on, I find another tutorial. That's how online knitting learning works. Here that system breaks down.
Anyway those are my thoughts. If this is a weird plot to get money and trick people into knitting more short row heels I respect it. I've been working on a sock knitting tutorial with precisely those long-term goals myself so. Fine.
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Berlin Week 1: History of the City
By Ilyana Smith, Aerospace Engineering major
I've been in Berlin less than a week, and it already feels like I've been here for a month. We've done so much in this short time - toured the campus of the university here, toured the city, toured the Berlin Wall Memorial, and started our German classes!
For this blog post, I mainly want to focus on the history of Berlin, which is a very long and full of important events.
The Marks of the War
Towards the end of World War II, there was fighting in the streets of Berlin, and it seems like every part of the city bears the scars of those battles. Our tour guide on our tour of Berlin showed us a stone pillar on a bridge, for example, and you can see where the bullet holes have been left as a reminder of the city's history. There are also some small squares of differently colored stone which show where larger damages were repaired.
Stone pillar with visible bullet holes
Many old Prussian buildings were damaged by bullets and bombs during the war. Some buildings (such as the German National Gallery) were repaired to look as they did before the war, while others (such as the Neues Museum) were left with their scars, with only structural damages repaired.
Two museums - the National Gallery repaired and the Neues Museum left with the marks of the war
Divided into East and West
Perhaps the most famous thing about Berlin (and rightfully so) is the Berlin Wall. From 1961 to 1989, the city of Berlin was divided. Today, a row of cobblestones runs down the length of the city to show where the wall used to be.
Cobblestones marking the former location of the Berlin Wall, or the Berliner Mauer, as they call it in Germany
The Berlin Wall Memorial uses rows of poles to recreate the feeling of the wall
We also visited the Berlin Wall Memorial, where we had an opportunity to learn about how the wall affected daily life - very little in the West, but extremely so in the East. They told us about the confusion and chaos of the day West Berliners woke to find the original barbed wire fence around their city and the joyful celebrations of the day the wall fell.
Short portions of the wall have been preserved, and in one place the entire border strip remains almost as it would have been, with both walls, the sandy ground, the original light poles, and a guard tower visible.
The border strip preserved almost as it would have been, with the famous "Berlin Wall" closest, and the eastern wall farther from the camera
Thanks for reading! I look forward to sharing more with you soon!
This is the Engineering Laboratory Experience at TUB in Berlin, Germany
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guyssss! ! ! ! ! I learned how to knit german short rows! ! ! ! !
#i only had to put in a lifeline once bc poor reading comprehension!#liv knits#and now i must sleep and dream of knitting
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