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cheriladycl01 · 3 months

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When at work - Lando Norris x UniStudent! Reader

Plot: Lando has known you since you were born, literally childhood friends. You went to every karting weekend with him until he started to travel more. As childhood lovers who have been dating for 8 years what happens when the general public find out about you?

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You'd known Lando since you were born just two years after him, and so until Year 4 when you excelled in your academics you were a school year behind him, you were moved up a year to his year. You followed him to the karting tracks when you were little being his biggest supporter and if you go back and look at interviews you'll always be spotted talking animatedly to his family about the race.

You had very strict parents about schooling and they wouldn't let you miss any days off, you could go to karting with Lando, after school or on the weekends but you couldn't take days off school for his races.

"Mum please! I want to go support him!" you cried when she told you that you couldn't have the day off to go watch Lando kart in one of his first proper championship races.

"No Y/N, Lando has found something he is good at... you are a smart girl and school is where you should be!" you mum had refused, smiling at you sadly.

"Dad?" you cried looking over at your dad, who would normally say yes to any request you had, especially if it involved Lando and his dad Adam, as they were friends.

"Sweetheart, I'm sorry but I'll have to agree with your mum on this one" he sighs pulling you into a hug. Those days at school that Lando wasn't there were lonely to say the least, Lando's friends wouldn't hang out with you if it was only you and you didn't have any of friends.

Eventually Lando quit school when he got to British Formula three, there he made lots of new friends including Max, who he introduced to you. You would miss Lando in school, and tried to branch out to make new friends but nothing felt as close as the bond you shared with Lando.

"Y/N, this is my friend Max I met him in karting" he smiles pulling you closer to Max.

"Erm, hi" you had smiled shyly at Max, who smiled back at you. With Max it felt like he was genuinely interested in getting to know you unlike Lando's school friends who just sort of acknowledged your existence because of Lando.

You and Max of course made fast friends after this.

This was 2015, and he asked you there and then to be his girlfriend. At first you laughed and said no, because you thought he was joking and one of the boys from karting had dared him as a cruel joke. But after lots of groveling on his behalf you said yes.

In 2016, you managed to exceed in your GCSE'S getting 6 A* to B grades. Lando had come just to celebrate with you. The next year you did the last of your GCSE's getting 7 more A* - B grades making you come out with 13 GCSE's in total. Lando had come to celebrate with you, while you had gone to celebrate with him that he had won the Formula 3 championship.

He of course, was promoted to Formula 2 for the 2018 season and became a test and reserve driver for Mclaren, which made you so proud because this was his way of being able to get into Formula One. You went on to do your Alevel-s, which were Maths, Physics, Design and Technology and Law. You were now just turned 17 and looking at universities you could go to, and looking at what degree you wanted to go into.

He came second in Formula 2, just behind the other British Racing Driver George Russell. And was promoted to F1 for the 2019 Season and would be in his rookie season.

Halfway through his first season which had gone pretty well with only 2 DNF's and him coming 6th highest, you'd finished your exams and had got offers back from all 5 universities you'd applied to. It was sad really, you'd applied to the University of Surry and University of Royal Holloway just to be near the Mclaren Technology Centre so you could be closer to Lando in the off season.

You'd ended up choosing Cambridge University in the end and spend the rest of your summer until the end of September travelling to races with Lando, you went with his Dad, having his other spare pass. You saw him in Monaco, Canada, France, Austria, Silverstone, Germany and Hungry before you spent the summer break in Greece together along with Max. Then you came with him to Belgium, Italy and Singapore before you had to go home to move into student accommodation.

As a rookie there wasn't too much focus on Lando, but when a girl was spotted with him in the paddock for 10 races, people had questions. After they did some digging they worked out that you were childhood friends with Lando and you were in his older and definitely cringier Instagram pictures, and they checked his tagged photos which led them to your account that he was following.

Luckily it was private but you were shocked at the influx of follow requests.

Rumors spread and people deducted that you must be his girlfriend. It made you nervous but Lando promised to go at your pace.

Your first year of university was cut short, everything went into lockdown, and you were alone in your little dorm room with 5 other housemates. It was a month until you finished all your exams online, and made the decision to travel to Lando's to live with him.

You ended up staying with him for the whole lockdown, and then travelling around with him for the whole of the 2020 season. You managed to do this while studying as your campus was shut for the whole of 2020 and most of 2021. You had an amazing second year grade passing with a 92 overall school having a 1st in your second year. So when 2021 came around you'd applied for Formula One internships so you could keep travelling around with Lando and almost all of them as they already knew you accepted you, you had a difficult time deciding who to go with.

Eventually you went with Red Bull, of course Lando had made jokes about how betrayed he felt, but was happy for you being in a top constructor. You joined them for the 2021 Azerbaijan GP, on the 6th of June you were there for 17 races in 2021 and learnt so much from the team.

You spent until September 2022 with them having major input on the build of the 2022 Red Bull to the point Christian Horner ask for you to be shown on the Instagram. 14 races you spend with them and it was a wild ride before you had to go back to University for your final year.

At this point you and Lando had been together for 7 years strong now. People worked out how long you'd been together a while ago and it had really shocked them. They expected you to be engaged and ... well they weren't far off.

He proposed to you in the winter break of 2022 on a ski holiday he'd taken you on. All of your's and his family were there too see and it was beyond magical. You were going into the 2023 season with a Fiancé and your soulmate.

You let your Instagram go public during this time, the fans had been asking for more content from you. You appeared on streams, and Lando always posted you on his accounts. Now it was time for them to go and stalk you account, instantly people went back through your photos finding old pictures from when you and Lando were younger and then the more recent pictures that everyone thought were cute.

Now Lando had gone back to racing and you were starting revision for exams that would happen in May.

However, you didn't tell Lando, that money was getting a bit tight. You'd always been funny when it came to how much Lando earned and how he always insisted that you lived rent free with him and to not worry about it. So at the start of 2023, towards the end of your degree you got a little side job as a barista in an independent coffee shop.

Lando of course being busy now that it was the start of the 2023 season and he had a new rookie team mate to meet, he was none the wiser.

It was just a typical day at the coffee shop when you were with your college, making yourself a drink when a girl and her friend came in.

"Oh my gosh, your Y/N!" a voice says making you look up, you smile happily not thinking much off it because you were wearing a name badge so you assumed she got it from there.

"Yes, hello how can I help you today!" you ask politely stopping making your drink and walking over to the till.

"You're Y/N Lando Norris Fiancé right?" she asks and your mouth drops open in shock. You had been noticed around the paddock, of course you had... but this was the first time someone had come to you in public.

"Ah yes I am!" you smile shyly. The interaction was relatively normal, you served them their drinks and made conversation with them before having to go back and serve more customers.

You didn't notice them take pictures and videos of you interacting and serving customers, which of course made their way onto social media. Suddenly and influx of customers came, which was strange for a Tuesday afternoon.

As well as the influx of customers you had people come in with cameras, starting to take pictures.

"Y/N what is happening all of these people are asking for you" Rhianne your co-worker asks and that's when the blender turns off and you can hear people calling your name.

They were fans of F1.

"Hey Y/N Lando deserves better than you"

"Y/N why are you working minimum wage when you have a boyfriend with a net worth of over 10 mil"

"Y/N break up with Lando"

"Oh my god, how did they all know this is where I work" you say asking your college not sure what to even do.

"Okay, let's get you out the back. Call the police and I'll try keep up with orders" She says pushing you towards the exit, the staff room was on the other side of the shop so you were going to have to tackle your way through the mound of people.

Eventually after people shoving phones in your face and grabbing at your wrist. You manage to get into the staff area and lock the door. You were crying as you called the police, who said they'd send bodies to you immediately.

After you hung up, your phone started to ring and Lando's face popped up.

"Hi baby" you say trying to sound like your not crying. Your camera was facing up so he couldn't see you.

"Y/N show me where you are right now. I swear to god, if what I'm seeing on twitter is true" he huffs out making you pan down the camera to show the back room you were in. He was in Australia right now and had heard from Oscar that you were trending on twitter and looked scared.

"Are you safe?" he asks worried, making you burst into tears. You could suddenly feel everyone's hands back on you and your breathing goes shallow.

"Mmm, I had to call the police there was so many people" you cry, wiping your tears.

"Baby, I'm so sorry. Look after Australia, I'm coming to you okay! Why the fuck didn't you ask me if you needed money" he asks looking at you with that disappointed look you hated.

"Lando, you know how i feel about that" you say.

"Baby, your still in Uni. You shouldn't have to work. Do you parents know?" he asks, and you shake you head.

"Hey Y/N! How are you?" Oscar asks coming into view of the camera.

"I'm okay Oscar, I cant wait to meet you next week!" You smile at him, blinking away the tears that were still trying to come out.

"Oh, I think the police are here, but I'll call you when I'm home!" you say hearing a knock at the door.

"Ask them to take you home. You shouldn't walk round the streets alone! I love you darling" Lando sighs.

"I love you too Lando, thank you!"

A/N: I feel like this isn't very good, I'm sorry this feels like its so info dumpy and not much fluff!!

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pronoun-fucker · 2 years

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Like many people in Britain, you probably watched with horror the US supreme court’s reversal of Roe v Wade, thinking, “Thank goodness women could never be prosecuted for having an abortion here.”

But let me tell you, it already happens here.

Two women are currently awaiting criminal trial in England for abortion-related offences, both facing charges that carry a maximum sentence of life. At least 17 women have been investigated by police over the past eight years for having had abortions.

In Oxford, a 25-year-old mother of one is facing trial for allegedly taking the drug misoprostol – one of the two pills routinely prescribed by doctors to abort a pregnancy. But her baby was born alive and she was subsequently reported to the police. She is being charged under the Offences Against the Person Act, a law passed by parliament in 1861, before the invention of the lightbulb and before women had the right to vote. The law states that a woman must be “kept in penal servitude for life” if she procures an abortion.

Another woman is facing trial after she took abortion pills she obtained from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) by post when rules were relaxed during the pandemic to allow this. She was allegedly 28 weeks pregnant at the time and is facing charges of “child destruction” (note the visceral language) under the Infant Life (Preservation) Act from 1929, which also comes with a maximum life sentence. She could spend the rest of her life in prison.

We so often think that the 1967 Abortion Act legalised abortion. But it did no such thing. It partially decriminalised abortion in England, Scotland and Wales, so long as strict conditions were in place, such as a confirmation from two medical practitioners that the pregnancy had not exceeded 28 weeks (subsequently reduced to 24 weeks in 1990), or that the termination was necessary to prevent injury or mental harm. Any abortion outside these criteria is still a criminal offence.

We know that it is overwhelmingly vulnerable women who are investigated and prosecuted for having abortions. One woman collapsed in the dock when she was sentenced to two and a half years in 2015 for taking tablets she had bought online to induce a miscarriage after the 24-week period of gestation. The court heard that she had “a history of emotional and psychological problems”.

Another woman, a mother of one, ordered pills online to induce an abortion in 2019 after her abusive boyfriend had told her not to go to the doctor. She had believed she was eight to 10 weeks pregnant but after a traumatic miscarriage in her bath tub, where she has described sitting in an inch of blood, she realised her pregnancy had been much further along. She was arrested in her hospital bed and served two years in prison.

These are just some examples of women who have faced trial: there are multiple other women who face gruelling police investigations. In 2021, a 15-year-old girl was investigated for a year after suffering an unexplained stillbirth. Her phone and laptop were confiscated during her GCSE exams, she was self-harming, and the investigation only ended after a coroner concluded that the pregnancy ended due to natural causes. Another woman was arrested in hospital last year and kept in a prison cell for 36 hours after a stillbirth at 24 weeks, and is now suffering PTSD. My question is this: if a woman has had an abortion late in the gestation period, or a traumatic miscarriage or stillbirth, should she go to prison or should she be offered support from medical practitioners at what is clearly a horrendous time, both mentally and physically?

Women in 2022 are being shackled by a 160-year-old law made at a time when we were not even allowed to set foot in the House of Commons. Urgent reform is needed to protect more women from harm, which is why organisations such as BPAS and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) are calling on the director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, Max Hill QC, to drop all charges against these women. The RCOG this month has gone further, calling on ministers to finally legalise abortion. There is absolutely no public interest in sending vulnerable women to prison for terminating pregnancies. Instead, these prosecutions will only serve to put off women seeking help from doctors because they might get arrested, pushing more women into unsafe and underground options.

Meanwhile, according to the criteria of the Abortion Act, a woman has to show that she would suffer grave permanent injury to her mental health if she did not have an abortion after 24 weeks. Why should women still have to pathologise themselves as mad, hysterical, unfit or suffering to legally access healthcare?

The state currently has a triple lock on women’s bodies. By not legalising abortion it has the right to force pregnancy, birth and motherhood upon us. Look to the rules on organ donation: it is illegal to donate people’s organs after they die (however desperately they are needed by people on waiting lists) without their permission. The law at present, which denies women the right to abort a pregnancy on their own terms, is to give us less autonomy than a corpse.

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#abortion #USA #uk #radfem #radical feminism #misogyny

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strolldiaz · 14 days

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i haven't made a cover, or any edit or similar, like this ever since i was doing my media studies gcse in 2019. so, it is very...ugly and not great. i would improve the fonts, add dimension possibly to the title? choose more dynamic colour for the sides. and possibly try and add some more light to lance's face. maybe i would try and make my own logo? unsure how i actually feel about this... (also yes, i had to put dorianne in here somewhere, my queen) made on photopea, as i have no money for photoshop atm! au? married current strollonso (so, it's basically canon apart from different relationship to irl OBV)

#strollonso #lance stroll #magazine cover #ok i can't keep looking at this as i find so many flaws #but i hope you like it

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becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys · 2 years

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Thought I’d let you know that the op of the abortion post (pronoun-fucker) is a terf. When I looked at the recommended post it was suggesting a bunch of terf shit and when I check their blog yeah they’re a terf. You don’t have to answer this just thought I’d let you know cuz I reblogged the post without even realising.

Oh, gross. Alright then, let's see...

Cool, okay, so the post was literally just the text of the linked newspaper article, so allow me to recreate it here:

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And, just to be clear, while is a situation that is 100% rooted in punishing women for having sex and also primarily affects women, women are NOT the only people affected by it. Trans men and enbies also can get hit by these laws, and we shouldn't forget them.

#abortion #also fuck transphobes with a cactus‚ just so we're clear #feminism

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thatsonemorbidcorvid · 11 months

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“Only 16 per cent of adult women in the UK have numeracy at or above the level of a GCSE minimum pass (grade 4). This compares with 33 per cent of adult men, according to new research from National Numeracy.

There is no big mystery here. The evidence all points to confidence as the single best predictor of numeracy skills. Women are twice as anxious as men about using maths and numbers, even when they are highly skilled. And they are nearly twice as likely as men to say they are “not a numbers person”. These trends are even more pronounced among young women.

The “number confidence gap” has far-reaching effects from home finances and supporting children’s learning to social mobility and careers. Women are 60 per cent more likely than men to be put off applying to a job if the description lists numbers and data as a requirement. Of people without a level 2 maths qualification (equivalent to a GCSE pass), twice as many women as men believe that their earnings, career progression, performance, job applications success and general career choices have been affected.”

The prime minister says the UK has an anti-maths mindset. But could part of it be that the UK has an anti-women-in-maths mindset?

New research provides concerning evidence that women are being left behind when it comes to the most essential component of numeracy: confidence.

As the PM’s advisers start to flesh out plans for his “maths to 18” policy, they might want to take stock of how to engage girls.

The UK has one of the biggest gender gaps in maths skills, according to a March OECD report on the gender gap in skills across the region. The study concludes that gender stereotypes feed into girls’ lack of confidence and fear of failure. This results in an “under-utilisation and misallocation of talent, which limits economic growth”.

Belinda , a Londoner, is a case in point. At school, she was “scared” and “terrified” of maths.

Her anxiety about numbers led to a variety of mishaps from wrong-sized clothing to having her hair chopped instead of trimmed. But some mistakes were more serious than others: she hid her unopened bills in a drawer and ran up huge debts rather than face the numbers in the envelopes.

Later in life she found the motivation to face these fears and study for GCSE maths, with support from the charity National Numeracy and the motivation to fulfil her ambition to become a teacher. She found that when the teaching was more tailored to confidence-building and different learning styles, she was able to do really well.

Belinda is not alone. Only 16 per cent of adult women in the UK have numeracy at or above the level of a GCSE minimum pass (grade 4). This compares with 33 per cent of adult men, according to new research from National Numeracy.

The skills gap has been an ongoing priority for policymakers for decades. In 2019 an annual government survey found the lowest participation in adult learning in its 23-year history. Ten years ago, the last OECD-wide skills survey showed that England was storing up a skills deficit, as the only country in the OECD where the older generation had higher basic skills than 16 to 24-year-olds. The next study will be published in 2024.

But there has been little focus so far on the gender gap.

Lower number confidence is holding back millions of people, costing the economy up to £25 billion a year. With National Numeracy Day today, if Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, wants to supercharge the UK’s maths skills and improve productivity, he could do worse than focus on supporting women and girls at every step of the lifelong learning journey.

Perdita Fraser is chairwoman of National Numeracy

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dognonsense · 2 months

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ive also been stuck at home bored and painting lol so heres an ask to keep us both entertained. whats ur favourite painting or patch youve ever made?

On the contrary, have the best oil pastel piece I've ever done. Was for my highschool gcse final art exams all the way in march 2019. I learned how to use oil pastels just to make it. Spent weeks working on learning it with drafts and made the final in the exam in 5 hours.

I didn't really know how to do realism in highschool since I was just a cartoonist at that point. I only started painting this year. But i was pretty good with my realisms of objects in charcoal so I branched to oil pastel. Was the best way I figured to "fancy" up my art was to go realism.

I finally got good at realism this year though, and learned to paint, so to new growth this year. Havent been painting long enough to have any piece im especially proud of yet. I hope that the ones I'm working on will achieve that :)

#my art #oil pastel #gcse #gcse art #gcse student #gcse art exam #bottles #traditional art #original art #autistic artist #lesbian artist #queer artist #asks

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comics-afoot · 3 months

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Throwback to my first ever Sherlock Holmes fan art, back in 2019. I was 16, and it was the first week off after I’d finished my GCSEs. I’d discovered Sherlock Holmes in February of that year, after I spoke to my English teacher about how much I loved Robert Downey Jr and was dreading Iron Man dying in Endgame (it was a fairly easy prediction, looking back). She recommended I watch his Sherlock Holmes, so I did. But then in the February half term I discovered BBC Sherlock and my god, I was addicted. Binged the whole lot instead of revising. But I still returned to the RDJ adaptation that summer until I watched the Rathbone ones. I liked them, but my true favourite was Brett’s. I like all the adaptations for different reasons, but it’s interesting to see how I’ve gone from 16 to 21, RDJ to Brett/ Sherlock as my faves (only series 1&2 of the latter, though). One thing has stayed throughout that time and that’s my love for Martin Freeman 😂 Also discovered my love for the Frogwares games- HIGHLYYY recommend if you haven’t played them already!

Anyways, proper cringing looking back at this art, I can see so many mistakes but I never shared it as didn’t have tumblr, so 16y/o me would probably hate me for sharing…

#throwback art #sherlock fanart #Sherlock Holmes #rdj sherlock #jude law #robert downey jr #doctor watson #sherlock holmes fanart

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neil-neil-orange-peel · 5 months

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Xmas Fanfic Plug Alert 🚨

Ho ho ho! 🎅 With it once again being the season of long, cold nights and shopping stress (and a bit of festive cheer, too, for the kids), I thought I'd take the opportunity to shamelessly plug this little old fanfic I once wrote and have since never shut up about:

After the deaths of his parents, Rick certainly isn't looking forward to Christmas this year. Nothing and no one can put him off his misery - not even Vyvyan, whose relationship with Rick has changed monumentally since the near-fatal bus crash. The house's only chance at a happy Christmas has somehow fallen into the hands of a certain imaginary friend. Hopefully, Fred knows what he's doing...

A Bastard's Carol is, unsurprisingly, a Young Ones parody of A Christmas Carol. Well, I say a Young Ones parody - there are characters from across the Rik 'n' Ade 'verse running amok in this. I wrote it in 2019/2020, a time period now an almost scary number of years away from us.

Don't get me wrong, ABC is by no means worthy of comparison with the work of the great Charles Dickens (or the work of the great Rik Mayall and the great Ade Edmondson, either). Yes, it is overwritten (why'd you think it ended up double the size of A Christmas Carol?); yes, it features too much interiority (Rick is one of my darlings okay); and, yes, maybe sticking to the five stave format, thus ensuring some of the chapters hit 15K, when I was writing for people whose attention spans meant they'd ditched traditional novels for fanfiction was a bit of a mistake (love you guys).

But that all being said...

It was written with love, and passion, and a quite large dollop of staying-up-'til-the-sun-rises-to-get-this-next-bit-finished-damnit. Despite its imperfections - and there are many - I am still proud of it. I wrote it for me, but I also wrote it for this fandom as it existed at the time. As I said above, 2019 was a while ago, especially in fandom terms (back in the B.C. years), and I'm sure most Young Ones fans on Tumblr now have new and vastly superior fanfic to get stuck into. I'm just offering ABC up to you this December as a ghost of scumbags past, if you like.

I know I've slagged it off a bit, but seriously: there's at least one person who read it and had their GCSE-fuelled hatred for A Christmas Carol somewhat overturned by it.

And it's got Rick and Vyv being gay. I probably should've started with that...

Happy Holidays! ❤️

#the young ones #tyo #fanfic #a bastard's carol #rivyan #oof a self promo

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lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers · 2 years

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GCSE results day 2022: Third of students failed to achieve standard pass grade of 4 in English and Maths

This article is apparently written by someone who doesn't understand how grade boundaries work in England 🙄

There's not a specific pass mark that students have to hit to get a 4, or a certain number of skills they have to demonstrate.

In England, what happens is that everyone takes the exam, the papers are marked, and then grade boundaries are determined, this year I believe these were pinned to 2020 and 2019, but regardless, the point is every year a proportion of students will get less than a 4 because the exam boards have to allocate grades 1, 2 and 3 to some students.

If you want a system where everyone can pass, which yes, would be a great thing, then GCSEs need to change radically. And this article implies it's down to students lacking skills, poor teaching, the economic conditions of students... No, this is the system working as intended...

#uk politics #education #gcses #gcses 2022 #English and maths #exams #qualifications

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littlewomenunit3 · 2 months

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these all showcase many different forms of hand embroidery and the video and top image shows using free machines as another form of embroidery.

the first image was created by free machine, i first drew out my flower image that originated from my pattern, once i was happy with the sketch i then picked out the thread colours i wanted to use i chose a plum purple ,an orange, a yellow and a light baby pink, i started with the darkest colour and then just moving it around in random directions till i was happy and then switched the colour. overall i really liked how this came out it adds nice texture to a piece and gives great addition to a final garment.

the first one is chain stitch and in my opinion it was quite easy to achieve however it became a little wonky at times I found it difficult to keep it straight if I were to use this in my final design I would maybe draw a line as a guide to help me.

the next one is couching and this isn't showcased in the practical sample however it is an easy think to achieve I have had some past experience in couching from GCSE and I found it difficult sometimes and it came out wonky sometimes and didn't look even. however it gives a good range for texture for a sample and could look effective if I decide to use it in my final design.

the next one is French knots and overall I didn't like this , I asked for assistance multiple times as I couldn't get it to look the way I wanted it to and became similar to a seed stitch if not done correctly, I don't think this is something I would be using in my final design as I never could get it how I wanted it.

the next one is a fly stitch and I likes this one it was pretty simple to achieve and could be quite effective if u wanted add leaves to a flower or even just create leaves I think I would use this one in my final design if I decide to add a flower or something relating to cannon halls patterns.

the next one is seeding, this is the easiest on to achieve and looks very effective as it could look messy and still turn out well, using different sized threads to give big and small seeds, I likes how these came out as there is no wrong it all looks great and gives good texture to a sample.

the last one is backstitch wheel, and I think this looks the most difficult however once you start it becomes easier I loved how this came out and it gives amazing texture to a piece and a beautiful 3D effect I will definitely be using these in my final piece as it looks very effective.

little women. (2019). [Film]. United States: Columbia Pictures.

#gowns #fashion photography #fashion #fashion design #fashion illustration #fashion marketing #embroidery #little women 2019 #little women

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auggietopia · 1 month

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i started this blog in december 2019. it was the first tumblr i was ever truly active on, and i had no idea how tags or anything worked. i was freshly 16 and at the age where i was just starting to discover who and what i was, and a lot of it came through in the poetry i posted here. i had very rigid ideas of what literature and poetry was, as i had stopped doing it for a very long time. i wanted attention. i was eager, although i didnt know it then. i was hopeful.

covid hit three months later, in march 2020. i was in the year group whose gcses were cancelled. i posted one poem right as covid hit, in march, and then my last poem i posted in september of 2020 around when i started sixth form, after the longest summer i will ever have in my life. it was also the best summer i have had in my life. i spent 5 months calling with my best friends so constantly to the point i woke up at 6pm and went to bed at 9am just to talk to them. i realised my identity and tried to come out to a mother i would quickly find out was transphobic. i made a lot of friends. i started to gain some real footing on who i was.

i blinked and i am in march 2024. it is four years and a few days since i posted my second to last poem, which is a number that feels truly shocking to type out as it feels like it has been a year at most. in 2019 i turned 16, but in 2024 i will turn 21. this fact upsets me as the absolute formative amount of ageing i went through between the ages of 13-16 feels like it was my entire life and that there isnt room for anything else worthwhile to occur. on my 18th birthday, i held the frog teddy i bought for myself and listened to lord huron at full volume to block out the fear blurring its way into the edges like a migraine. on my 19th birthday, i was alone and terrified in my university dorm. i can't even remember my 20th birthday because of how insignificant it was. ageing, past the age of 18, went from being something exciting to something terrifying in a way i told myself it never would. and yet i am still here, and yet i still age. in a few months, it will be my 21st, and it will likely be at home, and it will likely be alone.

in the space between 16 and now, a lot happened. there were some pretty good things. they sit tiny next to the fact i lost my best friend in 2021 because they turned out to be quite literally the worst person i have ever known on this planet. i will never forgive them for what they did. realistically, every problem i hold against them is so small in the scale of the universe that maybe it isn’t worth holding onto at all, but i have not learned that lesson. i am aggressively refusing that lesson, in fact. at least for right now.

my mental health also took the biggest nosedive it has ever taken. sixth form shut down all sense of self discovery i had once i begin to nosedive in my academics and lose all of my friends. i still havent regained my footing. it has been 2 years since i left sixth form, and i still havent regained my footing.

but it is nice to look back over this blog and not regret a single thing i wrote.

all of this is to say i am going to start posting here again. and, in the most cliche way possible, i am going to do it for me this time. and i am going to post whatever i want without caring whether or not it is refined enough, because life is scarily fleeting and i can do whatever i want.

i was first allergictodrowning, and when i thought that was stupid i became autumndrowns, and now i will be something else that i havent decided yet but it will definitely be equally as stupid. :)

#writers on tumblr #writing #my work #poem #fiction #literature #my writing #do most of these tags apply? no #can anyone stop me? also no #poetry #poems #covid #covid 19 #mental health #art in covid #i am cringe but i am free

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ur-anus · 8 months

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i know no one on this website cares about alevels but im livid about it

they took a year group that haven't sat exams before due to covid and tried to return to them to 2019 standards, and some exam boards went harsher than 2019. englands marking has been harsher than wales, N ireland, and scotland, scotland also got advanced information.

friends who got straight As and A*s literally got Cs and Bs (myself included) and so many of them are missing out on university because of it

in addition, our gcse results were also not great because it was done on teacher assessment, so if your teacher didnt like you for any particular reason, you maybe not as good of a grade as you deserved (i was personally mostly fine but i did fail spanish)

#a levels #england #uk #a levels 2023 #idk what the tag this with #im like. fine with my grades i got AAC and i am annoyed about the C (4 marks off a B) but like i got in and ill cope #its 150 quid for a remark btw #but the way our year group have been treated fucking sucks

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harriertail · 2 years

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How long have you been doing art? Also how long have you been in the warrior cats fandom?

Hm. Idk? I’ve been drawing since I was very very young apparently. I got this account in… 2019 maybe? I posted my first art here anyway in 2019. I had an *old* youtube channel in… fuck knows maybe 2015-16 (do not quote me) where i posted really btec amvs but i cant recall if i had a deviantart or anything like that attached. I had a scratch account. Maybe WCRP too. I dont know if i consider myself part of the fandom even now but ive been a fan of warriors since… I was young. I struggle with remembering years, but i remember coming back from a school trip to france and my mum giving me a copy of the Last Hope in the carpark (wiki says 2012, so maybe those amvs were 2012/23/14 yikes) and i defo picked up reading the series as OoTS was coming out. I took Fading Echoes on holiday once. I maybe discovered the internet in 2013? I remember old amvs. Tumblr in… 2016 according to the archive of my main; rooktail/harriertail in 2019 when i went to college. DoTC was during my last years of secondary; I did an art gcse but didn’t do fanart for anything even in sketchbooks. I didnt understand digital art and how it worked. I wrote bad warriors fanfic on wattpad in 2015. I didn’t keep up with the series too hard then. I think I read DoTC after i moved out after school. I got a tablet with my first dodgy paycheck. Read Tigerhearts Shadow on the train to college. AVoS was the first series I was posting alongside. Crowfeathers Trial while i was working on building sites. I skipped a house party to read TBC. I read ALitM over my exam revision just like I did in 2016. Im older now but the cats are the same.

#i might try find my old account idk i remember the name but #thanks for the ask!#i could talk about Old Warriors for years #never had books past forest of secrets in the shops. everything on kindle. po3 was non existant #drawing scenes a bit too graphic for being like what. 12? idk #i RESLLY struggle with years lol. lost stars came out in 2019 JC i dont remember that at all #and idk if im like. in the fandom. i thinkim too in my own lane for it i dont rlly interact with people in the eay id like to #asks #maybe ifs not the answer y want but its the answer im delivering lol.#tldr ive only drawn warriors since 2018-9 seriously

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puyoginge · 1 year

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What's been going on with me.

3 years later I’ve decided to resurrect my Tumblr because it is my sanctuary and the social media ever. I disbanded twitter because it makes me angry all the time and for the sake of preserving my dwindling adult sanity. lol.

You may remember me from my few posts under the username yaboinate28. very 2018 lol. I posted a lot of trans / general mental health relatable stuff to manage my struggle with gender dysphoria and hopefully connect with others who felt the same as me. If you want to get a taste of what's been going on since then then please do read on below!! (TW mental health stuff)

WHY I LEFT

Some time in 2020 I purged all my trans posts, removing all my incentive to return to this new decade apocalypse of a site. I guess was feeling really insecure about the discordance between my Tumblr open-transness (??) and my irl extreme stealth thang. I was chronically worried about people from my real life finding my account basically.

Much of my stuff was very Tumblr cringe and probably stuff you’ve seen before but there were a couple of self help posts that were actually insanely good resources for coping with gender dysphoria (particularly in the early stages of social transition) which I seriously regret deleting. I remember a lot of my memes “blowing up” which made me feel really special and like I could contribute something to the world. As a young teenager struggling with self harm and severe depression as well as navigating my life within a home that outright rejected my trans identity, my Tumblr was my lifeline, the people I met made me feel hopeful for the future, and seeing people reblog with “I needed to hear this” or “thanks so much for posting” meant everything to me.

But its important for me to address that I’m not the person I was back then, !!and whilst I'll be attempting to find and repost some of those self help resources!!, I probably won’t be posting about my trans experience much anymore other than within this entry. But please please reach out if you need someone who’s been through it to talk to. I’d love to support you however i can!! I’m only a message away.

LIFE STUFF

Since 2019 my attitude on life has changed a lot and whilst coping with my mental health issues are still a daily hurdle, I’ve found myself a groove in which to sit and ride the wave. Essentially I’m managing and I’m happy and able to maintain a positive outlook on life, which is good. Additionally, with time my family have softened to my trans identity. Its not perfect, but I’m not at risk. I love my family and I don’t blame them for their actions, I’m just taking it slow.

Passed my GCSES with flying colours, passed my A-levels with regular colours, and I'm going to uni. Life has continued and its good. And whilst I would rather eat my own shit than go back and relive the days when my mum had to force me me out the door to get me to go to school, I made it through every last day. That's fucking badass, and tbh I'm pretty resilient now because of it lol.

I guess my point is (crass warning) see the joy in what you have. Take life day by day. Don’t let yourself take the easy route, because then you’ll learn how fucking strong you are. And you are stronger than you think even if all your cards are stacked against you.

TRANSITION STUFF

Since the last time we spoke I’ve legally transitioned, and am (at the time of writing) dealing with the initial admin of medical transition. I’ve been speaking regularly with a gender specialist therapist for 2 years. more recently I’ve been exploring my gender expression with my new found freedom. AND I’m in a relationship with someone who is beautiful and kind and couldn’t be more supportive of me (I adore them). And.... I’m still as stealth as ever. Just as resistant to say “yAYYyy i’m trAns!!!” as I’ve always been. I fucking love it. Some things never change lol. As I said family are being dragged by the tail along with me and have warmed to the whole thing. Support is not the word, but acceptance is pretty apt. They both realise it’s always been “me” at this point and that's enough for the time being.

WHO I AM NOW

I’m now an adult (wtf so surreal????) I have allowed my passion for retro gaming to flourish, recently got super fucking into rhythm games, developed a healthy collection of games and consoles which I may post about perhaps. Resurrected my love for anime, particularly dumb slice of life shows and Madoka Magica (all hail you beautiful broken masterpiece of infinite spinoff potential)

I found my interest in psychology (wowwww surprise!!) Got a job, found some friends, told some people a long overdue fuck off. And rounded myself into a much more open minded person than I used to be.

I couldn’t care less how many people read this, mainly I’m doing it for me. To provide myself a clean slate and stuff. But if you do read this, and you used to enjoy my silly little posts or find them helpful or whatever: I hope you’re well, I’m glad you stuck around and I hope you stay :)

#trans #transmasc #transfem #transgender #trans love #gay #pride #lgbt #life #non binary

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chronicallyonlinecath · 1 year

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Monday 6th February - doot. doot. doot. another one bites the dust

last week recap; (song basically sums how I feel rn)

Monday - Walked into English and had Ben and Cory, two of Wyvern's friends and cronies, creep up behind me and whisper "So how's Andrew?" And I instantly knew Wyvern had told everyone. Which he has, I can confirm. Monday was a blur of school and trying to avoid the judgmental-ass gazes of many people. Cory teased me throughout double English, and Ben teased me throughout double science. And then, it all added up in the grand finale of Maths, where the seating plan is a bit like; Wyvern - Andrew - Cory - Ben - Janek - Me

So Ben and Cory were turning around every second to sing "Cath and Andrew sitting in a tree-" While Wyvern turned around and gave me pointed looks. Andrew didn't look in my general direction at all, and I'm grateful. I don't think I would've been able to bear it, since they were teasing him as well as me. He already knew I liked him and didn't tell them himself, when he could've done. I was an absolute dumbass for telling Wyvern. But, I prayed everything would blow over eventually. And it has, it seems.

Tuesday - An average Tuesday, but I was relatively tired. I was trying to read my book and Sheldon wouldn't leave me alone, unfortunately. Everyone else seemed mildly peeved off with him as well. I'd tried setting boundaries with him, telling him t stop messaging me, to leave me alone, and he just didn't listen. I'd made it abundantly clear I wanted space.

He wouldn't give it.

Wednesday - I did my GCSE performance recordings for music; my solo took many attempts to get right, but my group didn't take long.

Sheldon still wouldn't leave me alone.

So, Harley, Matty, Bella, Harry, Peter, Reagan and I collectively planned to kick him out. To get rid of the overhanging ick that he brought with him. The guilty being that followed me everywhere.

Part 1 - I exploded at him on text. I admit, this wasn't originally the plan, but I simply couldn't deal with his whiny messages anymore. I exploded, told him to leave me alone, and blocked him.

Part 2 - Kick him out of the friend group entirely. There were many risks that came with this; he'd been kicked out of his old friend group and had threatened me in the past with. Well. Suicidal tendencies. Bella volunteered to kick him out, but Matty believed I should've done it. It's true, I should've done, but my soul lives in the music department.

Thursday - Part 2 was enacted at break, when I was with Alison being morale support for her GCSE performances. Harry told me about it;

The group moved from Sheldon, leaving him with Bella. Bella then told him, I'm not exactly how, to leave us alone. From what Harry said; me being uncomfy was used as a bit of a scapegoat. Which is a reasonable scapegoat, I must say. Sheldon's left me alone since then, and the group has been chaotically thriving.

I watched the school's production of Romeo and Juliet, and it was good, I enjoyed it. Before it though, I helped Alison and Andrew pack up training orchestra with all the young musicians. Andrew tried telling Alison's little brother how to commit arson, and I had to break the two apart.

Andrew and I then took a ton of cymbals back to the music department from the main hall, and we had a nice little convo. Twas nice, bearing in mind the entire school knows I like him thanks to Wyvern.

Friday - Chill, easy, kinda boring, basic. Lunch was funny tho; Harley and Matty stole my Romeo+Juliet programme I was getting signed and signed it themselves. It was... interesting. I also watched Little Women (2019) for the first time.

Saturday - Went to county band for the first time in about 2 months, and it was okay. Then I went and watched the new Puss in Boots movie with my parents and I adored it. Perrito is my favourite character, my dad thought he was called burrito until my mum and I corrected him.

Sunday - It was a Sunday. Need I say more? I went and sat in a tree with a monster and some eclairs tho and read a book in the afternoon which was very chill and very nice and i really enjoyed it.

Monday - A good day, calm, chill. Alison's birthday too, which was nice. Harley's been bullying me all evening into writing this, and within reason, it's been a long time since I did an update. I'll update again on Wednesday, and then again on Sunday.

~CM

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